The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 15

Sixteen Journal-Every Evening, Wilmington, Delaware, Tuesday, September 5, 1944 Casualties Theatre Guide Two Delaware Airmen Given Honors for Combat Records 1 I ff 1 i -u i i A )t Capt. Seymour BeTman fright) Cross from Col. Clarence M. Sartain Capt. Seymour Herman, 27, of Wilmington, squadron navigator in a Fifteenth A.

A. F. B-17 Flying Fortress Group in Italy has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross "for extraordinary achievement in aerial flight." Captain Berman, who has flown 51 combat missions against the enemy, is the son of Mrs. Florence Berman of 5 East Twelfth Street, Wilmington, and his wife, Mrs. Bette J.

Berman, resides at 114 West Thirty-sixth Street, Wilmington. 4 1 1 rax- Casualties (Continued From Fate One) Chester State Teachers College. When he was 16. he entered a peace essay contest, sponsored by the Golden Slipper, a Masonic organization. The title of his prize-winning essay waa "Airplanes Over France." About eight months after his enlistment in the Army, he was sent overseas and prior to the D-Day invasion of France, he volunteered as a gunner with amphibian troops.

He is survived by his parents and three -sisters. Mrs. Jack Gottlieb of Cynwood, Olive and Mona Bellow. Fred Harvey Sergeant Harvey, husband of Mrs. Fred E.

Harvey, 1309 New Road, Els-mere, was officially reported Saturday as having died of wounds received in France early in August. The news came in a letter to his widow from Ma j. -Gen. J. A.

Ulio, adjutant general in Washington. Sergeant Harvey was a veteran of the Tunisian campaign and was a member of the Ninth Division in Africa and Sicily. Last fall he was sent to England to train infantrymen for the invasion. He was with these troops in the D-bay action and fought before Cherbourg and St. Lo.

His last letter to Mrs. Harvey, dated July 31, indicated he was with Gen Omar Bradley's troops headed toward Paris. He received the Silver Star in Tunisia for gallantry in working into a position behind and above enemy gun positions at Sened and forcing the Germans to withdraw from four positions. A native of Huntingdon, he was 31 years old. His parents' live in Charleston, S.

C. He was a graduate of Wilmington High School, and was a treatment engineer at the Wood Preserving Division of the Koppers Company, Newport, before entering the Army Jan. 10. 1941. In 1940, he was married to Miss Marguerita Banta.

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Banta of Els-mere. John A. Ware Private Ware, a son of Mr.

and Mrs. John T. Ware, was called into the service Nov. 11, 1943, while he was assisting his father with farm work. He received training at Fort McClellan, and Fort Meade, before being sent to England last May.

He was born near Felton and received his education in the Felton High School. In addition to his parents he is survived by five sisters and one brother. David Maxwell Private Maxwell entered France on D-Day and was wounded July 7. His last letter to his brother, Robert J. Maxwell of Hamilton Park, New Castle, before his wound, was from Cherbourg and was dated June 28.

Another letter received yesterday stated that he was not sick, but had been shot. It did not say how serious the wound was. He attended the public schools at New Castle and Hockessin, and was a leather worker at the Wilmington Enameling Company before entering the Army in July, 1942. His basic training was received at Fort McClellan. Ala.

He weox overseas last January and was serving in France with the Fourth Division. Frank A. Fox Private Fox. the husband of Mrs. Jeanette G.

Fox. is back on active duty after reeciving machine gun bullet wounds of the leg during the battle for Normandy. He received the combat infantryman medal and was a member of the Eighth Infantry Division that received the Capt. Alfred H. Market of Claymont fright) is congratulated by Jesse Auton after having received a first oak leaf cluster to the Distinguished Flying Cross.

State War Private Waldo Sergt. Fred E. Bellow Harvey Killed Killed presidential citation for its work in Fox, the son of Mrs. Joseph A. Wile-man and the late Frank A.

Fox, was inducted into the Army last October. He was sent overseas last May. James J. Quinn Private Quinn, a member of the tank corps that battled in Normandy, is the son of the late Peter and Bridget Quinn. He had made his home with an aunt, Mrs.

Mary A. Quinn, 1406 West Second Street A brother, Maj. Francis Quinn, has been in the Army 11 years and is now overseas. A tormer student of the Salesi-anum Catholic High School, Private Quinn was employed at a Diamond Ice and Coal Company service station when inducted into the Army in May of last year. He was sent overseas last January.

His aunt recently received a letter from Private Quinn but he made no mention of his wounds. Sergeant Matarese was wounded for the second time in the central Pacific on June 17 during the fighting for Saipan. His tank was hit by an enemy shell and he suffered burns about the hands and face. He has now returned to duty. His previous wound was suffered during the invasions of the Marshall Islands in February this year.

A graduate of St. Elizabeth's School and Wilmington High School, he worked as a plumber for Albert E. Hayman before entering the Army as a selectee in March, 1942. His basic training was received at Camp Chaffee. Ark.

Private Maliszewski suffered a slight wound in the right shoulder in France on July 30. He wrote to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Maliszewski of the same address, that he has ben given the Purple Heart. He was employed by the Pusey and Jones Corporation before being inducted in January, 1942.

He received infantry training at Camp San Luis Obispo, and was stationed at several other camps before going overseas four months ago. He attended Mary C. I. Williams School. Thomas R.

M. Reynolds Sergeant Reynolds, a radio operator with the paratroopers, was dropped over Normandy while beachhead operations were in progress. According to a letter received by his wife from an English family whom a fellow paratrooper had visited, Sergeant Reynolds was one of a group which landed in a flooded area, and were forced to surrender after three hours in the water. The buddy had been wounded, and wras freed when Allied advances took his hospital, but Sergeant Reynolds was presumably taken farther away with the uninjured prisoners. The sergeant is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Theodore Reynolds, 401 Groves 9 i I GREER GARSON FICTUIE COMING SOONI GALL DELIVER JIEN'S end WOMEN'S PLAIN GARMENTS CLEANING STORES 4th Jefferson Sts. Richardson Park 1w4J "7 1 If if ER PIDGEON ACE "Transatlantic Tunnel," 12:30, 3:08. 5:46, 8:24, and "Cowboy and the Senorita," 1:50, 4 28, 7:06, 9:44. ARCADIA "Adventures of Mark Twain," 12:10, 2:33, 4:56, 7:19, 9:42.

CREST "Show Business," 7:30, 9:32. EARLE "Stage Door Canteen." Open at 6:30. EDGE MOOR "Two Girls and a Sailor," 7:30, 9:30. GRAND "Secrets of Scotland Yard," and "Tiger Shark." Open at noon. LOEWS ALDINE "The Seventh Cross," 11:05, 1:14, 3:23, 5:32.

7:41, 9:53. NATIONAL "Broadway Rhythm." Open at PARK "Eve of St. Mark." Open at 6:30. PIKE "Up In Mabel's Room." Open at 6:45. QUEEN step Lively," 12:10, 2:06, 4:02, 5:58.

7:54, 9:50. RIALTO Take It Or Leave It," 1 12, 2, 4. 6. 8, 10. RITZ "Masque of Demitrious." Open at 6:45.

SAVOY "Bombardier." Open at 11:45. STRAND "This Is the Army." Open at 6:00. WARNER "Mr. Skeffington," 4:50, 7:15, 9:44. Wilminglonian Named Food Group President Judson D.

Ryon has been elected president of the Natural Dietary Food Association, which held its convention recently in Chicago. Xlr. and Mrs. Ryon attended the convention at which many new food items, including goat's milk candy, alfalfa tablets, powdered orange and lemon juice, candy without calories, soya bean butter, and meatless hamburgers were displayed. The association is composed of 200 members who represent some 2.000 health food stores in America.

Mr. Ryon will serve until 1945. Savings Fund Society Reelects Six Managers Members of the Wilmington Savings Fund Society today reelected six managers to serve another three-year lerm. Those reelected are: Frederick Bringhurst, T. Clarkson Taylor, Ernile F.

duPont, Philip G. Rhoads, W. Murray Metten, and G. Sellers Smith. The reelected managers will meet on Tuesday, Sept.

12, at 4 -p. m. to organize the board. SEPT. 8 9 MATINEE SATURDAY CARLV WHARTON ft MARGARET WEBSTER (iALUENNE SCHILDKRAUT IN A WW RO0UCnON Of CHEKMOVS COMED THI CHERRY ORCHARD Staged bs Miss LsGsllisnns 1 Miss Wsbsttr NOW MAIL ORDERS ONLY Prices: Orch.

3.00, Bal. first rows 2.40. next 3 rows 1.80. last 5 raws 1.30. Gal.

(unreserved) 00c Sat. Mat. Orch. 1.80, Bal. 1.30, GaL (unreserved) 90c.

All prices include tax. FOR MAIL ORDERS PLEASE ENCLOSE CHECK WITH SELF -ADDRESSED STAMPED ENVELOPE TOR RETURN Or TICKETS. Box Office sale opens Wednesday. Sept. 6th.

MAXWELL ANDERSON'! THE EVE ST MARK Healthfully Air Conditioned Roy Rogers Mary Lee "THE COWBOY AND THE SENORITA" All Star Cast in "Transatlantic Tunnel" WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY, Sept. 1 Robert Walker Donna Reed "SEE HERE PRIVATE HARGROVE" TttVAlH. mm i 1 '4 i-J 1 Li, 1 nssP BUY BONDS! Open Noon, Continuoas NOW! i i 9 Daily i lL Starts 12:30 1 fC' 7 PETE BATH'S i SPORTS QIZ II 3 Loews of thDV)l ilii receives the Distinguished Flying of a B-17 Flying Fortress in Italy. The Wilmington flier was cited as follows "Showing a high order of courage, leadership, and professional skill, this gallant air crew member has distinguished himself throughout many long and hazardous combat missions against the enemy despite severe and adverse weather conditions and enemy opposition by large numbers of fighter aircraft and intense, accurate and heavy anti-aircraft fire." Royal Air Force for one year before transferring to the U. S.

A. A. F. He is credited with destroying two German planes, damaging two others. Captain Markel is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Robert H. Markel of 15 Pennsylvania Avenue, Claymont. In addition to the D. F.

C. and cluster he holds the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters. Correspondent to Speak At First, Central Friday George Dewey Blomgren. former foreign news correspondent, nationally-known lecturer and world traveller, will speak at First and Central Presbyterian Church. Eleventh and Market Streets, Friday night at 8 o'clock.

His subject will be "Why the Axis Powers Can't Win." Sound motion pitcure.s on "The Fall of Rome," "Invasion of France," and "Battles of Tarawa" will be shown preceding the lecture. Mr. Blomgren Is brought to Wil mington by the Christian Business Men's Committee of Wilmington, of which Harold H. Vigneulle is vice-chairman and in charge of the program. The talk will be free to the public.

3 More Nights Left To Attend the Big Midway Full of Attractions SENSATIONAL RIDES CLAMOUR GIRLS FUN FOR ALL LOCATED ON S. MARKET ST. SPONSORED BY Veterans of Foreign War DEPT. OF DEL. Featuring Helen Hart and Her Gorilla Dance at the Paradise Revue IN PERSON Star of Ben Bernie's Orchestra Tricky! Terrific! LOUIS DI liUIIZIO His Bass Viol His Band The trio that tops them all.

or ionr Musical Pleasure Sat. Continuoas Entertainment Alr-Conditioned Palm Gardens of the Hotel Oliver 7TH SHIPLEY STS. 1J Pacer Sets Record DU QUOIN, 111.. 5 VP). A.

new track record for trotters was on the books at the Du Quoin Fair today on Scotland's Comet's performance in the 2:05 Bar Trot feature event of the opening card here yesterday. Driven by Frank Ervin he turned his first heat in 2:03. clipping two full seconds from the old mark. aiYAR BONDS iX3 STAMPS Scientifically Air Conditioned K5 i7i1 tlH LAST 2 DAYS a ITS WNfRS StT5TI0HAL --wJm "MO 'id pscFFINoTON CLAUDE RAINS WALTER ABEL RICHARD WARING GEO. COULni'RIS MP)PRIE RI0PCAN STARTS THURSDAY UVy rv eye rVARNERS HAWMl JOY Jovca REYNOLDS RoHert HUTTON Ed word ARNOLD Ann HARDING Robert BENCHLEY Alon HALE iiHIHIMiMlfUliHMlHliilililii -now GIRLS TO MAKE YOUR HEAD! SPIN! mov- IHUtiMtMil' MMtMltlM MiitiMH EC FREWUC MARCH ALEXIS SMITH 1 PIus -CHINA TOWN CHAMP" NOW PLAYING 2 ACTION FEATURES 2 ffF7 HOWMtO w.r'' aV.

S. FEATURE NO. 2 tdgar BARRIER 7T1 U' 1 I vtfli 4I'1 MffshlTmiitililisy insWiirtlliiiNAiW rillTsiifciiiaiMiMisgslsfhiM.f iii iisfrfisiisMrrttif It nnnHsR NOW Cl rS--li FACKED WITH fa f-'-T. i ROMANTIC a -(S, 1 Jfffcjtfwfi .1 sS da v-i 7 4. ic: Motorist Fined In City Court Judge Isaacs Levies SI 00 Against Archie Smith; 5 Others Are Arraigned Charged with driving under the influence or liquor, Archie Smith, 300 block West Street, pleaded not guilty in Municipal Court today, but Judge Henry R.

Isaacs imposed a fine of $100 and costs. Pleading guilty to driving off truck vT.thout consent or the owner, Em id A. TViom as, 3100 block Monroe Street, Dallas T. Carrow. 1100 block West Street, was fined $40 and costs.

Christine E. Dowthit, 1700 block West Second Street, charged with larceny of a $69 wrist watch owned by Rebecca E. 712 Button-wood Street, was bound over in $300 bail for trial in Court of General Sessions. Arrested for carrying a concealed deadly weapon, a blackjack Cuarles Nelson. 1000 block Walnut Street, was fined $25 and costs.

Fines were imposed upon the following defendants charged with assault and battery: Robert E. Lewis, 300 bkck West Second Street, $20 and costs; and William Bush, 200 block West Third Street, $25 and COSM. Delaware City DELAWARE CITY. Sept. 5 I Special).

With the Delaware City Public School opening tomorrow at 8:45 o'clock. Principal Maurice C. Bower reports that the registration for the first grade Is 17. First grade enrollments will be made tomorrow morning at Commodore Macdonough School. St.

Georges. Mrs. Francis McCoy, principal, announces. The Delaware City Fire Company last night was called to put out a blaze in the garage at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Biansfceld at Fror.t and Clinton Streets. Damage was estimated at $10. A field fire on the Bolden Farm near Jester's Corner was put out without damage. William Morris has purchased a residence property at Front and Clinton Streets which will be occupied by his son. Frank Morris, who has taken a position with the U.

S. Engineers Patrol at Reedy Point and Is moving his family here from Norfolk. Va. The St. Georges Red Cross surgical dressing unit will meet tonight in the Commodore Macdonough School from 7:30 to 9:30 o'clock.

Mr. and Mrs. James G. Smith of Buffalo. N.

are visiting Mr. and Mrs. George W. Clark and Miss Gertrude Sadler. Mavor and Mrs.

J. Harry Nickle spent" the holiday with Mr. and Mrs. Emest McGee at Rehoboth Beach. Other local residents who were holiday visitors at that resort included the Misses Betty Tugend.

Betty Johnson, Alice Neeff, Anna McCarthy, Mary Melvin, and C. G. Caine. Miss Adeline Richards of Red Lion is visiting Miss May Reed of Chester, Pa. Mrs.

John Webb is substituting in the postefflce at Fort DuPont. Mrs. David A. East burn is visit-in her husband who is stationed at Fort Schuyler, N. while their children are visiting their grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. William Price Stanley. Lieut, fj. William F. Stickel and his mother, Mrs.

Louise Stickel. are visiting in Morgantown, W. Va. Mr. and Mrs.

Hariey ixjsey returned from a vacation at Dewey Bech. Three Motorists Fined For Reckless Driving George A. Gurne, Drexel Hill. and Richard C. Lewis.

Baltimore, Md. both charged with reckless driving, were fined $10 and costs each bv agistrate Thomas P. Plum-mer of Holly Oak today. A chilli Testa, New Brunswick. N.

similarly charged, was fined a like amount by Magistrate William F. Jones of Claymont. Russell F. Trump. Naaman's Road, Brandywine Hundred, arrested on a charge of driving an unregistered motor vehicle, will be arraigned before Magistrate Jones nest Tuesday.

Drifting Car Hits Mail Box A parked car owned by Samuel Berry damaged a mail box yester-dv at Sixth and Clayton Streets, when it drifted from in front of Mr. Berry's home at 607 Clayton Street and struck the letter container. Berry was arrested on a traffic violation charge. Ash Collection Day Late The Street and Sewer Department announced today that ash collections throughout the city will be one day late this week due to the Labor Day holiday. of deiicioat choco late podding, mix the contents of one pck- tse of My-T-flne Cbocotite Dejert m-ith 2 cur of mi it.

Cook. oer low ett, stirring conmasly, until pad-iisg tiickeov Chill, Kf( pUia or with crena-Trr the other euy recipe use Mr-T-Fiae packs g. VOfHI'ff: h'l 1 11: i 7 Private Henry Sergt. Thomas F. Maliszewski R.

Reynolds Wounded Prisoner Avenue, Bellefonte. His wife, Mrs. Rosemary Reynolds, received the olHcial announcement that her husband is a prisoner yesterday, several weeks after receiving the unofficial news from England. He and his wife were members of the first June graduating class at Pierre S. duPont High School.

He worked at the DuPont Experimental Station for several years. His wife and daughters, Betty, 5, and Carolyn, 3, live in Claymont. Sergeant Reynolds enlisted in September, 1942, received basic training at Toccoa, earned wings at Fort Benning, and was made a sergeant before sailing in September. 1943. St.

Andrew's Choir To Begin Rehearsals Rehearsals for the choir of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church will be resumed Friday night at 8 o'clock and will continue throughout the season. This will be the fifth year that the choir has sung under the direction of Harrison Walker, choirmaster and organist. The choir personnel follows: Mary C. Kinder, Muriel Cook, Marion Grier, Nancy Watt.

Marjorie Brunck, Ivalou McMeehan, Lillian Alters, Irene Eaton, Betty Jean Kinder, and Mary Jane Curtis, sopranos: Pauline Bechtold, Betty Hackett, Virginia Williams, Betty Heinel, and Janet Grier, contraltos; A. O. H. Grier, and Arthur Bracken, tenors; Ramoth A. Mitchell.

Frank E. Jones, Alfred VT. Downs, H. Earl McLain, and Elbert Chance, basses. School No.

30 to Open Kindergarten Next Week Registration for a new kindergarten at School No. 30 will open tomorrow morning and continue each day between 9 and 3 o'clock during the week. The kindergarten, the tenth in the city schools, will open for classes next Monday. Children over 4 years and 9 months are eligible, and birth certificates must be presented upon registration. The kindergarten will be under the auspices of the Wilmington Board of Education Miss Matilda Graham, principal of the school, will be in charge of registration.

nffM a TODAY Matinee at 1:30 Marjorie Rejnoldi Dennis O'Keefe and a large cast ef funster in "UP IN MABEL'S ROOM" Paramount News Donald Dark Cartoon The 3 Stooges in "PHONEY EXPRESS" At JOAN LESLIE GEORGE MURPHY 'THIS IS THE ARMY EARLE THEATRE New Castle. Del. Phone 2574 TODAY and TOMORROW All-Star Cast in "STAGE DOOR CANTEEN" NATIONAL Osers Opt at 12 at. Daily TODAY Lena Horne Rochester BROADWAY RHYTHM' Miles North of Wil. Got.

Prints Blvd. TODAY M.G.M. Prize Laugh Hit "TWO GIRLS AND A SAILOR" Van Johnson Jimmy Durante Gracie Allen Harry James Healthfully Air Conditioned (TREST E. Two Shows MARYLAND AVE. AT BOXWOOD RD.

BURLESQUE TO BIG TIME I EDDIE CANTOR GEORGE MURPHY. JOAN DAVIS NANCY KEUY. CONSTANCE MOORE Plus-WALT DISNEY COLOR CARTOON Starts TOMORROW A Musical Jamboree "JAM SESSION" "STARS ON PARADE" I sUhm MARKET NEAR 3RD in- aise or NEWEST Hal LaMMsl IsstMMMMaff WMsWksi CS a IV she loved a scoundrel and was courted by a king! 4 I 1 The first Oak Leaf Cluster to the Distinguished Flying Cross (equivalent to a second D. F. has been presented to Capt.

Alfred H. Markel of Claymont. by Brig. -Gen. Jesse Auton of Covington, during ceremonies held on an Eighth Fighter Command P-51 Mustang base recently.

Captain Markel. a graduate of Claymont High School, flew with the Cetlin, Wilson Shows Give $150 to Red Cross In appreciation of the work done by the Red Cross. Cetlin and Wilson Shows, conducting a carnival on South Market Street, has donated $150 to Delaware Chapter, American Red Cross, to be used In some phase of her work. R. R.

M. Carpenter, chairman of the locaJ Red Cross unit, received the check for that amount sent by John W. Wilson, manager of the carnival company, this morning. Mr. Carpenter acknowledged the gift and expressed appreciation a letter to Mr.

Wilson today. The money will be added to the chapter's general fund. The carnival is sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Not From Convent The chancellor's office of the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington today denied that any parish or convent throughout the diocese has any connection with a woman who has i been selling lace from door to door throughout the city. The woman has been telling persons that she is from a convent in Canada ana came to Wilmington under the sponsorship of the diocese.

MIMQUAS FIRE CO. CRumivnia Carnival Grounds NEWPORT, DEL. WEEK OF SEPT. 4 Featuring CAPTAIN SHAW Hollywood's Wild Animal Show BILLY McDUFF Divinf Circus, 110-ft. In a Tank Aflame Assisted By JOHNNY BANANA Funny Water Clown and Beautiful Diving Girls i i Union I I N.

E. Cor. 5th Cr Union 9 OPENING I SEPT. 6 i Offering the Finest Foods and Beverages Specializing in Sandwiches Spaghetti, Ravioli Lewis J. Valeri, Mgr.

i- 4 5 A METIO-GOIDWYN-MAYI QVO Sell col Clotlios Clooned FJoiv! School openiny is not far off. Send them to their classes Spie and span with their clothes cleaned by ARROW! CASH CARRY MEN'S and WOMEN'S PLAIN GARMENTS AT THESE Odnrlct CUuiiai 1210 Washington Street 1606 Delaware Ave. 200 N. Maryland Ave. NOTICE 7kw WILSON LINE BOAT SCHEDULE TODAY DAILY PASSENGER TRAHSPORTATIOM fsbr nones Lt.

Wilmington 9:00 A. M. 7:00 P. M. Leave Fhila.

2:00 P. M- 9:45 P. M. 1 4th Street harf 2003 MARKET STREET Will Be Open for Business As Usual Today. "MARCH CF TIME UNDERGROUND REPORT" set.