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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-12
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Third Army Slashes Ahead
Five Miles AS Patton
Notes Birthday
Bv AUSTIN BEALMEAR
SUPREME HEADQUAR-

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SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, PARIS,
Nov. 11.-P)-American in
fantry and armor drew the
arc of steel threatening to en-
velop Metz, one of Europe's
mightiest bastions, to fully
two-thirds of the way around
that Nazi-held French fort
ress today, with less than ten
miles separating the two
thanking forces.
The U. S. Third army smashed
ahead five miles. crossing rivers,
rail-lines and highways, to tighten
the moose around Metz. 1t. Gen.
George S. Patton, Jr., who cele-
brated his seth birthday and Ar
mistice Day with the most sweep
ing advances of his new winter Of
fensive, has sent elements of at
least eight divisions into the line
since the drive started four days
ago.
Hinges of two assaults swinging
around Metz from both si(ps were
driven to within five miles of the
citadel due south and within four
and one-half miles on the opposite
side. The forces on the southern
hinge southeast of Metz-including
all or part Of six divisions-contin.
ued to smash recklessly ahead,
swinging far to the east and in
creasing the threat of complete en-
circlement of Metz.
Bombers Busy
American fighter bombers flew
700 sorties despite varying weather
At one point they caught more than
Is German tanks moving toward
the American lines and reported
the destruction of ten and the dam
aging of Is.
At the same time, the fourth ar.
mored division pushed on three
miles northeast along a rail route
from captured Haboudange to the
area of Conthil, only four miles
from the Benestroff rail junction
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A.C.L. Willing To Accept New Proposal
To Operate Florida East Coast Railway

stood to be a minority group, of a
petition to the ice requesting it to
reopen the proceedings to receive
such plan.
If the proposal receives approval
of the ICC as filed or as it may
amend it, it would be submitted to
the federal courts for consideration
Mr.. Davis. said, has signified its
willingness to accept the plan if ap-
proved and take over operation of
the Florida East Coast road as a
part of it's system.
In his statement, Mr.. Davis re-
called that the property of the
Florida East Coast has been in
custoday of the federal court for
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BRITISH HALTED
OUTSIDE F0RLI
German Troops Establish
Defense AT Rayaldino
Canal

ROME, Nov. IL Up British
Eighth army troops grinding slow
~ forward from captured Forli in
the eastern Pc valley were halted
Today Just outside the city at the
kavaldlno canal, which they found
me German tanks and infantry de-
tenolng in considerable strength.
Inc canal runs from the north
west corner Of Fori in a northeast
cry direction. Southwest of Forli
tle Germans have taken up posi-
uohs along the Montone river3
On, enow flurries fell on both the
slllh and Eighth army fronts,
Val. varying from a light coating in
s sVlhe sectors to a depth of nine
LIZ, on the right flank in the
NUS There has been snow on the
I Isher peaks for several weeks,
S Nv. now on the Eighth army front
NEW, ,,ssVy drifts were beginning to in
". nv communications.
Inc Germans evacuated Castro
'''o' ABOUT five miles southwest of
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The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
has been requested by certain
holders of First a n d Refund
ing ortage bonds of the Flori-
da East Coast railway to permit a
revised plan Of reorganization to
be submitted to the Interstate Com
merce Commission to enable op-
GRAFTON of the Florida East Coast
property as a part of the Coast
Line system, it was learned here
Yesterday in a statement issued by
c. Med. Davis, president OF the
Atlantic Coast Line.
These Negotiations he added,
have been consummated by the fill
ing by these bondholdefs. under
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-12
Churchill Opens Confer
.nce With Provisional
Regime In Paris
ASSURANCE SEEN
Allies Invite French To
Membership On Ad-
viisory Commission
RY GLADWIN HILL

PARIS, Nov. 1l-lP-Prime Min
;,ter Churchill, returning to Paris
NV the first time since the black
davs Of 1910, opened conferences
M this Armistice day with the
french provisional government
which are expected to center on
the restoration of France as first
rate world power.
u;s visit conceded with an
ro,ncenent that the United States,
Britain. and Russia had invited
thp de Gaulle government to as
SINE full membership on the Euro
mean advisory commission, which
is studying the problems of peace.
Assurances Seen
Churchill, who paused long
enough to take part in the first
Armistice d lay celebration in
France in five years, was believed
10 have brought at least informally
qualified assurances from the big
Four"-the United States, Britain,
Russia and China-of what France
Is most anxious about:
Frances early resumption OF a
bigger role in settling the future of
Germany, and in establishing a
world security organization.
The resumption of normal eco
nomic relations between France
and Britain has been widely men
Toned as prominent on the agenda,
but this is reliably viewed as being
forced into the background because
frances domestic economy has
been paralyzed by war. 81.
More pressing are such matters
rs Frances part in the occupation
pfGermany, Frances collaboration
IN the war in the Pacific, and her
views on stabilazation Of world
peace.
The occupation question as far
as France was concerned was not
clarified at the Quebec conference
and Churchill, fresh from Moscow,
was likely to be at least an inform
al emissary.
Welcome Cooperation
A statement issued by the Amer
lean embassy said the ambassadors
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PLAN TO PREVENT.
TAX BOOST DRAWN
Bill To Be Offered To
Block Hike In Social
Security Levy

WASHINGTON, Nov. II -tR-
Legislation to block an automatic
$1,5OO,00O, 900 increase in social Sc
curity payroll taxes will be offered
when Congress reconvenes Tues
cay, Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich)
announced today.
Il should think that 1915 would
be rather a poor year to double
payroll taxes" the senator said,
citing campaign declarations by
both major parties favoring lighter
tax loads on business at it's recon-
verts to peacetime pursuits.
For three successive years Van
denberg has championed legisla-
ton which prevented doubling Of
the payroll tax, now one per cent
each on employers and employees.
Without positive action by Congress
the tax increase becomes effective
January /, 1915.
Under the so-called Morgenthau
rule, adopted in 1889, the reserve
fund from which social security
benefits are paid is considered ade-
quate when it equals three times
the highest annual expenditure con-
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US. Planes Destroy Jap Convoy
Attempting To Reinforce Leyte;
Yanks Tighten Arc Around Metz
llperforts Blast Omu IRA Plant,
1Wo Enemy-Held Chinese Cities

led some officials here to be-
lieve that Marking was the
original target. 1t was pos
sible however, that Omura, the
most distant of the three tar
gets, may have been first
choice and that because of the
overcast there a part of the
mission deployed to the main
land cities.
Omura is about 1900 miles
from the China bases. Marking
and Shanghai are about 1000.
The attack On the Omura air.
craft plant, hit previously ON
October rs, was accomplished
through clouds by precision in
struments" the communique
said.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.-(R
Using secret instruments to
locate their targets through
clouds, B-29's today bombed a
Japanese homeland aircraft
manufacturing center and
transportation and torag
facilities in two enemy-held
Chinese cities.
One Superfortress was re-
ported in a communique to be
missing. At least two enemy
planes were shot down, seven
others probably destroyed and
eleven damaged.
The communique said a large
task force of Superfortresses,
operating from bases in China,
participated in the three-prong
aerial blow. The targets we're:
The Omura aircraft factory,
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at Omura, on the Japanese
home island of Kyushu.
The extensive dock and load
ing facilities at Marking, a ?
ferry point for rail traffic be-
tween Shanghai, Tientsin and
Manchuria. Marking also is
the seat of the Japanese-con-
trolled puppet government in
China.
Enemy military storage and
transshipment facilities at the
great port of Shanghai.
The Twentieth Air Force re-
ported that Overcast skies
caused diversion of the ef-
fort" but did not make clear
the originally intended target.
Earlier in the day, goth Air
Force announcement reported
only an attack on Marking. This
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Germans Fire Bomb
On Belgium And France

LONDON, Nov. IL Up The
German w rocket bomb, describ-
ed as a 10 l-2-ton Wingless pro-
jectile which cuts through space
at maximum speed Of $500 miles
an hour, has been falling in Al
lied sectors in Belgium and France
as well as in Britain, front dis
patches permitted through army
censorship said tonight.
A number of these new venge-
ance weapons, which cannot be
heard coming because they a
faster than sound, fell in one U. S.
Army sector alone in less than
two days, and the rate has in
crea sed at various intervals. said
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a dispatch from Associated Press
Correspondent Austin Bealmear.
The censor deleted the origin of
the dispatch.
In another dispatch from which
the censor also had deleted the
dateline, Canadian Press Cores
pendent Ross Minro, in describ-
ing this "eeriest weapon yet pro-
duced in the war;" said the Ger
mans had been bombarding an Al
lied sector in Belgium.
Just where the bombs have fla
len, Munro was rot allowed to say,
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the Southern district of Florida
since Aug. 81, 1881. The trustees
are former Senator Scott M. Loftin
and former Governor John w. Mar
tin.
For many, many years the two
railroads, Florida East Coast and
Atlantic Coast Line, have daily in
terchanged large volume of
freight traffic at Jacksonville, also
a large volume of passenger travel
moving from and to the east coast
Of Florida. In other respects rela-
tens between the two railroads are
close. Since construction of the
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LITTLE OBSERVANCE
Roosevelt Looks On As
Wreath Is Laid On Un-
known Soldiers Tomb
BY the Associated Press

America and her Allies took but
little time yesterday from their
anniversary of Arrnistice day,
symbol of a peace once attained
but lost.
Frances first Arnistice day Gel
ebration in five years was given
new significance as t h e United
States, Great Britain and Russia
invited the war-stunned land to
share with them the responsibility
for administering justice to Ger
many when she is defeated.
AS the war tides ebbed and flow
ed around the world, the gallan-
try of those who died in the First
world war for the Allied cause
was honored both here and abroad.
Leaders Note Day
President Roosevelt, as the ma
TONS leader, watched as wreath
was laid in his behalf upon the
tomb of Americas unknown SOL
der in Arlington National Gene
terry.
Prime Minister Churchill and
General de Gaulle took joint part
in Frances tribute to her war dead
at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
In London, blind veterans of the
two world wars were led to the
Cenotaph in White Hall, while a
representative Ct the royal family,
in mourning for the death of the
queens father, placed a memorial
wreath of peoples at the monu-
ment's base.
Coupled with the tributes at the
war dead monuments were re-
minders to the living that much
remains to be done before victory
can be counted upon.
Americas war mobilization di-
rector, James F. Byrnes, told a
Columbia, S. C. Armistice Day
crowd that United States forces
must have more munitions a n d
other war equipment, if the strug-
gle is to be Shortened
We must not let pride in our
accomplishments blind us to the
magnitude of our needs" he said.
Brig. Gen. Charles R. Doran, at
services honoring the American
dead in the Meuse-Argonne forest
in France, declared:
eve cannot deceive ourselves in
to believing. that complete victory
will be quick and easy
PASSES UNHERALDED
BY the Associated Press
There was no Armistice along
the battlefronts of the world yes
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Power OF Pacific Fleets Fast
Carrier Force Will Be Doubled
LOSSES REPLACED
Expected To Be Able To
Put 1000 Planes In
Air In Few Months

U. S. FLEET HEADQUARTERS
Pearl Harbor, Nov. H. R The
American Pacific fleet fast carrier
task force is becoming increasing
ly stronger and in a very e W
months will have twice as many
carriers operating in the western
Pacific as it had six months ago,
Rear Admiral George D. Murray
said today.
AS of six months ago this fleet
could put at least 1000 planes in
the air.
Admiral Murray, naval air com.
rnander in the Pacific, also report.
ed that all U. S. Naval aircraft
and pilot losses of the las two
months had been replaced. This
included losses in the great naval
battles of the Philippines October
"a and Is.
LOSSES REPLACED
American losses in those battles
included the light carrier Prince
ton, two escort carriers and dam
age to an unnamed number of car
riers. The Japanese claimed they
shot down about 500 U. S. planes
there.
'I'm glad to be able to report, :"
Murray said, ''that our losses of
the last two months, since q h e
Marianas, are well within what we
can stand.
"All our aircrafts losses have
been replaced. Our pilot losses
have been replaced"
Murray had just returned from
the western Pacific, where he con-
ferred with virtually every naval
task force comm ander.
He said Yank pilots had been
trained to the highest possible ef-
ficiency and that they had greatly
increased the ratio of Japanese to
American losses in air combat.
Japanese losses, which we es-
innate conservatively, are increas-
ing steadily in our favor he add
ed. Elm one instance it was as
high as 120, Japanese downed to
only three or four Americans. And
that's no fairy tale!"
Admiral Murray said he looked
forward with confidence to the
Navy exerting increasing pressure
against the japanese empire"
"Our policy he added, lis new
er to give the enemy a breathing
space to reorgan;ze and rearrange
his forces"
The air officer said the quality
of japanese pilots varied with the
theater and the situation.
Japan still has hundreds of very
good pilots,'' he said, ''but her
losses are SO tremendous we Won
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WEATHER
FORECAST

NJ, FORECAST
Snn 1l Cafollna: Fair and a little warm
. bu 1paNeToN. Nov. 11.-(P)-weath-
tainfsli ton report of temperature and
Station LOT the "a hours ending 8 pm.
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PASSES UNHERALDED

BY the ASSOcIated Press
There was no Armistice along
the battlefronts of the world yes
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-05
Smith Funeral
Saturday A. N.
Happy Warrior
Victim Of Illness

NEW YORK, Oct. 5 - up -
The body of Alfred E. Smith
will lie in state at st. Patrick's
Cathedral from p. m. tomor-
row until funeral services at II
a. m, Saturday.
The 70-year-old "happy war
rior, -four times governor Of
New York state and Democrats
presidential nominee in 1929
who died yesterday of lung con-
gcstion and acute heart disease,
will be buried in the family plot
at Queens Calvary Cemetery.
The Most Rev. J. Francis A.
Mcintyre, Auxiliary Bishop of
New York, administered the last
rites of the Catholic Church to
Mr.. Smith and will celebrate the
solemn Pontifical mass of re-
QUEEN. Services will be simple
in keeping with Mr.. Smiths
wishes, the family said. There
will be no honorary pallbearers.
The family requested no flowers
be sent.
The seth regiment. New York
Guard, and the Catholic war
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-05
Mrs. 4. Pfeiffer

EAST DEIROlT--MrS. Anna
Pfeiffer, n, resident tot this
city since last April, died at the
home of her niece, Mrs. Floyd
Weinberg, of 2l79l Gascony
avenue, Wednesday morning,
Coming efe-fFem her birth
place, Rockbridge, Va. Mrs,
Pfeiffer had been in i'll health
for about one year.
She is survived by two ne
pheWs, Lloyd LaTourette, of
California mad Capt. Charles La
Tourette, Of Michigan City, Ind,
and two nieces, Mrs, Frances
Eary, of Flint, and Mrs. Vein
berg.
The remains were shipped this
morning by the d, N. Cooley fu-
neral home to Roanoke, Va,
where services will be held Sat
urdaY.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-05
Mrs. John RenlPr

UTlCA-Mrs, John Remer re-
ceived word Monday of the
death of her brother, Alfred
Vinegar, of North Branch. Mr..
Vinegar died Monday after a
long illness aged 80 years.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday at North Branch
with burial in Utica.
MIR. Vinegar was born at Dis
co May ,, 1864, son Of Reuben
and Esther Vinegar, and moved
10 North Branch township 40
years ago. Nov. 3, 1888 he mar
ried Mrs. Lydia Moore, of I'M
lay City.
Besides his widow he is sur
vived by three children by a
former marriage, Ray, of Port
land, Ore; Elmer, of Burbank,
Calf; and Mrs. Mildred Miller,
of North Branch township; one
brother, Charles, of Lapeer, and
one sister, Mrs. Carrie Remcr,
of Utica. Another brother,
George Vinegar, of Rochester,
died on Wednesday of last
week.
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J,sdSOn Gilleff

Judson c. Gillett, ase oS
years, a lifelong Mount Clemens
resident well known N New
Haven, died early today al So
Joseph Hospital following n
lengthy period of illness
He entered the hospital two
weeks ago after convaleSc.ns for
some time at the home OF his
son, John Gillet;, 232 Dickinson
avenue.
Mr.. Gillett was born in New
Haven but in early life settled
in Mount Clemens where he en-
gagged in contracting on minor
scale. In 1929 he returned 10
New Haven where he purchased
and operated a farm al 2496
Bates road, which had been his
residence until his recent illness,
Besides his widow, Mrs. Lena
Mas Gillett, Of New Haven, ne
is survived by two sons, John
and Edward, of New Haven, and
a daughter, Catherine, of Har-
per avenue, Mount Clemens.
There are seven grandchildren.
Brothers and sisters surviving
are: John and James, Of New
Haven, and Nettie, OF BirminS-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-05
HELP WANTED

The $40 Club board Is asking
the assistance Of eight of their
male members. These eight boys
are needed TO do a job which
will not interfere with their
dancing. Miss Stafford in room
18A will give more information
to anyone who is interested.
Students must not eat their
lunches in the lavatories or in
the halls. Dixie cups and frost
bites are to be eaten in the cafe
terra. You must show your
cafeteria permit at the door and
report to study hall before or
after eating.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-05

daughters: Mrs. Frieda Bubel
and Mrs. Lena Hinckfoot, Of
Lcnox Township; Mrs. Linda
Balhorn, of Richmond; three
sons, Arthur, Of Lenox Town
ship; Oscar, Of Armada, and Err
nest, of Columbus Township,
and rs grandchildren and Is
great grandchildren. A brother,
Edward Kuehn lives in Mount
Clemens, and a sister, Mrs. Her
man Schubert resides in Rich
mond.
The remains will rest at the
Clifford D. Hensch funeral cha
pei, Richmond, until 2 p. m,
Saturday. Services will be held
at Trinity Lutheran Church at
$50 p. m, with Rev. Paul
Schulz officiating. Burial will
be in Richmond Cemetery.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-05

Rev. FIR. Dennis A. Hayes,
pastor of st. Gertrude'S Catho-
lie Church, ST. Clair Shores and
for many years pastor of st.
Peters, Mount Clemens, was
honored as central figure in
Detroit yesterday at ceremonies
marking the 25th anniversary
of Sacred Heart Seminary, OF
which he was the first rector.
Another former Mount Glenn
ems priest. Rev. FIR. Albert Hut
ting, president of the st, Mary'S
Alumni Association, officiated as
deacon at the mass of thanks
giving at which the highest
ranking churchmen Of Michigan
assisted.
The observance, which took
place at the seminary, Martin
Place, Detroit, was attended by
Archbishop Edward Mooney;
Bishop Joseph H. Albers, of
Lansing: Bishop Francis j. Mag
ner, of Marquette; Bishop Will
liam F. Murphy, of Saginaw,
and Auxiliary Bishop Stephen 5.
Woznicki, of Detroit.
The seminary buildings and
chapel we're filled with a distin-
guiShcd gathering Of alumni
from all parts Of the state, now
members Of the Catholic priest
hood. in addition to students
who take their four years of
theology there before advancing
to St. Mary'S of Cincinnati for
higher SaCcrdOtal studies.
ST. Mary'S Seminary, noted as
one of the finest schools of its
kind in the Midwest, was organ
lied after establishment by the
first rector, Father Hayes. He
was credited with the schools
success during It's formative
years. a sound start which laid
the foundation for continued
progress.
Father Hayes was the princi-
pal speaker at the religious cere-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-05
Emma DOerr

Miss Emma DOerr, "a, died at
st. Josephs hospital Wednesday,
where she had been employed
and resided. She had been in
i'll health for some time. The re-
mains will be sent by the La
CroiX and GroesbeCk funeral
home to Portsmouth, Ohio where
funeral services will be held Sat-
urday.
She is survived by three sis
tiers, Sister Mary Jane Doerr, of
Mount Clemens, and Mrs. Cecilia
Taylor and Mrs. Howard Hunt
er
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veterans will form a guard of
honor at the Cathedral. The cof-
fin will not be opened. The only
other layman' to lie in state
there was lgnace Paderewski,
Polish pianist and statesman.
Meanwhile, messages of con-
dolence were received and trib-
utes paid by President Roose-
welt, Governor Thomas E. Dew
ey, former President Hoover,
Smiths 1928 Presidential OPP
ponent, and many other leaders.
Governor Dewey ordered all
State flags flown at half staff
for 80 days.
Smith is survived by three
sons, two daughters and a sister.
His wife died last May A.
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Mrs. HIldN FISHER

RICHMOND Funeral SerV-
ices will be held here Saturday
for Mrs. Hulda Kuehn Fistler,
age IS years, who died Wednes-
day at the home OF her son, Ern-
est, in Columbus Township.
Mrs. Fistlcr, widow of the late
August, was a native of Ger
many and came TO this country
with her family as a girl. She
and Mr.. Fistler were married in
Waldcnburg Dec. II, 1884, and
settled in this area where they
spent their married lifetime.
She is survived by three
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IL. LiningiOn

Robert I. LInlngton, ~
monthS-old son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Linington, of Riverside
drive, died at the home of his
parents, Wednesday. The infant
had been i'll for about eight
months.
He is survived by his parents,
three sisters, Jean, Alberta and
Merlyn, and one brother,
George, all Of Mount Clemens.
Funeral services will be held
Friday at p. m. at the LaCroix
and GroeSbeck funeral home,
with Rev. Joseph l.. Kennedy,
officiating, Burial will be in the
Clinton Grove cemetery.
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John TincOff

RICHMOND - Funeral serV-
ices for John Tincoff, 48, vino
uied in St. Mary's Hospital, Tue
son. Arizona, on Sunday, Oct. /,
will be held at 10 a. m, Friday
in the Clifford d, HenSch fun
eral home, preceding burial in
St. Michacls Cemetery, this
village.
The remains arrived on We'd
nesday evening in Detroit and
were taken to the Henseh- fun
cral home. Mr.. Tincoff is sur-
vived by his widow, Julia, three
sons, John Jr., William and
Thomas all at home.