Albuquerque Journal from Albuquerque, New Mexico • Page 5

June 23, 194 ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL rage Five DONALD ILL Recalls U-Boat WASHINGTON, June 28 Donald M. Nelson, War Produc tion Board chairman, whose cold Navy Torpedo Man and Army Nurse Hold Reunion in Honolulu Robert 0. Pfaff and Lieut. lima Pfaff Meet on Furlough in Hawaii eign of Terror developed into a "touch of pneu monia" Tuesday, was reported 'doing all right" Wednesday. AAF Center Patient Saw Plenty Wreckage Montoya Rancher Awarded Air Medal AN EIGHTH AAF BOMBER STATION, England (Special) Second Lieut.

Darrel D. Hornsby, 25, of Montoya, N. co-pilot of an Eighth AAF Flying Fortress, has been awarded the Air Medal. The award was for meritorious achievement while participating in bombing attacks on targets in Nazi Europe. Lieut.

Hornsby is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Duke Hornsby and his wife is Mrs. Henrietta Hornsby, of Montoya. He was a rancher before he entered the AAF March 8.

1942. 1 W' Harold 0. Pfaff, torpedo man 3 in the Navv, son of Mr. and Only five-sixths of. Ireland is Eire the balance is included in Nortnern Ireland, politically a member of the United Kingdom.

Mrs. O. B. Pfaff, 2125 East Coal, Delicate Flavor that won't bake out Schilling" (Pure lanico In the early days of the war when Axis subs were lurking so disastrously around America's backdoor, Capt. August T.

Ca-hoon was in Puerto Rico. Now stationed at the Convalescent Center, Capt. Cahoon still remembers all too vividly the and his sister, Lieut. Irma Pfaff, Army nurse, met reunion recently in Honolulu, Hawaii. The sailor was on leave from his ship, the U.

S. S. Maury, described as the Navy's fightingest ship." Young Pfaff appeared for the family rendez 'A scattered debris all over the Caribbean area. BRl NACINI ACCEPTED Vincent A. Brunarini, 17, of 5601 North Fourth Street, has been accepted by the Navy and sworn in as apprentice seaman.

Why," he recalled, "bales of rubber floated all the way from Trinidad to Puerto Rico. As a Capt. Cahoon 8 win i In the Armed Services rfaff heavy beard- vous with a of curly bek last November FAMILY REUNION Pvt. Jose Tor-- growth -started IN SEVEN BATTLES In Navy service two years and 10 months, in which he participat I ed in seven ma- when he left the United States and which he said he'd leave uncut until he stepped foot on mainland soil again. His sister is stationed in Hono battles, is the The women they 7 never forget! record of Ismael rez, son oi Mr, and Mrs.

Perfec-to Torrez, Route 2, Box 632, Los Lunas, who has just completed basic Army training at Camp Blancling, is 4 lulu, and the Navy torpedo man Lieut Pfaff J. Martinez, storekeeper first 1ncc xr 15 1 00. Beetle Infestation In Mountain Area Termed 'Serious' home. Martinez u. dav furlough.

A has been "working the Pacific." Pfaff participated in battle action in New Guinea and elsewhere. He is an Albuquerque High School graduate and was on the Bulldog football team. Lieut. Pffaff was a student at the University of New Mexico and took nurse training in New York City. is me sun ui mi ft vf 1,1 Wand Mrs.

Daniel J. matter of fact, I salvaged some of it myself. There was plenty of opportunity to see what was going on, for in the 32 months I was down there my trips took me all through the surrounding islands, and even as far as Panama. "There wasn't a great deal of personal risk," he went on. "About the closest call I had was in a plane crash on a take off.

The thip was demolished, but luckily both the pilot and I crawled out of the wreckage with a case of jitters and a grateful prayer." Captain Gaboon's Army career began as a junior officer with the CCC back in 1939. Following that he joined the First Armored Division where he was a cavalry officer. And jt was after transferring to the Air Corps at YUy Field, that he left for Puerto Rico. On his return to the United States, Capt. Cahoon was assigned to a post at Florence, S.

C. Transferred to the Air Transport Command at Tucson, the captain remained there until an old complaint sent him to several different hospitals for treatment, later to the Convalescent Center here, Capt. Cahoon formerly lived in Chattanooga, where he was court officer in the Circuit Court there. JO 5- Des Moines, jKer at Vv 7T onrt fl i.vv.., mJ io him here for J. Torrez 4 in ir his uncles a family reunion.

HOSPITAL FURLOUGH Heraleo Lucero, 5, is home City Briefs Nationally Known Walter Yust and wife Editor of Win- nn lrn-p frnm an n.t J.netka, 111., are visiting in Albu-hospital at Bngham City, Utah, after spctuling a week in where he is being treated for Santa Fe. Yust is the editor of wounds received on the Anzio! Encyclopedia Brittanica. They arc-beachhead in Italy. Lucero was I stopping at the Alvarado Hotel. The infestation of bean beetles in the eastern part of Bernalillo County is "serious," County Agent Cecil Pragnell reported Wednesday after a demonstration in dusting to kill the beetles.

"There was a rain about a week ago in the mountains, and it brought the beetles out," Pragnell reported, "They are hatching by the thousands. We found as many as three 011 one plant." He said the insects must be brought under control within 21 days if they are to be controlled this year. He planes a series of othe dusting 1'. ions, beginning with one at 2 p. m.

Friday at. Chilili, Twenty-three persons attended Tuesday's demonstration, held at. the farm of Roscoe Garland at Yrisarri. I. Martinez and aunts, Mr.

and Mrs. Louis Sanchez, 910 David Road, and Mr. and Mrs. A. L.

Mctzgar, 1223 Sunset Road. Martinez was assigned to duly on an aircraft carrier Sept. 10, 1941. His first battle was at Guadalcanal and he also saw duty at Rabaul, the Marshalls and Gilberts and other localities. He has just returned from a trip through the Indian Ocean.

A sister, Edna, riveter at Lockheed Aircraft Co. in Los Angeles, has joined her brother here. wouncted II times on feb. 19 Meets Red Cross Officials- receiving a Purple Heart award Elizabeth Rankel, Red Cross t.t -1 1 1 i -n in recognition. He was returned to the United States April 22! vonsuiuuii, jncw ivh a- Thp colrlinril'O, mCl nCIP Willi lOIUHIIUUl'S on a hospital participated in three major battles.

Four brothers also are in service. They are the sons of Mrs. J. M. Lucero, Old representing Nurses Aid.

Nurses Recruitment and Home Nursing. Tuesday. Applies for Navy Harold Redman, Route 2, Box 10, has gone to take a physical examination at Santa Fe for entrance into the Navy, Returns From Tex.as J. P. Crozicr, agent for Railway Ex- PROMOTED IN PACIFIC HEADQUARTERS, 13TH AAF, South Pacific, (Special) The promotion of Capt.

Merrill Long-will, commanding officer of a 13th PROMOTED TO CAPTAIN ALEXANDRIA, La. (Special) First Lieut. Bruce B. Clark of Derry Village, N. has been promoted to captain at Alexandria Army Air Field, Flying Fortress combat crew training center.

Capt. Clark, who was a student at the University of New Mexico before entering the armed forces, Hatch to Address Oil Compact Meeting DENVER, June 23 UP) Senator Carl Hatch N. will be one of the principal speakers at the quarterly meeting here Friday and Saturday of the Interstate Oil Compact Commission, Warwick M. Downing, Colorado AAF Mitchell (B-25) squadron, press, has returned from a to the grade of major was recent-1 brief visit to Texas with the in- formation that, "it's not warm in Texas it's hot, spelled with an "H1 as in another word I'm too bashful to .1 I announced. Maj.

Longwill's squadron is one of the units responsible for the destruction of Rabaul and the cutting off of all supplies and reinforcements to BACK FROM OVERSEAS Private Conrado Garcia, returning from 4 months overseas with the Infantry in the Mediterranean theater of operations, has armed at Fort Bliss, prior to visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs, Carlos Garcia, 1 West Dan, Albuquerque. GETS SILVER WINGS Curtis Hill, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.

T. Hill of Albuquerque, has won his silver wings at the Army Air Forces Advanced Pilot School, Williams Field, Chandler, Anz, The pilot, has been appointed (light officer in the Army Air Corps, ready for active duty. Jtairri is coming place on, bndse. Nov. 1042.

lie Resin Field Trips a 0 lk Bnnfl.ii,. Wallace and Ranger H. Lewis Wyo.1, who sent word he will be unable to attend. Hatch is chair- man of the Senate public lands coinmitlop, of the Cibola National Forest Service have gone to the Zuni Mountain area in connection with land works, while Louis Cottam, vine. maj.

luiiswiu autiiiut-u Highlands University at Las Vegas prior to entering the Army Air Forces. He was commissioned at Kelly Field, on Sept. 2G, T-fi noronl! Mr anil Mrs it-rvLsi in connection with iAnKu.il mLiiP their lion-ir in Des Moines', N. M. His wife, with grazing matters Approximately 15 oil men and commission members are expected to be on hand for the session.

Downing said four oil state governors John C. Vivian, Colorado; Robert S. Kerr, Oklahoma; Lester Hunt, Wyoming, and Andrew Schneppel, Kansas definitely are expected, and John J. Dempsey, New Mexico, also may attend. the former Miss Helen C.

Miller, resides at 81!) Pile Street, Clovis. The major has flown 50 combat missions and over 800 hours of is now assigned to the Third Weather RETl'RYS TO STATION Leo Botillo, seaman has returned to his Navy station in San Diego alter visting his wife and son and his mother, Paula Martinez, at 211 West Atlantic Avenue, His brother, Pete, was reported presumably killed in action last, month by the War Department. Two sisters, Carmen and Patsy, and their stepfather, Enrique Martinez, are employed in a shipyard at Richmond, Cal. AIDS D-DAY INVASION AN EIGHTH AIR FORCE LIBERATOR STATION, England (Special)-Pvt. Juan P.

Abeyta of Los Lunas, N. is one of the ordnance crew at this field who PROMOTED IV ENGLAND PiV, Andres Garcia of Belon, N. has been promoted to cor- anti-submarine patrol during his, irs. nas T' 'n lormru. uama is suiuonea some- where in England.

)Two Las Cruces Employes nr- r- 1 a 1 DESTROY Iff if nf I ill ir-H lii fi in i i i 15 months overseas, AT BOMBER SCHOOL KEESLER FIELD, RILOXI, Miss. (Special) Pvt. Charles Bal-riuini, son of Mrs. Julia Balduini, 709 West Gold, Albuquerque, was enrolled this week in the Kresler Field B-24 Liberator bomber mechanics school. SECOND AWARD CARLSBAD, July 23 V-Tbc Potash Co.

of America, winner the Army-Navy has been awarded a second white s'ar for excellence in production of war material, G. F. Coope, company president, announced Wednesday. to the NOSTRILS Whdi lummer cold makes nose fcrl raw, si.rr, sp read Montholatum inside nostrils. (1) Helps thin cloRKcd munis.

(2i hew irritated membranes. (3) Helps reduce swelling. (1) Stimulates local lihxid supply ti urea, firings welcome relief! Jars, tubes 30. Petrmn" Ant Food is quklt df ih m. Jt killi hy contact or iwil.

lowing. ESectire 2 i hour a day. No okr. Oyer 1,2 cam of I'ftrrman'j old laM year, Get il at your HrungiJt'j, grocer's, and hardware dealer's. PETERMAN'S win right lor salaries LAS CRUCES, June 23 ('TV-Initial court action arising from a controversy between Republican Mayor Edwin Mechem and Las Cruces' Democratic city council Tuesday saw two city employes win justice court salary judcrncnts.

Patrolman Manuel Dclgado and Richard Johnson, a truck driver, were awarded the judgments. They had brought suit following the mayor's refusal to sign checks of four cronioj cs. retained by the coiinc'l after its rejection of Mechetn's Similar suits by other workers remain to ho hey rd. Mayor Mechem declined comment on the verdicts. THIS WAS A RED-IFTTFR DAY for Jim -the soldier who had loit the ue of his leg at Salerno.

For this day he walked strictly alone for the first time In months. To Jim, It was a miracle. To the Wac who had coached him so long and mi patiently, $aid'SWprj If live to he a million, I'll alwav remember you for thk" loaded bombs that were dropped hy B-24's in support of the first landing operations in France on June fi, "D-Day." His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lolo Abeyta, and his wife live at Los Lunas.

GETS POSTHl 'MOl'S AWARD WASHINGTON, June 28 11') The Navy Cross has hr'f-. awarded posthumously to Marine Pvt. James E. Riegel of Santa Rita, N. who made a one-man assault on a Jap gun emplacement on Bouncainviilr and destroyed it with hand grenades before he fell mortally wounded.

He was the son of Ed Riegel of Santa Rita and had been in the Marine Corps since Nov. II, 1042. um is a world war. The mrm terrible of all recorded events in hu (Prehistoric Model) Working in control towers. Making strategy maps for invasion.

Manning the giant switchboards that send combat orders winging to tensely waiting bomber crews. Working night and day at vital jobs. Jobs that will speed the day of liberation and give us peace again. These arc the women "they'll ncvet Gallantly, a new page is being written into American history by the women of the Women's Army Corps. man history.

And this is what the Wacs the women soldiers of our Army are doing about it Working in critical hospital jobs. Helping to restore the broken bodies and spirits of fighting mer. Working as lip-readcrs. Helping blind men to see again through knowledge of Braille. Working as laboratory technicians.

As pharmacists. As psychiatric assistants. As ambulance drivers. German Prisoners From Normandy Reach U. S.

WASHINGTON, June 28 W) The Army announced Wednesday that the first German prisoners raptured by Allied forces in Normandy have reached the United Stairs. The number of prisoners was not disclosed in the brief announcement, which said merely that they had arrived at an eastern port and had been sent to various prison camps in this Now She's Walking On Air Every Any, pwpl who rrnlly nufVr fwvm tirM, Nrninc fct are laminsr nuirk, comfort thai, lin in a jar of Mint-, Under (he tmirh df ihin fronty-whits frr-nm, you can finally fcrl tirpd lyinsrifs TflsT, ss your feet respond almost, instsn 1o ita rrfrri-hinsr coolncsfi. To hlp sofltpri corns and rallouscs, there's nfhinsr hotter than Irp-Mint. Stt ppt a jar today and fnjny th blissful feelinpr that comrs with aJl-dajr foot aimfort. At nil dniirsrista.

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