rs than the last. Brown's weight went down rapidly from 1501bs. to 951bs. No one smoked because there were few cigarettes. Those that did reach them were traded to civil- ‘ians for bread...30 cigarettes equalled one loafof bread. Brown says, “Their soup had grass in it but little else. Once, having jaun- dice, I was sent to the infirmary where 1 thought I was in heaven...they fed us oatmeal. Boy was that ever good!” Brown dates his liberation like this: “One month after FDR died (President Franklin Delano Roosevelt) we were freed by the 50th Scottish Guards, and on May 8 the war ended. I had been “in” four years and seven months. Today he feels “very lucky. Iam “Antwerp will be ours in a week. The Allies will be smashed and never recover; they will sue for peace.” His children, Barbara Randolph with the Veterans’ Administra- tion; James, a Dallas mailman; and Karen Tomasura, with Roth Novelty, have provided the Browns ith on Adolf Hitler with seven grandchildren. “All - Before the Battle of the Bulge close by,” he says, “And that’s hice.” on borrowed time for sure; many in my division did not survive either combat or capture. I enjoy my life now. I have a garden which keeps me busy. Some of my weeds are as big as my vege- tables, but I keep after them and have no time to loaf.” Donations of cars and trucks issued. When you donate you'll help feed and shelter children in are simple, fast and easy. Receipt VOLUNTEERS OF AMERIC 106 South Main St., Wilkes-Barre SUMMER YF) Sunday, August 28th -- 10:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. ™~ at Penn State/Wilkes-Barre Campus in Lehman ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW/SALE \- More than 90 booths of basketry, handcrafts, appliqués, stencil art, stoneware, stained glass and more. CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES Magic tricks and balloon sculpting by Pat Ward, "Discovery" play area, & drawing on fence mural. GOOD FOOD Festival Donation: Arts at Hayfield EE Al Brown'may not, as he claims, “feel much like a hero,” but there is no disputing that the sacrifices he and others like him made in our behalf are heroic enough. Every one of them deserves our heartfelt thanks. FESTIVAL X Dallas Ground and ENTERTAINMENT eAnzalone Brothers & Co. 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NULTON, November 26, 1943 : i ELWOOD BLIZZARD, March 1, 1944 == ” 2 : : : first seemed to be paying off. i eR Vol. 35, No. 3 FRIDAY. JANUARY 19, 1945 t CENTS PER COPY / Entire Allied units, both large and SAMUEL GALLETTL., May 23, 1044 | = small, were completely sur- JAMES DeANGELO, June 22, 1944 Heavy Snowfall Fiske, Reported Joseph Yanek 1 rounded. Without resupply they SA ag id 9, ie infe: 2 : Y : ’ 3 , September 12, . soon ran out of food and water; HARRY BEAN, September 13, 1944 Blankets Area; Missing; Writes | Thrice Wounded, bandages for those wounded also EDWARD METZGAR, October 12, 1944 leave I~ Rifl CHARLES KINSMAN, November 5, 1944 Ham T W { RA d M h : D I J. . ran out. eS Were handed to DONALD L. MISSON, December 11, 1944 Pers Id 1C | 1 e n ot er ] 1€S n ction cooks, clerks and truck WILLIAM J. GAREY, December 12, 1944 Region Di Ashe For °P 4 ; ai drivers...all were thrown into JOSEPH YANEK, December 22, 1944 egion Digs Out As SKs ror rrayers | Guest Of English "_ desperate holding actions Worst Storm Since . For Boys Over Here” "Queen While Heali a : i e Healing ’ , _ Yet the greatest mass surren- b>. It. SERVICE 1936 Closes Schools | In His V-Mail Letter From D-Day Injuries ™ » der, second only to Bataan, inevi- oo “ on s hi tably took 1 Eight t i GEORGE UTRICH, May 16. 1942 A 0-inch snowfall which start- | News that he has been missing Thrice wounded in the long y LOOK place. 1g O nine HOWARD A. COSGROVE, July 3, 1942 ed’ Monday night and continued | in action Jn Luxembourg since De- struggle against the common enemy oy thousand men had no choice in THOMAS CLARK LLOYD, July 4, 1943 Poo apy Dey hg hs Sutera Joa which started for the 26th Infantry pe what became hopeless situations. EVAN J. BRACE, February 15, 1944 De ne arm Bia the Javanion of Ati ad ' AlBrown's truck driver was speed- R Ny Mt storms since 1936. Buses were, they received a V-Mail letter from ed er a stones ing down a road when he saw he 1 J ; snails =» = ronan matter on Monday dated December | Joseph Yanek, 28, was as in i were badly disrupted and hundredsi 29th. : acti the G - was heading directly into an anti of home-coming motorists on Tues-| In it Paul said: “It is Friday night J i Se fons i De tank gun's fire lane. He swerved MISSING IN ACTION day night had to dig their way| December 29th. It won't be long Ltrors the date of 10s Sas icty . ? from main highways to their homes | til 1944 i Ji2] i “4 intoaditch, jumped outandyelled HAROLD THOMAS KEPNER, December 19, 1942 song. seonaty. tress 1h Biagio Ne Js gone, 1 nove oA according. fo, a, War Department - g ry. gs-ithe New Year will be a lot better hich +i. “Every man for himself!” They wre NM 94 ah e a er if | message which reached his wid- JOHN P. GLEASON, March 30, 1943 ton, Lehman, La and Dallas! than the ome that is just past.” ‘owed mother, Mrs. Margaret Yanek i h Fg td immediately surrounded by Ger- JOHN E, FRITZ, May 7, 1943 Townships. Then after some endearments for ‘of Lehman on Monday morning. 8 man infantrymen. i ig dn Boe With the exception of Dallas|his wife, mother and curly-haired It was the fourth time A. S. Cul- r 3 “ * 8 ay id B h, i i » © Ji Brownrecalls that “about 400f Or HATE so cel RE Eo Dee : us were shoved into an old house. HERBERT C. CULP, July 12, 1944 that school bus drivers could take | prayers for us boys over here. We | neat, white Yenek home set ho £3) We were packed in like sardines, ELWOOD R. RENSHAW, August 20, 1944 the pupils home before nightfall. | need them.” from the Huntsville-Meeker high- i “ ldn't * Th td JAMES B. DAVIES, August 25, 1944 In some instances buses ran off| In previous letters Paul mention- way near the Mekeel farm in Leh- i we couldn t move. : € next day EDWIN A. BURKHARDT, December 17, 1944 the roads and students had to con-{ed that the 109th Infantry was ex- man Township. On three previous pe they star ted marching deeper into PAUL S. KOCHER, December 17, 1944 tinue on foot. Dallas was the only | tremely busy but his thoughts al- trips he had carried messages that ea Germany covering up to 25 miles ALFRED J. BROWN, December 17, 1944 school in session on Wednesday.| ways turned toward his family Joseph was wounded in action. The Hae d 4 h f PAUL G. FISKE, December 22, 1944 All games in the Back Mountain | rather than the snow and struggle first was after the invasion of by a aay. “There was no food, no JOHN E. REESE, December 26, 1944 Basketball League were cancelled. |in Luxembourg. Sicily when Joe and three com- 1 water, only so-called tea, which Al] state, county, township and Pvt. Fiske entered the army on % 5 panions were caught on a hillside 31 was lukewarm and weak. Some- borough snow Si Somme i 15, 1944 and received his Killed In Action - Germany while three hovering German LL PRISONERS OF WAR was out early and crews worke asic training at Camp Blanding, planes dropped bombs. That ti i times, only sometimes, there was $ valiently throughout Tuesday's|Fla. Just before Labor Day he was JOSEPH YANEK Joe was injured in the k yin J e knee by aig : a single potato. We all became CLARENCE H. MORGAN, May 22, 1942 storm to keep highways open. But| home for an 11-day furlough. He flying bomb fragments. He never HE DONALD FREEMAN, May 22, 1942 the powder snow drifted back into|left for overseas during the latter September 21, 1916—December 22, 1944 'learned what happened to his com- ~® a : we u you dropped out o ppe! ae ’ FRED WESTERMAN, April 20, 1943 the roads shortly after the crews|part of September. Born in Jack- |panions. The second was to in- x Ro ¥ formation during the march, that EDWARD SMITH, April 14, 1944 cut through. son Township he at one time lived | form Mrs. Yanek that Joe had been sbi was it. You were shot.” PETER SKOPIC, May 29, 1944 Streets in no community in the|in Kingston and Wyoming and at- struck in the leg by shrapnel on i RAYMOND F. SUTTON, May 29, 1944 bett leared than | tended Luzerne High School fa D Fr y Se , , May 29, county were better cleared than e e Hi chool. Day in: France and hospitalized i I PAUL F. NULTON, Jr., July 19, 1944 those in Dallas Borough. Street! Prior to entering service he was Alfred ]. Brown Lt. Jack Reese tor two months in England. And fi? ”" IRVIN C. DAVIS, JR., September 15, 1944 Commissioner Ralph Eipper, assist-| employed by the Multiplex Company . . . i the third was when Joe was wound- i | We all became WILLIAM GENSEL, October 16, 1944 ed by Russell Atkinson, were out|in Berwick and before that time Missin Biter Missin Since ied in the back by shrapnel on Sep- i i weak but if ol Tuesday at 5 a. m. with the Bor-|Wwas in the coal business in Dallas g g | tember 21, his birthday, during the Noe ough plow and had all of the streets | with his brother, Loren, now with " battle of Hurtgen Forest. On Mon- of = 4 y . . except those in the outlying sec-|the Army Air Forces in Burma. Germa day Mr. Culbert delivered the Edit lly Speaking: i Al ro dlioria Y peaking: tions cleared so that motorists had! Although not'a member, he was : fourth telegram, and it wasn't easy. i i difficult tting to thei k | baptized in Dallas Methodist Church Sh i {i . » \ no difficulty getting to their wor . Joseph Vanek was born in Larkss : : : Aisin avertown seph Yanek was born in Larks 5 formation during the Let's Use Our Heads To Save Our Heels. in the valley. Most of the streets before going overseas. His wife, Corporal , Shavertown Pilot ville on September 21, 1916, and x j . were plowed a dozen times the former Marjorie Evans of Forty Was In Pennsylvania S Was Missing Four moved with his parents to Lehman a y march, tl WC it was it. These are busy days. Telephone operators in the local throughout the day. Again on Wed- Fort, and his daughter Jo with Famed 23th Division Dave Once Bei when he was a lad of nine. He at- <@& ¢ - exchange are swamped with the heaviest volume of calls nesday morning Mr. Eipper and his his A uh iv and ; 0 Y ore tended Lehman schools until the 2’ You were shot. 'n history. [ransportation is limited because of gasoline |¢7¢WS Wore out widening ‘he paths his ar. Mrs. Charles i shaugh A ‘member of a headquarters Recently cited for “meritorious | 1¢ath of his father, the late Frank Al Brown ftionine and severe winter storms make easv communi- | thew had made the day before. of ayenport. street for 3 Xe. ura: battery in Pennsylvania's own fam- achievement in sustained ope “ations: Yanek and then quit -zavol when > iki German prisoner of war THE WAY IT WAS -The capture of Paul Fiske was reported in The Dallas Post until April 18, 1947. At i . : a ' | It became Janusty, With 10 January 18 1945, a month after he was taken prisoner. Alfred Brown was reported The column at left reminded readers that, with gasoline rationed, people were ’ H ’ bs . . N A = wound. THiSsing in the same issue. News of his capture didn’t appear until March 23 of that making more telephone calls than ever before, tying up the lines unnecessarily. ches Ol snow on gr ’ year : : ) and in spite of blistered and raw il : ; Since most homes were on party lines at the time, callers were chided to stop tyin p This front page is typical of the time; a news story or two mixed with b he li ith “plai ip,” feet, they continued, sleeping in ; ry ed with news about up the lines with “plain gossip,” so that calls from servicemen could get through to "barns or out in the open. Eventu- local soldiers. The list of local men who died, were missing or were prisoners ran their families. ! ally they reached the first of sev- 4 { eral prison camps, each one worse - 4 : | Northeastern PA. 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