October 19, 1944 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. Ww ounded Bellefonte Man Writes of His Experiences Pvt Miles K. Nelson A tte: hospital | i nce. or En Pri. Miles K. Nelson, son of and M Frank Nel East Lamb that he ol olf indicates id believed the OgNLUNE at the received Ft Over- Ana has two bro- Edward Nelsor and Pvt. Russell Q son, 8S. C and office using lark outside » for the da) deed. T have of ierical pecialist. It to other very fast ped change hospitals inthe B. T. T I hope dad is getting much bet- | ter. It will be good to see vou all again when this blasted war is over which, I hope, won't be long The nerve in my foot is repairing itself slowly. I am glad an operation won't be necessary. It is much bet ter than it was Today I received the package you | me sometime in June which contained Readers’ Digest candy, scissors and other items. It took a long time because it followed me to 50 many different places My sincerest regrets for not writ. more and sooner. 1 hard time getting air mail envel- and have been so very busy typing records for the brain I am learning much and very interesting. Medical terms quite common. I ex- the people who had sometime next spring green blades grass their way through the those flowers we flower You had sent often opes ott becoming to call on ‘Nn etiers t he of are bed will ar- h ent they time last them too first came send the Pur- other articles town when use some I will love when will ane they Saturd Heart I have bought in a Kt! asked the surgeon inally he permitted should have white robe and mask realistic and interesting first gr major opera- ow quite well few me me quite a seen dra- When started, one 1 the operating room vou getting weak lke this for the aid “Heck am nn ighed roceed. I y hours 6 anead of 5 The clock hour thr d hour ones AY town the vie “Por ven Ts other da) Whom the good but I di ost me 3 1 T0¢ are hai balcony you tired exceptionally interesting Wis Is an hope it have covered the high th aa had ’ " almosty ha 1 old and 1 an eption a pile of here and my nose is sore of that I am oulle happy bed Dow my eyes love and devotion certainly no napkins Outside with it all past are heavy © X( nave gO Ww for it § ught and fondest 0 PERK Rellefonte Soldier Tells of Being Wounded in France A U ARMY / GENERAL PITAL ENGLAND HOS. Earl fought f § Lo with "his before he was It by hiine un bullet He ha Purple Heart - at this United State iy general in England Sergeant Imag ved the Ire Cc": hospital recovering of San- officer ! firké ] said ergeant P and I on the oad to Some time anding = Milk Coolers AVAILABLE AT ONCE! In Electric: Gasoline Driven, or fee Covled Cabinets HUBERT ROSSMAN HOME & AUTO SUPPLY STORE Phone 2615 BELLEFONTE, PA. N " / tacki ortl fied nidnignt gun wa Crean advancipg jerked the to fire at Nazis road. They were Ving magnesium grenades and could get Into action, 1 a blast of fire and | bullets from their guns Sergeant Powell entered the Army May, 1041 and received ning at Fort Meade, Md.. and a Blanding, Flordia. His wife Mary Ann Powell lives in lefonte. He is the son of Mr. and W. T. Powell, 3341 Grandview shadyside, Ohio our flanks We on the sunken road machine gun down COmMInE up the before Ae wa t by wound- ed by nis amp Mr Bel Mi: Ave ——— Bellefonte Private Is Learning Jungle Tricks I. Kellerman, son of Mrs. Harry Kellerman, of Bellefonte, is now serving as a rifle. a veteran infantry regiment omewhere ify the Southwest Pacific He has been six months and learning the tricks on jungle fighting the men who fought on Bougainville Island in the Sol- omon After hi Jame and man in OVeTrsens with induction in December 1942, Plc. Kellerman was sent Camp Hale, Colo, for basic train- ing, and spent five months In the Aleutian Before putting on the army uniform, he clerked al the Weis Pure Food Btore. He attended the Bellefonte High School for three to Car Plc thers Kellerman is one of five bro- serving for Uncle Sam. Bro- thers Paul, Pred, and Guy are in the European theater, while Carl is In Washington, D. © After his dally routine he relaxes in his roomy tent, and awaits the mall call. His favorite hobby is writing letters Enlists as Reservist, Dean Alvin Rachau was enlisted recently as an Alr Corps Enlisted {of Induction | Things In Alabama Put, Private Hoove on of Mrs. Clyde Hoover of Wis {| the cember 15 F1 Cumberland induction center ent to Camp Walters, Texa I weeks' basic t Donald Hoover M an Ine Glen Arms) De om the New he wa where led into 1943 GLK he wa Fort Meade, Md now at Camp ucker. Ala. He v recently trar to the 4th Command Pic. John D. Scull AL Mir Thomas street dellefonte, and hu band of thu Laura Bell Long Howard Tad from the of inted recenth Porces Flexible Gunnery Laredo Army Al Field, Laredc "ox a member of AAF Training Com He | qualified AS fn the mana NOY plac DOW piace member of a nbal He America by a « AYO ePared for his piace it tepped-up alr offensive mprehensive six-weeks' course phase of aerial Be ype of in warfare Runnem ides to fire ev. from camera 50-caliber turret man- identification 1 reassembling of ma- while blindfolded He by alr firing of learning ery weapon guns te Brownings ° ipulatior stripping chine gu climaxed his « machine gt Pvt for California ough in Bells he deadly tudied alreraft Alu Ourse in Sunday. October 1 following a brief fur. fonte § of 4 Cul TWO COUNTIANS ARE AWARDED PURPLE HEART Purple two Hearts Centre were awarded Uu count oldlers for wounds suffered on the battlefields of France wis learned this week One was presented to T'5 Bud Lee Hoy, 24. son of Henry Hoy of Pleasant Gap. who was slieiitly in- jured the latter part of August, and the other awarded posthumously to to P12 Andrew Herold Dean 33. ron of Mr. and Mra. Jesse W. Dean, of Pine Grove Mills, who was killed in action on July 5 Plc. Dean was inducted into the service in November 1942, and sent overseas in April, 1943. He attended the Pine Grove Mills school and was employed as a plasterer for John (Ollllland and later at the College, where he was working at he time i .- Hurricane Survivor Jack Guiswile M - In New Guinea Frank Houser Mackeyville Man Killed In France ned for After tioned Wing abroad in Lek ed on in Fram with } ne His last his September 11 vasion forces etter 0 family In i SUrvis three sister was dated addition to his paren Wetzel by two brothers and Virgil Wetzel and Mrs Cleveland ©O Mrs Ldoyd Haffley, Mill Hall. M1: Ar- ington Gunsallus, Lock Haven, and Pvt. Stanley Wetzel, Camp Wheeler Cin ] ed Eaeldon Green Pie. Haupt Back on Duty Mr. and Mrs. Albert C Bush Addition, Bellefonte, are in re- ceipt of a letter from the War De- partment, Washington, D. © in- forming them that their son, Plc Donald D. Haupt, who was wounded in Prance Sept. 16, Is back on duty again, Pfc. Haupt has been in ser- Haupt of Pst. George (0. Auman tr Y of M An sman Leroy Boob Pex it N. Philipsburg Man Missing In Action ord that M4. mr Phill Na been Ie has Detalls of Wa eng Kn wo ch Iv eported are not ' nl 2 West coast {ied ¢ addres A letter ha m im which tober 1. the missing. He since been «d was aritten on Oc. before he Ame soon to have, been sent back to take a refresher wourse, In his jeiter he stated that he had attended mass on the pres ceding Sunday rece fy day be Was an—— Son of Adam and Ew Cpl. Joe Smith of Abbeyville, La lke the rest of mankind, claims di- rect descent from Adam and Eve but Smith has a document to prove | fit he from his Joseph Adam To scofMing barracks mates displays birth certificate home town which reads Smith born to Eve and Smith ———_— — Completes Basic Training | Miss Louise Kresovich, daughter fof Mr. and Mrs, Martin Kresovich — 1 torpedo plane attack on a | clas we 4 LF Junior C. Lucas M1 Howard ervics ent to One 4] oversea Cpl. Anthony J. Riglin al Riglir 20-vear«nid Riglir He w Ord- Cal several was Miss the Arm; Pomona City After 41 he Chr cent parents the ad bee: Hue Riglin furioug! forelgn Army he the dal — L§)) * Observer Sees War From Many Angles following \ received from Wm of Lancaster. Pa 1 do happen to 10 your paper but have when 1 folks that interesting letter Earl Dale not subscribbe read It visited my al Pleasant Cap t Bellefonte, 1 am. therefore, quite familiar with your paper and I immediately felt that you might be interested in the mans mother and times and belore a | observations of a soldier who is from Pleasant Gap. The soldier, a ser geant with the U. 8. Third Army in France, is my hall-brother, Rob. ert H Brown. Here Is what he wrote in a jetter from France, dated Sept 30. 1944 This is a funny war. The oth er day, while eating chow aml listening to recordings from a Red Cros ‘Clubmobile, we watched our Alr Corps bomb the Germans. We could even see the bombs dropping. Can you beat that, music, food, and war the same time?” “Those four sentences seem very Page Tirse Bellefonte - Radioman Gets \ Distinguished Flying Cross For unassisted and unescorted JAPAN for other the Car- Guineas nn carrier task group and raids on the Palan Fslands oline Islands, Dutch New Truk and Guam, Philip Edward Whiting, aviation radioman, first (ARMIic) USNR, of Bellefonte has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross Aviation Radioman Whiting 1s the of Mrs. Adela Whiting, 46 Pine treet. Bellefonte The award, made he name President by Admiral Che: USN, Commander-in-Chief Pacific fleet, in following ¢ltation $0! { in t of the ter W Nimitz Acoompanied Poets’ Corner POEM BY A BOY ¢ Deas I wish 1 Were here Hes return hope very you few years Master Donald Olin the age of § year STRICKER AT THE WHEEL Verses were writ. Pi Foon B. Stricker, of ng Mills & Spirit of fun t couupanding officer ile walking down the road Cay " mio Py vou yr ward a mighty roar looked around and there ome fellow In 4 swoor then a came 0 reel ouowing 1 ) ne I found ec] ving m) wheel r at the We Your wile IIe Stricker for He rigint | down He smi and sh i hol Were ur way i " He hit the beach and then The a real He Fu the water a adets must have they never 00k a rige Stricker at the wheel all good things on earth end, 50 the'M. P's say picked our plot Took his wings away he's singing hash, they Kokenjies on His hetls: And we no more shall feel the thr Of Stricker st the wheel (#40 Now an Receives Promotion recent] mnt mI ——— Transferred to Texas Pvt. Emmett A Witmer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph C. Witmer, of Bellefonte, R. D 1, has been trans. ferred from Camp Atterbury, Ind, to Infantry RTC Camp Wolters Texas Islands he participated on earn and shippping 128 a IyA and Guam 4 neta lations bors; altace ted In tom lo Transferred to New Camp Pvi. James B. Stoner, husband of former Jean Watson of Belie nie, who has been stationed at PL Meade, Md. was transferred w Camp Campbell bie recently Ky OUR BOYS IN THE SERVICE ER 2\ pe ”~ » ~ / YT d pr 9 ARR V2 % \ "J WIZE EDITOR'S NOTE: You arent seeing that | and green package on these days ey Spearmint Gum d overseas only to Armed The Wrigley people are sores eir limited production makes the folks at inated ¥ busi- won't be too enoug! around eno: hy famuiar your deal- because ad) being "pre counier our bie 10 suppl ble APP appre our column In Alegtian Hassinger is now Jocaled In ony the island of he is better known t% married and has t¥¢ Donna and Jackie, He | son of Mr and Mrs. Cousnodore inger Islands S 2c, of the green shut at H-Hour is the that marks the launching an attack but only cur combat roe: can understand its true mean ing. To them it means nervous stray the Mters and dry parched throlts Thats why to men in the thick of Wrigley's Spearmint has become requirement. It refleves and cases the craving for s Mi ED moment 1 of 8 wn -dut) the drink {itt ors SINOKC * ——————— Arrives in (rermany M Gearhart ol word Gearhart TIAL He ed ived n Plc. John reived in they } A i ON T the limited Spearmint Service Men proguclion of Gum is going overseas oni Army and Navy are geting a to where it's needed most and the makers of Wrigley's Spearmint are eeing to it that It is the same high and long lasting flavor that oyed at home RR, —— Wounded in Action A Page FE | Ethe Pag of Macke) vile slightly wounded September 2% France his wife learned last week from the War Department Wrigley « The our y 141+ QuaMls bon el slightly Samue] and of M Send vour letters and news to the Wrigley Editor, care of The Centre Democrat. 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Y., and was given the Visits Wife and Parents eighteenth birthday, Dean will be High School and was employed In| ip, bed for four days but did not state Tank of seaman, second class. Bea-| 00 wool ann wae of Isubject to call sometime between Bellefonte at the time of INAuction | she nature of his illness man Kresovich was transferred last | | - | his eighteenth birthday and six | months thereafter, : —- ! Spends Furlough at Home James R. Weaver B 1/¢, of the 8. 8. Maya, who just from a trip overseas, spent a few days’ | tenve with his wife and son at her | home in, Spring Mills, and with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin G. Weaver, in Mifflinburg. Seaman | Weaver has reported back to New [om for further duty. into the Army } i Mrs. Edward Prisk has received | word that her usband, Sgt. Edward | Prisk, has been awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in France. | ber 20. This is the second time Pvt | landed safely Although hospitalized Bgt. Prisk, whose home is at Ma-! Is the Tormer Ruth Custard, of |eenla Mills ——— Wounded in Holland Invasion Mr, and Mrs. August Brilla, of Hawk Run, received a telegram that their son, Pvt. Michael A. Brilla, was wounded in Holland on week to the Naval Alr Base at Vero Beach, Fla Lands Safely In France {| Pvt. Charles E. Guthrie of Phil lipsburg, writes ome that he has in France, He left for awhile, Brilla has been wounded He is a! the States in September, It will be years on November 20 that he has been in service. He is a son of [the U. 8B. Navy, spent a 12-day fur. | {lough with his wife and daughter, Wanda, at her home at Centre Hall, 311 Walnut street, Mifflinburg. Sea man Weaver has returned to his | Navy base in Florida. i nso I —— 1 If Hitler makes a ge'-away by plane and lands In some neutral | aren. the Allied powers will have a problem that might involve the use of fores ; | : WOODRING’S FLORAL 127 E. Howard St, GARDENS Bellefonte, Po.
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