Rochester Casualties Killed in Action HELP KEEP up HIS MORALE Rise •) Pvt

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No. 3 NEW YORK and JERSEY CITY, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1945 VOL. ХШ Rochester Casualties Killed in Action HELP KEEP UP HIS MORALE Rise •) Pvt. Philip A. Turek, 21, son of Mr. A service that our Ukrainian churches and community According to St. Josaphat's Ad and Mrs. Anton Turek of 41 Berlin centers can perform for servicemen of Ukrainian extraction, vocate the- total casualties of serv street, Rochester, New York, was is to make it possible for them when they are in town to learn icemen of Ukrainian origin from the killed in infantry action in Germany Rochester area have now mounted on November 18 last, St. Josaphat's where they are located, so that they could attend services at to twenty seven. Ukrainian Catholic Advocate reports the church or have a socially good time at the center. Pfc. Basil C. Babey, Jr. 27, son of in its current monthly issue. Many a serviceman on furlough or leave, whose hometown Mr. and Mrs. Basil Babey, 745 Maple Pvt. Turek is the seventh man from is. too far away to visit, will go to the nearest large center of street, Rochester, was seriously St. Josaphat's parish to lose his life population and wander about aimlessly. To be sure, there is wounded in infantry action in France in this war. on-November 12th, his wife, Mary, The slain soldier was a graduate always the USO or some such other recreation center for him Sorokti Babey, 314 Wilkins has been of the local Washington Hich School, to visit. But his natural desire is to go among his own kind, informed. and enlisted in the Army in Novem to attend the beautiful Ukrainian church services, or to en Pfc. Babey was born in Rochester ber, 1942. He trained under the Army joy himself at a Ukrainian hall. There, too, he may meet a but lived for a time in Europe, where Specialized Training ' Program at hospitable "hospodar," who will invite the soldier over to his he received his education. He was Princeton University, where he was employed by Eastman Kodak before graduated with second highest hon home for some good old fashioned Ukrainian home cooking. entering service in December, 1943. ors in his class, before being as A day or two spent in this fashion will cure a good deal of the A holder of the Infantryman's Badge, signed to the infantry. He went homesickness that he may have. he has served overseas with the Third overseas in. September and fought Comes now the practical question, how can a church or Army since June. in Belgium, Holland and Germany. center apprise the transient serviceman of its location. Several • * • Besides his parents, Pvt. Turek к left behind a sister, Mrs. John Tsi- ways suggest themselves. One of them is to contact the local Pvt. Michael R. Matkoski, Jr., 19, bulsky of Hornell, N. Y. USO or Red Cross recreation center and arrange to have posted was wounded in infantry action in j_ ff France on November 18, his parents, on its bulletin board a brief notice inviting servicemen of Mr. and Mrs Michael Matkoski, 171 Supreme Sacrifice Ukrainian descent to pay the church or center a visit. Berlin street, Rochester, have been Another method, directly applicable to churches, is for advised. He fit hospitalized in Eng The "Uke-Views" bulletin of Oly- the diocese to- print a pocket-sized directory of its churches land. phant, Pa. reported in its Dec. num throughout the country, distribute it among all the parishes, Matkoski attended Edison Tech ber that the following servicemen of and then have the parishioners mall it to their sons, daughters and was employed by the- American Ukrainian descent have -died in ac Brake Shoe Co. when he was inducted tion: and friends in service. July 3, 1943. He went overseas last Pfc. George Semko, 26, son of Mr. Then, of course, there is still another good method. Utilize September. and Mrs. Wasyl Semko, 1003 East the Ukrainian Weekly for this purpose. Of all the Ukrainian • * • Lackawanna Ave., Olyphant, was publications, the Weekly has by far the widest circulation - Sgt. Nicholas Popovrich, son of Mr. killed in action in France on Sep and Mrs. Michael Popowich, La Due among our servicemen, reaching them all over the country, tember 6, 1944. Canada, as well as on the far-flung fighting fronts. Run a little road, Brockport, was wounded in Pfc. Semko entered service in July, action in France on November 11th, 1942. He received basic training at box ad regularly in the Weekly, such as:—Attention service it has been learned. Camp Phillips, Kan., and also took men. When in (name of city), you are cordially invited to at Sgt Popowich attended Brookport part in desert maneuvers in Califor tend services at (name and address of Ukrainian church)— High chool. His brother S 2/c Frank nia. He went overseas from Camp Popowich, has been on duty in the or—You are cordially invited to visit (name and address of Kilmer, N. J., in July, 1943. Ukrainian community center or hall). * Pacific since August, 1942. * * * * . Pvt. Stephen Shayka, 24, son of Mr. Any one or all of these methods are worth trying. Pvt. William Sheremeta, 25, son of and Mrs. John Shayka, 1208 Frieda Mr. and Mrs. John Sheremeta, 137 street, Dickson City, who was pre Alphonse street, Rochester, was viously reported missing in action slightly wounded in infantry action in France since July 14, was killed To Sing in Boston Missing in Action in Germany on December 5. on that date. Two Rochester Ukrainian boys He is a graduate of Washington One of three brothers in the army, ' Opera have been reported missing in ac High School and was employed by Pvt. Shayka was employed by the After hearing Anne Trocianecky, tion. the Eastman Kodak before entering Throop Mining Company before en Pvt. Charles Fideor, son of Mr. tjie service in May. He has been young Ukrainian American soprano tering the army in November, 1943. of New York City, sing the role of and Mrs. Michael Fideor, has been re overseas since October last. He received basic training at Fort Musetta in La Boheme at the Brook ported missing in action somewhere A brother, Pvt. James Sheremeta, McClellan, Ala., and went overseas lyn Academy of Music, the manager in France. He entered service over is in the Philippines. in April with an infantry division. of the Boston Grand Opera Company a year ago and was sent to Italy t * * * has engaged her to sing the same last summer. He was attached t© Pfc. John Romaniv, 23, suffered Marine Pfc. Michael W. Wesko, 21, role in the Boston production of the the Seventh Army. shrapnel wounds in the hand while son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William opera on January 29th. Reported missing in action for the serving with a Medical Detachment Wesko, Greenfield Township, and na Before concentrating on operatic second time is Pvt. Charles Andrew. in France on August 10, his wife, tive of Olyphant, was killed in action singing. Miss Trocianecky, who 'in He was first taken prisoner some Mrs. Carol Romaniw, 7 Riverbank, in the Palau Islands on October 3. private life is Mrs. William Haines, where in Germany and subsequent Rochester, has learned. Pfc. Roma Pvt. Wesko, a native of Olyphant, became widely known among Uk ly freed by American soldiers. His niw has been home on furlough. and entered the marine corps October 3, rainian music lovers by her many parents have just been informed is now at the convalescent hospital 1942. He received boot training at appearances as soloist at concerts. that he is again missing in action. for further treatment. Parris Island, S. C, and amphibious As a member of the Ukrainian Youth He attended Washington High training at Dunedin, Fla., before go Chorus of New York and New Jer school and worked at Delco Ap ing overseas last April. sey under Stephen Marusevich, she singer—whose parents reside in Ir- pliance before joining the Army in appeared as soloist at the various vington, N. J.—was made in the November, 1942. He went overseas U..N. A. TEAMS TO PLAY musical festivals held in different ci- role of Micaela in the opera Carmen, in October, І943. TOMORROW jties in conjunction with the annual given at the Mosque Theatre in New ark, N. J. in November, 1943. Since * In what promises to be an excit ! conventions of the Ukrainian Youth's REPORTED SAFE League of North America then she has appeared in variolic ing game, the traditional rivals, the other roles, including that of Nedda Pic. Rejamin A. Fedyk, Щ, of Ro U.N.A..basketball team of New York The operatic debut of the young in Pagliacci. aster, N. Y., formerly listed as! City and the U.N. A. team of Phila I missing in action in Italy since Sep- j delphia, will meet tomorrow, Sunday, GETS AWABD tember 30, Is now reported safe. He afternoon at the. .Ukrainian Hall, [be at about equal strength. • Thus .entered service in .November, 1943 849 North Franklin, street, in Phila far the Metropolitan courtsters have Cpl. Michael Kraehkowsky of New and І has been overseas since last' delphia. bowed to Philadelphia but once, and Britain has been awarded the Com Julys;,- «.' _ * . •*_ ?' I In veteran material the clubs will :that was in 1939, ' bat Infantryman Badge. . .

і _., jjfltude of his people. Circumstances their national rights and indepen І"'іі#* f)f*Ill#l€*f*fliic* ^Ті*©ЇІ€І lit • tad his artistic talents carried him dent existence. T і to St. Petersburg and brought iiim to Hence it is flint the following the attention of the painter Bryulov, writers as Marko Vovchok turned | kritiiii»n Literature j the darling of the Russian aristoc away from the struggles of the Ko By PROFESSOR CLARENCE A. MANNING racy and the loving painter of those 1 zaks -and the life of the Sich to ; classical scenes which had given Kot express in their own tongue the crud EWER since the appearance of thea former prince of a once reigning lyarevsky his original idea. er and inconceivable enormities of the ** Eneida of Kotlyarevsky in 1798, house tended to a classless delinea Sp from the first edition of thelif e around them. The floggings,th e Ukrainian literature has moved tion of existence quite as it was in Kobzar in 1840, Shevchenko fearless forced labor, the arbitrary , separa- steadily along the pathway of demo Virgil's original work. The Roman ly represented the two Ukrainian (tion of families, the unrestrained au cracy, as it has been understood poet drew no sharp line between Aen democratic interests, the admiration tocracy of those land owners whom throughout the world during the last eas and his followers. With the de for the independent life of the Ko Lermontov had so aptly scourged century and a half. Yet during this struction of Troy and the Roman zaks of the Sich land their struggle [ in his poem on the Death of Pushkin, period, while the- general trend has tradition that their great families against the adjacent countries and ("Degenerate descendants of sires been toward the increasing of interest were descended from these self-same the demand for a new and better j famed for their rascality," these were in the common man, there have been exiles, there was small point in dif life for the oppressed serfs of the(th e themes of the younger writers. many changes in the particular em ferentiating between master and man present. At first under the influence Not emphasizing for the moment the phasis placed upon various aspects of in the great debacle which he was of the tales of his grandfather and political slogan of a free Ukraine, it by the different writers. picturing: We cannot analyze Kotlya .the striking classical models of Bryu j they turned their attention to the revsky's motives in this work. They The late eighteenth century saw lov, he gave predominance to thehardship s of the present an£ for the were probably mixed' and once the hopes -of independence won upon the next half century in Eastern Ukraine, two contradictory ideas swelling intoj work was published and read with open flood. The first of these per battlefield and to the martial ex , we'flnda steady emphasis on the same interest and amusement by Prince' ploits of the old Kozak leaders. Yet problems that marked the democrat haps considered itself conservative in Repnin, himself of Ukrainian stock, essence-. It was the desire of the peo even in Katerina, he pictured the in izing of Russian literature—the need and his friends, Kotlyarevsky had justice of the present. To him the for n better social order in the vil ple of some province or country,! no need to worry over his laudation working through their traditional in-1 national enemy was the traditional lage, the defects in the emancipa stitutions. to recover some of that of the past ages. ; Poland of the Middle Ages. tion of the serfs, when It finally was power that had slipped from their ! proclaimed, the newer concepts put grasp with the rise of the autocratic Beginning of a New Period Shevchenko Fights Against Russian forward by the radical and liberal imperial states of the century^. Later! The work naturally had a-glorifi-j Mastery thinkers. But always and in all the to this was added an idealization of cation of the Ukrainian folk customs, writers, there was an unfailing em the past, of the Middle Ages, and of a sharp criticism of many of the] Yet after his return to Ukraine phasis on the cultural and psycho the age of chivalry, which was! abuses, but it was couched in such j| in the full flush of manhood in 1843, logical differences between the Uk summed up in romanticism. Yet side a form that it was not to be attacked, |j he could not fail to notice and be rainians and the Russians, the Mos- by side with this was the other ten-j It was, however, taken up by vari- jI impressed by the overhanging at kals, and on the absorption of large dency to emphasize the rights of the! ous other writers and a new period mosphere of gloom and of oppres parts of the newly educated classes individual and those principles which! was inaugurated. On the one hand, sion. Never himself possessed of real into the general world around them. culminated in the French Revolution, j the very classlessness attracted at desire to take part in war, Shev Along with this went a renewed em tention to the claSBlessnees of thechenk o found more to his taste^tbe Russia Denies Ukrainian identity old Sich and on the other to thestruggl e against social injustice. phasis on the potentialities of the The new generation found them abuses of modern Ukrainian life. In More and more he turned against the peasant speech and a new desire to selves in a hard position. The Rus his later dramas and in the Ode to power of Russia. More and more he make all persons literate in the lan sian government was openly and Prince Kurakin, he was able to became dissatisfied with the result guage of their parents. without subterfuge denying the ex speak more freely about the present j of Russian mastery of Ukraine and istence of a separate Ukraine na abuses but there was already a cer the evils that this brought with it. Conflict of Two Ideals • tion, separate Ukrainian culture and tain literary tradition of this, even More and more he came to defend These two ideals which were often language. It had forbidded the pub among the gentry who dominated the injured and the unfortunate, in strong opposition were in conflict in' lication of books of literature in Uk Russian literature, and he was still especially young girls had every portion of Europe but their in wno rainian. It was exerting every pos on firm ground. transgressed the iron traditional laws dividual weight in each particular, sible influence to standardize Rus of the village and were cast out help case varied with the general political The succeeding authors played) sian culture and to throttle aH mani with the same ideas. There grew up і less to make their own way% and cultural situation of the people j ! festations of particularism, except in who espoused them. Thus the eight-, not only in Ukrainian but also in It was Shevchenko who made for the archaeological and ethnographi eenth century witnessed in the elimi-1 Russian and Polish, a very definite j Ukraine the fusion of the two liter cal fields and here it was endeavor nation of the Hetmanate and the die- j ethnographical, idyllic school of writ ary types, of the past and of thein g to stop everything that was not ruption of the Sitch the last annihila-; ers which emphasized every possible! present, and who transferred to thepurel y scientific. ' It was not even tion of the old political rights of Uk- j characteristic of Ukrainian life dis-j present situation that fierce spirit possible to write such glowing de raine. It was the culmination of ajtinguishin g it from the surrounding | of national independence of the past scriptions of Ukrainian habits as had process which had begun when the! groups. Besides that, as the nobility which was needed not only on thebee n done by Kvitka-Osnovyanenko free Kozaks of the Sitch lost the right had largely passed into the culture battlefield but in the elimination of a half century earlier. On the other to elect their own officers and when of one or the other of the dominant the evils of serfdom, now that Uk hand, the radicale themselves were the traditions of a class society firstap powers, Ukrainian literature when it raine was under Russian domina as permeated with the spirit of Rus peared among the free warriors of the dealt with the present pictured an tion. Even before his arrest and sian solidarity as were the conser Sitch and the Kozaks and a yearning oppressed people sympathetically, induction into the Russian army, vatives and perhaps even more so, for that time when the brave war and when it dealt with the past, it Shevchenko had mapped out a course for their philosophy, based upon riors were able to play a lone hand glorified the free and independent' of action which was anti-imperial, Western ideals which had been for and to be a menace to the King of і Kozaks of the Sich and their fear anti-tsar, and for the people, and it mulated in distinctly national states, Poland, the Tsar of Moscow, and the less, democratically-elected leaders.. was the elements borrowed from the and their indifference to poetry and Sultan of Turkey. Yet the develop Both ideas, therefore, detailed the past and the need for action, that the arts led them to undervalue and ment of the Russian Empire had study of the sad present and thedifferentiate d him from many of hiscondem n precisely those fields which been such that it was futile for theglorificatio n of the past, combined friends in the Society of Saints Cyril had proved most inviting in the early Ukrainians to dream of recovering in Ukrainian to emphasize the demo and Methodius, which represented the days of the Ukrainian revival. That their ancient liberty and of going cratic elements of life and thought more tmly intellectual strivings of same magnetic attraction of mere back: t§ the life as it was before the and to avoid that picturing of noble people trained in the modern ideas of size which had been an overpowering Treaty of Pereyaslav, when the Ko-; culture that was such a marked feat liberty. menace to the kozaks on the battle zaks came into direct and legal con ure of both the Pushkin school in It was this that differentiated him fields of the seventeenth century was tact with the Tsar of Russia. „| Russian and the Polish romanticists. from Panteleimon Kulish. No less now revealed in the intellectual radi calism of nineteenth century Russia. Early in the nineteenth century ardent in his desires to help his On the other hand, the steady loss The new leaders had to find a role of libertieB by the peasants and the there had come a remarkable people, Kulish could not appreciate outpouring of poetry among both the and a mode of working and there is increasing demands for their labor the posietive sides of the old inde small wonder that many of their by the landowners led to an apprecia Russians and the Poles. In both lan pendence. He tended to see the an guages a group of geniuses and high writings drifted into a sterile repeti tion of the need for a general change archistic nature of the Sich and ittio n of old motifs or carried them in conditions and inspired some of the ly talented writers advanced the lit was this, undoubtedly one weakness erature to a new artistic level which into the all-alluring field of Great more enlightened to look to the new; of the old free organization, that Russian disputes. reforming movements that were being j has never been equalled since. Shev- made him finally a Kozakophobe and given at least lip service by some: chenko took his place among this gal led to the misunderstandings be (To be concluded) of the philosophers around Catherine! axy to express the Ukrainian spirit. tween him and many of his fellow the Great. At the same time the new | He reached the same artistic level but countrymen. Meanwhile life had ——~——~~— — , , interest in language and folksongs; the influences of his background and moved on. In both Russia and Po urged a steadily increasing number! of his early life naturally separated land a new generation was arising of scholars and educators to takei him very sharply from their feelings, that had no personal contacts with down the songs of the average Uk-i except in that noble and elevated at the eighteenth century struggles. In rainian village and to strive to pre-| mosphere where genius would seek Russia the new intelligentsia were pare written materials in the local j its own company to touch subjects permeated only with the Western de vernacular speech. that were of interest to all. mands for social reform and they It was under these circumstances! Taras Shevchenko was born a serf turned against the glorification of that Kotlyarevsky prepared the ICne-l but his grandfather had taken part the past. In Poland it was already ida. We have no record that he was in the last and one of the bloodiest a half century since the last rem threatened with any persecution by of the uprisings of the Ukrainians nants of a Polish army had gone to the authorities for his unprecedented against the Poles, the KolHschina in battle under their own flag and for work. Burlesque epics had long 1768. After its failure he had suf their own recognized country. There been known both in the Academy of fered with the others and now heto o the heroic urge was rapidly be Kiev and m the Russian writings of left to his grandson a flaming me ing replaced by the nineteenth cen many of the Russianized Ukrainian mory of the stories which he^had tury conceptions of civic and indi noblemen. There was nothing openly told of those heroic and bloody days. vidual liberty. The Ukrainians of the seditious or even menacing in theO n the other hand, the young boy next generation could nipt have direct work and yet the theme of disincould not fail to appreciate the suffer personal contact with'men' who irad herited peers under the leadership of ings of the present in the forced ser- dared to strike an open blow* їог in gold. Volodimir, however, had dif-'Q* ІПаґІіітііі* TTlr»**iirn^ri ferent ideas on the matter. In returntÛ * WU,ffitMS AHUdH for his aid he demanded that Basil The **Register," a Catholic publica A urvev *» give him his sister, Princess Anna, m tion, published in a recent issue the m marriage. following editorial comment concern ing St. Volodimir (clipping sent to If istorv ftir Yon•• 8* Volodimir's Unheard of Demand the Weekly by U.N.A. auditor Ro w . , This was an unheard of demand, man Smook of Chicago):— and Basil was taken aback by it "An- intelligent young man of, Uk People Byzantine ruling dynasty was one rainian blood, now in the U. S. air of the oldest and proudest in all Eu S3S forces, informs us that he was great- rope, considering itself as heir to ly interested in recent news articles ч Continued) „, (7) the ancient glory that was Rome, about St Vladimir, the ruler who The Legend of Kozhemyaka siege quite well, but as its supplies'and therefore, such a demand, made; introduced Christianity of the Cath- gave out and hunger began to stalk і by a "barbarian" ruler, for the hand olic Byzantine Rite to "Russia" in N $22 when Volodimir returned to among He population, its fall seemed | of its princess, was nothing less than the tenth century. The USSR, al- I Kiev after having regained Gali- imminent. One day its citizens met an insult He could not help but re-[though it does not tolerate the Cath- cia from the Poles, he found' fresh and decided it would be best to give!call what tne former Emperor Con-jolic Church, was reported as pro- trouble at home. From tfce. left bank up to the enemy. "Better to give up," I stantin Porphyrogenitus (912-969,! moting archeological investigation of of Ukraine came reports that a large they said, "for then although some Mao a writer of no mean ability) had this Catholic saint's grave, where the Pecheneh horde was steadily ad of us will be slain, yet others will j once advised ins people what course body of the great ruler, who died in vancing towards the eapital of his be spared; whereas if we continue to І of action to take against any such 1014, was found incorrupt after 622 kingdom. Volodimir immediately re-j resist, all of us will die of starva-; "shameful" demands: j years by* the Russian Orthodox in mobilized his army and advanced to tion." But one old man advised them "If the Khozare, or the Torks,' 1636. In 996 Vladimir himself meet the enemy. The two forces І not to surrender ' but to fight the j or men of Rue, or any other northern erected the Tithe church in Kiev, Righted eaefa other at the Trubei; Pechenehs with trickery. He told I or nomadic people," he wrote, "begin, where his remains were placed; he river, a tributary of the Dnieper, j them to gather some oats, some і as it so of ten happens, to beg to send has the distinction of founding the Each side was hesitant about open- wheat, or if they had none of the them the robes .of the Emperor, his first school in "Russia." In addition ing the hostilities. Finally the Pe-| latter then some bran, mix it with j crown or any other part of his ap-'to its archeological investigations, cheneh Khan approached his side of j water and let it ferment until it'parel, as a reward for their services the USSR recently erected a statue the river bank and called out to j became "kisil" (porridge). When j to us, then the way to refuse such a to Vladimir. It is not necessary to the Ukrainians that' he was willing this was done, they lowered a barrelI plea is to tell them that the Em-1 point out that the purpose of these to have the battle decided by a duel;of the porridge into a well. Into peror's robes .and erown were not acts is historical and nationalistic, between a picked man from each another well they lowered a barrel of | made by human hands, but that they not religious. side. Volodimir agreed to this pro-!mead. ^he next day they invited the) were brought to this earth by anj "But our young military friend de position and bade that his soldiers і Pechenehs to send their emissaries! angel direct from (Sod for the Em-serts that Vladimir was not a Rus- chooee amongst themselves the into the city in order to negotiate for peror Constantine" (the one who sian, but a Ukrainian. Inasmuch as strongest and the bravest to repre- і peace. When the mission arrived, the | first became converted to Christian- we have more than 300,000 good sent them. The following day the burghers led them to the wells andjity). j Catholic Americans of the Ukrainian Pechenehs Signalled that they bad} said, "Of what use is it for you to j "Furthermore, if any one of these Rite, it is important that all of us their champion picked out and that try to capture our city. You're only!pagan and lowly northern peoples get the distinction. "St. Vladimir was he was ready. In the words of an wasting your time and strength. For I begin to demand closer relationship not a Russian, as we speak of the ancient chronicler, he was a "very even if you besieged us for ten years, і with our ruling house by way of Russians today, but a Ukrainian, as terrible" giant. The Ukrainians were still we wouldn't surrender, as we j marriage, then you should reply to is obvious, since his capital was called dismayed when they saw him, for have plenty of food on which to ex-1 such a shameful proposition that it is Kiev, ancient and symbolic capital of they had no one his size. At length ist." With these words they lowered | impossible, for it is strictly forbidden the Ukraine. In the time of St. Vla^ an old warrior approached Volodimir a bucket into the well, and pulled it by the great* St. Constantine." | dimir, the present-day Russians were and "told him that at home he had a out full of porridge, which they With such arguments the Greeks' called Muscovites and their capital son, tiie youngest, who was so strong gave the Pechenehs to taste. Then had managed up to this time to re- was in Moscow. The people over that be could tear a hide in half they went to the other well and gave fuse all efforts on the part of their whom St. Vladimir reigned as Grand with his bare hands. At Volodimir's them some of its mead. This trick neighboring "barbarian" rulers to Prince of Kiev were at that time order, the lad was brought before fooled the Pechenehs emissaries marry members of their royal family, called the *Ru6' and Vladimir's do- him. In answer to the demand completely, for they quickly returned The crisis confronting Emperor Basil main was the 'Kievan empire.' It whether he thought he could van- to their camp and told their leaders however, together with Volodimir's was only after the Muscovite Czar quish the Pecheneh, he said, "I do that it was no use to besiege the adamant attitude in the matter, made Peter the Great changed his coun- not know. Suppose you try me out." city any more. And thus the Peche- Porphyrogentitus' advice valueless. | try's name from 'Moscovy* to ;Rus- So they let loose upon him a huge nehs withdrew and the city of-Bil- Consequently, Basil had to agree to | soy,' or 'Rossis' more correctly, that bull whom they had made all the horod was saved. give his sister, Princess Anna, in mar- j the Ukrainians, faced with losing more savage by burning him with riage to Volodimir, ruler of ancient their national identity as being of flaming brands. The boy stopped the Union with Byzantium Ukraine. As a result, Volodimir sent different nationality from the new B&sil a cor bull in his tracks by seizing him Not ail of the many Pecheneh in- P8 of Varangians, six 'Russians,' formally adopted the [an- with one hand and tearing out a vaskms by Ukraine were started by thousand strong, and this corps cient] name'Ukrainians'... Many peo- piece of his hide. Volodimir said, the invaders themselves, for Byzan- P^ved to be of great assistance in pie do not realize that the Ukrain- "Good enough. You fight the Pe- tium was responsible for some of gelling the uprising of Barda Phoca. ians are not just a 'different kind of cheneh." When the Pechenehs saw them too. From the time of Sviato- (To be continued) Russians' but are as distinctly differ ent from the Russians as the Poles or the boy, they laughed loud in 8iav's (964-972) wars with it, this derision, for he was very small in "Second Rome" had feared a repeti- the Slovaks or the Czechs. The only • Words, But Not Immortal connection is that both Russians and sâture. A circle was drawn between tion of another attack from the the two armies and the two contend- north, and strove by all means within One day. at Kensington Museum, an Ukrainians use Slavic languages." "ІГ*"! '•i7..i«i ^»v ""1л-"» ****** o"^»^ wjr «ішвш» "V^t?" ardent admirer of Lord Tennyson came'The letter is signed A/T G Drance ers entered it At a signal they power to stem the growth of the J ea- Г^ІТТ^ lts upon (he great ratn while h wa5 T seized hold of each other. For a lu8ty kingdom. And so it was only joying the company of his family. Eager!. ^Ll*SSSUsT£i A EH moment neither was able to move natural that its diplomats incited the to hear some pearl of wisdom or beauty.Ьет about 45,000,000, will undoubted- the other. Suddenly the young Uk- Pecheneh hosts to attack4the Ukram- 'aJ'/.^"' ^ *lps^f "ie •ь°Ь1/ Kft thV Iy **^ in^n6fni- nat»on ***"* u the rainian lad shifted his hold and.^ at every ^^ opportunity. ^n^^ <**»** * threw the Pecheneh giant heavily to As a result, the relations between an- the various wowters of the great in-jpre8€DL are MI- the ground. The sight demoralized ;Cjent Ukraine and Byzantium became stitute. j ======the Pechenehs and,with cries of fear quite strained. Nearly two hours ha.1 transpired before to hear the golden message. e рое p used tu ned his wife a, De $a tlle р p,easc tfk they began to flee, with the Ukrain- c . . however when і І ! ' J o°, 4 ' iJi " Y''L i?L °м' ," ^ ? ame ine ume ;*«* ьл* in mirenit And so in this ^ « nowever. wneu rrepared to speak. Palpitating with care of the children while I go and get ians hot ш pursuit. And «>, ш_іпш Byzantium found itself in ^^ need eagernesSt the admirer pressed forward some beer." manner, the Pecheneh horde was of Ukraine'8 help# BasiI u succe8Sor shattered. 0£ tne brilliant military leader, John Volodimir decreed a holiday in Tzimisces (who proclaimed himself honor of this signal victory over the Emperor of Byzantium m 969), found Pechenehs, and on its site he bade > hjm8e]f confronted by an uprising led that a city be erected, which he by Barda Phoca, a nephew of the named Pereyaslav, which name meant former Emperor Nicephorus (963- that here-the lad had "perenyav 0/6&_a88agsinated by Tzimisces). A Submerged Nation slava" (had won fame) from the Barda's troops had already emerged Pechenehs. At least that is what the Qut of AsJa Minor and advancing upon ancient legend says, although as a Bosphorus threatened to capture the By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBEBLIN it matter of fact Pereyaslav had been in Grecian capital, Constantinople. Ь existence already during the reign of the face of this grave danger, Em- Published by King Oleh. THE MACMIL1AX COMPANY peror Basil pleaded with Volodimir * The legend calls the young hero, to send him help. The story of a courageons people with a fierce desire Koziemyaka, which is based on two guch heJp had been extended to the Ukrainian words, whose English Greeks m the past several times, for freedom, and their political prospects under Soviet equivalents are "knead" and "hide." Both Varangians and the ancient Uk- domination. Leirend of the BUhorod "Kifdl" rainians and other Slavs had fought і * together on Grecian soil for Grecian Another legend of this period is гці^ Usually they were paid in x PRICE: $1.15 based noon the siege of the present ^ gviatoslav's alliance with Em-4 day city of BUhorod, near Kiev. The! e horas Phocas, for ex- ror Nic P Ф*&ШЬ&І4$Ш*& legend tells how in 997 Volodimir ample designed to stop the Bulgar went to Nbvhorod to raise troops for ^р^^п th t time, cost the em- at a P. O. BOX 346 JERSEY CITY S, N. *. a fresh expedition against the Pe- peTQr one and one half thousand chenehs. l*e lattnr took advantage і ^^^ of goid. when Basil asked of hie absence by fcesiegfog Bilkorod.|for Volodimir's'help, he thought the | For awhile the city withstood the (latter would -too ask to be paid only A POSTHUMOUS AWARD OF THE What They Say UKRA1NICA IN AMERICA PURPLE HEART I By SIMON »EMY»CHUK A posthumous award of the Purple Raymond Gram Swing, Chairman of — ! (13) Heart has been received by Mrs. the Board of Directors of the I AMERICAN INTEREST Ш TORAINK'S HISTORIOGRAPHY Mary Fedorchak, 1 Bay Ave., Bloom- Council for Democracy quoting the AND GEOGRAPHY field, N. J., for her son, Seaman 1/c Council's statement: Joseph Fedorchak, who is presumed "The ideals and forxos of democra REFERENCES TO UKRAINE IN In 1832 to have perished April 27 after being cy aim to insure that— AMERICAN ENCYCLOPAEDIAS In the "Encyclopaedia Americana, і missing in action in the Pacific area for a year, as previously reported. 1. Whatever your r?\ee, creed, or TT is difficult to trace chronologically edited by Francis Lieber" and pub color, you &h&; have a free lished in Philadelphia in 1832, we Mrs. Fedorchak also received the; the earliest American written re Submarine Combat Insignia and the| voice, equal to any other, in ferences to Ukraine and her people, find the same elaborate treatment of I Submarine Combat Patrol Insignia, j making and enforcing the laws: but we can without great difficulty: the subject of "Cossacks" with the; with three gold stars. The third gold! 2. You may worship in peace and trace such references in the various explanation that^they are "the tribes Ista r indicates four or more successfulj freedom; "dictionaries of arts, sciences and| who inhabit the southern and east-! patrols. 3. You may #speak and write as you please, as long as you do miscellaneous literature," usually era part of Russia, Poland, the Uk Seaman Fedorchak enlisted in the 1 not harm others; called "encyclopaedias." raine," whereas about Ukraine (vol. j navy in July, 1942, and volunteered 12) it is said: "Ukraine (the frontier: j for submarine duty after re .4. You may organize peaceably with others to change the laws v In 1798 from the Teutonic word Uker); an і training at Newport, jL L and the people who make and extensive country in the south-east, His father, Fred Fedorchak, is У OneV of the^ first, if not the former Olyphant police officer. enforce the laws; first, American/encyclopaedias is the. part of Russian Poland, now forming 5. You may expect unbiased treat First American* Edition of English І the Russian Government of Kiev, ment by your courts, without Podolia, Charkov and Poltawa." Encyclopaedia, published in Philadel-j ad ^ивзіпсайоп' is being carried on favor for or against you; Then we read that "the chief town' phia in 1798 by Thomas Dobson un-j among Ukrainians by the same 6. Under free and open opportun of Ukraine is Kiev. The chief outlet ity you may choose any lawful der the simple name of "Encyclo-: means as those employed in Poland.", for its exports is Odessa. The sur-j means to develop your individual pedis" From its section on the his-j Interesting for the present day face is generally level; and it is one j abilities and you shall be pro tory of Russia (Vol. XVI.) we learn j reader may be the bibliography of the most fertile parts of Europe." | tected in your right to fair com that the name of Ukraine existed j quoted by the author of this article, In the 8th edition of. the Encyclo-1 pensation for your work; previously to the seizure of the Prin- j of which worth mentioning are: Rit- рнмііа Britaunica (Boston, U.S. 1860) j 7. Your public schools shall repre cipality of Halych by the Polish king j tich: Ethnographical map of Russia, sent no special political or re we find (Vol. 21) also the same de-j Casimir the Great in 1340. Thus on; and Ethnographical composition (Ple- ligious doctrines; scription of Ukraine with the ad-, the page 556 we read: "The Tartars mennoi Sostav) of Russia; Vemhoff: 8. You may strive for a constantly vice to trace its history in the articles and Russians, whose interests in Outskirts of Russia (Ruse); Pauli: wider distribution of the na on Poland and Russia. this case were the same, often united! The peoples of Russia; Narody Ros- tional wealth, for greater physi cal and spiritual comforts, for to oppose their common enemies f the j In 1377-88 sii, popular edition by M. Din. better health, for security Poles]; but were generally worsted; j On the map (Plate 3) depicting the; ...the Poles made themselves mas-l A somewhat different treatment is against the hardships of en given this subject in the ninth Amer "Accessions to Russia 1689 to 1825" forced idleness and old age. ters of the Black Russia, the Ukraine, I we note the inscriptions: Ukraine,: Podolia and the City of Kiow. Casi ican edition of Encyclopedia Britau : ш short, the system of democracy nica (1877-1888). In volume 6 of the, Little Pus9 a,. Zaporcân Cossacks"; mir the Great, one of their kings, over the part of Russia inhabited by under which you live is founded Philadelphia printing of this edition І upon: 4^ carried his conquest still farther. He the Ukrainians. asserted his pretensions to a part of (J. M. Stoddart, Co. 1877) we find an extensive article about the "Cos — Free association under freely Russia (Rui]...and forcibly pos Mentions Modern Ukrainian chosen political, social, and eco sacks" with references to the source sessed himself of the duchies of Perze- j Literature nomic arrangements of people material on this subject. The author my sua (Peremyshl], Halitz | Halych] \ — who willingly settle disputes by mentions among others Alfred Ram-| After having outlined Russian lit-! and Luckow [Lutzk], and of the dis erature the encyclopedia (page 118) peaceable negotiation under rules tricts of Sanock, Lubaczow (Luba- beau's "L'Ukraine et ses chansons j of their own making; historiquees" I'The Ukraine and her) gives also a brief outline of the' chiv], and Trebowla [Terebovlaj; all "Little Russian" literature, by de-j — who recognize the right of dis of which countries he made a pro historical songs] in the "Revue de agreement and the just claims Deux Mondes" of 1877. voting some space to Ivan Kotlia rev- of minorities; vince of Poland." sky and to the significance of hisj Since our main concern here is in j In the article, (vol. 21) on Russia і — who assure individual respon travesty of "Aeneida." Taras Shev-| sibility to make the system the name of Ukraine we shall not quote we find a colored map of Russia andj 1 chenko's biography is given quite ex- work; from this encyclopaedia any more; in it we see the inscriptions "West ; tensively, and then there is a brief j — who gladly and zealously defend historical data other than that per- Russia. Little Russia. South Russia" mention o*' odier Ukiattiian writers j and protect the system — with taining to the name. Thus in the out- as pertaining to the Ukrainian pro from Russian and from Austrian] their lives, if need be; and line of the role of Ukraine by Czar; vinces. Writing about the "Slavon Ukraine of the middle of the 19th — who, in all loyal and construc Peter I we read (page 57) that he ians" in Russia the author explains century. tive ways, fulfill their duties as (page 86): "If the Slavonians be "divided the empire into eight guv-, In the section on "Slavs* (volume! free citizens in return for the subdivided into three branches, the rights and privileges of their ernments: of Moscow, Archangel, 22 of the 9th edition of<• the Ency-j 1 western .... the southern ... and the citizenship." A soph, Casan, Chioff [Kyiv] and the clopaedia Britannica, published by Lit- eastern, it will be seen that with the- Ukraine, Siberia, Livonia,... Smo-! це. Brown, Co. in'Boston) we read: Former Supreme Court Justice Jo exception of some 3,000,000 Ukrain lensk and Veronitz [Voronezh). , "According to the tables published seph H. Proskauer in a speech in ians or Little Russians, in East Gali- In volume 5 of this first Ameri- by Budilovich in connection with the New York City; cia and in Poland, and a few on can encyclopaedia we find (page 484) admirable ethnological map of Mir- "International law has heretofore the south slope of the Carpathians, a paragraph on the Kozaks ('The kovich (St. Petereburgh, 1875) the concerned itself with the rights and the whole of the East Slavonians oc-' Cossacks"): "towards the beginning Slavs may be grouped geographical relations of nations; but we know cupy, as compact body, western/ of the 16th century the Zaporog Cos ly as follows: that the individual human being and central and .southern Russia..." | sacks fixed their habitations on the "I. South-E^storn D'vis'ons: T. Pus- his right to life, jberty and tjie pursuit of happiness are the chief spacious plains that extended along "Three different branches, winch sians (a) Great Russians; (b) The concerns of statecraft. We have seen the banks of the Dnieper"... and that may become three separate national Little Russians (Malorossians), who "the country of these dossacks, who; ities, can be distinguished among the I how the excessive demands of sover include the Rousines or Rousniaks eign rights and the chauvinistic ap are an assemblage of ancient Roxe-; Russians since the dawn of history: in Galicia and the Boiki and Gouzouli lans, Sarmatians, and Tartars, is proach to world relations has per ( the Great Russians, the Little Rus [Hutzule] in Bukovina; they number mitted bigotry and persecution of called the Ocraine or Ukraine. It liesi sians (Maiorusses or Ukrainians) 16,370,000. Drawing a straight line millions of unoffending human beings upon the borders of Russia and Po and the White Russians (Bielorus- from Sendee near Cracow to the and thrown on the peace-loving na land, Little Tartary and Turkey, and jIses)" . ..Of the "Little Russians" Asiatic frontier of Russia, we shall tions of the world the burden of re- was anciently a part of Scythia.". ( 'the writer says that "they number find their language the dominant lief, restoration and redress." Ukraine itself is explained (in vol. about 17,000,000, occupy the Steppes tongue of Galicia and all the southern 28, page 663) as "a large country of of southern Russia, the south-western parts of Russia till-we come to the -TOR VICTORY: BUY BONDS- Europe, lying on the borders of Tur slopes of „the central plateau and Caucasus. It is also spoken in a key in Europe, Poland, Russia and those of the Carpathian and Lub strip of territory in the north of Little Tartary," thus covering the lin mountains, and the Carpathian Hungary, (c) The White Russians" same territory that is inhabited by plateau." the Kozaks. The Country That Was Ukraine | Testifies to the Ban of Ukrainian After having covered the history in Russia It is interesting to note that where of Ukraine in more or less the same as in prior editions of this ency fashion as other impartial, historians Having traced the history of the clopaedia Ukraine is recognized as of that period were doing, the author Ukrainian people down to the date I such, in volume 23 of the 9th edi of the article on Ukraine states: 'The of the publication of the Encyclo tion, however,—probably as a con Russian part [of Ukraine] is com paedia the author says (page 88): sequence of the ban "by Russia of prised in the government of JCiof: "In Western Russia, while antipathy the Ukrainian language (mentioned in and the empress of Russia having ob exists between Ukrainians and Poles, vol. ZXX—Ukraine is defined as mere tained the Polish palatinate of Kiof the Russian Government, by its har ly: "Ukraine, (frontier)," the name by the treaty of partition in 1793, assing interference in religious, edu formerly given jto- a district of Eu> the whole of Ukraine, on both sides cational and economical matters, 'has ropeau Russia, .now comprising the of the Dnieper, belongs now to thafeі become antagonistic, not only to the governments- of Khar feoff, Kieff, Po ambitious and formidable power. Poles, but also to the Ukrainians: dolia, and Poltava" ($hif." ^ ЗЬв principal town is Kiof [KyW? printing in Ukrainian is prohibited, j (To be continued) , ™^ Pfc. Michael Urishko, son of Mr. PA. MID-VALLEY SERVICEMEN and Mrs. A. Urishko, 127 River St., hi Egypt spent a furlough at the family home . IN ACTION " after eighteen months overseas duty. Staff Sergeant John Terleski, son Pvt. Urishko entered service on Feb- of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Terleski, ^PHTS month's number of the "Uke-Views for Ukrainian Youth" bulletin 5, 1942 and went overseas to Africa 218 6th street West Easton, Pa. is published In English and Ukrainian by the parishioners of the Sts. on June 3, 1943. He participated in now stationed somewhere |n Egypt, Cyril and Methodius Ukrainian Catholic church in Olyphant, Pa., reports the invasion of Sicily and Italy, and . the following items of news about doings and exploits of servicemen from was at Messina. He wears ribbons according to a letter received from the Mid-Valley, area:— ^ indicating service in the European Cpl. Stephen Smetansf Jr., LaS Ve-f"~ і—— : theatre of operations, the Good Con gas, Nev.i en route to pincoln, Neb T/Sgt. Stephen Rydzanich, 24. son duct Medal, Combat Infantryman's spent seventeen d?ys at the family of Mrs. Anna R"d"pmch, 832 E. Scott Badge and has the Silver Star and home, 112 River St. St., was wounded in action for the the Purple Heart The Silver Star 2nd Lieut. Strfana Borick, army second time in less than three months, was awarded for evacuating a nurse corps, Camp Swift, Tex., and according to War Department ad-1 wounded man. On another occasion, Pvt. Paul Borick, army, air force, vices received by his mother. He; his first day in Sicily, he saved the Nashville, Tenn.. visited their mother, was first wounded on August 8 in company bugler from drowning. Pvt Mrs. Tillie Borick, 312 River St. France, and was wounded again on Urishko likes Rome the best of all M/Sgt Paul Marianêli, son of November 2 in Germany. A brother, the places visited, and especially Louis Mariangeli and Mrs. A. Beck- Pvt. Nestor Rydzanich, was also mentions St Peters Cathedral. He age Mack, Washington, D. C, former wounded in Italy on October 16. Sgt. found Vatican very beautiful and all ly of Olyphant, has been awarded Rvdzanich was a member of the of Italy most interesting. A brother, the Silver Star for heroism while 109th Infantry Regiment when it was Lieut. Charles, is in India. serving overseas. The decoration has federalized in February of 1941, and Pfc. Joseph F. Panko, 23, son of been sent to Sergeant Mariangeli's underwent training at a number of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Panko, 1102 mother. camps before going overseas. Frieda St, Dickson City, was slight Cpl. Peter Borick, Mountain Home, Pvt. Michael Beckage, who is re ly wounded in action in France on Idaho, spent a fifteen-day furlough cuperating at Nicholas General His- Nov. 8. Pvt. Panko, a graduate of, at the home of his mother, Mrs. j pttal,. Louisville, Kv., after having Dickson City High School, employed TUlie Borick, 312 River St. been wounded in action last July in at the Blakely Home before en Seaman 1/c 'Thomas C. Casey, Jr., j the Pacific theater of operations, tering service in September of 1942 has returned to duty after spending sjpent a furlough at the home of his was trained at Camp Wheeler, Ga., a leave at the home of his parents, | mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Beckage, і as an infantryman, had further S/SGT. JOHN TERLESKI Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Casey. A gun-: 204 Adams Ave. Pvt Beckage en-1 training at Camp Atterbury, Ind., and ner00a liberty ship, recently here-!tered service on Feb. 3, 194$ and went overseas from Fort Meade, Md\,• ^й ЬР i^ beS^tio^ЛогЛ turned from Murmansk, Russia. A went overseas in January, 1944, go-1 on October 2 last, arriving in 14^*155^ ^r^*SÛon^S veteran of action in Tunisia, Oran,,mg to New Guinea and other pointsion Oct 14. He has been awarded .was secretary of Branch 438 of the Bizerte, Sicily Salerno, Italy, and m the Southwest Pacific. He has the Purple Heart. Pvt. Panko ^11^^^^ National Association in England, he wears the American and been awarded the Purple Heart. A two brothers in service, Cpl. An- We8t gagton. 1 European defense ribbons. brother, William, is in Ne% Guinea. drew F. Panko with the medical j S/Sgt. Wniiam Barniak, Lake Another brother, Stephen, was non- corps in Germany, and Cpl. George Charles, La spent a furlough for 19 j orably discharged from the army M Panko, with the infantry in England. A LETTER FROM HOME 1 days at the home of his parents, | last August. Pvt. Michael Mezlck, son of Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. Onufer Barniak, 1242 j Bom- Mrs. Michael Mezick, 800 Dunmore St., Oere Sohn Izzie: A Ninth Mr Porce Fighter Ve are heppy to knowink you got Dundaff St. 'ber Base. -Belgium.—The Bronze Throop, is now stationed in New Guinea. Pvt Mezick trained at Camp demotion from croporal to private. If you Pvt. William Smetana Jr., son of, star Meda! has been awanjed to Mas- Toaco, Ga., and Fort Leonard Wood, keeping up der goot work up. maybe ve Mr. and Mrs. William Smetana, Dal-, ter sê^t Eimer Beckage, 933 E. - v, ' hear you gottink goot job in charge of ton, has completed, a course of elec Lackawanna Avenue, in recognition Mo Q Ua troniee at Chanute Field, Ш. of meritoripus service in connection4.been Sincstationee goind gin . overseaNew sCaledonia he has, : 2 ,.: ,, , ~ u . , •_ t . h. Apprentice Seaman William Guman. with military operations against the New Georgias Islands in Munda, New *PXot" likГ™-™'e Hym™ e *Goldstei> uf ^n kvaa s %beforHf e "h"e Great Lakes, Ш., spent a leave for enemy. Sgt. Beckage is the son of Zealand, Guadalcanal and is now in court-martialed by der Colonel. Dot boy 9 days with his parents, Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. George Beckage, of Oly New Guinea with the 169th Infantry sure meel,nk some importam peop,es' Mrs. Andrew Guman, 317- Mooney phant An aircraft inspector in Col which have seen plenty of hard and Mrs. Goldstein sayink to me der odder Street t onel William L. Carry's P-47 Thun tough jungle fighting throughout the dav« "Mme sohn Hvmie iss a PFC *n* Pvt Peter Oskorip is spending a derbolt group, a unit of the XXDC South and Southwest Pacific. mine sohn Abie iss got gold bars. 30 day leave at the home of his Sgt. Michael Kuiick, 130 Lincoln "Dot's nottink". I say. "My sohn Izzte Tactical Air Command, Sgt. Beckage js AW0L and he sa s he ss a c,ass one mother, Mrs. Mary Oskorip, 214 has been in the European theater of St, is assistant crew chief of a B-29 * y ! James St, after service^ overseas :operation8 since AprUi 1944. He en- Superfortress, at a 20th Bomber Com-" goldbricker alreddy. Anybody with half where be participated in four inva-; tered Ше ^^^ at Philadelphia, Pa., mand Base in India, where he helps der brains like 1 got is knowink a gold sions, including that of D-Day infm june lg43 ^ ^^ j^ Elmer prepare the giant bomber for another bar iss just a chip off dei; Goldbickerl" Di( ои France. He joined the army on Feb. BeCkaget Hves at ш North Valley attack on Japan. He is part of the * У knowink dot Hymie Goldstein ot d r ra nuts at 10, 1943, trained with the engineers Ауепие> Olyphant. "army" of group crew members who g « S P* breakfast the odder at Camp Breckenridge, Ky., and went Miss Ann Kosakevitch, daughter have played an important part in the morink? Dot boy don't care what he abroaсіигигіdи lasM»Wt Januarua u yJ to New GuineaVoii«™r. ! oЛГ°f Mr.~ an dAX* Mrs . NicholaлГи , s £Kosakevitch і •• T. success of the B-29 raids on Japan, catches. Do you meebie knowink Hym.e? Action at Tappe, Watkem, Yellow e lss j der second p,atoon at Fort Pvt. Joseph Sembrat, 27, 118 2nd|" H R. " Beach and other points followed. He StatefrArai'v Nurse .^п» and has St., Blakely, son of Mr. and Mrs..!Yarcl B,rds was wounded ^fe^Nj ^1" been commissioned a Second Ueuten- Simon Sembrat, 829 North- Valley) v* ar« пеРРУ knowink you getting so ment at the Nichols gi^M^j-^ A graduate of Blakely High Ave., was slightly wounded in ac-! much extra duty. You can use der moêy. pital, Louisville, Ky., where he will Ш * ^ St Joseoh's Hosnital Your return at the expiration of his leave. ^c^°° ™ g£ Joeepn s Hospital tion in Germany on December 13, the І Г°рра say he iss goink to send War Department has notified hisjy°u box of schoolaces for you can sell Ь New GuinZ Private ШвЙЛЙЖв wife, the former Miss Olga Wyso-!°n d*r company street, makink two served with t^g**^ chansky. He has an eighteen-month-1 hundred percent profit, easy, oh boyi boys: Michael Beckage, John Wanas.; ш f J old son, Joseph Jr. Pvt. Sembrat en-Debbie you get goot job sellink peanuts Steve^chewaky John Chomto, Al-;^^^ £ tered the military service last April. at bi« Parade *<*» «oink to bave? bert Vnencak and James Wash. .j United He trained at Fort McClellan, Ala.J Am sorry to hear your bunk iss not A brother, CpL Gene Oskorip, is States Army, has been a prisoner of and went overseas in October. A | soft. Ve are* gettink up petition to send with the air forces in Saipan. war of the Japs for nearly two years. brother, Seaman 1/c George Sem congressman to get softer beds so you Pfc. Nicholas Matuako, 29, son of Pvt. Thomas Frenak, nineteen, son brat, is in the South Pacific. have not havink so much bunk fatigue. Mrs. Rose Matusko, 420 Third St., of Mr> and Mrs. John Frenak, 114 Word has been received by Mr. Mebbie you tellink der Heutenant when Blakely, is missing in action in Ger Swallow St, was slightly wounded and" Mrs. George Guman, 707 E. he iss making up your bed in der morn- many since Nov. 30. He joined the in Germany on Nov. 22. He entered Scott St, that their son, George ink I say he should use. clean' sheets. army Nov. 24, 1943, trained at Camp service Oct. 23, 1943, and trained at Guman Jr. has been promoted to Ve are vanting you should work hard Croft, S. C, and went overseas in Camp Chaffee, Ark., and Camp Van Yeoman 3/c on Nov. 1, somewhere und mebbie if-you practice Sundays you July with an infantry unit He was Dorn, Miss., with an infantry unit. in Hawaii. get to be policeman in der kitchen like attached to the 1st Army! A brother, He went overseas in August, first Sammy Finkelstein. Ve are vaitlnk for. Pfc, John Matusko, is in Germany After 30 months of overseas serv to England and then into action in ice, Pvt Peter Roman, son of Mr. der winter to come since you sayink with an infantry outfit France and Luxemburg. your Captain say, "It will be a cold day Sgt Joseph ¥eck has-been pro and Mrs. Simon Roman, Peckville, S/Sgt Alex E. Chomin, Salina, when I gift you a furlough, Izzle." moted to Staff Sergeant somewhere is spending a well earned furlough Kan., spent a furlough for twelve Mebbie comes der winter ve see you in New Guinea, according to word at his home. He holds four stars days at the family home at 526 soon. Eh? YOU LOVINK MOMMA received by his mother, Mrs. Anna for major campaigns he participated Delaware Avenue. in. He also holds the pre-Pearl Har і і. ... і, і авиааві Monasky, 63T Б. Grant St Yeek bor, European, and Good Conduct served for a time in Australia and Pfc Theodore l>abowsky, 36, son Word has been received by his of Mrs. Anna Maznick, 409 Garfield service ribbons. Pvt. Roman has family that his brother, Pvt. William has been in New Guinea for the past served six years in the armed forces. thirty months. Ave., was seriously wounded in Smetana, Medical Corps, U. S. Army, Pfc. Joseph C Kranick, 19, son of France oil November 17. Pvt Labow- Sgt Walter Smetana, a former has arrived somewhere in France sky, a graduate of Olyphant High member of our choir, has returned and has been assigned to a General Mrs. Mary Kranick, 321 Jackson Stu suffered slight wounds in action with School, received infantry training at to the States after being overseas for Hospital. the marines at Palau in September. Fort Benning, Ga., and Camp Gordon, 26 months. He is spending a 40 day According to word received by his Pvt. Kranick entered service on Oct Ga., before going overseas in Sep- furlough at his home, 302 River St., father, Andrew Taras, 216 Wilbw 15, 1943, trained at Camp LeJeune; tember of this year to France. He Olyphant after which he will report St, Lt Michael A. Taras has ar • and New River, N. C, and went I holds the sharpshooter's medal and to Denver, Colorado. He enlisted for rived safely overseas. overseas to the Pacific theater in I the Good Conduct Badge. Pvt La- service January 20, 1942. He wears Cpl. Joseph Petronchah, holder of the European Theatre Ribbon with the Purple Heart, and Oak Leaf June of this year. ;bowsky was a singer of note and John Evaakfc, son of Mr. and Mrs. studied voice under Madame Fitz- three stars for participation in the Cluster, and wounded twice in Itnty, M. Kvanick of East Benton, has been Randolph. He frequently was a African, Sicilian and Italian cam is home on leave. He is to return promoted from Corp. to Sgt some featured soloist on-camp entertain- paigns;- also the Good Conduct to the England General Hospital in* AJttentie City. where in -finfiand. „ [meat progfama,. ..-...... '.-.. -.. І fгДМе4а1« .-:.•«. . _ і tv- ущ і -І UKRAINIAN WEKKLY. SATURDAY. JANUARY Щ 1945 No. 3

•?• 1 CONNECTICUT STATE NEWS (Concluded) (2) HARTFORD of them have turned to coffee and e u- Ґ- u A. u ^ Cili I doughnuts instead of their tradi- ГТІг т*д in A - Sophm Grogoza has ftmshed her И«* breakfast8. to t Ге^иаГ^еТіег\н1' й%£*РЧ-5 êTte nourishing w? ^fT.., T«™«™ *™»«>e buckwheat cereal with milk but no Hospital in January. j^^ роШлев Ь(ЛМ ta цпІв Ûr Pvt. A. Kutcher and Stella PitczaJc \" .?»** "1th butter' aad *?** were married recently at the St. M^buttenmlk Eggs were *>meUmes chael's Ukrainian church. Both were 85ram,b,ed J"* **"I" "*g* active in the UYOC bowling league. Borech «•?*> of «* beets, potatoes ^ cream and sometimes cabbage and Helen Kutcher has returned tronr I carrott «"•• a ^vorites. Pot cheese «*.. Гл »-. JZ її л. i_ -x- і was often spread on bread or used Philadelphia and has taken a position » potatoes Other breakfast with the Hartford Hospital, Mary,™»^SeSûSs oV kTdneTbea^ Gwisc has returned from Texas іашпеа we*e* шіа or Kianey oean soup; potatoe pancakes made of where she visited her husband. grated potatoes, eggs, and flour; and • noodles with milk poured over them. Pfc. P. Oteskiw spent a furlough Sweet rolls and pastries were only at home after 3d months in south served around the holidays.** Many west Pacific. Bis brother, Sgt. John of Mrs. Charnosky's friends attend Oieskiw, is in the Pacific, and an the local Ukrainian Orthodox church. other brother, Щтттш Steve Oieskiw, and in asking them about breakfasts is with the Navy in the FaciAc of other Ukrainians, she found they area. Pfe. sfichaeV Spasobits, buddy ne longer followed the custom of of Peter, is also back in Hartford eating large breakfasts after 3d months in the southwest • Pacific. • Mrs. Demetri Charnosky, a mem- bar of the Red. Canoes,home nursing, CpL Katharine Oiynik, WAG Mr recently organized а home nursing Corps, recently returned from Eu class in. the Slovak Lutaeran church, rope after being in Iran, Airiea, ami • Italy. She spent a 21 day furlough St.. Mary's Ukrainian Orthodox with her parents in Bloomfield. She is church had a mortgage Jaurning cele leaving for Virginia for reassign bration and banquet November 19. ment. 'J The church paid off, its complete * * debt. Rev. A. Beck is the pastor of Aviation Machinist Mate 2/c Pauf the parish. Dyseaehuk of Glastonbury is home • for a 15 day leave. He has been sta Lt- Alex Datzenko was one ot the tioned at the Naval. Air Base ід Ber first flyers to arrive in the, Philip muda far the last 10 months. His pines. He is stationed there now. brother, Pfe. John, U. ». Marines, is if in the Pacific, area* and took part in , Mr. Leonty Буває died recently. the invasion o£ Seipan. He was as officer of the senior state organuation, devoting . much, time m to that organization and organizing In article recently in the local Sun- the Ukrainians on a statewide basis. day Post a "look in" was made о»|.Ніач son, CpL George Byshe, ІІВ wtk Bridgeport's citizens of various na tioned in England. tionalities. They were found to be wholehearted supporters of the^ Mr* ani Mse. Demetri (Лагповку Bridgeport's Better Breakfast Cam eelehrated their 25tb- wedding an- paign. People of eleven nationalities nisjersary on Thanegiving day with in the city, were interviewed to geta amall party ш their home*. They | their opinions ot breakfast in their have one daughter, Virginia, Mr.-and [ native land and the United States. Mrs. Charnosky donated $10 to. tbe 'One of the women interviewed was Ukrainian^ Congress Committee in ; dark haired Mrs. Demetri Charnosky, honor of their celebration. a very active member of the Inter- • • • : national Institute, where she repre sents the Ukrainians. "I'm sure that NEW- BBlTABf і all the Ukrainians here don't eat "Tbe Global Echo" a new mimeo proper breakfast," she said, "Many graphed publication haa been re- ieased by. the Letter Writing divi sion- of. the Ukrainian .. алаатістт . ПОТРІБНО МУЖЧИН Servicemen's Club-It is complete with a hat of over 100 names and ad PUFFERS dressee of the. 220 serejeemea of З досвідом, 75 ц, на годину the parish. досить овертайм M.G.M., г? West 35 St., N.Y.C. Pvt. Walter Demetro recently re Хлопців, шо хочуть стати sheet metal ceived tbe Purple Heart award. He челядниками, 48 год. тижнево. Arkay had been wounded on tbe Jtattem war Co*, 864 Newark Ave., Jersey City. front, and BOW he is back in action. IrOTflbSHO ЖЕНЩИН Pvt. W. Demetro was шхі officer of the UYOC, and a sports director. ПЕК.АРНЯ Дівчат—Жінок • • Завіївати пекарняні продукти Myron Thnchissin is in the Philip та інша робота. Сущна індктрія pine area. He is serving on a PT Добра платна, става робота . WMC Правила заховуємо boat. Не нічна робота^-добрі роб. умовний • Телефон Humbolt 3-5300 In the New Britain Herald there ША» BAKING CO. 4th Aye & N. 13" St., E. Orange, N.J. appeared recently a picture of Coast Guardsman Peter Procko/ SI/c dis Дішвошерів—жонатих playing a Jan flag aboard a Coast 9:30 рано до 4:3<Х пополудні Guard manned invasion traaspett on Неділі вільні, стало. Redwood, 13 Е. 4 5th St., N. Y. C. whieh he served in the invasion of Самі St*- Subway Philippines.

PHlM^DEt-PhHA. PAv THE CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL. CHOIR'S .-ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CONCERT >—::—: wffl be held f—:>-: -• SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 1fr*fS UOUimAN HA1X, 84» HOKmL ERAI4KUN STREET ТОЛ в P. It CONCERT FOULOWED ЩІ^Ш^