ha{ Ki:i'(.RTKD 12 FLIERS KILLED, TO FLIGHT NEX1 From The lVien 1 IN AUSTRALIA! Al The Front From Bergen County 1 Takala Dies In Action, f llemen: Complete Course Received a copy of the Defense Park Youth In Crash .Nows, Vol. 1 ,No. 3 and certainly! (Special Lo UlB Bergen Evening Record! Jenjoyed it. Was surprised to seel Chapel Hill, N. C, Apr. 1—Three] Lieutenant Neil Thomas Takala j [the number of men in the service! ergen County cadets have been! • of Teaneck, well known in athletic •from Teaneck. Guess it's increased! Ivanced to primary tllght training! J circles m the County, died in action I considerably since then. Nice to I ', the Naval Re&erve Aviation Basel • in Australia, March 28, according lto word received yesterday by his [ • read about the sincere anil exlen-| , Peru, Ind., alter completing thcr isive work being done at home. Just I -month course here at the Navy| J family from the War Department re-Plight School. There are: I at Washington, D. C. • know that everyone is pitching! WEST ENGLEWOOD — W^K Takala, son of Mr. and Mrs. I in. Weil after all that's Teaneck.! Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ever-I I Thomas V. Takala, 224 Elm Ave- I My best to all of you and would I t W. Brown of 641 West Engle-| I nue, Teuneck, left his position as a I I certainly appreciate hearing from| :od Avenue. I teacher at Bloomfield High School | you again. If they successfully complete this! 1 to enlist in the Army Air Corps in A proud Teaneckite cond phase and 3 additional! 1 March, 1941. He received his com- I mission at Sslma, S. 0., Dec. 12, Fred J. Aeschback AMMI-G onths of advanced flight training,! V. C. Fleet, Post Office, •ey will be eligible for commissions.! 11941, and a few days later was I transferred to the Pacific Coast. He New York I boarded a transport bound for Au-l istralia during the Christmas noli-1 I Fellow Townsfolk: I (Jays. I Thanks a lot for my copy of Only 3 weeks ago his family re-1 J "Teaneck Defense News." It is a I I ceived a cablegram which reads: I welcome sight to see the name uf I 1 "Still enjoying Aussie hospitality. | 1 Everything O. K. Peeling line." 1 Teaneck in print after yon have! I Takala started his athletic career J been away from it a while so I am j I at Teaneck High School, where he j I hoping that you will keep me on 1 played all three major sports. He iyour mailing list. £ j also played scmipro football with 1 I have made several moves since j 9 the Teaneck Red Devils, and caught I I original location at Hamilton! 1 for a number of the County's serni- • Field .Calif, and consequently thai 1 pro baseball teams. Before he en- • listed, he worked as a referee in a I "News" did a little traveling also! 1 number of high school football and •before it caught up with me, so 11 I basketball games and as umpire in lhad best give you my latest ad-1 I baseball games. |dress. Thanking you again, I am, I 1 He was graduated from Montclair Sgt. A. J. Lahmann I I State Teachers College in 193B after 913th' Engineers, AJ. Hdq. Co.I 1 a brilliant athletic career. He was I catcher for the school's baseball j I team, and fullback and captain of i I the football team. In addition, he: I was cocaptain of the wrestling team.: I At the College he was also a I member of the Senate, men's dis- I cusslon society, and the Psychology! I Club. Upon graduation, he began: I his duties as a teacher at Bloom- 1 field High School. After enlist-, ment more than a year ago he re- ROBERT B' ceived his training at air fields lr PROMOTE!) •Robert Rudin Jr. loamden, S. C, and Craig Field in! I Studying: Photography ^"observed his 28th birthdaj (Special to the Bergen Evening Record) I He ia survived by his parents, Mr Pyote, Tex., Apt. 5—Robert Ru-1 J and Mrs. ThomsaJL TakalftLjsgyjr I din Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs, Rudinj Isisten, Lorraine and Anna of. , lof 1311 Sussex Boad, West Engle-j iTGaneck address; Mrs. Gertrude I wood, is studying advanced aeriall lolacj. of Bogota, Mrs. Minnie For- I photography with trie 19th Bom-| irante of Morsemei-e, Mrs. Mary Bell Ibardment Group, 83rd Squadron of I lof Bogota, Hilda Takala of New I the Army Air Force- at this Airl I York City', Mrs. Mabel Moore a I Base. A 1940 graduate of Teaneckl 1 Connecticut, and one brothel, I High School, Rudin also was grad-j ' the Taanfick address. j iuated from Bergen College lastj I June. He entered the Air Force inl sports, because Campbell •November. After a short time alj "soup" Stevenson was in the •Atlantic City, Rudin was stationed! list, but it's general news be- •at Lowry Field, Denver, Colo., forl cause it's Teaneck's latest Lrmed forces la 3-month course in photography.j draft list. Soup, who made | Iwhioh lie completed. In March. . All-County football and base- | Get 475 More ball teams, and Ken Schmal- Arthur D. Egan of Teaneck's I I enbergcr, another Teaneck | I Honor Eoll Committee reports that I if High athlete, a student lit 1475 men and women have joined | William and Mary College this J the armed f or.ces since Nov. 8 when I year, left last week for New- Jthe honor roll on the grounds of ark and induction in the Army. I the municipal building was dedi- Others included Elmer Beh- I cated, and that a total of 1987 were rens David Caughlan, Charles • in the service of their country on | Currey, William Graham, Jr., | April 1, 1943. Michael Halligan, William Kloeber, Walter Lynch, Fred Egan said that a new list to in- Promotion to lieutenancy I Stafford, Angclo Cafarelli, I elude- the 475 is being printed for J (junior grade) for Charles J. 1 Joseph Calabrese, James Gam- ithe octagonal Honor Eoll in ac-1 I Alike Jr. (above), 2 years in! •United States Na-vy service, has j bella, Robert Hall, Allen Hen- cordance with the plan to make j 9 revisions periodically. The names j.iust been announced from! sell, John Hooks, William iNorth Africa. Graduate of the I Jeanig, Theodore King, Ken- I of the five who have died in the iwharton School of Commerce I neth Masslrom, Alfred Podes- J service of their country will be I lof the University of Pennsyl- j ta Harold Stiltzman, John I given the position of honor on a j a vania, Lieutenant Alike is the 1 Stuart, Edward Zucehi, George I separate panel. Ison of the executive vice.prcsi- I Only names of men and women j • dent of the Hackciisaclc Water I Holler, William Murphy, Wal- I Company. His nome is in Tea- | ter Salmincn, John Powers; I who actually were themselves resi-1 ineck. 3rd., George Myles, and "Fed J dents of Teaneck at the time they I Thompson. I entered actual service are includ-l led on the Boll. Names are not! 1 added, until active service has be-j un. ' Reserves are not inclndedt *}»oylehhry ±tiu Renault Plant And 10 Nazk \ 11 aneck Copilot Has Second Narrow Escape From i ENTER SERVICE Death As His Camera Deflects German Shell | The battle-scarred Flying Fortress Dry Martini and it; -man crew of cocktail kids went berserk like a sea sail 01 are leave, over Paris yesterday and set a record lor bomb- ILeave Civilian Posts For iers in shooting down 10 Nazi fighters over the southwes Responsibility In. |Paris plant of the famed Renault works. War Work CAMERA IS HIT * Lieutenant Joseph B. Boyle ,m jitterjy y all the same. Hear any IRECENT GRADUATES iTciineck, co-pilot or the plane he ,hmg aboubt t JJo e Gorman?G?" I brought back to Its near-London Mrs. J. J. Boyle of 539 Slandisl I base last January 13 with its pilot Road, Teaneefc, referred to Secon< Miss Lueile Graf, 21, daughter of 1 dead and another crewman wound- Lieutenant Joseph E. Gorman n iMrs. Marcelle Graf and Hie late Jed, had his second known close Ridgelicld Park, copilot of the Fort Iwalter L. Graf of 24 chestnut •ess Problem Child, one of the 13 Istfeet, Teaneck, has been swon :all from death. bombers which rained bombs ovc I into lie Waves and is awaiting call Radioed reports before midnight Paris. I to report for training as a pharma- llasl night declared that only the |cist's mate. •camera Boyle poised before his lace When he returned from the raif \aved his life by deflecting the orman said: "Even from 25,00 Miss Graf gave up her position as loot, Paris sure looks good in th , jsecretary in the gynecology and ob- enemy-firpd 50-mm shell which jstetrical service at St. Vincent's crashed the windshield and sprayed iprmR." The Dry Martini's crew lprl b | I Hospital, New York City, to enlist. ome Df Lhp fighters in a rain of Onnl.flin A. V, ^artim n[ Snfl f IBefore that she worked at Medical |line glass. Cisco, had its own hero in Secon 1 Center in Jersey City, first as a| The Dry Martini, a vcrferan of Lieutenant James Moberly ol Me I laboratory technician and later ss LIJOILK GBAF berly, Mo. He shot down 3 ot tfc • head of the tuberculosis research* laermnnynissions ,ove returner Nazi-held to dit sPranc homee fieland I I department. I looking like a sieve with 60 shell'' GormaNazi planesn is th. e son of Police Set She is a graduate of St, Francis I holes, some! as big as a pumpkin .jeant and Mrs. Joseph Gorman r J School in Ridgefield Park, Holy land with no one hurt more than 190 Brinkerhoff Street, Ridgefiel iAngels Academy in Fort Lee, and If or scratches. Park. Ithe Paine Hall School in New York In its January assault on Lille in "We could see the Eiffel Towr |Oity. She is the leader of Girl Scout •northwest Prance, Boyle took over sticking up there, so pretty", Goi 'roop 12 at St. Francis Church, 1 the stick when the Portress splr- man said, "Gosh, I hope to see ths iRldgefield Park, and both she and laled out of control with Nazi planes baby from the ground some day." jjher mother are air raid wardens in latter it. Boyle lifted the plane out Gorman is a graduate of g itheir district in Teaneek. lot its nosedive and raced the ship Francis Parochial School, Ridgfie! Mrs. Graf is employed at Bendix iback to England, miles • behind the Park High School and Alfred Un JAviation Corporation, and Robert] 1 squadron. versity. He entered the service i •Graf, Lucile's brother, is a Naval 1 It was not until the ship gained December, 1941. He has been ove gJAviation Cadet, awaiting call for I the channel that Boyle shook off seas since October of last year. •training. He is a sophomore at Co- Ipursuit. He himself was wounded Major Paul D. Brown of Oran Ilumbia University where he majors land the ship was decommissioned. led one of the flying fortre lin chemical engineering. 1 The first thing Boyle said as he bomber groups in their Eenav Miss Graf is following family tra- lulled his shattered camera from raid yesterday. jdition with her interest in medicine, Ithfi planr, was "I'm sure I got some "I think pictures will show we1" •Her maternal grandmother," Mrs. |(>ond pictures." beaten the bombing of Vegesack •Ernestine J. Bendeler, 74, of Cliff- His mother J>aid today, 'I think he said upon their return from tl Islde Park, has practiced obstetrics successful mission. ifor* 45 years in Hudson and Bergeni New Jersey air fighters figun •Counties. She received a gold medal| in news all over the map yesterds Ifrom ,the State government ior h TWO HITS IN ONE KUN I long service. Down in New Guinea, Secoi lg Lieutenant Milton Rupper of Je Eey City, bombai'dier on a flyi: fortress group's raid Saturday i Japanese warships at Kavieng, Ni Ireland, was credited, in a ooi munique from General Doug) MacAi'thur's Headquarters, wi two full hits in one run. Their plane ran through a h 3 Berg"™ Men Advance of anti-aircraft fire and was dai (Special to the Sergen Evening Record) aged, but its pilot said he saw t Camp Lee, April 6—The Army'sl enemy vessel's stern slide towc lartemiaster Corps Officer Can-| ithe water. It was only bombard date School graduated three Ber-I Rupper's second mission. He v n County enlisted men as second! formerly an armament officer. iUtenants here Friday. They are j In North Africa, included In I TEANECK — Joseph Jamesr crews of a flight of Mitchell bon 'inke of 17 Westervelt Place. ,ers officially credited with sink; Twenty-seven other men Iroml three enemy ships by low-level sk w Jersey also were commissioned I .bombing was Sergeant Peter Rok of 224 Monroe Street, Fassaic. this class and await assignmentj Allied Headquarters revealed y tours of duty. terday the squadron had sunk enemy troop ship and two merchi vessels. . , _ You just let a string of bombs! ,,alk right up the side of a ship andj over it," one airman said in deserib-1 ing the new type of bombing at-1 tack.
Dudley P. Thorne of Bogota (left) ana Joseph Steinke of Fall- I sades Park, formerly of Tcaneok, have been commissioned second I I lieutenants in the Army. Lieutenant Steinke is the son of SjHr. and j Mrs. Bernard Steinke of Westervelt Place, Teaneok, and the hus- \ iii i n 1 I il 16 FROM BERGEN WOUNDED JA1CK LEGION |T0 UNFURL FLAG, |War Department Lists Tunisia Casualties DEDICATE ROLL! The War Department in Wash- llnglim today released Us casualty I I roundup with six Bergen County I jLegionnaires And Their 1 lenUgled men wounded in battle on I Ithe Tunisian front. One Teaneck I Children In Service Ircsident was home 2 weeks before E To Be Honored I before official channels cleared a. I I telegram to Ins iamily with mfor-[ nation he liad been wounded. 1RITES TOMORROW! The official listing .shows (he name I iof this man, Private George T. Jack- I Teaueck Post 128, American Lc-1 lei, among Hie 44 in this Slate and | leion tomorrow night will receive a| I service flag from the board of I 1650 in the nation. I trustees at a service flag and honor! WimiKlefl In Action Broil presentation at the Post Rooms,! BECKEB, Staff Sergeant Charles I 1817 Garrison Avenue, Teaneck. I |W.; son of Mr. and Mrs. FVodrt'ickl J Township Manager Paul A. Volckcri IBecker of 1299 Sussex Boatl, Woat| I will make the presentation and! lEnKlewood. • Post Commander Clyde B. Halstead| I will accept the gifts. JACKEL, Private George T;hus-I Iband of Mrs. Anne E. Jackel of 77| Members of the Post who will bel Avenue, Teaneck. SGT. CHARLES BECKEB {honored for their services in this! Sergeant Becker was a member I iwar are Valentine J. Burger, Reg-§ |of the first Infantry detail to set! linald Rowland, Curtis G. Pratt, Erii •foot in Africa. He was in the thick! |R. Lifvergren, Prank De Rosa, Harry I iof the North African campaign un-1 •tfcBride, and William H. McPar-i |til March 31, when he fell wounded. § lland. A scroll bearing the names of . His parents received his letters! •sons and daughters of members oil Iregularly, but they Co not know! illie Post and Auxiliary also will bel |where he was hurt or how serlonusly.l IN NEWS OF ARMED FORCES •dedicated. Of this number, 12 were I They were notified he was wound-i |membors of the Squadron 128, Sons| led by telegram from the War De-fi if tho American Legion. apartment May 12. Mrs. Becker said! Preceding; the dedication cere- I she was told she would hear in 151 Imonies a dinner will be hold at theL idays from the Department as to hisj |Post Hall. Reservations are sold out.| icondition, but she has received no| Among those to be honored alsi fword yet. I are: Becker was voted the most popu-| -William cnaklin Jr., Raphael Fulvey.i liar boy In his Teaneck High School! ipharles A, Thorwall. John Miller, riils-i igraduating class of 1936. He entered! •a«js of mejnbeis of the Auxiliary. I WIHiam H. Commons. Thomas J. Da-1 Ithe service in January, 1941, andj ™'lews, Qaoiee Ganzcnmuller. William E.i jtraincd at Fort Bragg, N. C, for I iQutMe Jr.. Stanley B. Kaup, degree G I iMlcDonalct Jr.. Raymond .1. MaoDoaalS I years. He was promoted to Ser-j IWarren 15. Peter. Ralph HerIcnry- "' " Jgeant at Bragg, but was made member! HStaf f Sergeant when he landed oyer- j |"W«li»m~H.~Beaiimont, Henry GD.. BBeen?! |seas, last November. ii'1 Oisiria L. Brrshorn. Mar"y " BBirch. I I Ralph p. Boeeit, F H. Bieltsnstemn, ^i-I JACKEL BACK HOME man—amer,••. -'iw«fi'Crameii1 iivSr'^'j. ca-l In his last letter home, he wrotel • hillll . .los*pl h J Daly, Louis M. DiBella.l I Robert J. Drack. Martin J. Deufoh, Pieti-i the was feeling better and urged hisl • arlck J. Deutcli. Deorgp L. Errick. Robertl IC .Flackmnn, Henry w. Frecicncbs Jr.,i Iparents not to worry. He wrote lit-1 IwUltam T. ailslnan, Anihew Oabcl Rob-1 • tie about his activities but he indi-I l«l Gr«f LucUc Graf. Gtoreo Gntbnc.l • Heibeit B. Ooel?. August Hennlball 3id, I jcated always he had been on the! BAupust B. Hosselbach, Heniy G Hyde I lAithur r,. Kimliall. Albert J .Klramcrle Jr I imarch. As soon as they received! iFrank w Klimni, Wilbur F. Kleipra. J05-1 I word he was wounded, the Beckers! fl pnn J iCJIitiuiTEty, JHUEO O, Kiszlii'E Helen fi IN. Leslie, William Metz Peter Maaney jr., I iwrote him to tell him they knew,! IWitUain J. MQoiiey, Austin Mcllvainc 1 •but Mrs. Becker does not believel Jaicliard McDowell. Andrew F OPPCHII • Jr., Robert T. Onnelfc Oscar B. Olsen Jr. I | he has received the letter -yet. • Irvln S. Pachman, Robert K. Phillips,! •Anthonr W. Picow. StaiU«?y RaymondT Becker was president of his senior! iMonit, Rich. Leo Rich Ben Rich. WUliamI I class at Teaneck High School,! • P. Hw»lM Jr . Al'thur C, RolEe Jr.. Cliarlc"! IL. Steel 3rd, Donald F. Stailn, Douald W i I where he was a member of the track! |Scra:ent Calvin P. Sement, George DsweyB Jteam, Speakers' Bureau, Playcrait-I IShields .7i\, Edwin Chailes Slnolds. Haw-I lard F. Tlmrmflii, Thamas Charles Wanta.i lers, and a member o£ the sopho-l • Charlfi5 P. Weidcnmuller D. West Jr 1 Imore and junior class cabinets. He§ |.T. P. W«l Raymonrt W. "Wild. James u'.B I William D, Wilson Jr. altei G.i J attended Bergen College for enlluren of Lesion membei I years. PIBST LT. ROBERT ROHRS SEAMAN 1ST CLASS SHERWOOI Jackel has been back in this coun-1 jtry since April 28, and is at, Hallo-j Iran General Hospital on StatenJ /DryiarWIs 1 Island. deutenant Rohn, Teaneck, FIRST TO LAND He arrived home unexpectedly I 111 Start Combat Trainint i Really;. Dynamite jjust 2 weeks before his wife was I jnotified he was wounded. By the! | £}J iM Associated Press, jlime she received the telegram from! SSon Of Major In Chemical Warfare Division WITH THE U. S. EIQHTH AIR I Ithe War Department, she already! Florida Base To Become Fighter Pilot I POECE SOMEWHERE IN ENG-1 •had seen her husband. He spends! I LAND, April 12.—The Flying Par- I jhis week-ends in Teaneck with hisl j tress Dry Martini, of which Lfc. I • wife, and returns to the Army hos-| (Special to the Bergen Evening Record) 1 Joseph B, Doyle of Teaneck, N, J., ] jpital during the week. Tallahassee, Pla., Apr. 8—Recently commissioned First! j is co-pilot, was credited today I A member of the first Infantry! I Lieutenant Robert Rohrs of Teaneck, N. J., was to arrive at| [with bringing down 10 enemy I I division to invade North Africa last! I this Army Air Force base later today for combat training I fighter planes April 4 during a 1 |November 8, Jackel fought along! J bombing raid on the Renault | Ithe Mediterranean until April 4, J J as a fighter pilot. He is the son of Major Frank A, Rorirs on! I plant outside Paris. I when he was wounded. I duty with the Army's Chemical Warfare Division at Fortf j Air force authorities expressed! Jackel entered service last June 12, j S@am Houston in San Antonia, Tex. [belief the Dry Martini probably! Ireceived his training at Port MeadeJ Lieutenant Rohrs enlisted last! 1 had set a new record for the num-1 • Md., and left for overseas duty in! iMarch and reported to Maxwell! her of planes brought down by a! lOctober. His wife is the form'er Missl W at Montgomery, Ala., in June! single bomber in this theater. I JAnne Fortune of Jersey Cifcy. He is I preflight training. He took pri-1 All together, 48 enemy planes! I (he son of Mrs. Lillian Jackel of I ary" training at Douglas, Ga., basic I were reported shot down during! he Bronx, N. Y., and he has 21 At Gunner Field, Ala,, and he earned I this raid—equal to the second! brothers in service. Corporal How-1 tils' commission at Marianna, Pla., I highest bag since the bombing! Bard Jackel is with, the Coast Artil-i .ibase at the end of advanced! campaign started here last Aug.! jlery in Hawaii, and Sergeant Rob-j iralnmg:. 8, the Eighth Air Force announced! |ert Jackel is with the Infantry at| He wais a member of Teaneck j ] The record toll of enemy fighters! Port Jackson, S. C. Igh School's 1939 graduating class.! remains 52 in the Vegesack raid of I parents live at 887 Garrison! March 18. I venue, Teaneck. Major Rohrs was I In addition to the 10 planes, the! first lieutenant in the Chemical! Dry Martini also shot the pro-1 f Division in the last war. " peller off another, but this one! lyas not counted on the theory Its! ilot ijilgbt hav§ been able to land! ^ iirarents and one sister, Elaine Weob.j Mrs. Robert Winthrop Cummingsj ike was active in athletics, devoting I Jr. of Spokane, Wash., announces! If Jiree Teaneck Men Killed, • most of his spare time to tennis andl the birth of a girl, Constance Win-j •swimming. He taught Sunday I throp Cummings, April 7. Her hus-l • School at the Methodist Episcopal I i, band, the late Lieutenant RODerti 2 Overseas, 1 In Crash HerelI Church of Teaneck and was a Boyg Winthrop Cummings Jr. was killed! • Scout patrol leader. His parents! a plane crash last September Ini • last heard from him on March 14.1 Key West, ffla. He was the son oil SWebb Dies In Action In Tunisia; Becker With Armyj I He and his family have lived mi Mr. ana Mrs. Robert W. Cummlngsl Air Force?; Schwciger On Routine Flight I Teaneck since 1921. I of 1109 Bromley Avenue, West Engle-1 1 Sergeant Pilot Becker, only son! 1 of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Becker of 401 The war struck hard hi Teanock today when the Warl • Garden Street, West Englewood, wasi Department reported three boys from there killed. One met I I killed March 27, according to tnci Ideath during a routine training IHght in this country; the§ • telegram from the War Depart-! ImenL The former R. C. A. P. pilot! others in action overseas. Iliad received his transfer to the! Damrose, Boyle Graduated PAKENTS NOTIFIED • United States Army Air Force onV (Special to tho Bcrscii Evening Record) Private First Class Walter G.I [February 23, 1942. . Bainbrldge, Md., Apr. 12-Seamenl m jgSecond Class John P. Damrose of I •Webb, of the Infantry, was killed ini WITH E. C. A. F. laidgelleld Park, N. J., and Maurice! faction in Tunisia, according to thef g. He won his gold wings wlLh thel I Doyle of Teaneck, have completed I •telegram received yesterday by his 4 •Royal Canadian Air Force at St.| •parents. I • boot training here at the Naval f •Hubert Meld In Montreal last Au-j • Training Station. They will receive! I Sergeant Pilot John L. Becker was ] •gust and was assigned overseas. | i specialised instruction. Damrose is I •killed in action with the Army Air I 1 He enlisted in the R. C. A. P. ml I tho husband of Mrs. Eleanor Dam-1 •Force. I lottowa a year and a half ago after! I rose of Ridgefeild Park. Doyle is thel I The telegram received by his par-1 I he failed to meet the requirements! I son of Mrs. Maurice Doyle of Mer-g lenls Saturday morning did not tell! I for the Army. Before ho enlisted! Road. Teaneck. iwhere he was killed. He was based! I with the R. C. A. P. he was a CLV-| lin England and had been on bomb-1 I Man pilot and was known for hi! ling- raids over the continent. | j stunting. I Air Cadet Robert J. Sc-hweiger wail I His father owns a hardware Ktorc •killed on a routine training i light! Ion Teaneek Road, West EnglewoodI •according to a telegram sent from! • The family lias lived m West Kn-F Nelson Promoted IBush Field, Auftusta, Ga. Iglewood for 19 years and Sergeant! Private Walter Nelson, son of Mr. I I Private Webb, son of a World War I Becker attended Teaneck High! land Mrs. Emil Nelson of 182 Church I •I veteran, had been In service SI 1 School where he played varsity! I Street, West Englewood, has been! imontlis when he was sent, to North! I football. I I advanced to Private First Class and I llrelaud and then to North Africal 1 Becker's most hair-raising adven-j Sis now stationed at Fort Logan, 1 "»re ha has been In the thick off I lure was described a lew days be-1 I Colorado, where he will attend! le under General Patton. He was! I lore his death. Meeting other R. C.i I school. Private Nelson reecntly com-1 1 /ears old, the son of Mr. andl I A. F. fliers in London's American I Ipletely his Basis Training in Miami! . Morton W. Webb of 10 Brinker-g I Red Cross Washington Club, heg gBeach with the Army Air Force. He I 1 Avenue. I isaid: Sis a graduate of Teaneck High! graduate of Teaneck High! TELLS OF CRASH LANDING • School and was employed with thel ool where he was a member at? lEast River Savings Bank before en-1 9 "My best adventure was running! Iterino the Armv in January of thisB varsity basketball team, Private! I into dirty weather, running out oil )b was also graduated from! •gas, and running along the ground! rlln College where he majored] Ion the ship's belly. First of all If msiness administration. He was •couldn't get my wheels down. Sol leinbev of the second contingent] il stayed up and lussed. Then UicI cave from Teaneck. •flaps refused duty. Visibility was! is lather, who saw action ir •only 50 feet. I was in touch with I BOYLE HONORED nco with the Field Artillery dur- I the field and they kept telling me,| tlte last war, and was a mem-L •'now you've got the left wheel down'i JTeaneck ft^sidi-nt Gets Official Ao-| of the 78th Division which! |and 'now the tall wheel's up' and sog claim From A. A. F. gilt in the Argonne Forest ini Lieutenant Joseph B. Boyle ofl St. Mihiel sector, is a member!" . "At last I tightened my strap iTranerk, co-pilot of the flying for-I Teaneck's American Legion! land made a stab at landing. The! I tress, "Dry Martini", received offi-P ,t 128. 1 •plane started to overshoot and loial acclaim from Army Air Force! shortly before entering service! lining I knew she was upside down! I authorities today, who credited the! vate Webb's engagement to Miss* land I was hanging out of the cock-1 ris Lubben of Bogota was an-1 [pit in the straps and quite helpless.! Jbomber with shooting down 10 Orer-j HP *q survived bv hisl • man fighters in the raid over Paris! I1 d shut off the engine so sho didn't! JApril 4, They said the "Dry Mar-| I'ire up. I jtini" had probably established \ "The fire brigade came out andl Irccord for the number of planes! lartcd chopping at the fuselage! jshol down by a single bomber inf J' ith their axes and every chop got! |this theater |] earer to my neck. I fell like a| The action, in which Boyle wasl -hanksglving turkey. I stayed atj jinjured slightly, had been reported! :ast 5 minutes upside down and! Ipreviously. . mldn't stand up when they cut meg I"All1 Cadet Schweiger, son of Mr! it nd Mrs. Arthur Schwelger of HIT i.'ahnson Avenue, was killed with 1 classmate when their planet THREE TEANECK BOYS KII.U-.D IX SERVICE J< ,-aoked up 15 miles south of tha i- -aining field on April 9. L I He enlisted in the Air Force last! • February and after a short stay atj "ashville, Tenn., he was transferred! ., > Maxwell Field, Ala. He then was! I moved to Avon Park, Fla, I 1 He was to receive his wings in 3| I "eeks and had just had his twenty-J 1 ith birthday. A graduate of New! I -irunswick High School, he con-l 1 Inued studies at Bergen College! i 1940 and 1941. Schwelger was a| „ lemfcer of the Y. M. H. A. where he| I. ad made a reputation as an out-l 1 tanding handball player. I J Before his enlistment he wasl 1 manager oJ Phoenix Knitting Mills,! Tstatesvllle, N. C. P His parents today recalled lhatL .-ie had always set his heart on be-j l.ng a flier. He was slated for a| | iprnmission immediately on com-l J iletion of training. Lieutenant-! I Oolonel Henry O. Httglin, command-T 1 ng officer at Bush Held, extended J ;he sympathy of the 'entire com-L I nand on the accident which cut! I sliorb the boy's flying1 career, Al 1 >uard of honor is accompanying] l;he body to his home. Funeral de- 1 •r ,i'i. i ..i "V-K-i. '- I '.nils will hi? snnouneect later, .-. v rr u ../MADE SERGE (SPeclEHO the Beisen Evening Record) rid Johnson Gets Silver Star Camp Campbell, Ky., Apr. 13 —I ijCorporal Donald Lupton of Tea-I F&-Dropping 4 Zeros At Rabau Ineck, N. J., has gained new rank! •here as staff sergeant in Headquar-i iters Company ol an armored regi-l Captain Arnold R. (Skid) John- the Coral Sea, and the Papas Iment. He is a Teaneck High School I ison of Teaneck, Brrgen County's campaign that decimated a Japai Jgraduate and worked as an ac-j I number one air ace, has been dec- ese force of many thousands jcountant before he enlisted last! 1 orated with the Sliver Star for a troops. October 23. His parents, Mr. and! I smashing blow at Jap Zeros over The wired report carried Johi Mrs, Louis Lupton, live at 593 TU-f iBabaul, New Britain, in the south- son's rank simply as lieutenant. H Ken Avenue, Teaneck. Lupton is 2l| gjwest Pacific last October 9. father said his son who is credit! rears old. The Associated Press in a delayed with an official bag of 10 plan 1 report dated April 2 said today and sorties on a submarine and I many other New Jersey Army men number of Jap battleships, hi Iliad been decorated for the gallant Rained rank of captain since Ieavii I but foredoomed fight to hold the the southwest Pacific for homo m I Philippines, the smashing victory ini [a tour of Army Air Force ba,"«R I this country. The Associated Press report Johnson's citation followed Gener MacArthur's review of the galla stand of the Flying Fortress he p Ganzenmuller Called loted over Rabaul. _ Private George Ganzenmuller, of! "After an early-morning bombh •Teaneck, member of the Army En-j attack on the enemy base at Rabai -*•? •listed Reserve Corps, was called tol New Britain, October 9," it read, ' •active duty from Northwestern Uni-I single Flying Portress was sent o iversity in Chicago and he has rc-l on a photographic and reconnai iported to Fort Ouster, Mich. Aj sance mission to record the dama •member of Teaneck High School's! done. Lieutenant Johnson was h 11842 graduating class, Private Gan-j pilot. After completing the m! zenmuller was studying at the! sion, the plane was set upon by Jschool of Journalism at Northwest-j Zeros. Johnson handled the B- Jem University. He is the son of! so ably that his gunners were at •Mr. and Mrs. George K. Ganzenmul- to shoot down 2 of toe Japanc ller of 18 Brinkerhoff Avenue. fighters- and drive off the other ti in a bristling battle that lasted iJEdwin Van Houten full hour," •Promoted To Sergeant Johnson is a member of the 19 (special to the Eeigen Evening Record) Bombardment Group of the An: Camp Phillips, Kans,, Apr, 14—I Air Force, most decorated and eel •Private Edwin J. Van Houten Jr.I brated of any in the Army Air For lot 1219 Sussex Road, West Engle-J and itself decorated early this ye I wood, has been promoted to a cor-1 at a Texas airbase. LT. NORMAN J. OBBE iporal in the Array Signal Corps.! The bomber pilot returned hon I He was drafted last December 9 and| last December and left his home iNorman J- Orbe His 22 years old. the end of the Christmas holida I Is First Lieutenant for new duties as an instructor (Special to the Bsrsen Evening Record) the Pyote, Tex., Army Air For • Fort Bragg, N. C. Apr. 13—Second! base. Ho was promoted there Is iLieutenant Norman J. Orbe of Wl" 13 Bcrgen Boys Report February 22 to his present rank. iTias, Road., Teaneck, an lnstrue-. Today he is teaching combat .ta • in field artillery at this Army I To Bainbridge, Ga. tics to some 400 Flying FortM se, has been promoted to first! (BDDeinl to the Berien Evcnlns Record) pilots at the Ehrata, Wash., Arr utenanfc. . i „ Bainbridge, Ga., Apr. 14—Three! Air Force base near Seattle. His wife the former Miss Marjonel BBergon County, N. J., aviation cadets! His parents are Mr. and Mrs. N( ne Adair, daughter of Mr. and! Ihave been assigned to this Army Air I ohnso not 572 Kenwood Plac •s. Harry D. Adair, also of Tea-I 1 Force field for basic flight training.! ianeck, His father is a, townsh ck, is making her home at nearby J BThesc cadets who completed pre-1 Ifireman. yetteville. 1 I flight training at Maxwell Field, I Orbe enlisted February last year I § Montgomery, Ala., arc as follows; I d after a, period of training at! TKANSfllS—Robert c. Jaret, son of Mr. g irt Dix, was sent to the Officers nd Mil, Joseph Jares. tndidate School at Fort Sill, Okla.,| Jares is a graduate of Brooklyn! lere he qualified as a second! 1(N. Y.) Technical High School and! Krumbacli Is Captain utenant. Since last September he | •is a former Brooklyn Polytech stu-l ^Special to ills Bergen Evening Record) *s been at this reservation. g pent. He was a machine operator I Del Rio, Tex., Apr. 19—Ott He is 27 years old and a Prince-1 before joining the Air Force May 8. iKrumbach, 23, of 89 Sherwood Avc n University graduate. He was aj Inue, Teaneck, N. J., has been pro ember of the Cannon Club atf imoted to be a captain in the Arm •inceton |/-!r Force. For 15 months he served as a-i I Instructor at Stockton Field, Calif •transferring to this field as an in | Waves" headquarters announced! |structor of light bombers. mmissions given two other Ber-I At Teaneck High School lv n County women. One is Ensigns 114 NAVAL CADETS irned his football letter and latetE ary Elizabeth Birch, daughter of| worked in the advertising de-S r and Mrs. James P. Birch oi 3211 partment of the New York Sun. arwick. Avenue, West EnglewoqdJ GO TO PREFLffl Miss Birch was graduated from! 3 College of New Rochelle with an I B. degree. She worked as a per-1 rmel assistant before her enlist-j ;nt. She was graduated from col- I lajor Murphy Surgeon re with honors in English and! |Wifh Fliers Down Unaer a member of Kappa Gamma Pi, I iergenfield Trio, 2 Eachf (Special to the Bereon Evening Record) >norary scholastic society lor I From Hackensack And San Francisco, Calif., Apr. 20—1 itholic college women. •Major George E. Murphy, who lu-l Maywood Included itemed in medicine at Holy Name I jHbspital, Teaneck, N. J., is on duty 1 •somewhere in Australia as a group I jvleiner, Meloy DRAIN IN GEORGIA; •flight surgeon with the Army Air I j jet More Training •Force. He earned his majority Jasl I (Special to the Borf en Evening Record) •January 10 and flew to his Aussie J (Special to the Bereen Evening Record) . Athens, Ga., Apr. 14 — Ttaee| Sioux Falls, Apr. 14—Privates Jo-J jbase from the West Coast In recent f •fledgling fillers from Bergenfield.I •Weeks. f 3ph H. Kleiner of Maywood andi land four others from Hackensackl .rthur R, Meloy of Teanecli haveE land Maywood arc among the 14 Ber- j He is a graduate of the Univer-I I een promoted to Private First! jgen County, N. J., Naval Aviation! jsity of NoLre Dame and the George-1 j ilass and assigned to the Armyj I Cadets who have begun pref light! Itown University School of Medicine. I Jr Force Training Command! • training at this indoctrination I •He was commissioned a first lieu-1 'eehntol School for instruction icf •tenant in the Army's Medical De-I J adio operation and mechanics j. \^£* wepert o< ml •partment. He completed his interne-1 •ship in July, 1B41, and was called to I |
Ay I Studies As Gunner ml tn the (Special to the Bcl'Ren EveninK Rccoid) Camp Chaffee, Ark., April 3B—| Mlneola, N. Y,, :Apr. 22—Corporal! iSccond Lieutenant Robert J. Ruddy I I John L. Danl Jr., of Teaneek, N. J,l lot 467 Beverly Road, Teaneek, N. J.,| llias been graduated as an aviation! anas been promoted to rank as first! Jmechanic at the Roosevelt Field! (lieutenant in an ordnance main-t a School of the Army Air Force. Hei Jtenance battalion of an armored! I is to continue his training as an I idivision at this Army post. He hast jaonal gunner. His parents live at| ibeen battalion adjutant since last! 1664 Teaneek Road, Teaneek, ioctober 10. He is a St. Cecilia Highl ISchool graduate and worked as ai Icashier. He first was commissioned! • last October 3 upon graduation fromj 1 Officer Candidate School. p Bergen Pilots Win Winjm Baser Commissioned (Special to the Bergsn Evening Record) {AtRandolph Field Ceremonyl Miami Beach, Pla., Apr, 27—Fri- Ivale Fred R. Baser, son of Fred O. rerminello Of Hackensack; Houghton, Seifert Of| iBaser of 1156 Margaret Street, West Teaneek; Keilt, Englewood Indjjided • Englewood, N. J., has been com- Imissioned a second lieutenant hers (Special to the Bergen Evening Record) Jupon graduation from tho Array Air Randolph Field, Tex., Apr. 22 — Hundreds of new fight-1 • Force Otficer Candidate School. His ing pilots were graduated here today from this Army Air I • duties will be in administrative and [Force Gulf Coast Training Center's ten advanced flying [ •supply operations. 'fields with commissions as secondlieutenants. AT DIFFERENT FIELDS MMMmttmmsmamm STUART L. MORBILL Nine in this year's fifth class Morrill On Coast | fighter fliers are from Bergen Ooun % Win Commissions (Special to ihc Eeigcn Evcnlns Record) ity, N. J., and won their wings at (Special to the Bergon Evening ttrconl) Gardner Field, calif., Apr. 28 Miami Beach, Ha., Apr. 28—War-I 3these Texas fields: Lubbock, Elling' lati(£cilclet stUttrt L- M»™iu o j ton at Houstno, Eagle Pass, Moon ant Officer Raymond Ooldslone of! Bat Mission, Pampa; Foster and Aloe Vest Englewood, N. J., and Sergeant! Iped basic flight training here at! I both at Victoria, and Brooks i iGeorge W. Kopp of River Edge! I this Army Air Porce field H f •have been commissioned seconds Itendod Peekafelll, N. Y., Ml Jsan Ant.r-iio. •lieutenants In the Army Air Forcef H TEANBJCK—Clyde A. Houghton of 2! •Academy and was accepted HSchley Avenue. Aloe: mid George J. Se •for administrative and supply oper-l Hiert. of 264 Ohm-chill Street. Brooks. lation duties. Goldstono is the son! I Before those officers are assigned! lof Mrs. Ida O. Goldstone of 354f Avenue? Jto combat duties they will go to] Iwinthrop Road, West Englewood.1 Bpostgfaduate flying schools for in- IKODR'S mother, Mrs. Martha Z.l Bstruction in the types of planes they IKopp, lives at 260 Mijnmouth Ave-1 Swill handle in contact with the inue. River Edae. •enemy. Wag-ner Aerial Gunner (Special to the Bei-gan £.1 Filing Record) Port Myers, Fla., Apr. 27—Ser- 1 Jgeant Maurice 'Wagner, son of Mi- 13 Aviation Cadets To Band Mrs. Samuel Wasner of 310 Begin Primary Flying • Glfford Place, Teanerk, N. J WM (Special to the Bergen Evening Record) • graduated here the niher day as Chapel Hill, N. C, Apr. 27—Pro • an aerial gunner in the Army Air •motions to primary flight trainln, •Force. He has been m the Army 10 ihave come to 3 Bergen County, Imontlis. - N. J., Naval aviation cadets at th: -University of North Carolina pre •flight school. Local men and th |fields to which they have been as- Sends Photo to Parents stened are: I aniel P, Paul, son of Mr.B |and Mrs. D. F. FFBUI l 0f 426 Woods Road.I "WEST'INGLEWOOD—Kav Edward gen-i -.mbere. son of Mr. and Mrs. H. 0. Ben-I Haonbertc. Peru. Burdett attended Sayvllle, N. Y,,l High School and Westminster Col-| ,lege. Paul excelled in football and baseball at Teaneek High School! Benzenberg is a member of the 1938| Bass at Teaneek. LT. GEORGE J, SEIFERT
|16 Air Cadets _Sent to Maxwell Field Pvt. Robert Pohley LT. CLYDE A, HOtTGHTON Josephine lorio At Gullport (Bpeclll to tlie Serf en EvBnlns Record) (Special to the Bereen Ivening Eecoid) „ Montgomery, Ala., Apr. .23-Thd The above photograph, taken in j • Pompton Lajtes, Apr. 26—Secondl •Nashville, Tenn,, Army Air Force! I England, was sent by Pvt. Robert I Lieutenant Josephine R. lorio oil \ Classification Center has asBlgnei I Pohley, to his parents, Mr. and • Teaneek, N. J.', a graduate ot the! • Mrs. George Pohley, 49 Roliin- iHoly Name Hospital and head nurse. Ison si., Teaneek, for their 35th lat the duPont plant here is on duty j I wedding anniversary, which was \ the QuHport, Miss., Army Airl J These cadete will get 9 weeksi oil 9 celebrated Monday. Pvt. Pohley jl-.Tce Station Hospital. She is a| Ilrainin& at Maxwell Field befcne| I also sent a cablegram of con- I . duate of I^eonia High School and! Ithcv wtuW bogin flight instruc-l I gratulations. He has been sta- ,T daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Phllipg juoned in England for the past . io of 184 Larch Avenue, Teaneok.j iyear with the Engineering Corps. II Illll ••HUM Ill Ill •• 1 He has been in the Army for Hi • years. His wile, Frances, resides I I in Connecticut. eutencint Rudd\ eaneck, To Mart Englewood Resident iip] I illian F. Murpi 1 Cited For Icarus Service 1 rst Lieutenant Robert J. Rud th, Of Alicia Avenue, Manning .50-Caliber Gii'i. of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rut 67 Beverly Road, Teaneck, \ Sprayed Sub's Deck, Helped Capture Crew narried tomorrow at 5 P. M. rames's Church, N. Y. C. to M When the Coast Guard cutter Icarus, depth-charge an P. Murphy, daughter D£ Iv i U-boat off the Carolinas several months ago and c in Murphy of New York C id its 33-man crew, Second Class Petty Officer How Rev. Father Keene will o h of Alicia Avenue, West Englewood, manned one of iss Mildred Murphy will be '. caliber machine guns that sprayed the raider's d •v's maid of honor and Don n it bobbed to the surface. dy of Teaneck will be his bro f best man. OMMANDER WON CROSS fter a wedding trip, the cou =utenant Commander Maurice 1 go to Camp Chaffee, Ark., wh Tester, cutter commander, was itcnant Ruddy is stationed. '. for the Navy Cross T nguisbed service and g with others of the en tiended in a letter fr 1 i Department for the se: i ith was assigned to tlu IR. BAYER FETE '] F . 10, 1941, and kept t) until he was ordered to VT A FAREWEU school in Brooklyn last n of Mr. and Mrs. H t aheck » Cleric i, he enlisted Aug. 12, 19' work in the maintena: For Army Duty ment of R, K. O. Thea graduated from Teanei i pproximately 150 parishioi associates gave the Rev. 101. irge Bayer, minister of the 1 fc Methodist Church, and I er a farewell- party last nil it Lieutenant Bayer, grantou oui ti Lii.ni., 'e of absence from his past orate I I Are Now Pilots the duration, will report Thurs- [ (Special to the Bergen Evening Record) to the Harvard University! BlythevUle, Avk., May I ~ Four Lplains School, preparatory to § i Bergen Count7 men were among the iming duties in the Army Chap-1 1 aviation cadets graduated at this a Corps. jArmy Air Force field as pilots of he Rev. Mr. Bayer came to Tea- i I the powerful 2-engine bomber-type k 5 years ago from the Buff em, I • aircraft, with commissions as sec- Y. Methodist Church. He has I iond lieutenants. They are^ .1 in the ministry 22 years. His I John E. Johannessen, 22, son o ! and their two children have! |Mr. and Mrs. George Johannessen red into an apartment at 1201 |20 Franklin Road, West Englewood; rs Court, West Englewood, where I la 1938 graduate of Teaneck His f will reside until after the war. I J School, where he played bas,ebal he guest of honor was presented I land basketball. \ a gift by E. Dewey Freeh on I \Colpitts, Teaneck, Prisoner alf of members of the congre-| on. [rs. Louise Hallock of Bogota,! Of Japs, His Family Learnsl Ir director, sang solos, and duets I e given by Mrs. B. Dewey Prechl |Had Been Reported Missing In Action In Philippines;! Mrs. Louise Hasbrouck. Al IByme Completes ble quartet also entertained.! Last Letter Home Before Pearl Harbor ticlpating were John Waldron.i INine-Week Course nan E. H. Allen, William Sigley,! Columbus, O., May 4—Lieulen-| Russell Biddle, R. Ernest Den-I I ant William J. Byrne of 570 Win-| First Lieutenant Walter W. Colpitts II, ol West Engle-I J. Carter, J. Gay, and C. Leslie.I Ithrop Road, West Englewood, has jwood, 2C-ycar-old Army Air Force pursuit ship pilot, is al Irs. George Baker arranged tlici 1 completed a 9-week course in the • prisoner of war of the Japanese, the War Department re-| it; assisted by Mrs. A. W. Hol-i • Army Air Force Pilot School (Spe-I ib, Mrs. Helen Brotherton, and| Jcialized 4-Engine) at Lockbournel jported in Washington yesterday, i. George O. Headen. lArmy Air Base. He is qualified toj FATHER WITH O. D. T. * Continue Thou" has been chosen! •pilot a Plying Portress. He is the son of Charles B. Col- Mr, Bayer as the theme of his! Jpitts, associate director of the Of- jwell sermon to be delivered at| Ifice of Defense Transportation in •'clock. I Washington. The flier's parents live lembers of the congregation are I I at 283 Warwick Avenue. provide their own box suppers! Colpitts first was reported missing a family hymn sing to be held at J iin action in the Philippines last ) P. M. tomorrow. I July 31. 'Since then his parents have J heard nothing from him. His moth- ler believed him alive and in hiding |at the titme. Last letter home was dated a few Iweeks before Pearl Harbor when IColpitts served at, Nichols Field near ill Report For Flight 1 Manila In Hawaii. • I» aining At Colgate The 1834 Teaneck ' High School Special to the Bersen Evening Record) I honor graduate is in'service about •few York, May 3—The Naval Avi-I 14 years. By the time the Japr I m Oadet Selection Board of thel I strafed Pearl Harbor, Colpitts al- |1 Ird Naval District with head-1 I ready was on ground duty con- u'ters here announced today thatl recently" inducted cadets have! Ivalescing from injuries suffered •orted for flight training at Col-1 | when his plane overturned. e tjniyerslty, Hamilton, N. Y.| His assignment then was to visit EANECK^-George Gordon LsmtuSrSBEl lone field after another in surveys- 84 Blvcli Street: Edward Reginald Mao- 1 ald Jr., pi 1U« Trafalear Street; ieo jfor the A. A. B . of southwest Pacific Mazer of 351 Sherman Avenue: and lairbftses. He is believed to be one fred Joseph Krals of 848 Ester Ay I of the few with thorough first hand BST ENGLEWOOD — Harold Ola [knowledge of' fields in that war twiolc of 308 BrlorollHe Rqad. Iarea. Hve in this group attended Tea- At Rutgers University he was LT. WALTER W. COLPITTS It High School. They are Lani-I •graduated as a bachelor of sciencej son, MacDonald, Mazer, Kraisl 1 1 Iin business administration 5.»yeai'i Hnr'-ir -- •ago, He served on the Hew Bruns-| Iwick campus as a cadet second lieu-l •tenant in the Reserve Officer Train- ling Corps. IWilber Advances COMPLETES BASIC TRAINING To First Lieutenant Private Walter J. Polker Jr., son! ailors Captured By faps^ (Special to HiB Beieen Evening Reco t Mr, and Mrs. Walter J. Polker,I „ Orlando, Fla., May 7—Prom' 3188 Cranford Place, Teaneck, hasl Soldier Is Killed In Tunisid iof Second Lieutenant Edwin L. v ompleted basic training in thei Iber of West Englewood to the rank ited States Marine Corps at I of first lieutenant was announced! Parris Island. S. C. and is now at-1 |Navy List Of 1,044 Prisoners Includes 11 Who Werej here at the Army Air Fores School| if. Applied Tactics. On Ships Which Disappeared In Java Sea "Wilbcr is the son of Dr. and Mrs.j lEdward Wilbur, of 115 Evergroen| The Navy Department in Washington released Its first! •Place, West Englewood. I prisoner list of the war yesterday and at the same time re-1 1 The officer is a gradual e of We&t,| iVirginia University and previous to| Ivived-speculation as to the fate of the three American war-1 • joining the Army was a ncwspaper-l I ships which vanished. In the Java Sea moro than a year ago. I Iman. I 9 Three men among the I,1 ' ' f" ' I At this school he is a member ofl r i jthe Analysis and Allocation section.! Isonnel listed as captives of the J I I He has been in service 16 months. I but none saw action on the ( l l I I L I Pope, or the submarine Perc) •. 1 PROMOTED I any trace in the disastrous bs I At the same time the War De-. ipartment notified the family of IGarfiekl enlisted man he had been First Lieutenant and Mrs. An-| Jthony W. Sylstra have left for Port I I killed in action in Tunisia. • Harrison, Indianapolis, Ind., where! The Navr offered no comment| • Dr. Sylstra will be stationed with! Jon its inclusion of the names of 11 I the Army Medical Corps. Mrs.l • crewmen of the three ships but the! I Sylstra, the former Miss Marjoriei j inference is clear that the ships flPotts, has been living with herf Jdid not go down with ail aboard. •parents, Mr. and Mrs. Warren PottsJ These men are named in reports: Jon Johnson Avenue. Tiisoiiers of Wat; Fireman Second Class Thomasl DONOVAN, Seaman First Class -Maxwell is spending a leave at his| j John Francis, 19, son of Mr, and jhome, 200 Cranford Place, after! jj Mrs. John P. Donovan of HI Pros- completing boot training at the I | pect Terrace, Teaneck. Saval Training Station at Bain-| ONLY 18 bridge, Maryland. !Donoven wajited to get into thr | Navy so badly, he induced his par- ents to give him the required par- ental consent. That was 3 yqars sign Franklyn Breilensloin, son! ago when he was 16. jof Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Breiton-1 Soon he was to have «• man's-, •stem of 198 Johnson Avenue has! size job cut out for him as one ol| Ibeen promoted to Lieutenant (j. g.) I the defenders of Corregidor. •He is stationed at Neville Island,! Precisely a month before Cor-| Pittsburgh, Pa. Lieutenant Breit-J regidor fell, he vrote home on Apr lenstein was graduated tram thel 7, 1942, "To this date I'm still safe •Teaneck High School and Newark| Don't worry about me." •College of EiiRineeriii His mother heard next from thr Navy Department on May 12, si? days after the fall of Manila's rock- CORPOBAL JAYNE KRAFT ribbed fortress that her son tnei iTeaneck's Contingent was in a Jap prison camp on Lhr )ff Monday Morning IJAYNE KRAFT WINS Philippines. Teaneck Local Draft Board hasj WAACS PROMOTION! When the aircraft carrier tr. s, S •announced tho names of seleclcesr Lexington was sunk in August, 1941 Iwho will leave Monday at 9:30 A.i 1 Teaneck Girl~MaSe Acting First j i Donovan who served the Navy Ail Serjeant In Florida Force as aviation machinist on thi. |M. from American Legion hcqclj Lexington, volunteered for duty ii Quarters on Garrison Avenue. They! (Special to thr Bereen Evenlns Record) China but -he was ordered to thi a Daytona Beach, Fla., May 7—MissI ire: j BJayne Kraft of Teaneck, N. J., re-1 | Philippines. „ TEANECK. WE3T ENGLEWOOB-Mll-§ • ton nohdln, Clifford LonsIneUl. Edwin I Icently promoted to rank as corporall FAINT HOPE Israkson. Arthur Hoffmann Jo—- "— ' •line. Edmund Wiklci'muth. Frill... , .- Iin the Women's Army Auxiliary! His mother said today she is re- • Leo Lukne, Etlo nasmu»s«n, Babul Hot-1 Icorps at this Waao Center ,has| I lieved to know her son is living • bare Joseph Retka, Duncan WhyLe Jr.. j iHaiold Bni>. Bemud Silcwmjn. Haiodl •been assigned duties as acting first! Waiting for the word from Mm that Ipowers. carl Bnnkmann. Paul XraradiPfk, 1 •sergeant. She is 21 years old. I j never did come in more than i I Stanley Alston. (Moris Dabdauh, Wil-I Ilium Mill?. David DnviB, Loitls •Walker Reports I Dix Monday I Henry a. Walker, S3, of Teanecki Bwho was inducted in the Army En-1 • listed Reserve Corps April 13, has| •been called up for duty and reportsf I at Port Dix nejrt Monday. He is gthn snn rt M"» Berlin C TV Trout returned nur i schner learned that hi i i ' ai working day and r™-.. in - ipilal of 7000 patients. 'It means so much to have an \Westklnglewood Wave, Duke Sross from the War Depart- nt," she said. "We cabled him mediately." Another son is in np in California. phatted Of Our Asparagus i. budding career in the movies s interrupted when Paul Lange, (Ensign Mary Birch Says She Found Dancing: With 1 son of Alfred Lange, 327 Cedar Windsor A Pretty Heavenly Experience ne, Teancck, a tall, handsome y with wavy hair, went into the y my and landed in the Coast To Ensign Mary Elizabeth Birch of West Enprlewood went! tillery. A Christmas letter from I the heavenly honor of dancing with the Duke of Windsor—§ rregidor, written a month before |and my dear, it was simply divine. arl Harbor, was the last his par- is heard until they received a I The boy knows his way around a dance floor, aays thia| esjram from the War Depart-J | brown-haired starry-eyed 22-year-old college graduate. ;nt the other day saying he is a I DUCHESS THERE TOO ' soner of the Japanese. I did. And what did they chat about I v It all happened over at White-while they danced? The beautiful! 'The Philippines was where he I llaw Reid's Madison Avenue man- asparagus they grow down in South I nted to be because an uncle was I Jsion in Manhattan, now the Wom- prosperous mining engineer I Jersey. The Duke is ire^h from a | |en's Military Service Club. visit, there. ire," said Mrs. Lange, the sol-1 The Duke ,and Duchess were both IT'S stepmother. "His letters | I there. Ensign Birch, a Wave since last E re delightful. The only t i u| Ensign Birch was asked by the November is fond of tennis, swim-1 didn't like about the army • |committee to ask the Dukp if he'd ming, and ice skating. She prepared I ,ce. She was introduced in the at St. Cecilia and received her A. B.I degree at the College of New Bo-fl nd manner by expert Grover 8**J?. «•f alen. 71, was like a diram walk- chello 2 years agn. my dear, hut .simply likp a HPV parents, Mr, and Mrs. J. r.j *m walking. Birch, live at m Warwick street,| Would you llkf tn dance?" said West Englfwood. Her father was Mary Mi/.aliclltl ,ign Birch. "I would MCF to very an ensign In the Navy in the last| I 1 tlanccd with I oh," the Duks replied. So they war. II i ittoor at the I vi h- i- •Jrrvl-- fiiibl I I I lit. i i oil i i \ , •*. \iner Strike Angers Fliern \e Doesn't Like War Either] Pvt. Paul Langf- • m I 3 clipped haircut. At-' bocktail Kid Boyle, Already Twice Wounded, Says nd had been sot on a career in I 3 movies. While living for several I Coal Situation Here Galls Men Abroad ars in Mexico City he had bit! rts in pictures that were made I Lieutenant Joseph B. Boyle of Teaneck, one of the cock-1 Monterrey. It's a great relief to I •tail kids in the Plying Fortress Dry Martini, twice demonstra.t-1 ow that he's alive and that we | i write to him." led he can really get mad. • 1 Renault works in southwest Paris! CITES WAR. CASUALTIES where the Flying Fortress shot! Now comes word to his parents, down 10 Nazi fighter planes iuidl I Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Boyle of 539 set a record for bombers. Boyle was! IStandish Eoad, Teaneck, that he copilot of the 10-man plane cocktail! land others he knows are exercised kids. lover the coal strike. Here Is what Dr. Paul I. Booksiaver Winsl |he wroLe: Then last January 13 in north-i west France Boyle's Dry Martini! "That coal strike is galling a lot dumped bombs on heavily industrial! \\aval Lieutenant (J.G.) Ratel lof people I know. We have a lot Lille, sputtered and lagged behind! I of friends who would be alive today its squadron and then took a nose~l • if they had simply decided not to dive apparently done in. I xneck Health Officer's Son Is Assistant Surgeonj I tight. But although they disliked • fighting: more than they would inin- The pilot was killed in this brushl At Brooklyn Base Hospital jing' coal, they fought anyway, flg- with the enemy. Boyle brought the! junng; it had to be done." plane out of its diiray dive and raced! Dr. Paul I. Bookstaver of Teanock has received his com-l The Nazis can testify to the rage it cross-channel with four Nazis ini I this twiee-wonnded, thrice-decorafc- full pursuit. That time Boyle "wasi sion as a lieutenant (j.g.) in the Navy Medical Corps andl Bed Portress copilot can develop. wounded. n active duty at the Naval Base Hospital, Brooklyn, as| I The most rrrenl, stine of his A month aeo on flip Dry Mart.int'fJ sting acting surgeon. 1 wrath Miry fell, April -1 over the rampage, Boyle got superficial BELLEVTJE GRADUATE j scratches about the face. lokstaver, the son of Dr. andl I He wrote his mother two slugs I Barnet S. Bookstaver of 1S3| I missed him by Inches shattering the! na Road, Teaneck, was gradu-J j windshield and the camera he held. I •The spray of glass cut his face. I ouCl from Teaneok High School in I •The crew returned intact but the! 1936. He received his A. B. degree! I plane looked like a, sieve with 601 irom Columbia University in 19401 I bullet holes. and 2 years later was graduated! j Boyle has been decorated withl from New York University College! I the Distinguished Flying Cross, the! | of Medicine at Bellevue Hospital. • Order of the Purple Heart, and most! His father, Teaneok Township] I recently with an Oak Cluster of that! I Health Officer, Is also a Bellevui I Order. And, he wrote home, thej I • whole business is reitHy funny. J "I am. getting a lot of ribbing,"! Ihe said. "My pals tell me that when! I the government gives you the Purple! I Heart, all you have to do is go over! Ito Joe Boyle and get It from nisi •storehouse." - J I The War Department listed! I Boyle's name among those of 181 I other New Jersey Army men| I wounded in action. LOOKSTAVER :«S PARENTS GET \Teaneck Sailor Says Drills VICTIM'S WINGSI Enrolls As Mechanic (Special lo Lhe Bers^n Evemns Recoid) ',board Ship Saved His Life Biloxi. Miss., May 12—Private! khweigers Of Tcaneckl • John E. Pfotin, son of Mr. and Mrs Practice Made Perfect, Anderson Says, And Eeal • Henri Protin of 360 Whitelaw Place,! Honored By Army iTcaneck, N. J,, was promoted tol | Thing Went Well—Picked Up After 8 Hours Adrift Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Schweigeri • Ins grade of private first class this! 1 if 140 John&on Avenue, Teaneck,I I week and enrolled in Kessler Field's! Eoutine lifeboat drills will never be si cause for com- Jiarents of Robert J. Schweiger who! • huge B-24 Liberator mechanics | plaint from Deck Cadet Donald Anderson of the Merchant | iras killed when he crashed in train-1 Ibchool, The course runs 17 weeks. I ng as an aviation cadet 6 "weeks 1 Marine who today described his first encounter with a Nassi .go, said loday they are in re-| [submarine. \ eipt of a posthumous award of sil-l I • Back at his home in Teaneck just 2 months after having or wings and two letters of ap-j la merchant ship torpedoed from under him, Anderson said I treciation and condolence, one of I hem directed by General H. H.g gthat because of all the practice drills, each man automatically I Vmold, Army Air Force chief, andl Iwent to his post calmly ar e presented to you in honor of I icompared notes later we foun i tviation Cadet Robert J. Schweiger, 1 •every man below and above I irho gave his life in training to be-1 Isaid the same three words, j :ome a pilot in the Army Air Farces. I (this insignia would have been nisi lis if." [ ladge of achievement on the com-1 "We were on our way Iron iletion of his training. lYork to Africa, and when w "You can rightly share the pridei •about 450 miles northwest c vhich would have been his on re-1 iAzores, we had trouble wit ieiving those wings. The Army Alrl I engine and had to leave the i forces presents them in honor to! Iwe were with," Anderson relal ais memory," iwas the thirteenth of Mar The letter from General Marshall! 1 about 8:30 at night when w< •eads in part: "Robert J. Schweigeri • hit. It's limny, but ail th( i las made the great contribution tol Iwerc uneasy from the beginn i ;he American way of living. He! •the trip as if,they sort of ex I iied while serving as an American! e'd be hit..,It didn't even I ioldier and his sacrifice will not be I ivery much ofj a shock when 1 I'orgotten by those who are determ-g land we all went to our posts I ned to bring this terrible struggle | |had dozens of times in our L I io a victorious concluaictt." "I'll say one thing "for the Schweiger and his companion! nander of that submarine, 1 ff ere killed instantly April 6 when! let all the lifeboats get away |;heir trainer plane cracked up 151 phooting the second torpedo i niles south of Bush Field near Au-| nt the boat down," Andersoi • justa, Ga. Scliweiger's oompanionl Adrift for only s hours, An< J ras pilot, on the flight. The local! |said it was the happiest mom {joy himself was in training as al " ' i life when they sighted a n j }ilofc. He was 25 years old and at-1 •ship which picked up all the I tended Bergen College 2 years ago,! Auxiliary First Class Evelyn I Parsons at Teaneck, N. J., has fvivors, reported at Arkansas Folytech- LIGHT IS SIGHTED ] nic College at Kusscllville for "It was so dark when we w training: in administration in I the lifeboats that we tied a Hie Women's Army Auxiliary I j boats together and decided tc J Corps. She completed i weeks I until morning to choose our c HOME LOOKS GOOD j basic training at the Third | • Our Navy radioman had ma "We went by way of Lisbon," An-| I Trainins Center at Fort Ogle- I to send an S. O. S. before h Iderson said', "and we spent 20 hours I I thorpe, Ga. Auxiliary Parsons is •the ship, and we all hoped tha I in that city because of motor trou-i j the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I of the ships in the convoy w ! We. Pan-American Airways gave usj j Benjamin La Sallf of W Gray •left would pick it up. We had la guide and we saw all the sights! 1 son Place, Teaneck,, 1 transmitters in our lifeboat. •before we took off again for Ire-g | and we kept signalling from Iland." "About 3:30 in the mornii From Ireland he went to Bristol,! 1 sighted a white light comin •England, and then to Cardiff, § I ward us and we thought it wa RWales, where the War Shipping Ad-j I of our destroyers, but it v •ministration supplied the men with! • Portugese ship on its way to L • quarters and Xood. After spending! 1 We shot two red distress •20 days in Wales, they were sent! |#nd the ship started to go •to Liverpool, England, where they! I from us, thinking we were a I boarded a Honduran ship for home. I Jman submarine. Then our "Home looked pretty good,"! I signalman got busy with, son lAnderson said, "in fact the first! I the equipment he had brought •Sight of land which we knew was! ihim and he told them we I the United States, looked like the! 1 Americans.' About an .hour I best place in the world, although! [they picked us all up and thr I the day we arrived was cloudy and! I tain of the Portugese shif j plained that he had been st r Anderson, the 19-year-old son of j I by several German submarine BMr. and Mrs. Alexander Anderson! j he didn't want to stop for ano I of 405 Maltland Avenue, West En-i jglewood, had wanted to go to seal First stop for Anderson an I since he was old enough to listen! J rest of the crew was an Jsla 1 j to the stories of the sea his father! I the Azores, the island of - itold, Mr. Anderson served during! I where they had to stay for 21 I the last war and for several years! J until they wer« taken to Ii [afterwards as a captain in the I 1 by Clipper. They were suppliee I Merchant Marine, and he has en-1 J clothing and food by the Ami" icouraged his son about sea training! I consul at ITayal, and Andersoi • that they arrived just at thi jfor years. , I 1 The 6-foot-6-inch merchant sea-1 I of the rainy season waen i Jman went to Teaneck High School I • cold, raw and damp. They s I until his sophomore year when he! •at a hotel there where mai I attended Admiral Billard Academy I •them had to sleep in the halls, I in New London, Conn. He went lol •were taken away in three grou I Ischpol at the Academy for 3 years.I 1 Clipper. land spent his summers as a sea-l •man on merchant ships. He is anx-I lious to get back Jo sea again and! to leave within the nextf jjfew; weeks. )% Sewers Here Make Altar Linens . nlimiri Ol IVJMCI I !<• Awarded His Wings For Teaneck Chaplain In The Field (Special to the Berjtcn EveninK Rfrordl La Junta, Colo., May 22—Robert | request from Lieutenant Colonel Lo work and made se\eral altars ( irdon Bolinder, 19, son of Mi', and vavrt J. Kroncke of Teaneck, pieces yesterday. His wife is &E -s. C. Harry Bolinder of 123 Ever- member of the church, and sews| if chaplain in the South Pacilic aen Place, West Englewood, N. J., with the group. is graduated here yesterday asl a, yesterday was filled by mem- Mrs. John McKean of Alpines second lieutenant and pilot in llifl s of the sewing unit of St. Paul's Drive, Teaneck, was hostess, yesler-S •my Air Force. He enli.sted ""' rhevan Church, Teaneck, when day to the group, which meelEB bruary, 1942. y made altar linens lor tempor- Tuesdays to sew for the Red Cross f Bolinder was graduated from Tra_-J field churches. Colonel Kroncke, whose home L'H k High School 3 years ago and I 'he group, directed by Mrs. at 958 Darien Terrace, Teaneck, is-B ?nded Newark College of EnRi-I arge Errick, received a letter from a former minister of a Lutherar | ring. He trained for his wliwsf onel Kroncke, thanking them for Church at 422 West 44th Street' Santa Ana, Calif.; Sequoia Field, linens they sent him last year New York City, and is cxecutivta i alia, Calif., and Chico, Calif. L a Protestant Temple in New secretary of the Metropolitan Lu-g [e will remain at this (Urbaais forl ledonia, and he asked them to theran Innermission Society. Hi [ ibat flight training ot B-251 ke more for altars he will set up writes his wife that he has preachec £ fibers. fields and on board ships. to some Teaneck boys and man;! I'm the envy of all the chaplains Bergen County boys in the Soutl j thi- area," hi,% letter read, "and Pacific area. He has preached h I iced more for my field services." the native churches, on board ship | .th this request, the women went and in the middle of fields. iMajor Willis Assigned I Co Personnel Duty iSpcclal to the BerBen Evpninn RGi'oir a Washington, May 25—Major Oral if J Willis of Teaneck, N. J,, has beenl i ssignod here to the G-l tPcrson-j cl) Section at headquarter.? of thd ILII f ' j-my Ground Forces. Willis nl.-L 1 onded the University of Kansas! i nd was commissioned a secolidi I lieutenant at his graduation IromL R INDUCTED BY I 1 he tr. S, Military Academy at Wesl| Point, N. Y. His military education! Iso includes attendance at the In-i TEANECK V. F. W.I J'antry School Regular Course atr |(,L-it[j, lLanc.1., il'ort Benning, Ga. L IStudies Mechanics I Willis was promoted to the rankl (Special to the Berften Bvpning Rpcord) iof first lieutenant in 1935, to cap-I -«t. Mehl, Home FromJ La Guardia Field, N. Y., May 1'. itain in 1940 and to his present rank! Guadalcanal, Talks I—Johli R, Grady, 18, son of Mr.j iin 1942. At Post Session land Mrs. John M. Grady of 42 Cran- Iford Place, Teaneck is receiving! [training in the aircraft mechanics! I ACCEPT 2 OTHERS I J course of the Army Air Force here. I Recently promoted to private first! larine Corps Sergeant Henry! 1 class, Grady was a student at Tea-1 i il of Teaneck, just home from I •neck High School when he entered) ve duty m Guadalcanal, last I I the service in March. • ht \vas accepted as a member I iLecman On Leave, Captain S. T. Schoonmaker Post I ICompletes Training 4"1), V. F. W., of Teaneck, with two I (Special to the Beruen EvenmE Record) i er Teaneck boys who are now! Sampson, N. Y., May 25—John. El W *.' i duty in the South Pacific. I iLeeman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles! „ \ppearing in person, Sergeant! jA. Leeman of 28S Woodbine Street,! j' n hi told members of the Post that! •Silver Wings For I Teaneck, has been granted leave fol-1 i : of the most important duties! 1 lowing completion of his basic train-j I everyone on the home front! gF.F.C. Christensen ling at the Naval Training Station! mid be writing to men who are! (Special to the Bersen Evening Record) • here. He is a seaman second class,! Panama City, Fla., May 24—P. F.I i , •-*••. .., I i service overseas, E \lso inducted were Harry A. Kil-J JC. Arthur Christensen Jr., whose! J Iwife resides at 120 Tryon Avenue,! L" ' ' "" n and Isaac Hornstein, veterans I World War I, and Kdward Ru-| I West Englewood, wears the silver! iph Gogolen and John Charles! I wings of an aerial gunner in the! |JJ strom, both in service in the I • Army Air Force at the end of train-j ftWLNESTOGEI uUth Pacific fighting area. I ling at the Flexible Gunnery School! a Special services were held for for-1 • here at Tyndall Field. Imer Commander Janifes Franklin,! I who was presented with his warrant! POSTJN TEXAS] I aide de campe to the Department I I Commander, as recognition ior hisj I activities in World War II. Frank-1 fo'Neill, Hackensaek,Now| Ilin is instructor in military science,! Tilson CJomrmssioneti lo. A. A., in Bergen College, and isl (Special to the Bergen Evening Kccord> "The Sarg-e is always right, no A Sergeant idrillmaster to the Teaneck Aux-I . Luke Field, Arlz.,^May 27 —j ^natter what he tells the men iiliary Police of the Defense Council. I I Thomas J. Tilson, sonBT-Mr. and! I to So," writes Patrolman Arthur (Special In the Bureau Evcnlns Record) (Former Department Commander I IMTS. L. Metelli of Ogden Avenue, j • Agrnor o'. Teancek, now a, first _ Camp Berkeley, Tex., May 21—I 1 Henry A. Giegold of Dumont made I ITeaneclc, N. J., has- been commis- I class private in the Army Mill- •Uecently commissioned Second Lieu-1 I the presentation with Commander I Isioned a second lieutenant in the I I tary Polico at Fort Kiley, Kansas, 1 snant Paul A. Walnes of Teaneok,! •Francis Kelly and former Com-j I Array Air Force after completing itj I in a letter to Patrolman' E. Nor- • course at the Army Air Force! Iton of the police foroe. f. J., will report here for new duties! Imander Carl Kellgren assisting. I j Single Engine Flying School here. | s an officer next Monday. He won! 1 Delegates chosen to attend the! I "Ho just oauie in the tent anfi is rank May 12 after three months! I State Encampment at Newark on I Receives Training • said to get oat and lie in the i the Officer Candidate School at! •June 26, 27, 28 and 29 are KlemmJ (Special to the Bergen Evening Record) J gutter—so we aid. Wb iUOn't his Array post. Walnes is with I •McCaffrey, Kellgren, James Frank-1 Greeley, Colo., May 27 — Private I I know why he gave thai com- ; he Army Medical Administrative! jlin, and Alfred Martin, George! I First Class William L. Breckwoldt, j jiaand, but wo climbed down in a E Jorps. I •Bettis, arid, Commander Kelly. I sewer and in another minute a Ispn of Mr. and Mrs. William Brock-1 J tornado went right over us," J Walnes who served for 17 months I Jwoldl of 77 Oakdene Avenue, Tea-1 [in the Panama Canal Zone is the I jneck, N. J., has arrived here for a I i Acmordlns to the patrolman's ] on of Mr. and Mrs. Alje WalnesI I clerical training course of the Army I • letter, many people were hurt In I ,f 253 DeGraw Avenue, Teaneek.I I the tornado, but thanks to the I ""hey have another son, First Ser-I I Air Force Technical Training Com-J I mand. I Sergeant, his group of men were 1 eanl Robert Walnes, serving with! MbrecM A Corporal I rnlnjiirrd he Army at Nashville, Tenn. r (Special to the Bcigen Evening Record) Lieutenant Walnes is a 1938 grad- - Harltogen, Tex., May 22—Pro- % Graduated Smotion of John J. Leibrecht Jr., 21,1 (Special to the Bergen Evening Record) iof Teaneck, to the rank of cor-1 Lowry Field., Colo., May 27—Pr | joral was announced here at the 1 Ivate Samuel Leon Glover of Tea 1 irmy Air Force Gunnery School. I ineck, N, J., and Walter Thorn: 1 He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John! IKoeng of Bergenfield have bee jj. Leibrecht of 568 Martense Ave-i • graduated from the armamer inue, Teaneck. He is a graduate of I I school here. Private Glover is th HTeaneck High School and beforol i son of Mr. and Mrs, Glover of 24 • Ms enlistment last September, was! JEast 19th Street, New York Cit; iassoctated with Wright Aeronautics." I Private Koeng is the son of Walte 1 Corporation ot Patcrson. IKoeng 'of 49 Van Houten Stree Jf''H \n Cadets Train M 'ixwellField LI. BOtfiA MUSING u4 ACTION |PI»:«„. i-.ll.l- i!'-T1J trauudni to the Bergen Evening Record) J burgh, ". . . and things were rough I Montgomery, Ala., May 27—Ninel I but I am not superstitious." I SiJergen County, N, J., aviation ca-l ..,;,.., f~^~^ !|r ""yj I Another time he wrote, "I have! J lets have reported here at Maxwell! I had some unexpected adventures! 3,'ield for training as pilots in thef 1 but a fair share of luck." I ! 'irmy Air Force. The local men who Boyle's luck apparently ran outi I (atned their training designation! when they yanked him from, the I i it the Nashville, Tenn., Claasilica-j Dry Martini and sent him on an I S .;ion Center are as follows: operational in the unnamed Fort-1 I TEANECK — Robert P. Hume ofl ress. I i 10 Johnson Avenue; and Thomas F.I Wired reports today gave but mea-1 I-Mirabito of 299 Queen Anne Boad.l eer news of this latest sortie by the I TENAPLY—John R. Mason of 551 tow-headed Teaneck terror but un-l SGeorge Street, I official sources give him a. 50-30 • 8 These men enter upon 9 weeks oil chance for safe landing within the| f.irainlng toward their silver wings | enemy's lines. a commission. V, F, C. GIVEN For bringing the Martini home! from Lille he got the Distinguishedl , Flying Croti, and the Military Order! of the Purple Heart for being! jTmrnTB'elaiiger wounded in action. For the: April 41 SMcet For A 'Hello' attack over Paris, he got the Oakj 1 Bosom pala since their grammall cluster to the Purple Heart. | Jichool days, First Lieutenant Frank I The Martini that flew over Parisi 1 Klimm and Ensign Harold LeBovl was the third edition of the Fort! of Teaneck met in theiri Earned for Captain Allen V. Mar-I I home town again last week-end foil lini, its pilot, who now is on Saunas I the first time in over a year, just I duty after 25 operational*. The| Sin time to say "hello" before they! other Martinis were shelled into theg Iboth left for active duty. They wciei Bovle must have cracked up in, J inseparable friends in grade school! < X the period from May 13. That day land Teaneck High School for yeaial he wrote his mother, Mrs. Joseph Lieutenant Klimm, son of Polioel i ohnstone Boyle, "Thanks, Mom lor BLieutenant and Mrs. Frank Klimm! the Mother's Day greeting. Should lot 624 Tilden Avenue, is with a| nave been the other way around. I fighter squadron in the Array Ail I But you know the sentiment was I Force and has left for parts un-l there lust as it is the other 364 j known, Ensign Belanger will Ipfivej days Put in another working day fin a few days for active duty asl today Always glad to have anothei I a flive-bomber pilot for the Navy f behind me, but I'm not at all super- JHis home is at 520 Oritani Place. Ensign Bolanger has his degieel I stitious - this was the thli- iof bachelor of mechanical engi-1 teenth. ..." Sneering from the College of the! DIDN'T LIKE STRIKE Icily of New York, and ho Is a| In a letter before this Boyle took! I member of Tau Beta Pi, honorary! a swipe at the coal miners. He "aid I i engineering society. I theT strike is galling a lot of his! 3 U. Klimm attended New York! •ri.i^nri*! who dislike fighting more I 3 University for 3 years studying tol thaS"would mining coal butj Ibe a mechanical engineer but. hp| (enlisted in Apul 1942 before fm-| early interest j lishing his education where he was graduated 8 year* I | He went on to Bergen College I •and after a year ra^"™}?^,.™ ! Lehlgh University, in Bethlehem I flier Fortress Pa to be graduated in 1839. ' Shortly after Pearl Harbor was j bombed, he enlisted in the Army! Air Force. That was Dec. 20, 1841.1 cktoil Kid Lost On Raid," He was commissioned at the Green-1 ville, Miss., Flying School last July I 26 and went overseas in October. J But ParentsBot^tGwe V] MORE PKAYEBS Boyle has a brother. Technical I Iborte Of Teaneck, Who's Been Through Scrapes! Sergeant Bruce Boyle at Lakeland,! Over Paris, Lille, Listed_As_Missmg Fla with the Army Air Force I I meteorological division. His sister, I the former Buth Boyle, is married to I By LEE BROBERICK Ensign Ralph Wright, on duty with I The cocktail kid of the Flying Fortress pry Martim. If | the Navy at a station in North I ever listed as missing, Mom, don't ever gveup The father of the 24-year-old tad: Im ™\g01^ t0 AHTwas born just before the lastl war ended, on Aug. 25. 1918, at I nt him out yet. He's been through a lot of close> scrapes, Dawson in Yukon Territory of Can-1 I he'll probably come out of this one given the 50-50 chance, ada, where his father was at work I in the gold-dredging business. I 1 When Boyle was hurt at Lille, his I The fssoci'ated Press- -Lieutenant Boyle, pilot of thel friends prayed for Mm at church. I I-, AartfnirXinginargcent raid in which he flew on "In our church," said Mrs. Boyle I -L ————"^nothei ship. at the time, "we've all said a little] I prayer for Joe and that's whatl S DECORATION MAN . I pulled him through, I guess," j mock Graduate The kid is Lieutenant Joseph B. Boyle of 639 Standish Eoad Tea-L 1 Joe had written, "Prayers are Airplane Mechanic neck? twice-wounded and thrice-I I never to be underestimated.' 1 ml 10 the Boreen Evenlnts Becoril) .decorated copilot of the Dry Martini This ends in a llfctle |p>rgyer Jo^JoeJl levelt Field, N. Y., May 87—1 which last April 4 went on a 10J m F. Ernst, 22, son of Mr. I Irs. Herman A. Ernst of 3321 3uren Avenue, Teaneck, wasl fnr a 1-day Fortress record. Boylel • Elliot Fromoteir • ited here as an airplane! °as scratched about the face that I mechanic in the Army Air Force | •To Be A Captain I Ernst recently was promoted tol ^ver the steel city of Lille inL (Bpeoinl to the Barsen HvenlnB Kecord) I corporal and is a graduate of Tea-j lorthwest France last January 13,1 • Camp Edwards, Mass., May 27- I neck High School. He was a. mech-I ioyle had the devil's own time but! • William H. Elliott "of 1055 Wilson! • ante's helper for Eastern Air LincsB a muled out of that one too withl I Avenue, Teaneck, N. J., has gained! I before entering the Army. food muring from outs in his facet I rank of captain here in the Army| °d left Ms pH°t dead beside him! • Engineer Corps. He entered service* —mwm~ nd two of his crewmen wounded. | las a second lieutenant with the! *„„,; Commissione I The Sazis shelled the bomber un-I I Officers Reserve Corps last July, I (special to tlM Bergen Bvcmiw IWBOII land in October was promoted tol £ Corpus Christi, Tex,, May 27 • first lieutenant. i I John Charles Rice, son of Mr. and 1 A graduate of New York Militaryl iwrrs B T. Bloe pi 136 Highgatel •Academy, Elliot is the son of Mr.l iTerrace, West Bnglewood, N. J., has! •and Mrs. William Elliot of the Tea-1 lbeen 'commissioned an ensign inl ineck address. His wife and babyl •the Navy after his graduation Iromj •daughter are living nearby. jthe Naval Ate Trailing Center hera.| •nemy fighters^ LT FRANK, KLIMM Jcnson' Maflo Instructor I special La the Bergen Evening Kecai d „ New Orleans, La., June 5—Second] • Lieutenant J. Douglas Jensen oil FOR NAVAL DUTYBFeH On Attu: We Threw 'Em ITeaneck, N, J., last Wednesday! I completed a course here In the I iMade-In-U. S. A. Ill Omens Needled Doomed Garri-j 1 Army chemical warfare school anrtE • has been assigned as an instructor! son In New Twist Of Nerve War lof enlisted men in the Signal Corps.I 1 He was commisisoned at Port! His Brother A Prisoner! Washington, June 10 {/?)—One of the broadest hints on I iMonmouth, N. J., last November. I |the extent to which our armed forces are coupling psychology! 1 His parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. David I Of. Axis After Battle vith bullets is the report that our planes dropped imitation | " • at. 427 Saa-amore Street,] In Tunisia Nov. 28 kiri leaves on the Japanese at Attu. |l The kiri is a Japanese tree the leaf of which resembles I ILEANECK GRADUATEI Jthat of our own catalpa. The Japanese have a superstition I (Special to the Bergen Evening Record) •that when its leaves fall prematurely they foretell death or I Corpus Obrlstl, Tex., June l —I iother impending disaster. The name "kiri" sounds like the | aval Aviation Cadet Theodore fJapanese word for death, as in "harakiri". wen Mikolasy, 21, son of Mr. and| WEARING SKINS THIN *~ Ira. Bandor Mikolasy of EnglewoodJ advising them to surrender. inn >i i J has been transferred here log This is according to the Office Officials said there is consider-i of War Information, which reveals able promise in these tactics, par-1 Studies Vehicles lie Naval Air Training Center upon! (Special to the Bergen EvetmiR Ueeoic implction of the primary flight! Jthat its research workers dug up ticularly against the Japanese, It's! I the Japanese superstition and also pointed out that the average Japa-I Fort Knox, Ky., June 18—Piivntel •aining course at the Naval Airl •First Class Philip C. Hsunm, .soul lation at Glenvlcw, Illinois. I that the paper leaves dropped on nese soldier is a creature of beliefs! I the enemv on Attu bore a terse rather than of thought or reason-! lot Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hpmiii oil He follows the air career blazedl J14« Lindbergh Boulevard, TrnncckT j » his brother, now a prisoner ol| ing. He believes implicitly in hisi divine mission, his invincibility, and| IN. J., has arrived here Sm liain-l I ar of the Axis. Lieutenant Williatar |his supenority. ling in the Armored Forcr Wlierlctl| ! likolasy, 25, a navigator with tht| Some day, somewhere, it's con-1 I Vehicle Department. j irmy Air Force in Tunisia, tool I tended, there'll come a lime when! J art last November 28 in the masi' this fabric of faith will dissolve! ITeaneck Resident 9 iombln» of Sfax, important Med-R about the ordinary Japanese sol-I 1 terranean harbor, and later wa: t dier. The kiri leaflets are prob-I I Named Honor Man 1 eported a prisoner. .bly' only one of many little pinl (special to the Boraen EvnunR Bfcoicl J cadet Mikolasy is a graduate o bricks which are being thrust! Great Lakes, 111., Juno 18—George! 3 he Teaneck High School, and servec against his morale. < iHelmstetter Jr., 28, of 48 Park Ave- Inue, Teaneck, N. J., has been grad-I I n the British West Indies as ; Such psychological warfare Isl luated from recruit training asi ! Seaman First Class, before begin pretty hush-hush around Washing*-! jfionor man of his company at this,I j ling his career at the Navy's Pre ton, 'but in the field it goes hancij • Naval Training Station. He is a I i Flight School at the University o in hand with shells and bombs andl I graduate ol Ridgefield Park, N, J.I 1 North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C military force. It's a weapon. It's! Jfflgh School and attended Pace 3n-g 1 After passing the advanced fligh used all the time. It's used on the| Istitute in New, York City. Straining course at Corpus Christ Italians and on the Germans as on the Japanese. Formerly a junior accountant I i Mikolasy will pin on wings as I with the American Sugar KefinlnsI I Naval Aviator to be commissions J Company, Brooklyn, N. ' Y., he| las an Ensign in the Navy or a Sec I joined in April as an apprentice sp Bond Lieutenant in the Marine Corp I man. As a result ol his avernRraf Ion aptitude tests, HelmslcUrr ) •qualified for one of the Navy's| |storekeeper schools. jLieut. Johannessen MGEAiATl The honor man lett for a nine-1 I day leave last Tuesday with his wife,! |Now At Geiger Field §Mrs. Catheruie Hclmstetter, and! (Special Lo the Bergen Evening Rccoi d) I young daughter, Judith Ann, Hisj Spokane, Wash., June 1 — Second I AS ARiY PILOTS I parents are the George HelmsteUersi j Lieutenant John E. Johanncsson of I I of 148-36 Fifteenth Drive, Whllc-I J 20 Franklin Road, West Englewood, I 1 stone, N. Y. | is now on duty here at Gcigcr Field. I AT NAPIER FIELD »He has" been in the Army since I (March 2, 19-12. He was an expert | j Training I shipping and actuarial man. iRoyer Of Wood-Ridge, |At Miami Beach lYale Alumnus Braun Of Teaneck Win (Special in the Beigeti EVPnlng Ilpcnirl) |Graduates O. C. S. Lieutenant's Rank Miami Beach, Fla., June IB—Prl-I (Special to the Bcigeii Evening Rccoid) Ivale Bernard H. Cadel of 130D Hnd-I , Port Benning, Ga., June 1—Sher-I Jeon Road, Teaneck, N. J., is taking! Jinan F. Glendining oJ Teaneck, j |ENTERED__ IN 1941 ibasic training here at the Army! HN. J., has been commissioned a sec-1 JAir Force Technical Training Com-j Bond lieutenant here upon gradua-i (Special to the Btrsen Bvenlni Eeoord) |mand School. itlon from the Army's Infantry Of-j a Dothan, Ala., June 2—Donald Before entering the Ai-my CHdell • flder Candidate School which he en-1 I Gordon Boyer of Wood-Ridge, N. J., Iwas a Junior at George Was.hlng~§ itered as corporal. He enlisted last I land Albert Leonard Braun of Tea- ^ University. His brother, Herbert! | September 24. I Ineck, N. J., have been graduated! Cadel, is an aviation cadet. | Glendining is a graduate of Yalel • here at Napier Field as pilots and • university. His parents live at! • second lieutenants in the Army Air HWellesley, Mass. I Force. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan L. iRoyer of 103 Hackensack Street, Iwood-Bidge, Royer is a graduate of pfioii Bergen™ • the Rutherford, N. J., High School. • Get Commissions I He was employed by the Eastern (Special to the Bersen Evening Record) I Air Lines in New York City before m Port Monmoutli, Juno 1—ThE| I he entered the armed service Jan. •Army Signal Corps Officer Candi-j 129, 1941. He is married to the Proinolerl, To Captain •date School at this post has grad-1 I former Miss Margaret Irene Gtlli- (special to the Beiaen Evening Record) B luated three Bergen County enlisted! Igan of Hasbrouck Heights, N. J, Washington, June 5—Lieutenant I •men as second, lieutenants as fol-I land is the father ol two feirls. T.T AT.BERT L. BRATTN Ma Lifvergxen of West EnglewoodJ 1 Braun is the son of Mr. and Mrs _N, J., has been promoted to captain I 1 IKmanuel Charles Braun of 1395 Jin the Army Military Police here.S iMilford Terrace, Teaneck. He is, J A veteran of World War 1, Lifver-I i a graduate of Teaneck High School •gren received his commission last! land attended Bergen College. He •November at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.,1 1 worked for an electrical appliance Band took refresher courses at the! • store in Paterson until he entered •Provost Marshal General's Training! Ithe armed service Sept. 28, 1941. He Killer Attends School •Center irf Battle Creek, Mich. I I was accepted for Army flying train- I His family lives at 289 Ogflenl (Special to the Bereen Evening Record) ling April 27, 1942. Syracuse, N. Y., June 2—Corporal! I Avenue, West Englewood. He has! henry Bitter of 127 Grayson Place,! • two sons, Brie Jr., and Bruce. He isl Teaneck, N. J., has left the Army! • a former adjutant of Teaneck Post! |Air Force base at Syracuse Univer-I 1128, American Legion. A graduate! isity lo attend Army Bail Transpor-1 lof the New York University College! Station School at Mississippi State! jof Engineering, Ltfvergren was ani •College, Starkville, Miss. Former bus! I active member in the New Yorkl •dispatcher for the Bast Side Omni-1 I University Alumni Club of Bergen! I bus corporation in New York for 10| I County before entering the service.! lyeais, Bitter entered the Army lastl I July. *. eiAJs, itjA., June o—nViauoll Ui R. W. Loh Into Basic Course (Specml to the Bcriren Evening Rocoidi (Special to thr Beiecu Evening Hficoiri) Bainbridge, Ga., June B — Ray-1 IdeL Heinz H. Templin, son of Mrs. L I mond W. Loh, son of Mr. and Mrs, I iottilie Templin of 320 Pabry Ter-I I Frank J. Loh Sr., fill Queen Anne I frace, Teaneck, N. J., has arrived! I Road, Teaneck, N. J., is assigned I • here for basic training as a, student! I to basic flight training here as an I • in the Army Air Force. Before heg • joined the Army, Templin was an |Armv aviation cadet. He completed I gemployee of the Walson-Flagg Ma-I ipre-fliehl training at Maxwell PicldJ I chine Co., at Paterson, N. J. [Ala., and his primary training atl lone of the many fields throughout! |the southeast. Loh joined the Air Force last Oc-L gtober 19. He is a graduate of Tea-i I neck High School, where he repre-l Isented his school in the state wrest- § H. J. Wo Mice Promoted I ling- meet and won the title. Later (Special to the Bei'Ben Evening Record) I he attended Lehigh University. _ Camp Carson, Colo., Juno 8—-Har-i * w Jold J. Wottke of 658 Ogden Avenue! IWest Englewood, N. J., has gained! •new rank here as sergeant. Ho was! •drafted last October 19 and attend-1 led Teaneck, N. J.. High School. J. W. Bonneville Graduated 'Special to the Bergen Evening Record) Jacksonville, Fla., June 8 — James! J Warren Bonneville of 125 Ayersi LT. THOMAS J. TILSCi" I Court, West Englewood, N. J., rc-l (. it ADUATED I cently was graduated from thisf I i | Aviation Machinist's Mate School.l Detccitivc-Lieutenaiit Theo- He enlisted in the Navy last Au-1 dore Morgan (above) of Tea- I gust 14 and was sent to Newport,! neck, on duty with the Coast p. I., for indoctrinal training before! Guard somewhere in the South- i Tilson In California. I being transferred to this trainingi west Pacific, has been promo- (Special to UIB Beiseii Ev^iitaB Hecort) I center. tea to lieutenant senior ffi'aile. . San Francisco, Calil., June 7 —I Bonneville is now a qualified me-I I Thomas J. Tilson, 10, son of Mr. I Morgan was busy oliasing down 1 ichanic and will probably see serv-f a lead on the now 6-year-olfl | and Mrs. Louis Mete !! of 696 Ogdcng lice with a Naval air unit. 1 Avenue, West Bnglewood, N. J.. re-1 Eedwood murder case when thB j cently commissioned a second lieu-1 Coast Guard called him last I tenant, has been assigned here to I July %l. He left for an undis- I the Hamilton Field Army Air Force I closed destination from the I tactical unit. He is with a P-39 Air-1 Coast Guard's Barge Office I acobra P-39 tactical unit as pilot. I Station August 1 as > lieuten- j Tilson -was graduated 2 years ago! ant junior grade. J Irom Teaneck High School, where! •Tost, Savict Graduated j'he was quarterback of the varsity! (Special to the Bereen Evening necord) [ football team, and enlisted last Au-i Carlisle Barracks, Pa., June 7—I "!NEW ENSIGN gust 14. He won his officer rank| I Captain Charles F. Jost of 339 Innes I I Road, Wood-Ridge, N. J., and Lieu-1 at Luke Field, Arizona. jterfant Stanley Saviet of 880 Gar-j irisou Avenue, Teaneck, were grad- j uated here yesterday from the Med-1 I leal Field Service School. Jost is ml j the Sanitary Corps and Lieutenant I J Saviet is in the Dental Corps, both[ Lethln'idgre Advances I In the Medical Department. {Special to the Bereen Evening Record) Chapel Hill, N. C, June 7—Naval j |Aviation Cadet Donald Lethbrldge, I Ison of Councilman and Mrs. Berry j IB. Lethbridge Sr. of 134 Summit I SAvenue, Hackensack, N. J., has com- i ipleted an 11-week course at the! Cadet Weiss Reports At Athens SNavy's preflight school here and has I (SBQcml to the Bei-gen Evening Record] Harold V, Koilly Jr. (above), I been advanced to primary flight! Athens, Ga., June 8—Naval Avia-| whose father's entry into the I training at the Squanti Squantum, j Ition Cadet William Weiss Jr. off Army as a Major was announced I Mass., Air Station. J Teaneck, N. J., has reported here! yesterday, was graduated from At Hackensack High School he I jto the Navy Pre-Higlit School for! the R> O. T. C. course at New I was a member of Honor Society and I I training aa a flier. Weiss is the I York Military Academy last J editor of the undergraduate news-] jsoli of Mr. and Mrs. Weiss of 7071 Saturday ana now a.waits orders J paper. j Chestnut Avenue. He was gradu-j from Washington. At the Acad- Another in this preflight class to] jated from Teaneck High School in I emy he excelled In horseman- • be'graduated is Cadet Wilcox Kin* I 11942, and completed C. A. A. prl-j ship and military science. The ILongtin, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. W.J Jmary training at Martin, Tenn. I Bcillys make their home in iLongtin of 784 Hartwell Street, Tea-1 1 Teaneck. I neck. He has been ordered to the! I Bunker Hill, Ind., Air Station for| J primary flight training. % Graduated As Gunners At Teaneck High School three I (Special to the Bergem Evening Record) | years ago he was active in football, 1 Fort Myers, Fla., June 8—Sergeant I j wrestling, and baseball. 1 Roy H. Weidlloh, son of Mr. and! iMrs. Rudolph W. Weidlich of 141 IJares Wins Commendation |Second Street, Hackensack, "N. J., I |ln Air Catlel Show ENSIGN B. W. WILSON graduated here as an aerial I (Special to the Bergen Evenins Record) •gunner in the Army Air Force. He I Bainbridge, Ga., June 9—Robert! Jhas been in the Army 17 months! ic, Jares of Sagamore Avenue, Tea-j Lieut. WHtman Goes land worked as a research worker. I •neck, N. J., has been awarded a I SIGN AWAITS JTo Adminlktartion. 5|chool Another in this class of gunners is I •commendation for outstanding per-j 1 Biohmond, Ky-., June 8—IAeuten-l Isergeant Carl Bernstein, son of Mr, I Iformance in an interflight hurd-J lanli Edith M. Wittman of TeaneckJ •and Mrs. Jack Bernstein of 985 Tea-1 Iling competition at an air showl IN. J., commissioned a third officer! •neck Road, Teaneck. He worked as j Iput on by cadets at this Army Air I CALL TO ACTION I in the Women's Army Auxiliary! • a printer before he entered Army j HForce Basic Flying School. I • Corps at Fort Des Moines, la., May I J ranks 9 months ago. 1 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jares,I J23, has been ordered here to the! •he took first place In the hurdle! |West Englewood Man Re- IWaac Administration School. She] i contest, representing Might B| I enlisted January 12. •which scored the highest number! ceives Commission 1 'After completing her basic train-! • of points for the entire show. I ling she was sent to Naeogdoches, j I Jares has now been transferred! Ensign Bodney Wallace TOlaem. 1 •Texas, Army Administration school.! HART TO TAKE COURSE 1 to the Army All Force Plyingl 120, of West Englewood, is home on 1 She is assigned as an instructor atj ISchool at Columbus, Miss., to con-j 1 leave awaiting call to active duty (Special to the Bergen Evening Record) I with the Navy. He received his de» I this Waac branch where 600 auxil- j Great Lakes, 111., June 7 — John I • timie pilot training. He look hisj liaries are in training to do desk| ipre-flight course at Maxwell Field,! gree of bachelor of science and. hi? |W. Hart, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. I j commission as a Navy Ensign June I work in the Army. I Kenneth Hart of 16 Harriet Avenue,! • Montgomery, Ala., and then was br-| I Before enlisting Lieutenant! adored to Arcadia Reid, Fla, I 19 from the IT. S. Naval Academy a,tj I West Englewood, N. J,, has been! 1 Annapolis. J Wittman was confidential secre-1 J selected for 16 weeks of instruction I I Before his enlistment Jares was! Itary to Mrs. Barclay Douglas oil I employed by the Wright Aeronau-I Ensign Wilson was graduated I here as fire-controlman at thej I from Teaneck High ScMool In 1333 • Brooklyn. She is the daughter of j I Naval Training Station. • tidal Corporation at Paterson,. Hei I Mr. and Mrs. Stefan Wittman of I lattended Brooklyn Polytechnic In-g at the age ol 16(. He attended Bergen J Brooklyn. She attended Teaneck| jstitute, Brooklyn. College for a yew and a half and I High School. (received the presidential-at-l^ge It appointment to Annapolis1 in 1040 His home Is at If? West ^lewpjd lA \>y>rgeant Kraft Wins Promotion AT DAYTONA BEAC As Instructor At Daytona Beach 1 yne C. Kraft of Teaueck has years doing clerical work for a pub been promoted to the rank of lihing houtiC in New York. In 1942 sergeant m the Waacs at lplt business and took a one- ION MISSING LIS tona Brach, Fla., where she yeaf course m Bergen College, Tea- es as drill master and instruc- neck, In February, 1943, she enlisted Her rank is the highest non- in the Waacs and received her basic |But W. Englewood Far-f i missioner rank in the Waacs. training at Port Ogcllhorpe, Geor- 'lie daughter of Mr. and Mrs. gia, and additional instruction at ents Are Hopeful lies Kraft of 600 Chestnut Ave- Dcnton, Texas.. was graduated from Teaneck Sergeant Clifford M. Wolff, radio I n School Jn 1939. Before her en- Mihs Reemer At Kilmer loperator on a Plying Portress, whose | ' lent Dec. 29, 1942, Sergeant Margaret M. Roemer of Hoemer Ihome is in West Englewood, today I ft was employed by the New Avenue, West Englewood, Is now • was officially listed by the War Dts-1 t Safety Campaign Committee stationed at Camp Kilmer, New apartment as missing in action overs i few York City, where she did Brunswick, doins clerical duty in Ithe Central Paciiio fighting- area. 5 ographic and clerical work. the Waacs, Auxiliary Roemer was •but his parents, who expected him I graduated irom Teaneck High •home on a furlough this month, I Vis,*1 Thoren at DPS Moines School in 3032 and then was em- •feel that a mistake has been madr. I ployed by the Prudential Insurance I In his last letter to his parents,! i m Q. Thoren of 142 Cane Street, Company, with whom she remained |Mr. and Mrs. Henry Woltf, received g neck, is now a, top sergeant in until she entered the service of the j just a week before June 15, when I li Waacs stationed at Des Moines, army on Mar, 29, 1943. At Ihc time Ithe telegram from the War Depart-! i , doing administrative work. of her enlistment .slip was hrad of Iment came, Sergeant Wolff lolcll eant Thoren graduaLed from the clerical staff in the Bnglcwood ithem he'd sec them when the cornl "Inson High School, Jersey City, office of the Prudential. Iwas ripe. Throughout Ins letter hoi 132 and then went to business. italked about the time when hr'd be I i was doing cost accounting work Miss Gay In Boston lable to see them and talk over old I l she entered the Waacs in JAYNE KRAFT jgtimes. I Ann K, Gay of 275 Washington Teaneck ust, 1942. Street, Teanock, is now doing serv- "Wo just don't fcpl that anvf-hincl ice somewhere in the area of Bos- Miss Marks A Sergeant Florida. After graduating from Tea-I | serious has happened to him, and| ton as a Waac. She is a graduate I we're holding fast to the hope Lhntf - rbara J. Marks of 17 West En- of Teaneck High School. She was neck High School she designed and! x)d Avenue, West Englewood, engaged in personnel work before made ladies' slippers. She enlisted! • he may have started home on hlil i w a sergeant doing administra- enlisting in the Waacs on May 12, In the Waacs on Oct. 28, 1942. • furlough and it wasn't marked f work for the Waacs in a new 1943. She completed her training in| line records," Mrs. Wolff said lc-E inn, called Branch 7, at Alpine, a Waacs school in Texas. Iday. "V s, near El Paso. She graduated I "In. his last letter he Rl&o K ii n West Orange High School in Miss Maiocchi In South Jthat he and the crew of his PlymgH J' and then attended Olivet Col- Mary C. Maiocchi, 114 ShepardB IPortress. received the Air Medal, soB in Michigan for a year. She Avenue, West Englewood, is at the! •we believe he really/saw some ac-| \ „.. , ^ ,vp,- • Ition," she said. ' | iAnother Promotion j Until Monday of this past, weeks |For Jayne Kralt this family had no idea where he wasB (Special to the Beiiten Eveninfr Rccoid) j fighting, Their first Information^ H Daylona Beach, JPla., May 14—1 I came from a buddy of (heir sonB I Miss Jayne Kraft of Chestnut Ave-I [who Is home on furlough in Clevp-| VT roRT nix Jnue, Teaneck, on duty with thel aland, Ohio. He wrote to SergcanlB HWomen's Army Auxiliary Corps, I J Wolff at his home, helievlnK thalB • gained her second promotion in TP-1 BWolff was also home on furlough,! I cent weeks here the other day. She! land when Wolff's parents told him! Irose in rank from corporal to ser-g itiieir son was missing in action, he! jgeant, IrDplied and gave the added informa-| Ition that they lough!, together ing I Guadalcanal. | He said they had fought In Uiej J Solomons since August, 1942. He I land Wolff mel, at Scott Field, TIL, j lin August, 1941, where they bolh| • were stationed with the Army Ah'J • Force. Wolff graduated from radio ischool there and served as instruc-1' itor until February, when they were $ B Lakeland, Fla., Juno aaju Iboth sent to Morrison Meld, Palm I •Moore, 26, of West Englewood, N. J., iBeaeh, Fla., for specialized train- g •has been promoted from second licu-L ling, the nature of which has never P •Want to first liculenant at tnisl • been revealed to "Wolff's family. j lAnny Air Force base. I I In June of lasl year they left! l< \v He 1s the son of Mr. and Mrs.I • Florida and went to Hawaii where j . A. Moore of 147 East Forestr • they stayed for 2 months. They I iAvenue, West Englewood, Thel •separated then and left at different* •former Miss Marie Elizabeth TJfheilj I times for Guadalcanal. They met j •of New Milford, N. J,, is with herL 1 again on Guadalcanal and saw each! • husband. They were married De-I J other frequently until the furloughs leember 26 at St. Marks Episcopal! 1 of the Cleveland boy separated j J Church, Teaneck, N, J., 3 days after! llthem. I Moore won his commission at Campl Wolff was just 30 years old this] ILee, Va., Officer Candidate School, r / "1 Jimontli, and his mother said that 9 1 Moore was graduated from Tea- Ihe hoped to make the Air Force his | 1 neck High School and was president Icareer.eVen after the war. He was! I of the Second District Democratic Iturned down because of poor eye-1 • Club of Teaneck before he was in- •sight when he tried to enlist in the [ Sri nnd Lieutenant Gertrude jducted into the Army June 18,1941, | |Air Force in 1940, and determined j I I Mitrdt (above), executive •to get in some way, he enlisted in I | ucirlirsr of Bergen. County Ithe Field Artillery in October, 1S40 E ruhci ulosis & Health Associa- tat Fort Sill, Okla. Almost a year! I hrn is with the V. S. Army •later, in August, 1941, he received! \III i Corps at Tilton General Jhis transfer to the Air Force and! Ho piial, Fort Dix. iwas sent to Scott Field. f I "When ha was graduated from I •radio school in Scott Field and was I •told he would rerapin there* as an. I •instructor he was vei'y disappoint- f r 7 IQRD M. WOLFF Jed," his mother said, "and he was'I I much happier when he was sent to I iid and then to combat duty,,"/ For Operations Over Nazi Europe] nhe Cocktail Kid's Still A Im The cocktail kid of the Flying to be captured by the enemy, wrote! fortress Dry Martini, Second Lieu- his mother, Mrs. Joseph Johnstons! Mother, Who Never Gave Up Hope When Flier Was! tenant Joseph B. Boyle of Teaneck, Boyle of 539 Standi&h Road, all the! Reported Missing, Hears He's Prisoner In Gennanyf md his pal, Second Lieutenant Jo- news she wanted to hear in edited 1 ,eph E. Gorman of Ridgefield Park, terseness received last Saturday. vere listed today 'iy the War Dc- "Thanks to that same kind Frovi-i The mother of the cocktail kid of the marauder Dry| )artment as decorated with the Air dence that I have known before, l| •Martini got a birthday gift she'll never forget. uledal among the 28 men from this am alive, healthy, and completely! I The birthday was Saturday and on that day came noticiJ State to be cited for operations over unscathed," he wrote in the air! •from the War Department that Lieutenant Joseph B. Boyle,I Germany and German-held Europe mail message. n recent months. "We were shot down over France.! Icopilot of the now retired famous Flying Fortress, is a pris-j Boyle, now a prisoner of war in I bailed out, landed safely, and will! loner of war in Germany. He had previously been reported! 3ermany, already wears the Dis- be in the good company of former! | missing in action, flying a ship May 25. —--. inguished Plying Cross, its Oak pals from here on out. All my[ 1 Krr T vn Boyle won the Distinguished Fly-I Oluster, and the Military Order of love." i iJ111J he Purple Heart. For Gorman, it This letter was postmarked Ma: m i u „. "^ Ing Cross for bringing the Dry! s his first citation. 24 exactly B week after Boyle para-| The kid!often wrote Ins mother,iMartini home from Lille in France! iMrs. Joseph Johnstone Boyle of and Ule Military Order of the Pur-I Boyle who drove (he now retired chuted into enemy-held land. iTeaneck if they ever reported him pip Heart for being woundo'd Inl Boyle and Gorman enlisted in the! Martini through hell's fire twice and imissmg in action, he'd be all right acUon. Pol. the April 4 attack overt ihen cracked up in another planr land his mother, for one, believed Pam [lc gol au Oak cluster. I Vrmy Air Force together and fough •hULU J Mrs, Boyle said the notice from I sgelher. Gorman was copilot o j the War Department was like an I j answer to her praycis. I he Fortress Problem Child ant I "Maybe If everyone all over the I Joyle of thp Martini April 4 whei I world," she said, "keeps praying as I joth took part in bombing the Re- I hard as we did for our son and I lault works, m Park. I the other boys, this war would be I 1 over soon." I That was the day the Martini se I "Joe wrote us from England and I i record slapping 10 Na/,1 planes ou I told us time and time again that! if lhe sky in a matter of 10 min- {Feaneck Post Marks Father's Day lhe believed prayer would help us I ites to set 1-day Portress record. 1 both through anything, and I know! lhe must have prayed as hard as| 3oyle caught flying glass in his face 1 we did," Mrs. Boyle said. |l)Ut soon recovered from these suppr- By Visiting Servicemen's Parentsl Twice wounded and lhrice-decor-| icial scratches. Jated, this copilot of the Dry Mar-1 j Boyle was co-pilot of the Martini Father's Day was celebrated yes- a year in the Atlantic and the Paci-I jtini, wrote in his last letter home,! I ranuary 13 when its pilot was killed, ,erday by Schoonmaker Post 1429, fie. 1 |"If I'm ever listed as missing1, Moiw.i I wo members of the crew wounded V. F. W., Teaneck, by visiting par- Two veterans of World War l| I don't ever give up." The Boyles! tnd Boyle himself cut about the: [ents of some of the boys in service. joined the Post. Robert P. AikenI I didn't give up hope for a minute,! 'icad when the ship diet a dizzy dive JCommander Francis J. Kelly called 610 Cumberland Road was in a ma- J jbut Mrs. Boyle said today that itl >ver the French steel city of Lille. lit Fathers and Sons Day. chine gun battalion of the 27th| Iwas a mighty hard i weeks since I Boyle grabbed the controls, lev-, Kelly made the rounds with Fred Division in Prance. Eric P. Berndt ishe was told he was missing in| illcd the Fortress and raced 4 Nazii iKlemm, past commander; George 204 West Englewood Avenue was I faction. jBettis, chief of staff; Harry Wertz, planes over the channel. The Mar- in the 7th Field Artillery of the lsll •'We did have some unofficial lel-l mi was grounded looking like a| [historian, and Alfred P. Martin, Division and served 2 years inl 'ienior vice-commander, Iters from his friends in England! ieve. France and in the Army of Occupa-j •which gave us some hope that hej Boyle took another ship on a raid: They called on Mr. and Mrs. J. J. tion in Germany. He went through! •Boyle, 839 Standish Road, parents iwas still alive, but what really Kept I j^ay 17 and as his letter home indi- five battle engagements. Bus going was the way all of Joe's! ates, had to bail out. • of First Lieutenant Joseph B. Boyle, Berndt came into this country on |U. S. Air Force, a prisoner in Ger- I friends told us they were sure noth-i Gorman is the master of the, a German merchant ship during thel ling: had happened to him. Every-1 sreatly publicized Prop Wash, many. Mrs. Boyle had written a. First World War before we entered lone has been wonderful, and I hopel looker spaniel, that serves as the' letter to her son in the prison camp the conflict. He joined a National! land received a reply from him In J that many other mothers can re-| nascol for the Problem Child on| Guard Regiment in New York and! ceive the same good news I did." LII its operational flights. This dogi • his own handwriting on a post card, when we entered the war signed upl | akes to the air like a duck to waterj •stating that he was well and was for foreign service and was sent fa I md soon may figure as entrant i: I not hurt. France. klie annual show of the Londonl He bailed out over France and After the Armistice, Berndt, whcJ Itennel Club. iwas taken to Germany, where he had been given his American cit-j 1 met pals who had flown in bis out- izenshlp while in France, was sen(| Templin Cafiet Captain | Gorman is the son of Police Ser-| Ifit but were taken prisoner before | leant and Mrs. Joseph Gorman o: to the Rhineland with the Army of (Special lo the Bergen Evening Keooid) I him. Occupation, and upon receiving hi; Pecos, Tex., June 28—Army Avia-S 90 Brinkrrhoff Street, Eidgefieldl Lieutenant Boyle was made a I'Trk. He has served in the same| honorable discharge visited his par4 JOU Cadet Heinz H. Templm, son! I member of the Schoonmaker Post ents in Germany. ' 1 iof Mrs. Ottilie Templin of 320 Pabryl icavy bombardment group as Boyli I In absentia. hroughout their training. He then returned to the countrjl TTerraoe, Teaneck, N. J., has been! Carl Anderson, gunner's mate 3rd of his adoption and has lived hen appointed a Cadet Captain com-I I Gorman is a graduate of SI. 1 class, V. S. Navy was also made a Jmanding a, squadron of cadets tak-i ll'rancis Parochial School and! •member of the Post. He is the son Hmg basic training at the airbasei | lidgefield Park High School, He lot Mr. and Mrs. Frite Anderson, 42, "here. Templin is a former employee! mlisted in the Air Force December i Intervale Road, and is a graduate of uf the Watson^Flagg Machine Com-! , 0, 1941 and was first at Maxwell JTeaneck High School, class of 1940, -"— Pater^on. 'ield, Ala. He took primary train- f He has been at sea for more tha; ng in Arcadia, Fla., and basic at ireenville. Miss. He was commis- ioned last July 28 at Columbus, Goes To Illinois Miss. He left for England Octo- (Special to the 3ergcn Evening Record) ier 19. _ Glen view, 111., Juno 23—Navall At Maxwell Field, Gorman be-| • Aviation Cadet Robert L. Wolpertj ,ame friends with Flight Office: •of 114 Griggs Avenue, TeaneckJ r"og Raven of the Royal Air Force, IN. J., having completed his train-1 d&o in training there. The day •Ing at the Naval Air School at the! Gorman left to go overseas, Raveni •University of Georgia, at Athens,! .rrived in Ridgefield Park for a •Georgia, now continues his studies! •isit. He stayed 5 days with the •here at the Naval Air Station. His I Jonnans before he returned to • previous training was at the North I Maxwell Field as an instructor. • Texas State Teachers College, Den-1 On Mother's Day this year, Gor- • ton, Texas. man visitprl T?,n.vpn'fi mother nt her Hoi.' Hi. mi i'i I'o Tech, Sergeant j! i Moones' Two Sons Technician Corporal Glare:. ••• J \ fl imiiili ting1 Training' Hoffmann ot 1100 Anna Slieet.1 ianeck brothers, Mrwlianll West Englewood, has written hi.si Cadet Robert Moone anrll parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Hotl-I |PiivaiK .Oonald Mouue, are &prv rnann irom somewhere m Aliical I with tho armed forces. They are hat he has been promoted to teen-1 sons of Mr. and Mrk, J, J. Moone f dcian sciecant in Ihp maintenance! || of 976 Teaneck Road. 01 pt of the armored regiment to | Cadet Moone, who has ,1usl. re-j thicli he is attached. II turned to his training1 center Sergeant Hoffmann has been with | ISheepshead Bay, N. Y., after ft 3-1 he regiment since December, 1942.1 I week furlough, has completed liisl le leceivi'd his training at Foitl I basic training" and has qualified for I Cnox, Ky, and Port Bragg, His I Jihe rank of purser. He expects fcoj a other, P. F. C. Elmer Hoffman, | |leave far active duty soon. I with our forces in England. Private Moone is near the end ol| I basic training in the Army at (Croft, S. C, and has volunteered forf I para troop duty. At Navy School (Special to the Bergen Evening Upcorrl) Chicago, 111., June 29—Two Ber-J I sen County, N. J., bluejackets arej loro at the Navy Pier school leavn- 1 ng ground crew duties for the Navy| I Wv Force. They are: Wurtmann Cominissionert WEST ENGLEWOOD — Wallace! BOBEBT P. RANGES Arthur Wurtmann, 26S Edgeuiontl I V. Cornelius, 20, son of Mr. and! • Terrace, Teaneck, toe son of Mr. I 1 YMOND SI 1 * I vtrs. F. J. Schurenke of 1342 Pen-1 land Mrs. B, H. Wurtmann, received I jnington Road. ihis commission as an ensign in the"! I infantryman" wasl They are being instructed in re-1 INavy. Ensign "Wurtmann was grad-1 i ction in North Africa! ipair and maintenance of aircraft! iuated from Teaneok High School! 1 11 is parents say he left I |and will qualify for petty officer | §1939 and attended Nichols College,! iuty last October, and! atin •Dudley, Mass, for 2 yews. He was! 1 in the tirst group ofr i; n o^v^rntne"*" jvi*diinn in! vho invaded North I Iv, i-sl f his buddies was thel ipan to land on Af-j n 'ing the war, he par-1 iTeaneck Pilot, School! At a U. S. Bomber Station in I Clerk's Son, Killed u i a letter home which I I England, (IP) June ?,3—Twenty-1 April 26, telling hisj I four-year-old Major louis W.| A West Englewood troop ti-ans-j i i wounded and 20 days I I Bohr of Teaneck, N. J., pilot of I Iport pilot aud a Lyndhurst veteran! r 16 they received thel I the American Flying Fortress! lot the fight for Attu are the latest! i ?lcgram notifying them I I "Pappy", brought in his crew and! I to be named today in War Depart-1 en oim w»s wounded in action. I I ship safely here after bombingl 1 ment casualty lists, the one as killed 1 lother letter advised Mr. and Mi'b, E • the synthetic rubber plant of I I in action in the southwest Pacilic| .rail their son had been awarded I I the Germans at Huls yesterday.! land the other as wounded. o military order of the Purple I Killed In Action carl medal for being wounded in I I Their bombs sent up columns of! illon. He described the medal in a! I gray smoke 6,000 feet in the air.| RANGES, Flight Officer Robert! , ThO major saia that the go- ipaul; 24, son of District School! lort sentence and assured them he| ling- had not been so rough bull iClerk and Mrs. John H. Ranges* oil is all right. I that the anti-aircraft fire hail 11295 Alicia Avenue, West Enelewood.f His letters repeat he is recuperat-j I been heavy. His co-pilot, Maj. j g but his mother is not calmed byl I Eugene Lavier of Rochester, Wouiuled In Action because as she says, "He would! IN. y., made his first raid on TIRGRATH, First LieutonantS y he is all right no matter what! line trip. "We got our target alii Illoward L.; 26, son of Mr. and Mrs.] ippened to him. He's been that! I right," he reported. "The flak I IMymtert Tirgrath of 321 Page Ave-J ly since he was a little boy* He| I ahead of us looked like a wall." I Jnue, Lyndhurst. > I ways says not to worry." 1 Bohr has been in the Army I His brother, Corporal Felix F.I Also reported as killed in action! rail is with the Signal Corps ml I Air Force 3 years. He is the son Staff Sergeant Clement Frantz, s .dia. Following a custom they! I of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Bohr of I Plying fortress gunnor of North j irted when they were small, thel I 844 Queen Ann Roafl, Teaneck. I Bergen, and great grandson of thej ro brothel's sent their mother al JHe .graduated .Irom .TeaneclU llate Captain Clement Prantz of Du- iuquet of flowers for Mother's Day! I High and Bergen Junior Col- jmont, where the gunner's great-1 is year, although they were both! I lege. He has » wife and a 1- | launts still make their home. I erseas. His two older brothers,! I month-old son. Advice tlie gunner died camel aijamin and Stephen Strall served! iMonday to his parents, Mr. and I th the Army in the last Worldf •Mrs. Augustus Frantz of 1311 Forty-J ar. Ithird Street, North Bergen. Strall entered the service in Jan-1 Frantz enlisted in the Army Air| ,ry, 1941, and received his training! iPorce in October, 1941, and had been! Fort Bragg, N. 0, with the I •overseas 11 months serving for ai iEsslinger Trains Iperiod in Palestine. His parents be-| |At Florida Post . ilieve ho was on duty in the southl Lieutenant Junior Grade, Robert! lAsia area when he died. r •A. BsElinger of the Coast Guard,] Ranges was serving with the ison of Mrs. C. A. Bsslinger of 9431 I Southwest Pacific Troop Carrier j •Prince Street, Teaneck, left for St.! • Transport Service when he died! W LEE GIVES! •Augustine, Fla,, today, to attend! J May 12. His family has not heard! Ian advanced training school of thel jhow he died. The flight oiflcer en-| HNavy. He had been in service on I Itlie Pacific coast and was home on I • listed in November, 1941, and camel la 10-day furlough. j jinto rank as flight officer last Oe-f jtober at Napier Field, Ala. I Another son, Captain Arthur C,| I Ranges left for overseas duty in! iEsslinger ol the Army Aviation! SMarch. His letters home had beenf Ordnance Corps has been in Puerto! I postmarked from New Guinea. PARS TO I IRE Rica, 'for more than 2 years. Hel I A brother, Private First Class John I was a reserve officer, having been I Jw. Ranges, is with the Army AH I .a member of the R. O. T. C. at I J Force Bombardier School at Pyottj ITuite, Teaneck; CuttilloJ [Massachusetts Institute of Tech-" I Field, Tex. Garfield; Britting Of Inology. 9 Tirgrath's family lirst disclosed I •last Monday their officer-son had I Park Commissioned •Bucknell Stuacnt •been wounded in battle, and todaj! JLeaves For Fort Dix Icame through with information in-1 |23 FROM NEW JERSEYS I Prank William Strickland, son ofl jdicating he might have led a 16-T •Councilman and Mrs. Arthur Stride-f iman detail in storming intrench-1 Bland of Teaneck, left today for! jments on Attu. I Three Bergen County men -werej Iport Dix. He was a student at Buck-1 I He wrote his mother about his ex-1 I among the. 763 officers commie-1 Inell University, for 3 years when hel Ipeiiences, "Some of them were good [ isloned today at the Quartermaster! •enlisted on June 4. He was a mem-1 •some bad but all interesting and ]j I School, Camp I'e, Ta,, according I Iber of the R. O. T. C. and the re-1 fhaven't regretted any of them." I 1 to an announo. ment by Brigadierl • serve corps. At college he was al I Tirgrath had ben in Alaska since j I General (Seorge A. Horkan. I imember ot the boxing and wrestling! lApril. Before that he was in Ire-I 1 They were 'William Augustas 1 j teams and won his letter aa a soq-| Bland and as he awaited passage tuf J'ruite, 181 Hlierman Avenue, Tea-1 leer player. •North Africa he was recalled home j • neck; Thomas Oiittillo, 226 Harrison I •for offi"1™ t"™iiir" lAvenue, Garfield, and Howard Vic-1 ftory Briltlng, 31 BidgefieJ4 Avenue,! iBidgefleld Pal*, I 1 There were a? other men frqinl •New Jersey, oft, ftt^'ltet Imneck Soldier Cartoonist] PRISONER Craws Cards For Buddies C* Teaneck service man, who used to run his family's! c bill sky high when he stayed up all night perfecting! i in cartooning, now sits up nights somewhere in Eng-I lesignlng special V-mail greeting cards for his buddies! DID 200 OP THEM commanding officer, requested five! . Mr. and Mrs. Mathew cards for his children at home in| parents ol Technical Ser- Silver Springs, Md. ,eo Botyos, received delayed One card to Colonel Moodispaw'si cards from their son this daughter, Jean, showed a rabbitr id, they learned also that he broadcasting over a microphone,! a designing all types of cards saying "Overseas Flash — Happy! other men In his Signal Easter". On the inside of the card.f •mtllt, who find it difficult Colonel Moodispaw wrote: any kind of greeting cards "Dear Jean, Sergeant Botyos, myj land. chief clerk, deserves credit for this| letter to his family, Sergeant drawing." explained that when the Of ail the praise he received, this! w the first card he designed comment meant the most to Ser-j iself they requested copies geant Botyos, his mother si j CORF. RAYMOND E. JOHMSON r own use and he now finds Sergeant Botyos, whose home is| JOHNSON, Corporal Raymond E.ij has to stay up all night to at 531 Spring Street, Teaneck, is a| 125 son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew! is cards. He drew more than graduate of Teaneck High School,! J Johnson of 127 Hillside Avenue, I ds on V-mail stationary be- and was employed with the Inter-I j Teaneck. _ I 1 thought of mimeographing national Nickel Company of Newi ) save time. Now he designs York until several months before! Johnson's parents learned ycster-l types of cards and mimeo- he entered service. He became I day in a telegram from the War De-f them for his buddies. Teaneck fireman and served hisi I partment of their son's whereabouts] probationary period at Headciuar-I I They believe from the address pro-f irst attempt, the Easter card I vided that lie is in Germany. i mother, caricatured himself ters Company before he left for toe| ignal Corps in August, 1941. I They heard also unofficiallyL bouquet of flowers for his I through letters, telephone calls, and! In his hand. Below him were His brother, George, a member off ipost cards from people throughout* one held a sign saying the Teaneck Police Department,^ ITJCTV Jersey who heard a short-wava Easter from Somewhere in said that he liked cartooning sol I broadcast May 15, that Johnson isj 1". much that he took night courses ini • either a prisoner of Ihe German is this card that made the commercial art. He only did it asl I or has been moved to Germany. hen he saw it, Lieutenant a hobby, and never tried his hand| at commercial cartooning, I Mrs. Johnson said she first re-| Eugene Moodispaw, his I celved a telogi-am from the War De- 1 partment March 22. This declared I Johnson to be missing; in action. > 115 Complete Course 1 month later she received a telegran JFlrin Promoted I saying that he had been taken : n Signal Corps I prisoner of war by the Italians. She. (special Lo the aereen Evening Record) I To P. F. C. At Keeslcr 9 heard nothing further from the Wail New Brunswick, June 9—The see-! (special to the Bmgen Evening newel) I Department until yesterday. L md group of Teaneck High School! Biloxi, Miss., June 11—Privs B During the past few weeks shci \rmy Enlisted Reserve Corps men| •Robert T. Finn, son of Mr. and M ihas received 15 cards, Idlers, and! :ompletod its prescribed Sisnall I Thomas E. Finn of 540 Cumberla I telephone calls from peoplo who! ;orps course today and reported at I •Avenue, Teaneck, was promoted iheard the broadcast which said hc| ince for active duty. I line grade of private first class 11 gwas now in Germany. In this class, there were 15 Ber-j • week and enrolled at Keesler Ficl< en County men as follows: I huge B - 24 Liberator median: No word lias come from Johnson! *B3T"EHGLEWOOD—Hubert c. Hacfc-I I since he was taken a prisoner,! I school of the Army Air Force, • Father Quigley of St. Anastasia'ol nan. I lit. C. Church of Teaneck, brought! These Signal Corps trainees area • Mr. and Mrs. Johnson one message! BA section of the 2,000 being instruct-! led by the Rutgers University En-1 Ifrom the Vatican in Rome, inforin-j I gmee'ring, Science and Manage-j •ing them that their ton was in ai linent War Program. •transit camp in Italy and they wore! Hotmer Raise To Corporal permitted to send him a cablegram] (Special to iheBereen EvetlinE Recmtu |of 25 words. Camp Carson, Colo., Jung 16 - ' Johnson is 25 years old. a gradu-l rivate First Class Warren Lee Ho late of the Dickinson High School! lof Jersey City and the New York! amer of West Euglewood, has bee •promoted to corporal in the tie ischool of Banking. He was em-i iartlllery here. •ployed by Chase National Bank: un-I I til he entered the service in Jan-I §Lt. Dleckman Arrives Juary, 1941. He trained with the! |Por Training As Pilot • Infantry at Fort Bragg, N. C, and! (special to ths Bersen Evening Record) •landed in North Africa- with the! Greenville, S. C, June 11—Re-| I first invasion. Jeently commissioned Second Lieu-I BlaoWedge Advances His letters home never told much I Itenant Bernard C. Diekman Jr., ofj (Special to the Bsreen Snnlni Record) •about the fighting he saw, hisl Il67 Larch Avenue, Teaneck, N. J.,1 Chapel Hill, N. 0, June 25—Navi 1| [mother said, bpt he did say he lost! lias arrived here at the end of fur-f BAviation Cadet Lloyd Richai'J •everything he owned on his trip llough, for operational training as al IBlackledge, son of Mi', and Mrs. 1 •across, indicating his ship had bee |A. Blaekledge of 756 Cedar Lan •torpedoed. •pilot in the Army Air Force. He I JTeaneck,'N. J., has completed pi'F Bwon his wings at Freeman Field,! |flight_training hen and has ad 1 One brother, Andrew A. JohnsonJ Iseymour, Ind., May. 28. I vanced to primary flight trainir |is training with the Na,vy at Camp I A brother, Private Donald F.g Jat the Glen View, 111,, Naval A , Va. BDiekman, has been assigned from! I Station. He attended Bogota,- N. .' iFort Dlx, N. J., to Camp Croft, S. C.i I High School and Bergen College. |He attended Georgetown TJniver-| Islty and served in its Reserve Ofl.-I leer Training Corps. HThree From Here Enroll jFor Carnegie Tech Study (Special to the Bergen Evening Record) - Pittsburgh, Pa., June 11 — ThKC •Bergen County, N. J., soldiers t f • enrolled here at Carnegie Institi .<••% lot Technology in the basic enr.-j I neering course of the Army Specin -j llzed Training Program as follov. I" TEANECk—William H. Byrnes ol C1 ICarltmi Terrain. „ Byrnes has been named A. S. -P. representative in charge of pv."- llications on. the Army-Civilian A-- •Uvities Committee. He attend. "l| nwashington and Lee College for : pears before entering' tha Army. Teaneck Flier In Ruhr Raid as M.ii. Rohr Pilots Fort- Army Vet at 24 Letter Received locidlcfl Press. After War Dept. AT A U. S. BOMBER STATION| SIN ENGLAND, June 22—Columns Wire Buoys Hope lot grey smoke puffed 6,000 | into the air luday above the syn-i By SALLY MacDOUGAIX, I thetic rubber center of Huls afterf World-Telegram Stajf Writer. 1 American Flying Fortresses had! A mother's faith that her son isi 1 made their first attack on the Ruhi,| still alive is strong enough to I [reluming fliers said tonight, I combat the fact that ais name is I Maj. Louis W. Rohr, of TeanockJ I pilot of the Fortress "Pappy" who! I on a list of soldiers killed in action I lied the squadron from this station! I in the Southwest Pacific made I I described the raid as "not so rough,"! I public today by the War Depart-1 1 although he said the flak was in- I inent. I 1 tense. The soldier's name is Flight! Maj. Eugene C, Lavier ol Ro-I Officer Robert P. Ranges, 24, of I 9 chostor, N. Y., Rohr's co-piloL, who! the Army Air Force, who had I I was making his first raid, said: j been (lying transport planes ml I "We goLjnir target all right" and) New Guinea and Australia. The! parents arc Mr. .md Mrs. John H. I • he described enemy llak iis "look-1 Ranges, 1295 Alicia Ave., West g ling like a wall in froni of us af I Englewood, N. J. I times." *Tho Jightcis, he said, con-1 "We don't accept the War De-| cent rated on head-on attacks bul | I partment news. We feel there! I didn't pi ess them home closely. I must be some mistake," Mrs. I I Eanges said. "We are keeping our I Maj. Rohr, although only 241 belief that he is alive and that! [years old, has been in I lie Army I the good news will come. His | I Air Forces more than 3 years. He| letters have been so lively and! iis the son of Mr. and Mrs, Morris| cheerful, especially the one that! • Rohr, 844 Queen Ann rd., T came after the War Department! lanrl also has a sister, Anne, living | I telegram. |at home. In Line (or DSC. The flier was gradualed from I iTcanock High School in 10,'ifi, ami I "In a letter we received shortly I • from Bergen Junior College in mid-1 I before that news he told us he! iterm in 1930, entering Hie Aimyl had made 33 combat flights since! ! March and that he had been told I day after Chrisimns of thai I I he was in line for the DlsUnguished I lyear. He received his primary? I Service Cross. Then this bolt out! • training at Tulsa, Okla., then was! I of the blue. We just can't accept! •transferred to Randolph Field,! ] jt. After that telegram came wei §Tex., and received his commission! had another cheerful letter from| jai Kelly Field, Tex. I him. In civil life Maj, Rohr worked ini "Dear Mom, don't ever worry! it he machine shop at PeerlossP [ about me," he wrote in that last! [Moulded, Inc., 477 Teaneck rd., but! letter. "Things here aren't nearly | •oven as he worked hp was studying! I as bad as you might think." •at night and spent his spare time,| "That's what we're holding to," I • if any, learning to fly at Tnlerbora the mother said. "We just can't I iAirport, This aviation onlhusiacnj believe that he is not alive. We| ihis father said last night, started: ! expect the good n S ?s to come." I at an early age, and at 16 the Flight Officer Binges, fair, five! I major was fl>ing pianos. feet 10 and slender, won his first! He has a wife and a 7-months-oId§ tennis cup when he was a student! ison, Louis Ralph, who live in San at Teaneck High School. Tennis I I Antonio, continued to be his chief recrea-[ tion until he left ihis country. He j got, his wings lasf October in I Texas. The two other sons in the I family also are in the service.! | Edwin, the eldest, is in the navy I and John, the youngest, is taking j bomber crew training in Texas.