The Times Leader from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania • Page 24

WILKKS-BARRE RECORD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1912 (ttrg. V. 8. Off.) By RIPLEY BELIEVE IT OR NOT BRIEF MENTION Already, at War and He Didn't Know It aa Under the Door Why WalkAround FeeungHaifDcad When Can BuayYou For49-59 Hardware Co. WH.KE.tBARRC Harris Hardware and Supply Co tlNGSTOl COBNERS lf SIGN IN A PURHAM.AI.C FUNERAL Walter's January Shoe Sale Now Going On! PARLOR TRAFFIC COULD CROSS.

If rrT ai 'Itffc SOUTH CANADIAN RIVER at Norman.Oklahoma BECAME SO DRY THAT A WATER WAGON SPRINKLED IT DAILY SO OSTRICH 00ESM BURY ITS HEAD IN the SAND I 1 iff. LA SIGNATURE OF GEO. M. FISCHER Chicago Arteua Conrad Loaniportlnd. HE(? FATHER'S NAME WAS JOHN CONRAft HER BROTHER'S NAME WAS JOHN CONRAD HER HUSBAND'S NAME WAS JOHN CONRAD AND HER SON'S NAME WAS JOHN CONRAP Tor Protection butto obtain water VJH(CU 15 SOMETIMES NEAR 1HE SURFACE Tomorrow: An Eight-Day Wonder Women Expected to Take Jo bs to Re lease Figh ters Deferments From Military-Service- to Be- Few, General Hershey, Draft Director, Says Washington, Jan.

8 (jP) Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey, National Selective Service Director, asserted tonight that the Government will expect "a gradual but constant" substitution of women in industry and agriculture for men who are fit to fight. Every Tobruk mg i i i British and I Olish 1 roops Lived Like Moles During Siege of Libyan Port By PRRSTON ROVER Named Slut Typist Eleanor A Wright of Tunkhannock; yesterday was appointed a typist In the State Banking Department at a salary of 11,080. 'Blind Meet Sunday Luzerne County Benevolent Society of the Buna win meet sunaay auernoon at 2:30 in CIO headquarter, Town Hall Building. Falli Aralnst Chair Susan Heil' sr.

15, of Wealey Lane, Georgetown wan treated In General Hospital yesterday for a lacerated lower lip suffered when she fell against a chair at school. Joseph Fltt Safe Mrs. Mary Fits, 1488 Scott Street, Miners Mills, yesterday received a letter from her eon, Pvt. Joseph Fltz, stationed at Honolulu in wnicn ne saia was well and ready lor action. Dlzbon Made Serreant Corp.

Bernard J. Dlzbon, son or Mrs. Anna 74 North Walnut Street, Georgetown, has been promoted to sergeant Set Dlzbon en listed In the Army in September 1940 and is stationed at Fort Penning, Ga. Will Solicit In Courthouse Court house employes today will be elicit ed for membership in the Red Cross. Jacob Davis, veteran clerk in the County Commissioners' office, has been named chairman of the committee to enroll every employe and official in the building.

Seville Leaven WBAX Hal Sev ille, manaeer of WBAX for several years, resisted on Tuesday and will soon leave for Miami, where he will engage in i radio work. John H. Stenirer, head of WBAX, stated yesterday that the vacancy would not be rilled and that he would combine the duties of manager with his other work. i Engineer to Meet In Reading Lehigh Valley section of American Institute of Electrical Engineers will hold its fourth annual dinner meeting at Berkshire Hotel, Reading, tonight at 8. D.

Lee Chestnut, radio and television engineer of General Electrio Company, will speak on "Frequency Modulation," and A. J. Althouse will speak on "Modernization of Generating Facilities at West Reading Power Station." Today's Anniversary The first successful balloon ascension in this country was made by Francois Blanchard in Philadelphia on Jan. 9, 1793. Blanchard crossed the Eng lish Channel in a balloon in 1785 and in the fame year used a para chute as a means of descent.

The balloonist came to this country In! 1792 and arrangged to make an ascent. The yard of the old Walnut Street Prison in Philadelphia was the scene of his takeoff. Today's Horoscope Those cele brating birthdays today are gay, energetic- and optimistic, self-reliant and independent. -They also have unlimited trust in others. For-' tunes vary in the coming year.

Ob-: eiaciea ana aeiays concerning property and elderly relatives are probable, but gain comes eventually. Safeguards should be placed on health of themselves and members of. their households. Born on this date a child will be keenly sensitive and prone to be somewhat over-critical, anxious and argumentative, but original and clever. Disappointment in love ia indicated.

WEATHER from Page 13) at the city police etation. Director of Public Safety ordered a plumber to repair the pipe so water could be obtained. Firemen Are Called to 4 City Blazes Four more ruee, making seven in 24 hours, kept city firemen on fho nlorl- vettot-Hmr a-nA nlU Bitter cold and ley streets gave added difficulties to the fire IlgMem. Tiv ire tVimr man early-morning slumber to answer alarms sounded because of autonio- bile fires. Last night at 7:41 firemen from Company 7 were summoned to New Franklin Street to put out a blaze caused by a ehort circuit in a truck owned bv Pittston Stove and Fur- nace Company.

Flremea said the u- 4.....1, Al. ur-: driver of the truck was Ark Wcise. lesieraay morning at a frozen waterback on a kitchen stove in the home of Arthur Singer, ow ceiieia tmuc, uuiai, imuwing not coais on tne noor. A blaze, etartcd and firemen from No. 7 and No.

1 responded to extinguish the flames. i The early-moring alarms were sounded at 1:09 and 3:53. On the iirst nreaien iouna a lire the upholstery of a car owned by M. S. Beebe, Scranton.

On the second it was found, a radiator hose broke in the car of Sulius. Bereer. Third! Avenue, Kingston, as it was travel- ing on East Market Street. ZA t0 engine and was set afire, MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Peter J. Marra Sarah L.

Creel Harold G. Trailer Jane L. Wrigley Benjamin M. Snyder Ada Canipolieto Niagara Kails Piitsinn DEATHS Began. Mrs.

Alary Becnn'dir, Airs. tieorird butravaRe, MarrrlU Kannirk, Urorge Ulbbons, 'I tioiniB Kimhlp, Kdwln U. Nakliiki, Mrs. (Hrarkii, Michael Kekieo, Stanley Mnlth, Mrs. arnr U'illUnii Mr.

iiiiiianis, 1 1 1 la mi John BEGANY At Luzerne, January 1942, Mrs. Mary Begany, Pringle. Luzerne, January g. BECHTLOFF At Freeland. January 8 airs, lieorge isecntiotr, ti.

BUTCAVAGE At Lee Park. January 8. 1942, Man-ella Butcavage formerly of Sugar Notch. FAXXICK At January i 7. 1942, George Fannkk, 55.

GIBBONS At Si ranton. January 7. 1942. Thomas formerly of Kingston. KIMBLE At Scranton.

January 7. 1 West Pittston Pittston Philadelphia1 Philadelphia Butte, Mont. CP "Has my husband been vat your office yet?" Inquired a' woman who called the Butte recruiting atation. "No," replied Sgt Nick F. Hert-ges.

"Well, we had an argument and he said he was going to Join the army," said the woman. "If he shows up you send him back home and tell him I'll give him all the war he can take right here! "Besides, he's 68 yean old, no matter what he claims." Old Proverb Needs Some Rewriting Chlckasha, UP) Don't try to tell Joe that old saw about a bird in the hand. Goltry saw a quail sneak Into a pile of brush near here, crawled around until he found an opening and grabbed Elated, he lifted his hand to wav the bird under the nose of a pal and the darn ij thine slipped loose and flew awayr a rain nr TAKE A TIP FROM THE TOP 7H FOX LESS! Liberal Trade-In Allowance For Your Old Stove on a Queen Bengal Coal Range Enjoy Smart Efficiency In Your Kitchen With a New QUEEN BENGAL All cast Iron construction. Has 20" square oven, proce-laln enamel finish, extra large deep firebox. Extremely large ash pan in base.

Comes in Pearl Tan, Pearl White or all White colors. STOVE and FURNACE REPAIR PARTS For All Makes of Stoves and Furnaces GRATE BARS BRICKS WATER BACKS STOVE PIPE SHAKERS REGISTER BOXES FIRE POTS CROSS PIECES OVEN PLATES FURNACE CEMENT TIN PIPE STOVE BOARDS TANK HEATERS WATER BOILERS EGG HEATERS i. Phone us and our repair man will call and give you an estimate on repairing your range or furnace without to you. V51 $1.72 xSSk Tax Jg-. AT ALL STATE STORES Grain Nrulrat Spirit! Proof OVERBROOK STRAI6HT RYE WHISKEY I 4 YEARS OlD SMOOTH LISHf SO0Y $1.08 ItmiiMi Mat.

tn.l Cn ScrM, tntl Wfftir-Hiri(ii i.iMHKMMijf 'lyj With the British Army in forum over NBC, Henshey said Delayed UP) Under the guiding bluntly that reasons for determent hand of an RAF officer I alternate-, from military service "before Pearl ly raced and bounced across 120 Harbor may not be reasons today, miles of the North African desert1 Although registration of men beta advanced positions of the British 'tween the ages of 20 and 44, not Eighth Army which has crowded1 heretofore registered, has been set the Germans and Italians far to I for February 16. Hershey said en-the weet of Tobruk. I rollment would be permitted earlier My neck still is stiff from search-! poseibly the preceding Saturday ing the skies for German pilots. I or Sunday to avoid interference None was seen, although previously with production, they machine-gunned a supply "it is most Important," he said, column on the route we followed. that the registration be made We passed through four battle- without in any way interfering with fields where the terrain was scarred production It may be more by tanks tracks and the debris of fn-to register on I PUT IT ON WITH A DOOR BOTTOM STRIP Door thrinkac9 and wocrx of tKnshold Ucrye a largo crock at bottom.

A Numetal Brass Felt Strip will close this) crack, keep out cold air, rain, dust dirt. Get Numetal Stole "E-l" Door Bottom today. Applied quickly. Inexpensive. 32" Length 72c 36" Length 81c 42" Length 95c 48" Lengthj $1.28 TYLES A and For Windows and Doors Easily put on by or carpenter without removing windows or doors.

No muss. No inconvenience. Most modern and'practlcal type 7c of permanent strip, ft. WINDOW SETS Complete for upper and lower sash. Nails end Instructions Included.

28x28x28 $1.00 30x30x30 $1.20 36x36x36 $1.45 DOOR SETS 32x60 $1.90 36x84 $2.00 Put up in handy package containing strip, Instructions and nails for each -M windowjor door. ALL WOOL FELT WEATHERSTRIP Black 316" Thick 10c ft. i2c ft. -Weatherstrip Nails- For metal, wood or, felt. Heavily coated with Cr pure tin.

long. pkg. AND BENNETT flARpVARE CO 4 AND 6 NO-MAIN ST Established 1826 Dial tmiSl Eyes Examined Scientifically and cor-' rectly to relieve defective vision. Thirtieth Year. DR.W.G.

ERNST OPTOMETRISI 205 S. MAIN ST Open I i-m Open Nithts "T-; Daily 7:30 to i to A NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION Dr. Brown resolves to maintain his low price policy exactly as in the past. The price of most things has gone up, but Dr. Brown wants the pub-' lie to know that his low price for eyeglasses is the same as in the past.

He originated his low price policy over ten years ago and now has over 65,000. satisfied patients and employs fifteen people to assist him. Dr. Brown also maintains his own grinding laboratory. Not only do you receive careful ind skillful attention, but you also get expert advice on the style most suited to your features.

DR. BROWN'S LOW PRICE Permits everyone to obtain the finest and latest in eye glasses. Dr. Vm. Brown Optometrist Optician EAST MARKET STREET Cor.

Public Square 2nd Floor Hkea-Uarrr fHONE S-l0 8 4.1 PnbHr Kquar Most folks think nothing of accidents until one happens to them. Then the financial worries begin if they are not protected by Record all-accident insurance. Investlgats today. rMsfsM Immediate I Service! 4 Law Coat! STOVE FURNACE HEATER and BOILER REPAIR PARTS Our Stove Repair Department Is Ready To take care of all burned out or broken parts that have to be We have the largest and most complete stock of repairs in this part of the State. No waiting or need to send to factory.

GRATES for kitchen ranges, furnaces, steam bailers, heaters, bucket-a-day heaters. FIRE, POTS Pah fiimaitai Vi a OT Also complete fireboxes for most all makes of kitchen ranges. CROSS PIECES STOVE COVERS Plain and polished finishes, oven plates, bricks, brick rests, firsts frames, cement eta. WATER FRONTS Plain Iron, Bronze, Taco Heaters, Water Jackets for Tank Heaters. STOVE and FURNACE PIPE Elbows, tees in plain and galvanized iron.

Asbestos paper, asbestos pipe covering. White Hardware Co. WTf.KER-BAKR Harris Hardware and Supply Co. aUNGSTON AORKERf II uul." n'ained on the field. it Was a dismal Picture to be In tha flat atony desert but battle field represented a onuan gain tnougn aome came an ODV10US1V niETn Dl'lCe.

At one P'ace we came within heating of gunfire of British artil- Here is your op- portunity to get quality shoes at amazingly low figures. Walter's only rUn two sales a year, so plan to get shoes for the whole family now There are special lots at a a i prices which we may never again be able to repeat. So hurry! The sale Wyoming Valley waits for is now going on Come in today I Walter's Owner-Operated Reliable Shoe Store 23 Public Square CsUibMcdinlill WINTER SPECIALS Winter Underwear Warm Gloves Wool Hose Mufflers Sweaters Jackets IOMBANS sJL9WJtarkt Stmt Headquarters for the Steinway nly Mors In th community whtra you can buy a nw Stlnwy. ar leluiiv Stein wy rprMntatlvt, and have a gantrous MUctlon of mdal( and ttyl, at varying prlcu A naw Stain way Vtrtlcal can ba pur haaad for a llttla ai lo downl LIZDAS Piano Store 247 South Main Street MUSCULAR SACK-ACHE? Rub In penetrating OMEGA to rub out your misery! Jiaat rub plasty of Omeja Oil into yqur tiff, sore back nusclaa tonight and you ahould "wake up tod tomorrow. Oivat you tha sensational 2 -way action now used by so many doctors, nurses, athletic trainers.

0ega won't burn or kiirfuwMt its iMnetratiiil power brings eirra-fait relief from muscular or rheu-toaUc aches or pain-SSI, all drug stores. GmegaQil To rr 'wnt dial t-2121. fsr IVtty Browiu iery amaening a uerman eirongi dlnendencv of a wife. Point. Tanks idled on the crest of with dependents a gulley to go in for the cleanup.

L.m "ntinue to be deferred until The wind, blew all day, rolling! Clfn homes "much clouds ol dust, oil every battleliem and every road cut through the desert by tanks and supply trains. Qmocharf dsnu oil Smashed planet were on all sides. lne masea were auout ou-ou unm we leached an airport just outside! Tobruk a score of Italian oui.re were Durnea ana some mown onto their noses with the skeletons of I their tails pointing skyward. 'Sained Tobruk itself was a picture ofjPMf deferred to insure1 unimaginable destruction. Here! food.

Stu-I the British end Polish garrison wm conHnue their studies Defends Malaya t1' (Pliolo hy Central l'res) ARTHUR E. PERCIVAL, In command of the British "s'ing the Japanese in JdalaVa IS (ien. Arthur Ernest Perceval. His reputation as an imaginative tactician was emphasized recently when he directed maneuvers based on the supposition that the Japanese were attacking Singapore by air. Now the real thing has come.

CY0 Fighters Gain Victories MfiiilPi-S 4f St Zt-ZU-n' m.mn Team of Plymouth on Way to Philadelphia Three of the St. Ste- tournament in PhiladelDhia. SeV' eral other? advanced through byes with two isimonpuree, Billy Strauss Mt. Top and Jack Smith of Wilkes-Barre being unable to line up In the own cluts Nickie Suder of Aide regkiteitd a technical knock- 1 out over Dan of Reading in the first round. Dan Donnelly of Plvninut IMiinn.l A.ui Ina Nistian of k.RvM 1.1 a 19.fi- pound match after they were unable opponents, irie wa con oy mS Machinski of Wilkes-Barre who got nod over Walter Kelly of Ea6ton tne iao-pounci cla-y.

In addition to Strauss in the 155-j pound class and Smith In the 135-! pound were drawn by, Ellifi Shaw of Plymouth. 118: Jim1 Troniovich of Wilkes-Barre. 112: and Andrew Klinsrs of Hanover Town- amp. us. Bob Haimcs and John neia out ror nearly seven montniij against daily ground and air attack1 until the second desert campaign brought relief.

Our car came to the edire of a desert plateau where we could see ssndyri Whifh tiny Port; while buildings built by Mussolini to demonstrate his colonial prowess and elso to provide a strong point for his ultimate attack upon Efrypt. Now every one of the fine build- ings has been wrecked, either by his own artillery or by bombs from his own or German planes, Scarcely a buildin? was occunied Speaking on the Stars radio Saturday, Saturday nignt, or sumo- time Sunday, preceding the day of of the Tfmv onlv be meawr- must De lnrtrp enoiisrh to win this war' Hershev announced that local boards would scrutinize more close reient he said. 1 lu' ZLXZl in which! but added there will be closer lu the home was established and defe "thole individuals industry vfi nroducfl the materials mlin our forces- "rr, a Wprshev ej )Ur luiueo i HtHlf TJartthAV AT- a.h hv Hnlnir thev become tppfned in nrof essione in which AmTrentices will 9 tTauir6eMB--Bkl in m-n Hpnendento who are supported bv his earned income will TdS. The of thia natIon depends upon! th fnmiiv "There will be enough manpower fol. an pU1.p0ses provided that every man, woman and child does his share.

There must not be dare not be any shirking of duty, All must work. There cannot be avenues bv which men evade their rBannncihilif ioa Tsln nrofeesion no rnpn tn unriarfltflnd the serious nrnhlpms" nf manDOWer distribu calculate present ana iiuuic uu --liberally." "Some parts of our manpower hp pnntiniiPil "are more desirab "are more desirable than others, but all parte must be used, and each using agency must, Ilia lpjiq Hp.oir-! 'atuejii pan. i ki Thia la no time foriD hwiuuiib. selfish grasping: methods, of any ot tne numerous agencies, wn.u men. Temperature Record For Thursday, Jan.

8 Do.mii rennrted the follow- nKhifth and low temperature for Thursday: Chicago 12 -12 2 4 37 79 8 15 17 15 'tin Los Angeles Miami ork rniiaaeipnia -9 -4 Washington 7.1 uuu WKATHKB FORECASTS FAatern Pennsylvania. New Jersey Generally fair Friday nrnin followed by Cight snow in the afternoon, siowiy hik it alure. western new York and Westprn lioht nnw PXCfnt J0 SlOng ,17. ukes Friday. Man-land: Generally fair Frldajf morning followed bv light and central portions in slowly rising Umperature.

now WeSt afternoon 3 of the in 2i lor jj by the British during the Axis skill -no occupation no industry phen's CYO boxing team of Flym-West siege; they took to the earth like shall become the refuge of won their initial bouts at moles. era." iTamaqua Isust night to continue on I have been writing in the quar- He called upon all agencies using their way to the Diamond Belt ters nf an nffirer whn wpnl thronsrh the nipcc Tt i wnnripn I shelter built in a hallowed-out sand'tion and said "It is to be expected bank where he has rigged up a that each of the using agencies will telephone and lighting system. The equipment he used was abandoned by the Italians. Wiik a. Ia.

fm-, me iiiuvvi uuin win- shield wiper he devised a phono- graph to play a score of records' captured irom tne Italians. r-fHire ana qui-ei nave i-ume 10 Tobruk. And a half dozen soldiers and officers who -went throughj si.ece are half sorrv over. Thev had come to like the quaint life in sanaDanKs Tall Story Club: Anglers' Chapter Topeka, Kas, UP). Gov.

Payne Ratner and D. J. Fair, highway that bend, too, as the place where I XCOll, Vh.l.U i ILlll.tllUll 'lantern orobablv dropped bv Coro- "The rpmsrkable Dart about was that the lantern wa burning 1ISUUJ vi" dropped." Corns, come. D. aid thr igovernor thoughtfully.

"I'll rut 70 pounds off my catfish, lf you'll blow lout the lanUrn." 1 -iiMcDade accompanied the fighters. Victories in the Philadelphia tournament will qualify the youths i42, Edwin U. Kimble, 38. Dunmore. rectgr, were Iiening on tne weoeho.

NAKLICKI At Nantlcoke. January "That's where I caught my 75- 1942. Mrs. Bridget Naklickl. pound catfish last summer," said the OLEARKO At New York, January pointing to a bend in the 10M nr.

tne lamea (ioioen tiiove tourna- mentin NewYork. REKIEC At Sun Mount. New York, January 7, 1942, Stanley Rekiee. foe ihooked what I first thought wa. marly of Larksville.

fish but was a ball of mud and SMITH At Kingston. January 8, It turned out to be an antique Mm. Came R. Smith. 70.

SMILSKI At Plvmouth. Januarv th Cnnoulitador. You May Always Be Constipated If- you don't correct faulty lWlng habits. In the meantime to help insure gentle yet thorough, bowel movements take Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets.

Olive Tablets are simply wonderful Vint inl t1 71 1 ai: 1 uiy umb wiTfuon anawraiup iBtejtinijnuKuiareUon.i530f,eo. wiiuam smiiaxi. iormeriy oil ex'ter- 11 TTiUO I 1 1 m.n rl uary 7, 1942. Mrs. John Williams, Wilkes-Barre.

MARKER and MONUMENTS ABBOTT aari ARTIN Strtk reaasylsuU A-4f. i.