1944 CONGRESSIO:NAL RECORD-HOUSE 3309 THE LATE JAMES A. O'LEARY Mr. BLAND. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan­ HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. BLAND. Mr. Speaker, I ask imous consent to extend the resolution referred to. THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1944 unanimous consent to address the House for 1 minute. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without The House met at 12 o'clock noon, and The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. was called to order by the Speaker pro objection, it is so ordered. There was no objection. tempore, Mr. McCORMACK. There was no objection. NOTIFICATION OF ELECTION OF MEMBER The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Mont­ Mr. BLAND. Mr. Speaker, with the FROM THE FIRST DISTRICT OF COLO­ gomery, D. D., offered the following passing of JAMES A. O'LEARY, or Jim as RADO prayer: he was lovingly known to the members of The SPEAKER pro tempore laid before 0 God, our Father, for the love that the Committee on the Merchant Marine the House the following communication kept us through the night and for the and Fisheries, there was a feeling of from the Clerk of the House: genuine sorrow. It was hard to think miracle of dawning day, we praise Thee. MARCH 29, 1944. Though confusion may bewilder us and that we would miss hereafter his cheery The Honorable the SPEAKER, cares distract us, keep us invincible in greeting, always graced by his genial House of Representatives. spirit with hearts of charity and the dis­ smile. Each member cherished him as a SIR: The certificate of election in due form position to make every duty a delight personal friend, and knew that his dis­ of law Of Hon. DEAN M. GILLESPIE as a Repre­ a<.d doing good to others a sacred priv­ cussion of the most difficult problem sentative:..elect to the Seventy-eighth Con­ ilege. No bitter word ever lightened a would be illuminated always by his rich gress from the First Congressional District Irish wit. of the State of Colorado, to fill a vacancy in burden, no complaint ever made a dark that district, is on file in this otfice. day brighter or a rough road smoother. Jim was devoted to the merchant rna: Very truly yours, We draw near to Thee, our Father, rine, and worked untiringly for its suc­ SOUTH TRIMBLE, by way of our merciful Saviour who cess. We all found him wise in counsel, Clerk of tne House of Representatives. zealous in work and industrious to spare was touched with a feeling of our in­ Mr. GILLESPIE presented himself be­ firmities and bore our transgressions. no effort that would make our Nation more sea-minded and more conscious of fore the bar of the House and took the Dear Lord, spare us from the vice of in­ oath of office. · gratitude and forbid that we should the national importance of merchant deepen the wounds of Him who em­ ships. He achieved much and was never EXTENSION OF REMARKS braced the antagonisms of a dark world satisfied that all had been done which Mr. HEBERT. Mr. Speaker, I ask that we might know how to redeem it. should be done. He constantly strove for unanimous consent to extend my own In this season, as we measure His holy greater results, and I owe much to him remarks in the RECORD and include there­ steps, turn us aside from things un­ for his genial comradeship, his continued in three editorials from New Orleans worthy and make the service of our lives support, his inspiration, and his zeal. I newspapers in connection with the death commensurate with the holiness of His believe all of Jim's colleagues on the · of former Governor Sanders. mission and the splendor of His courage. committee· feel as I do. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without Let the benedictions of Thy love and I present for spreading upon the REc­ objection, it is so ordered. happiness bless all our homes and un­ ORD of the House, where he served ably, There was no objection. fold their sweetest joy and beauty :upon the following resolution adopted by the Mr. LANE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani­ all hearthstones. Keep alive in our Committee on the Merchant .Marine and mous consent to revise and extend my breasts the promise of a living world, Fisheries at its session on Tuesday, own remarks on two matters and include seeking the brotherly ways and feeling March 28: · therein two newspaper articles. that we are moving on to a glorious Committee Resolution 9 The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without forever, with the memories of earth en­ Whereas on the 16th day of March 1944, objection, it is so ordered. riching our heaven. In the name of Him the Committee on the Merchant Marine and There was no objection. who is our peace, Jesus Christ, our Lord. Fisheries· of the House of Representatives suf­ Amen. Mr. MASON. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan­ fered in the loss of JAMES A. O'LEARY, of New imous consent to extend my own remarks The Journal of the proceedings of yes­ York, one of its most industrious, diligent, and faithful members, and an invaluable fac­ in the RECORD -and to include therein a terday was read and approved. tor in upbuilding an American merchant ma­ short newspaper article by Frank C. MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE rine, in promoting the American fisheries, in Waldrop. expanding the United States Coast Guard, and The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without A message from the Senate, by Mr. in providing navigation aids, in supporting Frazier, its legislative clerk, announced objection, it is so ordered. marine hospitals, and in upbuilding the There was no objection. that the Senate had passed without Panama Canal: Now therefore be it amendment a bill of the House of the Resolved- Mr. CANFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I ask following title: First. That the Committee on the Merchant unanimous consent to extend my own re­ marks in the Appendix of the RECORD H. R. 4381. An act to authorize the Secre­ Marine and Fisheries recognizes in the death tary of the Navy to proceed with the con­ of Hon. JAMES A. O'LEARY, Representative from and include a letter. struction of certain public works, and for the Eleventh District of New York, the loss The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without other purposes. of a devoted public serv~nt, a faithful Repre­ objection, it is so ordered. sentative, a sterling patriot, and a loving There was no objection. The message also announced that the friend whose record in Congress was marked Senate agrees to the report of the com­ by industry, energy, ability, fidelity, zeal, and PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE mittee of conference on the disagreeing patriotism, and whose sound judgment, sig­ Mr. MAGNUSON. Mr. Speaker, I ask nal ability an~ wise statesmanship, were of votes of the two Houses on the amend­ inestimable benefit to this committee in its unanimous consent that after the dis­ ments of the Senate to the bill

F~XEMPTION OF RELIGIOUS, EDUCA­ Whereas the tanning and shoe industries signatories to it that the impelling rea­ TIONAL AND CHARITABLE DONA­ of the United States are facing a most serious sons for this deed of power to Great TIONS situation due to a shortage of hides and Britain over Palestine and its people was are not currently able to obtain enough hides Mr. CURTIS. Mr., Speaker, I ask to malte leather and shoes; and the promised establishment of a na­ unanimous consent to proceed for 1 min­ Whereas th~ year 1944 is witnessing the tional home for those of the Jewish race ute and to revise and extend my own re­ presence of the greatest cattle population who chosP. to return to the land of their marks in the RECORD. the country has ever known, there being over fathers. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there 83,000,000 cattle on the hoof at this time In the preamble of the mandate there 1n the United States; and was recited these significant words, "The objection to the request of the gentle­ Whereas the supply of hides coming into man from Nebraska [Mr. CuRTIS]? historical connection of the Jewish peo­ the market this year will be insufficient to ple with Palestine and to the grounds There was no objection. meet the absolutely necessary requirements Mr. CURTIS. Mr. Speaker, it is Dr. for military and civilian needs to the extent for reconstituting their national home Nicholas Murray Butler, of Colu:rpbia of about 4,000,000 hides; and in that country." Obviously this was University who is generally credited with Whereas -the consuming public will suffer a reaffirmation of the Balfour Declara­ fathering the principle that 15 percent immeasurably if hides are not made avail­ tion and seemed upon the face of things of an individual's income, ·if given to able at an early date: Therefore be it to breathe a breath of expectancy into Resolved, That the Committee on Agri­ the terms of the mandate. religion and charity, is exempt from the culture be authorized to investigate th.e War Federal income tax. That has been the Likewise, this gave purpose and mean­ Production Board and the Office of Price Ad­ ing to the joint resolution of the Con­ basic law throughout the years that we ministration for the purpose of finding out have had an income-tax law. why the necessary hides have not been made gress. However, history does not con­ ·To abandon this principle that gifts available. firm a definite intent on the part of the mandatory power to carry out the obli­ to religious, educational, and charitable EXTENSION OF REMARKS institutions are exempt from taxation gations so fully expressed and so freely means not only the ultimate serious im­ Mr. SMITH of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I assumed. The fiduciary position of pairment of these institutions, but it ask unanimous consent to extend my re­ England seems to have drifted into a means a Government subsidy for every marks in the RECORD and include therein double and dubious role-:-one to the Jew- ­ church, college and charitable institu­ a letter from one of my constituents. ish people, another to the Arabs. tion. Such a form of stateism would The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is .there Imperial interests in Moslem lands destroy religious and intellectual free­ objection to the request of the gentle­ have frequently altered the announced dom. man from Ohio? ,purposes of nations. The mandatory Heretofore every American could les­ There was no objection. power seems to have followed a shifting sen his tax bill by making contributions Mr. MILLER of Connecticut. · Mr. policy; first, for the Jews against the _ to these institutions. This principle· Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ex­ Arabs, and then the Arabs against the must be preserved for every American tend my remarks in the RECORD and in­ Jews. In some mysterious manner, the taxpayer. Under the withholding law clude therein a broadcast from Fulton fate of these people has been subject to and as it is · proposed to be amended, Lewis, Jr., commenting upon the admin­ the changing fortunes of expediency and the wage earner has his taxes taken out istration of the Veterans' Bureau. power politics, until at last there is left before he ever gets his pay check. That The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there little semblance of the mandate en­ wage earner who gives substantially to objection to the request of the gentle­ trusted with the League of Nations. religion and charity is entitled as a mat­ man from Connecticut? An impartial appraisal of the white ter of right to have a lesser amount in There was no objection. papers issued from 1922 to 1939 leads taxes deducted from his pay check by PALESTINE almost to the realization that the pur­ poses of the mandate have been re .. . reason of his gifts. To deny the wage Mr. MILLER of Missouri. Mr. earner that right is class legislation and pudiated. • Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to In the intervening years there has unwise. address the House for 1 minute and to The principles of H. R. 3473, intro­ been no clear-cut or well-defined Amer­ revise and extend my remarks. ican policy regarding Palestine. With duced by the gentleman from California The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there [Mr. GEARHART] and H. R. 3472, intro­ the rise of Hitler to power and the out­ objection to the request of the gentle­ break of war in 1939, the attitude of this duced by myself, should be incorporated man from Missouri? in our withholding-tax law. Millions of Nation has not been disclosed. What wage earners want this. Many large em­ There was no objection. was once a well-defined national course ployer.s are enthusiastically for it. Two Mr. MILLER of Missouri. Mr. Speak­ has now settled into an occasional ex­ of the largest manufacturers of business er, on November 2, 1917, a star of hope pression of sympathy for the plight of machines say that it will not complicate was planted in the long night of despair the Jewish people. the· handling of pay rolls. It will benefit for the Jewish people. It was announced The record of our State Department in the Treasury of the United States by to the world through what has become recent years indicates a lack of interest eliminating the costly handling of re­ known as the Balfour Declaration, the in and responsibility for the establish­ funds. In addition to all of this, it will preparation of which was participated ment of the Jewish national home. Al­ greatly better the position of every re­ in by the President of the United States, · though it has been evident to everyone ligious, educational, and charitable in­ that henceforth the British Government that the responsibilities of the trust stitution in America. viewed with favor the establishment in created by the mandate have not 1 been Palestine .of a national home for the met and discharged by England, never­ SHORTAGE OF HIDES. Jewish people, and that it would use its theless this Nation has not uttered one Mr. EDWIN ARTHUR HALL. Mr. best efforts to facilitate the achievement word of public protest. When the white Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to of this object. paper appeared in 1939, making a vir­ proceed for 1 minute. In furtherance of this announced pol­ tual mockery of the mandate and nulli­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there icy, the Congress of this country unan­ fying the obligatioQ.s of the trust, nothing objection to the request of the gentle­ imously adopted a resolution in 1922 was said in protest. man from New York [Mr. EDWIN approving the Balfour Declaration. As the storms of war began to gather ARTHUR HALL]? Then in 1925 the American Government upon the Continent of Europe and there There was no objection. gave further recognition to the proposal appeared the most urgent need for a Mr. EDWIN ARTHUR HALL. Mr. to establish a national home for Jews haven of refuge, the door of escape was Speaker, in the interest of nearly 20,000 in Palestine by approving the granting beginning to be closed in the face of an workers, honest and patriotic men and of a mandate to England, and thereupon oppressed people. women of the Endicott-Johnson Shoe entered into a convention with Great It is an unpleasant task to examine the Corporation, I am introducing today the ·Britain respecting the control of Pal­ conduct of one's own country in respect following resolution and hope that the estine. to the extent to which it may have con­ committee will adopt it as soon as pos­ The convention was not ambiguous at tributed to the present plight of the en­ sible: that time. It was crystal clear to the trapped Jewish people in Rumania, 1944 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD--HOUSE 3313 Hungary, and Bulgaria. The absence of r-emarks in the RECORD and include is concerned, I understand it is a unani­ any determined and consistent policy re­ therein a recent letter from the Com­ mous report by the conferees and is not garding Palestine during the years of its missioner of the National Housing contested. mandate control i-s no doubt responsible Agency of the Federal Public Housing Mr. RAMSPECK. That is my under­ in some measure for the present situa­ Authority which I have been requested standing. tion. by some of my constituents to insert in The SPEAKER pro tempore. The The Wright-Compton resolution intro­ the RECORD. Chair might state, in accordance with duced in the House was intended to re- . The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there the announcement made last week by affirm the views previously expressed by objection to the request of the gentle­ the present occupant of the chair in his this body in 1922, and to express the will man from Massachusetts? · capacity as majority leader, that no new of America that her• pledged word be There was no objection. matter will come up except by unani­ kept to the letter. It was hoped that Mr. McMURRAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask mous consent. this resolution might aid in the formula­ unanimous consent that the gentleman Mr. SABATH. Mr. Speaker, will the tion of an American policy which would from Massachusetts [Mr. McCORMACK] gentleman yield? clarify the confused condition that has be permitted to extend his own remarks Mr. MICHENER. I yield to the gen­ prevailed. in the RECORD and include therein an tleman from Illinois. As but one humble Member in the editorial. Mr. SABATH. I was present this great Congress of the United States, I The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there morning in the Rules Committee when plead that the doors of Palestine should objection to the request of the gentleman the gentleman from Virginia, Judge be kept open to Jewish refugees. Our from Wisconsin? SMITH, suggested that a short resolution commitments and our sacred honor as There was no objection. be reported out authorizing the ap­ a Nation are at stake. This cause should Mr. IZAC. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani­ pointment of a committee composed of enlist the interest and support not only mous consent to extend my own remarks nine members, three from the Commit­ of every Member of this body but of every in the RECORD and include therein two tee on the District of Columbia, three fair-minded American. Decency and statements made by me before different from the Committee on Public Buildings justice demand the establishment of a committees of Congress. and Grounds, and three from the sub­ national home for those of the Jewish The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there committee of the Committee on Appro­ race who desire it. The catalog of objection to the request of the gentle­ priations, having jurisdiction of the mat­ crimes committed against these people is man from California? ter, and requesting that committee to known to all and has shocked even the There was no objection. make a report to the House within 2 conscience of a war-calloused world. Mr. DICKSTEIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask weeks to eliminate some of the discord­ Now, as the specter of more certain abuse unanimous consent to extend my own ant conditions that exist here. I be­ and destruction stalks them in Hungary, remarks in the RECORD and include lieve there will be no opposition to it. Bulgaria, and Rumania, the reasons be­ therein a short editorial. It was passed unanimously, as you know, come more compelling to insure at least The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there and I thilik the gentleman from Virginia · a tempory refuge from the heel of op­ objection to the request of the gentle- is now preparing the resolution which pression, starvation, and death. man from New York? · he proposes to introduce. I think it Considerations have been advanced in There was no objection. should be taken up at this time because opposition to the resolution before the Mr. COFFEE. Mr. Speaker, I ask I really believe something should be done House urging a prompt solution and unanimous consent to extend my own without any delay, clarification of the Palestine problem. remarks in the RECORD on three topics, Mr. MlCHENER. Following the sug­ The peril of the present hour demands in one to include a . statement by the gestion of the Chair and the understand­ that these be brushed aside. The pres­ Yugoslav Americans in the Pacific ing of the House, that will have to come tige of America and the power of the . Northwest, and in another to include two up by unanimous consent? Presidency are sufficient to insure a statements made by Federal judges of . Mr. SABAT,H. Yes. prompt response to the protests of our the State of Washington, including our Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Speaker; will the gentleman yield? Nation that the doors of Palestine should former c~lleague, Charles H. Leavy. not be closed against an innocent and The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there Mr. MICHENER. I yield to the gen­ injured people. The conscience of the objection to the request of the gentle­ tleman from Mississippi. world cries out to America for action­ man from Washington? Mr. RANKIN. Let me say to the gen­ res, immediate action-le~t it be too late. There was no objection. tleman and the membership of the House EXTENSION OF REMARKS that the soldiers' bill, what they call the LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM G. I. bill of rights, will not be reported Mr. ROBERTSON. Mr. Speaker, I ask Mr. MICHENER. Mr. Speaker, I ask by the Committee on World War Vet­ unanimous consent to extend my re­ unanimous consent to proceed for 1 erans' Legislation in time to be taken marks in the RECORD and include therein minute. up by the House this week. We are very a striking article by Dr. Archibald Mac-. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there busy holding hearings. We will proba­ Leish, Librarian of Congress, on Na- objection to the request of the gentleman bly complete the hearings today or to­ , thaniel Bacon and the cause of freedom. from Michigan? morrow, and after that we want to go The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there There was no objection. into executive session and consider the objection to the request of the gentleman · Mr. MICHENER. Mr. Speaker, I do bill very carefully, line by line and page from Virginia? this .for the purpose of inquiring of the by page; so I am just stating for the There was no objection. Chair-who happens to be the majority benefit of the Members that it will not PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE leader-as to what legislative program, be taken up in the House until after the Mr. PRIEST. Mr. Speaker, I ask if any; there is for today, recess. unanimous consent that on tomorrow, at Mr. RAMSPECK. Mr. Speaker, if I Mr. MICHENER. I thank the gentle­ the conclusion of the legislative program may answer the inquiry, as far as I know man. of the day and following any special or­ there is no legislative business today Mr. STEFAN. Mr. Speaker, will the ders heretofore entered, I may be per­ except the conference report on the gentleman yield? mitted to address the House for 15 min­ Treasury and Post Office appropriation Mr. MICHENER. I yield to the gen­ utes. bill. tleman from Nebraska. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there I might say for the information of Mr. STEFAN. May I take this oppor­ objection to the request of the gentleman the House, while I am on lilY feet, if the tunity to ask what reference the gentle­ from Tennessee? gentleman will permit me, it is my un­ man from Illinois made to the District There was no objection. derstanding that the recess resolution of Columbia apropriation bill that is will be amended so that we shall adjourn coming up? EXTENSION OF REMARKS on Saturday instead of today. Mr. SABATH. A resolution is being Mr. PHILBIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask Mr. MICHENER. Just another ques­ drafted which will be introduced today, unanimous consent to extend my own tion. As far as the conference report and the Rules Committee has agreed 3314 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE to act on it this afternoon.· ·we hope it Senate should amend the concurrent res­ TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK IN SOUTH will be passed by unanimous. consent. olution and .substitute adjournment Sat­ ' DAKOTA It will provide for the appointment of urday for adjournment today, then of Mr. MUNDT. . Mr. Speaker, I ask nine members, three. from the Com­ course that question would come before unanimous consent to address the House mittee on the District of Columbia, three the House when the resolution is mes­ for 1 minute. from the Committee on Public Buildings saged back to the House. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there and Grounds, and three from the Ap­ O.P.A.REGULATION objection? propriations Subcommittee having juris­ There was no objection. diction over the District of Columbia, for Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Mr. [Mr. MUNDT addressed the House. His the purpose of seeing what they can Speaker, the morning paper carries the remarks appear in_the Appendix.] recommend and agree upon to relieve announcement that the 0. P. A. is estab­ the situation here in t.he District of lishing. ceiling prices in and around HOUSING IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Columbia. Washington for certain types of fresh Mr. SMITH of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I Mr. STEFAN. I happen to be a mem­ vegetables and fruit, including carrots, ask unanimous consent to address the ber of the committee making the appro­ peas, potatoes, snap beans, string beans, House for 1 minute. priations for the District of Columbia~ and spinach. The retailers will be re­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there but I have not heard anything about this. quired to post the ceiling and selling objection? Mr. SABATH. It has not passed yet. prices. In this article you will note that There was no objection. I suggest that it be passed by unanimous Maine potatoes will sell 5 pounds for 23 Mr. SMITH of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, consent, so that this committee may have cents; Idaho potatoes, 5 pounds for 29 may I inquire of the gentleman from the opportunity within the next 2 weeks cents. Illinois [Mr. SABATH], the chairman of to look into the matter and see what It is my understanding that there is the Committee on Rules, the purpose of can be done to relieve the unfortunate about 15,000,000 bushels of surplus pota­ the res.olution he expects to be brought conditions that exist here. toes in the country. They will either up tomorrow or Saturday? Mr. STEFAN. Will we take that reso­ spoil or be sent to dehydrating plants for Mr. SABATH. The gentleman from lution up today? the making of starch or alcohol. In my Virginia [Mr. SMITH] called the atten­ Mr. SABATH. I hope to; yes. district near Scottsbluff, Nebr., they are tion of the Committee on Rules this The SPEAKER pro tempore. The attempting to get some 2,000 carloads morning to certain conditions that exist Chair desires to state for the benefit of for dehydration purposes. The War here and to the law that goes into effect the Hause· his construction of the an­ Food Administration sets a price of 94 July 1, which may create a great deal nouncement he made last week with re­ cents a hundred on the good No.2 pota­ of trouble in the District of Columbia ga~d to bringing bills up by unanimous toes. This is less than 1 cent a pound if nothing is done. He thought that if a consent. The · Chair feels that that to the producer as compared to the 5 Y2 committee composed of three members would mean unanimous consent to pass cents which the consumer must pay in of the Committee on the District of Col­ the bills without debate, althQugh the Washington. umbia, three members of the Committee Chair would not consider a little colloctUY Mr. Speaker, it seems to me that some­ on Public Buildings and Grounds, and under a reservation of the right to ob­ one besides t(le farmer is making entirely three members of the subcommittee of ject as violative of the statement the too much profit off some of the neces­ the Committee on Appropriations having Chair made to the House last week. But sities of life. This should be investi­ jurisdiction in the matter, could be ap­ the Chair feels that to submit a unani­ gated. It is not the raiser of potatoes, pointed, they could look into the matter mous-consent request.for the considera­ vegetables, and fruit, it is the middle­ between now and that time and perhaps tion of a bill and then enter into debate man. make recommendations that would save would violate what the Chair considers Mr. Speaker, I wish also to call your the situation and eliminate any uqnec­ to be a promise and commitment to the attention to the fact that within the last essary trouble. Members of the House, that after the month some 40,000 acres of winter and CORRECTION OF RECORD definite program had been disposed of spring vegetables were plowed under in this week no matter could be brought the Rio Grande Valley and the .State of Mr. ROWE. Mr. Speaker, on yester­ up except by unanimous consent. Louisiana. In one field five and one­ day in the discussion of the bill H. R. The Chair assumes that the Members half million heads of cabbage were 4257 a colloquy occurred between the will interpret the statement he made plowed under. gentleman from Illinois [Mr. MASON] last week to mean that a conference The 0. P. A. a few months ago issued and the gentleman from· New York [Mr. report . would occupy a little difierent a 2,500-word directive regulating the CELLER]. After the third· objection by situation, but fortunately the one con­ sale of cabbage seed. I am wondering if the gentleman from Illinois that the gen­ ference report we have had so far has this directive coupled with their other tleman from New York [Mr. CELLER] was gone through by unanimous consent, and silly attempts to control production has not confining himself to the bill the gen­ the Chair understands that the confer­ anything to do with the destruction of tleman from New York made certain ence report that is to be brought up later the vegetables in the South. remarks. is not controversial. I note also tp_!:J.t .eggs are selling for 55 At that point I rose to object, consid­ Does this statement of the Chair ac­ cents a dozen in Washington, while my ering that not .to be in good order. The cord with the understanding of the dis­ farmers are getting about 20 cents a gentleman from New York [Mr. CELLER] tinguished acting minority leader? dozen for fresh eggs in Nebraska. The said he would withdraw those.remarks, Mr. MICHENER. Yes; that is the un­ farmer cannot produce eggs at 20 cents yet I find that they still remain in the derstanding. a dozen and show a profit. He cannot daily REcORD, and-I still do not consider Mr. HOFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, a par­ produce potatoes at 94 cents a hundred them to be in good order. I ask unan­ liamentary inquiry. and stay in business. imous consent that these words be The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Mr. Speaker, there is still much con­ stricken from the permanent RECORD. gentleman will state it. fusion in the departments of government Mr. CELLER. Reserving the right to Mr. HOFFMAN. Am I correct in as­ who are charged with regulating the object, Mr. Speaker, unanimous consent suming that earlier in the week action various angles of food production. I am was given that the words be deleted. was taken by the House to the effect convinced that all phases of the produc­ Who makes the deletion? that the House would adjourn today? tion, distribution, and selling of -food The SPEAKER pro tempore. The The SPEAKER pro tempore. A con­ should be under one agency. If this is Chair understands that the gentleman current resolution was passed to that not done there will continue to be mucn from Ohio [Mr. RowEl calls attention effect. confusion and dissatisfaction not only to the fact that the gentleman from Mr. MICHENER. In view of the fact among the producers of food but among New York [Mr. CELLER] during debate that we are not adjourning. today, is it the consumers who must pay exorbitant yesterday stated that certain words necessary for the House to take any prices- for the necessities of life. The which he had uttered would be cor­ further action? middle man apparently is making more rected or deleted from the RECORD, but The SPEAKER pro tempore. We have in a few minutes than the farmer makes the gentleman from Ohio now states to await the action of the Senate. If the in a whole season of hard work. that the words appear in the RECORD. 1944 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3315 Does the Chair understand the situa­ tion of the House before the recess House send out a ship at such and such a time tion correctly? Resolution 221, which was reported to deliver some food for the purpose of Mr. ROWE. Mr. Speaker, that is cor­ unanimously out of the Committee on feeding starving civilians there and its rect. Rules today, providing for relief of starv­ mission was respected. · The SPEAKER pro tempore. The ing women and children in the occupied Mr. FIS:a. Mr. Speaker, will the gen­ gentleman from Ohio [Mr. RowE], on democracies. This resolution will have tleman yield? the assumption that the gentleman from to go over and come up under the rule Mr. CASE. I yield. New York [Mr. CELLER] unintentionally after the recess. As sponsor of the reso­ Mr. FISH. Mr. Speaker, the gentle­ overlooked deleting the words in his re­ lution, I shall try to expedite its con­ man is quite right . . That is a part of vision of the remarks, now asks unan­ sideration by the House. Time is of the U. N. R. R. A. But this has nothing to imous consent that these words be essence. Millions of innocent children do with U. N. R. R. A. stricken from the permanent REcO~D. in the occupied democracies are on the Mr. CASE. That is correct, your Mr. MASON. Mr. Speaker, reserving verge of starvation. None of us knows proposition has nothing to do with the right to object, the RECORD shows now how long this will last. If the war U. N. R. R. A. and I think that the REC­ that the gentleman from New York [Mr. lasts another year in Europe millions of ORD should be clear that the Congress CELLER] asked unanimous consent to young, helpless victims of the war in the acted to prevent U. N. R. R. A. from do­ withdraw the words to which objection occupied nations who had nothing to do ing anything for the children in occupied was made and the words were not with­ with causing it, will die of mass starva­ countries. If something is to be done for drawn. They are now in the daily REc­ tion next winter. them, additional legislation is necessary. ORD. So that, after he received unan­ Mr. CASE. Mr. Speaker, will the gen­ Authority will ·have to be given to some imous consent to withdraw his words, he tleman yield for a question? other agency or the limitation upon failed to withdraw them. Mr. FISH. I yield. U.N. R. R. A. will have to be removed. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there Mr. CASE. Mr. Speaker, does not the The SPEAKER pro tempore. The objection to the request of the gentle­ gentleman feel in the amendment of the time of the gentleman has expired. man from Ohio? Senate to the U. N. R. R. A. bill, that a Mr. CELLER. Mr. Speaker, a parlia­ limitation is placed upon the activities of EXTENSION OF REMARKS mentary inquiry. U. N. R. R. A., which would effectively Mr. CHIPERFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I The SPEAKER pro tempore. The prevent any assistance from the United as!>: unanimous consent to extend my own gentleman will state his parliamentary , Nations relief and rehabilitation or­ remarks in the RECORD and to include inquiry. . ganization from extending any aid to therein an editorial by former Congress­ Mr. CELLER. Mr. Speaker, may I ask children in occupied countries? man Pettengill. This article Is one­ for my own future instruction and for Mr. FISH. U. N. R. R. A. has no con- third beyond the legal length. I have an the enlightenment of the Members, who . nection whatever with this resolution. estimate from the PubHc Printer that does the deleting, the Clerk or the re­ This is a separate House resolution put­ the cost of the entire article amounts to porter, or who is it who does that? ting the Congress of the United States $105. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The on record in favor of feeding the starv­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without Chair will state in the first instance the ing women and children in the occupied objection, it is so ordered. Member making the remarks, when he democracies. The Senate passed a sim­ There was no objection. is revising them. Of course, the Chair ilar resolution. There is no possible con­ Mr. D'ALESANDRO. Mr. Speaker, I does not feel that is a parliamentary flict with the U. N. R. R. A. This reso­ ask unanimous consent to extend my own inquiry. We all know by common· ex­ lution seeks to enlist the support of the remarks in the RECORD and to include perience what the procedure is. But neutrals, such as Sweden and Switzer­ therein excerpts of a report. the Chair understands that the unani­ land, to distribute milk, meat( fat, and The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without mous consent request of the gentleman. vitamins bought largely with the funds objection, it is so ordered. from Ohio is based upon the assumption of the occupied nations in America, Ar­ There was no objection. that the gentleman from New York un­ gentina, and South Africa, and to be UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND intentionally overlooked the matter in transported in Swedish ships, and with REHABILITATION revising his remarks. · definite safeguards and agreements .that .Mr. QELLER. Mr. Speaker, reserving none of this food will be used by the Mrs. ROGERS of Massachusetts." Mr . the right to object, it was not my pur­ German Army or civilian population. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to pose to leave those words in on revision. We are. already sending food to Greece address the House for 1 minute and to It was my understanding that the Clerk and our own prisoners, and also French, revise and extend my remarks. of the House or the reporter having the Belgian, and Dutch war prisoners in The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without matter in charge would follow the in­ Germany. We have a great moral re­ objection, it is so ordered. structions. It was not my purpose, as I sponsibility to try to save millions of There was no objection. thought that would be done. children in France, Belgium, Holland, Mrs. ROGERS of Massachusetts. Mr. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without Norway, Poland, and other occupied na­ Speaker, I would like to remind the House regard to what the circumstances are, tions from mass starvation and death by again that under the provisions of the the Chair is proceeding on the assump­ tuberculosis and pestilence. U.N. R. R. A. bill, no relief organization tion that it was an honest misunder­ Mr. CASE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani­ can operate without the consent of the standing and the gentleman from Ohio mous consent to address the House for U. N. R. R. A. The Red Cross or any [Mr. RowEJ, the Chair assumes, is pro­ 1 minute. other relief organization cannot operate ceeding on that assumption in asking for The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without without the consent of U. N. R. R. A. unanimous consent that the words be objection, it is so ordered. Certainly the resolution of the gentle­ deleted from the REcORD. man from New York will have the in­ Is there objection to the request of There was no objection. terest of every Member of Congress. the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. RowE]? Mr. CASE. Mr. Speaker, I merely The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time There was no objection. wish to call attention to the fact that in of the gentlewoman from Massachusetts one of the amendments of the other body has expired. RELIEF OF STARVING WOMEN .AND to the U.N. R. R. A. bill, when it came CHILDREN IN OCCUPIED DEMOCRACIES back to the House for agreement on the EXTENSION OF REMARKS Mr. FISH. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani­ conference report, there was a limitation Mr. MUNDT. Mr. Speaker, I ask mous consent to address the House for which provided that none of their activi­ unanimous consent that I may be per­ 1 minute. ties should be carried on in enemy or mitted to revise and extend the remarks The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without enemy-occupied countries, which would which I recently made and insert them objection, it is so ordered. effectively prevent U. N. R. R. A. from in the appendix of the RECORD, together There was no objection. doing anything for starving children in with the proclamation issued by the Mr. FISH.. I regret, owing to the par­ Greece, for example. I have been told Governor of South Dakota. liamentary procedure and the agree­ that Turkey is supplying some food to The Speaker pro tempore. Without ments el'itered into, that it will be im­ children in Greece, having announced to objection, it is so ordered. ~ossible to bring up for the considera- the belligerents that they were going to There was no objection. 3316 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MARCH 30 Mr. HOFFMAN . .Mr. Speaker, I ask my possession a statement from the su­ man from Illinois [Mr. SABATH] is unanimous consent to revise and extend perintendent of lunchrooms, Board of granted. my remarks and to include certain Education, of Chicago, in which is in­ There was no objection. letters. · cluded letters from principals of schools, The statement referred to is as fol­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without who were appointed and employed under lows: objection, it is so ordered. the civil-service law, clearly showing that On March 2, 1944, after a series of articles There was no objection. the charges are not founded on. facts. in the Chicago Daily News relat ing to the PERMISSION TO COMMITTEE ON WORLD • The statement shows that one small amount paid for milk in the Chicago public WAR VETERANS' LEGI:':'!..ATION TO SIT dairy sold milk at a price one-quarter or schools, I reported to the business manager, one-half cent lower than the dairies reg­ Col. Howard P. Savage, of the board of edu­ THIS AFTERNOON. cation, who in turn reported to the board Mr. .RANKIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask ularly supplying the schools with milk. of education the following with reference unanimous consent that the Committee An inspection of the milk furnished by to milk contracts: on World War Veterans' Legislation may this one dairy showed that the quality of Effective September 1943, and still con­ sit during the session of the House this their milk was below standard and quan­ tinuing, all Chicago public schools, 409 in tities furnished to the schools on occa­ num_per, are being served with milk at 1 cent afternoon. per half-pint bottle for which we receive in­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. With­ sions were near-sour or sour, and some students had become ill from drinking it. demnity from the State and Federal Govern­ out objection, it is so ordered. ments. The business is being divided between There was no objection. I am not even going to mention the name of this dairy, but shall ask that the report 12 dairies, who are as follows: REPLY TO CHARGES IN CONNECTION WITH 1. Barden-Wieland division of the Borden which I have mentioned be made a part Co. MILK FURNISHED TO THE SCHOOL of my remarks. This report signed, as I 2. Bowman Dairy Co. CHILDREN OF CHICAGO have stated, by the superintendent of 3. Capitol Dairy Co. Mr. SABATH. Mr. Speaker, every lunchrooms and the principals of the 4. Cunningham Farms. day from 8 to 12 Members, and some­ schools should convince my colleague 5. Dauphin Park Dairy Co. 6. Hamilton Dairy Co. times more, rise on the Republican side that he has not received a true pictur~ 7. Hawthorne Mellody Farms. to criticize and to make charges of all of the situation and that he was erro­ 8. Hunding Dairy Co. kinds, without first ascertaining as to neously informed. I therefore hope that 9. Scholl Dairy Co. their truth or veracity.- · he will follow the example of his col­ 10. Sidney Wanzer & Sons. Day before yesterday my colleague the league, the gentleman from Nebraska · 11. Western United Dairy Co. gentleman from Illinois [Mr. CHURCH] [Mr. STEFAN] whose attention was called 12. C. J. Wieland & Son, Inc. presumably in justifying his vote against to some charges made-! do not recall It is reported that the Chicago Back-of-the­ the appropriation for school lunches for whether made by him or someone else­ Yards Neighborhood Council buys milk at 3 poor children, charged that excessive cents per half pint for 27 schools and 3¥:! relative to the spoilage of a large quan­ cents per half- pint for 9 other schools and prices are being paid for milk in Chicago tity of sugar in Hawaii which charge, it for so:me others at 4 cents per half pint . . and asserting that an overcharge of one­ was ascertained, was not true in that I am advised that the 3 and 3¥:!-cent milk fourth to one-half cent went to the Dem­ such spoilage did not occur. May I urge is bought from a company with which the ocratic organization in that city, and my colleague in view of these facts to board of education formerly had contractual / that otherwise the milk could be pur­ make like retraction. I have submitted relations and under the terms of which the chased for less. the report to him which I know he has milk was delivered to the Chicago public Without knowing of any of the alleged read, but which I have only glanced over schools at the rate of $0.0248 per· half pint during the month of September 1942. facts or about the milk tr\lst or combina­ hurriedly, and I now ask him, hoping Shortly after the company began serving the tion-nearly all of whose officers are Re­ that he is big enough, to request that his Chicago public schools, it was found that publicans and reside in the gentleman's charges b~ withdrawn. Whether he will the milk was not up to standard. I began district-! am sure they, as such, would do so, I do not know, but I feel it is his receiving complaints from the schools, typi­ not contribute to a Democratic campaign duty to do so. cal of which is the following letter received fund. Furthermore, the Democratic or­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. The from F. G. Mabrey, principal of the Arnold ganization in my city, under the leader­ time of the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. School: ship of Mayor Kelly who has given the SABATH] has expired. ARNOLD SCHOOL, city an honest, highly efficient, and eco­ Chicago, Ill., September 23, 1942. Mr. SABATH. _Mr. Speaker, I ask Mr. F. 0. WAsHAM, nomical administration in contrast to unanimous consent to extend my re­ Director of Lunch Rooms, the discreditable and scandalous admin­ marks and place this statement in the Board of Education, Chicago, Ill. istration under which Chicago suffered RECORD. DEAR Sm: Since school started and we be­ during the regime of the last Republican The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there gan being served by the Lake Valley Milk mayor, would not accept such contribu­ objection? Co., we not only have had several complaints, tions. This cannot be said of the pres­ but yesterday, the 22d, our head attendant ent Republican organization whose rep­ Mr. CHURCH. Mr. Speaker, reserving informed us that at least 10 children refused the right to object, and I do not intend to drink the milk after buying it. The chil­ lesentatives have ' been visiting many to object, except·to ask the gentleman if dren say it is sour. plants, business places and factories not Yours truly, only asking but demanding campaign in that statement there is any denial at all of the contributions, about which I F. J. MABREY, contributions, threatening investiga­ spoke, to the Democrats having- really Principal. tions and to cause trouble if contribu­ been made. I understand that in look­ And report from my staff of supervisors, tions were not forthcoming. typical of which is the report from Mrs. While my attention has been called to ing over the statement there is no such J. M. Corcoran, district supervisor: denial. Therefore I am not going to this situation, I have not brought it to object. SEPTEMBER 24, 1942. the notice of certain agencies or to the Mr. WASHAM: Just received a call from Federal Bureau of Investigation, because Mr. SABATH. I understand there was Grant School re penny milk. . I do not take accusations or charges for nothing-- Three hundred and seventy bottles of milk granted which invariably come from The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time were sour yesterday. The dairy took back of the gentleman has long since expired. 200 bottles. concerns which have failed to obtain con­ The milk was delivered at 7 a.m. It is sold tracts or arise from complaints registered Mr. SABATH. The gentleman from at reces:!. by disgruntled or discharged employees. Illinois [Mr. CHURCH] rose for the pur­ The lunchroom manager ices it in tubs I was convinced when my colleague made pose of reserving the right to object to at about 7:30 a. m. his accusations that the charges were my unanimous-consent request. In Mrs. Berg reported that the teachers have not justified and had no foundation in view of that, I have the right to explain had several children sick today. They blame fact and were only made for political pur­ why my unanimous-consent request it on the milk although it did not taste sour should be granted. today. poses in smearing the Democratic or­ J. M. CORCORAN. ganization of Chicago, but I did not have Mr. CHURCH. I have already with­ (Lake Valley Dah·y is the firm which sup­ the opportunity or at the time have in­ drawn my objection. plied this milk.) formation at hand to disprove his ac­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. With­ Quoting report from Mr. James e. Allmon, cusations. However, today I have in out objection, the request of the g~ntle- assistant director of lunch rooms, who is now 1944 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3317 In the armed forces, dated September 24, You will, therefore, discontinue sell1ng milk The above letter was occasioned by reports 1942: or milk products not complying with the received from my supervisory staff. The fol­ "With reference to the service of the Lake foregoing requirements. lowing are copies of some of these reports: Valley Farm Products Co., the first week they By direction of: "MILK PROGRAM REPORT, FOREST GLEN DAmY The BOARD OF HEALTH, seemed to handle the situation in better con­ "WELLS HIGH SCHOOL, MAY 17, 1943 dition than they are doing at the present City of Chicago. time. On September 22 I received com­ "Complaint: Sour whole milk was delivered C-Mr. Frank 0. Washam, superintendent today, May 17, 1943. plaints from the Everett, Green, Mitchell, of lunchrooms, Board of Education, Chicago, Ross, Thirty-seventh and Wells, Drummond, "1. Milk very badly soured-not just 'on Ill. the turn.' and McClellan Schools, in regard to sour On September 30, 1942, Col. Howard P. milk. These schools claimed that the chil­ "2. Forced to remove all milk from counter. Savage, acting upon my recommendations "3. Children were denied milk for lunch. dren would not drink the milk and would that the contract be abrogated as between pour it down the sewers. This matter was "4. Mr. Papielewski very nonchalantly said this company and the board of education, they couldn't help it. taken up with Mr. Mosier, of Lake Valley Co., notified the company of the cancelation of and he assured us that this condition "5. When I complained about service and the contract and so reported to the board quality, Mr. Papielewski said perhaps we would be corrected. On Wednesday, Sep­ and the board concurred in his action, at a tember 23, I again received complaints about should give this school to another dairy. meeting held November 4, 1942, report No. "(See following letter from Miss Leander, sour milk. • • • 42520G. lunchroom manager.) "Another serious complaint which I have Immediately afterward the board secured "Recommendation: Would recommend that been receiving from the numerous schools the agreement of five reliable Chicago dairy this dairy continue serving this school until served by Lake Valley, is in regard to the type firms to serve the schools for the balance of of cases they are using to deliver the milk. the close of the school term, providing no 1942 at 2 Y2 cents per one-half pint although further serious complaint arises. However, I These cases are dirty and we are re­ this represented a loss to these firms. would not recommend renewing this award ceiving complaints that they are carrying For the following year there was a raise in when the new term starts. · roaches into the schools, due to the filth the amount of the bids to .036 cent per one­ "VIVIAN A. READING, accumulated in them. The principals as­ half pint, and again on February 1, 1944, "Penny Milk Program Sur;ervisor." sured me that they will not tolerate this there was a further rise in price to 4 cents condition and that if it is not cleaned up WELLS HIGH SCHOOL, par one-half pint which refiects the rise in Chicago:May 18, 1943. they will discontinue penny milk in their cost of producing and distributing mil~ and schools. • • • Mr. F. 0. WAsHAM, is no greater than that noted in the food Director of Lunchrooms, In checking with the school principals, I commodity market generally. The Federal also find that this dairy is not living up Milk Market Administrator and Ofilce of Board of Education. to its agreements in connection with icing lJEAR MR. WASHAM: On Monday, May 17, the Price Administration agree that 4 cents per whole milk delivered to the Wells High School the milk and this matter should be brought half pint represents only a fair price for milk to tts attention immediately, as this milk is lunchroom by Forest Glen Da-iry was sour. distributed in the wholesale market in Chi­ It wasn't discovered until the students not to exceed a 50° temperature at the time cago. A recent inquiry discloses the fact that of serving. This is t'he temperature required started to return it the first lunch period. the Chicago parochial schools are paying 4 I immediately removed all the whole milk by the board of health. cents per half pint for milk at the present from the counter and called the dairy. I Yours very truly, time as evidenced by the following letter then notified Mrs. Stansell and Miss Reading JAMES C . .ALLMON, dated March 29 addressed to me by Msgr. Assistant DirectOT of Lunchrooms. who came out promptly to investigate. D. F. Cunningham, superintendent of the I refused to sign the invoice for the first As the result of complaints lodged by me Chicago Catholic School Board: delivery of whole milk; however, I did sign to the health department, the health de­ MARCH 29, 1944. for six cases of fresh milk which they de­ partment wrote this company to discontinue Mr. F. 0. WASHAM, livered for my last lunch period. selling milk. Following are letters from the Boa1·d of Education, Chicago, Ill. This is the second time this semester we health department: DEAR MR. WASHAM: I have received your have received sour milk from Forest Glen SEPTEMBER 21, 1942. recent letter regarding the price which our Dairy. The other time it was their chocolate Mr. ANDREW SMALL, parochial schools are paying for the half milk. (Vendor for Lake Valley pints of milk being served to our students I hope you will take action to prevent any Farm Products Co.), under the federally sponsored school lunch recurrence of this. unfortunate incident as Chicago, Ill. pro5ram. it is very destructive to the school-milk pro­ DEAR Sm: Please be advised that an in­ In reply, I wish to say that our parochial gram which we are all working to develop. spection of your vehicle on September 17, at schools are paying 4 cents per half pint. Sincerely, 9 a.m., at Gi11espie School, State and Ninety­ Very sincerely yours, JANICE LEANDER, third Streets, disclosed that the temperature Very Rev. Msgr. D. F. CUNNINGHAM, Lunchroom Jl:!anager. of homogenized milk was 56° F. Superintendent of Schools. The rules and regulations of the board of Other large purchases in the Chicago dis­ MARCH 26, 1943. health require that all pasteurized milk and trict are paying at least 4 cents per half pint MR. WASHAM: We have beeri having trouble milk products shall be cooled immediately for milk. for some time with the chocolate milk at following pasteurization to a temperature of For the period beginning February 1, 1944, Waller. I am bringing down three bottles 50° F., or less, and remain thereat until de­ we received one lower bid from the Forest all delivered today-two of them were re­ livery to the final consumer. You will, there­ Glen Dairy Co. of 3% cents, but I advised turned by students and the third tak~n off fore, discontinue selling milk or milk prod­ the board not to accept it because of the fact the ice, for comparison. They are all sour. ucts not complying with the foregoing re­ that the milk they had been sending was CATHLENE PICKERING, quirement. frequently sour when it arrived, and they District Supervisor. By direction of: also failed in the matter of service by not (Forest Glen Dairy Co. supplied this milk.) The BOARD OF HEALTH, delivering the milk as needed or at the hours City of Chicago. MARCH 26, 1943. required. These conditions continued despite MR. WASHAM: I have checked on this com­ C-Mr. Frank 0. Washam, superintendent, written notification and repeated warning plaint with Miss Nafe at Waller. There were lunchrooms, Board of Education, Chicago, that the service and quality of the milk 120 one-half pints of chocolate milk returned Ill. was such that we would have to cease do­ as sour during the first lunch period. I called ing business with that company. Following Mr. E. J, Papielewski at Forest Glenn Dairy. SEPTEMBER 21, 1942. is letter written to this company: He promised to go into this thoroughly and Mr. THADDEUS REID, MAY 28, 1943. prevent a recurrence. Full credit is l;leing Vendor for Lake Valley Farm Products FOREST GLEN DAmY, given to Waller for the losE). Co., Chicago, Ill. Chicago, W. V. A. READING, . DEAR Sm: Please be advised that an in­ GENTLEMEN: It has come to my attention Penny Milk .SupervisOT. spection of your vehicle at 8:45a.m., Septem­ through my organization that the service Our chief co'ncern is to supply wholesome ber 16, at 3419 South Bell Avenue (in front and quality of milk served by your dairy food to students in our public-school lunch­ of the Everett School), driven by George to the Wells High School lunchroom and to rooms, always purchasing at the lowest price Bowker, disclosed that the temperature of the Waller High School lunchroom has not consistent with good quality and service. As homogenized vitamin D mllk was 59° F., and been up to standard. a result of this policy the number of students of milk was 58° F. Unless an immediate improvement is re­ dining in our public-'school lunchrooms has The rules and regulations of the board of ported by my school-milk supervisor, I shall increased more than 200 percent during the health require that all pasteurized milk and recommend to the business manager that past 9 years that I have supervised Chicago milk products shall be cooled immediately these contracts be canceled. public-school lunchrooms. folloWing pasteurization to a temperature of Very truly yours, F. 0. WASHAM, 50° F., or less, and remain thereat until de­ F. 0. WASHAM, Director of Lunchrooms, livery to the final consumer. ·Director of Lunchrooml. Board of Education, Chtcago. XC-210 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MARCH 30 FURTHER MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE Mr. RANKIN And therefore we would zoned only for single-family dwellings. A further message from the Senate, not be in a position to recess for the time The zoning of the two exeepted tracts for by Mr. Frazier, its legislative clerk, an­ mentioned until this amendment is dis­ apartments is strictly ·spot zoning and nounced that the Senate had passed, posed of one way or the other. .thus not in keeping with other structures with amendments in which the concur­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. The .un­ north of Piney Branch Parkway. rence of the House is requested, a con­ derstanding of the Chair is the same as For the history leading up to this situ­ current resolution of the House of the that of the ge-ntleman from Mississippi. ation I most respectfully refer you to the following title: The gentleman from Georgia moves Report 1276 on this piece of legislation. If the private residential character of H. Con. Res. 75. Concurrent resolution pro­ that the House concur in the Senate viding for an adjournment of Congres& from ·amendment. Sixteenth Street NW., north of Piney Thursday, March 30, 1944, to Wednesday, The question is on the motion of the Branch Parkway and the territory adja­ April 12, 1944. gentleman from Georgia. cent thereto is to be maintained, and by Mr. HOFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, I make all means it should be, this legislation is CONGRESSIONAL RECESS the point of order that a quorum is not very necessary. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The present. The legislation will authorize and di­ Chair lays before the House, House Con­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. The . rect the Zoning Commission ·to act and current Resolution No. 75, with a Sen­ Chair will count. zone the property accordimdy. · · ate amendment, which the Clerk will Mr. HOFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, I with­ Mr. STEFAN. Mr. Speaker, the gen­ report. draw the point of no quorum for the tleman has made a very fine explanation The Clerk read as follows: time being. of this bill. I withdraw my reservation Senate amendment: On page 2, line 3, The SPEAKER pro tempore. With­ of objection. strike out "Thursday, March 30" and insert out objection, further consideration of The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there "Saturday, April 1." the concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. objection to the present consideration of Amend the title so as to read: "Con­ 75) will be withdrawn. the 'bill? current resql1;tion providing for the ad­ There was no objection. There being no objection, the Clerk journment of Congress from Saturday, REZONING OF CERTAIN PROPERTY IN · read the bill, as follows: April 1, 1944,_ to Wednesday, April 12, THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Be it enacted, etc., That to conform with 1944." the orderly development of the District of The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. Speaker, I ask Columbia as the National Capital, the Zoning objection, the amendment is agreed to. unanimous consent for the present con­ Commission created by the act of March 1, Mr. HOFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, reserv­ sideration of the bill (H. R. 2850) to au­ 19'20 (41 Stat. 500), is hereby authorized and thorize ~ the rezoning of certain property directed to amend the zoning maps so as to ing the right to object, I make a parlia­ in the District of Columbia as a resi­ provide that all of parcel 70/100 located at mentary inquiry. dential area. the southwest corner o~ Sixteenth and Shep­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. The herd Streets NW. and all of square 2695 lying gentleman will state it. The Clerk read the title of the bill. south of the cEnter line Shepherd Street NW. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there extended, located at the northeast corner Mr. HOFFMAN. What is the proce­ objection to the request of the gentle­ 'dure? of Sixteenth Street and Arkansas Avenue NW. Mr. RAMSPECK. Mr. Speaker, I man from West Virginia [Mr. RAN­ be zoned as residential 40' "A" restricted move that the House concur in the Sen­ DOLPH]? area. ate amendment. Mr. STEFAN . . Mr. Speaker, reserving The bill was ordered to be engrossed Mr. HOFFMAN. Well, Mr. Speaker, I the right to object, would the gentleman and read a third time, was read the third object. from West Virginia explain the bill? time, and passed, and a motion to recon­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the Mr. RANDOLPH. The gentleman from sider was laid on the table. . gentleman propounding a parliamentary . Nebraska is correct in asking an expla­ nation of the meas_ure. For the purpose THE MINIMUM WAGE ~AW OF THE inquiry? DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA .Mr. HOFFMAN. Yes, Mr. Speaker. of giving a very clear, yet concise state­ The_ SPEAKER pro tempore. The ment I would ask the gentleman from Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. Speaker, I ask gentleman will state it. Mississippi [Mr. ABERNETHY], Who gave unanimous consent for the present con­ Mr. HOFFMAN. What is the proce­ most careful stlldY to this measure, to sideration of House Joint Resolution 242, dure on this resolution? explain its provisions at. this time. to amend an act entitled "An act to pro­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. It is a Mr. ABERNETHY. Mr. Speaker, H. R. tect the lives _and health and moral~ of privileged resolution, and the procedure 2850 has for its broad object to further women and minor workers in the Dis­ would be for some Member-and the the comprehensive planning of the Dis­ trict of Columbia, and to establish a gentleman from Georgia [Mr. RAMSPECK] trict of Columbia, and its more specific Minimum Wage Board, and define its has.. done so-to make a motion that the purpose is to sustain the action of the powers and duties, and to provide for the House concur in the Senate amendment. . Zoning Commission of the District of Co­ fixing of minimum wages for'such work- lumbia so as to assure the continuance . ers, and for other. purposes," approved Mr. HOFFMAN. And then a vote is of the orderly development of lands bor­ September 19, 1918, as amended. taken on the motion? dering the park system and to maintain The Clerk read the title of the resolu­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. That is the private residential character of Six­ tion. correct. teenth Street NW., north of Piney Mr. STEFAN. Mr. Speaker, reserving Mr. HOFFMAN. Does that require a Branch ParkWay and the territory adja­ the right to object, will !lot the gentle­ quorum? cent thereto. man explain the bill? Do we not have The SPEAKER pro tempore. Any Parcel 70/100 is a heavily wooded un­ a minimum wage law in the District of action by the House requires a quorum improved tract of approximately 2 acr~s. Columbia at this ti:ine? If so will the if the one who takes such step raises that l and .is located at the southwest corner of gentleman explain why it is necessary to question. the intersection of Sixteenth Street and amend the law at this time? Mr. RANKIN. - Mr. Speaker, a parlia- Shepherd Street. This tract, together Mr. RANPQLPH. · Yes; the gentleman mentary inquiry. "" with a very small corner immedia.tely _ is correct in observing that there is a Th·e SPEAKER pro tempore. The across. on the east side of Sixteenth Street, minimum wage law in the District of gentleman will state it. are the only tracts north of Piney Branch Columbia. This measure makes no fun­ Mr. RANKIN. As I understand the Parkway on Sixteenth Street zoned for damental change in the law and applies situation, whether there is a quorum multifamily-apartment house--struc­ only to the publication of regulations present or not, unless this amendment is tures. From the parkvay north to the issued by the Industrial Safety Divi­ agreed to the resolution-does not become District line on this street, as well as on sion of the Minimum Wage and Indus­ final until this amendment is disposed of. lands adjacent thereto, will be found trial Safety Board for the benefit of con­ That is correct, is it not? single-family dwellings only. All of this tractors who employ workers under the The SPEAKER pro -tempore. The portion of the District, ·with the excep­ law. Because . of shortage of space in gentleman is correct. . tipn of the two ·tracts m-entioned, are ·neyvspapers· we_ate s~mply_ attem:r;>ting to 1944 CONGRESSION~L RECORD-HOUSE 3319 facilitate the printing of the regulations, The Clerk read the title of the bill. Mr. COFFEE. Mr. Speaker, I do not but still make them available to contrac­ Mr. STEFAN. Mr. Speaker, will the want the remarks made by either the tors. Instead of requiring publication gentleman from West Virginia explain gentleman from Nebraska or myself to in two newspapers in Washington as un­ the bill? - be construed in any sense as passing der present law we provide in this bill Mr. RANDOLPH. With pleasure. upon the. merits of the proposed bill for the publication of the regulations in Mr. Speaker, I may say for the benefit called up by the gentleman from West one newspaper with reprints available to of the gentleman from Nebraska and the Virginia. As far as I know, there is merit the contractors. As I say, this comes membership that this 1s not a salary in the bill, but I am sure the gentleman about through lack of space in the papers raise; it is a readjustment of classifica­ is exercising excellent judgment in post­ for even news stories and other adver­ tion of certain positions within the fire poning its consideration tempbrarily. tisements. depa: tment to make those positions Mr. SPARKMAN. Mr. Speaker, will Mr. STEFAN. What medium of ad­ comparable with similar positions in the the gentleman yield? vertising is to be used? Metropolitan Police Department. This Mr. RANDOLPH. I am happy to yield Mr. RANDOLPH. Instead of using matter was gone into fully by the com­ to the distinguished gentleman from mittee, and it was found that in prac­ Alabama. two newspapers as at present it would be tically every city in this country the published in one with reprints made Mr. SPARKMAN. I wonder if I may classifications for firemen and police­ not inquire whether this legislation will available to those who need them. men are the same. We de&ire simply to not be necessary for the Committee on Mr. STEFAN. Nothing in this pro­ bring the firemen in line with the po­ Appropriations to act on without violat­ posed bill will preclude the :5eneral ad­ licemen in the District of Columbia. ing the rules of the House prohibiting vertising in newspapers after the emer­ Mr. STEFAN. Has ~his bill been ap­ legislative provisions on an appropria- gency is over? proved by the Commissioners? tion bill? · Mr. RANDOLPh. NQ, indeed. Mr. RANDOLPH. It has; yes. Mr. RANDOLPH:" That question has Mr. STEFAN. 'lhis would not set any Mr. STEFAN. Mr. Speaker, in view been before the House, of course, not only precedent whereby the newspapers of the fact that we are soon to hold hear­ in connection with the District of Co­ would not be able to get this advertising, ings on appropriations for the District lumbia bill but on other measures pre­ whereby the general public would not be of Columbia, including firemen and po­ sented by the Appropriations Committee. fully informed as to what is going on lice, I wonder if the gentleman would I reiterate, however, that it is our desire under the minimum-wage law? not let this bill go over without preju­ in legislating for the District of Colum­ Mr. RANDOLPH. The gentleman is dice. bia to cooperate with the Appropriations correct. The newspapers of the District Mr. RANDOLPH. Yes; the gentle­ Committee. have been consulted. We would be the man, of course, wants to cooperate. Mr. COFFEE. Mr. Speaker, will the last to ask that this be written into per­ Mr. STEFAN. I see the chairman of gentleman yield? manent law. the appropriations subcommittee on the Mr. RANDOLPH. I yield again to the Mr. STEFAN. And this would be District of Columbia. I should like to gentleman from washington. agreeable to the newspapers? hear his opinion. Mr. COFFEE. The gentleman from Mr. RAND'JLPH. It is; we '1ave con­ Mr. RANDOLPH. I yield to the gen­ Alabama is correct; it is not the policy ferred with them. tleman from Washington. of the Appropriations Committee to in­ Mr. COFFEE. I agree with my col­ corporate l~gislation in an appropriation Mr. STEFAN. Mr. Speaker, I withdraw league the ranking member on the ap­ my reservation of objection. bill. propriations subcommittee for the What the gentleman from Nebraska, The SPEAKER pro· tempore. Is there , District of Columbia. I hope the gen­ objection to the present consideration of the ranking member of the subcommit­ tleman from West Virginia will not press tee, had in mind was that our hearings the bill? for action on the bill now, for our sub­ There being no objection, the Clerk will commence shortly and thereafter committee is about to take up the Dis­ we will consult with the gentleman from read the bill, as follows: trict of Columbia bill, and we should West Virginia and the proponents and op­ Resolved, etc., That section 4, title II, of the like to cover this subject in our hearings. ponents of the bill. If during the hear­ act entitled "An act to protect the lives and Mr. STEFAN. Inasmuch, Mr. Speak­ health and morals of women and minor work­ ings it develops that the bill seems to be er, as we are going to take up the mat­ meritorious- -and I have no doubt there ers in the District of Columbia, and to es­ ter of the salarie~ of firemen and police tablish a Minimum Wage Board, and define in the District of Columbia Appropria­ is much merit in the bill-then we will -its powers and duties, and to provide for the consult with the gentleman from West fixing of minimum wages for such workers, tions Subcommittee, I think perhaps we Virginia suggesting that he bring this and for other purposes," approved September should let this bill go over for the time bill up again on the floor if it should be 19, 1918, as amended, is hereby further being. · passed before our Appropriations Sub­ amended by deleting t:t:e words "they have Mr. RANDOLPH. I want, of course, committee comes to marking up the bill. been published at least once in two of the Mr. Speaker, to defer insofar as possible daily newspapers of general circulation in the to the Subcommittee on Appropriations Mr. STEFAN. Mr. Speaker, will the District of Columbia," and inserting in lieu of the District of Columbia. We work gentleman yield? thereof "publication of notice at least once together and always have cooperated. Mr. RANDOLPH. I yield again to the in a newspaper of general circulation in the We felt that this was a legislative mat­ gentleman from Nebraska. District of Columbia that they have been ter, but certainly there is involved also Mr. STEFAN. Mr. Speaker, I cer­ adopted and copies are available to the public tainly want to corroborate what my at the office. of the Board." the element of appropriation, and I am happy to withdraw the bill. chairman has said, that we work very The resolution was ordered to be en­ Mr. STEFAN. I appreciate the cooper­ closely with the gentleman from West grossed and read a third time, was read ative spirit of the gentleman from West Virginia, chairman of the Legislative the third time, and passed, and a motion Virginia. Committee on the District of Columbia. to reconsider was laid on the table. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent We have no intention of trying to over­ RECLASSIFICATION OF CERTAIN POSI- that the bill may go over without prej­ ride the prerogatives of the Legislative TIONS IN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FIRE udice. Committee. We certainly do not want DEPARTMENT The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen­ the right to legislate on an appropriation tleman from West Virginia has with­ bill. We realize that there are injustices Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. Speaker, I ask drawn the bill from further considera­ in the salaries paid members of the Fire unanimous consent, with the further in­ tion. · Department and we want to eliminate dulgence, for the immediate consideration Mr. COFFEE. Mr. Speaker, will the them and do all that we possib1y can, of the bill BOXING CONTESTS AND (1) to supervise and regulate boxing contests For referees, not to exceed $10 per annum, EXHIBITIONS IN THE DISTRICT OF and training exhibitions in connection there­ and for such other occupations as the Com­ COLUMBIA with, for prizes or purses, or where an admis­ mission may by regulation prescribe, not to sion fee is charged or received, within the exceed $10 per annum. Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. Speaker, I ask District of Columbia; (2) subject to approval SEc. 8. Applications for licenses shall be unanimous consent for the immediate of the Commissioners of the District of Co• accompanied by the required license fee, pay­ consideration of the bill the Bronx, N. Y.; and Edwin J. American county. Their people are alert which preach that we should extend to to the Nation's needs. Their people also our fellow neighbor the same rights that Sipowski, Waukegan, lll., killed in a have known the burdens and the heart­ we expect to have extended to us. Toler­ take-o:ff in San Juan Harbor, were buried aches of the Nation's wars and they have ance is the very essence of democracy. side by side. with a Protestant chaplain, known the triumphs and the gladness of a Roman CJ.tholic priest, and a rabbi the days when soldiers return. They That portion of the Constitution guar­ officiating. The :flag for which they anteeing religious liberty is of utmost also have an eye to the Nation's future importance to our democratic system. fought flew over them. needs. We must all uphold this precious right A chaplain, a priest, and a rabbi­ So I want to speak today to tell a story if our democracy is to endure. Protestant-Catholic-Jew- which for most Americans hitherto has Three Yanks in three simple caskets­ been unknown. It concerns folks like Yes, I said in my speech in 1938, "and Three colors, re(f, white, and blue. when our country called them, they A hush on a tropic island Frank Hulse, Bud Cornell, Capt. Robert fought valiantly in every war." Today As notes from a. bugle fall­ Hubbell and a lot of other folks down our soldiers are fighting all over the Three rituals slowly chanted­ Decatur way. If we link up what these globe. The American people are now en­ Three faiths in a common call. folks did in Decatur and Limestone gaged in a war to determine the future A lad from the Bronx; another County with the national defense picture .history of the world. The men and Who joined up 1n Tennessee: we get a new understanding of what has women from every city, town, village, and A third one from far Waukegan­ happened. It is a story largely unknown country site, of every creed, race, and A_typical bunch, tbose three' to Americans generally and even to most 3324 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-IIOUSE MARCH 30 Alabamans. It is · one so eminently they had to expand and do it immedi­ Bloomfield Miller Cornell, or as most worth telling that I believe public inter­ ately, Those boys went home and built folks in Decatur call him, Bud Cornell. est will best be served by telling it in some schools costing up to around a half mil­ Who are Frank Hulse and Bud Cor· detail. It is a story of American initia­ lion dollars apiece, on sites which the nell? I am going to tell you because they tive, of American achievement and if you War Department approved. If you do are typical of a group of Americans who will but hear it through I guarantee you not think half a million dollars cr even all unnoticed by most of our citizens will learn things which up to now you $200,000 is a lot of money, go out some have done a top job in the national never knew about our war effort. They time and try to raise it. interest-a job they were particularly will thrill you with the knowledge that How did these fellows do that job? qualified by education, experience, and only in America has inspired military Some of them were men of substance, personal preference to do. Frank Hulse leadership teamed so effectively with but a lot more were men of moderate began flying in 1928 and has devoted civilian know-how. means. himself to aviation ever since. He is a The development of these schools Hap Arnold gave them just 40 days to graduate of Georgia School of Tech­ reads like story-book fiction. Let me go set up schools that could accommodate nology. He knows not 10nly the theory back almost 5 years-to May 1939. That 300 or more cadets at a class e,nd turn but the practice of aviation. He knows was a day when war clouds were darken­ out a class every few weeks. Some of both the inside and the outside of engines ing the skies of Europe. Gen. H. H. Ar­ these fiying-school men mortgaged the and .planes. He began operating flying nold, Chief of the Army Air Forces, read houses in which they lived. Some, it is schools in 1936. in those clouds warning of a storm of said, even hocked the wife's wedding In 1941 when it became apparent that world shaking dimensions and he knew ring. They scratched deep and they more schools would be needed Frank that the thunder and the lightning of scratched hard to raise the money. But Hulse stepped forward to do his part of the madm~n of Europe would menace our they managed to get it. Some of our cit· the job. A training detachment was shores. So Hap Arnold did a daring izens go into rhapsodies about the won. activated while a suitable site was sought thing. He called together a group of derful spirit of the Russian people and for the school. The first location was men he knew who operated private flying what they did, acting under a Communist disapproved by the Medical Corps be· .schools. economy, in re:f'elling the enemies who cause mosquitoes were too numerous. There were Maj. C. C. Moseley, from invaded their country. I submit that the But Frank Hulse did not get discouraged. California. Maj. W. F. Long came on record of these American individualists. He did not quit. He found a site where from Dallas, Hal S. Darr froni Chicago, operating under a. democratic economy, the job could be done and done right. Max Balfour from Tulsa, Oliver Parks was even greater. That site is in Limestone County, Ala., from St. Louis, Claude Ryan from San These men knew if they failed that we some 3 miles from Decatur, on United Diego. These men had all fought in as a nation might perish. They also States Highway No. 31. He did not even ,World War No.1 and served their country knew that if we did not build a mass air wait until the crop on that site was with honor and distinction. There were force in jig time that we as a nation harvested. Tenant farmers were paid others too like Allan Hancock and E. S. would go down. They believed if younger for their half-grown cotton. Construe· Sias, also pioneers who contributed sub. men of fighting age could risk their lives, tion got going in July 1941. That first stantially to early aviation. When Gen· that they could risk their pocketbooks, class 42-D had 51 cadets. It was hot eral Arnold got the men around him he their all. Of course, if the war had and dusty during those days of hurried talked straight. He said that the Army ended then they were all out on a limb building and the sound of hammers was did not have time to prepare primary and stood no chance of recouping their continuous, but those cadets learned to flight training facilities. He said if the losses. They would have been stone fly. But Cornell, who had been director job was done that flying school men like broke. But they took that risk. of the ground school at Hulse's flying them must do it. He told them the I submit that in gambling their bot· school at Camden, S. C., came in that plants must provide not only flight and tom dollars in backing the vision of September to be general manager of ground school instruction, but also bar· Gen. Hap Arnold as to what needed to Southern Aviation Training School as racks, mess halls, and the like for hous· . be done, the American system of indi· the new institution at Decatur came to ing and feeding air force cadets. He vidual enterprise had its vindication, its be known. Bud Cornell is a tall, ·mus· told them they would have to use their highest proof of unselfishness. They cular fellow who graduated from the own credit and trust him. could have been wiped out in the early United States Naval Academy in 1927. The way I heard the story, one of the stages of that operation. Let us remem· He attended the torpedo school at the boys was a little doubtful and wondered ber that when authority to create the naval station at San Diego, Calif., and just how the deal could be financed. Hap training system came up in Congress it then took aviation training at the Pensa­ Arnold stood up straight and gave it to passed by only two votes. Remember cola, Fla., naval air station. He got his them straight. "I have no money to they had only 40 days to do the job. Did wings in 1929 and was commissioned give you," he said. "My job is to raise they stand back and wait until the last lieutenant, junior grade, later serving money in Congress but I can promise you "t" was crossed and the last "i" dotted on the Lexington in fighter squadron nothing. Are you with me?" before they went to work? They did not. operation. He retired from the Navy in Right there tho~ flying-school opera· They did the job. While some other 1932 and later became professor of aero· tors showed the stufi they were made of. branches of our industrial picture were nautical engineering at Alabama Poly­ They rushed home to get ready and 6 groaning and beating their chests about technic Institute. But when he was weeks later they received their first such insurmountable difficulties as bad needed in the training program he came classes. Some of them were operating weather, transportation shortages, man· back to do a job on the flight line. for weeks before they even had a scratch power lacks, priorities, and labor trou· That is the kind of men that have of the pen by way of a contract. No bles, these fellows just went ahead and been entrusted with the job of creating banker would have touched such an in· did the job. They did it without fuss, a mass American air force and who have definite financial arrangement. But furore, or fanfare, and as far as I know, done that job. Included irt this second these operators, men of the era in avia· up to now there never has been any pub· wave of school operators are John Paul tion when planes were first called crates lie recognition either on the floor of this Riddle, a pioneer in air-line develop­ and pilots were hardy adventurers in a House or elsewhere of the outstanding ment; Albert I. Lodwick, an outstanding new medium-these men kept the faith. job these me·n did. builder of aviation and former right­ ~hey did the job. But as we moved toward war the job hand man of that giant of aviation, Tom Meanwhile the war was going on-and got bigger and bigger. The schools op· Morgan; as well as William R. Kent, of looking worse for our side. France erated by the eight pioneer operators Memphis, Tenn.; Jack Connelly and Le­ fought behind her Maginot line but the that General Arnold called in were net land Hayward, of Phoenix, Ariz.; .and experts knew her number was up. Eng­ enough. Each doubled the number of Harry White, formerly of San Francisco, land was getting round-the-clock bomb­ schools he was operating. Even that and now of King City, Calif. All these ing and it looked like we might have to was not enough. More aviation school· men operate two or three training gCl it alone against the Axis. Again men of experience and patriotism were schools for the Air Forces and have con­ General Arnold called these flying­ needed. This second wave brought in tributed much to the success of the- pru­ school operators in and told them that men like Frank Hulse and his manager, gram. The second wave also included ·,. 1944 .CONGRESSIONAL .RECORD-HOUSE 3325 one of the Nation's outstanding racing what the situation really was in 1939 in ans of aviation. There is a large per­ and stunt pilots, .. Tex" Rankin, of Tu­ another part of his report: centage of these men who are over com­ lare, Calif. To provide airmen to fiy the planes then bat age, and this group includes many These schools expanded to 63, dotting being built- World War No. 1 pilots. A man whose the entire Southland from the Carolinas He reported- own boy is a cadet will do his best t~ see down around the Gulf coast and Texas, that other cadets are trained safely. it was necessary to expand Army Air Forces out through Arizona and the west coast training facilities at once. The Ariny Air There are hundreds of these older in­ up as far as King City, Calif. Forces did not have sufficient instructors to structors in the schools. There are some Building those schools and setting up train 2,400 pilQ;ts a year. · To build another younger men, too, but many of them the organizations to do the training was Randolph Field to handle 500 pilots a year would be IV-F for combat purposes. The not easy. Alabama is my home and I would take 5 years. The idea was criticized fact that these instructors maybe have love the State and perhaps I am at least as being against precedent, but heads of our a finger off, or a slight limp, or just nat­ civilian fiying schools were called in by the urally a little too old for combat does a little bit prejudiced when I say that Army Air Forces. They were to get ready to the Limestone County school, near De­ train huge classes in primary :fiight. The not hurt them as ilistructors as the rec­ catur, sprang into being with at least no Army Air Forces could offer them no con­ ord shows. These men can do a good job more difficulties than those of the aver­ tracts at the time to justify complete change­ teaching cadets how to .fly for the very age school. I say this advisedly, for the overs of their programs, but fiying schools good reason that a lot of them have been ' records prove· that many of these 63 immediate prepared to help handle the pilots. teaching boys to. fly in civilian life for 10, schools that did the training job had to The figure was raised to 12,000 pilots a year 25, or even more years. be built during the rainy season in the and later to 30,000. We could not possibly Now Gen. Hap Arnold showed himself South. From the banks of the Missis­ have trained so many airmen quickly with­ smart in other ways when he decreed out these schools. Today our pil~t-training sippi in Missouri down to the Gulf region rate has left these earlier goals far behind . that ciViliails should teach the Army . in Texas, floods were the rule during the curriculum to cadets. His foresight has time those schools were building. Maybe Now, I do ·not know how many pilots paid off to the tune of. perhaps 150,000 the J..ord was testing us to see if we as a are coming out of these Aeronautical soldiers saved for combat. Otherwise nation were fit to work, to fight, indeed Training Sqciety schools which are doing about that number of soldiers would be to survive. One school was flooded out, .flight training, and, if I did know, I could busy with flight instruction, plane re­ . another had a gas,explosion that killed not tell it here for the number up to now pair, feeding or housing cadets, and do­ some of its key personnel and almost . has been a military secret. It was re­ ing the hundred-and-one other jobs that wiped o.ut its operator. In dozens of .ported some months ago that more than are .necessary around a Regular Army places workmen labored for weeks at a 100,000 young Americans had been installation. Remember now the Army ·~ime lit.erally waist . deep in water to taught to .fly since schools now included needs to provide only "R small comple­ . · build tbose schools and get dra4lage in the society started to train cadets . ment of officers and men in these civilian ·started on the level ground so . necessary We do know that General Arnold has schools to look after discipline, organi­ for proper landing fields. Why in Texas reported that War Production Board zation matters, and medical care. This .<:luring the rainy season they even called schedules 145,000 planes for compfetion shrewd utilization of manpower that one site for one of the scho.ols,_Brayton's in the 15-month period we now have just comes about by letting the civilian ·half Bay. But the b~rrac~ . and hangars well be~un. Many of these are large of this partnership in these schools do were built, the fjelds drained, the run­ planes. It is known that most bombers everything connected with flight instruc­ ways constructed. · require a · skilled pilot, a copilot, and tion, aircraft maintenance, feeding, Now, let us look and see what has been crews requiring varying amounts and . housing, and guard duty not only has accomplished since this training program kinds of aviation skills. This set-up saved the country fighting men but a lot was start.ed. Let us see what these which Hap· Arnold envisioned and cre­ of money. I don't know to a ·nickle how school operators have done in. building ated is cutting the mustard. It is provid- much it is, but the annual savings cer­ . an air force. As Americans we feel in- ing the pilots. · tainly exceed $250,000,000 . . stinctively that a good job should be will­ At this -point parents, particularly What is the quality of the pilots being ing to stand scrutiny. Has this job been mothers, ask, and ~rightly, But have not turned out by these schools? Well, just . done safely, efficiently, inexpensively? . there been ·quite a lot of accidents in this look over the daily. papers-any daily -.a:as it shown good utilization of man­ training program? Let General Arnold paper any day, and read of our air · power? Have the over-all results been answer th~t question. He says: heroes. If the boy received his primary good? I believe it will serve the public Basically the accident record is good. training since midsummer 1939, he interest to look at the record of these Ninety-five out of every 100 Army Air Force learned to fly in one of the sort of schools schools. pilots in training can be expected to fiy I have been talking about. Air heroes through the next 12 months without a of this war from Lance Wade of those Early this year it was officially reported scratch. by Gen.· Henry H. Arnold that military pioneer Eagle Squadrons down to Capt. personnel in the Army Air Forces, which . What about fatal accidents? The RobE:rt Hubbell are products of these most recent Army figures on that are A. T. S. schools. numbered only 21,556 in 1939, now total Capt. Robert Hubbell, wearer of the the tremendous number of 2,385;000. reassuring. They show that the. fatal­ accident rate is only one for every 43,478 Air Medal, learned to .fly at Southern That expansion was possible only be- hours of primary flight. On the basis of . Aviation Training School near Decatur. . cause great military leadership teamed 100 miles per heur, that is only one per It was he who not long ago brought back up with civilian know-how in a typical 4,347,800 miles. The basic and advanced the Flying Fortress Decatur Deb shredded American partnership. General Arnold training likewise is also surprisingly with shell fire but safe fron~ a successful tells about some of ·these problems and safe. foray over Germany. He married a achievements in his report: Down at Southern Aviation School, Decatur girl and learned to fly in Deca­ The over-all program of the Army Air which is doing primary flight training, tur so his exploits are of particular in­ Forces was designed- there have been only two fatal accidents terest to us. However, he is only typical He wrote- in more than 200,000 hours of flying. of the more than 100,000 boys who on the basis of a plan to give us overwhelm- And even that is not the top record, al­ learned to fly safely and well in these . ing air superiority in the shortest possible though it is very, very goo,d. I am in­ schools. They learned that way because time. There was no question whether the formed that one large A. T. S. school has instruction was the Army curriculum for training program could be carried out; the flown over 375,000 hours without a single flyers and the civilian instructors know Army Air Forces had to become the largest fatality. ·At the time that record was their jobs. They know they must teach single educational organization in existence made the school was nearing 3 full years a cadet to fly or that cadet is "washed in a very short t ime. Facilities were secured, without any flying fatality. Parents may out." That in military parlance means teachers were hired, and textbooks were writ­ that he will be reclassified to rome other ten while the first classes were being held. breathe easier when they think of these cadets in training for it means that they phase of aviation training such as navi­ Now, of course, it is common sense that really are being trained safely. They ar:e gator or bombardier. the need was of tremendous urgency and being trained safely because, man for What about schools like Southern General Arnold tells something about man, these civilian instructors are veter- Aviation Training School in· the future? 3326 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MARCH 30 If you look at the sturdy brick-veneer our boys from a combat point of view nized and preserved to do the job they ' administration building, the brick mess are already ofd men. Have you seen know best how to do. We owe that to hall, brick barracks, the concrete flight the faces or the pictures of the faces of the boys who come back, the boys who strip before the group of steel hangars, men who have been out on a few dozen do not come back, and to our future the set-up seems to have a solid sort of bombing raids? Anyone who has knows safety and well-being as a Nation. Let college campus look. The buildings form that men age faster in this deadly busi­ us look at the record and act. It is not a quadrangle, for there are other build­ ness of combat aviation than any place too early. ings of asbestos-shingle construction that in the world. There are no atheists in Mr. THOMASON. Mr. Speaker will fill in the gaps. This school has plenty fox holes, and there are no ·men. who the gentleman yield? of barracks for its needs, a ground-school stay young in bombers. · The SPEAKER pro tempore. Does the building, hospital, and Link trainer can­ We must be realists and face the facts, gentleman from Alabama yield? teen building. That mess hall alone can if we would survive as a Nation and keep Mr. SPARKMAN. I yield to my friend feed 500, family style, at a sitting. I do the world's peace. Our measure of air from Texas and also my colleague on not know what the future may hold, but combat personnel in the post-war period the Committee on Military Affairs. I know such plants ought to find con­ will be the number of men young enough Mr. THOMASON. I want to com­ structive use in the future economy of and trained enough to fly the newest mend my friend from Alabama for his our country. and hottest plane off the production able defense of the contract air schools If you will multiply this Decatur in­ line. Anything less will not do. Any­ which have done such a marvelous train­ stitution by 63 stretching from coast to thing less is to invite national oblitera­ ing job during this war. I have some coast over the entire Southland, you see tion. We must keep on doing this job personal knowledge of the subject because at a glance what this country has in the and, if we are smart, we will do it as the Pacific Air School at Fort Stockton, way of tangible assets in physical prop­ safely, as efficiently, and inexpensively Tex., in my district, belongs to this group erties alone. After the other World War as possible. and I say without hesitation that no we had made promising beginnings of We have taught over 100,000 young training school in the country, whether worth-while aviation development. In Americans-the pick of our young man­ it be Army or civilian, has done a better the soft, forgetful peace years we per­ hood-how to fly. The social implica­ job. The weather conditions in that sec­ mitted those resources to disintegrate tions of this action are tremendous and tion are ideal, and there has been no in- and be forgotten. We must not make this none of us has all the end results let . terruption in the training. Hundreds of mistake twice. If we do a kindly provi­ alone all the answers. But I believe that our finest young men have graduated dence may not let us off so easily next several things are manifest. One is that from that school and many of them have time. I say easily advisedly, for even the these boys who have won their wings distinguished themselves in combat. terrible cost in men and treasure which never again will be the earth-bound men That school has only recently been the current struggle involves is slight they were before they took up flying. closed by order of the War Department compared. to consequences of a war in Some of them can continue in the Army because .they say it is no longer needed. which we might as a result of unpre­ Air Force in assignments commensurate The Secretary of War says that the air paredness be the conquered instead of the with their training and skills. Their training period in this country is far ad­ victor. usefulness as combat pilots may be lim­ vanced, and the time has arrived for So I say that these resources of phys­ ited to years or even months, bu.t there is fighting. I cannot argue this question ical properties, this partnership of Army another side-a brighter side to remem­ with the "powers that be" because I have direction and civilian know-how, deserve ber. These boys-or at any rate most nothing to do with the training or place- to be preserved and perpetuated. We of them will be able to do a lifetime job . ment of our fighting men. I do, however, have the schools, we have the manage­ in civil aviation. There will be mail and want to join with my friend in demand­ ment, we ·have the civilian personnel-a passengers to carry, express and freight ing that some department of our Gov­ flexible, efficient, inexpensive method of to fly, schools to run in the days that lie ernment put these abandoned schools to doing a mass training job, under the ahead. some useful purpose. Almost a million smartest Army direction that the world So I say that the Nation owes those dollars was spent on the Fort Stockton has ever seen. Ably assisting General lads who want to continue in aviation school and the citizens of that com­ Arnold in this phenomenal training pro­ a chance to keep their place in the Na­ munity either donated or procured 762 gram are Maj. Gen. R. W. Harper, Lt. tion's air when peace day comes. They acres of land and the Defense Plant Cor­ Gen. Barton K. Yount, Maj. Gen. Gerald have earned it. Let us give it to them. poration advanced $800,000 for buildings C. Brant, Maj. Gen. Ralph P. Cousins, They will need to be gentled to the radio and equipment. to make it one of the fin­ Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Hanley, Jr., Maj. practices, the traffic patterns, the ameni­ est schools of its size in our land. Cer­ Gen. George Stratemeyer, and others. ties of civilian flying. Let us see that tainly schools such as the one in the dis­ This national asset must not be allowed they get this retraining at the hands of trict of my friend from Alabama and to wither and die on the vine. We have those who can do it most safely, em­ the one in my district must not be per­ a going business here which is of incal­ ciently, and inexpensively. I have no mitted to become junk. Only recently a culable value not only for national de­ favorites for this job. Let all applicants good friend of mine, Mr. Marsh Lea, of fense but for preserving peace in the come in and show what they have done Fort Stockton, and one of the most pub­ world. and can do. lic-spirited citizens of that community, This old earth is going to be an unset­ I know that schools like Southern Avi­ was here, and he and I had conferences tled, hazardous place for as long in the ation Training School will be among with the Under Secretary of War, Mr. future as any of us can see. Air power those named to do the job if the recordJs Robert P. Patterson, Gen. Frank T. Hines, has proved the decisive factor in this examined closely and fairly. I know that head of the Veterans' Administration, war thus far. We have this advantage these men who in the years before did and Mr. Jesse Jones, whose agency loaned and, if we are ~mart, we will keep it. a top civilian flying training job and the money to build the Fort Stockton It is not enough to sit back and say who since 1939 have done the Army con­ school. Mr. Lea and I insisted that this complacently, "Yes, of course air power tract flying school job, merit considera­ school and others like it should, as soon is important, but after all we won't need tion for doing whatever civilian or mili­ as possible, be converted into some other any more pilots since we've just trained tary flying training job that the Nation useful and beneficial purpose. We were over 100,000." I would like to answer requires. These men who have done this assured by all three of these prominent that before anyone repeats such a dan­ job for Hap Arnold have worked quietly, officials that the problem was being given gerous fallacy. We have trained 100,000 unobtrusively, and effectively. They careful study. I only hope that an early pilots and more. That is true. But have made so little fuss that they have solution will be found, and I expect to combat flying is a young man's game. been almost overlooked by the unthink­ join with my friend from Alabama in Pilots get obsolete at about the same ing. They have been the forgotten men doing everything possible to that end. rate as military aircraft. Some top air of the war effort. Their achievement Some program should be worked out at force authorities would never send a boy when it is known and comprehended once to use these valuable properties for over 27 at the controls on a bombing will appear as one of the brightest pages vocational schools, rehabilitation cen­ mission. They prefer fighter pilots 25 of civilian effort in this war. It is high ters, hospitals, or perhaps integrated in­ and under. That means that a lot of time that this national asset be recog- to the great Army and civilian aviation 1944 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3327 program that is sure to follow in the post­ answer. Upon this day I bespeak in the the persecution or oppression of an en­ war period. name of mother, in the name of home, tire race· or an entire group because of Mr. SPARKMAN. I thank my friend and in the name of spiritual idealism, their color or of their creed. Yet, de­ from Texas, who is the ranking member justice rather than tolerance, not only spite this fact, public opinion, which, if on the Military Affairs Committee of the for the weaker and smaller countries of crystallized could be a determining fac­ House, for his comments. I know some­ the worlrt, but more particularly for tor in the promotion of justice and in the thing about the facts he has stated re­ the peoples of the world that suffer per­ destruction of racial and religious perse­ garding the school in his district, and I secution because of race, creed, or·color. cution, remains quiescent and permits am pleased to tell him that I am in full We are all children, creatures of and the development of conditions destruc­ accord with the sentiments he has ex­ created by Almighty God and the indis­ tive to society as a whole. pressed. putable proof of God's creation of each The persecution and oppression of the In this connection I may say that no individual is the fact that of all the Jewish people by the Germans under Member of this House has taken a greater millions of people that have inhabited Hitler must not be permitted in America. interest in the building up of the armed the earth since the beginning of crea­ When the framers of the American Con­ forces and in the training of our airmen tion, no two have had the same finger­ stitution met, they endeavored to pre­ than has my friend the gentleman from prints. Yet, in the face of this indis­ vent the development of conditions which Texas [Mr. THOMASON]. putable t;Vidence of the Creator of man­ today shock the world in Europe by the The SPEAKER pro tempore. The kind's intent and purpose, that each declaration that all men were created time of the gentleman from Alabama has individual had been endowed and cre­ equal and that they were endowed by expired. ated by Almighty God for a specific pur­ their Creator with certain inalienable Under special order heretofore entered, pose, we find the spirit of hatred still rights, among which were the rights to the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. alive in the world. life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness CURLEY] is recognized for 15 minutes. When the Divine Master preached on without regard to race, creed, or color. SERVIQE AND SACRIFICE BY THE JEWISH the shores of Galilee, the doctrine of While it is true from time to time the PEOPLE ENTITLE THEM TO THE RE­ the fatherhood of God and the brother­ black flag of bigotry has been in evi­ SPECT OF THEIR FELLOW AMERICANS hood of man, He did not specifically dence in this fair land of ours, it is AND AN END OF JEWISH PERSECUTION designate that any particular group cre­ equally true that the fundamentals of HERE AND ABROAD ated by Him should be privileged to our Government have been sufficiently hold in subjection or persecution or accepted and impressed upon our people Mr. CURLEY. Mr. Speaker, the 'su­ oppression any other group, and yet to cause sanity to assert itself and justice premely courageous action recently down through the ages the powerful have for all races to prevail. taken by His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, in persecuted and oppressed the weaker. . The Jewish people have been the . opening the gates of the Eternal City to America, since the establishment of target for oppression and persecution ' the Jewish people who tled there seeking our Government, has proven not only a through the centuries, notwithstanding refuge from the murderous hordes of the haven of refuge for ~ the persecuted and the fact that their contribution to the followers of Hitler and his refusal to give the oppressed of the world without re­ spiritual, cultural, and industrial devel­ up these people to the German soldiery gard to race, creed, or color, but has opment has been as great in proportion seeking to assassinate them should serve raised its voice against persecution and to their number as that of any other race. as an inspiration to faith, courage, and oppression when practiced in other They have contributed . freely of time, fortitude not only by the followers of the countries of the world. I can well re­ energy, money, and life itself both in Vicar of Christ, but to right-thinking call the very great honor conferred upon hours of peace and in hours of crisis, and people the world over, regardless of their me as a Member of the Sixty-second as beneficiaries of their contribution, it religious beliefs. To challenge death for Congress some 32 years ago, of being is clearly our duty at this time to voice the protection and preservation of the selected by the Speaker of the National our protest against further persecution oppressed and persecuted not of his House of Representatives, the late of the Jewish people whether it be in faith is unparalleled in the annals of lamented Honorable ·champ Clark, to Germany or any other portion of the history and stamps His Holiness as a preside over the House when a resolu­ world. In every war in which the Ameri­ worthy disciple of the Divine Master who tion was adopted abrogating commercial can Nation has participated from the be­ gave to the world not only the admoni­ treaties with Russia representing in ex­ ginning of our Government, they have tion of "Peace 'on Earth to Men of Good cess of $100,000,000 annually, because of been a potential factor, not only for the Will" but likewise advocated the brother­ the refusai at that time of the Russian establishment of the Government, but hood of man and the fatherhood of God. Government to end pogroms and substi­ for its preservation and perpetuation. These admonitions so vital to the happi­ tuting therefor trial by jury for the Jew­ The words "home" and "mother" con­ ness and welfare of the human family ish people in Russia. The measure was vey the same sweet blessed thought to are today generally disregarded, and we adopted by the House and Senate and the Jews that they convey to those of find the hand of man rai~ed against his signed by the late lamented Woodrow every other race, and in the spirit of the fellow man throughout the world and Wilson, and shortly after pogroms ended mothers of men, who journey down in the seeds of hatred sown everywhere. in Russia. · No group in the history of the shadow of the valley of death that we There is a consolation, however, in the the world has suffered persecution in the might come into being; and in the sacred knowledge that in a period of warfare, same measure as have those of the Jewish name of home and in the name of our · spiritual and material values are best race. priceless heritage of liberty and equality, approximated and the futility of striv­ Reading over the history of persecu­ I appeal to all to demand, not in the ing for material ends alone and the ne­ tions, anyone unfamiliar with the facts name of tolerance, but in the name of cessity for spiritual idealism influences would labor under the impression that justice and fair play for the Jewish peo- everyone. There comes to us first of all the individual woman or man victim of - pie throughout the world an end of the realization that the only thing that persecution because of race, creed, or hatred and persecution. we take away with us on departing this color, was responsible for 'his or her life is the record of ·service to God and It is fitting that the contribution by race, creed, or color. The fact is that we those of Jewish blood be presented so our fellow ·man which each of us write come into the world as Almighty God de­ during our brief stay on earth. It h~s that America may have the opportunity ·creed we should come into it, and due to determine upon merit whether Ameri­ been well phrased by the poet-philoso­ to the fact that our parents were of a cans s~all be permitted through lack of pher Ornar Khayyam, who wrote: certain race and a certain color and pro­ The moving finger writes, and having writ, fessed a certain creed, we cannot escape facts and absence of knowledge to em­ ·moves on; nor all your piety nor wit, shall the race of our parents, or the color of bark upon a program of hate, the success lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your our parents, and we rarely change from of which would cause the hands of many tears wash out a word of it. the creed of our parents. And this has millions - of Americans to be raise-d Ah, how many lines every indiyidual. been the unvarying rule from the begin­ . against other Americans absolutely with­ would like to wipe away that have been: ning of creation. In view of these condi­ out justification. recorded in the Heavenly ledger and f<;>r tions, beyond the control of the -individ­ At a period when the movement for which one day each in· his turn ·must ·ual, ·there is no way in which to justify -the liberty of the American colonists was 3328 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MARCH 30 undertaken, the number of Jews in Amer­ ica. The record of achievement by the Pablo Lopez. For heroism in the Panama ica was extremely limited, being less than people of the Jewish faith in the present 1 Canal Zone. 3,000 upon. the entire American conti­ war is now being written in their blood Sgt: Abraham Abramowitz, 21, Army Air and at the conclusion of the war to be Forces, of the Bronx, N. Y. Air Medal and nent. Nevertheless, they furnished not four Oak Leaf Clusters. He took part in only many soldiers but more than 20 offi­ translated into the records of our coun- numerous raids over Europe. cers, some of whom enjoyed the friend­ try. Pvt. Itzchok Abramowitz, 27, of Brooklyn, ship and confidence, in a large measure, The chief charge leveled by propa- N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in of the father of our country, General gandists against the Jewish citizens is north Africa. .Washington. When the cause of the col­ that they are to be found largely in the Pvt. Seymour Abramovitz, 23, of Pitts­ noncombat service. A recent publica- burgh, Pa. Purple Heart. Wounded in ac- onists appeared darkest and the prospects tion in Sicily. for victory most remote, when desertions tion issued by the National Jewish Wei- Lt. John M. Abrams, 35, Medical corps, of were common, dissensions were general, fare Board of New York City gives the lie, Kansas City, Kansas. American Defense and d ~ sintegration ap}i)arently inevitable, however, to the assertion. The total Medal. For heroism in the South Pacific. it was a group of Jews in America aided number of doctors of Jewish faith in the Pvt. Norman Abrams, 27, of Youngstown, by Haym Salomon, of Philadelphia, who· United States, according to a survey Ohio. Purple Heart. wounded in action in Bizerte, Africa. contributed over $600,000 that the troops made in 193 9 , is 18,00 0 . Th e I argest Pvt. (1st cl.) Michael Abrams, so, of might be fed and clothed and paid, that group is to be found in the New York Newark, N. J. Purple Heart. wounded in the war might go on until victory for the area comprising Brooklyn and the Bronx action in. Sicily. colonists had been established. -sections, and of this number the religious Pvt. Melvin Abramson, 21, of New Rochelle, It is :fitting to recall that it was a· Jew­ faith of 92 percent of the total number, · N. Y. Purple Heart. wounded in action in ish citizen by name, Judah Tuoro, that or 6,836 is found to be Jewish. Of the Sicily. · h h · · t · b Pvt. (1st. cl.) Louis W. Ackerson, 24, of contributed in a manner more generous J ew1s p YSlCians in hiS area· num er- Palo, Mich. Purple Heart. wounded in ac- than any other individual to the com­ ing 4,409, it is found that 32 percent are tion in the southwest Pacific. pletion of the erection of the Bunker Hill in the armed forces as against 2,42.7 non- Lt. Julian s. Adleman, 32, of Revere, Mass. Monument, a memorial to the soldiers Jewish doctors, or 27.5 percent, in the Purpie Heart. Killed in action in north who fought in the War of the Revolution. armed service. The survey was made of Africa. It was the same Judah Tuoro who, dur­ 2,895 inductees of Jewish faith in Penn- Lt. Ben Adler, Medical Corps, of Paterson, ing the second war with England, entered sylvania and it was estimated this num- N. J. Purple Heart. For heroism in Hawaii. Lt. Jerome M. Adler, 22, Army Air Forces, the ranks as a common soldier and was ber represents one-half of all Jewish citi- of Brooklyn, N. Y. Air Medal. For heroism severely wounded and that more than a zens of Pittsburgh in the armed forces; · in air combat over north Africa. score of other citizens of Jewish blood of this number, 25 percent of the total, Pvt. Julius B. Adler, 32, of Hartford, Conn. served as officers in this war. or more than 700, are serving in the most · Purple Heart. Killed in action in the South- It was the same story in the Mexica~ dangerous branch of the service, namely, · west Pacific. · War of 1846, where more than a half the Air Forces, while the remainder are Lt. Monroe A. Adler, 24, Army Air Forces, score of officers serving in that war were divided up, with 9.1) percent in the Medt- of Allentown, Pa. Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal. For extraordinary achieve­ of Jewish extraction. Notwithstanding cal Corps, 9.4 percent in the Infantry, ment in aerial flight while piloting a ·trans- the prejudice which has from time to time 7 .4 percent in the Field Artillery, 7.3 per-. port plane in the South Pacific during more been evidenced toward the Jews, the fact cent in the Quartermaster Corps, 5.5 per- than 175 operational missions, transporting remains that Gen. David Leon, not once cent in the Coast Artillery, 5.4 percent · troops and equipment and evacuating but twice, was voted the· thanks of the ·in the Engineers, 4.8 percent in the Sig- wounded personnel. American Congress for his courage during nal Corps, and 3.3 in the Armored Forces. Capt. Philip M. Adler, 27, Army Air Forces, of Lebanon, Ind. Distinguished Flying the war. In the Civil War, although the It is interesting 'to contrast the above Cross, Air Medal and Purple Heart. Capt. total population at that period in the :figures with the noncombat service, Adler has taken part in numerous raids United States was but 150,000 Jews, some namely, Army administration, which has against the Japs in China, as operations 8,000 served in the Northern Army. but seven-tenths of 1 percent, and Army offi.cer of a squadron and pilot of a Liberator In the First World War, it is conserva­ :finance but 1.2 percent; the remaining bomber. He was wounded in action during tively estimated that more than 200,000 one raid. persons of Jewish extraction served, 20.3 percent is to be found in other capt. Philip M. Adler, 28, Army Air Forces, brartches of the Army, including Cavalry, of Leb3J1on, Ind. Purple Heart. wounded representing 4 percent of the total armed Chemical Warfare, Chaplain Corps, Mili- in action in China. forces of the United States as against 3 tary Police, and Paratrooper.s. Pvt. Sam Adlin, 21, of Paterson, N. J. percent of the total population. In the These :figures which have been com- Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Italy. First World War nearly 15,000 Americans piled through Army sources give the lie Lt. Isidore Alfred, 25, Army Air Forces, of of Jewish extraction were wounded and -to t·he story that ha~ so long been cur:ren·t Brooklyn, N.Y. Silver Star. Posthumously some twenty-eight hundred made the awarded for heroism in air combat neaf Java supreme sacrifice that free government that men of Jewish faith were largely in where he died in action when his plane was might continue to be the heritage of the noncombat services. shot down. America. A list has been compiled by the War Sgt. Sam R. Allen, 28, New York, N. Y. Their contribution has been most Review of the National Jewish Welfare Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north notable in the line of peaceful pursuits Board to November 1, 1943. While it is Africa. incomplete, it nevertheless is sufficient Pvt. <1st cl.) Nathan Alper, 25, of New where men are judged by character, York, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in merit, and service, free of the debasing to indicate the injustice of the charge . aetion 1~ Sic.ily. and degrading practice of indulging in that the Jews are not doing their full· - Sgt ..Edward Altglass, 29, of New York, N.Y. what might savor of narrowness and big­ duty in the present war. - Purple Heart. Killed in action in north otry. We have been mindful of the con­ The record of the awards of the Purple Africa. tribution to philanthropy made by Julius Heart, the Silver Star, distinguished- Lt. Frederic G. Altman, Army Air Forces, of service decorations is most inspiring and Little Rock,. Ark. Distinguished Flying Cross, Rosenwald, to jurisprudence made by Air Medal and nine Oak Leaf Clusters. For Louis D. Brandeis, of the contribution is worthy of study by every citizen who his heroism as bombardier aboard a B-17 to the :financial well-being of America in still harbors the illusion that men of bomber in 50 bombing missions over north the critical period of the World War by Jewish faith are lacking in courage, loy- Africa and Europe, including Sicily. Morgenthau and Baruch, of the con­ alty, or full sense of patriotic duty for Lt. Ar-thur Amron, 25, Army Air Forces, of tribution to medical science of Rosenau, a common country. - Rockaway Park, N. Y. Purple Heart. KillE>d of the contribution to science of an Ein­ in action ·in the Philippines. stein, of the contribution to art and to HONORS AND AWARDS Sgt. Mui·ray Andriessc, of Newport, R. I. literature and to science from the days Pvt. (1st. cl.) Leslie Aaron, 23, of Oak Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north Grove, L. I., Purple Heart. Wounded in ac­ Africa. of Moses to the present. Mindful of this tion in the South Pacific. Lt. Morris Applebaum, 25, Army Air Forces, most notable of contributions, we can Pvt. Jacob. Abelman, United States Marine of Birmingham, Ala. Purple Heart. Killed only view with disgust and a feeling of Corps, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. in action in south Pacific. shatme the position taken by those whose Wounded in action in the Southwest Pacific. Sgt. Robert Arch, of Valley Stream, N. Y. preachments of hate and bigotry would Sgt. Allan A. Aberbrook, 24, of the Bronx, Silver Star. ,For heroism in north Africa serve to divide the people of free Amer- N. Y. Citation from Colombian General during the Oran offensives. 1944 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3329

Sgt. Arnold E. Arnold, 21, Army Air Forces, Pvt. Meyer Be~ofsky, 25, of New York, N.Y. he personally accounted for several Zeros dur­ of Los Angeles, Calif. Purple Heart. K1lled Purple Heart. Killed in action in the south­ ing 63 bombing raids and air battles in the in action over Germany. west Pacific. Pacific. Pvt. Justin Barry Arnold, 20, United States Lt. Morris Berenson, Army Air Forces, of Lt. Sidney Lewis Binderman, United States Marine Corps, of Minneapolis, Minn. Purple Garfield, N.J. Air Medal and three Oak Leaf Navy, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. Heart. Killed in action on Guadalcanal. Clusters. For his part in bombing raids over Killed in action in the Java Sea. Lt. Sanford N. Aronbeck, 26, Army Air Tunisia and Tripoli, and for disabling seven Pvt. Bernard Binetsky, 30, of Newark, N.J. Forces, of Auburn, N.Y. Distinguished Fly­ enemy craft in a Nazi-held port. Purple Heart. He was wounded during the ing Cross, Air Medal, Oak Leaf Cluster, and Pvt. Bernard E. Berg, 21, of Philadelphia, invasion of Sicily when a German shell broke Purple Heart. For extraordinary heroism in Pa. Silver Star and Purple Heart. He his right leg. aerial combat in the north African campaign. crawled through enemy fire on Guadalcanal Corp. Peter 0. Binswanger, of Los Angeles, On one occasion his quick thinking and to render aid to an officer and dragged the Calif. Purple Heart. Killed in action in adroit handling of a plane enabled him to officer to safety despite wounds in his back. north Africa. save the lives of 10 crew members. Sgt. Marwin A. Berg, 23, of Los Angeles, Pvt. Arthur Biskin, of Albany, N. Y. Pur­ Lt. Albert M. Aronson, 28, Army Air Forces, Calif. Purple Heart. Killed -in action in ple Heart. Wounded in action in Hawaii. of Kingstree, S. C. Purple Heart and Air the Southwest Pacific. Lt. Howard W. Blank, 23, Army Air Forces, Medal. For his work as navigator of a Lt. Sidney Berk, 25, Army Air Forces, of of Terre Haute, Ind. Purple Heart. Wounded B-24 Liberator bomber which took part in Jacksonville, Fla. Purple Heart. Killed in in action over France. numerous raids on Europe, failed to return action over France. Lt. Paul Blank, Army Air Forces, of Maple­ from a raid on Rumanian oil fields. Sgt. William Berkman, 30, of New York, wood, Mo. Air Medal and three Oak Leaf Capt. Lloyd H. Aronson, 24, Army Air N.Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Clusters. For repeated acts of heroism dur­ Forces, of South Norwalk, Conn. Dis­ Tunisia. ing months of air action over Europe. tinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal. For Sgt. Arthur Berkovitz, 23, Army Air Forces, Lt. Melvin J. Bleakman, 25, Army Air l>~eroism in the Far East. He saved a twin­ of East Chicago, Ind. Air Medal and two Oak Forces, of Baltimore, Md. Air Medal. As co­ engine plane at an allied airdrome in China Leaf Clusters. For his part in numerous pilot on a bombing attack over Nazi-held from destruction during a bombing raid. bombing raids over occupied Europe. Re­ Europe, he led a formation of Flying Fort­ Pvt. (1st cl.) Abe Aronowitz, 27, or Pater­ ported missing in action. resses when the pilot was injured, and suc­ son, N. J. Purple Heart. Killed in action in Capt. Jack Berkovitz, 23, Army Air Forces, ceeded in bringing his own ship to its base Australia. of Los Angeles, Calif. · Air Medal. He took although a shell hole had pierced its side Pvt. (1st cl.) Josef Z. Asbel, 22, of the · part in 40 bombing missions against Japa­ and half its control cables had been shot Bronx, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in nese positions in New Guinea and other away by enemy fighters. action in north Africa. Southwest Pacific. bases. Lt. Donald S. Bloch, 23, Army Air Forces, Sgt. Jack Ascher, 21, Army Air Forces, of Lt. George Berkowitz, 25, Army Air Forces, of Roxbury, Mass. Air Medal. He distin· Brooklyn, N. Y. Distinguished Flying Cross. of Dallas, Tex. Silver Star, Purple Heart, guished himself during the bombing of Nauru He was radio operator on a bomber which and Nineteenth Bombardment Group cita­ 1n the South Pacific. sank a German submarine off the coast of tion. For heroism in action in the South Lt. Maurice I. Bloch, 21, of Selma, Ala. South America. Pacific, where he was wounded. Purple Heart. Killed in action in Hawaii. Lt. Jerome H. Ash, 27, of New York, N. Y. Pvt. Harold N. Berkowitz, 23, of Brooklyn, Ensign Jules H. Bloch, 27, United States Purple Heart. Killed in action in Italy. N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action in Navy, of Oklahoma City, Okla. Navy com­ Lt. (Jr. Gr.) Nathan Frederick Asher, north Africa. mendation. For heroism as officer in charge United States Navy, of Philadelphia, Pa. Sgt. Marvin Berkowitz, 23, Army Air Forces, of a gun crew aboard a merchant ship on Commendation from Secretary Knox. He of Brooklyn, N Y. Silver Star and Purple the route to Murmansk. assumed emergency command of destroyer on Heart. For heroism and wounds received in Sgt. Harold Block, 31, Army Air Forces, of the day of the Pearl Harbor attack. action in the Southwest Pacific. Now re­ Brooklyn, N.Y. Air Medal and five Oak Leaf Pvt. (1st cl.) Daniel C. Bain, 26, Sutersville, ported missing. Clusters. For heroism as radio operator of a P_a. Purple Heart. Killed in action in the Pvt. Samuel F. Berkowitz, 22, of New York, Liberator bomber during raids on Europe, in­ Ph111ppines. N Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action in cluding the bombing of the Ploesti oil fields in Pvt (ist cl.) Reuben Robert Baitchman, 39, north Africa. Rumania. of New Orleans, La. Purple Heart. Killed in Lt. Irving Berman, 23, Army Air Forces, Lt. Irving C. Bloom, 28, Army Air Forces, action in the Philippines. of Paterson, N. J. Purple Heart. Killed in of Hannibal, Mo. Distinguished Flying Cross. Sgt. Martin Balick, 26, of Wilmington, Del. action in the-Aleutians. Air Medal and six Oak Leaf Clusters. He com­ Silver Star. For leading his outfit over a hill Lt. Samuel D. Berman, 25, Army Air Forces, pleted 37 missions over Sicily, Italy, Greece, in Tunisia under heavy enemy fire. A private of Terrace Park, Ohio. Air Medal. For his Rumania and Austria. at the time, he took command in the absence part in "dangerous operational flights over Lt. William A. Bloom, 23, of Houston, Tex. of an officer. mountainous terrain" in the Far East. Pw·ple Heart. Killed in action in western Pvt. Joseph Baskin, 24; of Brooklyn, N. Y. Pvt. Herman Berne, 32, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Europe. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in south­ Purple Heart. Wounded in action in the Lt. Robert B. Blum,_ 25, Army Air Forces, west Pacific. South Pacific. of New York, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in Pvt. Jacob Bass, 26, of West New York, N. J. Lt. Bernard Alvin Bernstein, 21, Army Air action in north Africa. Purple Heart. Killed in action in the Asiatic Forces, of Des Moines, Iowa. Purple Heart. Pvt. (1st cl.) Sam Blumenfeld, 26, of St. seas. Kilfed ih action over Eur-epe. Paul, Minn. Purple Heart. Wounded in ac­ Lt. Samuel Bass, 25, Army Air Forces, of Sgt. David Bernstein, 31, Army Air Forces, tion in north Africa. North, S. C. Air Medal. For outstanding of Winsted, Conn. Air Medal, Oak Leaf Pvt. Joseph Blumstein, 24, of Brooklyn, aerial achievement as navigator and bom­ Cluster, and Purple Heart. Killed in air N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in bardier on a bombing mission in the Middle action over Sicily. the southwest Pacific. East. Sgt. Harry P. Bernstein, 27, of the Bronx, Lt. Allan L. Bobrow, 24, Army Air Forces, Pvt. Sam Bassoff, 29, of the Bronx, N. Y. N Y. Purple Heart .. ·wounded in action in of Philadelphia, Pa. Air Medal. For excep­ Purple Heart. Killed in action in north the Southwest Pacific. tionally meritorious service as pilot of a Fly­ Africa. Corp. Saul Bernstein, of Farmingdale, N.Y. ing Fortress. Reported missing in air action Pvt. (1st cl.) Norman D. Bauer, United Purple Heart. Kille.d in action in the South over occupied Europe. States Marine Corps, of Lamar, Colo. Purple Pacific. Lt. Wallace M. Bonaparte, 26, United States Heart. Wounded in action. Pvt. (1st cl.) Sidney Bernstein, 24, of the Navy, of Los Angeles, Calif. Purple Heart. Corp. Raymond D. Bauer, 23, of Jersey City, Bronx, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in Killed in action in the South Pacific. N. J. Purple Heart.' Wounded in action in action in north Africa. Pvt. Harry Brande, 20, of New York, N.Y. north Africa. Sgt. Ted Bernstein, 22, Army Air Forces, of Legion of Merit award. For heroism in New Pvt. Clifford Baum, of the Bronx, N. Y. Santa Ana, Calif. Purple Heart. Killed in Guinea, when he deliberately exposed him.:. Purple Heart. Killed in action in north north Africa. self to malaria as part of a medical experi­ Africa. Maj. Arthur Berwald, 28, of Dallas, Tex. ment. Pvt. Abe Bearman, 33, of Allentown, Pa. Purple Heart. Killed in action at Kiska. Yeoman Bernard William Brender, United Purple Heart. wounded in action in north Maj. Louis Besbeck, of Los Angeles, Calif. States Navy, of Columbus, Ohio. Purple Africa. Purple Heart. wounded in action at Bataan. Heart. Wounded in action at sea. Seaman Milton S. Becker, 30, United States Missing in action . Pvt. (1st cl.) Meyer Brener, 37, of New . Navy, of Newport News, Va. Purple Heart. · Metalsmith Solomon Bessel, 23, United Orleans, La. Purple Heart. Killed in action For heroism at sea during the invasion of States Navy, of Glen Cove, N. Y. Purple 1n the Southwest Pacific. Sicily. Heart. Killed in action in Hawaii. Lt. Roy Bright, Army Air Forces, of Corp. Sidney Becker, 25, of Chicago, Ill. Lt. Leonard Bessman, 35, of Milwaukee, Wis. Eveleth, Minn. Silver Star and Distin-_ Purple Heart. Killed in action in the South Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Africa. guished Flying Cross. For action at Midway Pacific. Sgt. Theodore Billen, 21, Army Air Forces, and gallantry in the Southwest Pacific. Pvt. Irving Beeber, 23, of Los Angeles, Calif. of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Distinguished Flying Lt. Comdr. Jerry Brock, 32, Unitecl States Purple Heart. Wounded in action in New Cross, Air Medal, Purple Heart, and 3 cita­ Navy, of Bu1Ialo, N. Y. Purple Heart. Guinea. tions. As an aerial engineer and sunner, Wounded in action at sea. 3330 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-!IOUSE MARCH 30 · Capt. Jacob S. Brody, of Los Angeles, Calif. Capt. Bernard W. Charles, 22, Army Air antisubmarine flights carried out in the Car­ Purple Heart. Wounded in action in the Forces, of the Bronx, N. Y.' Purple Heart. ibbean area during hazardous weather. Southwest Pacific. Wounded-in action in north Africa. Pvt. Russell L. Cohen, 22, United States Ma­ Sgt. Milton Bromberg, 27, of Paterson, N.J. Capt. Lester J. Chase, 35, of Worcester, rine Corps, of Pittsburgh, Pa. Purple Heart. Legion of Merit award. For heroism during Mass. Silver Star. Missing in action since Wounded in action on Guadalcanal. the invasion of north Africa. the fall of Bataan, where he earned the award Corp. Samuel Cohen, 23, of Brooklyn, N.Y. Lt. (Jr. Gr.) Ben Richard Bronstein, as an infantryman. Purple Heart. Wounded in ,actlon in north United States Naval Reserve, of Manchester, Radio Operator John Cherneck, United Africa. · N. H. Purple Heart. ~illed in action at States Navy, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Purple Pvt. Samuel Cohen, 23, of Dorchester, Mass. sea. Heart. Killed at Pearl Harbor. Purple Heart. Wound€d in action in Sicily. Pvt. (1st cl.) Isadore Brookoff, 23, of Brook­ Capt. Marvin L. Chernow, 29, of Los Ange­ Sgt. Schiller Cohen, 23, Army Air Forces, of lyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action in les, Calif. Purple Heart. Wounded in ac­ the Bronx, N. Y. Distinguished Flying north Africa. tion in the Aleutians. Cross, Air Medal, 10 Oak Leaf Clusters, and Capt. Nathan Brooks, 30, Medical Corps, of Pvt. (1st cl.) Albert Chick, 31, of Cincinnati, a Group Citation. As a flying fortress waist Detroit, Mich. Silver Star. Heroic work in Ohio. Purple Heart. Fought in four north gunner Cohen has been credited with shoot­ caring for wounded soldiers while Jap planes African battles. ing down 1 enemy plane and scoring 4 prob­ bombed their field hospital at Buna, New Corp. Edward Chitlik, 25, United States ables during 254 combat hours over north Guinea. Marine Corps, of Cle_veland, Ohio. Silver Africa and Europe. Pvt. Albert M. Brown, 25, of Detroit, Mich. Star and commendation from Secretary Knox. Lt. Stanley Cohen, 25, Army Air Forces, of Purple Heart. Wounded in action in the For restoring communications between head­ Pulaski, Tenn. Distinguished Flying Cross, Southwest Pacific. quarters and the front during a battle in the Air Medal, and Group Citation. He took part Corp. Milton J. Brown, of New York, N.Y. Solomon Islands. . in one of the longest bombing missions ever Purple Heart. Killed in action in the Pacific Pvt. Frank Churgin, 25, of the Bronx, N.Y. undertaken, as navigator aboard a heavy area. Purple Heart. For heroism in north Africa bomber. His squadron flew more than 3,000 Pvt. Sidney E. Brown, 22, of Buffalo, S. C. as a member of an armored unit. miles to blast objectives at Japanese-held Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north Maj. Max Clark, United States Marine Banglmk. Africa. Corps, of Galveston, Tex. Purple Heart. Pvt. William Cohen, 28, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Corp. Raymond Budman, 23, of Philadel­ Wounded in action in the Philippines. J;urple Heart. Wounded in action in Algeria. phia, Pa. Legion of Merit. For his heroism Sgt. Robert Clifford, Army Air Forces, of Capt. Joe B. Cohn, of University City, Mo. as leader of an infantry group during the Perth Amboy, N. J. Purple Heart. Heroism Purple Heart. Wounded in action in the fighting on Gaudalcanal. at Hickam Field, Hawaii, on d~y of t!le Pearl South Pacific. Lt. Joseph Buntin, 27, United States Marine Harbor attack. Capt. Melvin M. Coleman, 26, Army Air Corps, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Navy commenda­ Lt. Alfred J. Cohen, Army Air Forces, 25, of Forces, of Denver, Colo. Air Medal and Pur­ tion. He demonstrated expert initiative and Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Air Medal. Air action over ple Heart. He took part in a hazardous mis­ leadership on Guadalcanal in withdrawing Sicily. sion to Tunisia, transporting paratroops to his platoon intact to a more suitable defen­ Musician Allan Cohen, United States Ma­ the fran t, died in action shortly afterward sive position, enabling his company to break rine Corps, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. when lle refused to bail out of a crippled up an enemy assault. Killed in action in the Southwest Pacific. plane which developed a defect in the fuel Pvt. (1st cl.) Milton Burman, 22, of New Pvt. Arthur Cohen, 29, of Bridgeport, Conn. supply. York, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north Lt. James Howard Cooper, 34, Army Air in north Africa. Africa. Forces, of Birmingham, Ala. Purple Heart. Pvt. (1st cl.) Louis H. Burns, 30, of Fin­ Sgt. Edward S. Cohen, 23, Army Air Forces, For heroism in north Africa. castle, Ohio. Purple Heart. Wounded in of Rumford, Maine. Air Medal and Oak Leaf Pvt. Jacob Cooperman, 25, of Brooklyn, action in Sicily. Cluster. For participation in the transporta­ N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Sgt. Sheldon Burnstein, 21, Army Air tion of troops from England to north Africa north Africa. Forces, of Elgin, Ill. Air Medal. He shot on the nights of the inva;:;ion despite adverse Lt. Allan Cotler, 25, Army Air Forces, of down a Messerschmidt 210 on a bombing mis­ weather and poor communications, and for Brooklyn, N. Y. Distinguished Flying Cross. sion over southern Italy, as a gunner on a heroism in the air over Sicily. For extraordinary achievement in aerial bomber. Lt. Jack Cohen, 22, Army Air Forces, of flight. He participated in 200 hours of oper• Pvt. Jack M. Burt, 32, of Los Angeles, Calif. Brooklyn, N. Y. Distinguished Flying Cross atlonal flight missions in the southwest Pa­ Purple Heart. Wounded i_f action in north and Air Medal. He was one of a group of cific, including bombing missions . against Africa. fliers who downed 24 enemy planes in the enemy airdromes and installations, armed Lt. Archie S. Busch, .23, of Brooklyn, N. Y. South Pacific. reconnaissance flights, and attacks on enemy Purple Heart. Killed in action in the south­ . Pvt. Harry Cohen, 29, of Brooklyn, N. Y. naval vessels and shipping. west Pacific. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north Lt. Signey S. Cowen, 30, of Belle Harbor, Pvt. Herman Buchsbaum, 27, of Brooklyn; Africa. N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in acti.on in N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action Lt. Herman Cohen, 23, Army Air Forces, of north Africa. . in north Africa. Port Arthur, Tex. Purple Heart. Killed in Pvt. Jesse A. Craft, 23, of Benton tiarbor, Pvt. Phillip Bzaza, 29, of Brooklyn, N. Y-. action in north Africa. Mich. Purple Heart. Killed in action in Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north Petty Officer Hershel Cohen, 23, United north Africa. . Africa. States Navy, of Canton, Ohio. Purple Heart. Sgt. Herman R. Cummins, 21, of Baltimore, Pvt. Louis Calderon, 22, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Wounded in action at sea. Md. Purple Heart. Killed in action in the Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north Pvt. (1st cl.) Heyman S. Cohen, 24, of New South Pacific. Africa. York, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action Pvt. Milton Cusher, 23, of Chelsea, Mass. Pvt. Salomon M. Candelaria, 23, of San in. north Africa. Purple Heart. Wounded in action on Guadal­ Mateo, N.Mex. Purple Heart. · Killed in ac­ Pvt. Jethro I. Cohen, 21, of Elgin, Ill. Pur­ canal.. tion in north Africa. ple Heart. Killed in action in the Southwest Sgt. Irving Cutler, 19, Army Air Forces, of Pacific. Paterson, N.J. Silver Star and Purple Heart. Sgt. Howard Cantor, 23, Army Air Forces, Killed in action in north Africa, where he of Brooklyn, N.Y. Silver Star, Distinguished Lt. Joseph Bundi Cohen, 34, of University had distinguished himself as radio operator Flying Cross, Air Medal, Oak Leaf Cluster, and City, Mo. Purple Heart .. Wounded in action a board a bomber. a group citation. He was tail gunner in a in north Africa. · Lt. Mandell L. Cypress, 23, Army Air Forces, B-17 bomber at Midway and Guadalcanal, Pvt. Lawrence Cohen, 23, of New York, N.Y. of Buffalo, N.Y. Air Medal. For his part in and is credited with shooting down 9 Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Sicily. a bombing raid on Japanese-held Wake Is­ Zeros in the South Pacific in the course of Maj. Leonard P. Cohen, 29, Army Air Forces, land. 67 combat missions and· 27 bombing flights. of Fall River, Mass. Legion of Merit award. Pvt. (1st cl.) Leslie Daichman, 25, of New­ Maj. Alexander Samuel Caplan, of Denver, For his services to the Ninth Air Force in the ark, N. J. Purple Heart. Wounded in action Colo. Purple Heart. Killed in action in the Middle East and north Africa. in north Africa. Philippines. Lt. Louis Cohen, 27, of Atlantic City, N. J. Corp. Sidney S. Damb, 24, of Springfield, Lt. Comdr. Stanley Caplan, 27, of Elmira, Purple Heart. Killed in action in the S:)lO· Mass. Silver Star. For gallantry in Tunisia. N. Y. Commendation from Secretary Knox. ·mons. He assumed control of h is squad when the For taking a destroyer to sea on the day of Sgt. Melvin Cohen, 21, of Brooklyn, N. Y. leader was wounded and, exposing himself to the Pearl Harbor attack and, with · three Purple Heart. Wounded in action in New enemy fire to more effectively direct mortar other ensigns, shooting down four Japanese Guinea. fire, deployed his men so that maximum dam­ planes and depth-bombing two enemy sub­ Sgt. Mitchell Cohen, United States Marine age was inflicted on the enemy. marines. Corps, of Lawrence, Mass. Purple Heart. For Sgt. Robert P. Damsky, ?.2, Army Air Force, Sgt. Maynard L. Carp, 27, of Baltimore, Md. bravery under fire, and wounds received in of Swampscott, Mass. Purple Heart. Wound­ Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north action in the Far East. ed at Hickam Field during the ·pearl Harbor Africa. Sgt: Perry E. Cohen, 29, of Buffalo, N. Y. attack. · Seaman Benjamin M. Carpman, U;nited Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Sicily. Capt. Otis Daneman, 29, paratrooper, 'Army States Navy, of Baltimore, Md. Purple Heart. Lt. Robert Cohen, 23, Army Air Forces, of Air Force, of Staten Island, N. Y. Purple Killed in action in the Pacific area; Flushing, N; Y. Air Medal. For lo:ng-range Heart. Killed in action in Sir.Hy. - 1944 CONGRESSIONAL RECO,RD-HOUSE 3331 Pvt. Sydney Daniel, 27, of Reading, Pa. patrol bomber In the north Atlantic, thereby · Medal, and Oak Leaf Cluster. A fighter pilot, Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north saving the lives of 13 crewmen. he downed nine enemy planes over north Africa. Sgt. Samuel L. Edwards, 32, Army Air Africa. Lt. Foster Daniels, 21, Army Air Force, of Forces, of Washington, D. C. Air Medal Pvt. (1st cl.) Philip Feldacker, 37, Engineer Pikeville, Ky. Air Medal, two Oak Leaf Clus­ and Oak Leaf Cluster. As aerial gunner on Corps, of St. Louts, Mo. Silver Star. For ters, and Purple Heart. Killed in action over a Flying Fortress, he distinguished himself gallantry in action in north Africa. Wilhelmshaven, Germany, after participating during numerous raids over north Africa and Corp, Lloyd Felder, of Cleveland, Ohio. in numerous raids on the continent. occupied Europe. · Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Sicily. Lt. Edward L. Danziger, 28, of New York, Sgt. Abraham A. Ehrenreich, lu, Army Air Pvt. Jack H. Feldman, 19, Army Air Forces, N. Y. Silver Star. For gallantry in action Forces, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Air Medal and of Philadelphia, Pa. Purple Heart. Killed in in Tunisia. Oak Leaf Cluster. For participating in 5 action in Hawail. Capt. William Hays Davidow, 23, Army Air sorties against the enemy over Europe, and Lt. Leon Feldman, 25, Army Air Forces, of Force, of New York, N. Y. Purple Heart. in 10 raids over north Africa. New Orleans, La. Air Medal and Oak Leaf Killed in action in north Africa. Corp. Martin D. Eichman, of Chicago, Ill., Cluster. He participated as bombardier on a Sgt. Chester Davis, 25, Army Air Force, of Marine Corps commendation. For valor at Flying Fortress in 10 raidS on occupied Eu­ Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. For wounds Corregidor. rope, and is credited with shooting down a sustained in a raid on Europe. He also par­ Pvt. (1st cl.) Henry R. Eiseman, 27, of G€rman fighter plane during 1 mission. ticipated as a gunner in the first all-American Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in Lt. Leonard ·M. Feldman, 23, Army Air raid on Europe, over occupied Holland, on action-in north Africa. Forces, of Chicago, Dl. Purple Heart. Killed July 4, 1942. Pvt. (1st cl.) Sam Eisen, 24, of Detroit, in action in the South Pacific. Sgt. Harry Cohn, 28, Army Air Force, of Mich. Purple Heart. Kiiled in action in the Lt. Leonard Feldman, 26, of· Pittsburgh, Pa. Hazelton, Pa. Purple Heart. Killed in action Southwest Pacific. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Tunisia. in the South Pacific. Capt. Everett A. Eisenberg, 27, Army Air Lt. Norbert B. Feldman, 22, Army Air Forces, Lt. Herman Davis, 24, of Chicago, Til. Pur­ Forces, of Long Island City, N.Y. Air Medal. of Brooklyn, N. Y. Air Medal, Oak Leaf ple Heart. Wounded in action in New Guinea. Flight leader of a squadron of Liberator Cluster, and Purple Heart. Killed in action. Radio Operator Joseph Davis, United States bombers, he helped shoot down three Zeros He was copilot of a Flying Fortress which took Navy, of Liberty, N.Y. Purple Heart. K1lled in the New Guinea area. part in numerous raids on Europe. in action at sea. Pvt. (1st cl.) Harold C. Eisenbruch, 21, Lt. Lewis Earl Feldstein, .27, Army Air Lt. Norman Davis, 24, Army Air Force, of Paratrooper, of New York, N.Y. Purple Heart. Forces, of Portland, Oreg. Air Medal and New York, N. Y. Distinguished Flying Cross Kllled in action in north Africa. two Oak Leaf Clusters. He took part in and Air Medal. For outstanding aerial Pvt. (1st cl.) David Eisman, 24, of Balti­ numerous raids over Germany, France, and achievements in the Middle East. He has 260 more, Md. Purple Heart. Killed in action Italy. . hours of operational flights over north Africa in north Africa. Pvt. (1st cl.) Jerry Fellenbaum, 28, Army to his credit. Lt. (Jr. Gr.) Jacques Rodney Eisner, 24, Air Forces, of Crestline, Ohio. Purple Heart. Pvt. Aaron Dechoretz, 22, of the Bronx, N.Y. United States Navy, of Red Bank, N.J. Pur­ K1lled in action in Hawaii. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north ple Heart. K11led in action in the Solomons. Fireman William Feller, United States Africa. Lt. Henry B. Elkind, 25, of Holyoke, Mass. Naval Reserve, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Sgt. Sidney Devers, 24, Army Air Force, of Purple Heart. Wounded in action in the Heart. Killed in action at sea. Boston, Mass. Air Medal and Oak Leaf Clus­ South Pacific. Sgt. Oscar Ferkauff, Army Air Forces, of ter. For heroism as a top-turret gunner on Chief Pharmacist's Mate Fred S. Epstein, Kansas City, Mo. Purple Heart. Wounded a B- 17, during raids on occupied Europe. 38, United States Naval Reserve, of Wash­ in action in north Africa. Corp. Leroy Diamond, 24, United States Me­ ington, D. C. Naval commendation and cita­ Radioman Bernard Fields, 25, United States rine Corps, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Navy Cross tion. For heroism at Coral Sea and Mid­ Navy, of Cleveland Ohio. Purple Heart. and Purple Heart. He was leader of a three­ way. Killed in action in Hawaii. man squad in a machine-gun nest who Pvt. Hyman Epstein, 22, of Omaha, Nebr. Pvt. (1st cl.) Joseph J. Fine, 24, of Balti­ thwarted an enemy advance during the early Purple Heart. Killed in action in New more, Md. Purple Heart. He was a member t,ighting on Guadalcanal, pll1ng up more than Guinea, after he had gone through fire to of an armored tank division in the north 200 dead during the battle. One of the group administer medical aid to wounded soldiers. African campaign, is reported missing in was killed, another blinded. Diamond was Petty Officer Robert Erlich, United States action. wounded, has recovered. Navy, of Troy, N.Y. Purple Heart. Wounded Corp. David Fineberg, 25, of Roxbury, Mass. Pvt. Harold Gustave Dick, 18, United States in the South Pacific. Purple Heart and Oak Leaf Cluster. He was Marine Corps, of the Bronx, N. Y. Purple Pharmacist's Mate Max Erlichman, 22, twice wounded on Guadalcanal. Heart. Killed in action in the Solomons. United States Navy, of Peoria, Ill. Navy com­ Sgt. Harry Fineman, 24, of Wilmington, Lt. William A. Dietch, 25, Army Air Force, of mendation. For bravery under fire and be­ Del. Purple Heart. Killed in action in the Chicago, Ill. Silver Star. For air action with yond the call of duty on Guadalcanal. Philippines. the nineteenth bombardment group in Java. Lt. (Sr. Gr.) Arthur N. E'rshler, 32, Naval Air Sgt. David Fingeret, 24, Army Air Forces, of Australia and New Guinea, as a navigator on Corps, of Hudson, N.Y. Navy Cross. For his Pittsburgh, Pa. Air Medal. · For air action in a bomber. part, as a dive bomber pilot operating from the Aleutians. Lt. Maurice L. Docton, 26, of Cleveland, 0. an aircraft carrier in "softening up" gun em­ Lt. Joseph Fink, 28, of New York, N. Y. ·Purple Heart. Killed in action in north placements and other defense installations Silver Star, Croix de Guerre, Purple Heart, Africa. to ease the invasion of French Morrocco for and Gold Star. He distinguished himself 1n Pvt. Samuel Dorfsman, 31, of Dorchester, land troops. north Africa, reorganizing a scattered platoon Mass. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Corp. Jacob Farash, United States Marine at Kasserine Pass and undertaking recon­ Sicily. Corps, of New York, N. Y. Purple Heart. naissance work "in front of the front .. dur­ Pvt. David Draeger, 27, of Watertown, Wis. Wounded in action in Far East. ing the Tunisian fighting. Purple Heart. Killed in action in Italy. Pvt. Hyman Fatt, 22, of Newburgh, N. Y. Corp. Benjamin W. Finkelstein, 26, of Lt. Clifton I. Dreyfus, 23, Army Air Purple Heart. Killed in action in north Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed 1n Forces, of Birmingham, Ala. Purple Heart. Africa. action in western Europe, Wounded in action in north Africa. Sgt. Harry Feigenbaum, 22, Army Air Forces, Corp. George L. Finkelstein, 23, Army Air of Chicago, Dl. Air Medal, three Oak Leaf Forces, of Philadelphia, ·Pa. Purple Heart. Maj. Joseph C. Dreyfus, 38, of New York, Clusters and Purple Heart. He was killed in For rescuing the crew of a loaded bomber N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in a tank action when his plane crashed into the sea which crashed immediately after taking ofl battle at El Guettar, north Africa. after demolishing a large enemy convoy off from an airfield at a southwest Pacific base. Lt. Daniel T. Drubin, 24, Army Air Forces, Bizerte. He had been on 18 combat flights Pvt. Harry Finkelstein, of Cleveland, Ohio. of Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in during the north African campaign. Purple Heart. Killed in action in north air action over EUrope. Pvt. (1st cl.) Albert H. Feingold, 36, of Africa. Lt. Samuel Dunn, 23, Army Air Forces, of West New York, N.J. Silver Star. He volun­ Sgt. Samuel Finkelstein, 24, Army Air Chicago, Ill. Air Medal. For heroism in air tarily went against enemy machine gun fire Forces, of Chicago, Ill. Distinguished Flying action over north Africa. and single-handedly blew up an enemy pill­ Cross and Air Medal. He was radio operator Sgt. Daniel D. Dvorin, Army Air Forces, of box in Sicily, enabling his unit to advance. and gunner on a 4-engined heavy bomber Linden, N. J. Distinguished Flying Cross. Seaman Bertram David Feinman, United which took part in 44 raids and reconnais­ As tail gunner on a Flying Fortress, he par­ States Naval Reserve, of South Euclid, Ohio. sance missions in the South Pacific. ticipated in 200 hours of operational fiights Purple Heart. K1lled in action at sea. Pvt. Eugene D. Finn, 21, of Breighton, Mass. over Guadalcanal, frequently under fire. Sgt. Edward Feinstein, 22, of Cleveland Purple Heart. Wounded in action on Gua­ Pvt. Rubin Dworkin, 34, of Philadelphia, Ohio. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in da.lcanal. Pa. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in New Guinea.. Sgt. Carl Fintuch, 25, of New York, N. Y. north Africa. Sgt. Jacob Feinstein, 28, of Baltimore, Md. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north Aviation Radioman Leonard S. Edelstein, Purple Heart. K1lled in action in north Africa. 23, United States Navy, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Africa. · Pvt. (1st cl.) Sidney Fischbein, 24, of Navy commendation. For his efforts in free­ Capt. Sylvan Feld, 24, Army Air Forces, of Newark, N. J. · Purple Heart. It:illed in ing the lifeboat of a rapidly sinking Navy Lynn, Mass. Distinguished Flying Cr~, Air action in north Africa. 33.32 CO~GRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MARCH 30 . Lt. Howard Philip Fischer, 24 United States three Oak Leaf Clusters. For exceptionally . Pvt. Abraham W. Ger. 40, of Miami Beach, Navy, of New York, N. Y. Purple Heart. meritorious achievement during numerous Fla. Purple Heart. Wounded · in action in Killed in action in the Far East. . raids on Europe. north Africa. Lt. Philip s. Fischer, 23, .ATmy Air Forces, Lt. Herbert Fi'iedberg, 28, of Baltimore, Corp. Bernard Gefstein, of Detroit, Mich. of East Orange, N. J . . Air Med.al, Oak Leaf Md. Purple Heart. Killed in action in north Purple Heart. 'wounded in action during an Cluster and Purple Heart. · For air action Africa. enemy raid on Dutch Harbor, Alaska. over western Europe, during which he was Lt. Col. Ralph Friedenthal, 39, of Denver, Sgt. Charles. Gilbert, 22, Army Ai.r Forces, wounded. Colo. . Purple· Heart. Following the Pearl of Phoenix, Ariz. Air Medal. For heroism in . · Pvt. (1st cl.) David Fisher, 27, of Newark, Harbor attack, he directed the salvage and bombing missions 9ver occupied Europe . N. J. Purple Heart. Killed in action in storage of all mess stores and equipment from Pvt. Howard Gillman, 21, of Brooklyn, N.Y. north Africa. the wreckage at Hickam Field, going without Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Tunisia. Pvt. (1st cl.) Louis Fishman, 24, of Irving­ re!t or sleep until he could secure proper Capt. Nat;han Ginsberg, 27, Army Air Forces. ton, N.J. Purple Heart. Wounded in action meEsing facilities for his troops. of Kansas City, Mo. Purple Heart. Wounded in north Africa. Pvt. Jacob Friedes, 22, of Philadelphia, Pa. in action in the South Pacific. Pvt. (1st cl.) Martin Flaum, 20, United Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north Pvt. (1st cl.) Irving Gishkin, 25, of Wood­ States Marine Corps, of Syracuse, N. Y. Pur­ Africa. side, N ..Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action ple Heart. Killed in action at sea. Capt. Frank Friedman, 24, Army Air Forces, in the Southwest Pacific. Sgt. Irving Flax, 25, Army Air Forces, of of University City, Mo. Distinguished Flying · Pvt. David J. Gitelson, 22, of Cincinnati, Richmond, Va. Purple Heart. Killed in ac­ Cross, Air Medal, and Oak Leaf Cluster. As Ohio. Purple Heart. Killed ·in action in tion in the Asiatic area. a pilot member of Squadron X, operating in north Africa. Pvt. Simon Flax, 26, of New York, N. Y. the Aleutians, he distinguished himself in Sgt. Norman Glass, 24, Army Air Forces, of Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north aerial combat, participating in the American Baltimore, Md. Distinguished Flying Cross, Africa. invasion of Attu. Air Medal, and Oak Leaf Cluster. He took Pvt. Edward K. Fleischman, 18, of San . Machinist's Mate Joseph Friedman, 27, part in more than 30 bombing missions over Francisco, Calif. Purple Heart. Killed in Naval Air Corps, of Fall River, Mass. Letter occupied Europe, distinguishing himself on action on Attu. of commendation. For heroism while on numerous occasions as radioman on a Flying · Pvt. Nathan Flesher, 31, of New York, N. naval aviation patrol duty in the North At­ Fortress. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in lantic. Pvt. (1st cl.) Lawrence Glassberg, 22, Army north Africa. Pvt. Leo Friedman, 31, of Memphis, Tenn. Air Forces, of San Fran<;:isco, Calif. Purple Lt. Jerome L. Fluster, 29, of Albany, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in the Heart. Killed in ac.tion in the Philippines. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north Southwest Pacific. Sgt. Frank Glassman, 29, Army Air Forces, Africa. . Lt. Leon J. Friedman, 22, Army Air Forces, of Chicago, Ill. Air Medal, Oak Leaf Cluster, Lt. Milton S. Fonorow, 23, Army Air Forces, of the Bronx, N. Y. Citation for valor. He and Purple ..lleart. He participated in many of Chicago; Ill. Air Medal. He has been on was a member of a flying squadron responsi­ combat missions in the Southwest Pacific, missions over St. Nazaire, Lorient, Brest, and ble for destroying a considerable amount of and was wounded .in aerial combat. He is other Axis targets, as a bombardier. _enemy equipment in north Africa during reported missing in action. · Lt. · Jerome L. Foreman; 21, Army Air low-level strafing sorties. Corp. Sidney B. Glick, 23, of Brooklyn, N.Y. Forces, of Los Angeles, Calif. Purple Heart. Lt. (Jr. Gr.) Raymond Lester Friedson, 24, Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north Killed in action in the European theater. United States Navy, of Kansas City, Mo. Africa. Corp. -Alexander Fox, 21, of the Bronx, N.Y. Purple Heart. Killed in- action in Sicily. Capt. Edwin L. Gluck, 25, Army Air Forces, Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Tunisia. . Sgt. Herbert Friedwald, 26, of New York, of Pittsburgh, Pa. Distinguished Fly.ing Capt. Lester Irving Fox, of Haverhili, Mass. N. Y. Silver Star and Croix de Guerre. He Cross, Air Medal and six Oak Leaf Clusters. Purple Heart. Wounded !n action in the directed an assault gun section which ac­ He took part in raids on Ploesti, Rome, Weir­ Philippines. counted for three tanks, two 88-mn:i. guns, er, Neustadt, and other European objectives, Sgt. Phi1ip F. Fox, 26, Army Air Forces, of and mortar crews in north Africa. and was cited by Maj. Gen. Lewis Brereton Broo~lyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in Pvt. Emanuel Frish, 28, of Cleveland, Ohio. for volunteering to execute an experimental .action ·in north Africa. ' P.urple Heart. Killed in action in north and dangerous attack on enemy installations Africa. last spring. J Pvt.. (1st cl.) Albert Frank, 22, of Bellaire, N. Y. _Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Capt. Gabriel J. Frumkin, 29, Army Air Pvt. Herman Goldba"l,lm, 34, of Benton Tunisia. Forces, of Memphis, Tenn. Silver Star, Oak Harbor, Mich. Purple Heart. Wounded in Leaf Cluster, and Purple Heart. As a Flying action in north. Africa. 'Lt. Irving H. Frank, 25, Army Air Forces, of . Pvt. Bernard Goldberg, 21, of Atlantic City, Savannah, Ga. Air Medal and two Oak Leaf Fortress navigator and copilot, he shot down five Zeros during the Battle of Java, helped N. J. Purple Heart. Killed in action in the Clusters. He took part in numerous raids Asiatic area. ' over occupied Europe. destroy two enemy aircraft carriers, piled up more than 200 combat hours in· the air; was 1 · ·Sgt. H'arry L. Goldberg, of Toledo, Ohio . . Sgt. Marvin L. Frank, 25, of Chicago, Til.· forced down three times, and was wounded in Silver Star and Purple Heart. For gallantry Purple Heart. Killed in action on Guadal­ aerial combat. and wounds received in action. He was in canal. Capt. Nat Fuchs, 33, of Brooklyn, N. Y. the rear of a truck attacked by four enemy Pvt. Milton Frankel, 25, of Cincinnati, Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Sicily. planes. Twice wounded, and subjected · to Ohio. Purple Heart. Heroism in north further strafing, he remained in the truck, at Africa. Lt. Harold L. Fuchsmann, 25, Army Air Forces, of Chicago, Ill. Distinguished Flying great personal risk, to render first aid to the Commander Samuel B. Frankel, 38, United Cross, Air Medal, and nine Oak Leaf Clusters. wounded. States ·Navy, of Stapleton, N. Y. Distin­ A Flying Fortress navigator, he completed 50 Lt. Hyman L. Goldberg, 26, Army Air Forces, guished Service Medal. For his work as As­ missions over north· Africa. of Norwich, Conn. Distinguished Flying sistant Naval Attache in Murmansk and Cross and Purple Heart. He insisted on Archangel, U. S. S. R., during 1942. Pvt. Stanley Fultz, 23, of Hedgeville, Ky. · staying at his bomb sight and releasing his Lt. Monroe D. Franklin, 24, of New York, Purple Heart. Wounded in action in the bombs on enemy ships after he was severely N. Y. Purple Hear.t. Killed in action in the South Pacific. wounded in fiight over north Africa by an Philippines,' Seaman Burton J. Furman, 26, of New · exploding shell. Lt. Jacob Howard Franz, 26; Army Air York, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action Sgt. Irving Goldberg, 21, o:Z New York, Forces, of Chicago, Ill. Distinguished Flying at Coral Sea. N. Y. Purple Heart. wounded in action in Cross, Air Medal, four Oak Leaf Clusters, and Capt. Rafael Gamso, 31, Medical Corps, of in Sicily. Silver Star. He took part in more than 200 Brooklyn, N. Y. Silver Star. Under enemy Sgt. Irving M. Goldberg, 23, of Brooklyn, hours of long-range bombing missions in the fire so heavy that some of the wounded were N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in South Pacific, participated in the Battle of wounded again, he treated the injured of a north Africa. Bismarck Sea, Milne Bay, Kavieing, New Ire­ company trapped between Buna Mission and Pvt. Isadore Goldberg, 30, of Beverly, Mass. land, the Solomons, and New Britain. He Giropa Point on New Guinea, continuing to Purple Heart. Killed in action in the south­ has 700 combat flying hours and 88 missions aid these men in the midst of battle with west Pacific. to his credit. utter disregard for his own safety. Lt. Jerome Goldberg. 24, Army Air Forces, Pvt. Irwin Freed, 23, of Pittston, Pa. Pur­ Sgt. Simon Garelich, 22, of Kansas City, of Paterson, N. J. Distinguished Flying ple Heart. Killed in action in the Aleutian Mo. Purple Heart. Killed in action in the Cross, Air Medal and six Oak Leaf Clusters. area. Philippines. He participated in 35 aerial assaults on oc­ Corp. Isadore Freed, of Canton, Ohio. Pur­ Corp. Julius Garfunkel, 32, of New York, cupied Europe, including raids on Austria, ple Heart. While in combat in Algiers, he N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Greece, Rumania, and Italy, as bombardier was wounded from the air by a strafing Mes- north Africa. aboard a B-24 Liberator. serschmidtt. · Pvt. (1st cl.} Theodore P. Gelbstein, 19, of Capt. Jerrold I. Goldberg, 27, of Rochester. Pvt. Isadore Freemond, 27, of Los Angeles, the Bronx, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Calif. Purple Heart. Killed in action on action in north Africa. north Africa. Guadalcanal. Pvt. (1st cl.) Larry Geller, 27, of the Bronx, Pvt. (1st cl.) Maurice Goldberg, 23, of San Lt. Charles W. Freschauf, 26, Army Air N. Y . . Purple Heart. Kill~Q. in action in Francisco, Calif. Purple Heart. Wounded 1n Forces, of David City, Nebr. Air Medal and north Afri~a. action in the battle of Attu. 1944 CONGR.ESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. Sgt. Norman R. Goldberg, 22, of New York, Medal. When · the mechanism for releasing Pvt. (1st cl.} Lester Martin Gould, 32, Army N. Y. Legion of Merit award for heroism bombs failed on his plane during an Amer­ Air Forces, of Lafayette, Ind. Wounded tn during the invasion of Sicily. ican raid in the Far East, he risked his life action in north Africa. Lt. Julius E. Goldblatt, 23; United States to release the bombs by hand. Lt. Philip Gram, 23, Army Air Forces, of St. Marine Corps, of Lawrence, Mass. Silver Flight Officer Sandy Goldstein, 27, Army Louis, Mo. · Distinguished Flying Cross and Star. He crawled across an open area in the Air Forces, of New Bedford, Mass., Air Medal. Air Medal. For his feats in combat as a Solomons swept by enemy fire to rescue two For air action in the Southwest Pacific. bombardier in the Middle Ea~t. se'IP.rely wounded marines in his platoon. Pvt. William 'B. Goldstein, 33, of Shreve­ Lt. Milton Green, 27, Army Air Forces, of Pvt. (1st cl.) Harold Goldie, 26, of Hollis, port, La. Purple Heart. Wounded in action, Denver, Colo. Distinguished S3rvice Cross, N Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action in New Georgia. Distinguished Flying Cross. Air. Medal and north Africa. Pvt. Fred Golub, 29, of Brooklyn, N. Y. three Oak Leaf Clusters. For exceptional Sgt. Theodore Goldbum, 24, of Philadelphia, Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north valor and outstanding service as a Flying Pa. Distinguished Flying Cross and Silver Fortress pilot during 25 raids ·in the Euro­ Star. He was at Peal'l Harbor when the Japs Africa. pean war theater. attacked, took part in the bombing of Jap Sgt. Jack J. Gomberg, 26, of Chester, Pa. Seaman Tommy Green, of Lexington, Ky. installations and airdromes at Midway, has Purple Heart. Killed in action in south Pa­ Purple Heart. Wounded in action at sea. to hi3 credit more than 200 hours of combat cific. Pvt. Eddie Greenberg, 21, of Brooklyn, N.Y. flying time in the South Pacific. Sgt. Philip Gononsky, 23, Army Air Forces, Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north Pvt. George Goldfarb, 25, of Brooklyn, of Brooklyn, N. Y. He wa::; aboard one of Africa. N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in two. bombers which sank two large Japanese Sgt. Max Greenberg, 24, of Philadelphia, Sicily. cargo ships and damaged a transport in Ra­ Pa. Purple Heart. Wotmded in action 1n Sgt. Alex S. Goldfisher, 25, Army Air Forces, baul Harbor, New Britain. north Africa. of Chicago, Ill. Purple Heart. Wounded in Lt. Alexander Goode, 31, Chaplains Corps, Pvt. Raymond Greenberg, 26, of Brooklyn, action in north Africa. of Washington, D. C. Purple Heart. He was N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action 1n Sgt. Adrian· Goldman, 24, Army Air Forces, one of four chaplains, two of the others north Africa. of Torrington, Conn. Air Medal. For hero­ Protestant, one Catholic, who gave their life­ Corp. Charles David Greenburgh, 31, of New ism as a tail gunner in the South Pacific in belts to enlisted men on a torpedoed American York, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action 15 operational flights. cargo transport which sank in the North At­ in Algiers. . Sgt. Carl S. Goldman, Army Air Forces, of lantic. Reported as missing in action. Pvt. Leon Greene, 24, of Cleveland, Ohio. Mayesville, S. C. Air Medal and Oak Leaf Radioman David Goodman, 23, United Purple Heart. Wounded in action tn Sicily. Cluster. For heroism as aerial gunner on a States Navy, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Silver Star · Sgt. Caiman Greenfield, 24, of the Bronx, Flying Fortress. Missing in action. and Oak Leaf Cluster. Silver Star for his N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action in Capt. Max Goldman, 31, Medical Corps, of work on the mosquito boat -which carried north Africa. Dorchester, Mass. Purple Heart. Wounded General MacArthur and Philippines Presi­ Pvt. (1st cl.) Benjamin Greenspan, 28, of in action during an air raid on Port Moresby, dent Manuel Quezon from Corregidor to New York, N. Y. Purple Heart. WoundcJ New Guinea. Australia. Oak Leaf Cluster for the daring in action in north Africa. ·Pvt. Max Goldsmith, 32, of Chicago, Ill. attack made by his squadron under Lt. Seaman Irving E. Greenstein, of Philadel­ Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Italy. Comdr. John Bulkeley, resulting in damage to phia, Pa. Citation. For gallantry in action Sgt. Arthur T. Goldsmith, 26, of Freeport, a Japanese cruiser in the Mindanao Sea, at Pearl Harbor. N. Y. Purple· Heart. ·Killed in action in the near Cuba in the Philippines. Pvt. (1st cl.) Nathan Greenstein, SO, of southwest Pacific. · Pvt. Charles ·Goodman,· 27. of Washington, . Brooklyn, N.Y. Purple Heart. Killed in ~e­ Pvt. Max Goldsmith, 32, of Chicago, Ill. D. c. Purple Heart. Wounded in action on tlan in north Africa. Purple Heart. Wounded in action at Sa­ Guadalcanal. Pvt. Leo Greenwald, 29, Engineer Corps, of lerno, Italy. Lt. Walter Goodman, 24, Army Air Forces, Kansas City, Mo. Purple Heart. Wounded Pvt. Wilbert D. Goldsmith, 21, of the- Bronx, of Cleveland, Ohio. Purple Heart. Killed in by a German land mine in Tunisia. N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Sgt. Nathan Greese, 23, of Chicago. Dis­ action in the Caribbean area. tinguished Service Cross. When his platoon north Africa. Capt. Howard K. Goodman, 25, United Pvt. (1st cl.) Alfred Goldstein, 31, of Cleve­ was pinned. to the ground by enemy fire in land, Ohio. Purple Heart. Wounded in ac­ States Marine Corps, of Long Beach; N. Y. the Guadalcanal jungle he went forward tion in Sicily. Silver Star. He led his platoon in three suc­ alone despite sniper fire and crawled far Lt. George G. Goldstein, 23, Army Air cessive bayonet and hand grenade charges enough ahead to hurl hand grenades at this Forces, of Hampton, Va. Air Medal and three under heavy enemy fire, contributing to the objective and destroy it. In his advance he annihilation of -an entire Japanese battalion, killed five enemy snipers witn a Browning Oak Leaf Clusters. A Thunderbolt pilot, he with minimum casualties to the American took part in more than 40 missions over automatic rifle. Nazi-held Europe. platoon. · · Pvt. (1st cl.) Sam Greitzer, 26, of Brooklyn, Pvt. (1st cl.) Harold A. Goldstein, 31, of Lt. Victor I. Goodman, 24, Army Air Forces, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action in the Bronx, N. Y. Silver Star. For gallantry of New York, N. Y. Air Medal. Oak Leaf north Africa. in action in Tunisia, as a member of a tank Cluster and Purple Heart. In 19 missions Lt. Goodman G. Greller, 35, of Minneapolis, company. He rescued a wounded man from over north Africa as navigator and bombar­ Minn. Purple Heart. Killed in action in the a disabled tank in the face of heavy enemy dier of a B-26 bomber he accounted for four Battle of El Guettar, north Africa. fire. enemy planes; was wounded once during Corp. Alfred Groden, 21, Army Air Forces, of Sgt. Fred Harris Goldstein, 21, Army Air aerial combat. Maplewood, N. J. Air Medal. He took part Forces, of Shaker Heights, Ohio. Distin­ Sgt. Joseph Gorchoff, 22, Marine Air Corps, in more than 100 hours of operational flying gutshed Flying Cross and Air Medal. The of Chicago, Ill. Air Medal. He took part in in the South Pacific. Distinguished Flying Cross for bringing am­ several major aerial battles over Guadal­ Pvt. (1st cl.) AI Gross, 24, of Brooklyn, N.Y. munition and food supplies to the firing line canal. Purple Heart. Wounded in action over OC• on Guadalcanal and evacuating injured and Pvt. Abe Goodman, 25, of Williamsport, cupied Europe. sick under fire by air; Air Medal for extraor­ Pa. Silver Star. For gallantry in action in Seaman Jerome S. Gross, of Ellenville, N.Y. dinary achievement in operational flights north Africa. Navy commendation. For his heroic conduct over the Solomons totaling 208 hours, fre­ Sgt. Henry Goodman, 23, Army Air Forces, aboard the U. S. S. Nautilus when the ship quently under enemy fire. of Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in attacked and sank an enemy aircraft carrier Sgt. Harry Goldstein, 27, Army Air Forces, action in north Africa. of 10,000 tons at Midway. of the Bronx, N. Y. Distinguished Flying Sgt. Benjamin Gordon, 26, Army Air Forces, Lt. Jacob Grossman, 27, of New York, N.Y. Cross, Air Medal, and Oak Leaf Cluster. An of Philadelphia, Pa. Distinguished Flying Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north aerial engineer and gunner, he shot down two Cross, Air Medal, Oak Leaf Cluster, and Africa. enemy planes in the course of numerous Purple Heart. Flight engineer and top turret Lt. Leo Grossman, 24, Army Air Forces, of bombing missions on European objectives. gunner. Numerous raids over occupied Eu­ Clifton, N. J. Air Medal. He participated Reported missing. rope. in 15 bombing missions over north Africa and Pvt. (1st cl.) Herbert S. Goldstein, 23, of Pvt. Milton Gorobetz, 24, of Brooklyn, N.Y. Italy. Missing in action. Ambridge, Pa. Purple Heart. Wounded in Silver Star. When a ship was torpedoed Pvt. (1st cl.) Robert L. Grossman, 22, of action in Sicily. . from under him on the first day of the north Brooldyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in Lt. Jerome J. Goldstein, 27, Army Air Forces, African invasion, he swam to the beach and action in Sicily. of Far Rockaway, N. Y. Air Medal. For Lt. Robert P. Grover, Army Air Forces, of heroism as bombardier aboard a B-26 Ma­ under heavy fire worked among the wounded Washington, D. C. Purple Heart. Killed in l'auder during a number of missions in the men who had fallen there, mindless of fu­ action over Germany. South Pacific. rious enemy strafing and bombardment. Pvt. Richard A. Grube!, 20, of New York, Sgt. Lester Goldstein, 26, of Collinsville, Pvt. (1st cl.) Carl C. Goshman, 23, of Brook­ N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Conn. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in lyn, N.Y. Purpie Heart. Killed in action in north Africa. the Southwest Pacific. the Battle of Attu. Lt. Ralph Victor Guinsburg, 27, Army Air Sgt. Norman S. Goldstein, 28, Army Air Pvt. Arthur Gould, of Jamaica, N.Y. Pur­ Forces. of Chappaqua, N. Y. Air Medal Forces, of Chicago, Ill. Silver Star and Air ple Heart. Kil1t:d in action in Hawaii. and Purple Heart. For heroi~~ and wounds XC--211 3334 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MARCH 30 received in action in the European area. Pvt. (1st cl.) Frederick Hecht, of Spring Corp. Jacob B. Hodiss, 22, of Syracuse, N. Y., When the Flying Fortress on which he was Valley, N. Y. Silver Star and Purple Heart. Purple Heart. Killed in action in west ern navigator was forced down over the English Killed in action in north Africa after distin­ Europe. Channel, he rescued a fellow flyer although he guishing himself during the initial landing Sgt. Herman J. Hochman, 23, Army Air himself was badly hurt. operations setting up a communications post Forces, of Rosenberg, Tex. Air Medal. For Pvt. (1st cl.) Howard E. Gurney, 19, United in enemy territory to guide the invasion his part in shooting down 2 Messerschmitts States Marine Corps, of Chicago, Ill. Purple force. and 1 Italian plane during a raid on Italy. Heart. Wounded in action in the South Maj. Morris Hecht, Army Air Forces, of Lt. Jacob Hochman, 23, Army Air Forces, -of Pacific. Colum'bus, Ga. Purple Heart. Kllled in ac­ Plainfield, N. J. Air Medal. Air action over Lt. Julius J. Gutlow, 31, Medical Corps, of tion in the South Pacific. north Africa. Detroit, Mich. Silver Star. He performed Sgt. Morris G. HefHer, 23, Army Air Forces, Maj. Arthur Hoffman, 26, Army Air Forces, operations on wounded men at American of Hartford, Conn. Air Medal and Oak Leaf of St. Louis, Mo. Silver Star. Purple Heart. field hospitals 1n New Guinea in the midst Clusters. For meritorious achievement while Four group citations. A member of the of enemy bombing attacks. flying antisubmarine patrols in the Carib­ "Gypsy 93d" Squadron oLthe 19th Bombard­ Pvt. Joseph Guttmann, of Union City, N.J. bean theater. ment Command, he fought the Japs as a Purple Heart. Killed in action in Hawaii. Lt. Leslie Heitel, 27, Army Air Forces, of navigator .in the skies over ;New Britain, the Lt. Sidney Guzick, 24, Army Air Forces, ,of New York, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded Philippines, Dutch East Indies, Australia, New Brooklyn, N. Y. Distinguished Flying Cross in action in the Southwest Pacific. Guinea, Coral Sea, and Malaya. and Air Medal. For heroism during numer­ Pvt. (1st cl.) William Helfand, 26, of De­ - Sgt. Herbert Hoffman, 29, Army Air Forces, ous raids in the Far East. troit, Mich. Purple Heart. Wounded in ac­ of Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in Lt. Benjamin Ghetzler, United States Navy, tion during the battle of El Guetar in north action over western Europe. of San Antonio, Tex. Purple Heart. Killed Africa. Lt. Sidney Hoffman, 31, of Brooklyn, N. Y. in action at sea. Capt. Abraham Robert Heller, of Asbury Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Tu­ Lt. Louis Oppenheimer Haas, Army Air Park, N.J. PUrple Heart. K1lled in action at nisia. Forces, of Montgomery, Ala. Air Medal. For sea. Lt. Leonard Holland, 26, of Providence, R. I. his part in carrying out the longest massed, Lt. Bermard Heller, 25, Army Air Forces, Purple Heart. Wounded in act ion in the unescorted, nonstop troop-carrying flight ever of Brooklyn, N.Y. Air Medal. Air action in southwest Pacific. successfully performed during the north north Africa. Pvt. (1st cl.) Jack Horowitz, 24, of Brook­ African invasion. Yeoman Irving Herman, United States lyn, N.Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in north Lt. Norman S. Haber, 27, Naval Air Corps, Navy, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. Africa. of Venice, Calif. Distinguished Flying Cross. Killed in action at sea. Seaman Samuel E. Horowitz, 22, of Pitts­ His plane was attacked by Zero fighters in a Lt. Leonard W. Herman, 26, Army Air burgh, Pa. Purple Heart. Wounded in ac- dog . battle that lasted more than an hour. Forces, of PhilMelphia, Pa. Purple Heart. tion in South Pacific. · His controls and rudder badly damaged by Air Medal and two Oak Leaf Clusters. For Corp. Jerome Horwitz, 26, Air Forces, of fire, and his elevator completely jammed, he heroism in air action over Europe. He was Chicago, Ill. Purple Heart. Wounded in managed despite these handicaps to destroy wounded during a raid over Germany. action in north Africa. one enemy plane, evade others, and execute Seaman Howard I. Hermann, 44, N. M., of Seaman Theodore Houseman, of Muskegon, a safe landing. Glendale, Long Island. Purple Heart. Mich. Purple Heart. Killed in action at sea. Maj. Louis Halperin, of New York; N. Y. Killed in action in the South Atlantic. Lt. Morris Howitz, 23, Army Air Forces,·of Purple Heart. For valor in New Guinea. Lt. Charles H. Herr, 24, of Watertown, Columbus, Ohio. Purple Heart. Killed ·in Lt. Carroll Hament, 22, Army Air Forces, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action in action in the European area. of Baltimore, Md. Air Medal and four Oak north Africa. Petty Officer Marvin C. L. Huffman, 24, Leaf Clusters. As pilot of a B-25 bomber he Lt. Jack H. Hersch, 25, Army Air Forces, of ' United States Navy, of Cincinnati, Ohio. took part in numerous aerial assaults on Passaic, N.J. Air Medal and Oak Leaf Clus­ Purple Heart. Killed in action in north Af- occupied Europe. ter. For heroism as navigator with an anti­ rican Invasion. · Sgt. Milton Hamill, 20, Army Air Forces, submarine squadron based in England. Lt. Morton M. Hurwitz, 25, of Brooklyn, of Lynn, Mass. Air Medal. For meritorious Pvt. (1st cl.) Max Herzedow, 24, of Brook­ N.Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in achievement during aerial combat. He par­ lyn, N.Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action north Africa. . ticipated in bombing raids over France, Ger­ in north Africa. Pvt. (1st cl.) Julian H. Hurt, 23, of Hermi­ many, and Holland. Pvt. (1st cl.) Myer Hesselberg, paratrooper, tage, Tenn. Purple Heart. Wounded in ac­ Sgt. Morris Hammerman, 23, Army Air of Philadelphia, Pa. Purple Heart. Killed in tion in north Africa. Forces, of New York, N. Y. Air Medal. For action in Italy. Capt. Morris Herman Hurwitz, 36, of Hart­ extraordinary achievement while serving as Lt. Alfred Heyman, Army Air Forces, of ford, Conn. Legion of Merit Medal and cita­ aerial photographer on long-range reconnais­ Youngstown, Ohio. Distinguished Flying tion. For heroism in north Africa as a mem­ sance and photographic mission over a haz­ Cross and Silver Star. He saw action in the ber of the Medical Administrative Corps. ardous air route in the far north. Philippines and Java; won the Silver Star for Pvt. (1st cl.) Irving Hurwitz, 29, of New Corp. Edward Randleman, 26, of Hartford, heroism at Coral Sea and the Distinguished York, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in ac­ Conn. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Flying Cross for completion of a secret mis­ tion in Tunisia. the Solomons during the Munda offensive. sion in the same locale. Sgt. Robert Hutner, of Dallas, Tex. Army Pvt. (1st cl.) Sam Handverger, 36, of Lynn, Coxswain Harry Heyman, 25, United States citation. For meritorious conduct over and Mass. Purple Heart. Wounded in action. Navy, of Steelton, Pa. Silver Star. For his above his assigned duty during the battle Sgt. Paul Hanson, 27, Army Air Forces, of part in the destruction of a U -boat in the of Attu in the Aleutians. Brooklyn, N. Y. Distinguished Flying Cross, North Atlantic. Pvt. (1st cl.) MorJis Hyman, 21, of Brooklyn, Air Medal, and three Oak Leaf Clusters. Tail Samuel Hill, United States Navy, of West­ N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in gunner aboard a Flying Fortress, he has gone port, Conn. PUrple Heart. Killed in action the European area. on 25 daylight raids over occupied Europe, at sea. Pvt. Nathan E. Hyman, 27, of New including Brest, Lorient, Lille, Wilhelms­ Pvt. Sol Himmel, 23, of Brooklyn, N. Y. York, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in ac­ haven, Rauen, Paris, St. Nazaire, Bremen, Purple Heart. wounded in action in Sicily. tion in north Africa. Antwerp, Kiel, Meaulte, and Nantes. Pvt. Bernard Hindes, 20, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Lt. Walter Hymovich, Army Air Forces, of Corp. Erwin S. Harber, 23·, of Asbury Park, Purple Heart. Wounded in act!on in north Stamford, Conn. Air Medal. He took part N. J. Purple Heart. Wounded in north Africa. in more than 25 combat missions in the Africa. Corp. Israel H. Hintz, 21, United States Southwest Pacific. Pvt. (1st cl.) Edward J. Harris, of Milwau­ Navy, of the Bronx, N. Y. Purple Heart. Capt. Rubin !den, 24, Army Air Forces, of kee, Wis. Purple Heart. Killed in action in Wounded on Guadalcanal. Detroit, Mich. Purple Heart. Killed in ac­ New Guinea. Lt. David Hirsch, 25, Army Air Forces, of tion in the Solomon Islands. Lt. Lewis s. Harris, 23, Army Air Forces, of Brooklyn, N.Y. Purple Heart. He was navi­ Pvt. Darrell Edward Iskiwitch, Army Air Stamford, Conn. Air Medal. He completed gator of a Fortress which bombed Milne Bay, Forces, of St. Louis, Mo. Purple Heart. 100 hours of combat missions throughout New Guinea, and ran into enemy opposition. Killed in action at Clark Field in the Philip­ Burma. When the co-pilot was wounded and the bom­ pines. Pvt. Ralph Harris, 23, of Zanesville, Ohio. bardier killed by shrapnel, Hirsch, himself Lt. Comdr. Samuel Isquith, United States Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north wounded, stayed with his maps and charts Naval Reserve, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Legion of Africa. and directed the maimed Fortress back to Merit and Purple Heart. He remained at his Sgt. Sidney Harris, 26, of Paterson, N. J. its base. post through the torpedoeing and sinking of Purple Heart. Killed in action in the Philip­ Lt. David Hirsch, Army Air Forces, of the Vincennes in waters off the Solomons. pines. !Brooklyn, N. Y. PUrple Heart. Wounded In As medical officer, he attended the sick and -Lt. Comdr. Jerome Hartman, United States action in New Guinea. wounded, although wounded himself. He Navy, of Dayton, Ohio. Special mention and Pvt. (1st cl.) Sidney Hirshberg, United is believed to be the last man to leave the decoration by the British. For heroism 1n States Marine Corps, of New York, N. Y. ship. When rescued he worked for days with­ tending wounded men when the aircraft Purple Heart. Killed in action in the Pacific out sleep, helping wounded survivors of the carrier Illustrious was bombed. area. cruiser. "1944 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3335 Commander Soloman Isquith, of Brooklyn, Sgt. Walter Jossen, 20, Army Air Forces, of the sick bay to perform an operation on a N. Y. United States Navy. Navy Cross. He New York, N.Y. Distinguished Flying Cross. wounded soldier. In the midst of the op­ was responsible for saving 90 percent of the For heroism in aerial combat in the South­ eration he was struck by an enemy shell and crew of the sunken target ship Utah, of west Pacific. killed. ' which he was commander at Pearl Harbor. Corp. Morris A. Kalmus, 23, of the Bronx, Pvt. (1st cl.) Max Karpin, 36, Chicago, Ill. Lt. Leonard Israel, 23, of New York, N. Y. N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Purple Heart. Killed in action in Sicily. Purple Heart. wounded in action in- Sicily. Sicily. Meyer Kashkin, merchant seaman, of New Sgt. Robert R. Israel, 28, of Brooklyn, N.Y. Pvt. Joseph Kalter, 23, of New York, N. Y. York, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action Purple Heart. Killed in action in north Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north in the Caribbean area. Africa. · Africa. Lt. Milton Kaslow, 22, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Corp. Max Itzkewitz, 28, of New York, N. Y. Sgt. Milton Kalter, 29, Army Air Forces, of Purple Heart. Killed in action in the Far Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north New York, N.Y. Air Medal. For heroism in East. Africa. aerial flight in the western Aleutians. Lt. Allan Kass, 25, Army Air Forces, of the Lt. (Jr. Gr.) Samuel Jackson, 27, United Sgt. Mark B. Kamen, United States Marine Bronx, N. Y. Air Medal. Air action in the States Navy, of New York, N. Y. Purple Corps, of Hightstown, N. J. Purple Heart. Middle East. Heart. Killed in action at the battle of Savo Wounded in action on Guadalcanal. Pvt. Alexander Katcheuk, 25, United States Island. _ Lt. Theodore J. Kamen, 24, Army Air Forces, Marine Corps, of Sacramento, Calif. Silver Fireman Edwin M. Jacobs, United States of Brooklyn, N. Y. Air Medal. For heroism Star. During an aerial bombardment· in the Naval Reserve, of Vicksburg, Miss. Navy and as navigator of a bomber during a raid on Philippines he took over a truck abandoned Marine Corps Medal. For heroic conduct the Japanese-held Gilbert Islands of Nauru by its driver to bring two wounded marines while serving aboard a United States war­ and Tarawa. to a hospital, despite repeated air attacks­ ship damaged by a shell during the occupa­ Pvt. (1st cl.) Ben Kampfer, 36, Parksville, thus saving the lives of both wounded men. tion of French Morocco. N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action in Lt. (Sr. Gr.) Aaron Katz, 26, Naval Air Pvt. Clifford Jacobs, 27, of Cincinnati, north Africa. Corps, Cleveland, Ohio. Navy Cross and two Ohio. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in· Lt. Sam Kanner, 23, of Charleston, W. Va. Pr~sidential citations. He took part in the north Africa. Purple Heart. Killed in action in north Battle of Midway as a member of the famed Pvt. Chatles Marvin Jacobs, United States Africa. torpedo 8 plane squadron, and distinguished Marine Corps, of Troy, N. Y. Purple Heart. Pvt. Nathan Kantrow, 24, of Brooklyn, N.Y. himself as a flyer in the Solomons. Wounded in action on Guadalcanal. Purple Heart. Killed in action in Tunisia. Lt. (Jr. Gr.) Aaron Katz, Naval Air Corps, Sgt. Israel Jacobson, 21, of Rochester, N.Y. Corp. Abraham G. Kaplan, 23, of Brooklyn, Cleveland, Ohio. Navy Cross for extraordi­ Silver Star for his courage in standing by his N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in nary heroism as pilot of a torpedo plane dur­ lieutenant who was fatally shot while on Tunisia. ing action in an aerial torpedo raid against night patrol in enemy territory in north Lt. Bertram H. Kaplan, 23, Army Air Forces, a Japanese task force in the Solomons. Africa. of Great Neck, N. Y. Distinguished Flying Corp. Harry Katz, 27, paratrooper, United Lt. Morris C. Jacobson, United States Navy, Cross, Air Medal, and three Oak Leaf Clusters. States Marine Corps, Syracuse, N. Y. Purple of Birmingham, Ala. Purple Heart. Wound­ As a Flying Fortress pilot he took part in Heart. Wounded in action on Guadalcanal. ed in action at sea. numerous bombing raids on occupied Eu­ Aaron Katz, 36, merchant seaman, of New Sgt. Preston H. Jacobson, 21, Army Air rope, including Kiel, Wilhelmshaven, Paris, York, N.Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action Forces, of Waltham, Mont. Purple Heart. Bremen, and Lorient. at ::ea. Wounded in action in European area. Sgt. Harold Kaplan, 24, Army Air Forces, of Corp. Abraham Katz, 32, Brooklyn, N. Y. Lt. Sidney William Jacobson, 26, Army Air Worcester, Mass. Purp!e Heart. Killed in Purple Heart. Killed in action in north Forces, of Shreveport, La. Silver Star and action in western Europe. Africa. Purple Heart. Gallantry in action while act­ Pvt. (1st cl.) Harry Kaplan, 27, of New Pvt. (1st cl.) Alfred L. Katz, 18, Army Air ing as a copilot on a B-25 bomber over Lae, York, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in Forces, of Memphis, Tenn. Purple Heart. carrying out a dangerous mission in the face action in north Africa. Killed in action on Guadalcanal. of heavy enemy fire, missing in alltion. Pvt. Harry E. Kaplan, 35, of the Bronx, Lt. Hirsch Katz, 27, of Philadelphia, Pa. Lt. Sydney Jacobson, Army Air Forces, of N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Purple Heart. Killed in action in Hawaii. Shreveport, La. Purple Heart. Killed in ac­ the Southwest Pacific. Maj. Irvin J. Katz, 38, Army Medical Corps, tion in the South Pacific. Sgt. Isaac Kaplan, 23, Army Air Forces, of of Washington, D. C. Legion of Merit award. Pvt. Alexander Phillips, Jacobey, 26, of the Bronx, N. Y. Distinguished Flying For exceptionally meritorious service in the Jamaica, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in ac­ Cross and Silver Star. For heroism during South Pacific. tion in the Southwest Pacific. bombing raids on targets in the New Guinea Pvt. Jacob H. Katz, 28, of Chelsea, Mass. Corp. Arnold R. Jaffe, 32, of Chicago, Til. area. -Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north Purple Heart. Wounded in action on New Commander Leonard Kaplan, 42, naval Africa. Georgia Island .. engineer, of Baltimore, Md. Legion of Merit Pvt. Martin S. Katz, 23, of West Browns­ Lt. Harold M. Jaffee, 26, Army Air Forces, Award. For his services in connection with ville, Pa. Purple Heart. Wounded in action of the Bronx, N. Y. Air Medal. He took the repair and salvage of naval and merchant in north Africa. part in the longest massed unescorted non­ vessels in Iceland. Pvt. (1st cl.) Robert Katz, 21, of Brooklyn, stop troop carrier flight ever successfully per­ Pvt. Maurice B. Kaplan, 34, of Brooklyn, N.Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action in north formed from England to north Africa. N.Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Africa. Sgt. Jacob Jaffee, 25, Army Air Forces, of north Africa. Pvt. Siegfried Katz, 23, of the Bronx, N. Y. Rochester, N. Y. Air Medal. For excep­ Seaman Max Kaplan, Bronx, N. Y. Navy Purple Heart. Wounded in action in New tional aerial performance in the Tunisian Commendation. For his part in the sinking Guinea. campaign. of a 10,000-ton enemy aircraft carrier during Pvt. (1st cl.) Jack Kaufman, 38, of the Lt. Herbert Marvin Jay, 24, Navy Air Corps, the Battle of Midway. Bronx, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in of East Liverpool, Ohio. Presidential cita­ Pvt. Morris S. Kaplan, Dorchester, Mass. action in Tunisia. tion. He was a member of Torpedo Squadron · Purple Heart. Killed in action on Guadal· canal. Storekeeper Jess Kaufman, 23, United 8 during the Battle of Midway, served 11 States Navy, of Brooklyn, N.Y. Purple Heart. months during the fighting on Guadalcanal, Pvt. Stuart Kaplan, Cincinnati, Ohio. Purple Heart. Killed in action in north Wounded in the South Pacific. has participated in five major battles in the Corp. Louis Kaufman, 21, Army Air Forces, South Pacific. Africa. Lt. John J. Kapstein, 25, Army Air Forces, of New York, N.Y. Purple Heart. Wounded Ensign Ira Weil Jeffery, 24, United States in action in New Guinea. Naval Reserve, of Minneapolis, Minn. Post­ Providence, R. I. Air Medal and Oak Leaf Cluster. For mQl'itorious achievement while · Pvt. Samuel Kaufman, 31, of the Bronx, humouli' commendation from the Secretary of N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action 1n the Navy. He attempted by hand to keep participating in sorties against the enemy in north Africa as pilot of a marauder bomber. north Africa. an ammunition supply line going on board Lt. William Kaufman, of Cleveland, Ohio. the battleship Calijomia until he was felled Sgt. Bernard Karasin, 24, Army Air Forces, Bronx, N. Y. Air Medal. For air action in Purple Heart. Killed in action in Tunisia. by enemy fire. north Africa. Missing in action. Capt. David Kelman, Army Air Forces, of Seaman Howard Robert Johnson, of Water­ Pvt. Morton I. Karp, 25, of Brooklyn, N.Y. San Antonio, Tex. Distinguished Flying bury, Conn. Purple Heart. Killed in action Purple Heart. Killed in action in north Cross, Air Medal, and three Oak Leaf Clusters. in Hawaii. Africa. For extraordinary heroism during numerous Capt. Jacob Joseph, 22, United States Pvt. Morton I. Karp, 25, of Brooklyn, N.Y. missions over north Africa and Italy. Marine Corps, of the Bronx, N. Y. Purple Purple Heart. Killed in action in the Philip· Lt. Harold Arthur Kepnes, United States Heart. Killed in action on Guadalcanal. pines. Marine Corps, of Chelsea, Mass. Purple Heart. Pvt. (1st cl.) David Josephson, 22, of Lt. Victor H. Karpass, 34, Medical Corps, Killed in action on Guadalcanal. Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in Chicago, Ill. Distinguished Service Cross and Sgt. Earl Lowry Kerbow, 21, Army Air north Africa. Purple Heart, posthumously awarded. Ill in Forces, of Dallas, Tex. Air Medal and Purple Capt. Fred Josephson, 27, of Muscatine, bed on an American wa~hip engaged in bat­ Heart. In numerous bombing missions over Iowa. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in tle during the invasion of Algeria, he refused occupied Europe. Killed in action dUiing a north Africa. to abandon ship and insisted on going into raid on St. Nazaire. 3336 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MARCH 30 Pvt. (1st cl.) Bernard Kesse, 20, United Lt. (Jr. Gr.) Mortimer V. Klelnmann, Air Medal, three Oak Leaf Clusters and Pur­ States Marine Corps, of Syracuse, N.Y. Pur­ United States Naval Reserve, of New York, ple, Heart. As a Flying Fortress navigator, he ple Heart. Killed in action on Guadalcanal. N. Y. Silver Star. As a fighter plane pilot, took part in numerous raids on Europe, and Sgt. Robert Kllssler, 21, Army Air Forces, he brought down two Japanese bombers over was wounded in action during a return fiight • of McKeesport, Pa. Distinguished Flying Guadalcanal. from a raid on German objectives. Cross, Silver Star, Air Medal, and Oak Leaf Sgt. Julius Kliffer, 29, Army Air Forces, of Lt. Leonard Krise!, 24, Army Air Forces, of Cluster. As radio operator and gunner aboard Minneapolis, Minn. Purple Heart. Killed Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in the B-24 Liberator Black Maria he chalked in action in the European area. action in north Africa. up 349 combat hours in the Middle East, Pvt. Leonard Kling, 20, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Lt. Arthur C. Krohn, 28, United States never missing a scheduled raid. Later took Purple Heart. Twice wounded in action Navy, of Utica, N. Y. Navy citatio·n. For part in the first American raid on Rumanian during the north Africa invasion. heroism as gunnery officer aboard a vessel at­ oil fields. Completed 35 bombing missions, Seaman Horace Roy Klonin, 20, of Wilkes­ tacked while on convoy duty. brought down 7 enemy craft, and scored 3 Barre, Pa. Purple Heart. Killed in action Sgt. Philip S. Krow, -25, of Brooklyn, N.Y. probabies. in the north Atlantic. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north Corp. Samuel Kessler, 28, of Cincinnati, Pvt. Morris Knoff, 25, of Dorchester, Mass. Africa. Ohio. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Purple Heart. Wounded in action on Gua­ Lt. Richard L. Kruse, 23, Army Air Forces, Sicily. dalcanal. of Ypsilanti, Mich. Air Medal. Air action Lt. Fred Kettner, 24, Army Air Forces, of Lt. Sanford Lachman, of Cleveland, Ohio. over Europe. New York, N.Y. Distinguished Flying Cross. Purple Heart. Killed in action in the Aleu­ Lt. Irving Kunin, 23, Army Air Forces, of For heroism in the South Pacific as copilot tian area. Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in of a bomber. Sgt.-Arthur Kahn, 24, Army Air -Forces, of action in the Middle East. Sgt. Samuel H. Keyser, 21, Army Air Forces, Bayonne, N. J. Purple Heart. Fbr heroism Corp. Sidney M. Kupetz, 26, of New York, of Hartford, Conn. Air Medal. For his part in air action over Sicily, as radio operator N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action 1n in bombing raids over Burma. On one oc-ca­ aboard a bomber. ~icily. sion shot down a Zero. Pvt. Harold Kahn, 23, of Hartford, Conn. Chief Machinist's Mate. Abe Kushman, 23, Lt. Edward Kezur, 27, Medical Corps, of Purple Heart. Killed in action in the Aleu­ United States Navy, of Oakland, Calif. Pur­ Toledo, Ohio. Purple Heart. For wounds tians. - ple Heart. Wounded in action wh~n the air­ suffered in battle in the Aleutians. Sgt. Sidney L. Kahn, 25, Army Air Forces, of craft carrier Wasp was sunk in the South Pvt. Martin E. Kirschbaum, 24, United St. Louis, Mo. Distinguished Flying Cross Pacific. States Marine Corps, of Savannah, Ga. and Air Medal. For heroism during bombing Lt. Adolph William Kutner, 34, of New Purple Heart. Killed in action in th£' South missions over occupied Europe. Missing in York, N.Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action Pacific. action. in north Africa. Machinist's Mate Henry Kirschman, 28, Capt. Richard George Labovitz, 26, of Mat­ United States Navy, of Hamden, Conn. Navy Pvt. Moe KolUn, 25, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Pur­ tapan, Mass. Purple Heart. Killed in action citation. He captured 11 prisoners during ple Heart. Killed in action in Sicily. in Tunisia. the invasion of Fedala, French Morocco. Sgt. Harold Kolon, 23, Army Air Forces, of Lt. David Lachterman, 25, Army Air Forces, Pvt. (1st cl.) William Kirschner, 24, of the Chicago, Ill. Purple Heart. Wounded in of Alexander City, Ala. Purple Heart. Killed Bronx, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Hawaii. in action over France. action. Lt. Morris Konier, 26, Army Air Forces, of Pvt. Eli Lader, 21, of Chicago, lll. Purple Milwaukee, Wis. Air Medal and Purple Heart. Corp. Seymour C. Kirsh, 23, of San Fran­ Heart. Wounded in action in north Africa. For heroism during bombing missions over Lt. Sanford I. Lakin, United States Navy, cisco, Calif. Purple Heart. Wounded in occupied Europe, in the course of which he action in north Africa. of Columbus, Ohio. Purple Heart. Killed in was wounded in aerial combat. action at sea. Lt. Irving Kirshner, 25, Army Air Forces, - Pvt. Herbert Kopelman, 32, of the Bronx, Lt. Herbert R. Lakow, 25, Army Air Forces, of Lincoln, Ill. Purple Heart. Killed in N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in of Brooklyn, N. Y. Distinguished Flying action in north Africa. Sicily. Cross, Air4A:edal, Oak Leaf Cluster, and Purple Sgt. Jerome C. Kisseleti, 22, Army Air. Sgt. Max J. Kaplow, United States Marine Heart. For heroism and wounds received 1n Forces, of Arlington, Va. Purple Heart. Corps, of Cleveland, Ohio. Purple Heart. . action as a Flying Fortress navigator in the Killed in action in tlie European area. Wounded in action on Guadalcanal. European theater. Pvt. Milton Klaiman, 22, of Lawrence, Pvt. Arthur B. Kaplowitz, 25, of Lynden, Ensign Alec G. Land, United States Mari­ Mass. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Wash. Purple Heart. wounded in action in time Service, 21, of Des Moines, Iowa. Mer­ the Southwest Pacific. · the south Pacific. chant Marine War Service Bar. For action in Pvt. Barnet S. Klass, 29, of Dorchester, Sgt. Stanley D. Kops, 34, United states the South Pacific. Mass. Purple Heart. Killed in action on Marine Corps, of New York, N.Y. Navy Cross. Corp. Leo L. Landau, 30, Army Air Forces, Guadalcanal. Killed in action at Guadalcanal, where, as of Youngstown, Ohio. Purple Heart. Pvt. Stanley W. Klauber, 26, of Long Island commander of the Third Division, First Ma­ Wounded in action in north Africa. City, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in rine Raider Battalion, he "inspired his men Pvt. (1st cl.) Karl H. Landes, 33, of New action in the South Pacific. by his outstanding bravery" and led them in York, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in Pvt. Morris Klaw, 21, of the Bronx, N. Y. a successful attack against enemy forces after action. Purple Heart. Wounded in north Africa. holding a position despite overwhelming odds. Pvt. Edward Henry Lang, 18, Army Air · Sgt. Julius Kleiman, 20, Army Air Forces, Pvt. Martin M. Kornstein, 31, of Elgin, m. Forces, of Philadelphia, Pa. Purple Heart. of the Bronx, N.Y. Purple Heart. Killed in Purple Heart. Wounded in north Africa. ­ Killed in action in the North Atlantic. action when the Fortress on which he was Sgt. Frederick Kosak, Medical corps, 26, of Sgt. Phil Langman, Army Air Forces, of ball turret gunner ran into a squadron of 15 New York, N. Y. Silver star. He saved the St. Paul, Minn. Air Medal and four Oak German fighter planes on the return trip life of his commanding officer during the Leaf Clusters. For meritorious achievement from a raid over· Germany· He was killed in bombing of a field hospital somewhere in New while participating in missions against the an exchange of gunfire with one German Guinea. - enemy in north Africa as a radio operator plane, shot down the plane just before he Lt. Norman Kassis, 26, Army Air Forces, of and later for shooting down an enemy plane died. Seattle, Wash. Air Medal and Purple Heart. as a gunner on a B-26 bomber during an Pilot Henry J. Klein, Army Air Forces, of For his part, as a Flying Fortress bombardier, Allied raid on Salerno. Chicago, Ill. Purple Heart. Killed in action in damaging a submarine base at L'Orient. Pvt. Alen L. Lansky, 21, of Brooklyn, .N. Y. in the West Pacific. Later killed in action in aerial combat over Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Sicily. Pvt. Lawrence L. Klein, 27, of Brooklyn, occupied Europe. Capt. Reuben T. Lapidus, 30, Medical'Corps, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Purple Heart. N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Seaman Leonard Kram, 20, of the Bronx, Wounded in action when he struck a -land the South Pacific. N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action at sea. mine while attempting to reach installations Pvt. (1st cl.) Sidney G. Kleinberger, 23, Lt. Alfred Kramer, Army Air Forces, of Kew in Tunisia. Army Air Forces, of Scranton, Pa. Distin- Gardens, N. Y. Air Medal. For heroism in Pvt. Sanford Larkin, 24, of Boston, Mass. guished Flying Cross and Air Medal. For his aerial fiight over Europe. Missing in action. Purple Heart. Wounded by shrapnel while part in 25 operational fiight missions in the Pvt. Meyer Kramer, 25, of the Bronx, N. Y. advancing into Japanese-held territory on South Pacific, fiying at extremely low alti- Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north Guadalcanal. tudes over mountainous terrain in an un- Africa. Sgt. Ju_lius E. Larman, 27, Signal Corps, of armed transport plane to drop supplies and Pvt. Ronald R. Kramer, 25, of Auburn, Pa. Hartford, Conn. Purple Heart. Wounded in transport troops to advanced positions. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north action in north Africa. Corp. Benjamin :kleinburd, 23, Army Air Africa. Pvt. (1st cl.) Jacob Laskau, 26, of. New Forces, of Philadelphia, Pa. Air Medal. Air Lt. Paul -M. Krasne, 23, of Council Bluffs, York, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in the Aleutians. Iowa. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in action in north Africa. Pvt. Jaclt Leinfeld, of Passaic, N. J. Pur- New Guinea. Pvt. David Lasker, 27, of HackenEack, N. J. pie Heart. Wounded in action in the South Lt. Oscar Krebs, 23,,Army Air Forces, of the Purple Heart. Wounded in action in the Pacific. Bronx, N. Y. Distinguished Flying Q·oss, Battle of Attu. 1944 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3337 Capt. George Laven, 26, Army Air Forces, Sgt. Meyer Levin, 28, Army Air Forces, of St. Pvt. Oren Libson, 23, of Minneapolis, Minn. of San Antonio, Tex. Distinguished Flying Louis, Mo. Air Medal, Oak Leaf Cluster, and Distinguished Service Medal and Purple Cross, Distinguished Service Cross, Air Medal, Purple Heart. For his part in air raids over Heart. He drove an armored tank which was and Oak Leaf Cluster. He took part in occupied Europe as a Flying Fortress waist blown up by a land mine while riding into one of the first pursuit attacks of the gunner. battle in Tunisia. He was the only sur­ war on the Japanese at Kiska, damaging Pvt. (1st cl.) Samuel D. Levin, 24, of Phila­ viving crew member. Blown 10 feet, he began an enemy ship and blasting a Japanese fiying delphia, Pa. Purple Heart. Wounded in ac­ to run and stumbled over a sergeant whose boat at Kiska Harbor in the face of heavy tion in Sicily. leg had been shattered. He stopped to ren­ antiaircraft fire, and he participated in nu­ Pvt. Abe I. Levine, 25, of Brooklyn, N. Y. der first aid, suffering shrapnel wounds in merous subsequent raids in the Aleutians. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in the his own leg as a result. Lt. Charles Laxin, 24, Army Air Forces, South Pacific. Maj. Carl Lichter, 29, Army Air Forces, of Lebanon. Pa. Distinguished Flying Cross, Corp. Joseph Levine, 26, of Pittsburgh, Pa. of St. Paul, Minn. Distinguished Flying Air Medal, and Oak Leaf Cluster. He partici­ Purple Heart. Wounded in action during the Cross, Air Medal, Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air pated in numerous bombing missions over invasion of Sicily. - Medal, unit citation, and four Oak Leaf north Africa and took part in the transporta­ Pvt. (1st cl.) Joseph Levine, 26, of Pitts­ Clusters to the citation. He escaped from tion of hundreds of parachute troops without burgh, Pa. Purple Heart. Wounded in ac- Clark Field, Philippine Islands, after the the loss of a · single transport during the in­ tion in Sicily. 1t1 enemy attacked, eluded the Japanese Air vasion of Sicily. Pvt. Murray Levine, 24, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Force for 3 days, got through to Bataan, Sgt. Allen Leavy, 22, of Baltimore, Md. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north where he fought with the infantry, escaped Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Sicily. Africa. to Australia, and has since ,gone out on at Machinist's Mate Raymond Leblang, 24, Maj. Robert Levine, Army Air Forces, of least 75 operational missions. United States Navy, of Pottstown, Pa. Purple Columbus, Ohio. Silver Star. For gallantry Capt. Alfred M. Litchman, 25, United States Heart. Killed in action at sea. in action in Tunisia. Marine Corps, of Syracuse, N. Y. Silver Star. Lt. Julian I. Lebo, 22. Army Air Forces, Sgt. Saul Levine, 24, Army Air Forces, of For conspicuous gallantry in action against of Memphis, Tenn. Air Medal. For achieve­ Lowell, Mass. Air Medal. He was radioman the enemy in the Solomons. ment as pilot during bombing missions in the on the transport plane which landed the first Sgt. Isadore Lieberman, 21, Army Air Forces, Middle East. paratroopers in Sicily. of Brooklyn, N. Y. Air Medal and Oak Leaf Pvt. (1st cl.) Morton Lebowitz, 25, of Brook­ Pvt. (1st cl.) Sherman Levine, 18, Ajmy Cluster. He flew the Atlantic for 400 hours lyn, N.Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action in Air Forces, of Chicago, Ill. Purple Heart. on antisubmarine patrol. north Africa. Killed in action in north Africa. Pvt. (1st cl.) Jules Lieberman, 31, of Brook­ Pvt. Julius Lefkowitz, 27, of Brooklyn, N.Y. Pvt. Irwin T. Levinson, 21, of Baltimore, lyn, N.Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north Md. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in in Sicily. Africa. Sicily. Lt. Stanley Lieberman, Army Air Forces, of Flight Officer Peter Lehman, 26, Army Air Corp. Benjamin Levitan, 35, of Roselle, Cleveland, Ohio. Air Medal. Air action in Forces, of New York, N. Y. Air Medal. For N. J. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north Africa. heroism during two raids on Emden as a north Africa. Sgt. Leo Liebling, 23, Army Air Forces, of Thunderbolt pilot. He is the son of Herbert Lt. William A. Levitan, 22, Army Air Forces, Brooklyn, N.Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in Lehman, former New York State Governor. of Roxbury, Mass. Purple Heart. Killed in action over occupied Europe in an aerial bat­ Pvt. Joseph Lehrer, 29, of Brooklyn, N. Y. action in New Guinea. tle during which he destroyed a Messer­ Purple Heart. Killed in action in north Pvt. Isaac Levy, 25, of Brooklyn, N. Y. schmitt 110. Africa. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Tunisia. Lt. Aaron Liepe, 23, Army Air Forces, of Sgt. Bernard Leibowitz, 31, Army Air Flight Officer Jo.seph Levy, 23, Army Air Dubuque, Iowa. Distinguished Flying Cross. Forces, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Air Medal, 10 Oak Forces, of scarsdale, N. Y. Distinguished He· completed more than 50 combat missions Leaf Clusters, and Purple Heart. For re­ Flying Cross and Purple Heart. Killed in in the Far East, destroying 2 enemy planes peated acts of heroism in aerial flight during action in the Areutians, where he distin­ in aerial combat. numerous raids on European and north Afri­ guished himself as pilot of a P-47. Corp. Jacob Lifschitz, 23, of Brooklyn, N.Y. can objectives, including Tunisia, Sardinia, Pvt. Maurice Levy, 26, of Chicago, TIL Dis­ Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north Bizerte, Palermo, Messina, Naples. Rome, and tinguished Service Cross and Purple Heart. Africa. Trapani. He participated in more than 50 As a sniper, he shot 25 Japs in one night of Pvt. Jacob Nathan Ligom, 39, of Fitchburg, bombing missions, and was wounded in action near Sananda, New Guinea, sufficiently Mass. Purple Heart. Killed in action in the action in an air encounter with enemy planes weakening enemy resistance so that Ameri­ battle of Attu. over north Africa. · can troops were able to advance. He was Sgt. Alton Lipkin, 29, of Minneapolis, Minn. Pvt. Jacob A. Lempert, 30, of Brooklyn, subjected throughout the night to severe Silver Star. He was in a machine-gun nest N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in and accurate enemy fire and was wounded in New Guinea when one of his men was Sicily. four times. wounded by enemy fire. At the risk of his Ensign Robert L. Leopold, 27, United States Sgt. Melv1lle Leo Levy, 29, of New Orleans, own life he pulled the wounded man to safety. Naval Reserve, of Louisville, Ky. Purple La. Purple Heart. Killed in action in the Lt. Arnold William Lipkin, Army Air Forces, Heart. Killed in action in Hawaii. Phillppines. . of Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in Pvt. Irving Lesser, 27, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Lt. Robert T. Levy, 22, Army Air Forces, action when a B-24 Liberator, on which he Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north of New York, N. Y. Air Medal and Purple was copilot, crashed in the South Pacific. Africa. Heart. After months of action in Flying Corp. Norman J. Lipman, 21, Signal Corps, Lt. Robert B. Leventhal, 22. Army Air Fortress raids over Europe, he was killed of Chicago, Ill. Citation from General Mac­ Forces, of St. Louis, Mo. Air Medal and when his plane was shot down over the Arthur and Oak Leaf Cluster. For heroism Oak Leaf Cluster. Killed in action in the · target during a raid on St. Nazaire. He was In the Southwest Pacific area. European area. bombardier and had successfully blasted the Lt. Arnold B. Lippman, 23, Army Air Forces, Sgt. Fred Levey, 25, of the Bronx, N. Y. target. of Brooklyn, N.Y. Air Medal. For his part, Purple Heart. Killed in action in north Pvt. Ralph Lewin, 28, of the Bronx, N. Y. as navigator on a bomber, in bombing Jap Africa. bases at Nauru and Tarawa. Pvt. (1st cl.) Abraham Levin, 18, Army Air Purple Heart. Killed in action in north Forces, of Richmond, Va. Air Medal. He Africa. Lt. Comdr. Joseph Lipshutz, 38, United took part in a bombing attack on an enemy Lt. Bernard Jack Lewis, 21, Army Air Forces, States Naval Reserve, of Portland, Oreg. Pur­ encampment at Kiska in the Aleutians. of Asbury Park, N. J. Air Medal and Oak ple Heart. Killed in action in the South Pvt. (1st cl.) Abraham Levin, 25, of Brook­ Leaf Cluster. He took in numerous bomb­ Pacific. lyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in ac­ ing missions over north Africa as a bomber Petty Officer Richard H. Lischin, 23, United tion on Guadalcanal. pilot and bombardier, and participated in the States Navy, of Atlantic City, N. · J. Silver Maj. Clarence Levin, 36, of Brookline, Mass. Sicllian invasion. Star. For his part in sinking a submarine Purple Heart. Killed in action in Tunisia. Lt. Chas. H. Lewis, 23, Army Air Forces, of off the New Guinea coast as crew member of Pvt. Irving A. Levin, 24, of Philadelphia, Brooklyn, N . .Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in aPT boat. Pa. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in action in New Guinea. Sgt. Harry Liss, of Minneapolls, Minn. north Africa. Lt. Julius Paul Lewis, 24, Army Air Forces, Purple Heart. Killed in action in Tunisia. Sgt. Meyer Levin, 25, Army Air Forces, of of Washington, D. C. Purple Heart. Killed Lt. Emanuel R. Loeb, 23, Army Air Forces, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Distinguished Flying Cross, in action in north Africa. Cincinnati, Ohio. Air Medal. For meritori­ Silver Star, 2 Oak Leaf Clusters, and Purple Corp. Theodore J. Lewis, of Philadelphia, ous service in the transportation of troops Heart. As Capt. Colin Kelly's bombardier, he Pa. Purple Heart. Killed in action at Pearl from England to north Africa. launched the bombs which sank the Japanese Harbor. Lt. Walter H. Loeb, 24, Army Air Forces, of battleship Ha1·una off the Philippines, later Seaman Abe Libby, 35, at Dyersburg, Tenn. Chicago, Ill. Purple Heart. Killed in action sank an enemy cargo ship at Coral Sea, took Purple Heart. Killed In action in the Sol­ ln the Middle East. part in more than 60 combat missions; died omons. Sgt. G. J. Lemberg, Army Air -Forces, of in the act of saving his crew mates when Corp. Arthur Liblit, 24, of Jamaica, N. Y. Minneapolis, Minn. Air Medal. For meri­ a Flying Fortress on a reconnaissance fiight Purple Heart. Killed in action in north torious achievement as first radioman on a crashed in a storm off New Guinea. Africa. Flying Fortress. 3338 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MARCH 30 Pvt. Paul M. Londe, 22, of St. Louis, Mo. Pvt. Hyman Mantel, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Pvt. Louis Meister, 20, of Baltimore, Md. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Sicily. Purple Heart. Wounded in action on Gua­ Purple Heart. Killed in action in Corregi­ Sgt. Maurice Lander, 23, Army Air Forces, dalcanal. dor. of Minneapolis, Minn. Distinguished Flying Lt. Myron· Louis Mantell, 23, Army Air Lt. William Mehlman, 24, of Hartford, Cross, Silver Star, Air Medal, and Nineteenth Forces, of Stamford, .conn. Air Medal. He Conn. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Bombardment Group citation. In the course completed numerous missions as a member Salerno. of 5 major campaigns in the South Pacific of the Four Hundred and Seventeenth Lt. Bernard J. Melman, 22, Army Air Forces, and 50 air battles in which he participated as Bomber Squadron. of Waco, Tex. Silver Star. For gallantry in an aerial engineer gunner, he destroyed half Sgt. Jerome Marcus, 24, Army Air Forces, action at a south China base. a dozen Zeros. of Brooklyn, N. Y. Distinguished Flying Pvt. Meyer L. Melman, of Pittsburgh, Pa. Lt. Sidney D. Lovitt, Army Air Forces, of Cross, Air Medal and three Oak Leaf Clus­ Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north Providence, R. I. Air Medal, Oak Leaf Clus­ ters: For heroism as an aerial engineer-waist Africa. ter, and Purple Heart. For heroism in air gunner aboard a Flying Fortress. He com­ Corp. Milton Melman,. 24, Army Air Forces, action and wounds received. pleted 25 daylight raids over occupied Europe, of Middletown, Pa. Distinguished Flying Maj. Martin L. Low, 25, Army Air Forces, of including St. Nazaire, Hamm, Brest. Wil­ Cross and Air Medal. For his part in sinking Wyoming, Ohio. Distinguished Flying Cross, helmshaven, Rauen, Antwerp, Kiel, and an enemy convoy in the South Pacific, ~nd Air Medal, and Oak Leaf Cluster. He shared Bremen for bagging a Zero in aerial combat, as tail in more than 100 combat missions in the New Lt. Lawrence E. Marcus, 25, of St. Louis, gunner on a Flying Fortress. Guinea area. Mo. Two Croix de Guerre awards. For de­ Aviation Cadet Leonard J. Meiser, 21, Army Lt. Gordon Lowe, 22, Army Air Forces, ot stroying a nest of 19 enemy machine guns Air Forces, of Elizabeth, N. J. Purple Heart. Jamaica, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in ac­ and for shooting down a German plane with Wounded in action in the Aleutian Islands. ~ tton in Sicily. a machine gun in north Africa. Sgt. Fred Stephen Mencher, ~7, Army Air Sgt. Stanley Lowttz, 24, of Jamaica, N. Y. Pvt. Abraham A. Marder, 26, of Philadel­ Forces, of Newark, Del. Purple Heart. Silver Star. For outstanding courage under phia, Pa. Pur~le Heart. Killed in action in Wounded in action in north Africa. fire in Tunisia. north Africa. Pvt. Edward MendelewskL 31, of Brooklyn, Pvt. Saul Lubin, 24, of Hartford, Conn. Pvt. Jacob Margolen, 23, of Ludlow, Ky. N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north Purple Heart. Wounded in action in the north Africa. Africa. South Pacific. Corp. Kenneth M. Messenger, 25, of Bridge­ Lt. Sidney Lubin, 22, of Albany Park, Ill. Pvt. Harold Margulies, 22, of New York, port, Conn. Purple Heart. Killed in action Purple Heart. Killed in action in north N. Y. Pu!'ple Heart. Killed in action in in the Philippines. Africa. Sicily.· Lt. Richard Messenger, of Bridgeport, Corp. Walter R. Lubinski, 27, of Eau Claire, Lt Henry Mark, of Los Angeles, Calif. Dis­ Conn. Purple Heart. Killed in action in Wis. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in tinguished Service Cross, Purple Heart. north Africa. · the South Pacific. Killed in action on Bataan when he attempt­ Sgt. Aaron Meyers, 27, of St. Louis, Mo. Lt. Milton Lunenfeld, 25, Army Air Forces, ed to smash enemy tanks advancing on his Silver Star. Gallantry in action in New of New York, N. Y. Distinguished Flying position with hand grenades. Running Guinea. Cross, Air Medal, and two Oak Leaf Clusters. across an open field to hurl thr grenades, Lt. George G. Meyers, 27, of Brooklyn, For heroism in the course of 51 aerial missions he was felled by an enemy sniper. N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in over north Africa and occupied Europe as a Pharmacist's Mate Irving Markheim, 32, 'Tunisia. navigator. United States Naval Reserves, of M;~mi Lt. Robert Michaels, 30, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Lt. Raymond Lunenfeld, 23, Army Air Beach, Fla. Purple Heart. Heroism on Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Bizerte, Forces, of Jamaica, N. Y. Air Medal and Guadalcanal. north Africa. Purple Heart. Killed in action during aerial Lt. Louis D. Marks, 23, United States Naval Sgt. Arnold R. Michelson, of Philadelphia, combat over occupied Europe. Reserves, of Memphis, Tenn. Silver Star. Pa. Purple Heart. Wounded in action. Capt. Herman Lusky, 26, Army Air Forces, For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity as Sgt. Barney E. Miller, 30, of Norman, Okla. of Nashville, Tenn. Distinguished Flying Commanding Officer of the United States Army citation. For heroism in north Africa . Cross and Air Medal. For his part in nu­ . Navy Armed Guard aboard a merchant ves­ Cpl. Charles S . .Miller, United States Marine merous transport flights over China 11' the sel during aerial attacks by enemy forces. Corps, of ·Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. face of continuous hazards. Capt. Mortimer Marks, 24, Army Air Forces, Killed in action on Guadalcanal. Pvt. (1st cl.) Irwin Mack, 25, of Elmhurst, of Bayonne, N, J. Distinguished Flying Pvt. David Miller, 27, of Brooklyn, N. Y. N.Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action over Cross. He is credited with the destruction Purple Heart. Wounded during the invasion north Africa. of three enemy craft in the course of more of north Africa. Lt. Morton Macks, Army Air Forces, of Oak­ than 50 combat missions in the Far East. Pvt. David Miller, 27, of Brooklyn, N. Y. land, Calit. Distinguished Flying Cross and Pvt. Abe Markowitz, 29, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Tunisia. Air Medal. Air action over occupied Europe. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Sicily. Sgt. Gerald Miller, 22, Army Air Forces, of Seaman Fred M. Magenheim, 40, United Lt. Dan Markowitz, 27, Army Air Forces, Baltimore. Md. Air Medal. For heroism as States Navy, of New York, N. Y. Purple of Los Angeles, Calif. Purple Heart. a radio gunner aboard a bomber during 300 Heart. Killed in action in South Pacific. Wounded in action over France. hours of antisubmarine patrol flights over Pvt. (1st cl.) Eugene Magidson, 24, of the Pvt. Fred Markowitz, 34, of Alexandria, the Atlantic. Bronx, N.Y. Purple Heart. For heroism as a Va. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in member of a commando outfit based in north Capt. Hubert E. Miller, 27, Army Air Forces, Sicily. of Ridgeland, S. C. Distinguished Flying Africa. Wounded tn action. Sgt. Jacl: L. Matisoff, 26, Army Air Forces, Pvt. David Magolefsky, 20, Army Air Forces, Cross, Air Medal, and 3 Oak Leaf Clusters. A of Los Angeles, Calif. Purple Heart. Flying Fortress navigator, he has gone out on of Philadelphia, Pa. Purple Heart. Wounded Wounded in action in the South Pacific. in action in north Africa. numerous raids over north Africa and occu­ Lt. Merwin Bogen Mattes, of Hamden, pied Europe, including several major aerial Pvt. (1st· cl.) Abraham A. Mahl, 27, of Brook­ Conn. Purple Heart. Killed in action in assaults on Germany. lyn, N.Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action the Southwest Pacific. in north Africa. Lt. Jack E. Miller, 22, United States Marine Pvt. William Max, 23, of Allentown, Pa. Corps, of Dallas, Tex. Navy Cross and Capt. Jerome I. Malkin, 32, Medical Corps, Purple Heart. Killed in action in north PU1ple Heart. Killed in action while leading of Jamaica, N.Y. Silver Star. Heroism dur­ Africa. a raider platoon in an assault on an enemy ing the north Africa invasion. Lt. Max H. Mayer-, 25, Army Air Forces, of gun position at Guadalcanal. Lt. Sidney W. Malkin, 24, of Chicago, Ill. Memphis, Tenn. Silver Star and Air Medal. Lt. Jack Miller, United States Marine Corps, Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Sicily. For his part in bombing four ships oil the of Dallas, Tex. , Purple Heart. Killed in ac­ Capt. Frank Mandell, 25, United States Ma­ northeast coast of New Guinea, for helping tion on Guadalcanal. rine Corps, of Pittsburgh, Pa. Purple Heart. to battle flames in his Flying Fortress above Pvt. Nathan E. Miller, 20, of Charlestown, Killed in action in Guadalcanal. the clouds after bombing enemy planes on W. Va. Purple Heart. Wounded in action Lt. Herbert Irving Mandell, 26, United the ground, and for meritorious achievement in north Africa. States Navy, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Silver Star. in aerial flight in the New Guinea area. Lt. Samuel W Miller, 24, of Brooklyn, N Y For heroism in the South Pacific. Pvt. (1st cl.) Milton Mednick, 21, of Edge­ Purple Heart. Killed in action in Sicily. Lt. Comdr. Richard Si Mandelkorn, 33, mere, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action Pvt. Walter Miller, 36, of New York, N. Y. United States Navy, of Honolulu, Hawaii. in north Africa. Purple Heart. Killed irl action in north Navy commendation. For his part in rescuing Lt. Ma~uel Mandelson, 23; Army Air Forces, Africa. men trapped aboard the U. S. S. Oklahoma of Pittsburgh, Pa. Distinguished Flying Sgt. Jack Vincent Milton, Army Air Forces, during the Pearl Harbor attack. Cross, Air Medal, and 3 Oak Leaf Clusters. of Ozark, Ark. Air Medal and Purple Heart. Capt. Irving R: Mandelson, of Chicago, Ill. He took part in 25 mi~sions over occupied K1lled in action over Germany, after partici­ Purple Heart. Wounded in action in the Europe, including a raid on the Messer­ pating in many raids on the Continent. Philippines. schmitt factory in Regensb't~rg and ar~: as­ Pvt. (1s~ cl.) Jerome Mintz, 19, of the Pvt. (1st cl.) Morris Mankoff, 21, of Buffalo, sault on Hannover during which his squadron Bronx, N. Y. Army .citation. For exceptional N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in was engaged by fighters in a battle lasting heroism in the handling of a machine gun Tunisia. 2Y2 hours. during the Pearl Harbor attack. 1944 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3339 Sgt. Marvin Mitchell, 22, Army Air Forces, Leaf Cluster. Twice wounded while tending Pvt. Harold Pazofsky, United States Marine of Philadelphia, Pa. Air Medal and 10 Oak the wounded at the front lines in north Corps, of Brooklyn, : N. Y. Purple Heart. Leaf Clusters. For heroism as a Flying Africa. Wounded in action on Guadalcanal. · Fortress gunnei. during 50 bombing missions Pvt. Carl N.eufeld, United States Marine Pvt. David Peltz, 26, of Brooklyn, N. Y. over occupied Europe, in the course of which Corps, .of Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. Purple Heart. wounded in action in Sicily. be shot down 4 enemy planes. Wounded in action on Guadalcanal Pvt. William J. Pennamacoor, 26, of Newark, Pvt. Lawrence J. Mitzman, 25, of Oakland, Corp. Alfred Newman, 18, United States Ma­ N. J. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Calif. Purple Heart. For gallantry in action rine Corps, of Portland, Oreg. Purple Heart. north Africa. during enemy attacks on Dutch Harbor, Wounded in action on Guadalcanal. Sgt. Ira Penzner, 26, of the Bronx, N. Y. Alaska. · Lt. Alvin Leonard Newman, 24, of New Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north Pvt. Raoul Modiano, of Cincinnati, Ohio. York, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in ac­ Africa. Purple Heart. Killed in action in the tion in Tunisia. Pvt. Benjamin Perlman, 29, of Pittsfield, European area. Pvt. (1st cl.) Benjamin Newman, 24, of the Mass. Purple Heart. Killed in action in Lt. Milton Moldafsky, 25, United States Bronx, N. Y. Purple Hear~. Wounded in Sicily. Navy, of St: Louis, Mo. Navy commendation. action in north Africa. Pvt. Bernard Pesick, 30, of Detroit, Mich. For distinguished service and devotion to Pvt. (1st cl.) Eugene Newman, 21, of Brook­ Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north duty in performing the duties of torpedo lyn, N. Y. Silver Star and Purple Heart. Africa. • officer and communications officer, and for Gallantry in action in north Africa. Marine Gunner Michael Peskin, 44, United standing watch as officer of the deck on the Corp. Harry Newman, 23, Army Air Forces, States Marine Corps, of the Bronx, N.Y. Pur­ bridge for a period of 30 hours at sea in the of the Bronx, N.Y. Purple Heart. Wounded ple Heart. Wounded in action in the Battle South Pacific, on the day of the Pearl Harbor while performing acts of essential service at of Midway. attack. Oahu during the Pearl Harbor attack. Sgt. Murray Phillips, 22, Army Air Forces, Sgt. Melvin Monheit, 21, Army Air Forces, Sgt. Irving R. Newman, 23, Army Air Forces, of Evansville, Ind. Purple Heart. Killed in of Philadelphia, Pa. Distinguished Flying of Los Angeles, Calif. Purple Heart. Killed action in north Africa. Cross and Purple Hear£. During a raid on in action in the Middle East. Maj. Martin Philipsborn, 34, of Chicago, the Heinkel aircraft plant in Warnemuende, Pvt. (1st cl.) Louis Newman, 27, of Brook­ Ill. Silver Star, Purple Heart, and Croix de Germany. the release mechanism on Mon­ lyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in ac­ Guerre. For gallantry in action in north heit's bomber was disabled by antiaircraft tion in north Africa. Africa. fire. Monheit was let down by parachute Lt. Nathan Newman, 23, Army Air Forces, Radioman Sidney Pierce, 21, United States straps and released bombs over the target Navy, of Taylor, Tex. Purple Heart. Killed by hand. He had previously been wounded of Los Angeles, Calif. Air Medal. Air action in north Africa. in action in Hawaii. in action over Europe. Sgt. Louis Pinckney, 29, of the Bronx, N.Y. Pvt. Edward E. Morris, of Chicago, Ill. Pvt. Samuel Newman, 26, of Cleveland, Ohio. Pu1~ ple Heart. Wounded in action in Purple Heart. For heroism in action in Purple Heart. Wounded in action on Tunisia. Guadalcanal Tunisia. Lt. Robert Morris, 25, Army Air Forces, of Pvt. (1st cl.) Oscar Nisnevitz, 29, of Jersey Pvt. Benjamin J. Inson, 25, of Baltimore, Bridgeport, Conn. Purple Heart. Killed in Homestead, N. J. Purple Heart. Killed in Md. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in action in the South Pacific. action in the Philippines. north Africa. Pvt. Max Morrison, 29, of Baltimore, Md. Pvt. Sidney Noretsky, of Chelsea, Mass. Pvt. Louis Podolsky, 35, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action in the Aleu­ Purple Heart. Killed in action in the South Purple Heart. Killed in action in Sicily. tian area. Pacific. . Lt. Alfred Pollack, 25, United States Navy, Sgt. Charles G. Mosses, 25, of New York, Sgt. Louis North, 39, of Rockaway Beach, of Fresno, Calif. Navy citation. For his N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action at heroic rescue work when the Steamship Sicily. Casablanca. Pollux went down off :t>Tewfoundland. Corp. Norman Moskovitz, 21, of Detroit, Pvt. Sidney Novak, 24, of Syracuse, N. Y. Lt. Seymour J. Pont;pone, 22, Army Air Mich. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Legion of Merit award. He rescued a wounded Forces, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Air Medal. For north Africa. soldier in the South Pacific. his part in a long-range troop-carrier flight Pvt. Bernard Moskowitz, 20, of Brooklyn, Sgt. Irving A. Novak, 24, Army Air Forces, from England to north Africa. N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in of Aurora, Ill. Air Medal and Oak Leaf Clus­ Pvt. (1st cl.) George Popel, ~4. of Brooklyn, north Africa. ter. For his part in successful bombing raids N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed 1n action on Corp. Morris Moskowitz, 22, Medical Corps, in the Gilbert Islands and for meritorious Guadalcanal. of Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart and Oak achievement in air action near Hawaii. Pvt. James Poris, 21, of Elmhurst, N. Y. Leaf Cluster. For heroism and wounds re­ Lt. Edward Nussbaum, Jr., 24, of Seattle, Purple Heart. Killed in action in north ceived in action in New Guinea. Wash. Purple Heart. Killed in action in Africa. ·Pvt. Oscar Moskowitz, 22, of Brooklyn, N.Y. north Africa. Sgt. Irving Posner, 26, of the Bronx, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north Sgt. Siegfried Oberdorfer, 29, Medical Corps, Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Tunisia. Africa. of Los Angeles, Calif, Purple Heart. Killed Lt. (Jr. Gr.) Wilbur E. Quint, 29, United Sgt. Victor Moskowitz, 24, of Newark, N.J. in action in the Southwest- Pacific. States Navy, of Lowell, Mass. Silver Star and Letter of commendation. For heroism in ac­ Sgt. Leon Off, 32, Army Air Forces, of El Purple Heart. For heroic participation in an tion in New Guinea. Paso, Tex. Purple Heart. Killed in action engagement during which American forces Pvt. Max Mostowsky, of Chicago, Ill. Pur­ in the European area. won an important naval victory in the Solo­ ple Heart. Wounded in action on Guadal­ Pvt. Samuel P. Offenberg, 29, of Brooklyn, mons. He had two vessels shot out from N. Y. Purple Heart.- Wounded in action in canal. under him-the Hornet and, a month later, Sgt. Abe Muscoplat, of Minneapolis, Minn. north Africa. the Barton. Purple Heart. Wounded in action In Tuni­ Pvt. (1st cl.) Irving Oppenheim, 23, of New York, N.Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action Seaman Hyman Rabinowitz, 22, United sia. States Navy, of Paterson, N.J. Purple Heart. Sgt. William L. Myers, 23, Army Air Forces, in north Africa. Wounded in action in Sicily. of Arcadia, Fla. Air Medal. Heroism in air Lt. Leonard Oppenheimer, of Baltimore, Md. Army commendation. For heroism as a radio Sgt. Benjamin Radensky, 22, Army Air action in the Middle East. Forces, of Sacramento, Calif. Air Medal and Pvt. (1st cl.) Albert A. Nadler, 28, of Chi­ specialist in work with a combat team in north Africa. Oak Leaf Cluster. For heroism in action as cago, Ill. Purple Heart. He suffered nine Pvt. George Orenstein, 26, of the Bronx, a radioman aboard a Flying Fortress during shrapnel wounds during the Invasion of N.Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in bombing missions over occupied Europe. Sicily. north Africa. Missing in action. Pvt. (1st cl.) Albert A. Nadler, 28, of Chi­ Corp. Julius Oster, 24, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Seaman Maurice Raderman, United States cago, Ill. Purple Heart. . Wounded in action Purple Heart. wounded in action in Sicily. Naval Reserve, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple in· Italy. Pvt. Samuel L. Pachowsky, 33, of Fairfield, Heart. Wounded in action in the Pacific. Sgt. William D. Nadler, 31, Army Air Forces, Maine. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Lt. Harold Radetsky, 24, Army Air Forces, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in Sicily. of Denver, Colo. Distinguished Flying Cross, action over Germany. Hospital Apprentice Morris Jack Partnow, Air Medal, and three Oak Leaf Clusters. He Pvt. Herman Nahmias, 23, of Indianapolis, 29, United States Naval Reserve, of the Bronx, was leader of an American Air Forces bomber Ind. Purple Heart. Killed in action in the N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action in squadron in north Africa, and took part in Southwest Pacific. Sicily. numerous raids on occupied Europe. Sgt. Robert Natkin, 24, of Chicago, Ill. Pur­ Lt. Comdr. Ralph E. Patterson, 40, United Radioman James L. Rakusin, 24, United ple Heart. Wounded in action in north States Navy, of Philadelphia, Pa. Navy com­ States Navy, of Providence, R. I. Silver Star. Africa. . mendation. He volunteered to go back with He put out a raging gasoline fire on an air­ Corp. Edward H. Nauman, 25, of Waterloo, a rescue party to save the doomed aircraft craft carrier during the Battle of Santa Cruz, Iowa. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in carrier Yorktown in the South Pacific. thereby saving the ship. north Africa. Pvt. Edwin c. Paul, of St. Louis, Mo. Pur­ Pvt. Abraham R. Randall, 23, of Brooklyn, Capt. Joseph P. Nelson, 33, Medical Corps ple Heart. Killed in action in the Southwest N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action tn ot Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart and Oak Pacific. north Africa. 3340 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MARCH 3Q Pvt. (1st cl.) Saul E. Rantz, 31, United Capt. Joseph Risman, 30, of Lynn, Mass. Pvt. (1st cl.) Philip' Rosenberg, of Law­ States Marine Corps, of Philadelphia, Pa. Purple Heart. Wounded in action, New Gear;. rence, Mass. PuriJle Heart. Wounded in ac­ Purple Heart. Wounded in action in the gia Island. tion on Gmidalca.nal. Solomon Islands. Lt. Murray J. Ritter, 22, Army Air Forces, Pvt. Stanley Rosenberg, 24, United States Pvt. (1st cl.) Sidney Rapeport, 28, of Cleve­ of ·New York, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed Marine Corps, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple land, Ohio. Distinguished Service Cross. ' in action in Hawaii. Heart. Wounded in action in the South For extraordinary heroism in wiping out five Capt. Ben Robbins, 30, of Forest Hills, Pacific. · German machine-gun nests in Tunisia. N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action in Pvt. (1st cl.) Walter Rosenberg, 23, of Capt. Louis Rappeport, 39, of Indianapolis, Tu!lisia. Greenwich, Conn. Purple Heart. Wounded Ind. Purple Heart. Killed in action at Oran. Lt. Sumner L. Roberts, 23, Army Air Forces, in action in the Southwest Pacific. Pvt. (1st cl.) Edwin Rashkind, 25, of Ja­ of Brookline, Mass. Purple Heart. Killed Pvt. ·Abraham Rosenblatt, 26, of Brooklyn, maica, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in ac­ in action over Germany. N. Y. Purple Heart. 'Wounded in action ih tion in New Guinea. Pvt. (1st cl.) Harry Robinson, of Peoria, Tunisia. Pvt. Leo Raskin, 27, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Til. Purple Heart. Killed in action in Seaman Murray Rosenblatt, United States Purple Heart. For heroism in action in north Hawaii. Navy, of New York, N. Y. Purple Heart. Africa. Lt. Kenneth E. Robinson, 22, Army Air Killed in action at sea. Pvt. (1st cl.) Joseph M. Ratner, 32, ot Forces, of Cleveland, Ohio. Purple Heart. Pvt. (1st cl.) Caniel D. Rosenblum, Army Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in ac­ Killed in action over Germany. Air Forces, of Jersey City, N. J. Letter of tion in north Africa. Capt. Roy Robinton, of Mobile, Ala. Pur­ commendation. For heroism under fire at Pvt. Sidney M. Rattner, 28, of Chicago, Til. ple Heart. Wounded in action on Bataan. Pearl Harbor. Purple Heart. Killed in action in the Philip­ Pvt. (1st cl.) Charles Rochwerger, 25, of Corp. Paul A. Rosenblum, 24, of Cleveland, pines. New York, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in Ohio. Purple Hea.rt. Killed in action in Sgt. Milton Rayberg, 24, Army Air Forces, action in north Africa. north Africa: of Roxbury Ma~s. Air Medal. For heroism Pvt. (1st cl.) Bert A. Rodman, 23, of Fern­ Lt. Ira Rosenfeld, 25, of· Brooklyn, N. Y. while on antisubmarine patrol as a radio dale, Calif. Silver Star. He was 1 of a Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north operator. force of 10 men and an officer who made Africa. Gunner's Mate Samuel Reingold, 39, United a prompt and necessary reconnoitering sortie Corp. Herbert Rosenheimer, of Brooklyn, States Navy, of Tannersville, N. Y. Navy of the battle situation under heavy enemy N.Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in commendation. He risked his life to secure north Africa. fire while establishing a beachhead during Pvt. Irving Arthur Rosenstein, 29, of Brook­ an anchor which had been torn from its lash­ the landings ·in north Africa. ings by the force of a storm at sea on a Navy lyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in ac­ Lt. Robert E. Rohrlich, 21, Army Air Forces, tion in north Africa . .minesweeper. The ship would otherwise have of Nevr York, N. Y. Air Medal, Oak Leaf been lost. Radioman Alfred Rosenthal, United States Cluster, and Purple Heart. Killed in action Navy, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. Pvt. (1st cl.) Julius Reisman, 25, of the in aerial combat over occupied Europe. He Bronx, New York. Purple Heart. Wounded Killed in action in Hawaii. was bombardier on a Flying Fortress and Pvt. (1st cl.) Morris Rosensweet, 26, of in action in Tunisia. had completed 11 missions. Lt. (j. g.) Charles Reiter, United States Providence, R. I. Purple Heart. Wounded Capt. Jack Roller, 27, Army Air Forces, in action in the Southwest Pacific. Naval Reserve, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple of Los Angeles, Calif. Distinguished Flying Heart. Killed in action off Newfoundland. Lt. Jerome Rosner, 23, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Cross and Ai:c Medal. Extraordinary heroism Purple Heart; Killed in action in north Lt. Michael L. Reitman, 23. Army Air in air action over occupied· Europe. Forces, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Distinguished Africa. Brig. Gen. Maurice Rose, 48, of Denver, Lt. Arnold Z. Rosoff, 26, Army Air Forces, Of Flying Cross and Air Medal. For his achieve­ Colo. Silver Star and Oak Leaf Cluster. He ments as a pilot while flying supplies in un­ Brookline, Mass. Air Medal. Meritorious ~urrender carried the terms of unconditional work in antisubmarin~ activities. armed planes to troops trapped in New to Nazi General Boroweitz in Tunisia, and Guinea jungles. He completed more than 50 Corp. Alexander A. Ross, 23, of Mattapan, hazardous n issions. commanded an American combat team which · Mass. Purple Heart. Wounded tn action in Pvt. (1st cl.) Ralph N. Rentz, of Lansdowne, .captured Palermo in the Seventh Army's north Africa. ' Pa. Purple Heart. Heroism in action at drive through Sicily. Medal awarded for Sgt. Barney Ross, 34, United States Marine Java. Now a pr'isoner of the Japanese. rallying men in an advance in Tunisia. with Corps, of Chicago, m. Silver Star. ,He ac­ Pvt. Hyman Resnick, 21, of Baltimore, Md. disregard for enemy fire. counted for 22 Japs while he guarded 3 Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north Boatswain's Mate Leon J. Roseman, 27, wounded comrades through one night of Africa. United States Navy, of Akron, Ohio . . Navy fierce fighting on Guadalcanal. He was Lt. Sol L. Reiches, 28, Army Air Forces, of commendation. He plunged into an icy wounded in action and contracted malaria Cleveland, Ohio. Air Medal. For meritorious sea. after others had failed, to save the life during months of action in the Guadalcanal achievements in · aerial flight during raids on of a fireman washed from the deck of a jungles. . Europe. destroyer . Pvt. (1st cl.) Alvin S. Roth, 27, of Berkeley, Sgt. Bernard Resnicoff, Army Air Forces, of Capt. Eugene Rosemont, of San Francisco, Calif. Purple Heart. Killed in action in the Baltimore, Md. Air Medal and two Oak Leaf Calif. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in North Pacific area. Clusters. For meritorious achievements in the Philippines. Lt. Eli Roth, 27, United States Navy, ol aerial flight during numerous raids on occu­ Pvt. (1st cl.) David Rosen, 28, of Brooklyn, Jackson Heights. N.Y. Purple Hea-rt. Killed N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in· action in pied Europe. Now missing in action. in action in the S~uth Pacific. Sicily. Sgt. Joseph Ribeck, 23, Army Air Forces, of Lt. Emanuel M. Roth, 24, of Long Beach, Dorchester, Mass. Air Medal. As a ball­ Maj. David V. Rosen, 41, of San Francisco, Calif. Pwple Heart. Wounded in action in N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in turret gunner on a flying fortress, he shot north Afri• J.. north Africa. down a Nazi plane at 24,000 feet in an air Sgt. Harold Morton Roth, 34, of Los An­ battle over France. · Pvt. (1st cl.) Harry Rosen, 19, of New York, N.Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in ac· geles, Calif. Purple Heart. . Wounded in ac­ Lt. Morris Ribyat, 27, of Utica, N. Y. Pur­ tion in New Guinea·. ple Heart. He was machine-gunned leading tion in north Africa. Lt. David B. Rosenberg, 26, of Yonkers, Lt. Selig Rothman, 22, Army Air Forces, ot an infantry bayonet charge on an enemy po­ the Bronx, N. Y. Air Medal. For meri­ sition in .the Battle of Hill 609, in north N.Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action in the Africa. South Pacific. torious achievements in a-erial flight over Sgt. Arthur Rice, of Milwaukee, Wis. Pur­ Sgt. Maj. Harry Rosenberg, of Rochester, China. ple Heart. Wounded in action in the Philip­ N. Y. Legion of Merit awarded and Purple Pvt. Hymen Rudin, 34, of Jamestown. N. Y. pines. Heart. Sergeant Rosenberg, killed in action Purple Heart. Wounded in action. in no:rth Lt. Sidney M. Richman, 24, Army Air in north Africa, had served in the Army for Africa. Forc~s. of Oshkosh, Wis. Distinguished Fly­ 34 years. The award was given posthumously Seaman Louis Roth, 20, United States ing Cross. For exceptional heroism in the for his untiring efforts and devotion to Navy, of Cleveland, Ohio. Purple Heart. Aleutians. duty "' • • an inspiration to all per­ Killed in action in the South Pacific. Capt. Robert R. Riesman, of Chestnut Hill, sonnel in his regiment. Sgt. Abraham Rothenberg, 35, of New Mass. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Sgt. Hyman . P. Rosenberg, 23, Army Air York, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in Sicily. Forces, of St. Louis, Mo. Distinguished Fly­ action in north Africa. Corp. Newton I. Riess, 22, of Brooklyn, ing-Cross. Air Medal and Oak Leaf Cluster. Lt. Allan Rothenberg, 24, United States N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in As a gunner and radio operator. he took part Navy, of Washington, D. C. Navy Cross and north Africa·. in a raid on Japa.nese-held Wake Island. _Silver Star: For conspicuous gallantry and Capt. Bernard Jay Rike, 29, of Pueblo, Colo. Pvt. Jack H. Rosenberg, 30, of Brooklyn, intrepid service as a commander of a patrol Purple Heart. Killed in action in New N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in plane at Midway, and for aerial torpedoing of Guinea north Africa. two Japanese cruisers off Guadalcanal. Pvt. (1st cl.) Nathan Rinkov, 26, of Co­ Pvt. (1st cl.) Martin Rosenberg, 21, of Lt. Joseph Rothenberg, 24, Army Air lumbus, Ohio. Purple Heart. Killed in ac­ Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in Forces, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. tion in north Africa. action in North Africa. Wounded in action in the Southwest Pacific. 1944 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3341 Pvt. Sidney Rothenberg, 28, of the Bronx, achievement while participating in an aerial threatened to explode them. Most of the N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action in the flight against the enemy in the middle-east munitions were saved. North Atlantic. theater. Sgt. Mortimer Schenkman, 24, of Brooklyn, Capt. Edward Rothkrug, 20, Army Air ·Radioman Jake Sachter, United States N. X· Purple Heart. Killed in action in Forces, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Distinguished Navy, of Portland, Oreg. Purple Heart. north Africa. Flying Cross, Silver Star, and Air Medal with Killed in action at sea. Pvt. Lawrence Scher, 24, of New York, N.Y. eight Oak-Leaf Clusters. As a navigator he Capt. William Louis Sackler, 28, Army Air Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north fought in numerous air battles in north Forces, of the Bronx, N. Y. Dist inguished Africa. Africa and took part in a raid on the Ploesti Flying Cross and Air Medal. He was lead Lt. Abe Schestopol, 27, Army Air Forces, of oil fields in Rumania. He has chalked up navigator of a squadron which made a num­ Brooklyn, N. Y. Silver Star and citation. 300 hou rs of combat flying. ber of successful raids on occupied Europe. For courageous action during the born bing of Lt. Theodore I. Rothman, 24, Army Air Lt. David A. Hacknoff, Army Air Forces, of Canton (China) airdrome, which resulted Forces, of Cleveland, Ohio. Air Medal and Portland, Maine. Air Medal and seven Oak in the destruction of six enemy bombers. two Oak Leaf Clusters. Air action over oc­ Leaf Clusters. Pilot of the Fortress Snow Pvt. (1st cl.) Joseph Schiffman, 23, of cupied Europe. White, he has participated in more than· 40 Mingo Junction, Ohio. Purple Heart. Pvt. William Rothman, 21, Army Air raids against the enemy. Once, during a Wounded in action in the Southwest Pacific. Forces, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. raid over Axis-held territory in Tunisia, his Pvt. Abraham A. Schindler, 22, of Brook­ Killed in action in the South Pacific. plane returned to base with more than 500 lyn, N.Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action Seaman Joseph Rotstein, 25, of Vicksburg, shell and bullet holes in it. in north Africa. Miss. Purple Heart. Wounded in action on Corp. Murray Salkin, 25, of Baltimore, Md. -Sgt. Leonard Schlafmitz, 21, Army Air Guadalcanal. Purple Heart. Wounded in action on the Forces, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Aid Medal. For Pvt. (1st cl.) Marcus Rubenstein, 29, of Dieppe raid. outstanding heroism on more than 20 bomb­ New York, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded Pvt. Irving B. Salsberg, 24, of Kennett ing raids on Kiska. 1n action in north Africa. Square, Pa. Purple H-eart. Wounded in Pvt. (1st cl.) Louis Schleifer, 19, Army Air Sgt. Morton Rubenstein, 27, of Chicago, action in the South Pacific. Forces, of Newark, N.J. Silver Star and Pur­ Ill. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Lt. Stephen Saltzman, Coast Artillery, of ple Heart. He was killed in action while at­ New Guinea. Wilmington. Dal. Silver Star. At Hawaii, tempting to shoot down one of the Japanese Lt. Albert 0. Rubin, 21, Army Air Forces, on December 7, 1941, he fired from the ground planes attacking Pearl Harbor on December of Chicago, Ill. Purple Heart. Wounded in with a rifle at a Jap plane, killed the pilot, 7, 1941. action in aerial combat, returning from a and sent the plane crashing to earth. Lt. Morton Schlesinger, 27, of the Bronx, bombing mission over Europe. Sgt. William Saltzman, 26, Army Air Forces, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Lt. Albert Rubin, 21, Army Air Forces, of of Chicago, Ill. Purple Heart. Killed in ac­ the European war theater. Chicago, Ill. Purple Heart. Killed in action tion in New Guinea. Pvt. Edward Schlessel, 21, United States in Asiatic area. Lt. warren Salz. 22, Army Air Forces, of Marine Corps, of Cleveland, Ohio. Purple Pvt. Alfred Rubin, 20, of Newark, N. J. · San Francisco, Calif. Purple Heart. Killed Heart. Killed in action on Guadalcanal. Purple Heart. Killed in action in north in action in north Africa. Pvt. Harry Schlovowitz, 28, of Brooklyn, Africa. Pvt. Isaac J. Sanders, 31, of Marion, N. Y. N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Pvt. Jack Rubin, of New York, N.Y. Purple Purple Heart. Killed in action in north Tunisia. Heart. Killed in action in north Africa. Africa. Pvt. David D. Schlucker, 24, of the Bronx, Pvt. (1st cl.) Sam Rubin, 24, of Brooklyn, Pvt. Irwin Sandick, 19, United States N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Marine Corps, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple north Africa. north Africa. Heart. Killed in action in the Solomon Pvt. (1st cl.) Sam Schmerin, 32, of Johns­ Corp. Alexander Rubinstein, United States Islands. town, Pa. Purple Heart. For heroism in Marine Corps, of Malden, Mass. Purple Pvt. Abraham Saperstein, 25, of Brooklyn. action in north Africa, where he was wounded. Heart. Wounded in action in the Solomon N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action in Pvt. (1st cl.) Benjamin Schmolovitz, 35, Islands.· north Africa. of Malden, Mass. Purple Heart. Wounded Lt. Seymour D. Ruchamkin, 25, United Lt. (Jr. Gr.) Jacques Conrad Saphier, 27, in action on Guadalcanal. States Navy, of Brooklyn, N.Y. Navy Cross. United States Navy, of Brooklyn, N.Y. Silver Pvt. Henry D Schnedier, 22, of New York, For heroism aboard the U. S. S. Cushing Star and Purple Heart. During a Japanese N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action in during action off Savo Island in the attack on Guadalcanal, he proceeded to the north Africa. Solomons. Missing in action since that en­ front lines and gave medical aid to the Pvt. Aaron .Schonman, 21, of the Bronx, gagement. wounded in the face of accurate and heavy N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action in Pvt. (1st cl.) Aaron Ruder, 33, of Brooklyn, Japanese fire. Moments later he was hit by north Africa. N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in a bullet and killed. Pvt. (1st cl.) Charles Schpak, of Chicago, north Africa. Pvt. (1st cl.) Louis Saslovsky, 23 , of Brook­ Ill Purple Heart. Wounded in action on Pvt. Sol Rudolph, 31, of Chicago, Ill. lyn, N.Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action Guadalcanal. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north in Sicily. Capt. Harry Schreiber, 29, Army Air Forces, Africa. Lt. Lawrence Savadkin, of Forest Hills, of Monroe, La. Purple Heart, two Oak Leaf Pvt. Morris Ruff, ~8. of Elizabeth, N. J. N. Y. Silver Star and Purple Heart. For gal­ Clusters, and Nineteenth Bombardment Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north lantry in action and wounds received in· Group citation. Navigator of the Fortress Africa. north Africa. Alexander the Swoose, he participated in Pvt. Samuel Rusnak, 28, of Youngstown, Lt. (Jr. Gr.) Lawrence Savadkin, 23, countless air battles in the Pacific war zone. Ohio. Purple Heart. Killed in action in United States Navy, of Forest .Hills, N. Y. During one raid, in which he received a north Africa. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Sicily. shrapnel wound in his nrm, his plane was Pvt. Samuel J. Ruttenberg, 26, of Dallas, Pvt. (1st cl.) Melvin Saxe, 19, of Philadel­ shot down, but the entire crew came through Tex. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in phia, Pa. Purple Heart. Killed in action in alive. New Guinea. Hawaii. Pvt. (1st cl.) Israel E. Schulman, 30, of Lt. Ralph Rutz, of Minneapolis, Minn. Sgt. Jack Schaffer, 21, Army Air Forces, of Rockaway Beach,- N. Y. Purple Heart. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Tu­ Peoria, Ill. Purple Heart. Wounded in ac­ Wounded in action in north Africa. nisia. tion in the European area. Corp. Albert Schwartz, 29, of Philadelphia, Sgt. Herman Sachnoff, Army Air Forces, of Lt. Jay J. G. Schatz, 25, Army Air Forces, Fa. Purple Heart. Killed in action in north Chicago, Ill. Distinguished Flying Cross, of Chicago, Ill. Distinguished Flying Cross Africa. Air Medal, three Oak Leaf Clusters, and Pur­ and Purple Heart. For meritorious achieve­ Pvt. (1st cl.) Abraham Schwartz, 20, of De­ ple Heart. For extraordinary heroism dur­ ment during bombing missions over Germany troit, Mich. Purple Heart. Wounded in ac­ ing 10 months of aerial combat in north and occupied Europe. He was wounded dur­ tion in the Southwest Pacific. Africa, where four different planes on which ing one raid over Antwerp. Corp. Carl Schwartz, 33, of Highland Park, he served returned to base too severely dam­ Pvt. Herman Schechter, 25, of Detroit, Mich. N. J. Purple Heart. Killed in action in thC' ageu for further use. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in the Philippines. Lt. Col. Henry N. Sachs, 38, Ordnance De­ South Pacific. Corp. Gershon Schwartz, 26, of Revere, partment, of New York, N. Y. Silver Star. Pvt."'Robert L. Scheinman, 19, of New York, Mass. Purple Heart. Wounded in action on I Over and above the call of duty, he proceeded N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Guadalcanal. through burning buildings, while Hickam north Africa. Lt. Harold Schwartz, United States Navy, of Fi®ld was still under attack, a,nd supervised Pvt. (1st cl.) Martin Scheffler, 24, of•New Newark, N. J. Purple Heart. Wounded in the unloading of fully fuzed ammunition York, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action action at sea. from a nearb y ship. in the Southwest Pacific. Pvt. Harry M. Schwart z, 22, paratrooper, Pvt. Morris Sachs, 30, of Baltimore, Md. Sgt. Julius Schellenberg, of Brooklyn, N. ·Y. of Denver, Colo. Purple Heart. Wounded in Purple Heart. Wounqed in action in north Purple Heart. He was one of a group of thir. action in Italy .. Africa. · teen men who volunteered to enter an am­ Sgt. Irving Schwartz, 24, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Lt. Morton L. Sachs, 27, Army Air Forces. of munition dump in the New Guinea area to Purple Heart. For outstanding heroism in Brooklyn, N.Y. All· Medal. For meritorious remove eltplosives while a grass fire nearby north Africa, where he was killed in action. 3342 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MARCH 30 Sgt. Israel Schwartz, 22, Army Air Forces, of uary 15, 1943, he was reported missing in guished the flames; and helped bring his Minneapolis, Minn. Air Medal. For partici­ action. plane and crew members, several of whom pating in more than 200 hours ot operational Capt. Sidney Senfeld, 33, of Brooklyn, N.Y. were wounded, back to base. Since being tlights. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north released from the hospital he has taken part Sgt. Leon L. Schwartz, United States Ma· Africa. iri a raid on Rumanian oil field. rine Corps, 22, of New Orleans, La. Purple Seaman Harry A. Seymour, 19, United Pvt. Irving I. Shure, 22, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Heart. Killed in action on Guadalcanal. States Navy, of Phoenix, Ariz. Purple Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north Pvt. (1st cl.) Maurice Schwartz, 33, Army Heart. Wounded in action in the Southwest Africa. Air Forces, of Philadelphia, Pa. Purple Heart. Pacific. · Lt. Bernard S. Siegel, 27, of Belleville, Til. Wounded in action in the Philippines. Sgt. Albert Shafran, 26, Army Air Forces, Purple Heart. Killed in action in north · Lt. Monroe P. Schwartz, 26, Army Air of New York, N.Y. Air Medal. For meritori­ Africa. Forces, of Philadelphia, Pa. Air Medal, two ous· achievement during bombing missions Pvt. George Siegel, 21, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Oak Leaf Clusters, and Purple Heart. For over occupied Europe. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Sicily. outstanding achievement during participa­ Pvt. (1st cl.) Herbert Shafer, of Buffalo, Pvt. (1st cl.) Joseph Siegel, 24, of Chicago, tion in bombing raids on north Africa and N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action 1D Ill. Purple Heart.. Wounded in action in New Italy. north Africa. Guinea. Lt. Morton B. Schwartz, 23, United States Pvt. Abraham Isaac Shapiro, 24, of Dor­ Seaman Lawrence Siegel, 24, United States Naval Reserve, of Chicago, Ill. Citation from chester, Mass. Purple Heart. Killed in ac­ Navy, of Buffalo, N. Y. Navy letter of com­ Rear Admiral T. S. Wilkinson. In charge of tion on Guadalcanal. mendation. For accepting and executing a landing craft in the Solomon Islands, he suc­ . Pvt. Arthur S. Shapiro, 23, of Los Angeles, difficult assignment of great military im­ ceeded several times in saving his ships from Calif. Purple Heart. Killed in action in the portance in the Southwest Pacific. Japanese destroyers. Battle of Attu. Lt. Raymond T. Siegel, 22, of Baton Rouge, Lt. Paul Schwartz, 24, of Syracuse, N. Y. Corp. Jack Shapiro, 24, of Philadelphia, Pa. La. Purple Heart. Killed in action in north Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, and Purple Heart. Wounded in north Africa. Africa. Purple Heart. He was leader of an Ameri­ Maj. Jacob Shapiro, 29, of Brookline, Mass. · Pvt. (1st cl.) Sanford Siegel, 29, of Cleve­ can patrol of 14 men which captured a vil­ Silver Star, Croix de Guerre,· and Purple land, Ohio. Purple Heart. Wounded in ac­ lage in New Guinea from a greatly superior Heart. For extraordinary heroism as leader tion in north Africa. Jap force and destroyed a cache of enemy of an American tank unit in Tunisia and Sgt. Sidney Siegel, 22, Army Air Forces, of arms and ammunition. Shortly afterward for wounds received in action there. Chicago, Ill. Air Medal. For meritorious he was wounded in action. Corp. Jacob Shapiro, 23, of Cleveland, Ohio. achievement in aerial flight in the north Pvt. (1st cl.) Jack Schweibish, 21, United Purple Heart. Wounded in north Africa. Africa area where he was wounded in action. States Marine Corps, of Chicago, Til. Purple Lt. Alfred Sharf!, 27, of Portland, Oreg. Lt. Irving SHerman of Buffalo, N.Y. Silver Heart. Wounded in action in the Solomon Distinguished Service Cross and Purple Heart. Star and Purple Heart. For gallantry in lslancts He engaged the enemy during a north African action and wounds received in north Africa. Pvt. Max I. Schweid, 31, of New York City, battle and succeeded in diverting them so Lt. Irving Silverman of Buffalo, N. Y., 27. N. Y Purple Heart. Killed in action in that American troops captured the position. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north north Africa. This gallant action cost him his life. Africa. Lt. Danny B. Schwimmer, 21, Army Air Pvt. Joseph Sharp, Ordnance Department, Lt. Joel M. Silverman, 27, Army Ail' Forces, Forces, of Newton Center, Mass. Air Medal. of Seattle, Wash. Purple Heart. While man­ of Chicago, Ill. Air Medal and two Oak Leaf For meritorious service while participating in ning an antiaircraft gun at Dutch Harbor Clusters. For extraordinary heroism during over 200 hours of antisubmarine patrol. he was killed by Japanese dive bombers. more than 30 aerial missions over Germany Corp~ Sidney Schwimmer, Army Air Forces, Pvt. (1st cl.) Joseph Sharp, 22, of Phila­ and Africa. He was recently reported missing of New York, N.Y. Silver Star. Gunner on a delphia, Pa. Purple Heart. Killed in action in action in the Middle East. Flying Fortress during an air battle over New at Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Pvt. (1st cl.) Stanley Silverman, 24, of Guinea, he shot down seven Jap Zeros and Sgt. Louis Benjamin Shein, 22, Army Air Brooklyn, N. Y. Distinguished Service Cross dispersed a formation of others. Forces, of Fresno, Calif. Air Medal. For and Purple Heart. For extraordinary heroism Lt. Nathan Scolnick, 27, Army Air Forces, of meritorious achievement in aerial flight over and wounds received in action in Tunisia. Brooklyn, N. Y. Air Medal. For heroism in occupied Europe. Pvt. Jerome L. Silverstein, 21, of Brooklyn, air action in the Middle East. Corp. Reuben Sheinman, 22, United States N.Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Lt. Dolph B. Sears, 25, Army Air Forces, of Marine Corps, of Jamaica, N. Y. Purple north Africa. Birmingham, Ala. Air Medal. He took part Heart. Wounded in action on Guadalcanal. Pvt. Leo Silverstein, 22, of the Bronx, N.Y. 1n a nonstop massed troop-carrier flight from Pvt. Isidore Shepard, 25, of Brooklyn, N.Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Sicily. England to north Africa, carried out despite Purple Heart. Killed in action in the west­ Lt. Comdr. Max Silverstein, 32, United adverse conditions and enemy activity. ern Europe area. Stat-es Navy, of Baltimore, Md. Silver Star Pvt. Charles Segal, 39, of Philadelphia, Pa. Lt. Morton Sher, 21, Army Air Forces, of and citation from Secretary of the Navy Purple Heart. Killed in action in Sicily. Greenville, S. C. Purple Heart. Killed in Knox. During the Battle of Coral Sea, he Sgt. George J. Segal, 19, Army Air Forces, of action in China. directed gun operations successfully and the Bronx, N.Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in Seaman Nathan Sherman, 18, United States drove off two Jap attackao. Following the sec­ action in the Middle East. -Navy, of Harrisburg, Pa. Purple Heart. ond attack when his ship was sunk, he is Lt. Norman Segal, 24, Army Air Forces, of Killed in action at sea. believed to have gone down with it. New York, N. Y. Distinguished Flying Cross, Seaman Eliot I. Sherris, United States Navy, Pvt. Walter Silverwatch, Army Air Forces, Air Medal, and three Oak Leaf Clusters. For of Buffalo, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in · of Lawrence, Mass. Purple Heart. For out­ outstanding heroism during participation in action at sea. standing heroism during a Japanese attack more than 30 sorties in north Africa. Pvt. (1st cl.) Harold E. Shifrin, 23, of on Hickam Field, where he was wounded . . Pvt. Seymour M. Segal, 20, of Far Rockaway, Chicago, Dl. Purple Heart. Wounded i~ · Sgt. Herbert M. Simes, 21, Army Air Forces, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in action in the Southwest Pacific. of Brooklyn, N. Y. Silver Star and Purple north Africa. Pvt. (1st cl.) Abraham Shinder, 25, of Heart. For outstanding achievement during Ensign Joseph D. Segall, 25, United States Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. K111ed in participation on bombing mission over enemy Navy, of New Bedford, Mass. Purple Heart. action in the South Pacific. territory in Europe. Killed in action in the Aleutian Islands. Pvt. (1st cl.) Louis B. Shluger, 26, of Hart­ Pvt. Morton Simoh, 23, of Philadelphia, Pvt. Marvin Segel, of Cleveland, Ohio. Pur­ ford, Conn. Purple Heart. Killed in action Pa. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in ple Heart. Killed in action in north Africa. in the South Pacific. Sicily. Ensign Daniel Seid, United States Navy, of Corp. Saul Shocket, 24, of Providence, R.I. Sgt. Herbert L. Simon, 37, of Philadelphia, Encino, Calif. Purple Heart. Killed in ac­ Purple Heart. Killed in action in the South Pa. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in tion in Gilbert and Marshall Islands engage­ Pacific. north Africa. ment. Lt. Murray Shubin, 26, Army Air Forces, of Sgt. Norton Simon, 23, Army Air Forces, Pvt; Frank Seidel, 31, of New York, N. Y. Pittsburgh, Pa. Distinguished Service Cross. of Philadelphia, Pa. Distinguished Flying Purple Heart. K1lled in action in north During 45 minutes of air combat at Guadal­ Cross. For heroism in air action in the South Africa. canal he succeeded in shooting down 7 Pacific as a member of the famed Nine­ Pvt. (1st cl.) Bernard Selden, 20, United Japanese planes. teenth Bombardment Group. States Marine Corps, of Irvington, N.J. Pur­ Pvt. (1st cl.) Harold Silverman, 29, of New Sgt. Raymond L. Simons, 25, Army Air ple Heart. Killed in action in the Solomon York, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in Forces, of New Haven, Conn. Distinguished Islands. action in the Southwest Pacific. Flying Cross, Air Medal, and three Oak Leaf Sgt. Justin Seitenback, 23, Army Air Forces, Sgt. Harry Shultz, 35, of Kansas City, Mo. Clusters. He helped navigate a bullet-rid­ of New York, N.Y. Purple Heart. KUled in Distinguished Flying Cross. Oak Leaf dled plane with two crewmen disabled from action in north Africa. Cluster, Air Medal, and Purple Heart. He Germany to its base in Britain following a Sgt. Harold M. Sena, 26, Army Air Forces, participated in a number of air assaults on raid on Nazi objectives. of Bridgeport, Conn. Air Medal. For out­ occupied Europe. On one occasion when his Sgt. Abraham Simonowitz, 28, Army Air standing heroism during bombing missions plane caught fire during an attack, he crawled Forces, of Trenton, N. J. Air Medal, Oak ~ver north Africa. Following a raid on Jan- over the bomb bay although wounded, exti:n- Leaf Cluster, and Purple Heart. For out- l944 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3343 standing service during 14 bombing raids over of the enemy planes and scoring the other as Sgt. Philip Stern, 24, of New Yo·~k. N. Y. enemy territory and shipping in north Africa. a probable. He then took part in rescuing Purple Heart. Wounded in action ln north Lt. Jerome Simpson, 24, Army Air Forces, several hundred survivors of a torpedoed de­ Africa. of New York, N. Y. Distinguished Flying stroyer in the same vicinity. Pvt. Francis H. Sternberg, 30, of Hichmond Cross, Air Medal, and three Oak Leaf Clusters. Lt. Max Solomon, 22, Army Air Forces, of Hill, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in ac­ A Spitfire pilot, he is credited with more Turners Falls, Mass. Purple Heart. Killed in tion in Tunisia, where he fought as a mem­ than 200 hours of air combat over north· action in Dutch Guinea. ber of a tank crew. Africa and occupied Europe. He is also Pvt. Daniel Soloway, 20, Army Air Forces, Lt. Donald Michael Sternglanz, 24, Army credited with shooting down several planes. of the Bronx, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in Air Forces, of Los Angeles, Calif. Purple Pvt. Leo Sindelman, 21, of Brooklyn, N. action in the South Pacific. Heart. Killed in action over France. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Sgt. Jay Jerome Sosenko, of Camden, N. J. Pvt. (1st cl.) Sam Sternlicht, of Brooklyn, south Pacific. P1.1rple Heart. Wounded in action in Africa. N.Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Sgt. Irvin Singer, 26, Army Air Forces, of Pvt. Bernard Speck, 20, of Youngstown, north Africa. Reading, Pa. Purple Heart. Killed in action Ohio. Purple Heart. For heroism during the Lt. Lawrence R. Stickler, 28, Army Air in New Guinea. fighting in north Africa, where he was Forces, of Chicago; Ill. Purple Heart. Sgt. Saul Singer, 24, Army Air Forces, of wounded. Wounded in action in the Middle East. Brooklyn, N. Y. Air Medal. For meritorious Lt. Martin Spector, 26, Army Medical Corps, David Stockton, merchant seaman, Brook­ achievement in air action during the invasion of Philadelphia, Pa. Citation for bravery in lyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action at of Sicily. action. During heavy fighting in the New sea. Lt. William Singer, 25, Army Air Forces, Guinea area he remained in the line of en-emy Storekeeger David H. Straus, United States of St. Louis, Mo. Silver Star. He was bom­ fire and continued to treat the wounded. Naval Reserve, of Houston, Tex. Purple bardier aboard the first plane which blasted Boatswain's Mate Edwin Speery, United Heart. Killed in action in the South the enemy in an attaclt at Rabaul Harbor States Naval Reserve, of Stephentown, N. Y. Pacific. blowing up two warships. Navy Cross. As a member of a demolition Yeoman Martin S. Strause, 19, United Lt. Jack I. Singer, 24, Army Air Forces, of party during the north African fighting he States Navy, of Easton, Pa. Navy Cross, Stamford, Conn. Purple Heart. Killed in was largely instrumental in the accomplish­ citation, and Purple Heart. During a sud­ action in the Southwest Pacific. ment of the party's task, that of cutting a den attack by low-flying Japanese fighters Pvt. Raymond Sinowitz, 27, of Bronx, passage through a navigational obstruction at and bombers, he was wounded. He was N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action in the the mouth of the river. taken to sick bay, but he insisted on return­ Philippines. ing to his gun post and helped to rout the Lt. Sidney Slotoroff, 28, Army Air Forces, Pvt. (1st cl.) Leo Stechenberg, 24, of New enemy. of Brooklyn, N. Y. Air Medal. For meri­ York, N. Y. Purple Heart. wounded in ac­ Pvt. (1st cl.) Henry Strausman, 23, of torious achievement when carrying troops in tion in Tunisia. New York, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in his plane from England to north Africa dur­ Cap:t. Herbert Spiegel, 29, of McKeesport, Pa. action in the South Pacific. ing the invasion· on November 7 and 8, 1942. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in the Lt. Martin M. Strauss, 20, Army Air Forces, Sgt. George Joseph Smith, 24, Army Air Battle of Mateur. of New York, N.Y. Air Medal and three Oak Forces, of Lynbrook, N. Y. Air Medal, Oak Corp. Stanley J. Spierer, 19, United States Leaf Clusters. For participated activity in Leaf Cluster, and Purple Heart. For ex­ Marine Corps, of the Bronx, N.Y. Silver Star 24_bombing raids over occupied Europe. He traordinary heroism during bombing mis­ and Purple Heart. For outstanding and cou­ was reported missing after the Bremen raid sions over New Guinea. He was recently re­ rageous action during the fighting at Guadal­ on April17, 1943. ported killed in action. canal, where he was wounded by a mortar Pvt. Morris Strauss, 26, of Buffalo, N. Y. Maj. Herman Smith, 33, of Cleveland, Ohio. shell during the taking of a Japanese ma­ Purple Heart. Killed in action in the Battle Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north chine-gun nest. of Gafsa. Africa. Sgt. Joseph Mordecai Spiro, 22, Army Air Pvt. Nathan Strauss, 20, of St. Louis, .Mo. Lt. Jayson Marshall Smith, 26, Army Air · Forces, of Newark, N.J. Air Medal and three Purple Heart. Killed in action in the Philip­ Forces, of Atlanta, Ga. Air Medal. For mer­ Oak Leaf Clusters. For outstanding heroism pines. itorious achievement in aerial flight over during bombing missions over occupied Eu­ Sgt. Herman Straussner, 25, Army Air Europe as pilot of a Thunderbolt. rope. He was recently reported missing. Forces, of Forest Hills, N. Y. Air Medal. Pvt. (1st cl.) Stanley N. Smith, 25, of For­ Seaman Samuel Stark, United States Navy, For heroism in aerial flight during the in­ est Hills, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in ac­ of Pennsauken, N. J. Purple Heart. Killed vasion of Sicily. He also earned a French tion in north Africa. in action in the North Atlantic. decoration for helping to rescue three French Sgt. Maurice Smithberg, 22, Air Forces, of Pvt. Stanley Staum, 26, United States Ma­ generals lost for a week in the African desert Savannah, Ga. Air Medal, two Oak Leaf rine Corps, of San Francisco, Calif. Purple during the north African campaign. Clusters. For exceptional achievement •in Heart. KUled in action off the Ellice Islands. Pvt. (1st cl.) Abraham Strom, of Brooklyn, aerial fiight during numerous raids in north Lt. Carl Stein, 36, of Cleveland, Ohio. Pur­ N. Y. Letter of commendation. Purple Africa. In one aerial battle he accounted for ple Heart. Wounded in action in Tunisia. Heart. Oak Leaf Cluster. During a surprise two German planes. Lt. Carl Stein, 30, of Everett, Mass. Purple attaclc, he saved the life of his commander Sgt. Louis Smulowitz, 30, Army Air Forces, Heart. Killed in action in north Africa. and was wounded in action three times. of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Purple Heart. K1lled in Lt. Fred P. Stein, 25, Army Air Forces, of· Pvt. (1st cl.) Abraham Strom, 24, Brook­ action in the European area. New York, N. Y. Distinguished Flying Cross lyn, N.Y. Purple Heart. Oak Leaf Cluster. Lt. Robert Nathan Snider, Army Air Forces, and Air Medal. For meritorious achievement Commendation. Wounded in action in of El Paso, Tex. Purple Heart. Killed in during bombing and combat missions over Tunisia. action in the Virgin Islands area. enemy territory in Burma. Corp. Kolman Stumacher, 21, Army Air Forces, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Silver Star and Lt. Emanuel Snitkin, 24, Army Air Forces, Sgt. Eugene :Herman Stein, 23, Army Air Forces, of New York, N. Y. Air Medal and Air Medal. For participation in the suc­ of Newark, N.J. Air Medal and two Oak Leaf cessful bombardment of a Japanese island Clusters. For outstanding heroism in air Oak Leaf Cluster. For courage and heroism during bombing missions over enemy terri­ base and for bluffing the Japs when his gun action against Japanese forces and installa­ jammed during one combat. tions in the New Guinea area. tory in Europe and for shooting down a Ger­ man plane. He was recently reported miss­ Capt. Alexander P. Suer, 27, of Peekskill, Pvt. Robert H. Snyder, 20, of Chicago, Ill. N. Y. Army citation. For gallantry in ac- Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Guadal­ ing in action. Corp. Herman Stein, 21, of Woodbine, N.J. tion in Sicily. . canal. Sgt. Edward Sufka, 24, Army Air Forces, Lt. Sidney A. Snyder, 30, of Norfolk, Va. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north Africa. of·Hillman, Minn. Air Medal. For meritori­ Purple Heart. Wounded in action in the ous achievement in air action. Solomon Islands. Corp. Jesse J. Stein, 21, United States Pvt. (1st cl.) Jack Sugerman, 20, United Aviation Radioman Alvin A. Sobel, 23, Marine Corps, of Bayonne, N. J. Purple States Marine Corps, of Media, Pa. Navy United States Navy, of Paterson, N. J. Dis·­ Heart. Wounded in action on Guadalcanal. Cross. He saved the lives of 9 officers and tinguished Flying Cross. For participating Sgt. Seymour H. Stein, 25, Army Air killed 132 Japs in a battle in the Solomons. in the bombing and strafing of the fleeing Forces, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Air Medal. For Lt. Irving Joseph Superfine, 28, United enemy force during the Battle of Midway. bravery and skill in· landing paratroops dur­ States Navy, South Bend, Ind. Silver Star. Lt. Abraham Soffer, 25, Army Air Forces, of ing the invasion of Sicily. As officer in charge of a salvage crew he Branford, Conn. Air Medal. Meritorious Sgt. Hyman Steiner, 22, Army Air Forces, boarded an abandoned vessel in an active achievement in aerial flight during raids on of Philadelphia, Pa. Purple Heart. Killed in combat area and despite enemy observation enemy positions in New Guinea. action in Egypt, and attack managed to rescue the veso:el's Lt. (Jr. Gr.) Herbert D. Solomon, 32, Col. Benjamin Stern, 43, of Lincoln, Nebr. valuable cargo. United States Naval Reserve, of Brooklyn, Legion of Merit award. Fvr the perform­ Sgt. Saul Suskind, 21, Army Air Forces, of N.Y. Letter of commendation. Having com­ ance of outstanding services to the Signal New York, N. Y. Air Medal, Oak Leaf Clust:er, pleted a successful landing operation in Corps during the north African campaign. and Purple Heart. For outstanding heroism enemy-occupied territory in the Solomons, he Ensign Charles M. Stern, Jr., United States during bombing mission over occupied defended his ship against an enemy attack Navy, of Albany, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed Europe. He was reported- killed in action by two planes, personally accounting for one in action in Ha wail. during a raid over Germany in January 1943. 3344 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MARCH 30 Lt. Manford Susman, 28. Army Air Forces, Seaman Seymour L. Treib, United States extraordinary heroism during the invasion of Houston, Tex. Distinguished Flying Cross Coast Guard, of Brooklyn, N.Y. Commenda­ of Java. and Air Medal. For outstanding achievement tion from Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs for Pvt. Felix Weinber-ger, 24, of Willow Grove, in the face of danger in combat missions in courageous action resulting in the rescue of Pa. Purple Heart. wounded in action in the Middle East and for more than 250 hours all survivors after his vessel had been dam­ Sicily. · of aerial combat. · aged. Pvt. Henry A. Weiner, 23, Army Air Forces, :t'vt. Joseph Susterowitz, 20, of New York, Lt. Bernard Turansky, Army Air Forces, of of Brooklyn, N.Y. Purple Heart. Died in a N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Brooklyn, N. Y. Air Medal and Oak Leaf Jap prison camp. north Africa. Cluster. For meritorious achievement in Lt. Herbert Caftan Weiner, 25, Army Air Lt. Nathan Sutin, 28, Army Air Forces, of aerial flight in the European theater, includ­ Forces, of Lynn, Mass. Purple Heart. Killed Albany, N. Y. Air Medal. For participation iifg the bombardment of Rome as a Flying in action in the Solomon Islands. in more than 200 hours of antisubmarine Fortress bombardier. Seaman Julius Weiner, 32, of Baltimore, patrol duty. Lt. Henry Turick, 30, Army Air Forces, of Md. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Sgt. Leon Svirsky, Army Air Forces, of Detroit, Mich. Silver Star and Air Medal. the Pacific. New Haven, Conn. Air Medal. For meri· For his work as a member of a fighter pilot Pvt. (1st. cl.) Max C. Weinfield, 31, of Phil­ torious achievement in aerial flight over oc· group credited with shooting down 148 Jap adelphia, Pa. Purple Heart. For heroism cupled Europe. planes in the New Guinea area. and wounds received in action in north Capt. Arnold D. Swartz, 27, United States Flight Officer Milton Tushman, 24, Army Africa. Marine Corps, of Brockton, Mass. Silver Air Forces, of Cleveland, Ohio. Purple Heart. Pvt. (1st. cl.) Murray Weinrib, 25, of New Star. For outstanding heroism in action at Killed in action in north Africa. York, N.Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in ac­ Pearl Harbor, Midway, TUlagi, and Guadal· Pvt. Maurice Umans, 25, of Brooklyn, N.Y. tion in north Africa. canal. Purple Heart. For heroism and wounds re­ Machinist's Mate Murray Weinrub, United Lt. Gerald H. Swatzberg, 26, of Santa Bar· ceived in action in Guadalcanal. States Navy, of Los Angeles, Calif. Silver bara, Calif. Purple Heart. Killed in action Pvt. (1st cl.) Max Umansky, 29, of New Star. He was a crew member of the sub­ in Sicily. York, N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in marine which foiled the Jap's attempt to Pvt. (1st cl.) Jacob Sylvetsky, 28, of Bridge· action in north Africa. seize stores of gold and securities on Corregi­ port, Conn. Purple Heart. Wounded in ac· Sgt. Alfred M. Union, 35, Army Air Forces, dor by loading and trans'porting the valuables tion in north Africa. of Coral Gables, Fla. Purple Heart. Killed to a waiting cruiser. Pvt. (1st cl.) Frank Symonds, 25, of Man· in action over occupied Europe. Seaman David Weiiistein, of Brooklyn, N.Y. chester, Conn·. Purple Heart. Wounded in Lt. Barry Urdang, 28, Army Air Forces, of Purple Heart. Killed in action at sea. action in north Africa. New York, N.Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in Sgt. Max Weinstein, 22, of Rochester, N. Y. Lt. Pincus P. Taback, 24, Army Air Forces.. action over occupied Europe. Purple Heart. Killed in action in north of Newark, N.J. Distinguished Flying Cross. Pvt. (1st cl.) Max Uretsky, 24, of Brooklyn, Africa. Air Medal and 9 Oak Leaf Clusters. For N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Pvt. (1st cl.) John L. Weisbeck, 25, of ·outstanding service and heroism on more north Africa. Hamilton, Mont. Purple Heart. Wounded in than 50 combat missions in north Africa, Pvt. (1st cl.) Benedict Vetner, 27, of Millis, action in north Africa. during which he was credited with shooting Mass. Purple Heart. Killed in action in the Pvt. (1st cl.) Joseph M. Weisberg, 29, of down 2 German planes and several probables. southwest Pacific. Roxbury, Mass. Purple Heart. Wounded in Pvt. IrVing E. Taffe!, 19, Paratrooper, Army Pvt. (1st cl.) Murray Velcoff, 26, of New action on Guadalcanal. . Air Force_s, of New York, N. Y. Purple York, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in action Lt. Arthur Weiss, United States Marine Heart. Wounded in action in north Africa.· on Guadalcanal. Corps, of Carrollton, Ga. Purple Heart. Lt. Sidney D. Tannenbaum, 22, Army Air Corp. Coleman Vicstein, 27, of Cleveland, Wounded in action on Guadalcanal. Forces, of Milwaukee, Wis. Air Medal and Ohio. Silver Star and Purple Heart. For Pvt. Sydney Jack Weiss, 26, of New Haven, three Oak Leaf Clusters. For heroism in air gallantry in action during the Oran invasion Conn. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in action during the Tunisian campaign and and wounds received in action in Tunisia. north Africa. Lt. Leonard H. Victor, 23, of Pueblo, Colo. Pvt. Elliot Weissbuch, 23, of Brooklyn, N.Y. the Sicilian invasion. Purple Heart. Died in a Jap prison camp. Sgt. Ralph Tarad, 31, of Philadelphia, Pa. Purple Heart. Killed in action in Sicily. Purple Heart. Killed in action off the coast Sgt. Max Joseph Victor, 23, Army Air Forces, Sgt. Arthur Weitz. 22, Army Air Forces, of Madison, Wis. Air Medal for outstanding of Brooklyn, N. Y. Distinguished Flying of Australia. Cross, Silver Star and Air Medal. For ex­ Corp. Alvin 4· Tarant, 26, United States heroism during air action in the Aleutians. Marine Corps, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Pvt. (1st cl.) Jack Vogel, United States traordinary heroism during more than 50 Heart. Killed in action in the Solomon Marine Corps, of Kansas City, Mo. Purple missions in New Guinea. Islands. Heart. Wounded in action in Hawaii. Pvt. Julius Wertheim, 24, of New York, N. Y, Maj. Archie Tax, 37, Army Medical Corps, Corp. Joseph J. Volkel, 24, of New York, N.Y. Commendation from commanding officer. of Menomonee Falls, Wis. Silver Star. When Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north For rapid action which reduced the injuries an ammunition vehicle was hit during the Africa. sustained. by an officer who had been acci­ fighting in Tunisia he went over to it and, Sgt. Irving B. Warshauer, 23, Army Air dentally splashed with flaming gasoline. Forces, of New Orleans, La. Purple Heart. Pvt. Edwin F. Westendorf, 24, of Fairbank, despite the explosions, evacuated and admin­ Iowa. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in istered aid to the injured vehicle passengers. Killed in action over Germany. Lt. Harold Warshaw, 23, of Brooklyn, N. Y. New. Guinea. Pvt. Steve Telent, 24, of New York, N. Y. Lt. David K. Westheimer, 25, Army Air Purple ·Heart. wounded in action in north Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Sicily. Pvt. Solomon Wasser, 21, Army Air Forces, Forces, of Houston, Tex. Distinguished Fly­ Africa. ing Cross and Air Medal. He received his Sgt. Morris Tepper, 22, Army Air Forces, of of the Bronx, N.Y. Purple Heart. Killed 1n action in north Africa. awards for gallantry and for having com· Brooklyn, N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in pleted more than 100 hours of aerial combat. action over France. · Seaman Irving Weber, 33, of Dayton, Ohio. Purple Heart. Wounded in action on Guadal· Lt. Haskell Wexler, 24, Army Air Forces, Randolph Thune, 22, of the Bronx, N. Y. of Chicago, Ill. Distinguished Service Cross, Purple Heart. ·wounded in action in north canal. ' Lt. Ben L. Wechsler, 21, Paratrooper, Army Silver Star, and Oak Leaf Cluster. For ex­ Africa. traordinary heroism during .bombing mis­ Sgt. David Timinsky, 25, of Passaic, N. J. Air Forces, of Pittsburgh, Pa. Wounded in action in north Africa. sions over New Guinea. Purple Heart. wounded in action in north Capt. Nathan H. Wexler, 35, Army Medical Africa. Lt. Lawrence A. Wechsler, 21, Army Air Forces, of New York, N. Y. Air Medal and Corps, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Soldier's Medal. Sgt. Hyman Tlumak, 24, of Brooklyn, N.Y. Oak Leaf Cluster. For exceptionally meri· For saving the life of Lieutenant General Purple Heart. wounded in action in north torious service on bombing missions over oc­ Kenney, commander of the Allied forces in Africa. cupied Europe. the Southeast Pacific area. Sgt. Saul Tobias, 22, Army Air Forces, of Pyt. John Henry Well, 23, of Dorchester, Pvt. (1st cl.) Sam Wexler, 28, of Chicago, Pittsburgh, Pa. Purple Heart. Wounded in Mass. Presidential citation. For heroism on Ill. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in action in Australia. Guadalcanal. north Africa. Fireman Harold G. Tobin, 22, United States Corp. Aaron A. Weinberg, 2!?, of Br<;>oklyn, Pvt. Solomon Wexler, 29, of the Bronx, N.Y. Naval Reserve, of Erie, Colo. Purple Heart. N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in Silver Star. For heroism in action in the Wounded in action in the South Pacific north Africa. north African fighting. Sgt. Abraham Todras, 21, Army Air Forces, Pvt. (1st. cl.) David Weinberg, 28, of New­ Lt. Abraham Wilensky, 27, Army Air of Brooklyn, N. Y. Air Medal and two Oak ark, N.J. Purple Heart. Wounded in action Forces, of East Lyme, Conn. Air Medal and Leaf Clusters. For extraordinary heroism as in north Africa. Oak Leaf Cluster. For heroism during nu­ gunner on a bomber during the -Aleutian Corp. George K. Weinberg, 23, of Provi· merous aerial missions in the South Pacific. Islands fighting. dence, R. I. Silver Star. For extraordinary Pvt. Julius Willen, 25, of New York, N. Y. Lt. Harry M. Topolsky, 31, .of Cincinnati, heroism in the north Africa fighting where Silver Star. Despite constant enemy ma­ Ohio. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in he went out of cover, rescued a wounded chine gun r.nd mortar fire he managed to keep the Battle of Attu. soldier, and carried him a mile under fire open the lines of communication. Pvt. (1st cl.) Edward E. Tornow, 28, of to an aid station. Pvt. Myron M. Winograd, 27, United States Lewiston, Idaho. Purple Heart. Killed in . Capt. Gordon Weinberg, 24, Army Air Marine Corps, of Chicago, Ill. Purple Heart. action in the Battle of Kiska. Forces, of Philadelphia, Pa. Air Medal. For Killed in action in the Solomon Islands. 1944 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3345 Sgt. Solomon I. Wise, 33, Army Air Forces, Pvt. Joseph H. Zafron, 34, of Salamanca, Mr. McCORMACK. The gentleman of Chicago, Ill. Air Medal. For heroism dur­ N. Y. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in from Massachusetts [Mr. CURLEY] has ing bombing mission over occupied Europe. north Africa. been in public life for many years. I say Sgt. Wise was rec·ently reported missing in Pvt. (1st cl.) Samuel £,;aremsky, 32, of this in no flattering sense but in the com­ action. Cleveland, Ohio. Purple Heart. Wounded Pvt. Morton Wishna, 23, of Glendale, N. Y. in action in Sicily. plimentary sense of one who has always Purple Heart. Wounded in action in north Sgt. Alexander Zaretsky, 21, Army Air admired him, considering him one of the Africa. Forces, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Distinguished outstanding authorities in the United Pvt. Edward D. Wiskusky, 23, of Massillon, Flying Cross, Silver Star, Air Medal, Com­ States in the political science of our Na­ Ohio. Purple Heart. Wounded in action in mendation from President Roosevelt. Radio tion and in understanding public prob­ north Africa. operator and gunner on a bomber. He is lems and in being a constructive leader. credited with more than 580 hours of aerial Sgt. Martin Wisman, 34, Army Air Forces, As a young man I can remember him in of Kansas City, Mo. Air Medal, Oak Leaf combat. Cluster, and Purple Heart. For heroism in Pvt. (1st cl.) Edward Zatz, 25, Medical public life. The gentleman from Massa­ air action over occupied Europe during Corps, of Chicago, Ill. Silver Star and Oak chusetts [Mr. CURLEY] has always been which he was WQUnded. ' Leaf Clusters. During the heavy fighting at a leader in progressive thought and ac­ Pvt. Joseph Wisotsky, 23, of New York, Guadalcanal he rushed into enemy fire lanes tion. Above all, he has exemplified and N. Y. Purple Heart. Killed in· action in and rescued several wounded Americans. inspired others to follow the noblest tra­ Sicily. Lt. Al. Zeidenfeld, 25, of Denver, Colo. ditions for which our country stands, Corp. Eugene Wahl, 32, of Wilkes-Barre, Purple Heart. Killed in, action in the Euro­ pean area. first and foremost being tolerance on the P~. Purple Heart. Killed in action in the part of all for the other; he is a man who South Pacific. Maj. Samuel Zemmurray, 31, Army Air Sgt. Arthur Wolf, 26, of New Haven, Conn. Forces, of New Orleans, La. Purple Heart. has always vigorously condemned intol­ Purple Heart. Wounded in action in the Killed in action in north Africa. erance and bigotry in any form. Philippir_es. Pvt. Morris Zeritsky, 31, of Baltimore, Mki. Mr. CURLEY. I thank the gentleman. Lt. Edwin J. Wolf, 20, Army Air Forces, Purple Heart. Killed in action in north The SPEAKER pro tempore ly, for should be carefu1 that facts placed there­ inactive duty and his rating changed many Members of Congress, when the in are correct. Again, this caution from landsman for yeoman to apprentice gentleman is making one of his numer­ should be exercised discreetly and above seaman. ous speeches on the floor of the House all, fairly upon any attack upon a man's On September 30, 1921, he was dis­ we would like to be here to answer, but patriotism in time of war. Regardless of charged from the Naval Reserve Force in we have other matters to attend to, and what any of us may think of an indi­ accordance with the Nayy's general let­ the gentleman knows that the bulk of vidual personally, that individual's fam­ ter of September 29, 1921, explaining the work of Congress is not on the floor ily is entitled to have the RECORD clear­ that owing to drastic cuts in Naval Re­ of the House, but in the committees and it ls a permanent RECORD-One that a .serve ·appropriations it was necessary to in our respective offices, in meeting with man's family can read to posterity. It is reduce the Naval Reserve Force. our constituents at departments, and a serious matter to so charge or impugn Several members of the Reserves were such things of this nature. I hope the a man's patriotism, and that should ap­ · cut off at that time. impression does not go abroad that he ply to citizens in their statements about On March 23, 1934, he submitted his was criticizing the Members of Congress ·Members of Congress as well-unless the application for commission in the Naval for not being here while he is speaking facts are clear. Reserve as a lieutenant or lieutenant under special order. To many of us The gentleman from Michig·an stated commander, class I-V (S), via Com­ other things have priority. last week in the RECORD of March 22, mandant, Third Naval District. Mr. HOFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?. 1944, at page 2908, as follows: On May 24, 1934, he was examined at Mr. MAGNUSON. I yield. While Winchell was wearing the uniform headquarters, Third Naval District, and of the United States Navy, his conduct be­ found to be physically qualified to per­ Mr. HOFFMAN. I want to agree with came so offensive to so many Americans that the gentleman. I want to say to you I form active duty at sea or on foreign the administration was forced to strip him service in the rank for which he was a think nine-tenths of our work is off the of his uniform, of his pay, of his duties; · fioor. but to the disgrace of the Navy be it said, it candidate for appointment. Mr: MAGNUSON. That is right. retained him as a Reserve officer. On August 8, 1934, the Commandant Mr. BRADLEY of Pennsylvania. Mr. of the Third Naval District sent a letter Naval Affairs Committee had' this to Mr. Winchell advising that no action Speaker, will the gentleman yield? matter up informally some weeks ago. Mr. MAGNUSON. Yes. can be taken on his application for com­ I believe the gentleman from Michigan mission as no vacancies now exist in Mr. BRADLEY of Pennsylvania. Mr. was one of those who suggested that we epeaker, for the RECORD and in fairness that district. 'look into the matter. I thought at that On August 24, 1934, the Commandant to the distinguished gentleman from Il­ time the matter of Mr. Winchell's naval linois, the chairman of the Committee of the ·Third District, first endorsement record-and his naval record alone-was to Bureau of Navigation forwarding ap­ on Rules of the House, Mr. SABATH, to made clear. whom the previous speaker referred as plication of Winchell in compliance with Apparently it was not, in view of the telephone conversation between the not being on the floor, I want to note I above statement. In fairness to the com­ see him at the present time in very se­ Office of Naval Intelligence and the dis­ mentator and more specifically his fam­ trict intelligence office. rious discussion with the parliamentar­ ily, let me again make the record clear­ ian about the business of the House. I the other controversy can go on indefi­ August 28, 1934, the Bureau of Medi­ think the RECORD ought to show that; nitely and the Nation will form their cine and Surgery sent a second endorse­ Mr. · MAGNUSON. The gentleman own opinion about that. ment to the Bureau of Navigation ap­ from Illinois [Mr. SABATH] is always on The record is: proving the action of the board of medi­ the job. The gentleman involved was not cal examiners in that Winchell be found Mr. BRADLEY of Pennsylvania. I stripped of any uniform. It is a typical physically qualified for appointment to know he is. record of the average Naval Reserve of­ the rank he applied for. Mr. MAGNUSON. His constituents in fleer of his age. His present status is On September 6, 1934, a third endorse­ Dlinois have known that for 36 long the same as the status of many of us in ment was sent and he was assigned to the years. That is why he is the dean.of the the Reserve-including myself and other quota of the Office of Naval Intelligence. House. Members of Congress who have been put On September 12, 1934, he was ap­ Mr. Speaker, I am glad that the gen­ on inactive duty. We still have the rights pointed lieutenant in the Reserve to rank tleman from Ohio and the gentleman of the Naval Reserve. We are still sub­ from September 10, 1934. His commis­ from Michigan had this recent colloquy. ject to call at any time the military or sion was dated September 11, 1934. Like the Member from Ohio I think per­ the Commander in Chief feels our use­ On September 24, 1934, he accepted haps sometimes we Aignify these things fulness in the service would be greater appointment as lieutenant. too much. than what we are doing in civilian life. lle was then issued the usual Naval Mr. Speaker, the past few days has But let us not confuse the civilian life Reserve courtesy card, and so on. seen evolved from the floor of the House, of any Reserve · with his strict military On December 26, 1940, the Secretary in the press, and on the radio a very bit­ record. That gives rise to interpreta­ of the Nayy, Mr. Knox, in a letter to ter controversy between a national well­ tions not always fair or just. It surely Winchell via commandant of the third known radio commentator and some has no place in the midst of our des­ district, expressed appreciation of assist­ Members of the House. I do not wish 1o perate struggle. ance rendered in disseminating construc­ be drawn into that controversy as to the However, that reeord is this: July 22, tive news concerning the Navy. issues involved. I cannot agree with 1918, Mr. Winchell enrolled as an ap­ On February 7, 1940, Commander H. R. · some of my distinguished colleagues re- prentice seaman, in the United States Thurber, in a memorandum to Adntil·al XC--212 3350 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MARCH 30 Nimitz expressed appreciation of dis­ The SPEAKER pru tempore. Is there what statement he has made. I do not semination of news concerning naval ac- objection? want to be drawn into this controversy tivities. . . There was no objection. on that. I am giving the public and On December 18, 1940, he was ap­ Mr. MAGNUSON. On December 6, his family his clear naval record in hopes pointed lieutenant commander, United 1942, he arrived at Brazil, and reported it will be enscrolled once and for all with­ States Naval Reserve, Intelligence Vol­ to the commander, South Atlantic Force. out all this innuendo and misstatement. unteer Service. On January 13, 1943, the Navy De­ Mr. HOFFMAN. No; but he said-­ On June 24, 1941, director of public partment stated his duty in the South Mr. MAGNUSON. Now, just a minute. relations, Third Naval District, in a Atlantic Force was completed. Reports Let me answer your question. If this memorandum to Winchell quoting Bu­ are that he did a good job on that assign­ man or anyone else made a statement reau of Navigation dispatch No. 132209 ment. that there are saboteurs in Congress, of June 13, 1941, in which Naval Reserve And on February 17, 1943, he returned that is just about as preposterous as .officers in an .inactive status were re­ to inactive duty. some of the things I have heard the gen .. quested to submit requests for deferment That is the Navy record, and I hope tleman from Michigan say. I do not be-: of active duty if they so desired. this puts an end to all this. He is in lieve he meant it at all in the light you On June 27, 1941, the Bureau has a the same status as all other Reserve interpret it, if he did say it. What I letter from Winchell via commandant, .officers. Several Members of Congress, mean is, we are picking on little things Third Naval District, requesting deferred including myself, are on inactive duty, and making those things look big. I am status as he believes he can best serve subject to the cap of the Navy Depart­ ·inclined to agree with the gentleman the interests of the Navy by remaining ment or the Commander in Chief at any from Ohio [Mr. RAMEY] that we have a in an inactive status. time they feel we can best serve the in­ war to fight. Let us quit fighting one On July 18, 1941, there is a letter to terest of the country in military service another. We are all patriotic. We take th~ Bureau of Navigation from the com­ rather than here in Congress or in a some of these preposterous statements, mandant of district No. 3 requesting 2 civilian status. I pope in this time of take these little mole hills and make weeks' training duty. war a man's patriotism and his naval mountains out of them until the soldier On July 18, there is a further letter record, when it becomes a matter of rec­ boys are wondering what the devil they to the commandant authorizing the com­ ord, will not be constantly thrown at are fighting for, if we cannot behave and mandant to order Winchell to training him. This record is a black-and-white ac:t intelligently at home, and in par­ duty with pay and allowances at the book and clear to all. ticular in this body. _ public-relations office, Third Naval His family is entitled to this courtesy. ' I think if we get down to business District. He is on inactive duty. There are sev­ here and forget about radio commenta­ On July 22, 1941, Winchell reported for eral thousand Reserve officers in the tors and other things we will be well active duty. same status, and I know many of them. advised. Truth always standS on its own On August 1, 1941, he reported to the His record as a Naval Reserve officer is pedestal. If men tell lies about Congress commandant again for further training typical of all Naval Reserve officers of or Congressmen, or if Congressmen tell duty and was again assigned to district lies about citizens, in time the lies catch his age, including my own. up with both. office of public relations. Mr. HOFFMAN. Will the gentleman On August 15, 1941, his training duties yield? ·Mr. HOFFMAN. What does the gen­ were completed and he was returned to tleman believe these boys who are doing Mr. MAGNUSON. I yield. the fighting think when they hear the inactive duty. Mr. HOFFMAN. What you have read I might say .again for the benefit of there I think 11as been available, or at announcement or read the statement · the Members of the House that we all least I was familiar with it. that there are saboteurs in Congress? did that during peacetime. We asked The SPEAKER pro tempore patent No. 1,628,096; 5398. By Mr. MOTT: Petition signed by Gen. Casimir Pulaski; to the Committee on to the Committee on Patents. R. A. Peterson, of Newberg, Oreg., and 88 the Judiciary. other citizens of the State of Oregon, urging By Mr. CALVIN D. JOHNSON: enactment of House bill2082; to the Commit­ H. Con. Res. 76. Concurrent resolution ex­ PETITIONS, ETC. tee on the Judiciary. pressing the sense of the Congress that the Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions 5399. By Mr. ROWAN: Petition of Ludwig utilization of waste paper 1s of great im­ and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk D. Schreiberm, city clerk, city of Chicago, portance in the war effort, and recommending Chicago, Ill.; to the Committee on Rivers and to the States the enactment of legislation and referred as follows: Harbors. designed to prevent the willful destruction 5387. By Mr. FOGARTY: Memorial of the 5400. By the SPEAKER: Petition of the of waste paper; to the Commitee on Inter­ Rhode Island General Assembly, urging en­ secretary, Gobierno Municipal, Rio Grande, state and Foreign Commerce. actment of legislation providing for Federal P.R., petitioning consideration of their reso­ By Mr. SMITH of Virginia: assistance for community lunch program; lution with reference to the administration H. Res. 492. Resolution to investigate slum to the Committee on Agriculture. of Han. Rexford Guy Tugwell as Governor of clearance in the District of Columbia; to the 5388. By Mr. GRAHAM: Petition of 52 Puerto Rico; to the Committee on InsUla.r Committee on Rules. residents of New Ca$tle, Lawrence County, Affairs.