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The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 9

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SECTION 1 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, KY. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 18, 1943. Seven Kentuckians Graduated From O. C. S.

At Gamp Lee Louisville Logistics Lonisvilliaii In Armv Made Master Sergeant U. S. Employment Service reports 12,000 placements here in the first two months of this year. That's four times the activity of a year ago. These new residents in Louisville must have homes so if you have salable property, list it with us at once.

Especially the $5,000 to $7,000 property. I.ngiral SUII-tlri Lord Sharpensteln Wilburn Williams Augustine Quisenberry Wright McIIargue Bradley Fuqua Lawrence Rr Beard, will be graduated soon from Tank Destroyer wsm -7ti frrmmm fTrr iTrm two Louisvillians are now somewhere overseas. Seeing foreign service with the Tank Destroyers is Second Lieut. Lee E. Lorti, 29, husband of Mrs.

Atha Lortz. His neighbor, Corp. Justin R. Sharp-enstcin, 21, son of Mrs. R.

Hodges, is also abroad. Corporal Sharp-enstein has been in the Army since he was 15, and was stationed" at Camp Forrest, before his embarkation. Attached to the Sixth Air Force in the Caribbean area following completion of pilot training in the United States, Second Lieuts. I. Drymon.

son of Ira Drymon, Don Mtilhnt-laiul, son of 1). E. Mulholland, both Of Lexington, have boon assigned to tactical fighter squadrons. They received an intensive four-week course in the navigation, gunnery, and flight technique of P-40's. Seven residents of Kentucky were among 550 officer candidates who graduated at the Quartermaster School at Camp Va.

They are: Ernest Carlton Bloomfield; Paul Jacob Miller, 311 N. Western Tarkway, Louis-vale; Clyde Willis Ratliffe, Praise; Beverly Matthews Jouett, Georgetown; James Elsworth Haney, Somerset; Billy Helm Dinwiddie, Junction City, and Marcus Fred Bcglry, 1903 Garrard, Covington. In civilian life an office manager for the Mengel Company, Claude R. rotts. son of C.

T. Potts. 1150 S. Floyd, has been promoted to master sergeant, highest noncommissioned rank offered by the Army, at the Quartermaster Replacement Training Center, Camp Lee, where he is a clerk for the Plans and Training Section. A graduate of du Pont Manual.

High School, Sergeant Potts was inducted in April, 1942. According to word received by his father. Eunice Quisenberry, pr6 Longfield. Fireman First Class Marion Quisenberry has arrived fate in England. A graduate of Male High School, Bluejacket Quisenberry was employed by the Buckeye Cotton Oil Company before his enlistment last October.

He received boot training at Great Lakes, 111. A son of Stanley P. McGee, 2511 Carolina Avenue, Stanley P. MrC.ee. a R.C.A.F.

flying officer, has returned to his post at Ottawa, Canada, after spending a leave at home He attended the University of Louisville. His brother, Patrick L. McGee. 17. is receiving boot training at Great Lakes Naval Train-irg Station.

Seaman McGee attended du Pont Manual Training High School. A brother-in-law, First Come First Served! A limited number of furnaces may now be cleaned by our experts; and just at the right time: before you do your housecleaning. Later on tie may not have the experts to do the nork as uar production is claiming many of such tvorkmen. ville Male High School before his enlistment in July. Advanced to staff sergeant at Camp Grant, 111., was Arthur Westerman, son of H.

P. Wester-man, Taylorsville Road. Sergeant Westerman was a salesman for the Hall Seed Company before his induction in March, 1942. A native of Buechel. Aviation Cadet William N.

Isgrigg, 24, son of John Isgrigg, is flying training planes at Perrin Field, Texas. Upon completion of advanced training, Cadet Isgrigg will receive his wings. Inducted last November, rvt. Alva T. Bradley, Hart County, has been transferred from Camp Wheeler, to Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

Serving with an armored infantry regiment somewhere on a distant desert, William L. Fox, son of Mrs. Annie P. Fox, 1309 E. Breckinridge, has been promoted to sergeant.

At the Army Air Field. Bain-bridge, Donald McDonald, son of F. E. McDonald, Hardy-ville, has been made a corporal. Corporal McDonald, who enlisted last July, is an airplane mechanic in the basic flying school.

Former driver for Silver Fleet Motor Express, Pfc. James N. Humphrey, son of- James E. an airplane mechanic at Gulfport Field, Miss. A student in the Weather Training School at Grand Rapids, is Aviation Cadet Edward C.

Watts, son of E. C. Watts, Simpsonville, Ky. 'Upon successful completion of a three-month course in meteorology. Cadet Watts will be commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Air Forces.

Transferred from the Quartermaster Corps at Camp Perry, Ohio, to an ordnance unit of the Armored Force at Fort Knox, was Sergt. Richard E. Wilburn, 229 S. Bayly Avenue. Sergeant Wilburn was formerly a maintenance man for Devoe Raynolds Company.

Already holding a pilot's rating, Maj. Adolf M. Wright, Louisville, was graduated last week as a regular member of a class of bombardier cadets at Kirtland Field, N. M. Executive director of a training squadron, Major Wright enrolled in the group for special instruction.

Wearing staff sergeant's stripes at Fort Banning, where he is attached to an Infantry regiment, is George A. Cave, son of Samuel S. Cave, 221 W. Wood-lawn Avenue. Sergeant Cave was employed by Brown-Forman Distillers Corporation before entering the armed forces.

Sewing on corporal's chevrons this week at Camp Chaffee, where he is attached to the 14th Armored Division, is John R. Augustine, 23, son of Mrs. Rosalie Augustine, 723 N. 31st. Corporal Augustine was formerly employed as an electrician for the Ray Vetter Auto Parts Company.

Following a brief leave at home, Second Lieut. Lester Mc-Hargue, son of William Mc-Hargue, Mt. Vernon, has returned to his post at Fort Sill, Okla. Lieutenant McHargue recently completed a four-week advance course at Fort Bragg, N. C.

With eight months' service to his credit, Norton L. rfeiffer, son of Fred Pfeiffer, Buechel. has been advanced to sergeant at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. Sergeant Pfeiffer held a civilian job as clerk with the Neill-LaVielle Supply Company. Shifted from the Army Air Field, Carlsbad, N.

to Atlantic City, N. was Sergt. Randall B. Flelden, son of Mrs. Lenora 935 Whitney Avenue.

Destined to help feed a hungry Army is Corp. Irvln Cohen, son of David Cohen, 1215 Delor, who was transferred from Pedrick-town, N. to the School for Bakers and Cooks at Fort Dix, N. J. He enlisted in October.

Residents of the same civilian address, 697 Inverness Avenue, Officer Candidate School at Camp Hood, Texas. Assigned to the Infantry Replacement Training Center at Camp Roberts, this week was Second Lieut. Roy G. Mo-sher, 305 Ormsby Avenue, a former agent for the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Dude Fuqua, son of Columbus Fuqua, 100 E.

Walnut, recently was promoted to private first class at Camp Haan, to which he has returned following desert maneuvers. Private Fuqua holds a medal for marksmanship. Fromoted to sergeant at Seymour Johnson Field, N. was Anthony C. Buehner, son of Mrs.

Josephine Buehner, 706 Kentucky, who is a squadron mail clerk in the Airplane Mechanics' School. Sergeant Buehner was employed by the Gem Gift Store before his induction last July. Stationed at the Medical Training Center, Camp Grant, 111., is Fvt. James W. Drescher, husband of Mrs.

Merle Drescher, 601 W. St Catherine. Graduated with third honors from the narachute school at Naval Air Station at Corpus Christi, Texas, was Third Class Parachute Rigger Jack II. Williams. 18, son of Mrs.

Ralph Hatchette, 662 S. Barbee Way.A Seaman Williams attended Louis Hello, JA 0113- Hove your driver stop by tomorrow for my dry clean- 1 Man 1 Horse-Race Fan? Read Foto-Finish In The Times! 8 NEIGHBORHOOD BRANCHES Humphrey, New Haven, has reported for specialist training as rm In Kent nckiana Camps MB Hit American Who Bribed Way In France JIM From Nazi Camp Serves At Fort Knox Pvt. Pierre Jacques Conhagen, United States about eight months mi (JI.j cultivate the land, is the medical detachment garden, which is worked by patients who have special medical permission. Planned by Lieut Robert L. Shaw, hospital mess officer, it is supervised by Sergt.

Arthur B. Stan-field, former veterinarian and farmer. Perched on the side of a Bowman hill is the fourti garden, half an acre in size, which belongs to the base quartermaster, Lieut. Col. Robert L.

Queisser, Jr. Sergt. Laddie Shuman is in charge. ago. At the time of his induction he working in New York.

RADIO WAVES When Pearl Harbor and World War II still seemed unreal to most Americans, Dr. Thomas Marshall Hahn reported to the Signal Depot at Lexington, Ky. That was New Year's Day, 1942. Since then, Major Hahn has had an important part in the transition "of the post radio schools from one course in elementary principles 19, who bribed his way out of a Nazi prison camp, now is in the Armored Force Replacement Training Center at Fort Knox, preparing to pay back to the Germrns some of the treatment they dealt him early last year, when he was a prisoner for three ir.or.ths in a Nazi camp on the outskirts of Paris. Born in the French capital of American parents, the Fort Knox trainee was interned because he was a United States citizen.

He gained his freedom by giving a razi guard a check for 20,000 frar.es. "I was lucky he didn't keep the payment and shoot me in the back, too," Private Con-haeen Knowing the Nazis wre all French vehicles that passed the city limits, Private Conhagen leaped into the back end of a German truck, which went out of the city. When the coast seemed clear, he jumped eff and started walking toward the Franco-Spanish border. He hiked for three nights, sleeping in the woods. Private Conhagen crossed the border with the aid of the French underground and reached the WATCH THE BABY GROW With PHOTOGRAPHS MADE IN YOUR HOME ARNOLDS SHAWNEE 4447 to an organizsd series of advanced instruction.

Courses now include radar, pre-radar, frequency modulation, pre-frequency modulation, and radar power training. When the red-haired professor, on leave from his duties in the physics department at the University of Kentucky, came to the depot, training was in an uncertain state. The difficulty of hiring civilian trainees had just begun. To pro Sitting On Approval Highest CASH Prices PAID FOR OLD GOLD JEWELRY, SILVER and DIAMONDS Antiaues. Watches.

Pins. Bridgework, Crowns, Etc. O.G.Wilson I 318 W. Chestnut St. ft vide a background for the task he was about to undertake, the War Department sent Major Hahn to the radar school at Fort Monmouth, N.

J. He completed the eight-week course in one month, and last July was commissioned a captain in the Signal Corps. Under Major Hahn's leadership, the one building housing the original radio school has grown to include several large-scale training stations. BOWMAN FIELD GARDENS Four organizations at Bowman Field have assured themselves of fresh vegetables throughout the coming summer by planting large Victory Gardens on the ground available at the air base. Potatoes, tomatoes, corn and green beans are the big favorites in the garden planting, with butter-beans, peas and beets filling out the smaller portions.

The aviation squadron, under Capt. John W. Hill, is credited with the largest garden on the field, amounting to about three acres. Sergt. Jack McReynolds, former agriculturist in Hopkins-ville, is the chief -gardener.

The base hospital and headquarters squadron gardens are next in size, each being slightly larger, than an acre. Slightly different from Bowman Field's other plots, where volunteer soldier help is used to Scientifically proved less irritating to the nose and throat! 1 Mm Signal Corps Photo. MAJ. THOMAS M. HAHN CLINICAL TESTS (actual smokers) Wlien the smokers changed to Philip Morris, every case of irritation of nose or throat due to smoking either cleared up completely, or definitely improved! All of this work was done by doctors high in the medical profession.

They reported their findings in authoritative medical journals to inform other doctors. Yes real proof that this most enjoyable cigarette is far easier on your nose and throat far less irritating, "hy wait longer to change? 1 1HIS is very important to yon. Even if you have not so far felt any "smoker's irritation" or "smokers' Even if you think you never inhale. It is proof from repeated scientific tests proof on high and impartial authority. Plenty of proof! LABORATORY TESTS; i comparisons, 5 leading brands) i The four other leading cigarettes aver- agedmore than three times as irritating icit irritant effects lasting more than five times as long as the strikingly-contrasted Philip Morris! WE SELL PHILIP MORRIS AT SAME PRICE AS ALL OTHER LEADIXG BRANDS STILL FRESH AX'D FIXER-FLAVORED -THE SAME FRESH, F.VE SMOKE-DESPITE PACKAGE CHAXGES DUE TO WAR "Dive Bombing" mosquitoes "Four Motor" flies are just two of the insect-enemies that wage war on our soldiers on many and two reasons why the army uses such vast quantities of FLIT and our other insecticides.

For these super-slayers kill many vicious foreign pests just as they mow down household insects here at home! FLIT has the A A Rating the highest established for household YAW" iVV Vff Hit A iJlfJ'I 4" JH 2 insecticides by the U.S. Bureau of Standards. Buy a bottle today! FLIT Aw. IMS Stance Im in III 4 I A.F.R.T.C. Photo.

EXPERIENCES IN A NAZI PRISON CAMP are related by Pvt. Pierre Jacques Conhagen, 19, right, to Lieut. Frank Languemi, assistant classification officer for the Fort Knox Armored Force Replacement Training Center. mi' i'Tiii Mmmmm IMsbWMBMMBsbbbMbBMMsWbWIIIIMsbbWbbb.

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