ROBERT WRIGHT

RAYMOND CLAWSON

HARRY HOLLINS

JOHN W. PATREY

ALBERT CRAMMER

RALPH SMITH

JOHN FRAGOMENI

*BERNARD BURGER

LOUIS MacDONALD

HAROLD C. WATERS

ARTHUR LEE

HENRY LEE

STEW ART OAKES

DUDLEY BRAGG

CALVIN SMITH WALTER SERBE JOHN LAPITZ JULIUS WILKES THOMAS ANDERSON JACK LINDABURY FREDERICK WYCKOFF HENRY PHILHOWER CHARLES KAPPES JOSEPH CULLENY

WINIFRED ANN MANSFIELD

Marion Thompson writes from France--"Winter is really here and no fool­ing. 1,'\Te spend most of our time trying to keep warm We are living in a Hos-o i tal and have steam heat but the radiators just iont give." 1 can't get out often enough to reallv enjoy the snow the way I would like too. We have to have passes and as t~ey are limited in number, l am also afraid ilS would have too large an audience if we went out and tried to build a snowman in the court. So I just gaze out of the window and think what I rni,:rht be doing in Chester.

INFANTRY SONG. The infantry, the infan,try, With mud behind their ears Can lick their weight in wild cats And drink their weight in beers.

. The cavalry, ·the artillery and

I the . engineers

l Can never lick the infantry In a hundred million years.

PFC Wm. Lutz Marine Detach Unit. Naval .Air Sta. Lake City, . Fla.

Bill is ~etting bored. He would like to be back in active service.

DOT DE WITT

STANLEY C. HOLLENBECK JOHN KOTLABA, Jr. JAMES TESTER ELLSWORTH MASKER ROBERT J_ COWIE GEORGE THOMSON CLARK GRADY DANIEL BUDD FREDERICK W. DEHART ANDREW DRYSDALE

LEWIS H. HOFFMAN, Jr. ALFRED WYCKOFF

LEO L GALBRAITH ROBERT THOMSON

GEORGE J. KELLETT LINCOLN C. PHIFER H. FRED KLINTWORTH MARVIN HENSCHEL

WALTER MOORE WILLIAM F. COWIE

JOHN L PACE FRED MARKEWICZ

JOSEPH ROSKO JOHN WYCKOFF

ALBERT SMITH WILLIAM POTTS

WALTER THOMPSON CLIFFORD D. GILLESPIE

JOSEPH BURGER WALTER J_ HOFFMAN

JOHN ZURCHER STEPHEN J. ROSKO CLINTON MACK, Jr. ROBERT CRAMMER MARK FLEMING KARL BUDD

WILLIAM SMITH PAUL E. LEWIN

RAYMOND HAMMERSTEN CLAUDE C. WISE

IRVING SCRIBNER ALBERT A. BIRKMAIER, Jr.

ROBERT BISCHOFF FREDERICK D. BUDD HOWARD R THOMPSON

ANOTHER CHESTER HERO Another of our Chester·

Crowd Has goneJ But left us feeling proud. Dan Budd's brief but

thrilling story; He flew! He fought J He

died, in Glory~

In days of yore,he'd have been knighted

In these modern days,was cited

Cited for courage beyond belief

Though his ardor,brought us grief.

Ma.jor,and Mary,and Sister Alice

May well feel proud of such a chalice;

This handsome boy,was such a hero

All things else,amount to zero&

There is a pride tra.nscending grief,

One is eternal,the other brief;

Let this last1ng emolument

Be,to hie kin,a monument. Louis McDavit.

Bob Marston has left for overseas.

Betty Orr Sutton's husband came home on an unexpected leave.He had been ill in the Pacific. Betty did not expect to see him for a year at least. He does not know how long he will be home

Why does ART THOMPSON •blush"every time the girls kiss bim? Lois Barker was his latest and I hear he blushed all--over.

Gregg sturzenegger is in the Philippines. Made­an express trip from Frisco crossing Equator twice and by-passing New Guinea.

*A false rumor was cir- • culated to the er-fect that the family of Wallace Hoffman had heard from the Red Cross that Wallace had been re­leased when the Russians hit Camp Staloa. It is true that the Russians liberated tl'e prisoners who w~re in the camp .. The Hoffman family re­ceived this notification from the Red Cros~ 7but; as yet they have not heard any direct news concerning the where-a­bouts of Wallace. George Sutton is ill at the Hospital_ at Sheeps­head Bay with Scarlet fever. He entered the Merchan~ Marines,but his training is being delayed by this session. Mary Jane Cruse Dean and Ken have a son.If he has a mustache we are told he might be taken f6r a min­iature Tom.Name,Kenneth Thomas Dean. Just arrived to Mary and Phil Crammer is a 6 lb. 3 oz. son. David Charles born Jan. 26th.

ALBEHT WINKLER

PAUL SUTTON NELSON HYDE PAUL MIDDLETON ARTHUR J. THOMPSON

LEWIS C. WYCKOFF ELVIN HOLLENBECK ROBERT MINARD SAMUEL V. STELCE EARL J. JACOBUS MAHLON SMALLEY WILLIAM TRJJ)W A Y MARION THOMPSON LOUIS SHANN JOSEPH IKE GEORGE L. ROCKEFELLER RUSSELL APGAR. Jr. WILLIAM LUTZ EVELYN FLEMING

JOSEPH SHARKEY EVELYN CROTSLEY RAE CLIFFORD GARRISON EUGENE EBERHARDT

GEORGE HOWELL DANIEL RETAMAL

JOHN SCRIBNER ARTHUR THOMPSON

ROBERT BUHRMAN ROBERT C. STRYKER

ANDREW RADY LEONARD CASTNER

ALVIN JACOBUS JOHN C. HOFFMAN ·oANIEL MUGLER EDWARD HAYES ALBERT W. VanSICKLE FRANCIS HANDVILLE

JOHN MOORE FR~NK VAN ALLEN KENNETH DEAN LAWRENCE VAN FLEET HENRY HAMMERSTEIN JOHN SCHAEFER ARTHUR F. CALLAHAN FRANK MARKEWICZ JEAN F. WOOD RADFORD BARKMAN JOHN GRAY JOSEPH ROCKEFELLER THOMAS wYCKOFF HOLGER LARSEN GEORGE M. APGAR, Jr. ALBERT MILLER FRANCIS MINARD HARRY HENDF.RSON

Cpl.Joe Culleny-32778957 Troop B-18th Cav RCN Sg.Mech. APO 230 c;o Post~aster,N.Y. Joe ie with the first Army and wrote his Mobher nbout the following ex­perience. "You have no doubt read about the big .rue.zi push. Well, I was ir it. I wc:_s trE:,pped in a forest and at 3 different times was con.tplete1y surrounded by Germans. The ls.s t t ime I was 1 0 mi.behind their lines and had to sneak thru until I got to my own. What happened to me was something out of a atou book and surely a miracle as I was for 8 E traight hrs . under steady shelling and how I came t.l:'lru without getting hurt is some­thing. But here I am in one piece and without a scratch.

Agnes Proctor planned to go to Flanders to a Youth Rally with Rev.Emmona. She found she could not go so looked up the name 11 EMMONS"in the 'phone book,called 14Rl6 and said "Is this Mrs. Emmons? "Yes was the reply. Will you please tell your husband I cant go out with him tonight ·t After a pause the astonished reply was "all Right". Time to go to the Rally came and Rev. Emmons rang Agnes• doorbell. "Didnt your wife tell you I could not go. Wh~,no, she didn't;l am sure she did not know. And then Agnes diecovered she had called Mrs. Cl~f Emmons instead. IS HER FACE RED??????.

WHICH ONE ARE YOU? Are you tLe fellow Helping to win this war Or you the guy Just watching the score

Are you the fellov' Working full time Or are'you the guy Thinks work is& cri~e.

Are you the fillow Donating blood Or are you the guy Let*s em die in the mud

Are you the fellow That•s buyir~ bonds Or are you the guy Spends it on blondes

If you are the fellow We th~nk you are fine But if YO'..l are the guy Why not get in line?

(Chas.H.Leck Brothe~ of Henry)

Mrs. Leek has been ~11 fer several weeks wl.th arthritis.We miss her in the store and hope she'll be back on the.job soon.

Qp 1 . Wm . R. tie i 1 e Dt. Eng .Sec .Als. Dept APO 729-c/o Postmaster

Seattle, Wash.

DOUGLAS THOMSON

JOHN R KAPPES HARRY THOMSON CHARLES J. STACKHOUSE RALPH VANDERHOOF HOWARD ROBINSON GREGORY STURZENEGGER MILTON G. MURCHISON EDWARD FLEMING MORTON -D. BENTON THOMAS J. BARWICK£ ANDREW CRAMMER RICHARD H. SANDT LAWRENCE THOMSON FRED B. WHITE, Jr. BERN A YS B. APGAR

CAROLYN FLEMING Geo.Kellet has been with the 32nd lnf in the ba.ttl on Leyte.He recetved the Infantryman's badge of Combat, and since has been transferred to the ~ir Corps. He now goes on missions with supplies & food which they tie to parachutes and drop them to men in the front lines Pvt.Geo.J.Kellett 42012838 8th Army Air Cargo Re.Sq. · APO 343 c/o Postmctster. San Francisco.cal.

Lt.Jos.E.Sharkey is now at Banana River, Fla. where be is a Commander of a PBM .Airplane.'l'hey ~re the men who rescue the boys who have been wounded..

Capt. A ."W. VanSickle MC-0 1692167 1330 AAF Base Unit ATC APO 466 c/o PostmEster,N.Y.C.

Cpl.Walter Ser'be CoD. 22 Bn.6th Regt. Camp Gordon Ga.

PFO Richard E. Shotwell Co.c.23rd Bn 6th Regt. Camp Gordon, Ga.

Edwin Collis is scheduled to talk to the P'i'A on a continuation of the His­tory of Old Chester.It's a shame Edwin does not write and record all he knows about the old town.

Eileen Lutz

J

CONSTANCE MANSFIELD

A new Can~ Fire Group has been started in town with Bea Wyckoff

,Case and Mrs.Emil Meyer in charge.

Geo. Thomson landed in Serbe's battalion only in "A"' co.'l'bey had several Bull sessions

. but George hc..s now moved to Texas.Serbe writes"! understand Jack Gray was here and left.Too bad I did not know.I wrote him using one of your addresses and the letter was re­turned. 1 sure h!!lve a bad time every t j_me I try to contact someoneo (I dontt have Jack's latest address as the family promised to send me the latest when he is definitely settled.Then I'll send it on to you."This c~ will soon be training rookies so it would not surprise me to see the "newcomers" from Chester taking traintg from here. How about some pix of the snow in the next issue.Sure miss the stuff. That 1 s life.If I were home I would be cussing it as I tried to shovel the gas station out.--By the way I not ice the PINT in that Andy Rady notice. Seems to me Rady told me it was a QUART when I met him back 5.n Cp • Stewart. Is there a dispute. ·n Matter of fact Rady's trying to s~y it was a CASE.

Francis Hoffman is now stationed in Belgium having been transferred from France. Cp 1. Warren De Hart 42006129, Student Det. APO 713-1 FEAF CRTC c/o Postmaster, San Fra.n.

Helen Skellenger has taken a new job in ~ewarl with a plastic company.

ED HimiTT (Dot Smith's Husband)

T

Was 1 flattered bv Herb. G.Avres' letter w~o told me how much he enjoys the service paper in a letter that began "My dear young lady" I was flsttered but he will have a sad awakening if he once sees me. PFC Her'Qert G. Ayres Anti Tank Co.l5lst Inf. aPO 38 c/o Postmaster San Francisco.Cal.

Bill Lance was married on a recent furlough.He wes married the Sunday before New Yeare to Gertrude Klein of Long Vallev.His wife is livin~ at her home.

Lew Hoffman has been in 1taly since the middle of Dec.with the 15th air force. He is head Eng. of his crew on a B-24 '!'hey have been on several flights over the country but no missions that Mary knows of.They have visited manv famous and historical ~laces.He sent a poem composed by one of his friends.It is in this issue.

Betty Cowie married Don Manning March lOth. They had their reception at the Cross Roads.

EUNICE PATRY Lt.Marvin Henschel 0-776984-9th Bomb Sqdn 7th 13omb Grp. APO 217 c/o Postmaster, N.Y. Marvin Henschel writes "! am a bombo.rdier con­nected with a heavy bomb group operating out of Eastern India in Burma, Assam and China. The 7th Bomb Grp is an old ex­perienced outfit which has been famous since as far back as the First ~orld War when they did some very creoitable re­connaissance work. In this war they've been. active since Pea~l Harboi in Java,North Africa and now in India.They even did some transport work for the ATC during the monsoon season here in India. "While we're work in~ in .good weather we live a rather comfortable life at our home base. Thru out the days while we're takin~J: it wasy between missions we have little to keep us busy so we keep ourselves occupied by building com­forts such as showers, baseball diamonds and furniture for our homes. Life in a countrv like Inrlia is usually easy for the British and Ame~­ican trooos.The native Iddians occupations are servants and laborers.So we have an ample supply of cheap labor. Combat crews live by crews,Offi­oers in one room,enlisted men in another,eqch group h::re Lte own "burraz ''or houseboy who doew gen'eral chores.Frankly 1 never ex pected that combat would be as nice a life as this

News of the Lewin boys sent me by Poppa Lewin. "Paul Lewin,Jr.graduated from N.Y.State Maritime Academy at Ft.Schuyler N Y in Oct. 1944. where he received his commis­sion as an Ensign. He immediately sailed on an oi·l tanker"the Chan­tilly to a foreign porto In Nov. he received a commission as Ensign USNH. 3rd Asst Engineer and was again asP.igned to the Chantilly while at sea by the Navy Dept On completion of his present voyage~ he has been ordered by the Nav~ to report to an examin­ing board for upgrading or promotion to Lt. j g and will then probably be assigned to a naval vessel operating in tbe South Pacific wa:tf'!T.

Harolcl. Lewin enrolled in the us maritime ser­vice andreported to Sheepshead Ba:.r in Augo for his boot training.

This he completed on Oct 15th and was assigned as a fireman or oiler on the US Army Hospital Ship,"Shamrock".He sail­ed from Jacksonville on Oct 18 and hit the following ports :Horta in the Azores,Gtbralter, Merz El Kabar,Oran,Isle of Capri,Algiers,Bizerte Naples,MarseillesoOn this trip they delivered hospital supplies and on their return .. VOJ'age they brought back the wounded soldiers from the French,ltalian and African fronts. On Dec 11, he again sailed for foreifS!l ports. Jimmv Lewin is a cadet at the EasternMiloAcao Shippans Pt.Stamford, Conn. Chink and Evelyn Sturzenegger and their daughter Ellen have been skiin~ at Lake Placid.

Jack Kotlaba has been home on leave for a mo. after having seen action in !''ranee, l tal y and .Africa.He has now re­t~rned and is again a­waiting shipment.

Grace Barkman is nearing the como let ion of her · 2nd year of Nurse Cadet Trainin~.She is on affiliation at Mo.Plains.

LOIS BARKER

Rev. and Mrs. Emmons are home from a skiing trip in New. Hampshire.They sent their skis eerlv so thft they would sureiy have them when thev got there.In the meantime vre had some good skiing here which they were forced to miss being without skis. The skis never arrived at N.Hampshire and thev had tp borrow some up there. They arrived back in Chester at the end of good skiing weather.

Mrs.Crammer and Mrs. Birkmaier are making soup ~t the Chester school. ~rs. Birkmair is Chrman of the pro~ect and the soup tastes good, too.

Dr.VanSickle writes"Tho a little belated I want to thank you and the ~roup working with you for your kind remem­brance this Xmas.1 don't know whether I was to or not but I received 2 identical pkgs Z weeks apart" (explanation--that was my fault.! got my records mixed and we sent Dr.Van 2 pkgs.but all things turn out all right in the end.The con tents of one· 1 took over to China with me to a field where 3 Americans were stationed with a group of chinese.! sort of played Santa m:rSelf that day.lt's a rather long story but they had not seen a wh~te man for 3 mos.The past 2 months thingE have been pretty much in a whirpool starting out with a shortage of Drs. a chang~ of personnel and now a new position as base Sur geon in ch~rge of the Medical Det.4 other DrA. under me and over 2500 personnel to care for. After Xmas ! made 2 trips to China twice a week for 4 wks. In all I have made 18 such trips and on into Burma It comes to about 33,000 mi.over the hump--which by the way is the only snow I've seen since the winter of 1 42- 143.

Walter Hoffman's address is:Cpl.Walter J.Hoffman 32778752-100 T.C.SQD 441 s t T . C . Grp . AP 0 133 Postmaster, N. Yo He has a son who has been called Walter Allyn Hazel F.DeHart is still confined to her home with illness.She has been a wonderful patient having been in bed nov1 for some months.

John Thomas is in 1 talv attached to a heavv bomb group as pilot ofa·B-24 Lib.in tne 15th Air Force.tle saw Albert Bird when he (John )wc·s flying over and stopped in lee land.Messed around with the Arabs down in Africa awhile.

S/Sgt.Greg.Sturzenegger 420n6150-1423 Eng.Maint APO le264-Postmaster Sa.n Franoisco,Cal

Jack Moore is in ltaly with the Fifth Army.

Bob Bischoff will be glad to get back to Chester where he can talk to someone and get an answer he understands He ie doing paper work for the RR but would rather be back with Nick ~ain.He is in the same sectjon as Marian Thompson and hopes to be able to get to see her. PFC Robt.B.Bischoff 14th Traffic Heg.uroup APO 513. c/o Postmaster New York City Patty Potts was skating and broke her leg.She is holding open house at her home every day for all her friends.

FI<RU CONKLHJ

,o.o

TOM BIEBIGHEISER

The Salvage Com.voted to turn over all money from the collection of tin cans and newspapers to the Bov Scouts for com­pletion of their cabin.

~H"ELL IN IT~LY"

I•m sitting here a thinkin of what I left

behind · So 1..' 11 put it down in writin,whats runnin

thru my mind. We dropped eo many

bloomin bombs,and done so many flights,

And froze·our feet and hands and things while ridin at sub zero

heights. But there is one con­

solation,now you listen while I tell

When we die we'll go to heaven cause we•ve done our hitch in hell!

We've taken a million atabrine,those dirty yellow pills,

To fortify our systems from fever and the

chills, We've seen a million

ACK-ACK bursts around us in the sky,

Fears grinped our-hearts and chilled our blood when flak began to fly

Put on tbose dirty lovin flak suits we•ve heard so much about,

Cause this ain't a bloomin picnic its another hitch in rtELL!

But when taps are sounded and we leave our earthly cares;

We'll stage our bsst parade of all,upon the golden stairs.

Angels will be there to meet us,and harps will softly play.

Old Gabriel will be there to meet us and St.Peter will proudly yell: ~Front seats, for you guye from Italy,cause you 1 ve done your hitch in hell.

Composed by: Lt.H.R.Hathaway, A.C.

Sent by: Cpl. Lewis H. Hcffman, Jr. A2 006123-456 Bomb Grp -745 Bomb Sq. APO 520 c/o Postmast~r,New York

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JOHN VTYCKOFF

George Schaefer likes the Navy but he wants a ~ood story in the paper about Art Thonroson. I shall have to see if I can oblige.George sees Paul Hughs on eYenr now and then. A/S Geo. A. Sch~efer Co. 412 Unit F USNTC, Sarnps on .. N.Y.

S~t.J.L.Rockefeller 32461981-325 Fery.Sqd. APO Postmaster,N.Y.

Pvt.Geo.L.Rockefeller APO 494 34th HeT'l Co. Postmaster, New York

Warren Stroud was home for his Mother•s funeral

Mrs.Terhune lost thekeys from her car and Mr. Terhune had to drive from Chester to Morris­town to bring her the set of spares.

Compton J. (Harry) Sillence is worshipful m2ster of the Chester Pr>ospect Lodge :#:24, for 1945.Geo.8chaefer is Senior warden and Jack Cullen is Junior warden

Barry Henderson has re­ceived candy,cards and Xmas pkgs.The natives in the Phillipines"Harry£ says are the best edu­cated I have yet to come across since being in the Pacific.They speak ~nglish so well and they hold so manY American ideas in spite of their troubles. There are many schools on the islands but the Japs burned the text books and all that hE.d to do with education

1st Lt. Jos. C.lke CC 8th Tank Bn. APO 254 Postmaster, N.Y.C.

Pvt.Jos. Filiberto 42185242,245th Cml Comp. Co. APO 1839(}-c/ o Post­Master,San Fz.ancisco.

CAROLYN O'DELL

Richard Thompson fa in the Phillipines and is fine. Everything under con trol where he is now. Hev. and Mrs.J.Zezzo of Penn.,have moved in the Congregational parsonage and !iev. Zezzo has taken over the responsibilities of the Pastorate of that church. Joe Croot•s new address: Pvt.Jos.W.Croot-42142422 Sqdn N.Hoca Haton AAF Boca Haton,Fla.

PFC Saml.V.Stelce 14lst Inf.Co.l APO 36 Postmaster, N.Y.

Lt.Jos.Hurger was home on a 15 day furlough re cuperating. tie has returned to Thayer Genl rtosp i tal. l'enn. Al Birkmaier thanks all concerned for everything papers, pkgs, etc., They are having real Jersey weather witn some of the fellows who are luckey enou~h to have skates

Charles Stackhouse is still in Belgium.tle noticed Lou Wvckoff's address and just before that had seen his com­panv's trucks. He has kept his ears and eyes

Open but has not seen them again.

Sgt.Tech R.E.Thompson a 0315457 226 FA Bn Serv Btrv c/o Postmaster AP0-235 San Francisco, Cal.

George Anderson wrote that his rank had been changed to Lieut, from Sergeant.H.e received the first battle commission field commission in his regiment. He is very proud but it seems strange to .hear h"is old buddies call him "Sir". Lt.\ieo. Anderson Q-1540379 COD 351 Inf.APO 88 c/o P os tmas t er , N . Y •

CLARA O'DELL

Cpl Harry Henderson 12677097-Hq. Co. 2nd Bn 305th inf. APO 77 c/o postma.ster,San Francis. co, Cal.

Theodore E.Nunn A/S co. 215 Br. D 8 U U~NTC,Sampson, N.Y.

. Lew Hoffman is somewhere in -1 taly. He sent home some 1talian money. All the men on his. crew had their hair cut off and are growing mustaches. Cpl. Lewis H. rtoffman, Jr. 42006123 456 Bomb Grp-745 Bomb Sq APO 520, c/o~ Postmaster New York.

Wm.F.Anderson S 2/C 7139786 MTBSTC c/o Pers onnell Office Newpmrt Melville RI

Hue Apgar writes that he has visited at uranville and Mont St :Michel.

Donalo. Winkler went to Bedminister to see his siste·r Mary.As he was ready to go home he crossed the st. to get into his car.A car was passing bv at the time &nd he ran in front of it, was hurled a distancf of 10 ft. and suffered a broken leg.Poor kid is lying in all Souls Hospital and wi~l be there 4 or 6 wks.

Lorraine Wyckoff Thompson and Mrs. Stephen Thompsor he.ve been to Camp rtowze, Texas 1P visit with Howard, for 3 weeks.

Warren Del:iart is some where in New Guinea.

Dick Shotwell writes"At the end of our 16th week of training 12 of us were informed that we would be held as Cadre.That night we went to a noncom school Two wonderful weeks--eat, how we ate! and not too much work.VIIe al.so absorbed a lot of information.'l'hen we scattered to our differ ent battalions.Later)after 5 wks of cadre I ~as giYer. a PFC rating.Now I am at Gordon.!•ve been driving a. jeep and working as field cadre when our bycle started.Dorothy broughts the kids and her self down over Xmas.? mos is a long.time.I was home in Jan. for 11 days,had a wonderful time and en­joyed the snow everyone was cussin.He tells about Camp Gordon and gives other details of what he is doing and then tells

~ about meeting Serbe. "I ~et Serbe around Dec.l8 1 had just parked my jeep s.t Regt.rtq. and this guard walked over and asked if I were a stand­by driver, 1 said "no" thinking there was some thing familiar about his voice.He got closer and 1 recognized Walt.We talked for about 1/2 hr. I 1 ve seen him seyeral timee since but not to talk with. He is a mail clerk.I also met Geo. 'J."homson.He hailed me one night le.st week by the theatre.

Mrs. Elias Sutton passed away at her home.Aaron got home for her funeral. Mrs.Hragg unexpectedly passed away in February. She had not been ill pre· ce eding her death .1 t was a great shock to us all. Dud came out from So.Dak Edward Fleming will be at ---for about 10 weeks.

F/OEdward D.Fleming Section 2-Combat Crew Mail Room-Army Air Base Sioux City, lowa.

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Paul Hughson AI~ Co.558 G 71 USNTC-Sampson, N.Y.

Lt.John Thomas 0-829103 460 Bomb Grp 763 Bomb sqd APO 52 0 -Postmc:_ster, N. Y

Sgt.Johr. D.Zurcher 2 0245316 Cont C PWE #11 APO 517 c/o Postmaster New York Johnny has a new job in this man's army.lt is verv interesting, he is now at a POW camp and not know i.ng t.oo much German and no Russian at all he has to learn fast He met one of the Hollenback fellows doing the same w~rk as John. He has looked all over for others from Chester and can never <ffinct anv one.He also looked all over the hosnital he was in but decid~d it was good not to find any of them there.

Andy Drysdale is still serving his country. On Jan 24. he became a very proud Father again 6f an 8lb. 12oz.son named Robert. Missed Andy's own birthday by 2 davs. ·

PFG Ross Matheson 97~023 K Co.3rd Bn 4th Marines Sixth Mar Div. c/o ~leet Post Office San. Francisco, Cal.

Ja:q1es Minard AOM 1/c Box A NAA.S Arlington, Wash.

Bob Wright is in New Guinea. Bob wants to hear more news about Art Thompson.

Dot Morton is planning to move.She does not where as yet but the spring should find her other places.Dr.~ Seward expecte to have a couple up at .the Green homestead this summer so that the grounds will be cared for Sometime in the future he expects to occupy the home.

Milly and Mose Barkman are takin~ the Apartment over tha store.Helen Stelce will take the other empty apt. up there Geo.Schaefer•s are mov­ing to the Fragomeni house they bought up on the Boro Hall st.

Ernie and Anna Barker are taking the Barkmans apt. Boob· 'fhompson 's are moving in the Barker Apt and Bea ~. Case is taking the Thompson Apt.Can you follow all that??! think evervbod~r involved had better come home sober and be sure he gets in his cwn door.

Lou and Mary Van Sickle took care of the Abeles home while the Abeles we~e at.Lake Worth, Fla.

Rev.and Mrs. Emmons have a large group of young people meeting at their home every week. They have discussions of problems vital to the voung people and also good fun playing games eathing,talking,singing.

Chink was at Lake Placid and John Thomas took over the garage.John Mansfield had a tire to be repaired. He pulled in at the station. Thomas took off the tire started to fix. it and discovered there was nothing wrong with it. He put it back on the car·,lowered the jack,and then discovered he was fixing the wrong tire.

Son Ex-Cbeslt"r Mayor Now Reported Killed

CHESTER-Word has been re­ceived here that First Lieutenant Daniel c. Budd of the Army Air Corps was killed in action Novem­ber 26. He had previously been listed as missing. The later mes­sage came from the German gov­ernment through the American Red Cross.

Lt. Budd, who would have been 24 on February 19. wa;; the son of Daniel s. and Mary Collis Budd of Falls Church, Va., formerly of

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DANIEL C' •. BtTDD Chester where Mr. Budd was at · one time Mayor. He entered mili- 1 tary service .·in May, 1942, and . went overseas in June, 1944, and ; was stationed in England.

He had been piloting ··B-24/; planes and had been awarded the 1 Air Medal. He received his win'gs and commission at Blytheville, Ark., and completed his combat training at Blythe, Cal., and Pue-blo, Colo. •

Lt. Budd attended Morristown · High School, Mt. Hennon Acad-: emy, Mass., and wa,s graduated j from Roxbury High· School, Sue- j casunna, and Drake Secretarial J School. He was formerly employ- : ed by the American Terry Derrick ' Co. in South Kearny, .

Besides his parents, he is sur- 1

vived by a sister, Miss Alice Budd, a senior at Mt. Holyo~e College,

Writer for the Stars and Stripes asks:-"Wonder which would make the most jnteresting story, the Private life of a general, or the general life of a private" .• ~After Britain's declaration of war on Japan there were no. chick sexers in England except 30 Japanese confined to prison camps. The Nipponese were released and be­came teachers in the art of chick ,sexing. Soon England had mO're chick sexers than it could use. So the .Japs were put back in pr~son and the British now .know the secret. of chick sexing. Haven't heard how the chi~k sexing situa­tion is in this· country.

I - ODDITIES I An ordinary sneeze travels two or

three feet. There are more ants in the world than

any other creature. Salvaged cartridge cases are to be used

to make new pennies. · Lloyd's of London, famed insurance

:firm, handles no life insurance. A cockroach gets an entire new skin,

which is its skeleton, seven times. A Virginia gravestone says, HHere

lies the body of Henry Moore, who got in the way of a 44."

They call love­ly Joan Edwards the radio "groan and moan" girl, for she is sup­posed to have the same "swoon'' ef­fect on male lis­teners as Sinat­ra's v o·i c e has on women. Joan is popular with service men. She

Joan Edwards holds the record having -done the

shortest guest appearance of any radio star.· To please a G. I. she sighed for exactly 30 seconds on a "Blind Date" show for service men .

• :Men of the armed· force's stop at some of· the most interesting places in the world. Must of the boys go in for sight­seeing tours. Some have other ideas. For example, one, soldier was a~ked: "What did you see in Damascus?" He answered: "Mickey Rooney in 'Babes on Broadway.'"

SUSAN HAYWARDJ ANN SOTHERN, BOB STERLING,. HEDY LAMARR

God a.nr:l. t?Le doctor we alilce acl.ore "Cocktails Before the Bar" But only m danger, not before: The danger o'er, both are alike

requited, God is forgotten and the doctor

slighted. -John Owen.

(In some versions of the above the word "soldier" is substituted for "doc~or." I.t-1;; ~qually true.)

The Indians who sold Manhat­tan Island to Peter MinUit in 1626 for $24: worth of trinkets and a. few bottles of whis)l:ey didn't own it. They were just some wise guys from a tribe that occupied the part of Long Island now known as Brooklyn. After Minuit ·found he had been swindled he had to buy Manhattan from the trihe that owned it

CAPTAIN "EDDIE" HICKEN-BACKER says that "if

Russia keeps going to the right she will end up as th~ greatest democracy on e?.rth and if we keep going to the left we will wind up where Russia was 20 years ago.''

That's a bull's-eye, Captain. In fact, I can see without a violent stretch of my imagina­tion Russia some day declar­ing- war on us to make "the world safe for democracy." ...

NEW CHESTER PASTOR-Rev. .Joseph Zezzo has taken· up his duties as minister of the Ches­ter Congregational Chnrch. He was formerly pastor of Bethel Methodist Church . in Elders­ville, Pa., and is now a student at Drew Theological Seminary, Madison.

Sonja Henie Walter Wanger, producer, that every

t i i:n e he picked up a magazine he saw Poni Adams looking at him from the cover. So he trailed the pretty cover girl to Texas and signed her to a long-term movie {!Ontract .... ~Gene Tierney wears a b 1 o n d wig: in "A Bell forAdano" ••• Poni Adams

Veronica Lake Mert Callis

To the New York Herald Tribune: About your last Sunday's editorial

"Cocktails Before the Bar," it was Gr:orge Ade who wrote "The Sultan of Sulu," shortly after the Spanish­American war. The song was "Re­morse," and went something like this: . The .cocktail is a pleasant drink, It's mild and harmless-! don't

think. When you;ve had one, you call for

two, And then you don't care what

you do. Last night I emptied twenty-three Of those concoctions into me-My wealth increased, I swelled with

pride, I was pickled, primed and ossified.

But R-E-M-0-R-S-E The dry martini is too much for me, I think at some stage of the game, I must have cried and told my name. My feet are cold, my topper's hot, I ought to eat, but I can not­'Tis no time for mirth and laugh-

ter-The cold, gray dawn of the morning

after.

NEW success on the screen is reflect-ed in this most sophisticated of

portraits of Susanna Foster. The 20-year-old singing star, who added to her vocal an d dra-matic laurels in t h e technicolor "Phantom of the Opera," is about to repeat in "The Climax," also in technicolor. She co - stars w i t h Turhan Bey, the young Turkish actor, and t h e veteran bogey-man, Boris Kar- Susanna ~'oster lofl'. During the three months the picture was under production Susanna lived in her studio dressing-room, saving a 30-mile daily trip from her home.

:..DOES i!.NOWLED61< ~ OOW TilE &ATTLE 15 GOiiJ& INCREASE THE EFFt.clE)JC'f AiJD MOP.ALE OF r:.R.'!J?

~oi,Dirz YES 0 J.IO 0

Answer to Question~ No. 3. 3. Very greatly. Th~s is brough~

out impressively in John Mason Brown's book, "To All Hands." He points out that having a broad­·caster on each ship who constant­ly keeps the men below deck in­formed on how the battle or any action is going, adds greatly to their morale. This is something new in naval history. Heretofore, few of the ship's crew knew whether they were winning or losing. Nothing tries men's nerves more than fighting in the dark. in def-ense plants, when the w.ork­ers are informed of the use of the part they are working on and how it is performing in battle, in creased efficiency rises 10% to 25%.

JACKIE COOPER has been "wash eo. out" of Notre Dame as a naval offi­

cer ~;andidate and is stationed at Great Lakes training

- station as an ap­prentice seaman. Sch~lastic de­ficiency was the reason .. ' . Lin-da Darnell h a s just turned her twenty - first birthday but has b e e n a· r· o u n d Hollywood so long she seems

Linda Darnell much older. She was 15 when

she broke into the movies ... Little Margaret O'Brien has been voted by marines in the South Pacific as "the only girl we ·will wait is years for."

Mrs. Brown,not Edith .Firstbrook Brown, i~ .new teacher of Joan Penhall Cole's class.

JOHN L. SULLIVAN,. in his best days, stood five feet eleven inches

and weighed 195 pounds. Jack Demp­sey·s best figures were six feet"" one and one-half and 190 pounds. Gene Tunney was six feet one and weighed

195. Joe Louis' best f i g h t i n g weight is an even 200. He stands six f e e t two. Jim C o r­bett s t o o d six feet one and weighed 189, and Jim Jeffries' best fighting weight was 200. He was six feet one and one-half inches. Extreme size re­duces a g i li t y, s p e e d , timing, and balance. The oversize heavy­weight presents

John L. Sullivan a bigger target and always ap­

pears to be so top-heavy he is easier to knock over.

Answer to Question No. 2

2. In one'', sense, yes, although the "fault" may go clee.r back to your childhood. Circumstances do sometimes bowl over the stoutest characters, but most of the un­happiness in this world comes from the fact that we have de­veloped wrong emotional habits, have absurd expectations, and have never grown up in our emo­tions. America's greatest psycholo­gist, William James, said, "The hell of theology is no worse than the literal hell we build for our­selves bY fashioning our nervous system in the wrong way." There are many good books now that tell people how to fashion their nervous systems and hab.its, so as to conquer their fears and get more happiness from life.

BOB HOPE VIRGINIA MAYO

THE FILM PARADE: Brenda Marshall-Hollywood's "Weep­

ing Lady," will weep no longer. After flooding motion picture sets for five years in tearful roles, Brenda is de­termined to re• turn to comedy -the kind of r o 1 e s she was playing w h e n HOllYWOOd dis­hovered her on Broadway in a Federal Thea­ter play.

"Every time I'm cast in a picture," she said, "the direc- Miss Marshall tor walks up to me before the first scene and says, 'Tears in your eyes, please.' I'll go mad if I hear 'hat ~~~'- ''

K. T. Stevens

DUCKS WILL NOT EAT CORN PLACED IN II CIRCLE W!TH1Nf~

TOUCHING- EACI-I OTHER IW10VE ONE G/Ul/N Alt/D THEY

WILL IMMEDIATELY €AT "THEM ALL

n 1 C...AT half as much, sleep twice as much, drink three times as much, laugh four times as much, and you will live to a ripe old age.

-The bte John Harvey Kellogg, famed Batt]e Creek physician

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