RNR SR are endowed by their Creator with ' PAGE SIX ani— COMMUNITY EVENTS IN LIEU OF VACATIONS IN OUR OPINION are | BY RUTH TAYLOR Pennsylvania communities planning summer events in order that | How many men have you met who | their residents may find recreation | said “I don’t know”? It takes a lot | and relaxation without travel, accor-| of courage to profess ignorance but | ding to the State Department of |the bigger a man is, the more ready | Commerce. he is io admit that he doesn’t know | Pennsylvanians are finding ways to | everything. : | obtain brief vacations to refresh] Too many people today claim ex- | them for their jobs by joining hiking haustive knowledge. They are con- | clubs, cycling clubs and participating | tinual critics of every one around | in outdoor recreations such as golf, | them, of those in authority, even swimming, boating and other activi- | when they have elected thewm,—and ties that can be enjoyed near home. | they always know just what should | have been done under every circum- —........... "| stance. They have to express an op- inion on each and every subject. | Must we express an opinion? Must To th Cidaens of Elder Township. | 1435 ake time oft rom impor. Due to some misunderstanding, “"'" ne? (emt Ta? . a salled to! Say something? Can't we ever say, Patton Fire Company was ca | “I don’t know?” Can't we learn to answer a fire alarm in Elder Tomes | weigh our words before we speak? ship Saturday, May 22, 1943. Since, we stopped to consider what our Hastings Fire Company has a CON" | opinion was worth, there are lots of tract with the Supervisors of Elder|.; .. when we wouldn't give it. Township for fire protection We| "pi is that habit of ours of always would direct that all fire calls made | paying an opinion that has been play- in the future should go direct to the ; upon by enemy saboteurs. Our Hastings Fire Company. boys have died in burning oil on the PATTON FIRE COMPANY, high geas because we must show our 3t Elmer Crowell, Sec'y.| knowledge of sailing ships. Munitions have exploded, shipments been lost GT EA a, y express In the Estate of John J. Brady, opinion. We could have kort ston late of the Borough of Cresson, Coun- or said, “I don't know,” but we aid ty of Cambria, and State of Penn-| : 4 sylvania, deceased. yay 8 is hereby given that Letters| That other saboteur, the propagan- of Administration have been granted | dist, has also used this habit of ours to the undersigned. All persons in- | to further his long range aims. Hasty debted to said estate are requested; SPeech means generalizations to cov- to make payment, and those having | er up the lack of facts. We have had claims or demands against the same | a2 Opinion that such-and-such a will make them known without delay | 8TOUp wasn t doing its share in the to | war. (Fill in the name with which- MARIE GRANEY CROWE, |e€ver one you don’t like—the story is Admifistratrix. | always the same, only the group is 211 Powell Ave. Cresson, Pa. | different. We have cried Profiteer at Shettig & Swope, all Sroups except the one to which Attorneys for Administratrix, De era a ree] D ASS 2 Stakes o Ebensburg, Pa. July 8. an individual. And what we have| done those like us have done—which | Administrator’s Notice | was just what the enemy was after, | Estate of {athryn G. Johnson, late | a division into groups of an indivis- | of the Borough of Patton, Pennsy- | ible nation. lvania, deceased. . | Must we express an opmion? If Letters testamentary on the said | ye myst then let us not talk of the estate having been granted to the things on which we have only opin- undersigned, all persons indebted | ns ang not facts. Let us talk of the thereto are requested to make im- things we do know and believe. Let mediate payment, and those having | yg express what is our real opinion claims or demands against same, will —the opinion that made our nation present them without delay for set |(p.¢ kept it together against hard. ément to . ships such as those who complain L. G. GORSUCH, Administrator, | the most have never known. “We hold 521 Beech Ave, Patton, Pa.|ihese truths to be self evident, that 6tA1&| a1) men are created equal, that they NOTICE NOTICE. certain inalienable Rights, that am- The Commissioners of Cambria |OD8 these are Life, Liberty and the County have agreed to sell at Private Pursuit of Happiness. That to secure sale the hereinafter described proper- | these rights, Governments are insti- ty for the sum of $15.00, to Vincent tuted among men, deriving their just A. Huber, under the Act of Assembly POWers from the consent of the gov- of the Commonwealth, approved the erned, This is the American opin- 20th day of July, 1941, P. L. 600. {oni 25 express It In every word The Court of Common Pleas of : Cambria County has fixed June 7, 1943, at ten o'clock A. M., in we EIRE FIGHTING Court House, Ebensburg, Pennsylva- | nia, for a hearing on the Petition for | confirmation of said Sale. The prop- | MANUAL ISSUED erty to be sold was assessed in the | game of George Db. O'Leary, In Pat- Information “and instructions re- ton Borough, First Ward, is describ. garding forest fires, compacted in- to a pocket sized manual, are being | sent to thousands of volunteers par- ed as 1 House, 1 Lot, and was sold to the County on April 4, 1938, and June 28, 1938. ; . . |ticipating in the new unit of the State The total amount of taxes, munici- council of Defense—the “Forest Fire | pal claims, penalties, interest and Fighters Service.” | costs due is $86.56. ik Prepared by George H. Wirt, diet] By Board of County Commissioners. | Division of Protection, Department | —e it H. F. Dorr, Clerk. | of Forests and Waters, and director — [of the new service for the Council of Defense, the manual “is to present to volunteers an adequate program PENNSYLVANIA of training that will best serve the needs of the service for Civilian De- : fense.” “The protection of forests in the | Commonwealth . . . is the paramount | importance,” the Council's Chief of Training, R. Chapman Carver, wrote in the Foreword of the Handbook. “Forest protection is a community welfare proposition. During war time when timber needs for war purposes exceed peace time needs, it is doubly Prefered Stok and the reg. | | Important tat men prepare. them ular quarterly dividend of 70 [It is an important function of Civil- cents per share was declared |ian Defense on the home front. on the $2.80 Series Cumula- | Presenting a summary and complia- tive Preferred Stock. Divi- j tion of ‘the best available material” dends will be paid on both | the manual ,in eleven chapters ponits classes of stock, July 1, 1943, out: 45 Stockholders of record. ab { The _ Objective—problem; when the. close of business on | forest gies occur; causes of forest June 10, 1943, | fires; forest fire prevention; fire be- | havior; organization of the Forest PENNSYLVANIA | Fire Fighters’ Service; forest fire EDISON CO''PANY | fighting equipment: fire detection; | fire extinction; welfare and safety of E. H. Werner, President. M. A. Miller, Treasurer. EDISON COMPANY Preferred Shareholders At a meeting of the Board of Directors held Tuesday, May 25 1943, the regular quarterly dividend of $1.25 per share was declared on the $5.00 Series Cumulative | forest fire fighters, and community | welfare. | —V/. —Press-Courier ads pay the best. Keep (M4147 188 4 ON PARTY HE all calls BRIEF! & ! THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA ———————————————— UNION PRESS-COURIER, ‘Thriller’ Novel Betrays Murderer Of English Woman Author, Who Wrote Story While in Prison, Given | Death Sentence. | LONDON.—In a ‘thriller’ novel he wrote in prison while awaiting trial, the accused man, Reginald Buckfield, a royal artillery gunner known to his comrades as ‘‘Smiler’ Buckfield, betrayed his guilt by a complete reconstruction of the crime, That was the contention of the prose- cution at the man’s trial at the Old Bailey recently. The title Buckfield gave the ‘‘thrill- er’ was ‘‘The Mystery of Brompton Road.” The real victim of the slay- er was Mrs. Ellen Ann Symes, who was stabbed while walking in Brompton Road, a lane not far from her home at Strood, Kent. Child Gives Hint, First hint that Mrs. Symes had been murdered by a soldier was giv- en by her three-year-old son, Robin, who told the police: ‘‘A soldier came up and said to Mummy, I am going to kill you.” This led to a search by police and military throughout southeast Eng- land, and one of the first of 6,000 sol- diers questioned was Buckfield, who had been arrested as an absentee the day following the murder. More than 2,000 civilians were also inter- rogated. ’ ’ Counsel for the defense argued that it was absurd to assert because there were in the novel some facts and al great deal of fiction that the author | was the murderer. | Said one prosecutor: | “Could any person other than the one who murdered the woman con- | ceivably have compiled the docu-| ment? If Buckfield were completely | innocent, could he have perpetrated | all the coincidences of detail you find | in this story?’’ The jury did not think so and] the soldier was sentenced to death. Grins Cynically. Buckfield lived up to his nickname | throughout the trial, the newspapers | said. Even when the judge was passing sentence ‘‘he grinned gyn; ically around the court and laughed as he was escorted by warders to the cells.” In his “novel,” which was written on scraps of paper and on margins of pages torn from Punch, Buckfield wrote of the murder of a woman whose husband was a night worker —Mrs. Symes’ husband was on night work. He spoke of the woman's ‘‘baby’’—Mrs. Symes was wheeling her son in his push-chair when mur- dered. Finally, the time of the mur- der in the thriller was, as nearly as could be proved, the time of the murder of Mrs. Symes. The story concluded: “That, my dear friends, brings it to ‘Girl Murdered by Person Un- known.” We hope the police will suc- ceed in their duty to find the murder- | er, so as to clear myself, Gunner | Buckfield. This is a partly true story | and partly fiction, showing you how | easy it is for an innocent man to| be convicted of crime, and what | could really happen.” Man Goes an Rampage With Ax; Policemen Duck LAKEVIEW, N. Y.—Mrs. Anthony | Mudano telephoned the police and | begged them to hurry. Her hus- | band, 55, had locked himself in the] kitchen, pulled down and bolted the | windows and turned on all the gas| jets. | A policeman ran up to a window and peeped in. He ducked just in time as Mudano swung at his head with an ax and broke the window. Since he showed no disposition to be rescued, police went from window to window, Mudano broké every one, trying to hit the police with his ax. When all the windows were broken, the police tossed in some tear gas bombs and Mudano came out. PORTLAND, ORE.—Warrant Of cer Henry D. Ivey of Montgomery, Ala., trained at a nearby base and then was sent to Africa. That's where he got his final statement for a gas bill which he promptly paid by mail with 330 Algerian francs. George MacKenzie, assistant treas- urer of the Portland Gas and Coke company, auctioned the French | notes to employees for $10—which he | mailed to Ivey. Ivey had paid the | bill once and forgot it. Handbag Finder Takes Out Own Former Loss NEWARK, N. J.—The person who | found Mrs. Belle Bearison’s hand- | bag once lost one herself. [ She would have been glad, she said in an unsigned note to Mrs. Bearison, if only the handbag, not to mention the $8 it contained had been returned. So, the writer said, she was tak- ing $8 from the $25 in Mrs. Beari- son’s bag and returning the rest. Mrs. Bearison said it was all right with her. Long-Distance Fire GUTHRIE, OKLA.—Excited voice on the telephone: “The bus station’s on fire!” Firemen answered the call, found no blaze, and finally learned: It was a long-distance call from Langston, several miles away. The Langston bus station was destroyed. —Nr | 2 Is your subscription in arrears? | British prisoners from northern It- | | Three Sisters Have Sons Within 24 Hours LONDON.—Three sisters gave birth to sons in a Yorkshire vil- || lage within 24 hours. The first baby was born at 1:30 a. m. Sunday and the third at 8 a. m. Monday morning. The mothers are Mrs. Tom Thwaite I and Mrs. Stanley McGregor, both | of Redmire, and Mrs. R. S. Hunt- || er Castle of Bolton. | | Pilot Buries Gems | After Air Crash Thieves Dig Up Cache, Grab $80,000 in Diamonds. MELBOURNE.—Three men are being held in connection with the theft of $80,000 in diamonds from a cache of more than $1,500,000 worth of the gems buried by a wounded Dutch pilot after his plane, bringing evacuees and the precious stones| from Java, was shot down by the Japanese over northern Australia last year. The defendants, according to Ane- ta, official Netherlands news agen- cy, are John Palmer, a soldier and beachcomber character, accused of stealing the diamonds, and James A. Mulgrue and Frank A. Rolsinson, charged with unlawfully receiving part of the loot. Comm. Ivan Smirnoff of the Royal Dutch airlines’ was about to take off in one of the last planes to leave Java when he was handed a packet | containing the diamonds, to be de-| livered to the Commonwealth Bank | of Australia. | Near Broome, in northern Austra- | lia, Japanese raiders intercepted the | plane and shot it down at Carnot | bay. Four passengers were Killed and Smirnoff, with six wounds in his body, buried the diamonds. Lat- | er attempts to find them were un- | successful. | Last May, according to the Aneta | report, Palmer walked into an army | recruiting office in Perth to enlist. | Before he did so ke produced a sug- | ar canister containing $1,500,000 of | the diamonds, which he said he found on the beach north of Broome. | Authorities charge, however, that | Palmer held out $80,000 of the gems, | subsequently turning $7,300 worth over to Malgrue and Robinson. sree New Electron Microscope Reveals Smoke Particles LONDON.—A new electron micro- scope, powerful enough to break down smoke into particles heretofore indistinguishable, has been designed by Prof. L. C. Martin of the Im- perial College of Science in collabo- ration with Metropolitan Vickers Electrical company, it was disclosed. | The device uses a beam of elec-| trons instead of a beam of light. | For ‘lenses’ the electron micro- | scope uses electrostatic and magnet- | ic fields which refract the electron | beams much as glass operates in or- | dinary optical instruments. The im-| age can be reproduced on a fluo-| rescent screen or photographed. He Cannot Collect, but | Cash Keeps Rolling In| TOPEKA, KAN.—Officially, Col. | J. W. F. Hughes, of Topeka, can’t| get the $299 he sought from the leg- | islature as salary due him as a state | guard officer in ’93. Unofficially, | the money’s rolling in. | Representatives agreed it would | set a bad precedent to pay the ail-| ing colonel—who never asked for payment of the 50-year-old debt be- fore because he never needed it be- | fore. { But when Rep. Henry Buzich said he’d start a private fund with $5 of his postage allowance, the total grew to $172 within half an hour— and may reach $299. LONDON.—Eighty-seven of every 100 men aboard torpedoed vessels survive, Lord Leathers, minister of war transport, said. Replying to a toast at a luncheon of the Worshipful Company of Tin Plate Workers, Lord Leathers said that most casualties resulted as al direct result of enemy attack or while men sought to escape from a stricken ship. Loss of life in lifeboats and rafts | is less than 2 per cent of the occu- | pants, he continued. In five of every | six cases the survivors are picked | up within 24 hours. —— a | Italian Air Defense Plea | Draws Fascist Badges | PORT SAID, EGYPT. — Freed | aly tell this one on the Italians: In Genoa there is a dry fountain | into which the public tosses coins for | an air defense and plane fund. After | a recent heavy raid, when the police | went to gather the coins from the | fountain, they found it filled to the | brim with Fascist badges, but no | money. | se mre | Theaters Being Looted | Of Rubber Arm Pads | LONDON.—London motion picture | theater proprietors report that be- | cause of the rubber shortage rub- ber arm pads of seats are being cut off and taken away at an alarming rate. —Press-Courier ads pay you wer} Thursday, June 3rd, 1943, A Message To the Women Who Dress Well Economically WE WON'T QUOTE YOU PRICES IN THIS ADVER. TISEMENT—FOR WE HAVE THIS MERCHANDISE IN MOST ALL QUALITIES, WITH PRICES CORRE- SPONDING— BUT, IN ALL CASES YOU'LL FIND THE QUALITY BEING CONSIDERED, THIS IS NORTHERN CAMBRIA’S CHEAPEST LADIES’ STORE—A STORE THAT CATERS TO THE CUSTOMER'S COMPLETE SATISFACTION—FIRST, LAST AND ALWAYS. Look Cool and Feel Cool in Our Summer Dresses Your pick of the summer’s Dress Hits. First in fash- ion. You'll want to pick your entire summer wardrobe, when you see our selection, Our sizes range, too, that most every woman can be fitted. These dresses are important success fashions that rate an overwhelming response for their quick-click styling, slim trim lines and cool comfort- able fabrics. We make the sale of dresses our outstanding feature at all times—in every season. That’s why so many North Cambria women have consistently shopped here for yars, and why so many more constantly are being added to that group. Everything for Summer for Girls, Children Here they are in profusion, The clothes that are tops for young feminine Amercia this season. Dress clothing, play clothes, accessories, Come and se our super collection —Dresses, Sun Suits, Play Suits, Overalls, Crawlers, etc. In al the popular cool fabrics. And Infants” wear. too, is to be found here in complete assortments, Prices are low, quality considered. 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