Vol. VI, No. 5 MAY, 1945

Dies on Iwo Jima Bigger Payroll War Bond Purchases Still Vital,

Bond Total for Says President Metzman

To the Men and Women of the ploye, seeking increased subscriptions on the part of System Needed New York Central System: those now buying Bonds under the Payroll Deduction T Plan, and to enroll those who are not. HE SMASHING SUCCESSES of our Armed Forces THE Battle of the Bonds is on! in Europe and in the Pacific have encouraged ail The Payroll Deduction Plan was established at the of us in a feeling of optimism as to an early peace. express request of the United States Treasury Depart• An intensive campaign is While earnestly hoping for this end, we must not for• ment, not only in the railroad industry but in all other under way all over the New York get that the terrific pace of the advances made is pos• industries of the country, to provide a source of con• sible not only because of their valor, their leadership, tinuing financial support upon which the Treasury may Central System to increase the and their number, but also because our fighting men depend. number and amount of continuing are abundantly supplied with all the food, munitions, We all, of course, want to do everything we can to subscriptions under the Payroll and other things, in the huge quantities required to speed the day of complete victory, and when asked in Deduction Plan. Bonds fully paid sustain them. the present campaign to buy more War Bonds, should It is unthinkable that we should not continue to fully remember that in helping the Government, we are for during April, May and June, sustain them, and the Government looks to you and to making a sound investment for the future. will be credited as participation me, and to every other citizen to provide through our in the Seventh War Loan drive. purchases of War Bonds the money that is necessary Yours sincerely, for this purpose. General, divisional and local You have all contributed to the war effort—by committees, representing the Com• your devotion to duty in maintaining essential rail transportation, by purchasing War Bonds, by giving pany and the Association of Gen• Private Frank B. Graber, 23, of the to the Red Cross blood bank, and in many other ways. eral Chairman of the New York U. S. Marines, was killed in action on But Uncle Sam now calls upon us again, most urgently, Iwo Jima, February 26. Prior to his en• to purchase additional War Bonds. Central System, are making a per• listment in August, 1942, he was a At the request of the Association of General Chair• sonal canvass of all employes to yard brakeman in the Cincinnati Ter• man of the Standard Railroad Labor Organizations, President explain and promote the cam• minal. His father, Carl J. Graber, is a and in cooperation with it, the New York Central has paign. yard conductor in the same terminal. organized an intensive campaign during the months of Both parents survive. April, May, and June, designed to reach every em• April 9, 1945 Committeemen are pointing out that with the knockout blows now being delivered at the Nazis and the Pacific war going into high Gets Silver Star other soldier, he exposed himself to gear, Uncle Sam more than ever danger from exploding ammunition in Cover the Future! needs every dollar that can be for Rescuing Comrade a burning ammunition dump 50 yards from his position to carry a wounded subscribed. With pardonable pride, Passenger man to a first aid station. Brakeman, C. M. English, Detroit, re• Canvassers are urging those em• ports his son, Pfc. Dean K. English, In addition to the danger of in• ployes who have not already done has been awarded the Silver Star for jury by exploding shells, the fire il• so to sign up under the Payroll gallantry at Palo, Leyte, P. I., October luminated him as a target for enemy Deduction Plan, and those already 25, 1944, when, with the aid of an• snipers. purchasing bonds to increase their subscriptions. The men and women of the New York Central have, in many ways, Lieut. Schoeps, Pilot of N.Y.C. given splendid support to the national effort, but twenty-seven per cent are still not buying War Bonds under the Bomber, and 3 Reported Dead Payroll Deduction Plan. The current campaign is a challenge. Father in Chicago, Despite War Department It provides an opportunity for the Notification, Still Hopes Son Lives — Had safest investment an American can make in his own and the nation's 52 Missions future; it provides Uncle Sam with First Lieut. Joseph T. Schoeps, 22, the funds to keep our righting forces of Chicago, the pilot who was at the supplied; and it will do much to help controls of the "New York Central prevent ruinous inflation. II," the replacement Marauder bomber If you are already enrolled under presented to the Army Air Forces by the Payroll Deduction Plan, sign up the employes of the New York Central, for another Bond; payments may be when it was shot down over Germany, made in as many deduction periods as January 1, is probably dead. you wish. Fear that he had been killed when And if you have not subscribed for the purchase of any Bonds, now is the the bomber was hit by flak and ex• Saved Wounded Man Under Fire ploded on its 103d mission, was con• time to begin. firmed recently by his father, Ernest Schoeps, an electrical assembler for the N.Y.C. Man Wins Bronze Star Mills Industries, Inc., Chicago, who P. & L. E. Fireman was notified by the War Department that his son had been killed on the Dies Over Germany same day the Central bomber was lost. SERGT. GEORGE V. CALLAGHAN on First Mission The report came from the Red Cross recently was awarded a Bronze Star in Germany. Medal for heroism in Belgium on Jan• uary 19 when he was still a private Despite this official notification, how• first class. ever, the elder Schoeps still hopes that Sergt. Callaghan, during heavy fight• his son may have survived. First Lieut. J. T. Schoeps ing near Bech, although surrounded, Reports received so far indicate that elected to remain and care for a of the other seven members of the Lieut. Schoeps was 22 years old and wounded comrade. That night, when crew, Major Hugh S. Teitsworth, Jr., joined the Air Forces July 10, 1941. trying to get help he was fired upon Co-Pilot, of Pomona, Calif., First He participated in the bombing of the by an enemy patrol but returned to Lieut. Camillo W. Tensi, of Union Normandy beaches before the D-Day the wounded man, giving him first aid City, N. J., and S/Sergt. Arlyn L. landing and had 52 missions to his for the next four hours. Lones, of Freenville, Tenn. were killed credit. Later he was able to get his com• and S/Sergt. Jimmie A. Reesha, Radio Lieut. Schoeps had won many awards, including a Presidential Cita• rade to the rear, thus saving his life. Gunner, of Los Angeles, is a prisoner Sergt. Callaghan was a trackman at of war. tion, the Air Medal, with 16 Oak Leaf Clusters, a citation from General De- Lake Clear Junction, N. Y. and entered Reports on the remaining three Gaulle and the Croix de Guerre for the service June 20, 1944. Sergt. George V. Callaghan, of Lake crew members have not been re• support of the French Army in battle He has two sons, one two and one- Clear Junction, N. Y., who won the Sergt. James A. Dietrich, a former ceived. There is some hope that they in Italy in May, 1944. half years old and one ten months. Bronze Star for heroism in Belgium. Pittsburgh & Lake Erie locomotive fire• survived, as several parachutes were man, who had been missing in action seen to leave the plane after it over Germany since November 2, is exploded. now known to have been killed on that They are Second Lieut. Edward J. Get Your "N.Y. Central Report to Employes4 date. It was his first mission with the Purdy of Minneapolis, and First Lieut. Army Air Forces. Sergt. Dietrich made Thomas F. Rawson, Navigators, and With each copy of this issue of The Headlight you should receive a copy of the his home in McKees Rocks. His wife, Private Gerald R. Draper, Armorer Company's annual report to employes for the year 1944. Ask for it! mother, four brothers and two sisters Gunner, of Moline, Ill. 2 Central Headlight

Harold S. Vanderbilt Bowling Trophy Presented Garden Prizes Central Headlight for Winners of Published monthly for New York Central System employes and their families in nine states and two provinces of Canada by the Department of Public Rela• tions. Contributions are invited but no responsibility is assumed for their "Green Thumb return. Editorial offices, Room 1528, 466 Lexington Avenue, New York City. R. D. Starbuck, Executive Vice- Editor President, announced March 30 that, in view of the paramount im• C. W. Y. Currie portance of Victory Gardens this year, the Company would con• Associate Editors tinue the practice of permitting employes and others to cultivate Frank A. Judd C. A. Radford unoccupied portions of the right Chicago Cincinnati of way. GARDENERS young and old have Volume 6 May, 1945 No. 5 a chance to win War Bonds and other valuable prizes in the $2500 Green Thumb Contest, plans for which have just been announced by the "I Have Never Advocated War, Except as a National Victory Garden Institute. Means of Peace" — General U. S. Grant Because it was so successful in helping to produce thousands of bet• ter Victory Gardens in 1944, the E believe that General Grant spoke for all of us. But now we Institute is sponsoring the contest Wcan speak for ourselves — with a voice that will not only again on a broader basis. This decision destroy our enemies but help us build for peace. was made at a recent garden confer• With close to 30,000 New York Central employes in the Armed ence held by the Institute in Chicago at which Mrs. Catherine Benzo, of forces, and a total of approximately 400 New York Central men Norway, Mich., a sixty-nine-year-old recorded as having died in the service of their country, every Central grandmother, was acclaimed the Na• employe gratefully extols the victories that our Army and Navy have tion's champion Victory Gardener and won so gloriously and hails the nearing prospect of peace and final F. A. Yeager, right, President of Manhattan Athletic Association, presenting was presented with a Bond as first victory on the Western Front. the Harold S. Vanderbilt bowling trophy to E. L. Johnson, Assistant Chief En• award. gineer, MP&RS, who represented the Equipment Engineers, winners, in the Scratch The rules are simple. It is not neces• Yet, at the same time, we all appreciate to the full the warnings tournament, at a dinner April 11, in the Railroad "Y," New York. The YMCA sary for the contestant to have an of our military leaders that a long and terrible period of warfare trophy, won by the Passenger Traffic Department in the Handicap tournament is shown in front. individual garden as working in a with the Japanese still confronts us in the Far East. Mountains of family garden makes one eligible. supplies must continue to go forward thousands of miles and huge However, each contestant must enter a completed Green Thumb Record costs must still be met. Our country still needs our help and calls THE ROUNDHOUSE Book with his local Victory Garden upon us, most urgently, to subscribe during the Seventh War Loan chairman or sponsor not later than Drive and increase our purchases of Series E War Bonds through By October 1, 1945. The record book is payroll deductions. The Seventh War Loan Drive and the current available to all gardeners entering the Sim Perkins New York Central campaign are a challenge to us all! contest. It provides a means of keep• ing a valuable record of what, when One additional $25 Bond purchased by each employe during the and how much is planted and har• three months of the Seventh War Loan would provide Uncle Sam THE percentage of our fighting for heroism in combat and the Air vested. with two and one half million dollars to buy the things our fighting sailors and soldiers who, in addi• Medal, for achievement in the air. "A few months ago there was a let• tion to giving their blood and risking The Bronze Star is the newest of men need, and would return to the purchaser three and one quarter down in interest in Victory Gardens," their lives for their country, also buy the medals, having been in use only said E. J. Condon of Sears, Roebuck million dollars in ten years to help us build for peace. War Bonds regularly, thus building for a year or so. It can be won any• & Company, the newly elected Presi• That same performance repeated each three months for the dura• their own financial bridgehead, is sur• where except in the air, even by a dent of the National Victory Garden prisingly high, considering their rela• tion of the war would produce like results — for Uncle Sam and flier who is afoot or afloat. Institute. "However, as the food sit• tively low pay. Therein lies one of the Instead of the Distinguished Service uation grew worse and points were re• for us. great differences between our men and Cross, sailors, Marines and Coast stored, interest in gardening zoomed The war is not over. It will not be over when the Nazis are the Japs. Guard men get a Navy Cross and in overnight. Today there is every indi• defeated. It will not end with the Seventh War Loan. It will not be A Nip private, or even a non-com, place of a Soldier's Medal they can cation that there will be more gardens win a Navy or Marine Corps Medal. over until the last gun is fired and as long as it lasts, Uncle Sam would have one heck of a time trying and better ones this year than there to scrape together even a minimum were in 1944. Late President Roose• needs our help. payment, $1.57 weekly, on a $25 E Units of the First Military Railway velt, the War Food Administration, Shall we meet the challenge? Bond, for the Japanese army scale of Service, who followed the advance of the Office of Civilian Defence, Office pay is as low as its ethics, as witnessed the Fifth Army in Italy, lived in style of Price Administration and other by the following salaries per month, when stationed, for a period, in Rome. agencies are stressing that we need Paper now enters into the manufacture or packaging of more than 700,000 none of which equals that of a New Their headquarters in the Italian capi• Victory Gardens as never before. military items of supply. These increased uses, together with depleted man York Central office boy, 1945 model: tal were in the spacious offices and "While food production and pres• power at the sources of paper material have created a critical shortage. Colonel, $71.30 to $85.10; Major, waiting rooms of the handsome, stately ervation are very important, there are In response to the government's paper conservation request, this issue of the $39.10 to $50.60; Captain, $27.60 to Rome Terminal Station, built by Mus• other reasons for having Victory Gar• Central Headlight is reduced to eight pages. Similar action may be necessary $35.65; First Lieutenant, $19.55 to solini in connection with his proposed dens. Millions of tons of food were pro• in succeeding months. World's Fair, which never ma• We are sure our readers and contributors will understand the situation. $21.66; Sergeant $5.29 to $6.90; PFC duced in home gardens last year. (still "per month") $2.07. terialized. These products for the most part were This great station is described by consumed or canned at the place where So many New York Central men in the railroad soldiers, some of them grown, thereby relieving a critical Central men, as unsurpassed for mag• shipping situation, releasing approxi• Letter of the Month the Armed Forces have been decorated that some people are confused as to nificence in the world. It is constructed mately 400,000 freight cars. Victory what the medals represent. Aside from of marble and has three levels, all Gardens save containers and man• A.A.F. Com. Hosp. us as we might have been at home. with indirect lighting, which adds to power; help to hold down inflation; Plattsburg Bks., N. Y. We felt welcome aboard the Empire the Purple Heart, which goes to all wounded in combat and to the next of its beauty. release food for our armed forces and Mr. B. J. Bohlender, and not as though we were intruding, our allies and assure an adequate diet as always before. kin of those who are killed, there are Mgr. Dining Service, nine medals that American soldiers Pfc. Raymond DeGenova of Sche• for the home front. New York, N. Y. These two men are not just treating may win. In the order of their im• nectady, a furloughed New York Cen• "Thousands of families are learning In the Army, when a man does a job us boys decently. After the War is portance they are: tral mechanic, was the engineman on for the first time how good home• and does it well, he is commended. over, if we get jobs and have money the first train operated by the M.R.S. grown vegetables taste and how much to travel, publicity then can not sway The Medal of Honor, (Congres• There are four of us boys, plain, sional) for extraordinary heroism in between Leghorn and Florence, Italy, fun it is to grow them." common soldiers, who feel that two us, G.I. orders will not route us. We on March 27. The schedule for the Details on the Green Thumb Con• shall damn sure go where we are wel• action; the Distinguished Service men in your Company deserve that Cross, for gallantry in action; the Dis• 50-mile trip has been set at approxi• test and Record Books will be avail• reward. come, not only when times are tough, mately two hours. The line was an able from local and state garden chair• but when they are rushed and crowded, tinguished Service Medal, for unusual early target for allied bombers and had men and defense councils or from the Having been in the Army four years, too. non-combat distinction; the Legion of traveling all railroads in the country, Merit, for non-combat achievement; to be rebuilt by the M.R.S. Agricultural Relations Department of we were treated as guests for the first We want you to know that we know the Silver Star for gallantry in action; Eight miles out of Florence, on the the New York Central System, Roches• time aboard the Empire State Express, when we board the Empire with the Distinguished Flying Cross, for first run, DeGenova saw a piece of ter, New York. en route from Cleveland to Albany, Messrs. Monahan and Clark, and pre• achievement in flight, in or out of scrap iron, placed probably by sabo• February 26, by our steward, Mr. sent a meal ticket, we feel we are action; the Bronze Star, for heroism teurs. It was knocked off the track by not imposing on any one. an undercarriage guard rail. Monahan, when we presented our in combat, or in support of combat, In Philippines G.I. meal tickets. Both Mr. Monahan (s) Sgt. L. W. Troup, Auel C. but not in the air; the Soldier's Medal, and our waiter, E. U. Clark, treated Casey, Noah Martin, Cecil M. Colburn. T/Sergt. E. A. Halladay, former As• sistant Station Master at Cleveland Union Terminal, recently wrote that Grand Central the pen and pencil sets given by the New York Glee Club School of Music, New York, broadcasts company at Christmas to all employes from station WLCC at Bridgeport, and on May 19 Cover Concert on May 18 in the Armed Services whose addresses over WABC New York on the Frank of Sat. Eve. Post could be obtained, had become a novel The second Spring Concert of the LaForg programs. means of identification among New Glee Club of the Manhattan A.A. will Grand Central Terminal, painted in oil by the prominent American York Central men in the Army. The be held at the Junior League Club, little red markings on the ends speak 221 East 71st Street, New York City Model Locomotive artist, John Falter, will be the cover ; picture of the Saturday Evening for themselves. May 18. Construction Book Post issue of May 19. The picture, Through this means Sergt. Halladay The Club, under the direction of The second in a series of popular painted in warm colors, shows the has met, he says, more than 40 fur• Thales B. Weeks, with Frederick Wil• priced Plan Package books, giving de• front facade of Grand Central loughed Central employes, some of liams, Accompanist, will present a tailed construction plans, photographs looking north from 39th Street on them near the German border. Among and text for various types of loco• Park Avenue framed between the varied program of selections chosen Murray Hill Hotel and the Archi• them was Sergt. Peter Lee, formerly a from music representative of our Allied motives, has been issued by the Model tects Building. fireman on the Erie Division, who Nations. Craftsman Publishing Corporation, Falter will be remembered by his previously had worked at the Linndale The Glee Club will present as guest Ramsey, N. J. previous Post covers of "Gramercy Roundhouse. Sergt. Thomas R. Rush, furloughed em• artist, Miss Julia Adams, lyric soprano, Included in this book are the plans Park," "Moving Day" and "Farm Sergt. Halladay says the pen and ploye of the Central's Marine Depart• of Bridgeport, Connecticut, who is for three New York Central locomo• Scene." Extra copies of the cover pencil sets have proved most welcome ment at Weehawken, is with a regiment may be had on request from the of Amphibian Engineers under General well known on the concert stage in tives — Mogul, Hudson and dual-duty and useful, in addition to making MacArthur's command. He was in• both New York and Connecticut. Miss Curtis Publishing Company, 292 Mohawk types. The book is priced at Madison Avenue, New York City. New York Central soldiers acquainted ducted August 3, 1941. His home is in Adams, a graduate of the Juilliard $2. Weehawken. Central Headlight 3

Major W. J. Gannon, of G.C.T., Mow Signal Corps Lieut. R. J. Watson Major Delacroix Davis, Jr., N.Y.C. Engineer, in England with Reconnaissance Wing Liaison Officer in Burma Wins Distinguished Service Cross Lieut. Robert J. Watson, 23, fur• loughed Assistant Signal Maintainer, St. Lawrence Division, recently was awarded a Distinguished Service Cross for gallantry. He has been in the Army since October 14, 1940, and has his home in Watertown, N. Y. Lieut. Watson previously received the Bronze Star for heroic action in Belgium. He was wounded last December in France, to which he was sent last October, after ten months' service in the Pacific area as a non-com. He was commissioned May 12, 1943. He received the Distinguished Serv• ice Cross for his work with a combat patrol over a period of four days. Under heavy fire,th e patrol was forced to take up defensive positions in a church and withstood three attacks, during which Lieut. Watson called for artillery fire upon his own position, directing the fire from the steeple.

Lieut. Arciero Returns from Pacific Marine Corps Air Depot, Miramar, Calif.—Marine First Lieut. George D. Arciero, 23, Pelham, N. Y., has re• turned here from the Central Pacific, where he was a pilot with a Fourth Marine Air Wing fighter-bomber squadron. Based in the Marshalls, he flew bombing and strafing sweeps against Jap gun positions, troop concentra• tions, supply and fuel dumps on Nauru, Mili, Jaluit, Wotje and Maloe- 3 2 5TH RECONNAISSANCE Field, Illinois. He has been overseas lap. He is credited with a direct hit WING, ENGLAND — Major Dela• since January, 1943, having served in on an oil dump on Tiniet Islands in croix Davis, Jr., of Boulder, Colorado, Africa and Italy before coming to the Jaluit atoll last January. He flew is one of the key men needed on the England. 41 missions, logging 350 combat ground to keep Eighth Air Force HEADQUARTERS SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMAND, Kandy, Ceylon—Among flying hours. planes in the air on their around the his other chores as air conditioning and refrigeration expert for the New York Lieut. Arciero was employed by the clock missions over Germany. As group Central Railroad at New York's Grand Central Terminal, Maj. William J. New York Central Railroad in New engineering officer at this base, he Gannon used to keep the world-famous Grand Central Oyster Bar in prime York City before entering flight train• supervises maintenance and repair of order. Today, as U.S. Army Signal Corps liaison officer with the British 36th ing in August, 1942. all aircraft that fly in support of the Division, in Central Burma, Gannon's job is to help get the messages through for one of the most isolated units in the theater — and, in his spare time, to heavy bombers. wage personal war against the Japs! A crack shot, formerly with the Second Mosquitoes and B-17 Flying For• Corps Area rifle team which won honors at Camp Perry, Ohio, the Major likes Brakeman Trains tresses take off from here for lone nothing better than to prowl the jungle doing some sniping on his own account. for Lieutenancy missions over Europe and the North Nicknamed "Timber" by his British buddies, he formerly commanded a pole- A NORTH COAST PORT, ENG• Atlantic, gathering weather data for line construction training battalion at Camp Kohler, Calif. A CMTC graduate, LAND—Walter H. Schermerhorn of future air and ground operations he was called to active service in December, 1940. His home is 3180 Parsifal 301 Washington Ave., Hampton against the enemy. Mosquitoes are Place, The Bronx, New York City. Manor, New York, has been accepted used as photographic reconnaissance for training as an infantry officer at planes as well, filming German in• an Infantry Officer's School in France. stallations by day and night to scout Formerly he was a technical sergeant the way for Eighth Air Force heavies, in the supply section of an Army then returning after raids to picture Sergt. Chamberlin Gunton, New Yorker, Transportation Corps port. the damage done. Wins Bronze Star In Iwo Jima Invasion Before entering the Army in Oc• Major Davis, the son of Mr. and tober, 1940, he was a brakeman for Mrs. Delacroix Davis, Sr., 116 Mo- Sergt. David L. Chamberlin, fur• Corp. Richard J. Gunton of the of• the New York Central Railroad. sholu Parkway, the Bronx, New York loughed from the office of Superinten• fice of Superintendent of Equipment, City, is married to the former Miss dent of Equipment, New York, New York, who plays the drums in Marjorie M. Anderson, 2127 Sixteenth recently was promoted to Master the Marine Band of the Fifth Marine Street, Boulder. He is a graduate of Sergeant, as his Anti-Aircraft unit ap• Hanna Now a Pfc. Evander Childs High School of the proached the Rhine. Division, took part in the invasion of AN VIII AIR FORCE SERVICE Bronx and of the University of Colo• He was awarded the Bronze Star Iwo Jima. Recent correspondence from COMMAND STATION, England — rado. Medal by General Omar Bradley for Dick indicates he's still beating the Recently promoted to Private First An engineer for the New York Cen• Sergt. George J. Ferris, furloughed em• his part in the D-Day battles. skins. Class was Frank Hanna, formerly a tral Railroad and a member of the ploye in the office of Superintendent demurrage clerk in New York for the of Equipment, New York is at Camp American Society of Mechanical Engi• Plauche, New Orleans. He was a New York Central Railroad. neers, he entered the army in April, prominent figure in the New York Cen• A Signal corpsman at this important 1941 and attended ordnance school at tral Athletic Association basketball G.C.T. District Engineman Ends 44 Years of Work strategic air depot from which Eighth Aberdeen, Maryland as well as Air teams and is carrying on similar activi• Air Force fighter bases are supplied, Corps technician's school at Chanute ties at the camp. he has been overseas since December, 1943. He entered the service in Feb• ruary, 1943. New Yorkers Sons Both Mentioned in Dispatches

Bronx Boy Is Radio Man in Belgium 826TH ENGINEER AVIATION BATTALION — Pfc. William G. Mar• tin, Bronx, New York, a member of the 826th Engineer Aviation Battal• ion, IX Engineer Command, has been recently assigned the duties of Radio Operator for his company. P.F.C. Martin joined his present unit in June, 1943. His Battalion was active in England building concrete airbases, and landed in France on D- day plus 6. Martin has been radio operator for several reconnaissance parties whose duties were to locate sites for advanced air strips. His unit was instrumental in completing nu• merous airfields ahead of the fighter- bombers of the Ninth Air Force. Since the invasion of Normandy, the bat• talion has moved through France build• ing air strips and repairing captured German bases and was recently in Sergts. Kenneth and Walter Whitaker, left and right, above, sons of H. H. William F. Eversman, Engineman, G.C.T. District, New York, was bid a fond Belgium. Whitaker, Leading Draftsman, Equipment Engineering Department, New York farewell to railroad service by his associates and friends when he retired City, were both mentioned recently in news dispatches from Europe. Kenneth's March 31 at the age of 69. Surrounded by members of his family, Mr. Evers• Prior to his induction in January, Service Company in the 399th Regiment won the Meritorious Service Unit man stands center, holding a purse presented by G.C.T. Remembrance Club, 1943, Martin was employed as a tele- Plaque for superior performance of duty in France. Walter was a member of beside Trainmaster H. A. Offerman. Ending 44 years of service, Mr. Eversman graphic-leverman for the New York the Air Transport Command Cadre which established five temporary bases piloted the Wolverine from Mott Haven Yard to the Terminal. He lives at Central Railroad. He has been over- along the 2,698 mile airline, from Casablanca to Yalta, flown by President 41 Maple Street, Ridgefield Park, N. J. seas twenty-one months. Roosevelt and his party to the Crimea Conference. 4 Central Headlight

Buffalo Carman Bronze Star Gets Bronze Medal Vice President Harmon Man Cited Awarded to Sobczak Helped Capture of East Buffalo Aronson Now an Maginot Fort N. Y. C. Director Jacob Aronson, Vice President, Law, New York Central System, was elected, April 11, a director of the New York Central Railroad Company, to fill the vacancy created by the death of Leon Fraser. Mr. Aronson, a native of Brooklyn, entered the New York Central Law Department November 1, 1906, soon after his graduation from the Brooklyn Law School of St. Lawrence University. He was made assistant general at• torney in 1922. Four years later he was appointed assistant general counsel and on November 16, 1929, was made general counsel. He became Vice Pres• ident, Law May 1, 1933. Sergt. James H. Nelson, furloughed Mr. Aronson is an officer or director Machinist Helper, Harmon Engine of many of the affiliated and subsidiary House, Harmon, N. Y., received with companies of the New York Central his 368th Fighter Group the "Presi• Staff Sergt. Thomas J. Moylan, 119th Railroad Company and a member of dential Citation" for their part in the Infantry .Regiment, United States Army, the Law Committee of the Association wreckage of large German forces re• Pfc. Clarence Duewiger, 28, of 42 recently was awarded the Bronze Star of American Railroads. treating from northern France. The Leamington Place, Buffalo, New York, Pfc. Stanley P. Sobczak of the 405th for meritorious achievement and ser• group "destroyed 262 motor transport, employed by New York Central Car Infantry, was awarded the Bronze Star vice from June 14 to November 30, He is a member of the Board of 230 horse drawn vehicles and an un• Department in 1941-42, enlisted in the Medal for heroic achievement in Ger• 1944, in France, Belgium, Holland and Appeals of the Village of Scarsdale, determined number of enemy per• Armed Forces on February 11, 1942. many from October 26, 1944, to Germany. Sergt. Moylan distinguished where he makes his home at 16 Ches• sonnel." Recently he distinguished himself by January 4, 1945, in connection with himself by outstanding performance of terfield Road. helping to take the stubborn Maginot operations against the enemy. Pfc. duty as a good leader in a mortar Line Defenses while with American Sobczak, a battalion motor messenger, platoon during a difficult period of In 1934, he received an honorary troops near Bitche, France, as reported conducted himself in a highly exem• military operations. He has been a LL.D. degree from St. Lawrence Uni• by War Correspondent Robert C. plary manner. At all hours of the day member of the Army since February, versity. Wilson. and night, many times without sleep, 1942, and was a member of the invad• Lieut. Wm. Winters, One of the captured sections of one Sobczak carried messages to front line ing forces on "D" day on the coast of of the forts was converted to an Amer• companies. On numerous occasions Normandy. Prior to his induction he of Tariff Bureau, ican command post. when impassable road conditions and was employed in the New York Cen• Pfc. Duewiger said it "had showers heavy enemy fire prohibited motor tral's sub-station department as an New York Woman's in the officers quarters. We tried a traffic he completed his trips on foot electrical worker. His brother, Andy, N. Y., is Wounded bazooka on the steel door and only and, with utter disregard for his safety, also an employe of the substation de• Husband, B-24 Pilot, First Lieut. William Winters, 29, a dented it. We went down 19 platforms made his way through heavy concen• partment, is a warrant officer in the furloughed employe of the Freight before we ran into water." trations of fire. During several critical Navy. His father is a third railman in Pfc. Duewiger has been overseas situations, he aided in the supply of is Killed in Pacific Tariff Bureau, New York, was the Transmission department, where he wounded in Germany, March 3, and is since September 1, 1944. He was ammunition and food to front line has been employed for more than wounded in France, October 25 and units. thirty years. Mrs. Gwendolyn M. Smith, Ste• recovering in a hospital in France. later was hospitalized in that country, Sobczak has been in the Armed nographer, Equipment Engineering De• He suffered shrapnel wounds in the returning to active duty a month later. Forces since January 31, 1944 and partment, New York City, received knee, thigh and arm, all on the left prior to his entry was employed as a USO at Albany notification from the War Department side, when a jeep exploded an enemy Riveter at East Buffalo Car Shop. March 28 that her husband, Lieut. Ken• mine. Several men standing near Lieut. Two of his brothers, who also worked Has Served 140,000 neth R. Smith, was killed in action on Winters were fatally injured. at the Car Shop, are in the Armed In the approximately two and one- Mindanao, Philippine Islands, March Winters, whose home is in Peekskill, We have had visits recently from Forces—Edward in the Navy since half years that the U.S.O. Lounge in 9. N. Y., has been overseas since a year two boys in Service. S/Sergt. J. M. November 13, 1942 and Henry, who Union Station, Albany, has been ago Christmas and went from England Mattessich, USMC stationed at Cherry was inducted on February 12. Lieut. Smith, 27, was the pilot of a Point, N. C. and Dennis Bodenchuk. Their father, Joseph Sobczak, also open, it has served more than 140,000 B-24 Liberator. He went overseas to to France about mid-June. He has seen works at East Buffalo Car Shop as a men in the Armed Services. The coffee the South Pacific in December, 1944, much action as a member of an anti• Dennis is with the Maritime Service. Mechanic. bar, which has been open 15 months, and had participated in several mis• aircraft crew and has been with the While home he became engaged to has served more than 60,000 patrons. sions. Third, Seventh and Ninth Armies. Miss Irene Bertani, a senior cadet The patronage in December 1944 hit a nurse at the U.S. Marine Hospital, new high mark of 8,000. Hostesses Staten Island. have donated more than 30,000 hours' Herbert Rogers, Clerk, returned to Vice Pres. Dougherty Veterans Plan the Freight Tariff Bureau office March Memorial Tablet 16 after a leave of absence; he worked Letters have been received from Wins Egleston Medal Sergt. Wm. D. Dietz; Lieut. Jack Metropolitan Chapter Veterans As• temporarily for the Association of R. E. Dougherty, Vice President P. Dexter Fairchild American Railroads, in Grand Central Beach; Sergt. M. L. Masarech; Charles sociation, on April 27, held an enter• D. Wangler, Y l/C, USNR, Pfc. A. Improvements and Developments, New P. Dexter Fairchild, retired Purchas• tainment and dance in Manhattan Cen• Terminal. York Central System, recently was T. Lupiano, R/M 2/C, J. P. Higman, ing Agent, died April 17, in Tarry- ter, New York City, to raise funds for Jr. and Lieut. W. W. Winters. awarded the 1945 Egleston Medal of town, N. Y. He was 86 years old. He a tablet to be placed in Grand Central Larry Harper has received an hon• the Columbia University Engineering had been employed by the railroad for Terminal in honor of New York Cen• orable discharge from the Army and Schools Alumni Association. 50 years. tral employes in the Armed Services. returned to work as Clerk. Mr. Dougherty was cited as an emi• Two new faces joined our office nent railroad builder and executive. recently; Miss Laura jean Bolan and The medal is awarded annually to Miss Bella Moody, Chief Operator, New York, Retires Dorothy Steadman of Yonkers. an alumnus who distinguishes himself in his profession. F. G. Love Speaks N. Y. Girl Joins W.A.C. Frank G. Love, Superintendent Prop• Rosemary Colalis, formerly of the erty Protection, was the principal Comptroller's Office, New York has speaker at a meeting of the Traffic enlisted with the W.A.C. and is sta• Club, Brooklyn, April 5. Stressing the tioned at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. Perfect Shipping campaign, he urged shippers to make suggestions for im• proving rail transportation. Wounds Kill Son of Retired P. & L. E. Man Sergt. Robert J. O'Toole died On PT Boat March 9, of wounds received in action in Germany, March 3. He was the son of James L. O'Toole, former Assistant to the General Manager; who retired in November, 1940. Mr. O'Toole has four other sons in the Army, in Europe.

P. & E. Man Gets the Purple Heart Corporal Walter W. Gibson, for• merly employed on the P. & E. at Crawfordsville, Indiana, has been awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in action on the Western front in January. The award was sent to his wife in Crawfordsville. He has recovered and is back in action. Miss Bella Moody is shown seated at her desk on the occasion of her retirement as Chief Operator, Telephone Bureau, New York City, when she was presented with gifts and purses from her associates and friends by W. A. Jackson, General Superintendent, Telegraph & Telephone. Miss Mae F. Sheehy, standing right of Miss Moody, succeeds as 43 Years at Work Chief Operator. Other operators, left to right, are Miss Emma Connors, Miss M. Rich, Mrs. L. Jones, Mrs. M. Foley, D. H. Garrison, Chief Clerk of the Miss M. Kelly, Mrs. E. Demarest, Mrs. J. Bush, Miss A. McCarthy, Mrs. A. Eckert and Mrs. M. Mullins. George V. Majchrzak G.M I /c, for• Weehawken Accounting Bureau, retired merly from Gardenville Car Repair April 1, after four decades of service. AFTER 27 years as Chief Operator ators handling all calls in an office 12 years ago. Today 20 operators are Shop, has reported again for duty after He began work for the New York Cen• of the Telephone Exchange, Mur• located in the old Grand Central Sta• required to handle the incoming calls spending a leave of thirty days with tral in 1902, at Barclay Street Station, ray Hill 9-8000, New York City, Miss tion building. Over the years the and the outgoing long distance calls. his folks. He has served on a Patrol and was appointed Chief Clerk at Torpedo boat in the Pacific. Bella Moody retired at the age of 64 bureau grew, being located for several Miss Moody lives at 2995 Botanical Weehawken May 1, 1921. The Bureau on March 31. He is the son of George J. Majchr• gave Mr. Garrison a dinner April 5, years in the new Grand Central Ter• Square, The Bronx. She has been suc• zak, Yard conductor, at the VI yard, at the Skyline Inn, North Bergen and When Miss Moody entered service, minal and moving to the New York ceeded by Miss Mae F. Sheehy, former East Buffalo. A sister is also in the presented him with a gift. in 1900, she was one of only two oper• Central Building, 230 Park Avenue, Supervisor. employ of the Central. Central Headlight

Restrictions Made Five Girls Take Leadership Course in Telephone Technique to Albany A. A. Has on Holiday Passes Help Make N.Y.C. the "Friendliest Railroad in the World" 2000 Members Now R. D. Starbuck, Executive Vice Pres• The Albany Athletic Association ident, on April 1, issued the follow• held its 16th Annual Smoker, April ing notice regarding the use of passes: 14 at St. Casimir's Hall in Albany, to conclude its annual membership drive. "Because of the continued heavy The Association, which has survived volume of military and essential civil• depression, war and other handicaps, ian traffic, requiring the full use of our has a membership of approximately equipment, it is again necessary to 2000 in the Albany District. prohibit the use of annual and regular trip passes between all points on our J. H. Hayes, General Foreman, Car System during the following holiday Department, Selkirk, President of the neriods of 1945: Association, welcomed approximately 500 members to the Smoker. In addi• Independence Day — tion there were 25 service men present July 3 to 5 inclusive as guests. Labor Day—August 31 The Association this year sponsored to September 4 inclusive three teams in the City Bowling Thanksgiving — Leagues, two of men and one of women, and emerged with one men's November 21 to 25 inclusive championship team and one ladies' Christmas championship team. The men's cham• December 21 to 26 inclusive As every New York Central employe knows, the New York Central System is preparing in every way possible for the pionship was won by the Locomotive New Year's — December 29 post war period of competition which, in common with all other American railroads, it faces. Most of the physical Shop Team. equipment envisioned in its plans must await priority materials. Meanwhile, thousands of employes are enhancing their to January 2, 1946, inclusive skills in special courses and gaining new public relations knowledge that will be helpful. George L. Fraley was chairman, En• Passes will be honored for neces• tertainment Committee. An extensive courtesy program to keep and win friends for the railroad is already under way. As a part of this, sary daily travel between home and six young railroad women in various New York Central cities recently were brought to New York and trained in telephone place of work, for employes traveling personality by experts of the New York Telephone Company. They will pass on to other employes what they learned in the performance of their duties, in this course. Shown, left to right: Miss Emely Anderson, New York, Mrs. Marie Todd, Cleveland, Mrs. Kathryn Bargelt, and for furloughed employes in mili• Chicago, Mrs. Frances Arnold, New York Telephone Company, Mrs. Gertrude Frese, New York Telephone Company, tary or naval service in uniform travel• in charge of class, Miss Mildred Taylor, Cleveland, Miss Ann Swederski, Syracuse, Miss Opal Dobbins, Chicago and Knowlton Talks to ing only to and from their homes. Miss Freida Wehnes, New York Telephone Company. The girls will be stationed in New York, Chicago, Syracuse and "For all other emergency travel, Cleveland. West Albany Club such as serious illness or death, and The West Albany Locomotive Shops for dependent children traveling be• Supervisors Club at a dinner in Albany tween their homes and distant schools, April 9, heard a talk on the new S-lA special trip passes for use during the Retiring Electrical Foreman Guest at Dinner Locomotive by C. H. Knowlton, As• above periods may be obtained through sistant Engineer, Motive Power. the usual channels upon full explan• An interesting talk on transportation ation of the nature of the trip. in general was given by K. A. Born- "Your continued cooperation will trager, Superintendent, Mohawk Divi• assist us in taking care of the neces• sion. sary travel related to the war emer• Other guests were T. J. Lyons, As• gency and will be greatly appreciated." sistant to the Superintendent of Mo• tive Power and Rolling Stock, New Tarrytown Man York; C. H. Mendler, Superintendent Reports from Germany of Car Shops, West Albany; J. Graves E. A. Wilkinson, formerly employed and C. Kantola of the Engineer of Mo• at the Tarrytown Freight House, and tive Power Office, New York, and J. now with a Signal Radio Intelligence V. Hughes, Trainmaster, Albany. Company overseas, recently reported This organization, the first of its that in the past year or so he has been kind on the New York Central Sys• in France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Hol• tem, is progressing rapidly under the land and Germany and added: guidance of Grant F. Miller, President, "I cannot say I have much use for Charles Roebling, retiring Foreman of Electrical Repairs, Sub Station Department, Electric Division, (center, left) and I. W. Martin, Superintendent of any of them. There is certainly no receives a purse from Walter Craft, High Tension Repairman, who was master of ceremonies at a testimonial dinner the Locomotive Shops, who is Honor• extended to Mr. Roebling by more than 60 friends and associates April 16, at Horseshoe Tavern, The Bronx, New York ary President. It is hoped that similar place like the U.S.A. and we G.I.'s City. Retiring at the age of 71, Mr. Roebling entered service as a repairman in 1906, becoming Repair Foreman in have found that out." 1912. Left to right are: Thomas Lynch, Third Railman, Transmission Department; H. E. Atkins, Supervisor of Sub Sta• organizations will soon be started at So far he has met only one friend tions; F. MacPhillamy, Assistant Superintendent of Power; C. L. Lockwood, Power Supervisor; Mr. Roebling; Mr. Craft; other points. of the Yonkers Freight Station. He H. Tooker, Power Supervisor; L. H. Slater, Chief Power Supervisor; R. Van Derwende, who succeeds Mr. Roebling; and says he enjoys reading the HEADLIGHT. W. H. Stapleton, Assistant Supervisor, Sub Stations. Returns from Navy Kear Melrose Fred Petrie returned to work at Central Foreman West Albany Shops recently as a Sta• First Two New York Classes in Advanced Public Relations tionary Engineer in the Power Plant. S. L. Kear was appointed Building Mr. Petrie served approximately three Foreman of the Melrose Central Build• years in the United States Navy as a ing March 28, in local charge of rent• Water Tender Second Class and was ing and operation, duties formerly given an honorary discharge. handled by W. E. McGinnis, deceased. Mr. Kear entered service in July 1922 as Wireman in the Electric Power Department, Grand Central Ter• Cadet Gets Check minal, serving in various positions in The Armed Forces claimed another that department; in August, 1928, he West Albany man as Charles W. Cox, was appointed Night Electric Foreman. Office Boy, in the Superintendent of Shops Office, enlisted as a Cadet in the Pfc. Walterhouse, Army Air Force. He was tendered a farewell luncheon at which Chief Clerk New York, is in Africa John Eble, on behalf of the office em• ATC AIR BASE, CASABLANCA — ployes, presented him with a substan• Pfc. Leslie G. Walterhouse is an arti• tial check. ficer assigned to the guard unit at Cazes Air Base, Casablanca, in the North African Division of the Air Transport Command. He is a fur• Utica Man Dies loughed New York Central employe as Transport Sinks from New York. Seated, left to right: L. A. Bresee, Head Clerk; Miss U. C. O'Hara, Ticket Seller; T. M. Kelly, Ticket Seller; F. R. Frayer, Ticket Agent; W. J. Lyons, Special Agent; E. R. Robinson, Special Agent and W. A. Clarke, Special Agent. on Way Overseas Cazes Air Base is known as the Standing, left to right: Mrs. M. Stanley, Clerk; Miss V. M. McNamara, Ticket Seller (in background); S. T. Keese, Hub because of its direct routes to Rate Clerk; F. G. Beach, Supervisor; R. J. Trommetter, Examiner; A. C. Frick, Special Agent; W. S. Schleich, Special Europe, Russia, the Middle and Far Agent; J. J. Divney, Group Leader, Assistant Chief Clerk; J. D. Murphy, Rate Clerk; J. C. Ashton, Supervisor; F. L. East. Aircraft from five continents Kattau, Clerk-Steno; G. Earle, N. Y. State Department of Education; E. B. Farrelly, Clerk; Miss A. I. Kuss, Clerk; A. land there daily. Allen, Clerk and Miss H. Ruth, Clerk.

Selkirker in Belgium

Pvt. Paul S. Sgroi, former employe of Corp. George I. Turner, jr., furloughed the Utica Car Stores Department, was New York Central Yard Conductor, Sel• reported killed when a troop transport, kirk, N. Y., is with the 752nd Railroad which was carrying his outfit to Eng• Operating Battalion, in Belgium. He land, was sunk in Atlantic waters dur• entered the service February 13, 1943. Left to right: R. C. Cole, Chief of Tariff Bureau; H. J. Genett, Chief Clerk; J. Lohrfink, Rate Clerk; J. P. Phelan, ing the first part of January, 1945. Corporal Turner is the only son of Clerk; F. A Freudenberg, Agent; J. J. Donovan, Agent; E. J.'Riley, Timekeeper; E. F. Richardson, Clerk; A. A. Ander• Private Sgroi, who formerly resided Mr. and Mrs. George Turner, Selkirk. son, Agent; I. L. Austin, (Group Leader) Assistant Secretary, Board of Pensions; A. J. Nielsen, Secretary; G. M. Van, at No. 106 Sheldon Road, Frankfort, George Turner is also a Yard Con• Switchtender; C. L. Embury, Clerk; E. S. Ferris, Chief Clerk;A. P. Hill, Clerk; A. J. Benhardt, Clerk; A. E. Hines, Clerk N. Y., was drafted into the Army the ductor there. and L. C. Klinger, Clerk. later part of January, 1944. 6 Central Headlight

H. R. Puschman, Detroit Locomotive Men End Public Relations Course Wins Bronze Star for Action in Italy Chief Clerk in Pfc. Elmer J. Daniels, furloughed clerk at the Wayne, Mich., Station, Detroit is Dead has been awarded the Bronze Star for heroic action near Cisterna, Italy, May Harry Richard Puschman, Chief 26, 1944. Clerk of the Conductors' Department Pfc. Daniels was member of a squad in the Auditor Passenger Accounts' of the Reconnaissance Platoon, Head• Office, Detroit, died March 19 in the quarters Company, of an Armored En• New Rochelle, N. Y., Hospital after gineers Battalion, which had the mis• a month's illness. sion of constructing a bridge near the Born October 5, 1878 in New York town of Cisterna. City, he started with the New York Upon reaching the site the squad Central as Clerk in the Auditor Pas• was fired upon by enemy snipers. Dan• senger Accounts' Office, then located Among the 59 Public Relations groups organized in the Detroit, Area, none has been more enthusiastic than Group iels and three others, engaged the in New York, on July 8, 1897. He No. 56, which finished its sessions in Assistant Superintendent's Building, Livernois Avenue, recently, under the lead• enemy, wounding and capturing two served as Ticket Receiver at Syracuse ership of Patrolman Fred L. Hunt. The group was made up exclusively of Locomotive Department employes. Although none of these men come in contact with the public when on duty, they have a fine appreciation of the value of cul• and routing the others. By this di• from July 1, 1902, until December 1, version the enemy fire the other mem• 1906, and was made Chief Clerk tivating good will. Left to right: John Kery, Boilermaker; Jack Spence, Machinist Reg. Appr.; George Chamberlain, Machinst; Gaston Larose, Boiler Form Clerk; Charles Sweet, Machinist Reg. Appr.; Fred L. Hunt, Patrolman, (Group bers of the squad were able to con• October 1, 1941. Leader); Charles Lovell, Electrician; R. L. Tipton, Boilermaker; Robert Strothers, Machinist Helper and Mike Dobryden, struct the bridge in time. Quiet, efficient and just, he was well Boilermaker. liked by all who knew him.

East Boston Team is Two more mixed bowling parties, Detroit Railway one at the Twenty Grand and one at Detroit Girl Sings Detroit Camera B.&A. Bowling Victor the Palace-Dix Recreation, were en• to Front Soldiers Business Women Elect Club Subject joyed by Auditor Passenger Accounts Despite the war-time conditions af• employes in March and April. In the The Railway Business Women's As• fecting work-hours, the Boston & Al• former, first prize was taken by the sociation, made up of women employes bany Bowling League has completed team composed of William Johnson, of various railroads in Detroit, has another successful season. The League Beatrice Dorsett, Wilma Murray, Mary elected these officers: was composed of six teams as follows: Gindick and Helen Papp, who con• Ann Conlogue, New York Central, East Boston Freight, M. of W. Dept., trived, with the aid of their handicap, Secretary to the Master Mechanic, General Freight Office, Accounting to roll a 2022 total. Ninety partic• President; Mildred F. Boker, Pere No. 1, Electricians, Accounting No. 2. ipated. Marquette, Vice President; Rose Tas- The M. of W. were winners of the At the April party first place was so, Railway Express, Treasurer; Rose• first half and East Boston of the copped by the team made up of John mary Whelan, Grand Trunk, Corre• second half. In the final roll-off for Parsnik, Jane Carpenter, Ella Grace sponding Secretary and Mary Alice Mul- the League Championship, March 22, Horgan and Lorene Cline. Dancing queen, Grand Trunk, Recording Sec• East Boston defeated M. of W. on and refreshments followed each get- retary. the total pin-fall by only seven. together. Last year's charity funds, made Ralph Leland of Accounting No. 1, Charles J. Tompkins, formerly De• through sale of Christmas cards, were won the honors for high individual partment Assistant, has been appointed disbursed as follows: $520.49 to the average, with 101.24 for the season; Chief Clerk of the Conductors' De• Michigan League for crippled children; Harry Nordstrom, of the Electricians, partment in the Auditor Passenger Ac• $100 to the American Red Cross. Ruth the high individual three-string, with counts' Office, Detroit. William C. Alden's appeal for Goodfellow dresses a total of 335; and Frank Redmond Horton becomes the Department As• brought $105 and the Michigan Cen• the high individual single strong, with tral Depot U.S.O. Lounge, served by a total of 128. The Electricians secured sistant and Werner G. Klebe the Sta• these every other Sunday, has disbursed tistician. A. J. Girard is the new Chief In Italy since before Christmas, Pte. the team high three-string prize, with donations of over $700 for food to a total of 1457, and the General Division Clerk. Mary M. Leonard of the Canadian service men and women, along with Women's Army Corps, a former Audi• "Sunny" Allen Freight the high single, with a total tor Passenger Accounts employe, De• hundreds of donated pies, cakes, and of 501. For the benefit of western Thomas Bruder, formerly Ticket Re• troit, has been entertaining front line other items. friends it should be stated that, in ceiver at New York, has been ap• troops, who are pulled out of the lines The organization also presented Collection of the twenty prints to Boston, candle pins are used, and this pointed Accountant under W. R. to see the show and then sent back in Percy Jones Hospital, Battle Creek, be sent to New York for exhibition Brownell, Auditor Station Accounts again. Singing with a Canadian Army in Grand Central Terminal has been season they fell hard. and Overcharge Claims, New York. show, she has been in mud up to her with a wheel chair. Knitters com• begun by the N. Y. C. Camera Club The League held its final get-to• William H. Seely, Clerk, has been ad• knees, eaten out of mess kits in the pleted ten afghans for the Red Cross. of Detroit. In turn, arrangements are gether April 6, when prices were dis• vanced to Ticket Receiver in New field amid the booming of the guns, being made to display in the M. C. tributed and plans made for next been through many an air raid, and season. York, while Thomas J. Moriarty, had a siege of jaundice. She says in Terminal in Detroit the exchange formerly Chief Division Clerk in the the little town of Godo the troupe had prints received from the N. Y. C. League officers were: Jack Haley, Auditor Passenger Accounts' Office, 12 feet of water under their stage and Ontario Engineer Camera Club of New York. president, Jim Thomas, treasurer and Detroit, has accepted the opportunity their dressing room was the back of At the March "shooting session" Frank Arrington, secretary, all of the to return to New York as a clerk in the truck outside. Her unit has now 50 Years at Work the many portrait fans among the Accounting Department. the Ticket Receivers' Office. moved on to France, Belgium and Holland. Frank J. Jennings, Chief Engineer members took some dandy pictures at the Swing Bridge over the Genesee when "Sunny" Allen posed. Lustrous- That heavy silver ring, with the River at Charlotte, N. Y., on the On• eyed "Sunny" is employed in the Typ• B. & A. Employes ing Bureau. In addition to her rail• hardened brown dirt embedded in its Detroit Auditor tario Division, last month celebrated Top Red Cross Quota crevices, which Lily Calabrese, of the 50 years of service with the New road work, she often sings with bands Officials Promoted York Central. He received a gold pass in the evening. Employes of the Boston & Albany A.P.A. Office, guards so carefully, is Division went over the top in the no ordinary ring. The dirt is also a J. B. Taylor, Auditor of Disburse• from Division Supt. John Greenwood. Charles Fagin, of the Departmental ments, Detroit, announced the follow• Accountant's office, an amateur ma• Greater Boston Red Cross drive, it was very special kind of dirt. In order to Jennings' record is unusual, since announced recently, with donations protect it she always removes the ring ing appointments, effective April 16: his job is a seven-day week one. Since gician, performed legerdemain for the especial benefit of movie cameramen totalling $2551, or 106 per cent of when washing. L. M. Berkey, and C. F. Quinn, As• 1895 he has missed only 57 days be• the $2400 quota assigned. sistants to Auditor of Disbursements, cause of sickness. His bridge is the Edwin Von Wascinski (A.P.A. office) In her work with Valiants Inc., the The office of W. L. Oldroyd, As• ring was given to her by a wounded with headquarters at Detroit. third largest of its type in the world, and Howard Hutcheson (Dept'l. being 338 feet long. Acct's. office). sistant to the General Manager, said soldier at the Veterans' Hospital in A. H. Kluck, Accounting Systems additional contributions were coming Dearborn. The lad was badly wounded and Methods Engineer, with head• Mr. Jenning's home in Rochester Two Assistant Engineers, Valua• in. in the spine by a shell fragment on quarters at Utica, N. Y. has been in the family 104 years. tion, took down first and second the "D" Day invasion of France and places in the April print contest, sub• The B. & A. was the first of the the dirt in the ring is the brown clay Lieut. Hamilton, ject of which was "Snow Scenes." three railroads serving Boston to meet of the district in which he fell. E. Warren Oakes won top honors and its quota. Indianapolis, Promoted Detroiter Killed Morton Friedman was voted second ALLIED FORCE HEADQUAR• award. Jack Ferguson, Division Clerk. Auditor Passenger Accounts boy, Pfc. TERS, Italy — John Russell Hamilton, in Luxembourg A.P.A. office, came in third. Koda- 130 B. & A. Men Study Edwin Biebel fought with the Fifth of Indianapolis, Indiana, was pro• chrome motion pictures of the magi• Some 130 B. & A. employes are Marines from their initial landings on moted recently from First Lieutenant cian's acts, back from the processing nearing completion of courses in bloody Iwo Jima. After two weeks on to Captain. He is assigned to the laboratory, were screened by George "Techniques of Supervision" given by the Island the fighting was still con• 753rd Railway Shop Battalion, in Linder's projector. Wilbert Weilert instructors of the State University Ex• tinuing when he wrote his friends in Military Railway Service, Italy. and Linder also showed short 8 mm. tension Service of Massachusetts. the office. He reported he hadn't had a Before entering the Army in March, reels. Contest entries were criticized Classes are being held in Boston, bath in two weeks and that the "two 1942, Captain Hamilton was a mill• by Mr. Oakes, photo analyst. where there are three; Springfield, by five Island is just crawling with wright foreman with the New York two; and Worcester and Pittsfield, one Japs." Central Railroad. each. Reich Made Captain The courses benefit those in super• T/5 Harold Holtel and Pvt. Irwin Letter of Commendation on Battle Field visory positions and helps to prepare Weiser are A.P.A. boys in the Philip• Lieut. Paul H. B. Reich, formerly those not holding supervisory positions pines. William Bell, Motor Machinist's A. M. McKee, Service Manager of clerk-stenographer in the office of the for such jobs. Mate 3/c, on a L.S.T. also took part the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, Freight Traffic Department, Baltimore, in the Leyte landings and was in the Terre Haute, Indiana, writes to Yard who entered the Army in September, first wave into Lingayen Gulf when Master A. E. Hardy, at Paris, Ill., 1941, has been promoted to Captain E. P. Morrison, Luzon was invaded. Another A.P.A.er concerning good service received, as on the field of battle in the European of B. & A., Retires; in this territory is Lieut. Nick Tikfesi, follows: Theatre. Liberator Bombardier. "Just want to take this opportunity 48 Years at Work to thank you for your splendid coop• Pfc. Eugene Lempicki, former Laborer Edward P. Morrison, Yardmaster of Promotions noted among A.P.A. eration in getting the sand cars out for at the Central Avenue Repair Tracks, Back from Overseas; the Beacon Park yards, B. & A. Rail• us. I don't mind telling you had it road, and a major in charge of an boys in the service are those of Wil• Detroit, has been reported killed in the Wife Takes His Job liam Bell to Motor Machinist's Mate not been for this cooperation it would battle of Luxembourg, January 17. His Army railroad unit in the last war, Third Class and Archie Carpenter to have been necessary for us to close our father, Frank Lempicki, a Car Repairer Frank Gerrein, formerly in the retired March 15, after 48 years of Private First Class. Bell is on a L.S.T. plant down." at Central Avenue, has been with the Freight Traffic Department, Cincinnati, service. Mr. Morrison started his career in the Pacific and Carpenter in Italy. New York Central for 21 years. who has been in military service since with the B. & A. in 1897 as a brake- Pfc. Lempicki entered the Army in November, 1942, recently was home man and worked his way up to suc• Joins Gallon Club December, 1942, and went overseas the on his first furlough. He saw service cessively higher positions. He served following June. He had two brothers in Africa, Italy and France. One A.P.A. boy, Pvt. Otis Otjens, Walter C. Reynolds, Traveling in military service, and a third with with the 14th Engineers in World has just finishedhi s paratrooper train• Freight Agent, Baltimore, has been a an honorable discharge. His wife, His wife, Virginia Gerrein, has re• War I. His home is in Boston. ing, and another one, Pvt. Vernon constant blood donor and is now a Irene, in addition to his parents and placed him in the office of the Gen• Walter G. Connors, assistant yard- O'Connor, is just starting his. member of the Red Cross Gallon Club. brothers, survives. eral Freight Agent. master, has succeeded Mr. Morrison. Central Headlight 7

Collinwood Council Basketball Team Second Self Support When You Buy a War Bond Policy Needed, Says Metzman Be Accurate For Your Protection In the post-war period the rail• It is requested that, when filling in Bond owners are urged to make a roads will be able to follow a clear War Bond subscription cards (form record showing the serial numbers AD-150) information called for shall and the issue dates of their War track of progress if informed public be clearly printed or typed. Such opinion, the "master signalman," Bonds. This list should be kept SEP• cards must be examined at the point ARATELY from the bonds. Such rec• gives the green light, G. Metzman, of origin to insure that the spelling ord protects the interest of the Bond President of the New York Central of names is absolutely correct and owner and is very valuable in cases System, told, on April 23, the mem• that the necessary information is where Bonds are stolen, lost, muti• bers of The Fifty Club, a group of complete. lated or burned. Cleveland industrial leaders. It is important that the subscrip• tion card shall clearly indicate If you relocate, notify your Post• He said that the broad problem master at once of your new address. the railroads face goes to the heart whether the Bond is to show a sec• ond person as "Co-owner" or is to This will enable the Post Office De• of our American enterprise system, be made payable on death to a partment to forward your mail and concerns the terms on which "Beneficiary." promptly. Also, fill in Yellow Card capital funds will be provided out (form AD-150) so that your employer of the public treasury, for facilities In the case of women, the name must be preceded by "Miss" or may arrange to change the address used by highway, water and air "Mrs." and a married woman's own records for future mailing of Bonds, carriers. The question, as Mr. Metz• given name must be used, not that etc., to your new location. man sees it, is whether this will be of her husband, for example, "Mrs. done on a basis consistent with the Mary A. Jones," not "Mrs. Frank B. Hold those War Bonds — a good private enterprise system, or whether Jones." savings investment. private capital in railroads is to be pitted in unequal competition against WAR BONDS ARE DATED SO THAT INTEREST STARTS AS OF THE the public treasury. FIRST OF THE MONTH IN WHICH THEY ARE FULLY PAID FOR BY The New York Central Program Council Basketball Team at Collinwood has Pointing out that the railroads own, PAYROLL DEDUCTION. FOR EXAMPLE, IF THE DEDUCTION FOR FINAL just completed a very successful year. The team was represented in the North maintain and pay taxes on their right PAYMENT IS MADE ON THE PAYROLL COVERING THE SECOND HALF East Industrial League and, after losing but one game in League play, finished of way, track, and other fixed prop• OF MAY, THE BOND WILL BE DATED MAY 1. runner-up. The team also was represented in City-wide and Inter-City tourna• erties, he asserted that the treasuries ments. Robt. J. Thompson, a Piecework Clerk at Collinwood Shops, was high of our federal, state and municipal scorer during the season with a game average of 13 points, followed closely by Fred Hoffman, an employe in the General Stationery Stores. Gus Yanke, governments have almost wholly pro• an employe at Cleveland Union Terminal, high-lighted at guard. Front row, vided the roadways and fixed facilities left to right: John Hyland, Fred Hoffman, Paul Barth and Robert J. Thompson. used by the railroads' competitors. He One Son Wounded; Chicago Man's Son Back row: Ollie Stork, Manager, Mike Reba, John Sustersic, John Dutchcot added that when such discrimination and Gus Yanke. The following League players do not appear in the picture: exists, it becomes possible for a less Second is Prisoner Captive in Germany R. Hilovsky, A. Andrukat, H. Flickinger. efficient transportation agency, using Archie Terrill, Yardmaster of the Lieut. Robert L. Johnson of the public facilities, to prevail against a Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad, at Gib• 275th Infantry, and son of H. L. John• more efficient competitor. son, Ind., recently received word that son, Claim Agent, Chicago, reported Commenting upon public policies one of his two sons in service, Sergt. missing in action in France January 3, Two Beech Grove Two Chicago Girls that permit these conditions to con• John Terrill, had been wounded in is a prisoner of war, according to tinue, Mr. Metzman declared: "There Germany and was convalescing in a information received by his parents. Lose Fiances in War base hospital in France. This news was revealed by a P.O.W., Men Die in War is a way that private investment in Sympathy is extended to Larraine railways can live alongside Govern• Sergeant Terrill sent home to his postal card from Lieut. Johnson, dated Two more Beech Grove Shops em• Johnson whose fiance, Seaman George ment investment in highways, water• parents the Purple Heart Medal he had February 2, and received April 13. The ployes have been reported killed in the Hurd, was killed in action aboard a ways, airports and airways. That is, received. He also reported that he re• communication said he was at Ham- war. carrier in the Pacific and to Annabelle to make our Government-owned trans• ceived a Bronze Star for parachute melburg, Germany, and was uninjured. Pfc. Robert B. Ritterskamp, formerly Loughnane whose fiance, Pfc. Robert port plant — our super highways, our jumps he had made over enemy-occu• a carman apprentice, experienced real Henry, was killed in Germany March waterways and our airports — self- pied territory. In Italy he received the action in the South Pacific, serving 25. Bob, a member of the 9th Infantry supporting. People who use them Expert Combat Medal. with the Marines. Division had been in action since D- would pay their way, through fair He is in an Airborne Infantry outfit H. C. Wallace of Day. He had previously been awarded user charges and tolls. Then, in• and has been in the Army since April, In one battle, he pumped eight Cleveland Promoted rifle bullets into a Jap who emerged the Purple Heart; later he was a creased use would automatically in• 1943 and overseas since last May. He from a pillbox. The Jap reeled, but prisoner of the Germans. He was re• crease the financial returns and make has fought in Italy, southern France Harry C. Wallace, who was with advanced toward the Marine. The captured and returned to his unit. Four it possible to finance necessary ex• and Germany. the Law Department in Cleveland leatherneck rushed forward and days later he was killed by enemy tensions and improvements. The need His brother, Sergt. Archie Terrill, upon induction into the Army in bayoneted the Jap twice. The soldier gunfire. Arrangements are being made for facilities and the ability of the Jr., was taken prisoner in North Africa March, 1942, has been promoted from fell, but managed to raise himself to for a memorial mass. business to support them, rather than in February, 1943 and is still interned Staff Sergeant to Technical Sergeant hurl a grenade at the Marine just be• politics, would be the test." somewhere in Germany. in North Africa. Before his present fore he died. His aim was poor and Urging that public investment in assignment, Sergeant Wallace was sta• Pfc. Ritterskamp escaped uninjured. P. H. Winchester all transportation be placed on a tioned in Italy. He has been overseas nine months. However, he was killed in action two Ends 45 Years of self-supporting basis, Mr. Metzman Selkirk Oiler weeks later. stated that American industry has an Work; Given Dinner Off to the War Pvt. Loren E. Elliott, formerly a interest in sound transportation and carman helper, when serving in a Tank Philip H. Winchester, Syracuse an interest in the preservation of our From the Selkirk Car Department: Destroyer unit in Belgium, was killed Division Engineer, retired April 30 system of private enterprise far Nicolo J. Dottino, former Oiler, Chas. H. Hauptman in action, January 29. after 45 years of service, which began greater than any temporary gain in has been granted a leave of absence Charles H. Hauptman, Divisions as a Rodman in 1900 at Watertown, shifting transportation costs from user and is with the Armed Forces. Clerk in the general freight office of N. Y. to taxpayer. the B. & A. railroad at South Station, William C. Sibila He was tendered a dinner April 28 Pleading that every American is died suddenly March 6. He became William Sibila, former Office En• Bill Niver died in the Albany Hos• at the Hotel Syracuse, Syracuse, by a entitled to equality of opportunity — pital March 26. He began work as associated with the railroad in 1906, gineer in the office of H. D. Aber- large number of associates and offi• to conditions that enable him to com• starting in the Boston freight office. nethy, Assistant Signal Engineer, Oiler in 1927 and was a furloughed cials, including P. C. Agans, Super• pete on terms no less favorable than Inspector and Repairer. In 1918 he was named auditor of Cleveland, died March 30. He was intendent, Syracuse Division, who the terms the other fellow enjoys, freight accounts and in 1933 was as• born on a farm near Massillon, Ohio, acted as toastmaster, and J. H. Kelly, Mr. Metzman expressed the belief that signed to the freight traffic depart• May 15, 1881. Engineer, Maintenance of Way, Line if they are adequately informed about A. J. Houghkirk died at his resi• ment. East. this problem, the American people dence in Selkirk, March 16. He be• Luther E. Diven will find the answer in a sound na• gan work with the N. Y. C. in Novem• M. of W. Man Killed tional transportation policy. ber, 1909 and was an Inspector and Luther E. Diven, formerly Ticket Repairer. Agent at Little Falls, died recently. He Pfc. C. R. Curtis, Jr., formerly a (Printed copies of President Metz- In Germany was almost 78 and had been retired trackman at Tiffin, Ohio, was killed in man's speech may be obtained on ap• eight years. action in Germany, March 22. plication to the office of The Head•Michael Shields, pensioner, died in He had been in the Army since light.) Selkirk, March 14. Mike was em• ployed on the N. Y. C. in 1909 as July, 1944. Capt. Faller, Erie, New Yorker in Italy His parents and two sisters survive. Car Repairer at Ravena, N. Y. and Honored at Dinner transferred to Selkirk in 1924 as Railroad associates attended a din• Inspector and Repairer. On March 31, Battle of Buffalo ner at Erie, Pa., in honor of Police 1941, he resigned to accept a pension. in May Cosmopolitan Capt. John Faller, Erie Division, who "The Battle of Buffalo," a stirring retired on April 1. He was presented We are in receipt on the Selkirk article of human interest, describing with War Bonds. repair track of a Buda Chore Boy. how railroaders fought a home front Lieut. W. A. Beck of Cleveland This light truck is a great help in battle of great importance against the succeeds Captain Faller at Erie. transporting material for repairs. Bert record blizzards of January, will be Grosbeck is the operator. published by COSMOPOLITAN Mag• azine in its May issue. Superintendents in The story of the epic struggle of men against the driving drifts of snow West Are Shifted Supt. E. G. Wright, was written by Bogart Rogers, staff of Jackson, Dies at 51 E. A. Dougherty, Assistant General writer, following a visit to the Niagara Edwin Goodwin Wright, Division Frontier. Condensed reprints of the Manager, Cleveland, announced, ef• fective April 1, the following appoint• Superintendent, with headquarters at article are being sent to furloughed Jackson, Mich, since September 15, Central employes in the Armed Forces. ments: A. Hart, to be Superintendent, 1942, until a recent prolonged illness, Cleveland Division, headquarters at died March 29, in Erie, Pa. Lonn to Chicago; Cleveland. He was born in New York, March Corp. Earl N. Kottenbrook, Jr., son of E. J. Gibbons, to be Superintendent, 5, 1894 and after graduation from Earl N. Kottenbrook, Chief Clerk in the Foreign Freight Man Corp. Gerald W. Albertson, 24, son of Toledo Division, headquarters at To• Syracuse University started with the office of the Vice President and Gen• Capt. A. M. Albertson of the New Effective April 1, John E. Lonn, was ledo, vice L. J. Petrot, retired. New York Central as a chain man at eral Manager, Cincinnati, is with the York Central Marine Department, New appointed Assistant Foreign Freight W. H. Leahy, to be Assistant Super• Syracuse. In 1919, he was made as• 448th Tank Destroyers, Medical Detach• sistant supervisor of track at Malone, ment, Seventh Army, somewhere in York, is now a Wireman with a regi• Agent, New York Central System, intendent, Erie Division, headquarters Germany. ment of the Fifth Army in Italy. Corp. with headquarters in La Salle Street at Erie. N. Y. Albertson was born in New York Har• Station, Chicago. After holding other positions, he Corp. Kottenbrook was employed in bor on a New York Central barge on B. D. Maltby, formerly Trainmaster the office of the District Engineer, Cin• which his family lived at that time. Walter F. Schnaak was appointed at Jackson, Mich., to be Assistant was made a trainmaster at Cleveland cinnati, before entering military ser• His home is in West New York. His General Agent, with headquarters in Superintendent, Chicago, in charge of June 6, 1925; assistant superintendent vice. His wife, Winnie, is employed in father has been with the Central 29 the Monadnock Building, San Fran• the West Division, succeeding Mr. at Erie June 1, 1940 and superin• the general office, Cincinnati. They tendent at Jackson. have one son. years. cisco, succeeding Mr. Lonn. Leahy. Central Headlight

NYC Man in Ernie Pyle and N. Y. Central Man's Son Get Together at Pacific Fleet Indianapolis Man Headquarters on Guam Killed in Germany Luzon Raiders Word has been received by his fam• ily that Private James L. Davis, of at Cabanatuan Indianapolis, was killed in action on March 16 in Germany. Private Davis Pfc. Paul Grimm, former Storehouse was a fireman on the Chicago district, "A" Labor Foreman at McKees Rocks, Indiana division, until he entered mili• Pa., was one of the 12 men from tary service in June, 1944. He was Pennsylvania who took part in Gen• serving with an Armored Infantry unit eral Walter Kreuger's Ranger raid and had been overseas since Christmas. which liberated more than 500 pris• He is survived by his wife, two oners of war from the Japanese prison daughters and two sons. His parents camp near Cabanatuan, Luzon Island. and the maternal and paternal grand• According to a communication, this mother also are living. successful feat was accomplished only after "three days of tortuous traveling through rice paddies, jungles, swift streams and one wide river, walking over 25 miles through enemy-held ter• R. I. Geary, Buffalo, ritory. The crack of an M-l was the signal for the attack and unleashed a Wounded in Belgium furious blast from the Rangers." A NINTH AIR FORCE EN• When the Rangers crawled up to a GINEER COMMAND BATTALION, Jap pill box and blasted it with gre• Belgium — Pfc. Robert I. Geary, of nades, "they cut openings in the barbed Buffalo, New York, has been awarded wire for the prisoners and then the the Purple Heart decoration for columns of prisoners were quickly as• wounds received while serving with sembled and took to the road." a Ninth Air Force Engineer Command The enthusiasm and initiative which battalion, now building frontline air• characterizes Paul was evident when he fields in Belgium. He was wounded by and another Ranger dashed "to the shell fire. His organization has been rear of the camp, where prisoners had building air bases on the continent sought safety in a deep ditch. As the since shortly after D-day. fire died down, they shouted 'Come on, Pfc. Geary was employed by the New you Yanks; make for the main gate,' York Central as a brakeman. and started moving the prisoners out." Geary has been in the Army since Those who were too weak to walk November, 1942, and has been over• were swiftly hoisted to the backs of seas more than 20 month. husky Rangers, who carried them for more than a mile under murderous fire He has recovered and has returned Shown above, lower left, are Yeoman 3/c Richard Fetterer, son of R. R. Retterer, Superintendent of Equipment, Indi• to active duty. from Japanese tanks in the nearby vil• anapolis, and the late Ernie Pyle, famous War Correspondent, who was killed by a Jap bullet April 18 on le. Yeoman lage, where carabao carts were waiting Retterer and Pyle are both Indiana University men. Pyle spent considerable time with Retterer's outfit. Public Rela• to carry them through friendly guerilla tions headquarters of the Pacific Fleet Command. Young Retterer has been in the Navy for two and one-half years, territory. since enlisting in his sophomore year at the university. He saw action with the aircraft carrier Saratoga in several Pfc. Grimm entered the Army in South Pacific battles before being transferred to Pacific Fleet Headquarters, first at Pearl Harbor and then on Guam. B. & A. Fireman September, 1943. He went overseas in Dies in Luxembourg February, 1944 and participated in the New Guinea, Leyte, Luzon and other campaigns, suffering a wound in New Guinea. He holds a Bronze Medal for Biggest Mechanized gallantry. New York Prisoner of War is Mine, at Zanesville, Aids U. S. Drives Awarded Flying Cross, Air Medal Begins Shipping Coal The first trainload of coal from the new Misco mine of the Muskingum LIEUT. LOUIS V. VALENTE, fur• Coal Company, near Zanesville, Ohio, loughed Battery Helper, Electric the largest mechanized mine in the Power Department, Substation, Electric country, was shipped over the New Division, now a prisoner in-Germany, York Central's Ohio Central Division, has been awarded the Distinguished March 12. Present were F. F. Riefel, Flying Cross and the Air Medal. Vice President & General Manager, His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Cleveland, Ohio, and numerous other Valente, 1116 Cortlandt Street, Peek- New York Central officers and many skill, N. Y., received the awards in a local celebrities. ceremony at Governors Island, N. Y., The new mine is served by one and T/5 Corp. Joseph Hartford, Boston & one-half miles of load-siding for the Albany locomotive fireman, was killed headquarters of the Second Service in action in Luxembourg, January 1 it Command, recently. railroad and 2000 feet of load-siding for the coal company. was learned recently. T/5 Corp. Hart• Lieut. Valente enlisted in the Air ford started firing at West Springfield It is expected that by the end of October 17, 1942, and entered military Corps March 1, 1943. A promotion to the year the mine will be loading 120 service February 12, 1943. He was sent First Lieutenant accompanied the noti• cars per day. to Fort Devens, from there transferred fication of the awards on April 2. to Camp Hawn, California, then to Beside a big temporary frame tipple Camp Shanks, New York and back to He was twice reported "missing in and other mine buildings, a 69,000 Fort Devens, and sailed June 28, 1944 action." He was first reported missing volt substation has been placed in for Europe. in action over Austria, May, 1944, operation. Miss Rose Sorge, Auditor Passenger On May 13, 1944, he was married to Accounts office, Detroit, is a member soon after which he managed to es• Miss Helen Matyskiela of Thompson- of the Women's War Service Depart• cape and find his way back to his lines. Private Richard J. Thompson, ville, Connecticut. His wife, his mother, ment of the U. S. Treasury. She does On August 7 he was again reported Lieut. Louis V. Valente formerly a locomotive fireman, Michi• Mrs. Mary Hartford and three sisters much volunteer work in assisting in missing from his base in Italy during gan district, Indiana division, has survive. various drives. action over Germany. Several weeks been a prisoner of war in the hands later he was reported as a prisoner Railroads issue more than 80,000,000 of the Germans since last September. Conductor Finds His of war. timetables annually. His home is at Marion, Indiana. Teeth Lying on Tie Returns After Crash An upper plate of false teeth, which Landing in Bomber appeared to be gnawing a railroad tie, Roosevelt Funeral Train Nearing End of Its Run to Hyde Park, N. Y., Corp. T. D. Burns, son of T. D. attracted the attention of N. L. Sowers, Over the New York Central, April 15, 1945 Burns, a brakeman on the Cairo line Car Inspector, and William Cooper, of the Illinois division, is back home Agent at Sutton, Pa., as they were in Cairo on furlough after an exciting walking down the F. & C. branch of experience as a member of the Fif• the New York Central, a few hundred teenth Air Force in Italy. He was in a feet west of the coal tipple, April 4. crash landing of a B-24 bomber but The owner, Arthur (Spot) Taylor was uninjured. The story of his escape of Stoneboro, Pa., a conductor, had after the landing cannot be told as yet. just finished his lunch, and the teeth, He was reported as missing in ac• which he said always hurt him, either tion. in his mouth or in his pocket, had He was awarded the Air Medal and been picked up inadvertently with a Unit Citation. some lunch paper and tossed out the caboose window. They bounced back and landed upright on the tie, where Sowers found them in good condition Wulle Honored — a toothsome find. by Beech Grovers Bernard Wulle, who retired January Bellefontaine Boy 1, as General Boiler Foreman at the Suffers Two Wounds Beech Grove Shops, recently was the Alpha Clarence Emmons, 21, for• guest of honor at a dinner given by merly employed in the storehouse at Local No. 151, International Brother• Bellefontaine, Ohio, was wounded in hood of Boilermakers, at Bluff Crest. action in the Luxembourg area. Pfc. He received a number of gifts, includ• Emmons entered military service in ing War Bonds and a chair. Mr. Wulle July, 1944 and was sent overseas in had 48 years with the company. December. His mother is in receipt of The entertainment included a dance a " letter from the Chaplain of the band and a magician. In charge were, hospital. His wounds are in one leg This photograph, by David V. Hyde, Company Photographer, was made from the eastern bank of the Hudson, near William Rosengarten, W. H. Krauth and one hand. Breakneck Mountain. The engineman was C. J. Palmer, and the fireman, T. J. Doyle, both of Harmon, N. Y. and William Laham.