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THE CINCINNATI THURSDAY, AK.UST ENQUIRER it, 1911 SIX WOUNDED Fish Hook In Boy's Jaw; Five Children Are Injured am Aao a air A cat? yR Hamilton County's Casualty Lists Longer, With Five Reported Killed, Seven Wounded Thirteen Hamilton County men were among war casualties re ported yesterday. Four were re ported killed in action and one in a plane crash in Colorado. Two were listed as missing in action, seven as wounded. Pfc Edward J. Bleb, 21, son of Mr and Mrs.

Carl Bleh, 2710 Montana was killed in action with the Infantry in France July 26, the War Department has informed his family. He had been in the service 18 months and overseas Bince May He was a former student at Vocational High School and was employed by H. H. Meyer Packing Co. before entering the service.

His parents, seven sisters and four brothers survive him. Requiem high mass will be sung Monday morning at St. Catherine Church. Pvt. Herman R.

Faulhnber, 22, brother of Mrs. Charles Miller, 1409 Reading Reading, was killed in action with the Engineer Corps in France, the War Department reported. SSgt. Byron Francis Hutching 27, son of Mr. and Mrs.

B. F. Hutchins, 1618 Pasadena was killed in action in France Au gust 5, the War Department hys miormea nis parents. He entered the Army three years ago and was assigned to the Quartermaster Corps. He had been overseas six months.

He leaves his parents, four brothers, Pvt. Robert Hutchins, in France; Seaman Second Class Richard, at Memphis, John and Louis, and three sisters. Pfc. Robert Schoepflin, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Arthur Schoepflin. 1713 De Armand North College Hill, has been killed in action with the Marines in the Pacific area. His parents believe he was in the battle for Guam. A graduate of North College Hill High School, he had been in the Marine Corps three years and overseas one year. In addition to his parents, he leaves two brothers, Seaman First Class Harold, in the Pacific area, and Pfc.

William Schoepflin, serving in France, and four sisters. Capt. Royal J. Brock, 26, son of Mrs. J.

E. Brock, 1011 Kinmont was killed last Monday when two bombers collided in the air near Pueblo, Colo. Flight Officer William J. Robbins, 3137 Gloss Pleasant Ridge, was killed in the same crash. A son of the late J.

E. Brock, government expediter, who died in May, Captain Brock returned from overseas a month ago. His widow and two children live in Columbus. Ohio. Capt.

Leon I). Meyers, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Myers, and AAF Show Plays To 7,500 At Captain Gentile Speaks, Musicians Perform SERVICES Set For Tomorrow For Prof. A.

M. Wilson, UC Electrical Authority. Author Of Engineering Books Had Been On University Faculty Since 1911. PROF. ALEXANDER M.

WILSON Services for Prof. Alexander Mas- sey Wilson, for 33 years head of the electrical engineering departmen of the University of Cincinnati, will be conducted at 2 p. m. tomorrow at the Clarence A. Baiter funeral home, Clifton.

Burial will be in Highland Cemetery, South Fort Mitchell. Professor Wilson died early yes terday at Christ Hospital following a brief illness. Born in Scotland in 1876, he came to America in 1885 and obtained his early schooling in Northern New York. After gradua tion from Purdue University in 1901, he taught electrical engineering at the University of Kentucky until he joined the UC faculty in 1911. Professor W'ilson was the author of books on engineering.

He had a lite membership in the Royal Academy of Aits and Science of England and was a member of the Engineers Club of Cincinnati and the Engineers Club of the University of Cincinnati. For a number of years he was National Vice President of the American Institute of Engineers. His outstanding work merited him much space in "Who's Who." He is survived by his widow, Grace Marie Wilson; one son by a former marriage, Alexander Massey Wilson Jr. of Fort Mitchell, and one grandson. His son, a graduate of Mercer Military Academy in Pennsylvania and the University of Cincinnati, is field service representative of the Cincinnati Milling Machine Co.

Professor Wilson's first wife, the former Mary Keith Miles of Frankfort, Ky died in 1917. His home was at 519 Evanswood Place, Clifton. The following tribute was paid to Professor Wilson yesterday by Dr. Robert C. Gowdy, Dean of the UC College of Engineering and Commerce; "In the death of Prof.

A. M. Wilson the College of Engineering and Commerce has sustained a serious loss. Professor Wilson came to Cincinnati in 1911 as head of the Department of Electrical Engineering. At that time the cooperative plan had been in operation, but five years and had just produced its first graduating class.

Largely through Professor Wilson's personal efforts the opportunities for employment of electrical engineering students were expanded in this city and extended to other industrial centers. "In addition to his academic duties, Professor Wilson took a prominent part in the national and regional work of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and contributed generously of his time and professional knowledge toward the solution of power and communication problems. "The College of Engineering and Commerce is deeply indebted to Professor Wilson for his long period of service, not only in the development of his own department, but also for his counsel, and for his Interest in the genaral welfare of the college and the university. LOUIS 0VERBECK. Mass To Be Sung Tomorrow For Former Contractor.

Requiem high mass will be sung at 9 a. m. tomorrow at St. Elizabeth Church, Norwood, for Louis Over-beck, former contractor and former building inspector for the city of Norwood. Burial will be In Calvary Cemetery.

Evanston. A resident of Norwood for 50 years, Mr. Overbeck died Tuesday after a year's illness at his home, 5232 Rolston Norwood. He was a member of the Eagles, St. Elizabeth Holy Name Society and the Catholic Knights of Ohio.

Ho was 81 years old. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Bernardina Schlie Overbeck; a daughter, Mrs. Frank A. Fisher; a brother, Leo Overbeck; a sister, Mrs.

Harry Holbrook; five grandchildren and three great-grandchil dren. Funeral arrangements are being completed by the Ihlendorf funeral home, MRS. CAROLINA S. BORSCH. Services To Be Held Tomorrow For Attorney's Mother.

Services for Mrs. a ol 1 a Schmleg Borsch, lifelong resident of Cincinnati, will be held at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow at the Dethlefs, Good and Kelch funeral home, Avondale. Burial will be in Walnut Hills Cemetery.

Mrs. Borsch died Tuesday at the home of her son, Clifford L. Borsch, attorney, 3126 Bellewood Pleasant Ridge. where she had lived for several yeara. Born in Germany 91 years ago, she came to Cincinnati with her parents when three months old.

A life member of St. John Lutheran Chinch, she was the widow of Albert Borsch, who before his death in 1SB1 operated a cafe in downtown Cincinnati. Mrs. Borsch Is survived by her son and a granddaughter, Mrs. Gtorfio C.

Scharf, Kansas City, Mo. i MISS GRACE BEARS, Heart Attack Proves Fatal rx Veteran Telegraph Operator. A veteran of 52 years as a Morse operator for the Western Union Telegraph Miss Grace Bears, the Fontbonne, 425 E. Fifth died yesterday at St. Mary Hospital.

She had suffered a heart attack Tuesday. Miss Bears, a native Cincinnatian, was 70 years old. Employed up to her death in the main office at Fourth and Walnut Streets, she began working for the company May 1, 1892. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a. m.

tomorrow at the Wiltsee funeral home, with burial in Spring Grove. Miss Bears is survived by a sister-in-law, Mrs. Myrtle Bears, 965 Ludlow Clifton. DR. JACOB L.

HOFFMAN. Services To Be Held Tomorrow Afternoon For Veterinarian. Services for Dr. Jacob L. Hoffmann, operator of a hospital for small animals at 644 E.

McMillan will be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow at the W. Mack Johnson funeral home. A veternarian for 32 years, Dr.

Hoffmann died early yesterday at General Hospital from the effects of a cerebral hemorrhage suuffered Tuesday. A member of the Oola Khan Grotto and the Blue Lodge, he was 52 years old. Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Minnie Hoffmann; a brother, Edwin Hoffmann, Covington, two nephews, Melvin and Harold Hoffmann, and a niece, Mrs. Cletus Palmer.

BENJAMIN A. DAWSON. Last Rites Are To Be Held Saturday For Florist. Services for Benjamin A. Dawson, Cincinnati florist, will be held at the Wiltsee funeral home, 24 W.

Ninth at 10 a. m. Saturday. Burial will be in Spring Grove. For 21 years a partner in the Garges Florists, 709 Central Mr.

Dawson died yesterday at Good Samaritan Hospital after a short illness. He was connected with the old Anchor Buggy Co. before enter ing the floral business. He was 58 years old. Mr.

Dawson Is survived bv brother, Theodore Dawson, Cin cinnati. CHARLES FAIN. Legion Post's Drill Team To Take Part In Services. Members of the Memorial Drill Corps at Bentley Post, American Legion, will hold services tomorrow night at Bader's funeral home, 3413 Clifton for their former captain, Charles Fain, Rose Place, Bond Hill, who died last Friday at Tucson, Ariz. The team will escort the body to Chillicothe, Ohio, Saturday, where a military burial service will be held at Grand View Cemetery that afternoon.

John Chumard, captain of the drill team, will be in charge of both services. MEN ABOUT TOWN To Plan C. K. Of O. Convention- Committees meeting in St.

George) School, Calhoun at 2:30 p. m. Sunday will complete plans for the annual convention of the Catholia Knights of Ohio to be held In Cin cinnati September 10-12. Fred Beck; will preside. Paul F.

Frederick, State President, will attend. A feature of the convention will be the conferring of the second degree upon approximately 200 members at St. Bonaventura Church. Officer Is To Speak Warrant Officer R. N.

Cramer of the Mari time Recruiting Service will discuss latest developments in the Mer chant Marine at a meeting of the American Legion Luncheon Club at Hotel Netherland Plaza at 12:15 p. m. today. Picnic For Masons Thomas Fisher has been named chairman of the first family basket picnic of the Norwood Masonic Club, which will be held Saturday at Kasemeyer's Farm, near Mason, Ohio. Past Presidents, officers and directors will assist in arranee- ments for the program, which will include athletic events.

New Masonic Office Carl P. Nulsen, membership chairman nf Kilwinning Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, has announced the appointment of William F. Meinders as Secretary of his committee, and the opening of a membership office at 906 Gerke Building, 123 E. Sixth St. The office is to serve a group of sectional membership campaign cnairmen appointed recently by James K.

Ross, High Priest of the chapter. Veterans To Meet At Ludlow Grounds The 327th Machine Gun Battalion Club, composed of veterans of the old Lincoln Division of World War will hold its sixth annual reunion Sunday at the CAC grounds. Ludlow. General chairman for the reunion is SSgt. George Leonard, i-Mewpurc.

waiter Miner, Ludlow, President, will conduct the business session. Maj. Belton J. Stark, Louisville, will Bpeak on the GI bill of rights. Another speaker will be Capt.

William E. Reilly, Indianapolis. At the business session Sunday, a report will be made on the battalion canteen fund, which was confiscated by the Army 25 years ago and which requires an act of Congress for release to the present organization. The business session will be called to order at noon. The annual ui nner win oe served at p.

m. LICENSED IN KENTUCKY. COVINGTON. Sgt. William W.

Boyc. 27, Camp Brerk. enridee, oldlr, and Jen h. Copland. 27, Cincinnati.

Loring Harrnp. 32. firmer, and Paulina Hylton, 22, both of Washington C. Ohio. James B.

Maxwell. SB, Mansfield, Ohio, minister, and Margaret Mae Steele. 25. Middletown, Ind. 1 1 1 1 3 A NEWPORT.

Glenwood Newton, 23, laborer, and HaU tie Smith. 21, both of Cincinnati. Elmer Lowry, 43, railroader, and EmmS) Jlaitls, ii, batn pi qievalsad. A fish hook was the cause of one of five accident which sent children to General Hospital yesterday, police reported. Henry Wucbold, 13, 18 E.

Liberty was swinging his fishing rod in Inwood Park when the hook caught in his jaw. Albert Scarlato, 12, 424 Klotter suffered scalp cuts when he slipped on a piece of soap in the shower room at Fairview Park. Raymond Cole, 5, 1722 Pleasant suffered scalp cuts when he fell on cellar steps at his home. Robert Levins, 3, 843 Betts was playing on a third-floor bannister at his home when he fell to the landing between the second and first floors. Trying to open a bathroom door, Justin Karp, 10, 3490 Reading pulled too hard.

The glass in the door broke. Justin suffered a left wrist cut. ARGUMENTS Are To Be Renewed Between Kentuckians And Oliioans Over Athletic Prowess At Country Club Jamboree. Athletic contests and golf matches between Ohio and Kentucky competitors, together with other activities designed to stir up traditional Buckeye- Bluegrass "arguments," will be staged at the Xavier University Jamboree to be held Thursday, September 7, at the Summit Hills Club, Dudley Pike, Kenton County. A chicken dinner will be served at the clubhouse at 6 p.

At tendance awards will be distributed at the dinner, which will be followed by entertainment. Paul D. Cain, General Chairman of the Jamboree Committee, reports that all friends of the Musketeers are welcome and that the party is not restricted to alumni or former students. Kentucky committees include Circuit Judge Joseph P. Goode- nough, Master Commissioner James R.

McGarry, William Wehrman, County Attorney; Stephens L. Blakeley, Postmaster Richard T. Von Hoene, Joseph Vehr and Dr. Joseph Molony from Kenton County, and Circuit Judge Ray L. Murphy, William J.

Wise, County Attorney; Albert Howe Fred Koenig, James A. Diskin, J. A. O'Hara and Clem Gosiger from Campbell County. dfcawaIo To Covington Veteran Of S6 Missions Decorations Are Presented To Nine Others From Greatpr Cincinnati.

Veteran of 86 missions over Europe, 1st Lt. Herbert L. Boyle, 22-year-old fighter pilot of Covington, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. The award was one of 10 announced for Greater Cin-clnnatians. Lieutenant Boyle, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Harry Boyle, 3315 Emerson Covington, is now teaching aerial combat tricks to new arrivals at a Thunderbolt fighter training station of the Eighth Air Force in England. Interviewed, he said: "I learned the hard way. I hope my students can profit by my experience." Appointed an Aviation Cadet in October, 1942, Lieutenant Boyle won his wings and commission at Foster Field, Texas, in July, 1943. He went overseas in November.

His wife, the former Miss Ruth W. Harney, is living with his parents. The Distinguished Flying Cross has also been awarded to 1st Lt. Arthur F. Nichelson, 4756 Edge-wood a Fortress navigator with the Eighth Air Force.

Other awards to Greater Cincin-natlans announced from the fighting fronts are: Bronze Star To 2nd Lt. Roy A. Ottaway, 3429 Hillside serving with the Fifth Army. Oak Leaf Clusters To SSgt. Robert G.

Verkamp, 258 Greendale TSgt. Robert J. Fischer, 444 Klotter and SSgt. Elmer W. Yourell, 1205 Sycamore St.

Air Medal To 2nd Lt. Aimer T. Holms, Lockland. Good Conduct Medals To SSgt. Carl R.

Lottman, 1271 Manss Sgt. Charles J. Rizzo, 1145 Civedale and T5 Virginia R. Marazzi, 2413 Vine St. North Bend operates a with the Fifth Army, in Italyt And One Missing In Northern Kentucky Casualty List.

Regimental Chaplain Is Hurt In Normandy On Opening Of Invasion. Seven Northern Kentucky soldiers were listed in yesterday's casualty list. Six have been wounded in action and one is missing. Marine Pfc. J.

C. Craycraft, son of Mrs. Lorene H. Sims, 1010 Scott Covington, was wounded July 21 in fighting on the Island of Guam. In service for two years he has been overseas for 18 months.

He is a former employee of the Kroger Grocery and Baking Co. at Maysville, Ky. Pfc. Jesse T. McMillan, 38 years old, husband of Mrs.

Delia McMillan, 429 Scott Covington, was wounded July 1 in Italy, his wife learned yesterday in a letter sent from an Italian hospital. Inducted in Noverber, 1943, he has been overseas for four months. He was employed by the Formica Insulation Cincinnati, when inducted. Pvt. Thomas (Red) Hollis, husband of Mrs.

Minnie Hollis, 529 Russell Covington, and son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hollis, Ludlow, was wounded in action in France July 30, his wife was informed yesterday. BROTHER IN FRANCE. Inducted in September, 1943, he has been overseas since last June.

He formerly was employed by the Union Terminal Co. His brother, Sgt. Robert Hollis, is in France. Capt. Charles D.

Reed, husband of Mrs. Adaleen Reed, 109 E. 24th Covington, was wounded on D-Day in Normandy, his wife learned yesterday from the War Department. He was regimental I chaplain in the 29th Division. Cap tain Reed has been overseas for 20 months'.

Ffc. Andrew G. Stewart, 33, hus band of Mrs. Betty Stewart, 119 Ash Ludlow, has been wounded the second time in the battle of France, his wife was advised by the War Department yesterday. He received his first wound early in July, and after hospitalization returned to duty.

He received his second wound August 1. Private Stewart is the son of Mrs. Anna Stewart, 119 Ash Ludlow. He was inducted in October, 1943, and went overseas last April. His brother, Sgt.

Edward Stewart, is crew chief with a bomber force stationed at Sioux Falls, Iowa. Private Stewart was employed by the Kahman Rehkamp Dairy, Covington, before his induction. WOUNDED IN ENGLAND. Pvt. Edward Flinker, 28, brother of Mrs.

Alvina Ploeger, 31 Sherman Fort Thomas, was wounded July 3 in England, his sister learned yesterday. His left arm was paralyzed but an operation has restored its use, she learned. The War Department stated that he was wounded by enemy air action. His sister thinks the "enemy air action" referred to robot bombs. He has been in the Armv for 20 months and overseas for four months.

His brother, SSgt. Earl Flinker, a twin, is' stationed in Texas. Private Flinker was a lithographer for the Dyment Cincinnati, when inducted. Pfc. Edgar A.

Strausbaugh, 26, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Strausbaugh, 104 Cowie Erlanger, has been missing in France since July 30, his parents learned yesterday.

He was an infantryman. His brother, Capt. Andrew C. Strausbaugh, is serving in France. HAIR-PULLING Engaged In By Newport Women In Row Over Man AH Three Land In Lockup.

A hair-pulling match in front of Newport Police Headquarters resulted yesterday In the arrest of three persons. Patrolmen Daniel Shea and Law rence Neises reported that when they arrived, Mrs. Hazel King, 25, 114 Washington and Miss Dorothy Vickers, 21, 20 East Third held firm grips on each other's hair. Mrs. King's husband, Earl King, 28, stood near by.

Taken to Jpolice headquarters, Mrs. King accused Miss Vickers of associating with her husband. She said her husband did not return home Tuesday night and that she found him walking with Miss Vickers near police headquarters. The three, charged with disorder ly conduct, were placed under $100 bond each pending arraignment in Police Court today. Cincinnatian Is In Britain, Recovering From Woand Pvt Orville Simpson, 20-year-old in of Mr.

and Mrs. Lowe Simp son Weebetook Lane, is recovering from a wound he received in battle in Normandy July 28, he has in formed his parents in a letter. Word that the youth was "seriously wounded" came to his father, head of the Orville Simpson Company, in a mesasge from the War Department several days ago. Nothing further was learned until the letter was received from him this week. He wrote: "I got a hole ihe size of a quarter through my right thigh.

Luckily no bones were touched, and this simplified treatment. I went through a chain of hospitals in France; then they evacuated us by plane across the Channel to a peaceful and quiet England. They operated first in France, and next at thi3 hospital when they put in stitches. This is the third day I have been walking on crutches." Private Simpson was with a tank destroyer battalion in Normandy when wounded. At US0 Today Ponnt frnldf lire Sketching, 1:30 and p.

m. Frnnlck Lounge Apple pie night. Danc ing. YWCA Oilmen, dnnrlng, refreshments. MCA Kyeoniiirp Treat Might.

JenUb teuter flulleld openi Robert H. Duwel, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. B.

Duwcl, 100 North Bend graduated recently from the Naval Air Technical Training Cen- ler at or man, ukib. Two Cincinnati men have giad-Uated as radiomen third class from the Naval Training School on the University of Chicago campus. They re Frank Bachanov, son of Mr. and Mrs. S.

J. Bachanov, 1818 Linn and Raymond E. Hockney, husband of Mrs. Margaret Louise Hockney, 2566 Liddell St. Aviation Cadet Lewis H.

Francis, 2642 Llnwood is taking basic flight instruction at the Independence, Army Air Field. After 10 weeks he will be moved to an advanced school. Bombardier on a Liberator, 2nd Lt. William M. Newton, son of Mrs.

Edna Newton, 1655 Llanfair has been assigned to duty At a 15th Air Force Base in Italy. A public relations correspondent with the 15th Air Force in Italy, Sgt. Wiley L. Golden, son of Mrs. Margaret Golden, 341 Terrace is stationed with a Liberator heavy bombardment group that has flown more than 300 combat misions.

Before entering the service, he was cn the staff of the Post. A member of the first service group of the Allied Expeditionary Air Force to land in Normandy after D-Day, Corp. Charles Jacobs, 8032 Urwiler now is stationed "Somewhere in France." Corporal Jacobs, a graduate of Western Hills High School, was employed by the War Department before entering the service. TSgt. Jack G.

Wengert, son of Mr. and Mrs. George J. Wengert, 406 W. McMlcken has been enrolled as a student in the Instructors Indoctrination Unit at the Galveston, Army Air Field.

A veteran of seven months' service in the European theater, Sergeant Wengert took part in 14 bombing missions as a radio operator-gunner and received the Air Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster. Before entering service in November, 1942, he was a bottler for the Red Top Brewing Co. Corp. Alfred P. Metzger has been warded the Army Good Conduct Medal in England.

He is an in- structor in the Link trainer department of an Air Force combat crew school. He has been in uniform 17 months and overseas for a year. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B.

Metzger, live at 340 Cedar Loveland. First Lt. Arthur V. Baumann.son of Mr. and Mrs.

A. V. Baumann, 2778 Eugenie Lane, is communications officer with a Liberator bombardment group of the 15th Air Force. Overseas 19 months, he is entitled to wear the Distinguished Unit Badge with a cluster, his group having been cited twice by the President for outstanding performance of duty. Pvt.

Vernon C. Sommerkamp, 543 Rose Hill St. Bernard, is a member of a unit of the Eighth Air Force In England that was commended for efficiency recently by Jts commanding officer. Members of the Seventh Air Force based on Saipan called it only a "missionette" when they were ordered to bomb Tinian, fcross a four-mile channel. According to Lt.

Arthur H. Bowen S914 King the Japs didn't think lt was a game. He came back with 14-inch hole In the left wing of his ship. Army Promotions Given To Hamilton County Men The following 15 Hamilton County men, many overseas, have been promoted, the War Department announced yesterday: To Major George A. Shwenzer, 1938 Kinney Army Air Forces, and Francis S.

Duttenhofer, 19 Duttenhofer Building, cavalry. To Captain Richard A. Hepp, 402 Ada Quartermaster, Air Corps, and Richard Harding, 1828 Hewitt Adjutant General's department. To First Lieutenant Robert C. Klosterman, 3138 River base section unit, India; William M.

Wilson, 233 Goodman Roy Thorourne, 411 Broadway, and Emmett William McGowan, Route 12, Sayler Park. To Master Sergeant Johannes G. Ort, 6800 Vlnewood Air Force Service Command. Tn Staff Sereeant Anthony E. Castellucio, Eighth Army Force; Robert L.

Nickol, 2403 Norwood Norwood, 15th Army Air Force, and Alvin H. Roeder, 491 Riddle Strategic Air Forces. To Sergeant John R. Finley, 302 S. Main Sharonville; James S.

Med, 3564 Trimble both of the Strategic Air Forces. To Corporal William F. Heine, 4130 Virginia Army Service Forces, and Charles Morris, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Morris, 1882 Freeman Ave.

He is company clerk a transportation corps invasion port in England. Cincinnatian Star In Italy With Softball Champions From commercial artist In civil-Ian life to crack right fielder of a championship Softball team in Italy has been the lot of Pfc. Stanley Thai, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thai, 442 W.

Mc-Micken Ave. Member of a Fifteenth Air Force Service Command team "that has defeated all opponents in its area, his uner-rlner arm has THAI mreventPrt manv batters from try ing to stretch a single into a double, according to an official story from Italy. The team recently flew to Naples to win the area championship, 12-1. A eraduate of Hughes High School and the Cincinnati Art Academy, Thai was with the Robert Kupp studios before entering aei v-ice. Ha in nlrrrnft done and fabric specialist with his air depot group.

"Shot From the Sky," the Army Air Forces' free exhibit of captured enemy equipment, opened yesterday before an audience estimated at 7,500 persons in the University of Cincinnati's Nippert Stadium with "Greater Cincinnati Night," a tribute to local industry, featuring prominent guest speakers and a complete variety show. Sponsored by the AAF, In coopera tion with the Cincinnati War Fi nance Committee of the Treasury Department and the 62 labor-man agement committees of the War Production Board's Cincinnati district office, "Shot From the Sky" is designed to show war workers some of the results of their production efforts and to stress need for continued unflagging work. Welcoming the show to Cincinnati, Walter Eberle, President of the Chamber of Commerce, praised the part industry had played in converting from peacetime to wartime production. He pointed out, however, that despite optimistic reports from abroad the war is far from being over, and American war workers cannot afford to relax for one minute. Eberle added that he was confident the AAF display would help recruit war workers, promote the continued sale of War Bonds and CAPT.

LEON D. MYERS. man's Badge and the Purple Heart, Two brothers are with the armed forces, SSgt. Lester Guynn, sta tioned at Camp Lee, and Pvt. Gilbert Guynn, in India.

Sgt. Harold Lamb, 35, husband of Mrs. Mae Lamb. 740 Oak was wounded in France August 12, the War Department has informed his wife. An infantryman, he has been in the service since October and overseas since April.

He was employed by the Baldwin Piano Co. before entering the Army. Pvt. Burton Messer, 28, husband of Mrs. Margaret Messer, 11 W.

Roth St. Bernard, was wounded in action with the infantry in France. His wife has learned that he now is in a hospital In England. He has been in the service since March, 1943, and over seas since May. He was employed by the Cincinnati Chemical Norwood, before entering the service.

Pvt. Troy Sparks, brother of Carl E. Sparks, 839 Bank was wounded in action in the European area, the War Department an nounced yesterday. T5 Robert F. Worley, son of Mrs.

Minnie Worley, Route 2, Loveland was wounded in action in the European area, the War Depart ment announced yesterday. Pfc. Clifton E. Reeves, 26 Green has been awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in ac tion in Italy, according to a dis patch from headquarters, European theater. He is a member of an Airborne Engineer Battalion.

UC Stadium; buying and pointed out that lt is not too soon to think of the Sixth War Loan drive and the drive of, the Paul Reveres and Molly Pitch ers for a. Superfortress to be purchased through the sale of bonds. Cant. Don Gentile, famed AAF fighter pilot from Plqua, Ohio, who last week at Wright Field receiVed an Oak Leaf Cluster to his Di3tin guished Service Cross and who also wears the Distinguisnea rying Cross and seven Oak Leaf Clusters, related experiences in destroying 30 Nazi planes over Germany and occupied Europe. Hiehlieht of the' variety show presented by the Wright Field Bombardiers under the direction of Sgt.

William Emrick was Pvt Lewis Cooper, concert pianist from Wright Field. TSgt. Webb Tilton, former vocalist with Fred Waring's Pennsylvanlans, was master of cere monies for the "Shot From The Sky" show. The AAF exhibit will be pre sented again today from 2 until 10:30 p. m.

and tomorrow from until 10:30 p. m. The stage show from 8:30 until 10 p. m. today is dedicated to labor and management, and tomorrow night to the foundry industry.

PAINTER, 16, INJURED. While cieanincr walls vesterdav at Beth Jacoo synagogue, aau at Lawrence Harrv Shreve. 16 740 Delhi a painter, fell from a scaffold. He suffered head' and back injuries and a broken wrist. He was taken to St.

Marv Hosnital, Police said he was unconscious for a short time after his 14-foot fall to a stone floor. Sgt. John Ziepfel, 2484 W. radio close to the front lines OPERATES PFC. HAROLD GUYNN.

husband of Mrs. Jean Patton Myers, 3760 Ault Park has been missing in action over France since July 23. A member of the Ninth Air Force, stationed in France, he wrote to his family recently that he was living in foxholes and flying every day. He has been awarded the Air Medal with two silver clusters and one bronze cluster. A graduate of Wlthrow High School, he attended UC Evening College and was employed by the American Surety Co.

before enter ing the Army. Pfc. Cecil Wagner, 30, son of Mrs. Blanche Illig, 1616 Elm has been missing in action in France since August 1. An infantryman.

he has been in the service since September and overseas since March. His brother. Pvt. Ernest Wagner, is in the Pacific area. Pfc.

Kenneth P. Casey, 21, son of Mrs. Fern Seltz, 1924 Auburn was wounded in action on Saipan, he wrote to his mother recently. A member of the Fourth Marine Division, he has been in the service three years. A former student of Woodward High School, he was em ployed at the Wright plant in Lock-land before entering the Marines.

Pfc. Harold Guynn, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Guynn, 6339 Salem Pike, Mt. Washington, was wounded seriously in France July 10, the War Department informed his parents.

He returned to duty on August 3. He has been overseas since July, 1943, and has served with an Infantry division in North Africa and Sicily. He wears the Infantry- encourage 17-year-olds to enlist as Aviation Cadets. Philio E. Zeigler, Grand Secre tary-Treasurer of the Brotherhoods of Railway and Steamship Clerks, discussing the postwar tasks of la bor and management, emphasized that "our fighters on both the combat and the production front must never reform their battalions on bread lines." To m-event this possibility, Zeigler urged "a workable basis of coopera tion on which labor, management and government can continue to stand together in developing and utilizing the abundance we have learned to produce taking our place among the nations of the world in developing that kind of freedom for which we have been fighting this bloody battle." Charles E.

Meyer, assistant ais-trict manager of the WPB, said that military production schedules, heavier now than ever before as a result of the pace at which our armies are advancing, are "lagging considerably behind, principally because of man-power shortages. The need for on-schedule production is absolutely imperative." Judd C. Benson, Chairman of the industrial and pay roll savings division, War Finance Committee, told of the necessity for continued bond smith in the Walsh Building, Third and Vine Streets, Cincinnati. One son, Dr. Louis Glantz, is in the Naval Reserve Medical Corps.

Another son, Edward Glantz, was honorably discharged from the Army recently. "You don't know what it means to read something like this in the papers," Mrs. Glantz said when she learned of Iasi's liberation. "We" have a great number, of relatives whom we hope are still alive in Iasi." Mrs. Glantz said she and her family hoped some day to visit relatives and friends in their home town.

"The end of the German Army cannot come too soon for me," she added. I was hit, and blood kept 'gushing out of my right eye." When Nudell ran to an ambulance to look for bandages, he found German doctors and medical soldiers lying In near-by ditches to hide from the bombs. "A German doctor helped me with my eye and helped me out of the ditch and put me in the am bulance," he said. "I had a lot of respect for those medics." They did all they could to help us. They actually cried when they had to leave us." A son of Mrs.

Esther Nudell, the soldier was employed at the Mabley Carew Co. before entering the service more (ban (wo years ago Good Home Town News! 'Twas About Iasi, Romania, Captured By Reds And Were The Glantzes Happy? Russian announcement of the capture of Iasi, a German stronghold in Romania before the capitu lation of that country, brought cheer to the hearts of Mrs. M. Glantz and her family, 1345 Garrard Cov ington. Mrs.

Glantz, who was born and reared in Iasi, said last night that she remembered well the sites used as a battleground. A naturalized citizen, Mrs. Glantz came to America when she was 18. Shortly afterward she met her future husband, who was living in Cincinnati. Her father, Abraham Sternberg, a Romanian by birth, owned a variety store on Carlisle Avenue, Cincinnati.

Glantz is now a silver and gold Asiiociatrd Prrsa Phoio. RADIO IN ITAL. Nazi Physicians Merciful To Injured Cincinnatian At an American rest camp behind the lines in France, Sgt. Joseph J. Nudell, 831 Hutchins a surgical technician in a Medical Airborne unit, paid tribute to German medical soldiers and doctors he met during the invasion of Normandy.

A dispatch from the European theater told of Sergeant Nudell's being hit himself after two days and nights of caring for the wounded without rest. "We were set up in a French chateau," the dispatch quoted Nudell. "I was trying to get some sleep when the bombing started and ,1 thought the building would fall,.

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