Harrisburg Telegraph from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania • Page 4

By Ernie Pyle: ped my picture, The last time I had a barbershop picture taken was six years ago, up on the coast of the Bering Sea, when I got shaved by the only woman barber in Alaska. I was sitting on a box that time, too. I don't seem to make any progress in the world. Ernie Pyle The soldier who cut my hair was PvL Patrick Fitzgibbons, of New York. He has been bartering for 17 years on ocean liners, in Hollywood, on Broadway.

Private Fitzgibbons calls it cutting hair. He says, "I've been cutting hair ever since I was 15. You get used to cutting hair, and you miss it if you can't do it every day." When I told Private Fitzgibbons I probably would put his name in the paper, he fussed around and spent an extra half hour on me, putting on after shaving creams, washing my neck, and going over and over the remnants of my hair with his scissors. I think he would probably have given me a bath if I hadn kept an eye on him. First Bath in Weeks Speaking of baths, I had my first one in six weeks a few days after the Tunisian campaign was finished.

That breaks my five weeks record of last winter. I've discovered that I'm a guy who can take baths or leave them alone. Certainly my unsanitary condition didn't undermine my health, for I never felt better in my life than during those long dirty periods. We found out one thing about baths at the front if you don't bathe for. a long time the fleas don't bother you.

Apparently you either build up a protective coating that they can't reach through, or else you become too revolting even for fleas. Whatever the reason, I know of rash people who took an occasional bath and were immediately set upon by fleas, while we filthy characters sailed along blissful and unbitten. Some of the boys did find the clean up process quite a thrilling SATURDAY EVENING Power of the Press Bring Extra Good Barber Job Allied Headquarters, North Africa (by wireless) One day out on a Tunisian hillside I sat on a box and got a shave and haircut from a soldier barber. While I was getting clipped, Carol Johnson, who has been over here doing pen and ink battle sketches for NEA Service, came along and snap experience. Will Lang, of Life and Time Magazines, got a haircut and shampoo one afternoon and then went right back next morning to the same shop and got another shampoo.

When I expressed astonishment at this unusual pro cedure he said why that was noth ing, he'd seen Bob Capa, the Col lier's photographer, sit in a chair and get three shampoos, one right after another, each one with different flavor of soap. Comes Back in Jeep Will and I came back from the front in a jeep, because the Army up and took my little German Volkswagen away from me. The high command put out a general order that all captured vehicles were to be turned in, so in she went, even though she had been given to me officially. Upon hearing of the order my first impulse was to take off the tires and bury them, remove the engine, and put a hand grenade under the front seat, just to show the Army they couldn't do that to me. But after seeing my lawyer I decided the Army probably could do anything to me it wished, so I bowed gracefully and left the Volkswagen sitting in a plowed field lor the Army to collect.

A Stroke of Luck Our jeep was stolen on the way back, but the M. picked it up after 12 hours. That was a stroke of luck, for stolen jeeps are usually gone forever. Since they're all alike it is' very hard for the M. to identify a particular one.

Ours was easy, however, because the glass was gone from the right 1 1 nana siae winasnieia, and we knew the thieves couldn't do any thing about that for we'd tried to get it fixed ourselves and there was no glass in that whole area. Jeep thievery has been prac ticed on such a scale over here that it's practically legitimate I've not yet heard of a jeep being stolen right from under the driver, leaving him riding along in mid air, but I've heard of cases almost as bad. Some friends of mine were standing on a sidewalk and actually saw their jeep driven away by thieves. In one city soldiers stole a ieep with "Military Police" painted all! over it. And to ton it off.

an un I Ml CARLISLE: Man Killed By lightning Carlisle, May 29. Struck by a bolt of lightning during yesterdayi afternoon's thunderstorm, Elmer L. ZelL of 162 North Bedford street, was killed as he operated a power grass cutter at the Carlisle Country Club at Middlesix, three miles east of here. Zell was employed by the club to mow the greens at Middlesix and was riding the mower when the bolt struck. Dr.

Edward S. Kronenberg, Jr. local physician was summoned, but death had been instantaneous, Coroner Edward A. Heagele, Me chanicsburg, said. The body was released to the Lutz Funeral Home pending ar rangements for funeral services, Will Enter WAAC Miss Flora George, 1111 North West street, who was inducted into the WAAC a month ago, will re port Wednesday to Harrisburg and leave from there for training at Daytona Beach, Fla.

Miss George has been associated with her brother, J. Duff George, in the green house business. Union Services Arranged The union Sunday evening serV' ices conducted each summer by a number of Carlisle churches will be held this summer on the Dick inson College campus in order that Air Corps' students at the college may participate. Arrangements for outdoor serV' ices on the campus were made at a conference of the Ministerial As sociation with Major John D. Hartigan, commander of the cam pus detachment, who endorsed the proposal enabling the soldiers to join townspeople for the summer vesper series.

Garden Fair Planned Preliminary plans for a Vic tory Garden Fair, to be held in place of the annual Hobby Show, have been announced by the edu cational committee of the YMCA. Arrangements to hold the show are being made with the co operation of Mrs. Frank E. Masland, county victory garden chair man, and Robert Sterrett, Car lisle victory garden chairman. No date has been set.

Officer Will Speak Major John D. Hartigan, com mandant of the Army Aviation Cadets at Dickinson College, will be the speaker at the annual Memorial services at Boiling Springs which will be held in thinking private stole Major General Jimmy Doolittle's car. What are you all stealing at home these days? flfrflfa HARRISBURG tfjfr TELEGRAPH MAY 29, 1943 BUSY 'BLONDE BOMBER' FOUR JOBS fill the time of Mrs. Sylvia Stewart, shown at her aircraft job. the Springville Cemetery tomor row afternoon at 2 clock.

Led by the Boiling Springs High School band and a firing squad from tne uarusie Army Post, a parade will form at 1.45 o'clock at the Methodist Church in Boiling Springs. The Boy Scouts under the leadership of Robert Kitzmiller and Mrs. Sara Farling with veterans and children of the Sunday Schools will join in the parade to the ceme tery. Catches Big Trout Philin Karper, East Louther street, yesterday caught a brown trout in the Yellow Breeches Creek near Brandtville that meas ured 22 Yt inches and weighed 3 pounds. Birth Announcements Mr.

and Mrs. Kenneth Piper, Newville. R. D. 1, son, Larry Eugene, at their home on Tues day.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Elmer Sloop, Mechanicsbure. R.

D. 1. son, at their home Wednesday, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Sned' aker, Carlisle, R.

D. 2, son, Wed nesday, Carlisle Hospital. Jacques Benner BeUefonte, May 29. Sgt. Paul E.

Benner, son of Mr. and Mrs Harry Benner, Lemont, and Miss Laura Jacques, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jacques, Creigh ton, were married May 15 in the Methodist Church at Creighton with the Rev. Duane Stewart officiating.

Ml BY ORDER OF THE OFFICE OF DEFENSE TRANSPORTATION II IT TRAVEL UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY IF NECESSARY TO TRAVEL BE SURE TO CHECK WITH YOUR LOCAL AGENT FOR SCHEDULES THANK YOU FOR CO OPERATING ro)fi O) Hill Field, Utah A woman can be a housewife, the mother of two young boys, a farmerette and an airplane engine instructor. Mrs. Sylvia. Stewart of Clinton, Utah, who works at the Ogden air depot, proves it She was the first woman ac cepted for. training at the Pratt and Whitney engineering services school at East Hartford, Conn.

She has a pair of husky sons, Larry, 11, and Ronald 7, and, helps her husband, a corporal of Utah quartermaster depot guards, operate their 40 acre farm. "It's hard, 111 admit," she said, "but organization seems to be the solution. My husband and I both have war jobs, yet we manage to carry on pretty much as usual." The willowy blond says that at the Connecticut training men students seemed to resent her at first but soon "they began to relax." "By the time the course was finished, we were all the best of friends," she said, "and when I left, they presented me with an autograph album signed by all the instructors and officials of the school and inscribed: "To the Blonde Bomber." HUMMELSTOWN: Commencement Will Be Held Hummelstown. May 29. The sixty fifth annual commencement exercises of Hummelstown High School will be held in the gym nasium on Tuesday at 8 m.

The speaker will be William Earnest, Harrisburg. The program: Processional, "Priest's March," Mendelssohn; invocation, the Rev. J. F. Mort; music, "In a Persian Market," Ketelby, prayer from "Hansel and Gretel," Humperdinck, the Girl's Chorus; commencement ad' dress, William H.

Earnest; music, "Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley," "Can't Stay Away," the Girl's Chorus; presentation of diplomas and awards, L. B. Hen derson: benediction, the Rev. J. F.

Mort; recessional, selected. Honor students include: Vale dictorian, Donald Reed; saluta torian. Esther M. Engle, Esther Brandt, Minnie D'Ambrosio, Paul ine Stopfel, Marion Achenbach, Lucille Baker, Mary Jane Zim merman. Kathleen Rupert and James Burchfield.

Baccalaureate services will be held Sunday evening at 7.30 o'clock in the Zion Lutheran Church. The service will be charge of the Rev. J. F. Mort, Methodist Church.

Students Will Transfer The eighth grade transfer exer cises will oe nem in tne nign school gymnasium on Monday at 1.30 p. m. The program: Piano solo, Joyce Earhart; address of welcome, Edith Shanaman; music, school chorus; sketch by pupils of 8B; address, Sylvia Plouse; piano duet, Edith Shanaman and Joyce Ear hart; sketch, "Once in a Blue Moon," pupils of 8A; valedictory, Carolyn Hocker; address to class, the Rev. James F. Mort, Methodist Church; accordipn solo, Edith Shanaman; awarding of certificates and medals; flute solo, John Burkholder.

Officers of 8 A are: President, Albert Bowser; Carolyn Hocker, vice president; secretary, John Burkholder; treasurer, Paul Lower. Officers of 8B are: President, Jack Hugendubler; vice president, Anthony Orsini; secretary, Alice Zimmerman, and treasurer, Helen Sheeder. Class roll of 8 Charles Ach enbach, Robert Bowser, John Burkholder, Dorothy Carroll, Anna Copper, John Costello, Jack Deimler, Helen Hixon, Rich ard Hixon, Carolyn Hocker, George Hoerner, Evelyn Holbert, Herta Hopfensitz, Nancy Hummel, Ann Keller, Robert Light, Robert Lindsey, Stanley Longwill, Paul Lower. Mary Lynch, Neal Miller, Sylvia Plouse, Simon Rhoads, Edith Shanaman, William Stare, Nancy Umberger, Chauncey Ymgst. 8B.

Paul Bnghtbill, Charlotte Carroll, Glenna Conrad, Galen Detweiler, Joyce Earhart, Robert Eisenhour, Charles Ebersole, Rob ert Fox, Jack Hughendubler, Mar tha Hugendubler, Robert Hollings worth, Doris Look, Richard Mit chell, Dolores Nissley, Anthony Orsini, Henry Patrick, Marie Patrick, Charles Rhoads, Eugene Rmesmith, Bert Saylor, Helen Sheeder, Phyllis Sites, Charles Wert, Alice Zimmerman. P. O. Will Be Open The post office will be open and regular deliveries will be made by local and rural carriers on Monday. Legion Sponsors Program The American Legion, Post 265, will sponsor the Memorial Day observance on Sunday.

The parade will start at 1.30 from the Legion Home, John street, and proceed to the cemetery where a service will be held at 2.30 p. m. The speaker will be William W. Parry, sports editor of the Lebanon Daily News. Music will be furnished by the Hummelstown School Band.

Seek Blood Donors The Red Cross Committee In charge of arrangements for the next visit of the Mobile Unit here on Tuesday, announced that 50 donors are needed to meet the quota of 140 pints. Registrations will be accepted at Stanford's Drug Store until June 1. Club Will Meet The Flower Club will meet Tuesday at the Hershey Rose Garden. Members will leave Hummelstown at 10.45 a. and will take their lunch with them.

CHAMBERSBURG Poison Caused Death of Boy Chambersburg, May 29. That an unknown poison was present in the body of Carroll LeRoy Myers, 11, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Myers, Scotland, and was the cause of his death oh May 2 was determined at a coroner's inquest held by Franklin County Coroner S. D.

Shull at the M. Garfield Barbour funeral home, Shippens burg, Thursday night The verdist said that death was due to "acute ulcerative enteritis due to some unknown poison." Testimony of Dr. Louis Wright, Harrisburg Hospital pathologist, and Howard E. Gensler, analyti cal and consulting chemist and mi croscopist for the bureau of foods and chemistry of the State Depart ment of Agriculture, indicated that the specialists were unprepared to identify the poison, determine its type whether bacterial, vegetable or mineral or state whether the Fletcher's Castoria, of which the youth had been given dosages, had contained the foreign element. Doctor Wright, who assisted Doctor Shull in an autopsy upon the boy's body, described their findings.

Gensler stated that he was still conducting experiments with a 'portion of the contents of the bottle of Castoria from which dosages had been given the youth and with other bottles of the medi cine. He pointed out that there was a difference in appearance" between the Castoria furnished him by Doctor Shull and a bottle he purchased from stock distrib uted earlier. Testimony of members of the youth's family his mother and sister indicated that he had not been ill previous to having been given the first dose of Castoria but that he became violently ill on Friday, May 7, after he had been given two teaspoonfuls on Monday night preceding his death and two teaspoonfuls on Wednesday morning. The youth's sister and her 7 year old son also took smaller dosages of Castoria from the same bottle on Wednesday morning and both became sick. Testifying as to the boy's illness was Dr.

LeRoy Saxe, Shippens burg, and as to the sale of the medicine by a clerk at the store was A. J. Kauffman, manager of the Scotland Pen Mar grocery store: Council Awards Contract A. G. Crunkleton Electric Com pany, of Greencastle, was awarded the contract for interconnection of the municipal light plant and the South Penn Power Company's lines by borough council at a sre cial meeting Thursday night.

The nrm's total bid was $3000 for equipment and material, plus the actual cost of construction. Other frms placng bids were: Howard P. Foley Harrisburg; Electro Construction Philadelphia; W. V. Pangborne Philadelphia; Electric Telephone Line Construction Philadelphia; Electric Construction Philadelphia; Herman Mayer Philadelphia.

325 Tons "Sugar Allowed With figures on the two day canmng sugar registration held Wednesday and Thursday complete, except for seven schools in the county, the Franklin County Rationing Board today announced that persons repre senting 14,512 family units had applied in the two days and that certificates had been issued for the purchase of 650,690 pounds of sugar. The certificates aver aged slightly less than 45 pounds per iamuy unit. Bus Routes Approved The Ordnance Department of the Letterkenny Ordnance Depot announced today that final ap proval has been secured from the Office of Defense Transportation to put into operation 20 passenger buses which will be co ordinated with the depot work schedule. Routes are to include the fol lowing communities: Roxbury, Amberson, Dry Run, Spring Run, uoyiesburg, concord and Blairs Mill; Fayetteville. Caledonia.

ashtown, McKnightstown and Gettysburg; Edenville, Ft. Lou don, Metal, Fannettsburg and Wil low Hill; St. Thomas, Ft. Loudon and McConnellsburg; Greenvil lage, Scotland, Black Gap, Mont Alto, Quincy and Waynesboro; New Franklin, Altenwald, Shady Grove and Waynesboro; Marion, Greencastle, State Line and Hagerstown, Shippensburg, Walnut Bottom and Newville. Marriage Application Paul John 21, Scotland, and Lucille M.

McNew, 18, Fayetteville, R. D. 1. EFLC to Open Office Franklin County Agent J. H.

Knode announced today that the Emergency "Farm Labor Commits tee has leased furnished office space in the coal office of D. Holland Speer in North Second street at Light avenue. The office will be opened next Tuesday, and will be in charge of H. Lester Oyler, Fayetteville, R. D.

1, the emergency farm labor assistant of Franklin county. Miss Arianna Fleming will be secretary. 'Hours of the office will be 8.30 to 12 noon, and 1 to 5 p. and until noon on Saturday to assist farmers in need of labor for food production'. Nurse Enlists Miss Patricia Kelley.

R. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. J.

Kelley, 610 East Catharine street, has enlisted in the U. S. Army Air Corps Evacuation Unit, and expects to leave before July 15 for training at Albuquerque, N. M. Birth Announcements Mr.

and Mrs. David Rosen berry, Fannettsburg, daughter, May 27, Chambersburg Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Unger, Elm avenue, son, May 28, Chambersburg Hospital.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Richard Neg ley, Greencastle, R. D.

1, daughter, May 27, Chambersburg i Maternity Hotne. York Sabbath Ass'n to Meet Lewisberry, May 29. The 40th annual convention of the 12th dis trict of the York County Sabbath School Association will be held on Thursday in St Paul's Evangelical Church, near Newberrytown, the Rev. J. F.

Rohrbaugh, pastor. The program: Afternoon session, 2 p. m. Song service; words of greeting, Charles Shimmel; response by President John V. Kohler; devotionals, the Rev.

G. F. Broske; "A Project in Every Church School to Stimulate Christian Living in Every Home," warvey E. Swartz, president of the York County Sabbath School Association, York; "Workers' Conferences and Annual Consecration Service as Goals of the United Christian Education Advance in Every Church SchooL" the Rev. John E.

Rine. sunerintendent of Leadership Training of the York county sabbath School Association, Manchester; general, dis cussion. Evening session. 7.30 n. Song service; devotionals, the Rev.

J. F. Rohrbaugh; duet, Mrs. C. T.

McAllister and Miss Panzie Zart man; "How Many Unchurched Families Are There in the Vicinity of Each Church School and How Can We Best Co operate' in ant Annual 'Go to Church' the Rev. Elwood G. Johnson, York; general discussion; greetings from county officers; reports of committees; installation of officers. Officers are: President John Kohler, New Cumberland R. vice president Blaine Seitz, Lewisberry; secretary, Miss Mary Kra ter, New Cumberland R.

treas urer, John FisheL York Haven. REWARD Will be paid by the Har ruburg Cemetery Association for information leading to the arrest and conviction of person or persons stealing flowers from the graves or grounds of the IMPORTANT AfflODHCECffiBT In Compliance With the Order Issued By The Office Of Defense Transportation WILL BE DELIVERED 11! MY (Effective Immediately) In order that you have an ade quate supply of dairy products at all times, it is important that you anticipate your needs, ordering a two days' supply at a time. We will appreciate your co burb ill DEALER v. I.