The Piqua Daily Call from Piqua, Ohio • Page 5

FRIDAY, MARCH 24. 1944 OHIOANS IN SOUTH PACIFIC AWARDED HONORS BY A.A.F. General Headquarterf, Southwest Pacific Area, March 24, (UP) Lieut. On. George C.

Kenney, commander of the Allied Air Forces in this area, has awarded the air medal to five Ohio members of the Fifth Air Force troop carrier command. Those receiving the award are: 1st Lt. William V. Chepla, East Cleveland; 1st Lt. Gerald K.

Mc K'bben (1124 Hazel Ave.) Lima; Pfc. Arson A. Pieeoro, Columbus; 1st Lt Robert L. Wetmore. Youngs town and 2nd Lt.

Frederick W. Jacobs, Perrysburg. He also awarded the distinguished flying cross to seven Ohio members of the Fifth Air Force bomber command. They were: SSgt. Charles R.

Putler, Toledo; TSgt. Fred Oapuano (1016 Monnot N. ladisettica. Yens dniit aapleatint Hraaatb and Caiboo. hramklla Thrift Sforca Canton; TSgt.

David H. midebran.l Lakewood; TSgt. Mervln E. John son, Milford; 6St. Julius, a.

sev. eres, Cleveland; 1st Lt. Charles R. Barnard, Wadsworth and 1st Lt Carl F. Gutman, Amherst.

The distinguished flying cross was awarded to 20 Ohio members of the Fifth Air Force Troop Carrier Command. Those receiving the award were: 1st Lt. Robert H. Angel, Glen mont; Coi p. Harold F.

Espenschled Cleveland; SSgt. Bruce J. Harper, Akron; 1st Lt. Gerald E. McKib ben (1124 Hazel Ave.) Lima; 1st U.

Ray A. Miller, New Plymouth; Sgt. Albert A. Prinzel, Cincinnati; 1st Lt. Harry P.

Whitney (807 Thayor Ave.) Ashtabula; 1st. Lt. Victor J. Woodworth Youngstowri; Sgt. Car) Matthews, Akron; Sgt.

Jack D. Soren, Long Bottom; SSgt. Harold I. Ryder, (2219 Crescent Blvd.) Dayton; SSgt. Harry L.

Bixler, Mineral Ridge; TSgt. William P. Chidester (917 Biltmorc Ave.) Toronto; 1st Lt, Wiilfam V. Chepla, East Cleveland; Sgt. Leonard A.

BaczkowskI, Cleveland; SSgt. Clair L. Newell, Long Bottom; SSgt. Orren C. Carlson, Toledo; Sgt.

Walter I. Collier (520 Knapp St.) Fremont; TSgt. (jail W. Sherman (1008 Mt. Vernon Rd.) Newark and TSgt.

John F. Vallance Jr. (1203 6th St. South) Toronto. Midway Islands were first claimed In the name of the United States in 1859.

ORANGE CRATE GROCERY 431 Young St. Phone 335 ONION SETS 35 WHITE OR YELLOW COOKIES 19' LETTUCE ORANGES CELERY CRANBERRIES 35' BEEF PORK VEAL WASTE PAPER needed for Plasma Containers! Waste paper is such an ordinary thing yet it may help to save the life of someone dear to you For paper is playing a Tttal role in the war today. It makes containers for blood plasma, and food rations; even parachutes to float supplies down to hard pressed troops in hot corners. With wood pulp scarce, the paper industry has had to turn, to waste paper for raw material. Was re paper is now our No.

1 war material shortage! Save it, bundle it, turn it in. You'll save lives and shorten the war! PIQUA WASTE PAPER COLLECTION TUESDAY, MARCH 28 All area south of Pennsylvania Railroad elevation. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29 All area north of Pennsylvania Railroad elevation. The Piqua Salvage Committee MELVIN BAKER, Chairman 'Jlicy Mai THE P1QUA DAILY CALT FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT AND THE WAR 824.072 847.617: 1 0 0 I I I I I iirmTm 1 AW TOTAL 1,671,689 2.168,3661 ii DICIMIH, 1M1 I TOTAL 3,206,121 G.I. CHIVALRY WINS AUSTRALIAN LASSIES Sydney, Australia have heard a good deal of GI opinion about Australian girls, but chances are that the secret of their amicable get along Is contained in what Australian'glrls think of American servicemen.

There's more to it than simple charm. All the local girls who help out in the American Red Cross Service Club here are agreed that GIs have charm, but that they don't rely on it Chief among the worthy traits that endear our fighters to the girls! Down Under are these: They thank a girl when thev take her out, and 'don't expect the girl to thank them. They like to do the chasing; and, they chase well. They ask a girl what she would like to do. They don't greet her with: "We're going to the pfctures." They like to be bossed.

You can't I boss an Ausslel Developed A 'line" Pretty, quiet Barbara Garden is charmed by their frankness, by the I way iney wmp out pictures of their sweethearts, wives, kids the moment they start talking, and divulge their life stories, family problems, and love a flairs. She doesn't think It shows an unseemly lack of reserve. "It would with us, but it's naturai with them." very homely You may, eyed Jane Buxton, stationer! at the information desk, with the assurance that to an Australian "homely" means home loving. "They love to be around children. They're always bringing them presents and taking them (or walks and it's 'Hello.

Mom!" and 'Hello Pop come for dinner." vlien they llot of respect for Willi the the and deserving of pampering. The girls arc fast learning lo take the famed G.I. Navy "spray" and Marine "snow" for what It's worth which Isn't much. They ed mlt. they were suckers at first for the soulful how havc I managed to llve wlthout you line.

But they also have learned to dish out a lot of things besides milkshakes in a Red Cross canteen. RED ARMY NEARIN6 (Con'lndetl From Page One) the enemy had exhausted himself In fruitless counter attacks that failed to re capture the severed railway link between Proskurov and Tarno pol. Heavy losses were inflicted on the enemy, ir.cluciing the destruction of 50 tanks in one sector alone. Bootv meluded two railway trains loaded with tanks and trucks. At the southern end of the Ukrainian front.

Gen. Rodion V. Mal Inovsky's 3rd army cleared almost the entire northeast bank of the Bug river from Nikolacv to Voz nesenck an: broke into the outskirts of the later torn to engage the garrison In street fighting nm.n some day let's surprise the boys with baked 5 LUCILLE ERR TUOTS "YOU GOTTA GET UP" FORWACS Fort Oglethorpe, Ga March 24. An alarm clock shrills a hand Popes out to silence lis strident chatter. Silence for pwlille.

Then a figure reluctantly emerges from under a nest of O. I. blankets. is 6:15. Fourteen minutes later a silhouette in khaki stands on a nearby hill.

The waning moon glints on the gold of an uplifted bugle. Reveille sounds. An Army day Ls Such is the early morning drama enacted by TS Lucille Brb. WAC inunpeter here at Fort Oglethorpe in sun or rain, heat or cold, she ushers ill the new day as musical time teener for the training center As the GI. day advances she punctuates its progress with the noic: 01 ner bugle.

At a brass throated warning First Call notifies company commanders to prepare their troops for the inarch out. Successively she sounds scnooi, arm and latlgue call the final notes of Assembly, bind strikes up and the regiment kovcs off (loan Pal as wards the reviewing officer and Die class rooms. Welcome Call At noon after a morning rehear fal with the 402nd Army Band, the Ohio WAC emerges to sound off the ever welcome Mess Call. Then she repeats the morning bugle 12.45 and the regiment class again. At 4:30 on Cpl.

Erb's musical clock, ner Recall sends the basic trainees back from classes. Twenty minutes later, first Call and As sembly sound again followed by the four staccato notes Ksfr ,1 At Army day is tnrough. But Cpl. Erb's work is ct. These still remains tl Attention ITie cannon booms and in the cnce of the band.

Cpl. Erb play; the Color. The flag is lowered jjT tne regiment salutes. An official Tat too at 0 p. the signal ngnts win go oil she gives the call clock the Taps, bugled beticdMIon of the Armv souni on the clear night air.

They Lj darkened hills. There's hush in SS vour Heart as you listen. Too soon, tutelage nf Pvt. Michael Humenick, at the Red Cross club in Sydney, Greta Short learns the GI jive. men, the girls agree.

A woman stays on a pedestal with an American until she falls off. And even though the men may come down from the islands with the Guinea gleam in their eye, most of them prefer companionship with a nice girl, and fun. Mostly, the girls are overwhelmed by the thoughtfulness of the American man. They are becoming accustomed to deluges or flowers and gifts, but they're delighted by unexpected little touches of understanding, and the assumption that woman is a frail, ethereal creature unable it li the last silver note dies away. Cpl Ero tucks her bugle under the arm and heads for horn Tne tra center has gone to bed.

TWO GIRLS INJURED IN GAR ACCIDENT Rosella Gelse, 18, and Betty Cov erman. 19, suffered bumps and abrasions when the car In which tney were riding with the former' uncle, Raymond Geise, Route i hidney, skidded on gravel and hit the guard rail of a bridge 2.8 miles north of Piqua on the Lockingt road. The girls were admitted for treatment at 10:25 p. Thursday to qu a Memorial hospital where their condition ls reported satlsfac Rosella Gelse 1 the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Farcy Gelse, 414 North Walnut street, Sidney, and suffered a bump on her head and abrasions ner leg. Her companion, daugh ter of Mrs. William Coverman ol Route 1, Minster, received a bump on the right side of her face as as large aoraslons on the face and right knee. The driver of the car was unin jured. AIR OFFENSIVE Concluded rrom Page One) 1,500 strong, plastered Berlin about 1,500 tons of bombs daylight Wednesday.

They wei lowed by an RAP night attack in which 3,360 tons of bombs were dumped on Frankfurt, the heaviest air assault ever made on a slngl target. Yesterday, the American made another 1,500 plane assault on important targets in northwestern Germany. The dwindling German Luftwaffe hard hit in the air and on the liround, avoided combat until terday. when lt made several fierce but scattered attempts to fight off the attackers. The Americans shot down 61 German planes and lost 33, neither figure comparing In size to losses in earner attacks In which the Germans put up stronger sistance.

On the Russian front, the first Ukrainian army scored an Important victory by smashing 25 to miles through the German lines be Iwcen Tnrnapol and Proskurov, oi the northwestern sector of the lkraine front along tire old Polish The Germans had been making uicir strongest stand in weeks. Although' 'neither Tamopol nor Proskurov had been taken, Ihi position ot (he Germans still cling lng to a stretch of the Lwow Oriessi railway southeast of Proskurov wa: precarious and they were In danger of being pocketed unless they moved fast. In the center, Russia advance columns had driven nearly fhrce ouar ters of the way across Bessarabia tc within 15 miles of the Prut river German efforts to make a stand there were offset by the rapid approach of the Russians to Baltl railway key of the whole area. The deadlock continued on the Casslno front In southern Italy. The lighting In the ruined lown and sur rounding hills was fierce but lndecl sive and the Allies moved up addl tlonnl forces of tanks and fiel piece to overmatch reinforcements sent In by the Germans.

News from the Balkans still the Germans were extending their control or communications mania and Bulgaria after occupying Hungary, mere was no sign ot liar general occupation of either of the other two satellites, but An kara reported that every Ian and Bulgarian city on the Black sea was under German control. well as the Danube from Its mouth to Budapest. Read and i Call want Ads GEORGE HETZLER OF FIRST STREET DIES ON THURSDAY George Elmer HeUler RELATIVELY FEW Cl: achlnist, whose home was at 2M rst street, died at 2:45 p. m. on Thursday at Piqua Memorial hospital, following 18 montlis of falling neaitn and four weeks bedfast with a heart condition.

Born In Springcrcek township, July 27, 1862, he was the son of Daniel and Mary Aim Pottorff Het zlcr. He followed the machinist trade for 55 years, having been employed at the National Cash Renis ter company, Dayton, and French oil Mill Machinery company here. He had resided In Piqua for seven years and was a member of the Ma Eonic Ixxtge In Covington. He leaves two daughters, Mrs. Ward Reed (Cora) of Fletcher and Mrs.

Lottie Hlgglns of Piqua; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Lloyd Rasor (Martha) of Piqua; a son, Millard Hetzlcr of Culver City. two brothers, Frank Hetzler of Covington and Albert Hetzler of Hay ward, two sisters, Mrs. Jane Davis of Piqua and Mrs. James Ford (Rosa) of near Fletcher; five grand children and six great grandchildren, his wife, Emma Mann Hetzler, preceded him in death.

The Rev. Norman Gutry will conduct services at 2 p. m. Saturday at the J. C.

Cron and Sons funeral chapel with burial in Sidney. Friends may call at the C. Ci and Sons funeral home this aft noon and evening and Saturday. rConchded From Page One! and $63,000.000 "additional ror housing. The unexpectedly early collapse ot Italian resistance was believed to be the chief reason why the number of prisoners Is lower than the total for which plans were made.

The number of Italians brought here tapered oh sharply in the nosing of last year. A Wa Department announcement las Oct. 21 disclosed that there wcr then about 35,000 Italian prisoners in mis country out of a total of about 140.000, the remainder being Germans and a handful of Japs. By umon uieTe were about 50,0 Italians and 120,000 Germans. Tn the past three months, few man lv.wv prisoners Have arrived irom acrofs the Atlantic.

Relatively few prisoners, it was understood, have been taken since the fall of Sicily. About 15,000 Germans been captured in Italy, and lt Ielicved most of them have been Drougnt to this country. Liberalization of the treatment of Italian prisoners is in nrc The Army last October announced liat. attcr Irusiworthy Italians have been in this country for six months, they will be permitted to leave prison camps for places of work, per form their duties, and return to camp without guard. Tne announcement said the ays All Eyes On A Pretty If you're craving attention and compliments, do the strategic thing and moke your new hat a pretty from our varied colleclion.

Whether you've gone for the smooth brow coiffure, or cling to a pompadour we have the most becoming hot silhouelte for you in an important Spring medium and color! Moderately priced $1.98 PAGE FIVE tem would be put in operation gradually as the number of Italians who have been here six months Increases. No information has been released as to the extent which the program has been put In effect, COVINGTON WOMAN STRICKEN FRIDAY Covington, March 24 Mrs. Iaicv Dickey Johnson, 82, wife of J. P. Johnson, retired fanner, died at the Johnson home, just east of this village on the Troy pike at 4:30 o'clock this morning, she had been critically ill since Monday.

ine daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dickey, she was bom at Lawrenceburc. Illinois and camn tn this community with her parents wnen a cmtd, and had resided In this vicinity all her life. Surviving besides the husband are a daughter, Mrs.

rvor Shafer and a granddaughter, Jeannette, both of Troy. The body was removed to the Routzahn funeral home, pendiiiR funeral arrangements which will later. PIQUAD'S BROTHER AND cimiiv mc nniou ihiiiili uic in unnon Mrs. Edith Hartnmn, 327 Miami street had been advised that funeral services for her brother, Walter E. Klnntson of Edon, Ohio who with his wife and two sons were killed in an auto train crash near Bryan, Ohio Wednesday night will be conducted at Edon 2 p.

m. Sunday. Members of the KInnison family, all victims nf the accident, were Walter 48, his wife, Ocia May, 46; and two sons, John 13 and Middletown Games in Tourney to Be Aired Dayton, March 24 WHIO Dayton has made arrangements to send engineers and announcers to Columbus to cover the finals of the 1944 Ohio high school basketball tournament. Bill Hamilton will bring listeners a. play by play description of the activities in the Columbus auditorium.

Starting at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon WHIO will broadcast the entire game between Middletown and Martins Ferry, li MIdletown wins this game, WHIO will also carry the last quarter of the night broadcast, 8:45. Country Lard Potatoes Sorghum Molasses Lee R. Smith Covington Pike 7 MURPHY'S.