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THE COURIER. JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, KY. THURSDAY MOANING, OCTOBER 28, 1943, SECTION 1 OS-TEN Sergeant Heyburn Listed Missing Since Date of 2d Schiveinfurt Raid 2 Louisville At Bowman Fliers to Be Honored Field Ceremonies Senate Rejects House Change In Draft Bill Conferees Named To Erase Differences ticipate. The national anthem will be played by the 67th Army Air Force Band. rwi "4 here, John G.

Heyburn and Henry B. Heyburn. The War Department announced yesterday that two more Kentuckians have lost their lives and eleven others were wounded on the Italian front. Killed in action are Pvt. Thomas L.

Coomes, brother of Charles D. Coomes, Pewee Valley, and Cpl. Henry S. Spence, son of Mrs. Daisy Spence, Owingsville.

The following were reported wounded in the same fighting: Pvt. John C. E. Blackburn, son of Glover C. Blackburn, Canada; Cpl.

Rutherford Bowling, son of Mrs. Nancy Bowling, Crown; Pvt. Gifford H. Carrier, husband of Mrs. Dorothy Carrier, Danville; Pvt.

Vernon Combs, son of Mrs. Cora Combs, Soft Shell; Pvt. George Francis, son of John Francis, Smithsboro; Cpl. Cecil Hounshell, son of Hugh Houn-shell, Frozen Creek; Pvt. Ernest Justice, son of Mrs.

Virgie Justice, Pikeville; Pvt. Walter K. Lowe, son of Mrs. Anna L. Lowe, Bowling Green; Pvt.

Arthur E. McAllister, brother of Mrs. Mabel Frizzle, Argillite; Pvt. Watts Murphy, son of. Mrs.

Eliza J. Murphy, Grayson; Pvt. Elvia B. Watts, husband of Mrs. Virgie E.

Watts, Shelbyville. Was Gunner On Flying Fort Missing in action since October 14 is Technical Sergt. Alexander Buddy" Heyburn, 22, turret gunner on a Flying Fortress based in England, the War Department notified relatives here yesterday. He is the son of Maj. Alexander Heyburn and Mrs.

Heyburn, Willow Terrace Apartments. Major Heyburn is stationed in New York. Though there was no official notification, it is believed that Sergeant Heyburn took part in the October 14 raid on Schwein-furt, Germany, when sixty Fortresses were lost. At that time Gen. Henry H.

Arnold, chief of the Army Air Forces, said half cf the men lost likely were prisoners of war. Enlisted In May, 1942. Sergeant Heyburn left the University of Virginia to enlist in May of 1942. He has been overseas since June and has taken part in about thirty flights over Germany and occupied territory. He was a member of the crew I' it a BechL J.

Jamison. LI One Is Dead, Other Prisoner Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal will be presented to Mrs. Marjorie K. Roney, 1044 S. 5th, wife of First Lt.

Joe H. Roney, Louisville Flying Fortress pilot, and the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster will be given to Mrs. Mamie K. Everson, 1318 Cypress Avenue, mother of Second Lt. Charles W.

Everson, navigator on a heavy bomber, in a dual presentation ceremony during retreat formation at Bowman Field to day. Presentation will be made by Col. George P. Johnson, air base commanding officer. Lieutenant Roney, who, according to a War Department report, was killed in action last May, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross by the commanding general of the 8th Bomber Command for "extraordinary achievement, while serving as pilot of a B-17 airplane on a bombardment mission over enemy-occupied continental Europe." On Five Bomber Missions.

He has been awarded the Air Medal for "exceptionally meritorious achievement while participating in five separate bomber combat missions over enemy-occupied continental Europe." A graduate of Louisville Male High School, Lieutenant Roney attended the University of Louisville for three years, where he majored in physical education. Prior to his entry into the Army he was employed by the American Air Filter Company in Louisville. He received his Army training at Randolph Field, Texas, and at Lubbock Air Force Training School, Lubbock, Texas. He was transferred to an airfield in England last February and rated as pilot of a Flying Fortress. Lieutenant Roney was married in May, 1942, to the former Marjorie Melton, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Cecil D. Melton, of 1044 S. 5th. With Mrs.

Roney when she re ceives the two awards today will be the Air Forces hero's mother, Mrs. Joe Roney, 123 Breck inridge. Lieutenant Everson, who was reported missing in action last August, has been cited for the Air Medal for "exceptionally meritorious achievement while participating in five separate Armored School to Give The story of the Armored School at Fort Knox will be depicted in a soldier-Wac show to be given at the post on Thursday, November 4, the third anniversary of the school, Lt. Paul P. Dugas, special service officer, announced yesterday.

Included on the program will be an oratorio sung by a seventy-five-voice chorus. Two performances are planned, one lor school LT. RONEY. LT. EVERSON.

bomber combat missions over enemy-occupied continental Europe." "The courage, coolness and skill displayed by these officers upon these occasions reflect great credit upon themselves and tne armed forces of the United States," the citations state. Through the International Red Cross the War Denartment has determined that Lieutenant Everson is being held a prisoner by the German Army, his plane having been shot down during a Flying Fortress raid over Lorient, France. In addition to being awarded the Air Medal, Lieutenant Everson also was cited by his group commanding officer for "his cool and skillful performance of duty in the most important deep penetration bombing mission yet conducted by his wing." Male High Honor Student Lieutenant Everson was graduated from Male High School as an honor student in February, 1940, and was employed for two years with the Farm Credit Administration in Louisville. He enlisted in the Army Air Forces in March, 1942, and received his training at Maxwell Field, and at Navigators' School, Monroe, La. He was transferred to a heavy bombardment squadron in England in June.

1943, and was assigned as navigator to the Flying Fortress, "Vertical Shaft." In addition to Lieutenant Ever-son's mother, present at the ceremony will be three of his sisters, Miss Adelaide Everson and Mrs. Kenneth Bryant, 1318 Cypress Avenue, and Mrs. Hazel Ann Torstrick, Hillside Drive, Shive-ly. Ky. Citations concerning the recipients of these two awards will be read by the Bowman Field base adjutant, Lt.

Norman F. Gline- burg, at the ceremony and members of the base headquarters and air base squadron will par Anniversary Program personnel in the afternoon and Another at 8:30 n.m. to which the public is-invited. Sea Gets Pound's Ashes. Portsmouth, England, Oct.

27 (U.P.) The ashes of Admiral of the fleet Sir Dudley Pound were lowered today, along with those of his wife, into the sea. Sir Dudley died last Thursday; his wile two months ago. Louis villian Cited for 2 1 Raids RUPTURE Th tmbilinl Bon-arftea1 treatment elotea rupture, does ewer with tru er ether aapport. Ne loti ef time, for these whe de Dot take the treatment, the "Holdfast truse Is recommended. HERNIA CLINIC.

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Clifford, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Cliff ord, 714 Dearborn Avenue, has been promoted to a first lieutenant, it was announced at the headquarters of the 8th Bomber Command in England.

Word has been received by his parents that Sgt. Joseph Mul-rooney, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Mulrooney, 1628 Rowan, has arrived overseas. His brother, Set.

James Mulrooney, also is overseas, and a sister, Seaman Second Class Mary Mulrooney, is serving with the Waves in New York. Pfc. John Woodley, 1533 Mell-wood Avenue, stationed in England, took part in a ceremony in London's Green Park recently in which six American soldiers were awarded the Good Conduct Medal and three British soldiers, who had been on duty with the United States Army were given lift I 4.0 SERGEANT HEYBURN. which the War Department announced on September 17 had limped back to England after a raid on a German industrial center. The Fortress landed In a pasture with three of its motors shot out.

Sergeant Heyburn was awarded an Air Medal for his actions. 2 More Kentuckians Killed. His brother Is Pvt. William A. Heyburn, who is in an Army Air Forces radio school at Sioux Falls, S.

D. His sister is Mrs. James P. Helm, Willow Terrace Apartments. He has two uncles Jamison Vaughn Tallahassee, after going into the Army in August, 1942.

His wife, Mrs. Aileen G. Jamison, lives at 1849 W. Ormsby. The marine of the family, George B.

Jamison, 19, has been promoted to private first class after completion of his boot training at San Diego, Calif. He has been a marine since August. Somewhere in the South Pacific, stationed at a war zone outpost for intensive training Marine Pfc. William R. Vaughn, 23, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Rufus Vaughn, Clay, doubles as the gunner on a 37-mm. antitank gun and as a rifle coach in the Marine Corps, He has been in the Marine Corps since July, 1942. A veteran of action with the Atlantic Fleet, Seaman First Class James A. Bliler, son of Mr.

and Mrs. James R. Bliler," has returned to active service after a short visit with his parents. He has been in the Navy for eighteen months. Donning the gold bars of a second lieutenant, Lawrence Edward Layden, 3812 St.

Germaine Court, St. Matthews, recently com pleted Officer Candidate School at the American School Center in England. Lives of several marines in a command post on Rendova were saved when concussion from a 500-pound Jap bomb was absorbed by the base of a giant tree, according to Cpl. Ben T. Guthrie, son of Mr.

and Mrs. S. L. Guthrie, Bardstown, Ky. Corporal Guthrie, who joined the Marine Corps in November, 1941, and trained at Quantico, is in a Navy mobile hospital at Guadalcanal, recovering from malaria.

"Japs came over at night' and dropped bombs in our area," the marine related. "One bomb fell squarely in the middle of the command post, but it struck the base of a tree which consumed a great deal of the concussion and reduced the damage. Several tents were destroyed, but nobody was hurt. I was about 500 yards from the scene." At the Carlsbad Army Air Field, New Mexico, where she is assigned as post librarian, Wac Mary E. Isbell, Greenwood, TRY OVERNIGHT CARE FOR MISERABLE COLDS- the way grandma did.

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Jones, Bar-bourville, member of the Thirteenth Air Force in the South Pacific, has been announced by the War Department. An executive officer of the Air Forces at the Army Air Base, New Orleans, Harry A. Ropke, 49, of 1025 Oriole Court, Audubon Park, has been promoted to lieutenant colonel. Colonel Ropke, who was commissioned a major in May, 1942, was a machinist's mate, first class, in the Naval Air Service in the last war and was awarded the Navy Cross and the French Croix de Guerre for sinking three German submarines. Major Ropke has three children, one of whom, Sgt.

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