PAGE EIGHT UNION PRESS.COURIER Thursday, June 3rd, 1943, . Moslem Leader LEADER of the Moslem Party of Ine NM ed All Jinnah is shown delivering the principal ade dress at the Moslem political cone vention held recently in New Delhi, capital of India, (International) RECENT DEATHS Harry Stoltz. Harry Stoltz, aged 47 years, Has- tings, died on Wednesday night of last week in the Miners’ hospital at Spangler where he had been admit- ted as a patient the same afternoon. The deceased was born on July 7th, 1895, a son of John and Mary (Mil- ler) Stoltz. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mae (Leslie) Stoltz and the fol- lowing children: Mrs. Stanley Car- roll, St. Benedict; Gloria, Waiter, Dorothy, Jack, Jean, Marlin, Robert, Mary, and Judy, all at home. These brothers and sisters also survive: La- vandus, Cecil, Olin, Robert and Mrs. Charles Tyler and Mrs. Irvin Feigh- ner, all of Spangler. The deceased was a veteran of World War I. A mil- itary funeral was conducted Satur- day morning in St. Bernard's Catho- lic church, Hastings, and interment was made in the North Barnesboro cemetery. Frank Chenskey. Frank Chenskey, aged 61, of Col- ver, died last Thursday morning in the Miners’ Hospital, at Spangler, Where he had been a medical patient since April 26th. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Mary Mihalik, Jr., and Mrs. Frances Washic, both tient since February. He was born in 1895 in Poland, a son of Mr, and Mrs. Andrew Durry, both deceased, and came to America 30 years ago. Mr. Durry had been employed as a miner for the Ebensburg Coal Company pri- | or to his illness. Surviving are his wi- dow, Mrs. Stella (Szelazha) Durry, | whom he married in Colver in 1923, and these sons, Stanley, Henry and ugene, all at home, and Edward, of Middleton. He was a brother of An- drew Durry and Mrs. Josephine Gaw- ron, both of Elizabeth, N. J. Funer- al services wil be conduted this Thurs- day morning in the Colver Catholic church and interment will be made in Holy Name Cemetery, Ebensburg. William Thomas, Sr. William Thomas, Sr., a former res- ident of Hastings, for 40 years, died on Monday in Rahway, N. J. He was removed to the home of his son, Wil- liam Thomas, Jr., of Hastings, where funeral services were conducted Wed- nesday afternoon by Rev. J. B. Reil- ly, pastor of the Hastings Methodist Church. Interment was made in the Union cemetery. Rose Albanese. Rose Albanese, 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Albanese, of Barnes- boro, died Monday in the Polk State hospital, where she had been a pa- tient for nearly a year. She was born April 29, 1929. In addition to her parents, the girl is survived by five brothers and three sisters, as follows: Mrs. Mary Fan- tauzzo, Detroit, Mrs. Lena Amino, of Westfield, N. J.; Joseph Albanese, of Barnesboro; Pfc. John Albanese, of Camp Forrest, Tenn.; Sgt. Michael Albanese, Camp Gruber, Okla.; Pfc. Jack Albanese, of Seymour-Johnsin Field, N. C.; and Francis and Samuel Albanese, at home. Funeral services will be conducted on Friday morning in the Mount Car- mel Catholic church. Interment will be in the church cemetery. of Colver. His wife, Mrs. Helen Chen- skey, died in 1920. Funeral services were conducted on Monday morning in the Holy Family Catholic church at Colver, and burial was in Holy Name Cemetery at Ebensburg. Michael Grimes. Michael Grimes, 38, of Loretto, died on Friday night in the Cresson Sanatorium wiere ne had been a pa- tient for a month. He was a son of Simon and Cecelia Brandt Grimes, both deceased, and was born on Au- gust 30th, 1904. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Agatha Doughty Grim- es, a daughter, Eevlyn, his step-mo- ther, Mrs. Sophie Grimes, Patton R. D.; and these brothers and sisters: John, Dysart; Mrs. Mary Thompson, Altoona; Mrs. Sarah Jacobs, Gallit- 2in; Frank, Fallentimber, Marcellus, Dean; Mrs. Jennie Troxell, Glasgow; Mrs. Annie McMullen, Ligonier; Mrs. Ella Grove, Ashville; and a half-sis- ter, Mrs. Virginia Switzler, Ebens- burg, R. D. Funeral services were held in Mon- day morning in St. Monica’s Catholic Church, Chest Springs, and interment was made in the church cemetery. Isadore Durry. Isadore Durry, 48, of Colver, died early on Sunday morning in the Col- ver hospital, where he had been a pa- Wins Torpedo Pin « @. FILM STAR Irene Manning holds “Minnie,” a ship’s mascot, after the cat had been awarded the Torpedo “Pin in New York City. The pin, which is usually presented to tor- pedoed merchant marine survivors, was given to “Minnie” for spending four days and nights on a life raft before her rescue. (International) Yank Fights Jap To Death in Sea Hefty Wallop on the Jaw And Foe Goes Down. BOSTON.—Wounded and thrown overboard when his transport sank, a 23 - year - old coast guardsman choked and drowned a Japanese sailor after a terrific struggle in Guadalcanal waters, the First na- val district disclosed. Machinist Mate George T. Rhodes of Awendaw, S. C., told how, de- spite three shrapnel wounds, he swam to aid a struggling figure he mistook for a shipmate. A sudden burst of flame from his burning ship identified the swimmer as a Japanese seconds before the other grabbed his throat and at- tempted to tear off his life-jacket. “I was weak from loss of blood and couldn’t do much at first,”” Mr. Rhodes said. ‘We fought in the wa- ter and under it for I don’t know how long and I could hear him mut- tering in Japanese.” Mr. Rhodes said he finally loos- ened the sailor's grip and swung at him with his fist. “It was kind of hard swinging in the water with my lifejacket on but I managed to give him a good wallop on the chin and he gurgled and went down. That’s the last I saw of him,” Mr. Rhodes added. After he saw the Japanese sink, Mr. Rhodes said, he ‘didn’t feel so well” but realized that he had to swim out of the way of cruising sharks to a liferaft. As soon as he reached the life- raft some hours later, searchlights from Japanese warships concentrat- ed on it, and Mr. Rhodes and three companions had to dive overboard to escape machine gun, shell and mortar fire. It was dnly after an invasion boat picked them up at dawn that he realized that shrapnel had wounded him three times—in the jaw, foot and leg. For his part in the battle, Mr. Rhodes, who is a member of the coast guard Invaders, was awarded the army’s Purple Heart—the sec- Flier Rides Raft Through Jungle to Amphibian, Fight Off Carnivorous Fish. help, has just been disclosed. was Pvt, A. C. McDavid, a Texan raft. His success is regarded as lit lights of a settlement. tary of the Amazon. avoid the river. Defy Crocodiles. Private McDavid’s drej, also a Texan. Private McDavid. land as crocodiles began to close in on them. Lieutenant Briggs also was attacked, as they neared land, by a school of ‘‘caribes,” tiny fish that become aroused at the sight of blood and are so vicious that they will devour a man in a short time. Lieutenant Briggs was forced to keep his wounded arm out of the water, although this, too, was dan- gerous, because snapping fish at- tacked it. With their shoes and most of their clothes gone, the men got ashore. Lieutenant Mann, like Lieutenant Briggs, had been injured in the land- ing. Among the four, they had one cigarette lighter, a penknife and a few cigarettes, which Lieutenant Mann had kept in a waterproof bag. Chosen by Toss of Coin. Their situation seemed hopeless and was not brightened when they saw the tracks of a jungle cat on the island beach. They were in a vast expanse of jungle, where there was slight hope of being spotted from the air or reached by land. A raft was their only chance. They cut vines laboriously with the knife, gathered branches together, con- structed the raft and placed two of the lifejackets on top to give it greater buoyancy. The coin was tossed and Private McDavid started out about 4 p. m. The raft turned madly in whirlpools, scraped rocks, slowed in still wa- ter, tilted when one of the lifebelts was carried away, but still went on. A crocodile tried to nose it over. Private McDavid held on. Darkness came and the raft still drifted. About 11 o’clock Private McDavid saw a light on the right bank and began yelling. Dogs start- ed to bark. “Just as I was losing hope,” Pri- vate McDavid said, ‘‘a canoe manned by Colombian army officers and men came along and picked me up. I learned that they were from the garrison of La Pedrera, where I had first seen the light.” The Colombians rescued the other fliers the next day. NEW YORK.—Frank Kominski, a 13-year-old freckle-faced son of an unemployed chef, nonchalantly walked into a police station after school and handed over $13,901.21 in cash which he found outside a junk shop. Frank was on his way to school with two classmates when he spotted ond coast guardsman in history to receive the award. He is now on temporary duty in Boston headquar- ters. Train Jaunt, Bold Face Almost Get Boy in Navy CHICAGO. — James Pettery Jr. wanted to join the navy and see the world but all he got was a swell train ride. Jimmy is 14 years old. Four days ago at Charleston, W. Va., Jimmy hid his 113 pounds on a train he knew was taking recruits to the Great Lakes naval training station near Chicago. Next morn- ing, when the train stopped at Cin- cinnati, Jimmy put on a bold face and the feed bag along with the bona fide recruits. The unit leader was puzzled when the restaurant cashier told him 48 meals had been served to a group supposedly num- bering 47. “Is there anyone here who doesn’t belong with us?’ he asked. None of the recruits said anything. Jimmy didn’t say anything. They all got back on the train. But when it pulled in at the train- ing station yesterday, Jimmy fell victim to the navy’s habit of count- ing heads. Desperately, he protest- ed: “But I'll be 15 in July.” The discipline officer turned Jim- my over to the Red Cross, which put him aboard a train for his home town, Hetzel, Woe Buy bonds and stamps on pay day. a shoe box. Inside he found a paper bag and within that a tobacco tin with more money than his father would have made in 14 years at his last job—one at $18 a week. “Let’s go halves!” a classmate suggested. But Frank stuffed the money in his pocket and went to school, sitting in classrooms all aft- ernoon with a fortune in his jeans. When he got home he asked his fa- ther what to do. ““Take it to the po- lice,” counseled John Kominski. So Frank stuffed it in his pocket again, went to school with it, and after school appeared at the police | station. Police said it will be his if no one claims it within six months, | Kidnap Cashier of Store, Escape With $14,000 Loot TRENTON, N. J.—Four armed | men kidnaped the cashier of the | giant Tiger food store here recently, forced him to go with them to the | store and open the safe, and then | escaped with $14,000, the police re- | vealed. The cashier, Anthony Ianni, police said, was parking his car outside | his home, when two of the bandits | approached him. Pointing a pistol | at him, one of the men forced him | into their car, police said, and drove | him to the food store, where they met the two other accomplices. —Do your part by buying bonds and stamps each pay day. Get Help for Pals Airmen, Hurt in Crash of BOGOTA, COLOMBIA.—The res- cue of four United States fliers from Amazon jungles after one of them, taking a million-to-one chance, had drifted down the turbulent Caqueta river on a flimsy raft to summon The man who went down the river who “won” the toss of a coin and the dubious privilege of boarding the tle short of miraculous, for croco- diles and numerous other terrors of the jungles beset him and night overtook him before he sighted the The men were flying an amphibi- an from Bogota to a point in the Amazon basin when they were forced down in the Caqueta, a tribu- At the place where their plane sank, the waters are so swift that native swimmers companions were Lieutenants W. S. Briggs and N. W. Mann and Sergt. E. M. On- Private McDa- vid had no time to don a lifebelt and was soon in difficulties. 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Growers of bramble berry plants who desire certification for the sale of plants in the Fall and next Spring should apply immediately for in- spection to the Bureau of Plant In- dustry of the State Department of Agriculture, officials of that Bu- | reau have announced. Inspection work has already begun for this sea- son in the case of applications made up to this time. Yo SHEEY. The number of sheep and lambs on | number at Pensylvania farms has been holding quite steady during the past three years, it is shown by records of the State Department of Agriculture. The | latest survey places the combined | 377,000 compared with | 370,000 on the comparable date Jast | year. | | —— TRUCK CROPS Weather conditions during May de- layed truck crop plantings in most of the areas of the state, but rains | proved beneficial to early planted crops in the eastern sections. —— COMMERCIAL BROILER BUSI- | NESS IN THE STATE SHOWS | IT ON ADVANCEMENT NOW The commercial broiler business in Pennsylvania has advanced to the po- sition of being a two and one-half million dollar annual income enter- prise, Secretary of Agriculture Miles Horst has announced. The business’ 3,900,000 and the total weight at 11, has made large strides during the| 700,000 pounds. These figures com- past few years adding to the import- | pare with 3, 600,000 broilers sold in ant position held by this state in the 1941, The weight totalled 10,800,000 poultry and egg production. and the cash income was $2,009,000, Preliminary figures tor ast year | the first time the industry crosséd place the number of broilers sold at| the two million dollar mark. NUNS FLEE VENGEFUL JAPS wv ; CARRYING SOME PERSONAL BELONGINGS, these U, S. Sisters of Charity are pictured as they fled to the hills from the Yukiang Mission Church | in China. They had just received word that Jap troops were on their | way to Kiangsi Province to slay, burn, and loot the area in reprisal for aid given to Doolittle’s raiders. The photo was just brought out of China by priests of the Vincentian Order. (International) _ Sd bed A ~ rn TEE) ~ rd Nome
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