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J PAGB TEN THE, SOUTH AMBOY CITIZEN FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, <strong>1944</strong> PIPE DREAMS The ex-bus driver of Oeorge of clam bakes and outings, the Street, spent some time explain- irony of the thing is that the ing the proper method of opening Water Works Park, which is en-I UNION WINE AND LIQUOR STORE clams, it seemed simple as he Joyed by so many, is located not MAX ZIMMERMAN. Proprietor explained it. All you have to do in South Amboy but in Sayrevllle. If they don't open at once, is to ,631 BOBDENTOWN AVENUE TELEPHONE 4M \ A splendid Improvement at this sneaK up back of them, with a point would be the resurfacing Beer, Wines and Liquors at Fair Trade Prices Always. knife. of the park to eliminate the dust 8TOP IN OR TELEPHONE ANT TIME nuisance which results* from thf A gray-haired insurance man soft sand surface there now. and ale drinker, was also on hand, MIIMIMMHIMIUMUiHIIHIMItMIIMMMM and he and the Pennsylvania bear - * • . hunter had a swell bull session The Living Dead Haitian zombies, or the "living Broadway Market going over the map of Pennsyl- dead," are men allegedly dead who vania, paying special attention to are forced to shuffle along in a the territory In the vicinity of miasmlc existence. They are slaves Clearfleld. of the houngans or lorcerers who ; 122 N. Broadway South Amboy Labor Day officially brought to delve in magic and sell charms to an end" a summer that was fea- The Insurance man, who, while win the beloved or fell the enemy. | WE DELIVER-?^— - -\ tured by more clam bakes and tie has an Irish name, talks According to some accounts the zombie, during life, sold hla soul to similar outings than this section French fluently, capped the cli- the houngan for a tidy sum. Anthro- ""nas ever seen. max for Insulting during the afpologists who have explored the is- All summer the lads on this fair, when he called one of the land sorcery never personally met side were cleaning the clams out lads a "Big Rod Pig" in French. any sombies but they fourtd scores of natives who have sworn to their " of the ocean, while their younger One of the lads, who lives on existence. The only zombies In this relatives wer* cleaning the Huns David Street, broke up a pinochle country are composed of liquid out of Europe. dynamite encased in glass. game, when they called him back The "Dont say it. write it" home because some plumbing he put in his home recently wasn't working, and his house was being flooded. J r- PHONE 261 FRESH PORK SHOULDERS, Lb. 25c BUTTER, 1-4 Lb : 13c! I FRESH PIGS FEET, Lb : 10c ;VEAL CHOPS, Lb. 35c ;BEEF LIVER, Lb „•» ,35c! \ FRESH KILLED CHICKENS, 5 lb. av. Lb. *.. 40c \ Breast of Veal for pocket, lb _..20c plant, had quite an affair on 8un- ' day. There were many looals there, and it «ss the onjy elam take in .this vicinity, where those who •Hsskiail were liven els* something tha(1 would sUoa \fi them, and beauty aids, •veryone got a hat. the men were handed household cement, and the women tot nail polish. remains, but his shoe didn't. One of the sensations at the One reason things went smooth- Sunday bake was the merry-goround riding of "CitranelU" and ly at this affair was probably due two local women, who perched to the) fact that there were five themselves on the hask of a kkrs employes of "The Greasers" merry-go-round on ^ back of , *. truck, and rode around merrily. The picture was entrancing, as . . . the shades of night dosed over Considerable of the entertain the park. "CitranelU" had left •tent at this affair was furnished after having stolen the horse- bgr the defense poltceman-mlnshoes, one member of the party strel man and lee cream merchant lay stretched out on a bench with of Stevens Avenue, who appeared a piece of ice on his stomach, oil decked up in a policeman's and the rest of the party stood ootUune of the) "Oay ttv and under a light singing "Sweet yelled for the cops at frequent tnterrak. i • • • while we're on the subject The "Sating engineer" of the Fourth Ward was one of those on hand, and he caused three men to Isave the affair with sore arms they got from opening clams for him to eat. The Mayor of Hoboken also on hand, •seated to be quite popular with the ladles, too. for he paraded around the' grounds with six girls on his Then at our own Water Works Park on Sunday. UM One Thirty lads held an affair. The feature sOt this event was the faet that the Broadway (hlrstatoriiMn who is supposed to be an expert at boss games and boooi. brought a booet sat down to the affair, and everyone, even those who never played the The real Tony affair at the Water on the fungfUsj tfaj and all the regmlars Pfc^-^pi HP W p ^ — ' P^P^*" -ww^- -^PF'- • PP£ ^ppv • -—• '^PflpP^P^PJP^P^^P^PT ^P^PBPT ^^p^^^^p. be#>Y coolfi at thla affair, but thm suds was hid rrosa -Citranana- we* srs«m a* IMs affair, playing soft ban. AOOSJBSI the bull and wtsaslng in vartows Other activities H* Us** to act as a and prosalstd to •trset hsshseac to s rich wida« •with The -Railroad THrmi." tt» two railroad onstessn ot U» Pssjrtb, and the fell* S) , A ' Sk J|- """—a^T-— w , JK, . 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IDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, <strong>1944</strong> THE SOUTH AMBOY CITIZEN PAGE ELEVEN Ernie Pyfe at the Front [rapped 8 Days in Plane, [ce Lives and Grins S- Courageous Allies See War at Its Worst and Carry On > . "mat's all I remember for a he told us. "When I came to, they were shelling all around me." • • • Thus begnn the eight days. He had crashed right between the Germans and Americans in a sort of pastoral no-man's-land. For days afterwards the field In which he lay surged back and forth between German hands and ours. His posture was pocked with hundreds of shell craters. Many of them were only yards away. One was By Ernie Pylo right at the end of his wing. The metal sides oi «he plane were |ON THE WESTERN FRONT.-When you're wandering speckled with hundreds of shrapnel nd our very far-flung front"lines—the lines that in our holes. wit rapid war are known as "fluid"—you can always tell He lay there, trapped In the midst recently the battle has swept on ahead of you. of this inferno of explosions. Tbe [ You can sense it from the little things even more than the fields around him gradually became kthings — littered with dead. At last American strength pushed the Germans [From the scattered green leaves and the fresh branches back, and silence came. But no es still lying In the middle of the road. . . help. Because, you see. It was the wisps and colls of tele- ,-T- >•- -••*- '• V hi that vacuum behind the battle, wire, hanging brokenly from | We tin ran to the wrecked British and only a few people were left potos aad eatwtoing across plane, lying there upside down.'and [reads. . dropped on our hands and knees - ¥ — - r - •"••' the gray, auraed powder and peeked through a tiny hole fit I of the shell craters in the grav- the side. ;r -~-. - •.-:. Vint aWyooet , :-V*^ el roads, their A man la; en his back In the The bayonet was used first as a small space of the upside-down temporary measure, when a Basque amoothed by the cockpit His feet disappeared some- regiment made a last-ditch stand on B mountain ridge near Bayonne in where in the jumble of dials and tory traffic. France. rubber pedals above him. Bis Tteja the Mttto shirt was open and his cheat was When their ammunition was exhausted, the Basques wedged long bare to the waist Be was smoking oa the roadside. knives into the barrels of their mus- a cigaret , „.•«••• that kets and charged. At the fearful FoUowina* close on the heels of her outstaadiac aerfonaanoe la only begun to He turned his eyes toward me spectacle of cold steel, tbe enemies "A pay Nasaed Joe.^rene Dunn* Is seen next Thursday, Friday aa4 conceal and turn when I peeked in, and he said in ran sway. Saturday at the Empire theatre. Her newest asslfnment is by far aftaefc. and the a typical British manner of oflhand The new weapon was subsequent- her best to date and you wtU agree she is a capital artist when you punctured steel friendliness. "Oh. hello." ly manufactured at Bayonne, and 4 see the picture. Alan Marshall plays opposite her anal a Betake* hetanets nearby, "Are you sU right?" I asked, was soon adopted by other Euro- the square Mocks of buOdpean armies. •f performers rounds ou the Impressive cast. ? stooe ttiU scattered la the vflstreeto. and Iron the sharprocks in the roads, still unby traffic the sjsmeeVeat teaks and carts sull unremoved from road. From the cows In the lying g**taaawatr with their to the sky. so stewiy dead they not begun to Moat or smelL the scattered heaps of per* debris around a gun. I doat why it is. but the Oermaas it seem to take off their coats they flee or is*. all these Ithatthebetfea these and from the | recently that they te be battles ate But sa thai • battle lete as asasv Taaa. eseae snve saw amateur who wanders to thai at the rear of a battle has is dead—the men, the ma- Ml aBve. afleraoea we lato a country M rural villages at at the i et courage in Ma as our stupidly. He answered. "Yes. quite. Now that you chaps are here." I asked him how long he had bean trapped in the wiecked plan*. He said he dktot knew tor sure as be had got mixed up about the pas* sage of time. But be did know the date of the month he was shot down. He told me the data. And I said out loud. "Good Godl" His space was so small be couldn't squirm arouud to relieve hl« own weight from his paining back. He couldn't straighten out his legs, which were bent above him. He couldn't see oat of his little prison. He had not had a bite to eat or a drop et water. All this for eight days and nights. Yet when we found him his physical condition was strong, and his mind was as calm and rational as though he were sitting in a London club. He was- hi agony, yet in his correct Oxford accent he even apologized for taking up our time to get him out The American soldiers of our rescue party eassed as they erased, cussed with open admiration for this British filer's greatness of heart which had kept him alive and sane through his lonely and gradually nope-dimming ordeaL One of them aald. "Ood, bat these Limies have got guts I" i • • • It took us almost sn hour to get him out. We don't know whether he I will Mve or aat, bat he has a chance, i at Daring the bear we were ripping g the «s^**w • "PaTJHaW Vj^VaT w Wtmm9 • HfJf hole, he talked to us. As4 here, la the best suitahell I caa aeitee from fee eeevorastloa quest ea Ms Ugato to try a laaitog. Thea they realty swwrea a* ea aaa. Tee seeoaa aK pat fetal to tbe lac- *** a IMra betel atag every eae at ttssa to Me ***e/t kes «*•**#•. atf tbe fjata* » bet* a** «Jf frfclM is*** •saaal oa a attain etoee We eouai aaawaa ssaaA aVeaa^akHa» ii L f c J Aaaf aaaa> a«laawaMi OTW "aaaj a^«^BBww/wj pa; Bjaaaa aawja| BBBT a»«BBBBai M yaris. Tan it flapped, tall eve* ajata, auto Its back. Tee pile* was &n $ your psrsoffof rears* MnfoMve of ffte fefapfcone company — (he girl in fne Bwiincst Office. RATHER SAY We don't like to tell pexipfe that thejH have to wait to get a home Uhphone. We'd much rathrr »mj "ye** to requests for aarvioa. That's tbe way it sjarH to be. Bnt the nerd* of war have first claim on available telephone arptJntnrnt and on t
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