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Stories of Brooklyn Men and Women in U. S. War Service Your Wartime Problems With Our By RICHARD HART Red Cross Lists 'Repeat Donors' In Plasma Drive If you donated pint of blood to th army and navy through the Red Cross Blood Donor Center at 57 Willoughby fit. on or before laM Oct 0 you are eligible to make another donation after Dec. 7.

Phone the Center today and make another appointment. Tha, num-ii TRlangle 5-8040. The following persons who enlisted their blood for the duration at the Center are among those who made "repeat donations" recently: Xskln. Brth P. Newflcld, Mm BiraKO, Prank Nordbye, Dorothy L.

Far, Edward L. Orltr, Harold Pedele, Anihonr R. Orphan, Samuel Fender, Laurent H. Perlow, Louis PUzpatrlck, Walter Penner, Bamuel M. mwm a mil' nr s.

Age Alone Is Not the Determining Factor in Promotions "Wht chance has the married man of getting a commission when ha drafted?" asks Emll J. M. "In the early days of the war all my frienda were getting commissions from civil life. Now, my prospects don't look ao good." Frankly, the chances of a man's getting a commission nowadays are not as good as they were. Direct commissions to enlisted men and civilians In the United States are limited generally to doctors, dntists, veterinary surgeons, licensed pilots and certain needed 'experts.

Overseas, direct commissions from the ranks are on the increase; also officer candidate schools are being expanded In the theaters of operations. This fact should not discourage any man from trying. There are still officer training schools in this country and obviously a man's background counts in the selection of new students; more than ever. The competition is keen and the services can have their pick. While a great deal depends on the results of the man's intelligence tests, a mature man has a personality factor in his favor.

This Is particularly true of men serving overseas. Battle experience counts heavily in most of these appointments and it is logical that the mature man will make a better showing under fire. As a rule the non-commissioned officers selected overseas are the more mature type: men who have poise and leadership qualities. There is a great deal of Justice in the new policy of the army and also the navy, which lays great stress on the man's ability to handle himself In combat action. The commissions and promotions that are being granted nowadays are the reward of merit and the fellows earn-lg them can be justly proud, ASIDES TO READERS To J.

E. McK. Every outfit overseas has a locator file. If the man has been transferred to another unit, or sent to a hospital, his Christmas package will be routed to him. To S.

E. R. It seems logical that the A. P. O.

number he uses on his mall Is the correct one. Why not make a carbon of your letter and send the second copy to the other A. P. O. address.

To J. E. B. If he has been shipped via San Francisco, It may take a long time before you will hear from him again, as he might be headed for Australia. To H.

E. J. V-mail Is much quicker, as a rule, than air mall. To MARIE K. Yes, mall is censored both ways.

-A ARMORED FIGHTERS Brooklynites stationed at the armored force replacement training center, Fort Knox, are, left to right, Pvts. Irwin Mandel of 343 Pennsylvania Max Schindler of 974 Montgomery Ave. and An-, thony G. Abbene of 1133 Rogers Ave. ASS'T SANTA, U.

S. N. Petty Officer Frederick Ernest of the Navy Construction Battalion, shown in his spare time doing a reconstruction job on wrecked tricycle at the Long Beach USO Club's model workshop. It will go to his 6-year-old nephew and is one of the many toys collected by local children. Kiddies in 5 L.

I. Towns Foiarty, Henry B. Pried man. Louia Prtedel, Anne Oartland, Fred Oendler. Ruby Cterber, Clar Gold.

Louis Manetz. Philip Man, Edward Make, Jack Maxser, Sophl Matlin, Hae Mattls. Eunice MiCormick, Eleanure kit-Hugh, Prank R. edit Alma Peters. Marc a ret Phelfer, Charlotl Polakr.

Irvlns Porinoy, Fannlt Ralph, Edward Kabinowitz. Saul Rand. Joseph Steeber, Albert P. Steser. Harold Btelger.

Leo Steinberg, Edna Steinberg, Jack Hrernberg. Sylvia Strains, Ethel auchrr, Max Supnik, Michael Surgeon, Isidore Metrlti. Laurette Telchin. Doms MesMnier. Gertrude Thompxon.

Aslaui Mull. Sybil O. Tonellato. Amtti Meyer, Haroid P. Meyer, Laura Miiler.

Jacob Isidore. Moran. Patrick Moore, An dps D. Moore, Edward Moskowttz, Jeaunt Mom, Robert Mulhgaa. John Murphy, Ann Tueci.

James Turkel, Pearl Turr, Rita E. VttleSa- Catherine Van Detison, E. Herbert Van Orden. Shirley Vincent, Robert Wart ell, Jack Welner, Alexander 5 From This Area Killed in Battle Washington, Dec. 4 (U.R) The War Department made public today the names of 165 United States soldiers killed in action In the Asiatic, European, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Pacific and Southwest Pacific areas.

On the list are five names of local men. The dead Include: Mediterranean Area Bl'WEN. Pvt. Frank D. Mrs.

Mae Buwen, mother, 48, Lester Freeport. MILLER, 2d Lt. Samuel W. Joseph Miller, father, 1115 Union St. Snil'LMAN, Pvt.

Philip Sidney i To Have Oldtime Xmas SECOND LIEUTENANTS commissioned at the marine base, Quantico, and assigned to advanced combat training are, left to right, George A. Horn of 1745 Caton Arthur De Chantal Hamilton of 749 Willoughby Ave. and William F. Haake of 1866 Palmetto St. Schulman, brother, 66 Humboldt St.

SENATORE, Pvt. Frank Mrs. Amelia Senatore, mother, 131 Kane St. Southwest Pacific Area MEEHAN, Staff Sgt. Frederick J.

Mrs. Margaret J. Meehan, mother, 204 Noel Road, Broad Channel. BUY V. S.

WAR BONDS AND SAVINGS STAMPS Children of service men around Long Beach will have a real, old-fashinoed Christmas, "Just like the one I used to know," for the daddies and their buddies are fashioning better-than-new toys in the novel toy repair shop sponsored by the U. S. O. Five Towns Committee and the school children's Victory clubs. with hammer and nails, paint brush and paint, community civil ians have joined the men in uniform restoring the prestlne and shining glory of dilapidated doll houses, boats and "the ltttlte toy soldiers all red with delivered to the U.

S. O. Club in Long Beach from toy collections in Inwood, Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodhiere and Hewlett. The "new" toys will be sent to the small-fry on their own gilt lists. Brooklynites taking a special course of instruction at Camp Murphy, are Pvts.

Murray Polon-sky of 209 E. 39th John J. Hor-gan of 80 78th Max S. Saslow of 74 Sherman Daniel Zager of 196 Rockaway Parkway, Henry P. Wolfe of 797 Sterling Place, Ralph Adelman of 3048 Brighton 1st Herbert Weller of 3093 Brighton 4th St.

and Robert H. Mcllroy of 3709 Farragut Road. J. a. Cuabrl J.

r. Knetwh Serving with an ordnance outfit overseas is Lt. John R. Cambria of Brooklyn. A graduate of the officers candidate school at Aber- lW A ft h' I 1 SmL? If- it i Sgt.

Nicholas J. Pantazakos of 113-08 Jamaica jticnmona Hill, has invented a device which reduces to a minimum the time-consuming job of all soldiers the marking of names and serial numbers on barracks bags. The device. which works like a small printing press, cut to almost one-thirtieth the time required to stencil name and numbers on two bugs. Pantaza- N.

J. roiiki itoa, a free lance artist for two years, is stationed at the army air forces redistribution station, Atlantic City. N. J. Aviation cadets taking a combined course as bombardier navigators at Midland, Texas, are Alexander L.

Morgan of 12 E. 7th Elliott Reznik of 2039 77th St. and Arthur Thompson of 202 E. 91st St. Assigned to duty as a clerk at Big Spring.

Texas. Is Tech. Sgt. James M. Hlggins of 672 Vanderbilt St.

Stationed at the Army War College. Washington. D. William E. Blatz of 539 84th St.

has been promoted to staff sergeant. Alfred Mazer of 322 Saratoga a recent graduate of the aviation machinist's mate school at Jacksonville. Fla has been promoted to private first class. Martin Petruk of 95-15 Brlsbln Jamaica, was recently graduated from the maritime service radio training station at Gallup Island, Mass. Now a technician fifth grade at Port Washington.

is Eleanor R. Smith of 255 Parkvtlle Ave. Another Brooklynite recently promoted is Corp. Tech. Lester C.

Spleer, stationed at the Army War College, Washington, D. C. Stationed at the University of Indiana, Marian T. Gleason of 1817 E. 35th St.

has been promoted to seaman second class. Her brother John is a seaman second class taking radio training in Cuba. Lt. Prank R. Moran of 220 Seeley St.

is home on 30-day convalescent leave from the Aleutian Islands. Now at San Diego. Cal after his recent furlough at home, Robert E. Munkeet of 49 E. 19th St.

is a graduate of the army air forces technical school at Yale University. De Mt Ted ZntMiraky Winner of the Air Medal, IX Ted Zaborxky of 28:1 5th Ave. writes that his crew shot down six planes last week. Sgt. Stanley DeN.it iif 319 Beach StHli St.

Is an armurer-guii-ner recently graduated frtiiu WimkI-over Meld, I'tah. 11 J. E. Hritirn Juhn TemlWrt Seaman 2d Class James E. Hei-berg of 1825 Flai.bu.sh Ave.

is stationed at Stillwater. Oklu. John Tessitore of 6H3 Beruon St. was recently graduated from the aviation radio school at Jacksonville, as an honor and piomoted to aviation radioman third lass. B.

V. ('unninrhum K. n. Kallv.ik A former radio sinner. Corp.

Richard B. Kaliszak of 2130 E. 5th St. Is a mfmbfr of the marine corps in the South Pacific. Navy Chaplain Bernard V.

Cunninylmm of 977 Lincoln Place, formerly serving st Our Lady Queen of Trace par-i-h. S. at. an advanced base in the Caribbean. Bn Allman J.

J. P.IU Radio Runner taking advanced tramiiiK on a um Fortress at Rapid City. IJ. is Sat. Ben Alt-man of 25 Road.

Pvt. Joseph J. Pat'i Brooklyn is stationed at CasT, o. Joseph F. B.

of 417 51st St. has been promo id to sergeant at an advanced iuiit bombardment base ni the Rnirino.st Pacific. Slain Hero Turned Down 2-Month Leave Boro's Lt. Miller Looked Forward to Playing Star Spangled Banner on Tommy Gun in Berlin "As much as I know you want me home, I Drefer to stav AVIATION CADETS recently appointed and transferred to Pensacola, for intermediate flight training are William E. Wassmer (left) of 1734 Brooklyn Ave.

and John J. Crimmins of 1786 E. 21st St. deen, Lieutenant Cambria enlisted in May, 1942. First Lt.

Julius P. Koetsch of 257 Covert St. Is completing his first tour of duty in the South Pacific area. There are two other Senatore sons in the army. They are Private John and Corporal Fortunato.

PVT. BllWEN SERVED WITH PATTON IN SICILY A veteran of Lieutenant General Patton's 7th Army, which swept through Sicily, Pvt. Frank Buwen wa.s transferred to the 5th Army in Italy, where he Is reported to have been killed in action. His mother, Mrs. Mae L.

Buwen of 48 Le.s'er Freeport, said that Frank had written very little of his experiences in battle. Private Buwen shipped overseas April 1 as a machine gunner in the infantry. His brother. Joseph recently home on leave, is training- with the air cadets at Santa Anna, Cal. PVT.

SCHUI.MAN FOUGHT IV THREE CAMPAIGN'S Twenty-year-old Private Philip Schulman, who fought in Casablanca, Sicily and Italy, was killed in action in Italy on Oct. 15. After three months of basic trainins, Schulman had been sent to North Africa in July. He had seen action ever since, never rote much about it. His brother.

Sidney Schulman, lives at 66 Humboldt St. ice bars to the workers have served there the canteen was opened in May, 1942. Mrs. James L. Curtis, who was with the Y.

M. C. A. overseas in World War I. is chairman of the canteen and will receive the First Lady.

Following the ceremonies there. Mrs. Roosevelt will visit the Navy St. Canteen where Mrs. Russell V.

Cruikshank is chairman, and the Information Center and manned by the TVSO on Joralcmon near Court iv Mrs. Helen V. Donahue is chairman. The Brooklyn Deluise Recreation 1' rMMASi here until I can walk the of Berlin and play 'The Star-Spangled Banner' on my tommy gun." Thus 2d Lt. Samuel Miller of 1115 Union St.

wrote from D.A.R. to Commemorate Pearl Harbor Attack The members of the Daughters of the American Revolution will observe Tuesday, the second anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, with five minutes of meditation and prayer at noon. This was announced In a communication to the 2,569 chapters by Mis. William H. Pouch, president general.

She asks members to break records In connection with the D. A. R. war program. ing hats, subdue In three minutes a huge wlnd-skept blaze of 900 gallons of fuel oil.

The school, which opened last month, is one of seven in the countrj- Home is home but business is business. Henry Eisman and Benjamin Branitz, brothers-in-law. who live together in perfect amity in the same house, found themrlvcs in Flatbush Court the other da? for trying to snag customers from each other at their rival photography shops on Schermerhorn They were fined $25 each and warned that their next vendetta would cast them $50 and a short vacation In the "cooler." After paying the fines they left affably for their mutual apartment. Wanna fly to the For half-a-million dollars Robert J. McLaughlin of 73 West End Manhattan Beach, will fix you up a nice rocket ship guaranteed to get you to the lunar surface and It's simply a question of centrifugal force, said Mr.

Mo Lnughlin. former Fordham professor. His proposed rocket shin, which would be 400 feet long and 40 feet wide, is operated by inside proner.Ts, driving strong currents of air to the bottom of the vessel. Mr. McLaughlin, who calls himself a "naturnl-born inventor." has 12 creations to his credit in th last three months alone.

CHRISTMAS CRAFTSMEN These Long Island high school boys are among the many young people who have been making shower sandals for service men at the USO Five Towns Committee model workshop during the past year. They are, left to right, Raymond Krapata of Hewlett, Bill Fox of Gibson and Charles Kane of Woodmere. Several members of the clergy in addition to local business men and housewives have donned "clvles" and are helping the service men with their Christmas project, according to Mrs. Philip M. Waterman, chairman of the committee.

"Every one in the 'Five Towns' doing something to make the holiday season as happy as possll' for the boys In the army, navy and Coast Ouard around here." siie declared, adding that In addition to the toy shop, younger children are making favors to go on breakfast trays for men In hospitals. Their older brothers and sisters are making scrap-books and thower sandals. The two last items provide a year-round Job for the buys and girls, Mrs. Waterman said. Lt.

Thomas B. Palliser University and had been graduated from Pratt Institute in 1938. He worked as an architect until he went into service. of C. Will Sponsor Show by Amateurs Amateur thes plans of the Riciae section will present "War Workers on Parade," Friday ar.d Saturday at the clubhouse of Thomas DoiiRan Council.

K. of I 7601 4th Ave. Tiie show is spon-I sorerl by the council. William Kelly is director and Dougias Carbrcy dance director, i i NEWCOMERS AT ST, JOHN'S The vanguard of army engineering trainees, whose academic instruction begins Dec. 13, are welcomed to St.

John's University by the Very Rev. Dr. William J. Mahoney, C. who assumed the presidency of the university just a year ago.

With Dr. Mahoney on the top step are the Rev. Dr. Cyril F. Meyer, C.

dean of St. John's College, co-ordinator, and Capt. Edward Munkhoff of Des Moines, Iowa, commandant of the post. Boro Officer Led Engineers Against Japanese Pillboxes NO MAIL TO MAN IN THC ARMED SERVICES BROOKLYN EAGLE MEN'S DIGEST OF THE WEEK' overseas to his father back hoin. July he was wounded in action in Sicily, but recovered.

They of- fered him a two-month leave but lie refused and went back into the i fight. 1 Yesterday came official word that he wa.s killed in action on the Italian mainland. i Lieutenant Miller. 23, enlisted in September, 1941, went to officer candidate In Maryland and later wa.s assigned to the chemical warfare division. His brother, Corp.

Nathaniel B. Miller, is in the ferry Ml it ad ion. PVT. SKNATOKE Ql IT WAK JOB TO ENLIST Pvt. Frank Senatore of 131 Kane St.

came through the entire Sicilian campaign without a scratch, then, alter a month and a half in Italy was killed in action Oct. 26. The day before the telegram reached home, Private Senatore had written that he hoped to be home early in 1944. It was Christmas Day last year that his family last saw him. and shortly after that his mail came from North Africa.

Of the people in Sicily, he wrote that they had suffered greatly and treated "the boys" well. He had enlisted in the army about six months before he went across, leaving a defense job. i The combat engineers at Buta-ritarl were led by Lt. Thomas B. Palliser of 423 Westminster Road.

He was one of the heroes of the fighting which took place at Makin Island in the South Pacific on Nov. 23. The Japs at Butaritarl were strongly fortified with concrete pillboxes, machine guns, grenades, mortars and rifles. Although the Americans' usual tactics were to fire at a pillbox from a tank and then drive the tank up on the pillbox, many of the pillboxes would not crumble under tank attack. On these occasions Lieutenant Palliser sent a man forward -undT cover of rifle fire to drop a nine-pound TNT chars? the pii.j) with a 12-foot pole.

Tiie man had 20 seconds to get away before the blast. Bv using this method about 20 pillboxes were said to have been knocked out. Lieutenant Palliser has served in the Pacific area for a year and a half. He joined the 102d Engineers of the New York National Guard in 1940 and went Into the army when the members of the guard were called to duty. Prior to this he had attended Cornell Committee operates all tliree of trtpw service men's The committee is a rcneii-iary of thp National War Fluid tlironsh the Nrw York City Delense Recrra-'ion Committee.

Bl'Y I'. S. WAR BONDS AND SAVINGS STAMPS CUT OUT Reaction to the August grand jury's presentment on crime conditions in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area continued to keep civic and political circles at white heat. Latest to enter the fray was Mrs. Genevieve B.

Earle, City Council minority leader, who declared that "Brooklyn seems to have swallowed the presentment hook, line and sinker." She challenged eight specific rharges which she said were ported by facts or figures. Dwellers in smoke-blackened Williamsburg indignantly prepared to endure the nuisance of soot for the duration as the Board of Estimate pigeon-holed the Conrad anti-smoke bill. Led by Councilman Sharkey, over 150 residents of the area had trooped into the board's chambers in a last-minute attempt to win a favorable vote, only to see the Conrad bill filed away on the ground of wartime necessity. Thrty-nine wholesale firms, accursed of having raised a huge "shush" frnd for black market op-1 eration. found themselves under in-.

riictment bv the Brooklyn Federal Brand jury. The scheme, by which housewives were allegedly relieved of nearly in prices above the legal limit, is believed to be the bicgest such operation exposed since the beginning of the war. SERVICE SUNDAY, DEC. 5, 1943 SPORTS Back in town after his transcontinental hop, Leo Durocher, Dodger boss, opined that the Dodgers now could, if they wanted to, bring back Sunkel, Sherer and Flowers from Montreal. The three twirlers have been up in the draft and nobody claimed them.

In a last-minute somersault at the Broadway Arena the judges de. elared in favor of Tommy Campanula over Teddy Reynolds and then promptly reversed themselves to announce the fight a draw. The decision favoring Campanula was greeted with considerable noise, chiefly of the Bronx variety. Bettors paid off, and then, after the reversal, went looking for the gents who received the dough. It was a dashed Jolly mix up, old chap.

At Ridgewood Grove Jimmy Co-Ian drew a decision against Billy Grant. Basketball fans will see the Camp Vpton quintet trade dribbles today with the lirnoklvn Jewish Center boys at the latter headquartrrs. In the first public demonstration of taught at the navy's flre-fiehter sehr.ori. Kent Ave. and N.

12th reporters saw 15 sailors, wearing nothing more fireproof than oilskins and Gloucester fish President's Wife Will Pay Visit To Boro Canteens Next Sunday Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will pay her first visit to service men's centers in Brooklyn next Sunday.it wa.s announced yesterday by the Brooklyn Defense Recreation Committee, whose chairman is Edwin B. Wilson, editor of the Brooklyn Eaule. She will visit first (lie Ful'nn-Rumner Canteen at Fulton St.

in the Beriforri-Stuyvesant district-and distribute rerttfi'-ates and serv- 12 BROOKLYN EAGLE, SUNDAY, DEC. 5, 1943.