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The Daily Courier from Connellsville, Pennsylvania • Page 2

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The Daily Courieri
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Connellsville, Pennsylvania
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1 5 PAGE TWO-. THE DA1L.Y COURIER. CONNELLSVILLE, PA. THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1947. PERSONAL MENTK1S Gilphrisr and soiC Tommy Falls have retflrneU Home MterriC visit MfT and'TMrs.

Ernest' tR. KBbser ottStaHT ScjuSreZ TM paRts, Simons, Tailor. Advertisem'ent- 14-apr-5t. Miss Nell Giimore of Dunbar, a patient at the Connellsville State Hospital, is improved and is permitted to have visitors'. Miss Giimore threatened with pneumonia.

18th, 9:30 Bank 15 apr-3t. Mr. and of 118 and 307 East. have returned to their" -respective homes' after vacationing, in Petersburg, Oste.rwjse who -spent 'the past eight weeks in Florida'," about two weeks ago. After points of interest the two; couples returned by rrio-.

tor; Wickiser of Los. visiting her Mr, WrE; Finn of East: avenue. Mrs-- Ella Heni-yi 'Jacob C.JMay, Albert Morgan, Moon and Mrs. Pauline Eiford, were discharged from- Conneilsvllle -State Hospital- Wednesday. -man I proud of it- I hate'to: a nasty who has stopped' carin' how he Local Woman Injured.

Mrs. Anna- Show' of 608' David- son avenue, -injury to her leg Jaj.irWednesday irig Mother, Daughter Die Within Six Hours of Each Other Mary touise Mongell, 56,, of. Limestone Hill, suddenly at 8.a5. Wednesday ing. Six hows later, her daugK- Grim Reaper MRS.

PAUL HELMS The funeral, service for Mrs. Paul Helms, 24, of Victoria who died Monday. 'night. of injuries suffered when" struck by a hit-1 run driver at. Perryopolis, will be Guard, With Fixed Bayonets, Keep Crowds From Morgue 2 ck afternoon ter, Mrs.

ers, 39, of 22 Stewart af the Ira Blair. funeral iontown, died at her home after an extended illness. Mrs. Rogers was born in Connellsville a daughter of the Fortunato and Mary Louise Mongell. She was a member of St.

Therese R. C. Church, the Altar Society -and Mai.le Montressori Lodge 17.11 of Surviving are her husband, Joseph with 'his home in Perryopolis. Rev. Arnold M.

Beggs, pastor of the Perryopolis Methodist Church, will officiate. Burial will be made in Dickerson Run Union Cemetery. Surviving are her husband, Paul Helms, her lather, William! Mains of Whitselt, three small children, -brothers, Chester and Moses Mains of McKeesporl and a half-brother, George Check of Connellsville. brother SarauelVin; operating jhe j. Helms, born in Layton Central.

inarch ig, 1923, was preceded in There are 'alspUwo brothers and; death by her mother, Mrs. Sarah Police are investigating' Jthe'j robbery of a quantity of liquor: from 1 the Kbzy barf at 'early Wednesday The intruders -were- believed to be unfamiliar with the! premises, entering through- a rear I window. TEA-BAGS Make Flavorful Tea Lovely Flowers For Sick Friends If any one of your friends is convalescing and if you want to do something that wiE he appreciated and long-remembered, we're the people you should see. Sight now we have some really lovely flowers. We'll be delighted to" help you in your selection.

We know your friend will "be more than pleased. P.R.DeMiitH^Sons ConnellSTflle, Phone 59. Scottdale, Phone 834 three sisters. Mongell is survived by two sons," Anthony'JMongell of Wheeler arid -Frank Mo'ngell' of Connefts- yilie; -three Mrs. An- --Scaccrii and Miss Felicia Mongell of Connells- yiUe and Mrs; Louis (Rachel) Salerno -of San 24 great-; Mrs.

Rogers 'will removed'" to the Rogers Uniontown where, frie'rids- -win after 2 6'elobiv Mo'n- '-removal -'to -Uriiontown is due-, to -the -impassable' condition "ot: the- Limestone, 'Hill road. The, funerals: will held': Saturday' morning "with prayers for both o'clock the Rogers home. Solemn high mass of requiem will be celebrated at 10:30 o'clock in St. Therese R. C.

Church, Uniontown, with the pas- lor, Rev. Father Ettore Mos- coloni, as celebrant. Rev. Father Henry DeVivo, pastor of St. Rita's R.

C. Church, and Rev, Father Renato F. Gianni, assistant pastor of St. Rita's will assist. Burial of Rogers will be made in Sylvan Heights Cemetery under direction of the Minerd funeral home of Uniontown.

The funeral cortege then proceed to-Connellsville where a blessing service will-be: conducted for Mrs. Mongell in St." Church with Rev. Father--DeVivo officiating. Burial will be made in St. Joseph's Cemetery in charge of Funeral Director Milton V.

Munlc of East Fairview avenue. Fast Time Approved. Jeannette Council has adopted daylight saving time. DANCE To the Music of Scott and His. Rhythmalres New Floor Show BLUE MOON HOTEL Water Connellsville No.

Cover Charge Mains, in 1944. MRS. JOHN PRZYBYLSKI SCOTTDALE, Apr. Marcyanna Przybylski, 64 years died 1 Wednesday afternoon at her.home 'at 437' Brown street, Everson, after a lingering illness, of Everson for 45 years, she husband, John, and four Stanley at home, Victor and Leo of and Mrs. Clara-Helenski of'Scottdale.

11 stepchildren. 1 Friends will be received at the home and the funeral mass will celebrated at 9 A. M. Saturday at Joseph's Church at Everson. Burial will be made in the church 7 cemetery: Continued From Page One.

wide, is -too gruesome. She walked away, white- faced, no longer'able, to frail Telief in tears. The smell of formaldehyde is. thick overwhelming. It dominates even the smell of death.

As the bodies are tagged and embalmed they are covered with blankets which hide most of the mutilations. On stretchers mounted on wheelbarrows or those little carts from ambulances, they are wheeled across the street to the gymnasium. The smoke makes it dark. Flashlights flicker up and down the rows and someone bends to read a tag. bodies are fingerprinted, even if they have other identification.

A identification experts has been recruited from Galveston, Port Arthur and Beaumont. A chill wind was bio wing from the north the same merciful wind which saved the cily from poisonous gas last night-- and the flames were kept headed out toward the bay and not into the devastated city. The flag on city hall was flying at half mast in a stiff breeze. Injored Estimate Placed at 430 Bodies Found jcal dumps, tanks and buildings. STELLA GESIENSKY MOUNT PLEASANT, Apr.

Stella Gesiensky of Acme died at 11:15 o'clock Tuesday morning at her home. She leaves her father, Andrew Gesiensky, and the following brothers and Local Couple Grandparents. A son, Mark William, the first child in the was born Sunday afternoon at Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh, to Mr. and Mrs. M.

N. Palmer of Pittsburgh. The baby is also the. first grandchild of Rev. William C.

Marquis, pastor of Central Methodist Church, and Mrs. Marquis. exander, Edward, beth and Emily, at home and Mrs. Nellie Garchar of Southwest. mass will be celebrated at 9 o'clock Friday morning at Transfiguration church in charge of A.

Pniak. Interment in the church cemetery. Pittsburgh Couple Summoned by Death Within One Hour A joint funeral service for Mr. and Mrs. George Miller of -3270 Ward street, Oakland, Pittsburgh, who died within an hour at Montefiore Hospital, Pittsburgh, Tuesday, will be held at 10 o'clock Friday morning, at the Ferguson-Ward Funeral Home, Pittsburgh.

Burial will be made in a Mount Pleasant cemetery. Mr. Miller, a Pittsburgh Press pressman for 20 years, died of pneumonia after a week's illness. His wife, the former Catherine Lewis, suffered a stroke late Monday, dying eight hours later. Mr.

Miller was a Knights of He is survived by. a daughter, Virginia I. Miller, a grandson and two sisters, Mrs. Jotin and Mrs. Dean Hanan, both of Perryopolis.

Parents of Son. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sebeck of are the parents of a son born at Brownsville General Hospital at 10:04 A. M.

Tuesday. Teachers Get Bonus. Irwin school teachers, who had requested a $200 cost-of-living oonus, received $100. Continued From Page One. I the latest blast.

his head bandaged from injuries in 'the first blast aboard the nitrate loaded French "Camp, yesterday, was credited with" saving scores of lives in the explosion this saw the sparks and I knew what was coming," the dazed and shaken said. Industrial executives said plants, valued at an estimated $125,000,000 before the. chain of explosions, weren't worth a dime today. However no one would attempt an official estimate of the damage." The gaunt skeletons of 13 fire trucks" which' were fighting the blaze aboard the French ship stood in the explosion area. No one knew what happened to the crews.

Gen. Jonathan Waimvright, hero of Bataan, said after a tour of the devastated city, "this is worse, more horrible than anything I've ever seen in war." Wainwright, now commander of the Fourth Army at San Antonio, arrived to direct disaster- relief work by the Army. Debris 1 from, the French ship which started the series of explosions, including a'10-foot section of the propeller, found as far as four miles away. The residential section of the town of before 'the war never dreamed that it would grow into an industrial center-sprawls back from the water front and overlooks the tank farms -and iron towers of the oil refineries. The.large death toll was caused, partly, by the curiosity of the townspeople who rushed to the water front to watch the ship fire.

Fred Brumley and John Norris, both of. Pelly, were killed when the. blast, blew their air- plane out of control as they flew huge Monsanto Chemical planl, over the area adjacent to the dock, shuddered Some persons put tie ship es and, flames began licking at plosion as early as 9:12 A. M. The ship blast was felt for 140 miles along the coast and falling debris killed people two miles away.

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