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The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 18

Publication:
The News Journali
Location:
Wilmington, Delaware
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18
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18, 1944 Eighteen Journal-Every Evening, Wilmington, Delaware, Wednesday, October with Major Hooplc Our Boarding House By Williams Out Our Way STFFY WHV, "THAT'S A Battle-Worn Marine Sergeant Turns Out to Be "KioV Brother receiving his boot training at Sampson, N. Y. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Katurakes, 301 Pine Street.

The Air Medal with one bronze oak leaf cluster has been awarded NAOMT. BULLET VWOUMD" I'D SOOKJER UVETD SEE THIS THAM TH' SHOOTiKJ' IT TOOK A SECOMD E52. TWO TO PUMP THEM IMTO TVMO OF THEM TALK IF HE WAS A Our Men And Women In Service to Staff Sergt. WHY, STiFFV, 1 KiEVER KKJEW VOL) HAP THOSE A-A- VOU'VE HEEO AM STIFY, AM' WES BElM' 1 Frank H. Col- WOMT IF A.

GEKITLENAAM, IT'LL bourn, nose gun IT WAS PJJST-I TAKE TEIM VEAR5 BEEW IM SOME-UH- 1 ner on a B-24. Stationed in J' CATTLE FER HIM. TO PUMP SCRAPES. SO AKJVTHlfsJG ABOUT I-UH-l-JUPGE EM OUT OF 15th Army Air REVERSE GEAR.S0U 0WPS'. 'Hu Vi VJHEJ POKED vW 8EW TO BELIBie THERE TUE OLD BOV, 1 A 8EAX5 Wki POlTllG AT ME VJER.V MOU vOT(40UT $06 -tSouGUT TrtT COLD 6AT 19 PLETV OP TJ OL 1 urce uuciiiuM squadron, Sergeant Colbourn has com pleted more than 40 miss ions over enemy territory.

He entered the Air Force Aug. 17, 1943, and received his aerial Mi- it Vincent Quigley Norbert Quigley When a battle-worn Marine sergeant stopped him on Guam recently, Vincent P. Quigley, Army technician, fourth grade, thought he looked familiar. Then he realized fie was facing his "kid" brother, Norbert L. Quigley, who was only 16 when Vincent entered the Army nearly three years ago.

"I had to stop and think before I recognized him," 33-year-old Vincent wrote his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Francis A. Quigley, 1521 North Adams Street. But once they got together, the brothers made up for their long separation, exchanging notes on the experiences of their 11 brothers and sisters, and of their own travels.

Vincent, who entered the service early in 1942, went overseas more than a year ago. Norbert sailed in March. Both just recently arrived in Guam, the Marine with the invasion troops. Another brother. Private Kieran J.

Quigley, IS, was Inducted Sept. IS and is now at Fort McClellan. Ala. A brother-in-law, Tech. Fourth Grade James F.

Stewart. 25, Is at Fort Bragg, N. C. The three brothers attended Sacred Heart Parochial School. Vincent, a graduate of Salesianum High School, was employed by the Delaware Rayon Company, Norbert by an auto sales company, and Kieran by the Pusey and Jones Hi Mrs.

Phyllis Stanstrury has received -word of the safe arrival of her husband, Sergt. Ralph Stans-bury, somewhere in England. He has received his present rating since his arrival. Before entering the service three years ago. Sergeant Stansbury lived in Kennett Square.

His wife is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Lloyd of with whom she makes her home while her husband is overseas.

SergL Joseph V. MaalL 23. son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene H.

Maull of Kings Highway. Lewes, has been awarded the Air Medal. A member of the 15th Air Force as a Liberator (runner. Sergeant Maull arrived in Italy this summer. His 10-man bomber crew has blasted Nazi installations at Vienna, Munich, and Blechhammer.

Sergeant Maull entered the service in July, 1942. The first bronze oak leaf cluster to the Air Medal has been awarded to Staff Sergt. Alphonso F. son of Mr. and Mrs.

Frank DiQonnaro, 9 South Bancroft Parkway. An engineer gunner, Sergeant DiGormaro is stationed in Italy with a 15th Army Air Force Liberator proup. He entered the service Feb. 17. 1943.

Lewis Hard was graduated last jam THE MYSTERY MAM BY MERRILL BLOSSEB Cleaning Project WATERLOO. Iowa, Oct. 18 (JP). A Waterloo family assembled a bundle of coats, suits, dresses, and discarded hats and put them on the porch for collection during the "Clothing for Russia" drive. A member of the family also called the dry cleaners to pick up a suit and a dress.

In a few days back came the "Clothing for Russia," cleaned, pressed, and mended and a bill for $10. BAD NEWS FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS Frank Colbourn gunnery training at Tyndall Field, Fla. His -wife, Mrs. Jeanne Colbourn, lives at 505 Matson Run Parkway, Brandywine Hills. Donald S.

Lawson, seaman first class, is spending a 10-day leave from Lee Field, Green Cove Springs, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Lawson of Dover.

Georgetown Corp. and Mrs. Robert Green are spending a few days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Julius C.

Green, North Railroad Avenue. He Is stationed at Camp Van Dorn. Miss. Kennett Square Pfc. Robert Baughman, son of Mr.

and Mrs. George Baughman, holds the Expert Rifleman and Sharpshooter badges. He is now with a gas supply unit somewhere in France. M5H 8UTWMEM IT CAME D0WJ fT KMOCED US FOE A THAT PUBLIC IT STUMT WAS fvEAM. I CECTAIWUV A OILLV.PAL I tVVfe WOW COT MV N4ME OM THE PROMT )41fHrAr ')4 r-ST PAG tr OF THE -y MCkj )jtK Pop gavf me A TrCRiFlC GoiNs-ovrc.

BUT GUESS LOOP LOOK -c-no BCACF MEATBALL OUR. SfV-PLCCXEr WAS IT WAi WOKIH IT cT)) BFAUTfFUL wwile rr was -pa Gite a share in America, My War Bonds and Stamps. OM TWE WAV UP This CliriOUS World By William Ferguson month from Freeman Field, Seymour. where he received his pilots wings and second lieutenant's commission. He spent a leave with his parents.

Mr. and I- BY V. T. HAMLIN ONE-TRACK LADY ALLEY OOP MEANS AND COMES FROM THE DAYS OF WELL, THE JP LOOKS ALL MOW. IF THOSE COAt-8UMMG GIMLET-EYED GOON9 9 i'M hOPiM'hE TQJ6H PAgT 1.

OVER AMD TM SERVING A-r I NOTICE TLL MOT BE RE9POMS1PLE -T-- I ffT1 FOR WHAT HAPPENS TO AMY I 11 ClV' OME WWO GETS IU MY WAY iT vIK FROM HE2E OM A' AVENTT -J IMMIEP THE Mrs. Bsnjamin L. Hurd. of Har-I rington, and is now receiving additional train STEAM AUTOMOBILES. E20M-GEBER IS I-T GO'NJG TO GET RID OF A ing at Smyrna Army Air Field, Tenn.

His brother, Private Oliver J. Hurd, was lieutenant Hurd Corp. Lester R. Myers, who entered the service in July of 1943, is now in New Guinea. He is the son of Mrs.

Helen L. Weaver, with whom his wife is making her home. George A. Quinn has recently been promoted to sergeant. He is an airborne communications repairman at the Harvard Army Air Field, Neb.

He has two brothers in the armed forces: Private Frank J. Quinn and Private Hugh A. Quinn, Jr. Howard M. Long, radioman second class, is now receiving additional communication training at Oceanside, after a long service in the invasion areas.

Private Robert O. McNeil is spending a furlouigh with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. Otis McNeil of West Grove.

He will report back to Gulf-port, Miss. Tech. Sergt. Thomas Taylor of Durham, N. was given an emergency furloush due to the death of his father, Eliha Taylor of near Doe Run.

Douglas Crossan, fireman first class, spent a five-day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Crossan, at Landenberg. Sergt. Earett G.

Pbillippe was formerly at Fort Jackson, S. C-, and is now awaiting overseas duty. Corp. Walter E. NeiT.

who has been stationed at Kelly Field, is awaiting 6verseas duty. Sergt. Robert Thompson, stationed at Camp Swift, is home on a 15-day furlough visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore R.

BY ED WIN A WELL! WELL! TIPPIE AND "CAP- STCBBS rWT A HEM IS A wounded in France Aug. 17. An audience with Pope Pius XII, and a boor through the Vatican City were the highlights of a five-day furlough spent in Rome by Corp. Clement J. Russell, son of Mr.

and Mrs. J. J. Russell, 404 North Broom Street. While in Rome.

Corporal Russell also visited the Colosseum. Rome is more like an American city than any other place I've seen," he said. A supply man in a postal unit with the Fifth Army in Italy, he has been overseas 14 months, where he was awarded the Good Conduct Medal. Staff Sergt. Leon Oppis, who wears the Air Medal and the Distinaruished DON'T YOU DARE SAY A I'LL SUE YOU FOR U3EL YOU OARE HAVE THE EPPONTERY TO ACCUSE iJ- WORD AGAINST POOR fZOOSTBfS, MKS.

E- C. CHESTER, YOU'LL P1ND I'M NOT THE JAMES. VOL) CAN'T WEAK WILLED MAN MY iuu4T mn ucjlkJ. a.m-c ajpi 1 JMEOP- INTIMIDATE HE; 771 BROTHER I S-J JUST WHAT I SAID YOU DID jl 1 MOST CERTAIN rr i'll-- LV DO-J CHEAT YOUK POOR BROTWEK-- i-sr 7r i Liza i n. i i i Vttr.x tmilhe 1 1 I IfJl I 1 I I I 1 i II'' Ml I 1' TWf i I I I tVIJIi I (7; 'Hi AAYRTLE WARBLERS EAT LARGE AMOUNTS CP FRUIT AND SEEDS OF PO1S0VJ OA, OR IvY 10-18 T.

m. nta u. s. off. NEXT: Does Europe have potato bugs? Flying Cross, has returned from combat over Germany with the Eighth Air Force and is now spending a 21-day furlough with Mr.

and Mrs. Krasowitz Swanwyck. The sergeant participated in the D-Day invasion. He will report to Atlantic City for reassignment at the end of his fur Side Glances lfleJ fiViV'OT' iOT) Vs- 'ssT W) yr rn 1 w1 MICKEY MOUSE FROZEN ASSET BY WALT DISNEY I KTHAT SILLY IX SOU fTIl 1 O-KAW, Zl GL3SI MEAM V'Ji TAKE MiAA A-WAV? 'i il Leon Oppis Major Willard Lauds 2nd Ferry Group's Work A better job done than at any other base in the country is Maj. Kester T.

Willard's commendation for the flight traffic clerks on domestic flights out of the 2nd Ferry Group at the Army Air Base. Major Willard is director of training at Cincinnati headquarters. Major Willard also announced that a flight clerk training school has begun at the New Castle Air Base. Twenty-five men from various A. T.

C. bases were sent to the base to start flight clerk training on Oct. 2. The school is under the direction of Corp. William J.

Noonan, who has had experience in this line as airline representative for the Army at several airports which served domestic transport routes before the A. T. C. took over the job. He is assisted by Sergt.

George J. Field, formerly a major airline operations employe. Sergeant Field was assigned to weight and balance when he entered the Army. Since this phase of flight clerk duties Is of great importance his lectures are considered invaluable. lough.

Ha has two brothers in the service, Staff Sergt. Fred Oppis, a prisoner or war in the Philippines, and Charles B. Oppis, seaman first class. They are the sons of Mrs. Lena Oppis.

formerly of 112 North Harrison Street, now of New York City. Among those enrolled in the Army Air Force Training Command's B-24 Liberator mechanics course at Kees-ler Field. Biloxi. is Private John Walter Smith, husband of Mrs. Margaret E.

Smith. 806 Haines Avenue. The course will extend over a 17-week period. Pf c. Charles V.

Keith. has sent word to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Keith.

87 1-2 South Chapel Street, Newark, that he has arrived safely in France. He entered the service Aug. 12, 1943, and studied at the University of Georgia under the Army Specialized Training Program. Private Keith wears the Expert Infantryman Badge. Jamei L.

Katurakes, apprentice waman, who enlisted Oct. 4, is now BY JIMMY Ml'RPHY MAGIC MAKES MONEY TOOTS AND CASPER IT ME A FORTUWE- CASPER, YOU HAVE (T0N-rHT WE 4-ET ACQUAINTED BE6-INWiNj TCI I rD Luvr-m. HOW KNOW 4 ON YOU 1 TOMORROW I LL I tUL pukiunc 3 I IN TOUR HERE. UAILf Al Si)." tt.M WnM t- 1 THAT WALLET AND 30 4 HAD EVERYBODY SPELLBOUND FOR WEEK5. AND NOW 1 HAVEpONE TO PATtt TOU in YOUR LEFT rl CALL KKUMU I IQNJWPKrV Here at IS THE MYSTERY MAN HE 5 tiONNA CASH IN Sweet Mystery PHILADELPHIA, Oct.

18 P). A 14-hour police search for missing Shirley Schwanbeck, 10, and her sister, Joan, 11, ended in their home Papa. Schwanbeck found them under a bed where they hid after he Just INTRODUCED HIMSELF, spending an unauthorized dollar for candy. ZALMIST, THE. ON IT Answer PrvIon Paisl NOVELIST BY LYMAN YOUNG "That was a thriller you just told, but give me a chance now you can't out-lie your grandpa!" NOT AT THE END OF THEIR ROPE TIM TYLER'S LUCK jjgfrffl Bop YOU'LL SOW LOOKS UlE USTEN WATER LAPP1NS BUT TUE CONCEALED JUT tHIt VA Funny Business ROPE OOESNTT UNDER-PtNNlNGS OF NOT BXR BEVOND UOWU.

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