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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 16

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Stories of Brooklyn Men and Women in U. S. War Service Your Wartime Problems Familiet Who Try to 'Back Stat Drivt' A Man's Army Career Face Difficulties Wlk-Vt ike "Our son deej not like the army. to go to Washington to argue for his I am afraid he will desert. Have you any advice to give as the best way to proceed?" asks a mother who haa Just received a very dlaturbing Defense Unit Nears $350,000 Goal in Bond Drive for Bomber letter from her boy who is with the We are afraid that this fond mother la not going to have much success in Washington, There is no authority to whom she may go to secure a release for her son.

In cases of dire family distress man nay apply to his commanding officer for a release but lt almost takes an act of Congress to effect such releases nowadays. This motber, who writes in a rather strident handwriting, had better turn her attention to bolstering up her son's morale. Mora than likely she has coddled him In civil life and he still expects her to fight hit battles tor him. But, he has moved Into a man's world and her "back-seat driving" of his army career is only going to Increase his unhapplnesa. And cause him no end of embarrassment.

1j A Jf MISPLACED SYMPATHY Actually, t.e percentage of men who are utterly charmed by army life is small indeed. Thank God, there is a high percentage of men In service who have determined to make the best of the present situation and, sooner or later, this boy must reconcile himself to lt all. This mother wi'l do the boy's morale no service by trying to wangle his release from Washington. Instead, she should write him a stiff letter. BOMBARDIERS Receiving second lieutenants' commissions and bombardiers' wings at Roswell, N.

are, left to right, H. S. Kokofsky of 73 Legion Joseph F. Ryan of 79 15th St. and Saul Walsh of 62 Maujer St.

were Enoch Torgersen of 1964 E. 36th M. J. Ackerman of 759 Crown St. and Edward Bashner of 1134 Sutter Ave.

be Ralph D. Cole, president of the firm. Other activities of the unit Include send-offs to trainees, Victory Garden planting, salvage drives and free Red Cross courses. The North Shore Hotel Association has donated four-stretcher ambulance to the Central Queens chapter of the Red Cross. The association has headquarters in Chicago, Additional firms entitled to awards for participation in the recent Red Cross drive have been announced by the same chapter, The Central Queens chapter received 5,558 requests for service from men in the armed forces and their relatives in March.

The Red Cross unit of Union Temple received a citation for "exceptional service" at a meeting of the Sisterhood today in the temple, 17 Eastern Parkway. Mrs. Leonie H. LeVien of 120 St. Mark's Ave.

has given plasma to the Red Cross blood bank for the ninth time. Local Draft Board 213, at 1561 Brooklyn will' use Century's Farragut Theater for Inductions starting May 27. Inductions will be held at 7 a.m. The Brooklyn Eagle Is glad to print news of organliations, serving our common cause on the home front In the war. Communications should be addressed to Home Front Editor, Brooklyn Eagle, Johnson and Adams Brooklyn.

at the army air force basic training center at Kearns, I'lah. Leon Cohen of 7081 Fort Hamilton Parkway was recently graduated from a training detachment of the army air forces technical training command, Chillicothe, Mo. i At Fort Miles. John F. McMahon of 1034 76th St.

has been promoted from the rank of private first class to technician fifth grade, in grant-. suggesting that he play a man's role in a man's world. REGULAR PROCEDURE If, however, he feels he Is in the wrong service he can ask for an Interview with his commanding officer. He can state his case, and If he can proe he would be of more service In another type of work, his commanding officer can send him to the personnel placement officer at the camp for a review of his case. Rut men are not trans ferred merely because they do not like what they are now doing.

Any arguments for transfers should be built around definite facts hat is "for the good of the service." The boy had better do this himself. A fond mother at an army camp, trying fight her son's battles, is a pathetic spectacle. A wife's f-ars will not help and the father who pounds on the commanding officer's table is wasting his time. ASIDES TO READERS: To G. B.

P. If the soldier legally adopted a boy before he went into service, he can apply for an allotment for the boy, but he must submit legal evidence of this adoption, To DAN O. S. There is no legal means by which you can attach the wife's allotment check. To E.

A. S. As soon as you reach camp look up the army emergency relief officer and explain the circumstances of your family's condition. If the case is serious this officer can send money to your wife for those hospital expenses. If yoa have any problem on your mind, write to Richard Hart, care of this newspaper.

A stamped, addressed envelope will bring a personal reply. Institute. nTV" Irwin Richards of 1160 E. 9th St. is now a private first class at Fort Riley.

where he Is attending the armored forte school. Francis J. Ross, Lt. Joseph A. Hurley, and Corp.

Thomas P. Ross have just returned to their stations after spending a furlough together at their home, 350 Prospect Place. Pfc. Frank and Sgt. Moe Cucchlssl, brothers, of 923 Kent are both In the coast artillery.

Frank Is1 stationed in Hawaii and Moe Is at tamp Davis, N. C. Graduated from an aviation course it Johnson Field. N. were Arthur J.

Barberi of 70 Patchen Ave. and Leonard Finkel of 2243 82d St. Graduated from a Aralnlng detachment of the air force at Chillicothe, Mn were Isidore Cohen of 45S E. 51st Jack Edelman of 214 E. 95th H.

Feuerstein of 897 Empire Boulevard. K. I. Ellis of 305 Ocean Parkway, Fred Cohen of 1083 Coney Island Webster E. Blanchard of 59 Pineapple J.

L. Epstein of 5111 Beverly Road, C. E. Ebert Jr. of 425 Prospect Place.

Louis Feldman of 1687 Prospect Place. S. J. Kischman of 805 Crown Seymour Chamoff of 784 Linden Boulevard, V. B.

Harris of 1160 E. 10th St. and A. R. Anderson of 73 72d St.

ENCYCLOPEDIA i AEROBATICS p. DHKKtL BARREL SNAP ROLL PANCAKE LANDING A. M. F.af.'.v.lcllo rf 101 Battery is now a iecenri listr.enant In "is h.ivinj been com--lisslaned at Fort Belvoir, Va. At.

Fort Jack Rsen-blum of 2126 66th has been commissioned a second lieutenant. Melvln J. Smith of Brooklyn, has baen promoted to technician fourth grade at Camp Swift, Tex. Sergeant Smith attended James Madison High School. Hyman Nizewltz of 1497 Remsen Ave.

was recently made a second at Fort Mason, Calif, and fs now on duty at the San I ranclsco Port of Embarkation, Willam rrlrille ftalph Dorla Aviation Cadet William Frledle of Brooklyn has left, for NashviUc, after a recrnt furlough. Pvt. Ralph Dorla of Pstchogue is at Keesler Field. Miss. Another new second lieutenant at Fort Sill.

Okla. is Aaron Moe Rubin cf 1G45 59th St. Pvt Gabriel Karerkram. of 338 t. 11th and Pvt.

gatil Goldstein of IM E. S. hive t- Cimp from their station In Trenton, N. J. Corp.

Vito Vasparro of 63 Ralph St. has been promoted to sergeant Lookout I I I I h' AVVi The 85th Precinct Civilian De. fense Volunteer Office, nearlng Its goal of $350,000 in war bonds to purchase a bomber, has devised a unique plan In order to give the plane Its name, Children of nine schools are par' tlcipating in a contest to name the bomber, and some 8,000 titles have been entered to date. Local dignitaries and school principals are on the board of Judges which will select the winner, The office has arranged for the Red Cross mobile blood donor unit to visit the Consolidated Lithographing Company, 1013 Grand for 200 donations of plasma. Among those contributing blood will has returned to Sampson, after a furlough.

Corp. Robert J. Gallagher of Brooklyn returns to Camp Polk, after marrying Mary Oberts of Staten Island. Edward V. Teevan of Flatbush is home on furlough from Waco, where he is a sergeant.

His brothers Michael and Gerard are also in the army. Pvt. Bernard E. Donlon of 774 Noa-trand Ave. has arrived In North Africa.

His brother Joseph Is a member of the military police at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md. George R. Butler of 240 89th recently home on furlough from Camp Claiborne, was married to Frances O'Mara, William S. Bannon of 1911 Dorchester Road has bsen commissioned second lieutenant in the engineers at Fort Belvoir, Va, Vincent A. Yates of 1605 Putnam Ave.

has been promoted from major to lieutenant colonel at Fort Han cock, N. where he is attached to the coast artillery unit. The following promotions have been announced at Fort Hancock, Coslmo C. Parella of 274 Sumpter sergeant to technical sergeant; Edgar Tcltelbaum of 371 E. 52d staff sergeant to technical sergeant; Albert J.

McCor-mack of 470 E. 29th corporal to technical sergeant; Louis W. Boun-aguro of 231 Maujer corporal to sergeant technician; Mitchell A. Hawie of 2727 E. 27th private first class corporal to technician; Joseph A.

Healy of 415 9th private first class to corporal technician; John W. Sala of 363A Wilson private first class to corporal technician. Beniamln L. Bella Benjamin L. Betts of 2479 Bedford Ave.

is in the Coast Guard at Newark, N. J. He graduated from Erasmus Hall High School. David Wcingarten or 1613 Moreland Baltimore, Md has reported for training at the Maritime Service training station here. Pvt.

Robert E. Schmicit of 2160 E. 35th St. has been made a corporal at Seymour Johnson Field, C. Lt, Robert Ouarinl of 974 Bedford home on furlough, was mar- ried to Marion Ciprlano.

He was graduated from the bombardier school at San Angclo, Tex. Pfc. William H. Burns of 121 86th St. has completed gunners training at Fort Myers, Fla.

He was a student at St. John's University before entering the army. Robert Christopher Bechtold of 1868 E. 38th St. and Cornelius Patrick Boyle of ISO 6th Ave.

are attending Diesel engineering school in Richmond. Va. News about the men and women or this community who are in service Is welcomed to this department. Such news should be addressed to Fighting Men Editor, Brooklyn Eagle, Johnson and Adams Brooklyn. i 1 1 fJ ySSSiQ David H.

Welnrarten By RICHARD HART He Is only 19 years old and I plan release. He Is so despondent and air corps in Miami. overseas base Include those of Otto Molyon of 401 Berry to technician fifth grade; E. A. Esposito of 18 N.

Portland Ave. to the same rank, and Sirinev Goldstein ef 483 Van Bnren to staff sergeant. James Monahan Robert Sheridan Lt. James Monahan of 167 Douglas St. is at Fort Sill, Okla.

Robert Sheridan of 15 Fuller Place, a marine private in Washington, is home on furlough. Harold Meyrowits of 1102 Olen-wood Road has been graduated from the aviation machinists mate school at Jacksonville, Fla. William S. Werner of 334 Bain-bridge St. has completed an aviation course at Amarillo, Texas.

Estelle Kaplan of 2221 E. 7th St. has been sworn into the Spars. Hyman T. Beltschcr of 724 New Jersey Ave.

has been advanced to technician fifth grade at Fort Jackson, 6. C. Lt. Joseph T. Chlappone of 22S Linden St.

has been assigned to Seymour, Ind. Brnoklynites graduated from the airplane school at Roosevelt Field are Albert, Boss of 133 Noble St and Harold Cosner of 4665 Bedford Avenue. Promoted to corporal at Baln-bridge, were J. D. Oucciardo of 1630 82d St.

J. K. Callaghan of 1809 Albemarle Road and Ben Eskcnazi of 667 Williams Ave. Pvt. Buddy Fisher of Brooklyn was wed to Marie Ree of 249 E.

2d St. In New Orleans, La. Sidney Kunla Sidney Kunls of 2150 E. 29th St. has been commissioned a second lieutenant at Mather Field, Cal.

Pvt. George C. Hooker of Queens Village, a graduate of Jamaica High School, Is completing a radio course at Texas A. and M. College.

He is with the marines. A. V. Lucas of 95 Huntington St. wsi 1 G.

C. Hooktr i R. J. Condon Harvey tiec 861 St. IDS New Jersey Ave.

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Colby. Bedford and Snyder Avea. BU. 4-SS7S. CAREERS FOR MEN Atro Radio Communication IS YOUR JOB ISSBNTIALt Train MELVILLE Aeronautical Radio School.

45 W. 45th N.Y. Vlllt. Opea to 10 p.m. Drafting DRAFTSMEN Demand Exceede Supplyl Quick, complete course.

Write, phoncl DRAKE DRAFTING SCHOOL. 154 Naitait N. Y. C. BEekman 3-4840.

Radio-TeUmtion RADIO AND TELEVISION Classen Day and Evenlnt. Call or Write Dept. RADIO TELEVISION 4S0 Lexintton Ave. (46tm. PL.

3-4S8S. CAREERS MEN WOMEN Accountancy BOOKKEEPERS apedllr trained (or ac counting pot'ilona throuih I. A. S. ehorl rnuraei.

Ruppe, SS Court St. (1401). TR. 5-6B67. Age Barriers Are Down WAR JOBS ARE AVAILABLE NOW FOR MEN AND WOMKN OF ALL AGLS 8-S veeka ef training nrtrmrea yet for moat of the following hlrh-pavlna war Joba oheck the one In which goo are Intereatod for fall detallt.

Mail the couoon tonightl War Job Boreas Brooklyn Fatle Brooklyn. N. X. I am intereated In Aeeountaner laboratory Aaalathnt Lanauatee Advertising Art Aeronautleal Communleationa Aircraft Jnttrumenle Beauty Culture rj Bookkeeolng Burning BuslneM JLena Grinding Mathenatlea 1 Medical AMlttant Navigation Ootlcla Photography Radio Communleationa niarninee Radio, Drimatirt BUflnen Soon inian Radln-Telcvlilon t'Omoliimelrv Dental AMlatant rj Dieael Enginee Dleletiee Drafting Fashion Modeling tabulator irasoion uesteo operator Fingerprinting Traff io QHIgh School Subjects Interior Decorating Joutnaliam Day Management Typing Watchmaking Welding X-Ray Technique Name Addrtii Telephone 'White Helmets' Dance The 'While Helmets," an organization of civilian defense workers of the 83d Precinct, held their first annual ball at the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum. Music was by Magda Betancourt and her Inter-American Music Group.

A Latin American musical program featured the affair. FORT HAMILTON POST TO PARADE SUNDAY The annual memorial parade and exercises of the Fort Hnmlltcn morial Fot No. 27 of the American Legion will take place Sunday at 2:30 p.m. A feature of the afternoon will be the dedication of the) Posts new clubhouse at 9002 Fourth, to be followed by an entertainment and refreshments. County Commander Dan Rogers and former Attorney General John J.

Bennett will speak. CROCHET GLOVES FOR COOL SUMMER WEAR Be smart to your very fingertlni this Summer wear these cool, cro cheted gloves. They're delightfully feminine, made of string, in dainty picot rnc-h. They're so quick to do, too, you'll want to make several pair in colors and in white. Pat tern 7560 csntatns for cloves In small, medium, large size, list cf materials nneded.

To obtain this pattern send 11 cents in corns to Brooklyn Eagle, 259 W. 14th Manhattan. Writ plainly name, address and pattern number. Allow 10 days for delivery. shioritting Kpeedwrf ting Stenography Switchboard operating eiian A 4 1 If n.

"rr IV Kin nuryea J. T. Burna 4W S'' Brooklyn 1 La- 5 WtJ-J Thontaa J. Xlllren L. Ll Vien Sgt.

Thomas J. Killecn of 19 Wyckoff St. is stationed at the marine base at. Quantlco, Va where he is in the office of the post paymaster. Sgt.

L. "Bill" Le Vien, 103 Stuyvesant Ave. is at home on a furlough from his air base in Florida. His brother, Pvt. Arthur La Vien, will soon go to New River, N.

C. for parachute training, and a sister, Lt. Janet Elinor is In the army nurse corps. These Brooklyn bluejackets have been graduated from service schools at the Great Lakes, 111., training station: Oscar C. Grelfenbergpr of 140 Grattan Edward J.

Kowalskl of 227 Frecmnn Frank C. Krnna of 48 Elricrt.s Lint. Anthony of Dean J. Lotko of 425 Vanderbilt Thomas L. Clullo of 218 McDougal and Edmund J.

Ligowskl of 895 Knickerbocker Ave. John Henry Sheahan of 438 Hart St. hat been graduated from the engineer officer candidate school at Fort Belvoir, and Is now a second lieutenant. James F. cf 974 77th St.

Is aviation cartrt at Garden City, Kan. Promotions announced at point somewhere in England Include those of Aaron Nadel of 2039 Home-creft to sergeant, and Ben Yaver of 2957 W. 35th to corporal. First Lt. Samuel Stolzberg of 75 E.

21st St. has reported at. Hunter Field, Ga. He is a dentist. Brooklyn women completing a Waao cour.se at Camp Polk, are Yolanda Alcuri of 1910 Avenue O.

Helen Allen of 1778 Flatbu.sh Lucy Amber of 285 Schenectady Bertha Epstein of 769 Lin-wood Shirley Hale of 30 Ocean Parkway, Frieda Hlrsch of 1717 58th Ethel Lanes of 85 Eastern i Parkway. Edna Pennine of 130 Bristol Rose Thaler, of 101 Lenox Road, Edna Sanders of 130 State St. and Mary Walsh of 181 Lenox Road. George Noebrl Theodore J. Karaen George Noebcl, first class seaman with the navy engii-rrrs, has relumed io Its aaiion at, Camp rem- Williamsburg.

after r.pcndiim ten day furlough with his parents at their home, "141 66Lh Pl Olenriale. Theodore J. Kamen of 1625 E. 24th who Is on duty somewhere in the Pacific, has re-calved an air medal. He is a graduate of Brooklyn College.

Other promotions at Fort Hancock are Sam Tanner of 2129 Union private first class to corporal; Robert M. Werkheker of 701 Maple corporal technician to sergeant technician; Henry Margolls of 1550 E. 13th corporal to segcant; Jiunes E. Nolan Jr. of G3-03 Wocdhaven, private to 81st cor- poral; James O.

Wicgman Of 46-08 25th Ave. Astoria; Francis Daleckl of 6153 56th Drive, Mas-peth, corporal technician to sergeant technician; Anthony P. Pan-cra of 102-08 8 7th Ave, Oione i 1 LJL-l He Is a graduate of Pratt Following promotions ha announced at Fort Hancock. Emlle C. Wahl of 812 55th sergeant to staff sergeant; John J.

Byrne of 201 Jay from sergeant technician to sergeant; William Mannix of 1814 Norman Ridge-wood, from corporal to sergeant; and Vincent Dl Pietro of 251 Wilson from private first class to corporal. Harry Feldmsm of 86 Legion St. was recently graduated from a training detachment of the army air force technical training command, at Chillicothe, Mo. Upon his graduation from tht army air forces technical training command school at Yale University, Morris Anlopol of 469 Georgia Ave. has been commissioned a second lieutenant.

He now rated as a technical officer In communications and will soon be on duly with some tactical unit of the army air forces. 1 Irvlm Vmrrnt Ourntri Pvt. Irving Bernstein of 1144 President St. is with the signal corps In North Africa. Pfc.

Victor C. Guarneri of 404 Avenue has been in combat in Tunisia. His brother Vincent is a marine private at Camp Pendleton, Cal. Second Lis. Milton Berger and Hranris E.

Fanning, both of Brooklyn, have been assigned to the war department office of dependency benefits in Newark. N. J. Also asignod to the Newark office of dependency benefits is 2d Lt. Roy D.

Dlckerson. Waac promotions announced at Fnrt Sill. Include those of Doris Find of Brooklyn, to leader, and Jrannette List, also of Brooklyn, to technician fifth grade. A new privat first class at Great. Ber.d.

Albert of 1305 R6-h fit. John S. Ra trade of 48 A Vernon Ae. his been promoted to the same rank at the same base. Aviation cadets enterln? the class ification center at Nashville, Tenn Below itep in fuselage at after gun TUESDAY, MAY.

18, 1943 Jlwniiniy Ch- Beauforts have been I used extensively for mine laying missions. Park, corporal to sergeant and George De Rise of 116-12 I32d South ozone Park, corporal to sergeant. At Fort Jackson. S. Israel Puro 1 oi rju winthrop Si.

has been pro mot-ed from private first class technician fifth grade. to Seaman 2d Class Adam J. HardeJ Jr. of 480 12th St. visited Xs local USO club on a recent furlough.

He is in the fire control service at Great Lakes, 111. Before entering the service he was a student at New York Agricultural College. While serving with a general hospital unit somewhere in England, these men were promoted from private first class to corporal: Daniel Shaw of 2175 E. 26th who works In a dental clinic and misses "Brooklyn and the Dodgers," even though he's having "a swell time In Ralph A. Di Lorenjo of 155 Washington Park, who is working In a clinical laboratory, and Paul M.

Maggie of 3403 14th St. who also works in a dental clinic. Arthur O'Nell Joseph P. O'Connor of 3509 Til-den Ave. has been 6worn In as a commissioned officer somewhere In Northern Iceland.

Capt. Arthur O'Ncil of 1819 72d St. has been transferred to the Atlantic City basic training center from St. Petersburg, Fla. Pvt.

Charles Parlsio of 32 E. 31st St. recently returned to Camp Barkeley, Texas, after spending a furlough at his home. His twin brother, Pvt. Oeorge, Is stationed at Fort Ontario, Oswego, Y.

Percy Friedman of 381' Bristol Charles Leonard Krakauer of 625 Cortelyou Road and Paul Lawrey Ora.ch of 963 E. 32d SI. are attending the University of Chicago Institute of Meteorology and have received commissions as second lieutenants in the Army Air Forces, While serving with a general hospital unit somewhere In England, LouLs Schwartz of 1629 Dahlll Road and Victor Karlson of 234 E. 34th St. were promoted to private first class.

In the Panama Canal Zone, Herbert Emelius Rosenberg of 30 Ocean Parkway has been promoted to trclinlcian fifth grade from private first clnss. Alfo in that area, W. Famosa has been marie a staff sergeant. He lives at 630 61st Et. Promotions announced at in i xitjwa i Ml I Joseph O'Connor BRISTOL "Beaufort- High-Speed English Reconnaissance-Torpedo-Bember John Rahna m.

loth Ave. FT. A. Flnkelslein insn Wlllmohr St. TO 8E COMMISSIONED- These brooklynttes are in naval aviation cadet training and will be ensigns upon completion of their courses.

To Reclassify Pre-Meds Not in College Reserve Pre-medlcal and pre-dental students who are not already In a college reserve corps and have not completed the first year of the Army Specialized Training Program in their schools are to be reclassi-fled In 1-A by their local drafts, according to directions Issued by Col. Arthur V. McDermott, New-York City Selective Service director. Those inducted into the armed services may be placed in reserve by army authorities and sent back to school to continue their courses, with the Government paying tuition and $50 ft month to each man. on Fife 1 LETTER OUT Remove one letter from each word and rearrange to spell the word called for in the last column.

Print the letter in the center column opposite the word from which you have removed it. If you have Lettered Out" correctly It stands out on a prerious stone. Note undersiung engines turret. tapered long fuse- 16 BROOKLYN EAGLE, I jBroad, 3 wings, 1. SouffTer Letter Cut and they trim up a dress! 2.

Garinid Letter Out and he is 3. Marplot Letter Out for a kind of wagon. 4. Bereaves Letter Out for busy animals! Gar rote Letter Out and it has elasticity. Answer.

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