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The Times-Tribune from Scranton, Pennsylvania • 12

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The Times-Tribunei
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Scranton, Pennsylvania
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12
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12 THE SCRANTON TIMES, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20 1953. HiiIIqc Cfaccan Flu 2 Scranton Girls Home After Trip Covering 30,000 Miles PtUMM If 44 Doctor Deferments Will Be Probed by SS To Europe on Jan. 30 HAMMOND, IND. QUO Selective ASPIRIN FC3 piassa WASHINGTON 0JJ John Fos Service officials today planned an ter Dulles and Harold E. Stassen Tsan ussr suss aspssx ra oaKX will leave here Jan.

SO for a 10-day flying, visit to seven Western European Countries. investigation of draft deferments for two physicians after a local veterans medical society objected that no doctors were "essential." Brig. Gen. Robinson Hitchcock. SIMPLEX STOKERS Dulles will be Secretary of State and Stassen mutual security di state Selective Service director, an rector in the Eisenhower adminis nounced he would study the defer FOR A FRESH START Get $20 to $1,000 Without Endorsers, and START THE NEW YEAR Wjra A CLEAN SLATE The quickest and most convenient ay to get the money you nMd for a fresh start is with a Simplified Loan from Guardian.

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Jerome Justen, 38, tration. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower personally suggested that they begin their jobs by going and Henry Eggers, 48. Hitchcock made his announcement after 41 Hammond doctors, LfLTT all members of the Lake County abroad to get first hand information on some of the foreign policy problems they will have to deal Veterans Medical Society, pub with. lished a protest to Draft Board 45 in a half-page advertisement in They will visit Italy, France, The Hammond Sunday Times.

Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, in that order, before returning here on Justen. and Eggers were deferred recently after they told the draft board they provided medical services under -contract to 39 firms in Feb. 9. this highly industrialized area. SimpU Sturdy Economical Jo Months To Pay cr.j Ash Screws Fcr All r.l2kcs of Stskcrs I Mf By Simplex Stoker Mfg.

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rata IS Oter Jntk'i Jwlry SUra Dr. E. S. Jones, who works with (Guardian SCRANTON 115 Wytmlsf At, rha 4-SJ1S Orer Jil't Millinery St.rs Eggers and Justen to provide the All of the countries to be visitad except Britain are prospective members of the proposed European defense pact This U.S.-backed plan for Western European unity has been running into serious difficulties lately, and General Eisenhower is known to be concerned about it. industrial medical services, told the board he could Jiot honor the 1 a 0 1 1 i contracts witnout we neip oi me other two doctors.

Dr. Richard H. Callahan, president of the medical group, accused draft board; members of being "belligerent and unreasonable" when the deferments were first protested last week. He said the society was created lliiif dii ilin SSSS a1 i w5g-ji 1 two years ago as a "watchdog" on medical deferments. He said the society planned to see that the draft board made "no deals and bargains'' with physicians trying to escape military service.

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atr- Officials said a "considerable degree of probability exists" that the endive is responsible. No Warren W.York Co. Inc. IaMtm.nt B.aarltiM Cnncll Scranton 3, Pa. Phono 2-0241 American soldiers or civilians have been afflicted by the epidemic.

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but our carefully selected zippers. Made from a selection of fast color prints and plain materials preshrunk. Times Photos by Butler Miss Belle Comensky (left) and Miss Shelby Ptnberg study a map of their trip from Tokyo to Europe to Scranton that covered almost 30,000 miles and resulted in a report to the State Department that the girls, both 25, were missing somewhere in Europe. While the State Department, acting at the request of Congressman Joseph L. Carrigg, pressed a search for the girls they unexpectedly reached Scranton last night.

Near the girls are souvenirs of their trip: Zoris, the wooden shoes of the Japanese, pic tures taken along the way, and a Japanese doll. The girls compared notes on the trip after Shelby had been greeted at home by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Penberg, 443 Taylor and the family. They are, left to right: Ann, 18; Jerry, four; Shelby, offering a piece of Dutch candy to her brother, Alan, eight; Mr.

Penberg; Evelyn, six, and Mrs. Penberg. Standing behind the sofa are: Richard, 11, and Jan, 13 (right). Miss Comensky Is the daughter of Mrs. Isa belle Comensky, 970 Johler Ave.

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SPECIAL Laway (Continued from Page 3) suddenly appeared at their homes LATEST STYLE GLASSES Ea. last night. Where had they been? SAMPLE SQUARES of Various Materials 10c ica Stenavage, Scranton, and her brothers and sisters, Ann, Evelyn, Jan, Richard, Jerry, Alan, Eugene. Only her mother was at home when Belle arrived. What are their plans? Well, they expect to go to Baltimore, this week and start to work for the Army.

They see no trips in the Job Quest Unsuccessful They had left the ship at Mar seilles on Dec. 22, stayed over night, and taken a train to Paris the following day. They visited the American Embassy in Paris, which they had given as a forward GA immediate future not until they successful. Jobs were few and the1 pay was low. Moreover, the Army has adopted a policy of hiring local help where possible.

The next day they went to Ulm, famed cathedral city of the Danube. There were no jobs at Ulm, either, but they did meet a friend of Shelby's family, Edward Shut-man, of New York City, an Air Force enlisted man. Despite leads he furnished their job questwas unsuccessful. They shuttled between the two German cities and the surrounding towns. The weather was cold, some of their baggage had been lost, the food was not too good, so the girls decided to return home.

On Jan. Drapery Shop PHONE 7-6415 ing address, to see if they had re have a chance to get some -money together. Travel, they agreed, is enlightening but expensive. They estimate that they covered close to 30,000 mile in their travels. The circumference of the world is 27,000 miles.

122 ADAMS AVENUE ceived any mail. There was none. (Last night they learned that their parents had sent letters to the embassy but they had arrived long CREDIT AT NO EXTRA COST before the girl did and were re tlS.UBECKEt OPTOMETRIST "Linoleum Prices Are Born Here And Raised Elsewhere" LOW PRICES PHOHE 4-721 1 turned). Since they did not intend to stay long in Paris they did not register at the embassy. On Dec.

26 they took a train to the famed university city of Heidelberg, now headquarters for the European Command of the U.S. Army. Their search for jobs was un- MMMmM MITIII 1, again on a train, they went-to Rotterdam, where they booked passage out of Antwerp aboard the passenger ship Edam of the Holland-American Line. They left Antwerp on Jan. 5 and dropped anchor off Hoboken, Sunday night.

Yesterday afternoon the ship docked, the girls- passed through customs-and then caught a Lackawanna train from Hoboken, arriving here early last evening. They were tired, they said, but they had enjoyed the trip. There had been eight girls aboard the Aagterkerk as it left Japan and at Hong Kong a priest and two nuns, who had been interned in Red China, got aboard on their way back to Europe. In Cairo After Riots Their ports-of-call included Singapore, small cities in the Philippines and the Malay States, CeylonAden, Suez, Port Said, Genoa, and finally, Marseilles. At Suez the eight girls were put ashore for an overland train trip to Port Said, scene of more than one plot of mystery writers, via Cairo.

They were in Cairo in mid-December, not long after fermenting Egyptian resentment against the British and. Americans had boiled into riots. But the captain ram EHfv I I AT IMRY LILLIAN 410 SPRUCE ST. io) Sq. Ft.

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He wished, he told the authorities, to pick them all up again at Port Said. For their trip to Cairo from Suez the girls had a police escort, which stayed with them while they rode camels in the shadow of the pyramids and delivered them NATIONALLY ADVERTISED "PANELBOARD" PLASTIC FINISHED-TILE, STREAMLINE, PLAIN PATTERNS IN GORGEOUS COLORS. SIZES 4' 4' and 4' 0' mm imp TO BROKEN SIZES safely back to the ship. Both girls enjoyed the food and clean atmosphere of the Dutch ship. They also liked the food at Genoa and they found Paris interesting.

Had they written from Europe? No, the girls admitted sadly after learning the anxiety they had caused. They had assumed that their friend Ed Shutman would send word from Germany. They explained that they had only been there briefly and figured they Linoleums, Asphalt and Rubber Tile The Largest Selection In Northeastern Pennsylvania Linoleum Installed By Our Own Experts! Open Thursday ISites Til 9. MARY LILLIAN 41 0 SPRUCE ST. PHONE 3-6654 Capitol Theatre) 216 PENN SCRANTON Tyou Can Search AH Over But You Cannot Buy For La AnvwheraT would be home before any letters they sent arrived.

Shelby was gretted by her father and mother, the former Miss Mon.

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