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The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-22
Blast ferries With
Whispering Death"

WITH THE FIFTH ARMY, Italy
Cpl. Francis Bozynski, 634 Vine
wood, Is a machinegunner with the
173rd Field Artillery Battalion,
which recently fired its 11OOOOth
round into German positions on the
Fifth Army front in Italy. Operat-
ing twelve 155-millimeter rifles,
known to the ferries as Whisper
ing Death, the battalion is now
blasting targets before and In the
Pc Valley at ranges between five
and IL miles.
The outfit recently completed its
400th day in combat. During four
Of these days, the Long Tom" op-
orators fought as doughboys, hold
Ing a 40OO-yard interval between
British and Moroccan troops in the
vicinity Of Rochetta.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-22

MARINE CORPS AIR DEPOT,
MIRAMAR, CALF. = Marine Cor
poral Edward w. Fredericks, 81, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Fredericks
Of 236 Hudson street, has returned
here from the Pacific where he was
an ordnanceman with a fighter
squadron of the Forth Marine Air
Wing. based in Hawaii, the Marsh
ais. and Marianas Islands.
He was graduated from Roosevelt
High School, in 1912, an was en-
ployed by the Ford Motor Company,
Dearborn. before enlisting in Feb
ruary, 1913.
Two brothers, Alex and Joseph,
are serving with the Army overseas.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-22
Wake Island Marine Fights on IUO lima

Corporal Frank Caswell, who left
Detroit with the $50 Wake Island
Marines in 1912, is fighting with
the Marines on Two Jima.
In letter to his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Robert CaSwell, 3433
Twentieth street, he reports that he
has gone through the battle with
out a scratch. A highlight came for
the Leathernecks when a galley was
set up on the island. I'VE r ad fruit
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-22
Takes Mechanics Course

KEESLER FIELD, BILOXI, Miss,
March 15-Pvt. Howard Brayman,
husband of Mrs. Howard Braynan,
126 Spruce street, is enrolled in the
mechanics training courses at KEGS
Ter Field.
The training he will receive In
the mechanics school will cover ba-
sic airplane and engine mechanic
operations. The technical course
will extend over a period of ap-
proximately rs days and will include
instruction on the electrical sys-
TENS, engine operation, fuel and oil
systems, propellers, structures, in
struments and basic inspection. This
will qualify him for additional spe-
ciailZed training in the maintenance
of heavy bomber or cargo planes.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-22
Great Lakes Graduate

AMONG THOSE GRADUATING
from an intensive course of Electri-
clans Mate training at recent Serv-
ice Schools exercises here was John
l.. Monk, Is, son of Mrs. Lillian G..
Monk, 1854 Seventh street.
This Bluejacket was selected for
his specialized training on the basis
Of his recruit training aptitude test
scores. Graduates from the twenty
specialized courses taught here at
the Service Schools are sent to sea.
to shore stations, or to advanced
schools for further duty.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-22

juices, pancakes and sausage" he
writes. First chow We have had
like it since we landed here on Two
Jima. Cues we will be leaving here
in few days now and it can't come
too soon TO suit me.
I'll be glad to leave as IT'S a bed
of hot rock and ashes here"
Cpl. Caswell has been in service
80 months and served 20 months
overseas.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-22
Arrives In States

FIRST LIEUTENANT EARL r.
Siler of the Air Corps has arrived
at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, after 9
months overseas in the European
theatre. He will visit his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Siler, Sic Riv-
erbank.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-22
Completes Electrical Course

AMARILLO ARMY AIR FIELD,
TexaS-John M. Genthe, son of Mrs.
Thelma Genthe of 2729 Biddle, has
completed his course of studies as
an Electrical Mechanic and is rated
an Electrical Specialist.
His graduation fits him for cleo
trical trouble shooting while in
flight. When qualified as gunner
he will become crew member of
a heavy bombardment organization.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-22
Transferred To Wright Field

transferred 10 wright FItIu
1t. Thomas Sparrow is home on
five-day leave after completing eight
weeks instruction at Harvard and
three weeks at IBM, Endicott, New
York. He has been transferred to
Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-22
Completes Basic Training

completes Basic Training
AVIATION CADET MEARLE
T. Hickman has just completed his
basic flying training at the Mercer
Army Air Field, California. He will
now proceed to an Army Advanced
flying school, where he will take
the final steps toward attainment
of his silver pilot wings.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-22
New Address

THE NEW ADDRESS OF ED
mund Parent is as follows:
Edmund Parent E. NJ. lc
Division 5, Repair Dept.
Amphib. Training Base,
Little Creek, Va.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-22

In telegram from the War de-
partment, Mrs. Lottie Kornacki, of
Sixth street, was informed that
her son, Private First Glass Carl
Kornacki was seriously wounded in
action on February 10 in France.
She received the telegram on March
IL.
Kornacki, who has been in the
service two years and seven months,
attended Roosevelt high school. Be-
fore entering the army, he was
employed at the FireStone Co.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-22
In Marine via

THE NEW ADDRESS of Pvt. Ed
ward Raether is:
Private Edward Raether,
MID. Viz Unit
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
United Nations 10 Rule
On Azerbaijan Uprising
By the Associated press

BY the Associated Press.
Iranian Ambassador Hussein Ala
said yesterday his government un-
doubtedly would submit its case or
the uprising in Azerbaijan to the
United Nations Assembly as soon as
possible after it convenes January
10 in London.
Mr.. Ala added. however, that Iran
was basing high hopes on the
meeting of Secretary of State
Byrnes in Moscow with Foreign
Commissar Molotov and Foreign
Minister Bevin.
The Ambassador told reporters
after call at the State Depart
ment, that he had sent Christmas
greetings to Mr.. Byrnes and had
told the Secretary that the fate of
the United Nations rested on him
Iran repeatedly has charged Rus
sia with fomenting the uprising in
Azerbaijan which resulted in es-
tablishment of an autonomous gov
ernment in that province, adjoin-
ing the Soviet republic by the same
name.
Mr.. Ala reiterated his assertions
that only immediate departure of
all foreign troops from Iran could
save his governments sovereignty.
Mr.. Ala conferred at the State
Department with 10y w. Hender-
son, chief of the Division of Near
Eastern Affairs.
Evening star., 1945-12-25

10 am. daily and during two class
periods each day. Mrs. Shaw en-
phasized that the choir was not a
selected group but that "any one
who comes was accepted. IT be-
lieve any one can learn to sing she
said.
The choir does more than "just
sing" according to Mrs. Shaw. "I
try to acquaint them with choral
music through history, thus giving
them a better understanding of the
cultures of other nations through
music"
Sacred classics are used as the
foundation of the course. As Mrs.
Shaw puts it, There's nothing like
the classics to stimulate interest" !"
She said she attempted to set a
high standard for the choir and 1'so
far, I've never been let down" She
added that she believed many boys
and girls with 'low singing attain
ments" succeeded in the choir be-
cause they forget their self-con-
sciousness in the group. If they
had to sing alone, they probably
couldn't do it, she said.
The choir elects its own officers.
James Stubbs heads the group this
year. Other officers are Rolande
Young and Kenneth Sylvester, vice
presidents; Helen Hopfleld, treas
urer, and Marguerite Patterson,
secretary. AL are seniors.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Defendant in a Suits
Granted Dumuqe Trial

The Court of Appeals yesterday
held that "one who twice sues an
other maliciously and without prob
able cause is responsible to him fo1
damages"
The ruling was made in connec-
tion with suit for damages brought
by William N Soffos, now of Balti-
more, against Mr.. and Mrs. B. N
Eaton and their daughter, Mrs. Ber-
nice N. jenkins. The Eatons brought
two suits against Mr.. Soffos for pos
session of house in the 800 block
of F street NE. and Mrs. Jenkins
to whom the Eatons were said to
have sold the house occupied by Mr.
Soffos, brought two suits. Mr.. Soffos
won all of them.
Mr.. Soffos, represented by Attor-
ney Milton Conn, then sued Mr.. and
Mrs. Eaton and Mrs. Jenkins asking
damages for defending the suits; for
their allegedly having damaged his
reputation, and for mental anguish
caused by threatened loss of a
home"
The Municipal Court dismissed
Mr.. Soffos' damage suit, and the Mu-
nicipal Court of Appeals upheld the
Municipal Court. However, the ac-
ton of the United States Court of
Appeals sends Mr.. Soffos' suit back
to Municipal Court for trial on its
merits.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
|mprovised Party Held
AT Arlington Hospital

Arlington Hospital patients and
staff workers were entertained last
night by 25 singers from the choirs
and young peoples clubs of the
Mount Olivet and Clarendon Meth
odist, Rock Spring Congregational
and st. Mary's Episcopal Churches.
At a staff party later in the
hospital dining room, these groups
werc joined by members of the
Washington-Lee High School Girls
Glee Club. The entertainment was
improvised when it was reported
that influenza had forced cancella-
ton of a previously arranged pro-
gram for the hospitals annual
Christmas party.
Guests included staff physicians
members of the hospitals board of
trustees and the hospitals women's
auxiliary. Christmas favors for all
patients had been prepared by a
committee from the auxiliary, head
ed by Miss Emma S. Jacobs.
Miss Lucille Rice, chief dietician,
was in charge of refreshments.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Baltimore Woman y
Slain, Autopsy Shows
By the Associated Press

]
BALTIMORE. Dec 25.-The find-
ings of an autopsy on the body Of
Mrs. Dorothy Davis, 81, were to be
turned over to police and the States
attorney today after an assistant
medical examiner described her
death as homicide.
| DR.. r. Lee Graham, assistant Bal
1timore medical examiner. conducted
the autopsy and said there is no
doubt but that it is homicide.
The comely brunette's body was
found by her mother, Mrs. Jean
Smith, when she went to her daugh-
ter's apartment yesterday to keep a
Christmas eve shopping engagement.
She found the door locked, and
there was no answer to her knock.
Using her own key. Mrs. Smith en-
tered and found her daughters body
lying in pool of blood on bedroom
floor. She summoned police.
DR.. Graham said the autopsy dis
closed that the woman had a frac-
tured jaw, bruises about the neck
and broken bone in the throat.
Il know who did this Mrs. Smith
told police. MY daughter told me
man had been threatening her
life"
Mrs. Smith found a note on q
table in the apartment. 1t said:
Dear Mother: See you Christmas
Day" It was signed Dorothy"
She said her daughter had been
estranged for about two years from
her husband, Wilbur Davis of Alex
andria, La.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Finchom Family
Of 81 Members
Holds Reunion

The Finchams held reunion to-
day.
There were 81 members of the
family gathered at the home OF
Wayman Fincham, 1914 Second av-
enue, Silver Spring. This included
II children, seven of whom are in
the armed forces or have been re-
leased One son, Bill Fincham, EN-
1/c, came from Boston, where he is
stationed aboard Coast Guard cut
ter.
Other sons who have been re-
leased or are to be returned to civil
ian life are Lester, 35; Alvin, 27;
Leonard, 25; Weldon, %, and Edwin
%, all of the Coast Guard, ano
Louis, 81, who served three years in
Europe in the Army's 29th Division
There are two other sons, Aubrey
"a, and Charles, II, both of Silver
Spring, and two daughters, Miss
Elsie Fincham and Mrs. Ethel La
Quay.
Wayman Fincham has been a
crane operator at the Naval Gun
Factory for 20 years.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
67-Member High School Choir
Sings 10 Times in Two Weeks

The Bethesda Chevy Chase High
School A Capella Choir has become
one of the busiest choral groups in
the Washington area, according
to Mrs. Faye Shaw, music instructor
at the school and leader of the
choir. The group has participated
in 10programs during the last two
weeks, including an appearance at
Walter Reed Hospital.
Mrs. Shaw said the choir had ap-
peared on scores of radio programs
since it was organized years ago
and had furnished choral music
during the last years at the sun
rise Easter services sponsored by the
Bethesda Council of Churches.
Starting with a comparatively
small group, Mrs. Shaw has ex-
panded the choir until it now num-
bers 81 boys and girls, and plans are
under way to enlarge it still fur
ther after Christmas. Beginning
January /, Mrs. Shaw hopes to or
ganize an alumni choir, consisting
of former choristers who attend COL
lege here.
Declaring that participation in
the project was voluntary, Mrs.
Shaw said the response had been
beautiful" When the choir was
first organized. It's members received
no actual school credit but they get
full credit now.
Rehearsals are held from 8.l5 to
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Film Actor Surprises Wife
with Remarriage- Party
By the Associated Press.

! By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 25.-Lon and
Patsy CLANCY were married again
today-and only Patsy was sur
prised.
As the climax of a Christmas eve
celebration the actor-son of the
movies foremost creator of horror
characterizations, the late Lon
CLANCY, sr., and the onetime model
he first wed october l, 1887, re-
Ipeated the ceremony in their
luxurious San Fernando Valley
home.
1t was quite a contrast. Times
were lean when they were first
married in Cotton, Calf. Patsy has
worn the plain silver band ever
since. But Lon exchanged it in the
midnight ceremony for a five-carat
diamond ring and an engagement
ring of platinum studded with dia-
ImondS.
His plans were we'll known to
readers of today's papers, but Patsy
hadn't been let in on the secret.
Had a tough time hiding the
newspaper too," Mr.. CLANCY
laughed
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Lawyers, F farmers Predominute
In New Virginia Assembly
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND. Va, Dec. 25.-Attor-
neys and farmers predominate in
the listing of professions or bust
nesses of members of Virginia's new
General Assembly.
The legal profession topped the
list with 81 legislators, while the next
largest crop was made up of 43 men,
bers who listed themselves as farm
ers. OF this number, however, only
IS announced themselves as solely
farmers, or listed farmer" first in
their occupations.
Other listings included:
Real estate and insurance, II;
merchants, II; automobile dealers
and gasoline and oil distributors, g.;
doctors, 4; newspaperman historian,
pharmacist, ice manufacturer,
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Virginia Hopes 10 Get
100000 in Plan for
Veterans Training
BY the Associated Press.

RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 25-Vir-
ginia would receive 100000 in Fed
eral funds to pay the cost of approx
ing business establishments for the
training of veterans on the job, as
part of an overall States plan to ask
for 5000, 900 for such work, accord
ing to DR.. Dabney S. Lancaster
State superintendent of public in
struction.
DR.. Lancaster said a recommends
ton to seek the funds for the vet
eran training surveys was made at
recent meeting in Philadelphia at
tended by w. K. Barnett, chairman
of the Veterans Education Com
mittee of the State department OF
education, and representatives from
Pennsylvania, New York, New Jer-
sey, Maryland and Daleware.
He said all States share the prob
lem of financing the approving of
business establishments, which is re-
quired by the Veterans Administra-
ton before veterans receiving on
the-job training can receive their
subsistence allowances. provided by
the CT Bill of Rights.
He explained the Governor des-
ignated the State department of
education as the agency to approve
these establishments for short-term
training and the department and
the Virginia Apprenticeship Coun-
Gil for apprenticeship training pro-
grams.
A total Of 1920 applications from
training agencies had been received
by the State department of educa-
ton by December 20 and 573 of
these are still pending approval be-
cause of insufficient staff help to
process the applications, it was said.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
IDarden Is Given Plan
TO Control Pollution
Of Virginia Streams
BY the Associated Press.


RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 25.-A plar
for the control and ultimate elimi.
nation of damaging pollution from
Virginia streams is in the hands OF
Gov. Darden for submission to the
General Assembly next month.
The recommendations, drafted by
committee of the Virginia Ad.
visory Legislative Council anc
passed on to the Governor with
the councils Endorsement, propose
establishment of a State pollution
control board with authority to
compel industries and municipali-
ties, in position to do so, to purify
or eliminate their wastes.
Compulsion, however, would be a
last resort.
The committee, headed by Dele
gate E. Blackburn Moore, Berryville
recommended that the control board
supervise the work of other State
Departments dealing with pollution
problems in rivers and streams of
s1ISlllld.
Present industries would be re-
quired to take steps properly to
treat their effluents when they can
reasonably control" their pollu-
ton, and the same principle would
apply to municipalities, some oil
which were described as the worst
offenders.
New industries would be required
to take measures, before their estab-
lishment, for control or purifcatior
of their eff1uents, and the pollution
board, in cooperation with the De.
partment of health, would pass or
the merits of plans for new sewage
disposal plants
The board of five members would
be appointed by the Governor, SUBJ
iect to confirmation by the Senate
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Victim Of Sfreetcar
Dies; Years Traffic
Toll Here Rises 10. "a

Washington's Gath traffic fatality
OF the year was on record today fol-
lowing the death of a man injured
December when struck by street.
car.
Alton Wheeler, 38, of 1720 B street
Sc, died in Gallinger Hospital yes
terday. Police said he was injured
when he stepped into the path of
the streetcar in the 2100 block Of
Georgia avenue NV He was en-
ployed by the Bond Baking Co.
The streetcar operator was listed
by police as Victor w. Newton, %, of
1892 Benning road Sc. He will ap-
pear at a conorner's inquest.
Mr.. Wheeler is survived by his
mother, Mrs. Alice Wheeler, Land
over, Md; three sisters, Mrs. Lilly
Love, of Landover; Mrs. George
Sullivan, of Hughesville, Md; Mrs.
Lola Ullrich, of 324 South Caro-
lima avenue Sc, and two brothers,
Sprague A. Wheeler, and Clarence
Wheeler, both of Rison, Md. Mr..
Wheeler was a native of that town.
Sc Deaths Year Ago.
At this time in 1914 there were
86 deaths.
Three persons were injured late
yesterday when the rear end of a
streetcar struck two automobiles as
the car made loop just off Wis
consin avenue NV, near Mclean
Gardens.
Gordon Bennett, Al, of fremont
Gardens, Falls Church, Va. who
police said, drove one of the automo-
biles, was treated at Georgetown
Hospital for head injuries and re-
leased. Miss Donna Bennett, Is, of
the same address, also was treated
for minor injuries.
The driver of the other automobile
was James Brown, 90, of 1856 Twenty
third street NV, according to
police. He was uninjured.
Samuel Kahn, 80, of 5256 Forty
fourth street NV, listed by police
as the streetcar operator, also was
treated at Georgetown for minor in
Jurles. Traffic was blocked for a
short time.
Sailor Killed.
A sailor was killed and three COM
panions injured last night when
their car skidded and overturned on
the Grain highway near Rosaryville,
Md, Prince Georges County police
reported.
Joseph L. Shanahan, 27, Balti-
more, stationed at the Patuxent
River Naval Air Station, was pro-
nounced dead at the scene. Those
hurt, all of whom were taken to the
Naval Medical Center, Bethesda,
and their injuries, are H. Edward
Morrall, head injury; Richard F..
Doolin, internal injuries, and Rom
aid B. Dunmeyer, body bruises. They
are stationed at Norfolk, according
to police.
In Lynchburg, Va, one person was
killed and four others injured in a
Christmas eve automobile accident
last night, the Associated Press re-
ported. Of the injured, two were re-
leased after treatment.
Miss Wilsa Victoria Markham %.
daughter of Raymond C. and Eliza
beth M. Markham of Buchanan, was
killed.
The automobile in which the five
were riding was reported to have
skidded into a tree.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
-Four Youths Escape
Prince Georges Jail

Prince Georges County and Mary
land State police today were search
ing the woods in the vicinity OF
Upper Marlboro for four colored
youths who escaped from the county
jail at Upper Marlboro last night
after overpowering the jailer and
a trusty.
The break occurred at about 8
pm. when Vincent Wells, IS, the
jailer, opened a cell to permit a
trusty to enter. The four youths
rushed both men, seized the Jail
keys and fed. Several other pris-
oners in the same cell did not join
in the escape.
The fugitives, who took to the
woods north of the town, were
listed by police as Isaac Brown,
Hyattsville; Ernest Harris and Eddie
Ross, Fairmont Heights, and Nor
ton Brown, Baltimore. All are II.
Police said the first three were
awaiting trial on housebreaking
charges, while the Baltimore youth
was serving sentence for dis
orderly conduct.
Evening star., 1945-12-25

hatcheryman, railway official, owner
Of diner. bother, harbor pilot, /
each; educators, 2; funeral directors
2; theater owners, 2; lumbermen, 8.
In addition there are a number
of bankers who are engaged in other
professions as we'll.
Statistics of the Senate and House
membership also show that there
are 13 eligible bachelors; three Re-
publicans in the Senate and five in
the House; lao Democrats in the
two branches; So members who are
affiliated with the Baptist Church
and IS with the Methodist Church,
while Episcopalians hold Is seats.
Presbyterians 81, members of the
Christian Church, Z; Lutherans, 8,
and Catholic and Brethren one each.
Eleven members listed no religious
preference.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Maryland Promotes
I23 Stute Policemen
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
PIKESVILLE, Md, Dec. 25.-Col
Beverly Ober, superintendent of the
Maryland State police, yesterday
announced promotions of % mem
bers of the force. They include:
From sergeant to first sergeant:
NJ. M. Puncke, Waterloo; T. Moon
Waldorf, and w. c. Mcvey, Wa
terloo.
From corporal to sergeant: L. N
Brown, Waldorf, and from trooper
to trooper first class: L. D. Gray
Waldorf, and I. P. Armstrong, Wa
terloo.
Paul j. Randall, former resident
OF Silver Spring, Md, promoted
from first sergeant to lieutenant in
command of Troop D, Easton.