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JANUARY
After the Nazis attacked
in the Battle of the Bulge in December, Americans
crossed their fingers and hoped: Well, maybe Hitler
will get his this year. But they weren't too sure.
Patton drove into the Nazi flank in Belgium, and
Clare Boothe Luce got home from Europe at 4 o'clock
in the morning. Htler spoke. Germany won't
surrender, he said.
There were 11,900,000 men and women in the U.S.
armed forces. France formally joined the United
Nations, the Luftwaffe lost 241 planes in one day,
and a Japanese balloon fell in Oregon. In New York
a plainclothesman bet on a horse, won, but instead
of collecting arrested the bookie.
The Army was giving orders and not by mail at
Montgomery Ward. Paris had no flour, Italy was
without blankets. Dogs began following Illinois
automobiles; when the cars stopped, the dogs ate
the license plates. They were made of soy
beans.
Penicillian [sic] was administered to a
pneumonia-stricken Guernsey bull. In Greece, the
British and the ELAS signed a truce, in Belgium the
Bulge collapsed, and in America President Roosevelt
was inaugurated again. He had hardly taken his hand
off the Bible before his son Elliott;s bull mastiff
bumped three service men from an Army plane. The
Russians were 73 miles from Berlin.
FEBRUARY
East of Chicago it was the
coldest winter in 25 ears. Fala's bride, on their
honeymoon, bit him and he was veterinarized. A few
thousand troubled GIs were AWOL in Europe. The dry
crusader, "Pussyfoot" Johnson, died. Yanks entered
Manila and the joyous Filipinos broke open a
brewery for them. Berlin heard guns.
The "Big Three" met at Yalta. The groundhog came
out, but, considering the meat shortage, went back
in. First German jet fighters attacked U. S.
bombers, Elliot Roosevelt became a brigadier
general. Eight thousand Allied planes hit Germany,
1200 from U. S. carriers visited Tokyo. Bataan was
recaptured. "I've got more land than will power,"
said a Florida real estate agent in trading a
50-by-100-foot lot for 15 cartons of cigarets.
Fighting began on Iwo Jima. Sixty-eight nurses
liberated in the Philippines drew an average of
$6500 back pay; Gloria Vanderbilt, however, came of
age and got $4,500,000. The U.S. slapped a midnight
curfew on all amusement places. After five
weeks,14,000 miles, and a conference with Churchill
and Stalin, President Roosevelt returned to the
White House.
MARCH
A child was born in
occupied Germany: Franklin Delano Ludwig. Gunder
Haegg arrived in America, at a walk. On behalf of
his miners, John L. Lewis asked soft coal operators
for a royalty of 10 cents a ton. As the Ninth Army
reached the Rhine, General MacArthur hoisted the
American flag on Corregidor and 10 Detroit plants
were closed by strikes.
Aubrey Williams as head of the REA? No, said a
Senate committee. Henry Wallace became Secretary of
Commerce; Secretary Perkins' daughter became single
in Reno. Ed Flynn was shivering in Russia. The
Marines advanced inch by inch on Iwo. The Ohio was
in flood.
Sinatra's draft board held its ground, kept Frank
in 4-F. Cologne fell Sales were brisk in mechanical
cigaret rollers. At last cognac and perfume were on
the way from France. Fraternization raised its
controversial head. Before the Germans could blow
it up, the Yanks captured the Rhine's Remagon
Bridge. Easter clothing ads appeared.
Red Skelton married a former model, but kept his
earlier wife as manager. Jelly bombs, made from a
new U.S. recipe, were dropped on Tokyo. The end
began on Iwo. Crosby and Bergman won Oscars.
Commando Kelly was married, the Duke of Windsor
quit the Bahamas, and Lloyd George died of the flu.
In Chicago a collie going blind got a dachshund for
a seeing eye.
Final Marine payment on Iwo: 4189 dead, 15,308
wounded, 441 missing. The prosecutor found six
packs and the defense attorney personally donated
cigars when a murder trial jury asked for cigarets.
Argentine hem-hawed, then declared war on the
axis.
APRIL
Sunday was April Fool's
Day and landing day on Okinawa. Vince DiMaggio,
without moving, went from Pittsburgh to
Philadelphia. Book of the Month: The seed
catalogue. To the Fashion Group luncheon in
Washington, Mrs. Roosevelt wore a five-year-old
dress. Russia called it quits with the Japanese.
Critics named "The Glass Menagerie" the season's
best play. How Yanks captured six German villages:
"We just phoned the burgermeister and told him we
were coming." The race was on across the Reich.
"I have a terrific headache," said President
Roosevelt, 63, and died at Warm Springs, Ga.
The Truman family of Washington, D. C., moved out
of their five-room apartment. Redeployment from
Europe to the Pacific began. Deems Taylor was
married. Major Bowes retired. A Los Angeles jury
declared Charlie Chaplin was a father.
Ernie Pyle was killed.
Book: "American Guerilla in the Phillippines."
Nuernberg fell. Gloria Vanderbilt divorced Pat
DiCicco, and married Leopold Stokowski. Forty-six
nations met, peacefully, in San Francisco. Petain
surrendered for trial.
Goering was kicked out of the Lufwaffe, but that
was nothing; Italian partisans hung the dead
Mussolini by his heels on a filling station. News:
Photographs of horribly emaciated prisoners of the
Germans. There were toasts as U. S. and Russian
armies joined.
MAY
New brands of "cigarets,"
inspired by the shortage, appeared. Hitler was dead
-- the Nazis said. Mussolini, the blood scrubbed
off his face, was buried in a pauper's grave. The
war ended in Europe.
As a Philadelphia woman knelt to pray for her son's
return from the Pacific he stepped up and touched
her on the shoulder. "Harvey" won the Pulitzer
prize. Display lighting came on again. In Omaha, it
snowed. All that was in Hitler's safe were 12
copies of "Mein Kampf."Lend lease for Russia was
suspended.
The WAC had its third birthday. Ley and Goering
were captured. Scared [sic] and crippled,
the carrier Franklin sailed 12,000 miles home under
her own power, a thid of her crew lost or injured.
Fritz Kuhn got the gate from the state department.
North-south freight rates were readjusted. Lauren
Bacall and Humphrey Bogart became he-man and wife.
Horse racing resumed. A mother asked a Connecticut
ration board for enough points to gt her son out of
the Army.
A New York Jew captured Julius Streicher. Cabinet
footnotes: Out -- Biddle, Perkins, Wickard; In --
Clark, Schwellenbach, anderson. Churchill resigned
to force a general election. Henrich Himmler, a
prisoner, killed himself with poison. Harry Hopkins
talked an hour and a half with Stalin. Lord Haw Haw
was seized in Germany. Truman and Hoover talked
about food, but Hoover left the White House before
lunch. Violence flared in the Middle East. A
balloon bomb killed six inquisitive people in
Oregon.
JUNE
The new Ford went on
display! Esquire Magazine won back its second-class
mailing privileges, Varga girls and all. The four
Allies formally took over control of Germany. Hoop
Jr.won the Kentucky Derby. When a Negro GI in
Australia sen home $38,000 after a crap game, the
U. S. Treasury faded him for $18,000, and won.
Was Hitler in Spain? Don't be silly, said the
Spaniards. Laborite Bevan, in the House of Commons,
called Lady Astor an Old Gas Bag; "Oh, dear!" she
replied. The OWI got its funds cut two thirds. Fred
Allen turned up in a movie after four unfilmed
years. The house passed the anti-poll tax bill.
Three were acquitted and 12 sentenced to prison of
15 Poles accused by Russia of subversive activity
behind the lines. Four hundred GI's Australian
wives sailed for their new home from Melbourne;
14,536, the largest single contingent of soldiers
home from Europe, docked in New Tork. Four hundred
soldiers drove trucks during a Chicago drivers'
strike.
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The Big Three planned to
meet at Berlin. Ferruccio Parri became premier of
Italy. Lt. Gen. Buckner was kiled on Okinawa. A new
York bank teller accused of embezzling $17.375 said
he did it to meet his income tax payment. Strikes
had doubled since V-E Day, but reduced military
needs made the meat situation considerably rosier.
President Truman closed the United Nations
Conference. Most popular subject for magazine
articles: Russia.
The Germans were discovered to have planned a
platform 5100 miles above the earth from which,
after 50 or 100 years' work, they could harness the
sun to demolish nations. A glider picked up on the
fly brought the Wac corporal and two Army airmen
out of their six weeks' Shangri-La in New Guinea.
Price control was extended another year. A
Cleveland blind man was convicted of robbing a deaf
man after a deaf-mute testified in writing that he
saw him do it.
JULY
Mayor LaGuardia read the
comics over the air -- with gestures. Harry Hopkins
resigned and Tom Paine's citizenship was restored
at New Rochelle, N. Y. The Treasury began
investigating Elliott Roosevelt's loans.
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[September]
... The American flag went
up on Wake Island; Wainwright took the surrender of
Yamashita;s remnant army in the Philippines.
The hay fever was terrible. Congress reconvened.
The Chiangs were reunited after 14 months apart.
Quisling wept. Harry Hopkins got the DSM. The
Russians beat the Americans in a radio chess
tournament. The Sanate voted for a Pearl Harbor
inquiry and President Truman said, in effect, O. K.
The word "war" came off U. S. Savings Bonds and
cheese rationing ended.
For the first time in six years or more, no war
communique was issued anywhere in the world.
Berlin's remaining 400 Jews celebrated Rosh
Hashanah. The U. S. gave Fritz Kuhn a ticket back
to Germany, although he had not asked for one. The
Army cancelled its cigaret orders. Quisling
received the death sentence. A "plaster" Madonna
and Child at Vassar turned out to be a valuable
French original 500 years old. Tojo tried suicide.
General Pershing turned 86. It was not Hirohito's
white one, but Admiral Halsey rode a horse in
Tokyo. Third-quarter income tax payments came
due.
The government allowed John Hartford an income tax
deduction of $196,000 lost in a $200,000 loan to
Elliott Roosevelt. Shirley Temple was on her
honeymoon about the time it became World War II,
officially, by presidential approval. The London
session of the Council of Foreign Ministers drew
morosely to a close. A major in the U. S. Army
changed his name to Harrison; it had been Adolf
Hitler. Henry Ford II, 28, became president of the
company. Hirohito called on MacArthur and found him
in. Clocks were turned back an hour. In the United
States there were 1,800,000 idle in labor
disputes.
OCTOBER
At his own treason trial
Pierre Laval was ordered from court. Eleven
thousand one hundred and forty-five Canadians were
AWOL. As the Globester flew around the world in 150
hours Indonesian Nationals were taking over a few
cities. Airplanes went on sale in New York
department stores. General Patton became head of
the 15th Army, which has no tanks. Color pictures
were televised successfully. A Jersey City draft
board accepted six veterans' invitation to dinner;
the draft men had C and K rations, the ex-GI's had
spaghetti and steaks.
The D. A. R. refused to let Hazel Scott play the
piano in Constitution Hall
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... Pacific men with few
points were replacing women with many. Stettinius,
ill with gallstone trouble, flew home from London,
and there was a hunger march in Tokyo. Control of
Montgomery Ward passed from the Army back to the
company.
A wife-beater in Maryland and a housebreaker in
Colorado were lashed for punishment. The Georgia Ku
Klux Klan, "fighting communism," burned a cross.
Organized baseball got its first Negro player:
Shortstop Jack Roosevelt Robinson, Montreal of the
International League. Russia signed the United
Nations charter, making it effective, a German
invented a device to turn rubble into building
bricks, and Quisling was shot.
Both houses agreed to cut 1946 taxes $5,920,000.
Football attendance was up 17.1 percent over
October of 1944. The British fought the Indonesians
on Java; civil war was spreading in north China.
President Medina of Venezuela was revolutionized
out, and President Vargas of Brazil resigned. Shoe
rationing ended.
NOVEMBER
Was it a short-lived
peace? Indonesians rebelled in Java, Nationalists
and Reds battled in China, riots broke out in
Palestine, Cairo, the Balkans. London scientists
played with alloxazine, a chemical, and produced
rats colored orange and sky blue. Commando Kelly,
the Congressional medal winner, was reconverted in
his own filling station at Pittsburgh. Winston
Churchill admitted a life-long ambition to play the
kettle drums.
Generals and admirals argued whether to merge the
Army and Navy. Everybody's question: Should Russia
get the atom secret? Attlee and Truman met in
Washington, decided to turn atomic data over
eventually to UNO. Cordell Hill won the Nobel Prize
then appeared before the Congressional committee
digging for the story of Pearl Harbor. Shanghai
trolley workers won a strike and got a raise of
$15,000 a month -- in inflated Chinese money. Going
out: General George C. Marshall as Army Chief of
Staff, Admiral Ernest J. King, as Chief of Naval
Operations. Going In: Ike Eisenhower, Admiral
Chester Nimitz. New York elected a new mayor:
Murder-Buster Bill O'Dwyer.
The "Big Four" lined up against Nazi war criminals
at Nuernberg. Maj. Gen. Patrick Hurley let loose at
U. S. "career diplomats" in the Far East and quit
as ambassador to China. His successor: General
Marshal. Episcopal Bishop Manning divorced Elliott
Roosevelt from his newly appointed post as
vestryman of St. James Church at Hyde Park. All
food rationing ended -- except for sugar -- and the
CIO Auto Workers walked out of General Motors with
demands for a 30 percent raise. Separatists rose up
in Iran, and Yugoslavia proclaimed a federal
republic. You can't do that to me, hoped King
Peter. The Roosevelt dog Blaze was bumped off after
attacking the Roosevelt dog Fala.
DECEMBER
"We are at war." said R.
J. Thomas, international president of the United
Automobile Workers who were picketing General
Motors. General Tomoyuki Yamashita lost an appeal
to appear before the U. S. Supreme Court in
Washington, and the tamed "Tiger of Malaya" got
sentenced to death by hanging. The whole country
could look forward to news out of the Hat: New
York's retiring Mayor La Guardia signed to
broadcast his comments coast to coast. Army's
steam-rolling football team ended its undefeated
season with a victory over Navy.
Truman drew some boos and some cheers from both
sides when he proposed a law forbidding crucial
strikes until impartial "fact-finders" had a chance
to make recommendations. The Pearl Harbor inquiry
spilled all -- or almost all -- about how America's
code-breakers worked before Pearl Harbor. The U. S.
talked of a $4,400,000,000 loan for Britain, at 2
percent interest, and the 11 billion dollar Victory
Loan drive went over the top. New York had a
five-way apartment swap and was claiming the
record. General George S. Patton's neck was broken
in an automobile accident in Germany and he died on
Dec. 21.
An unarmed U. S. Marine on horseback was shot by
natives in China. Armed Japanese soldiers continued
to menace civilians in Northern Luzon and Mindanao
in the Philippines.
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Year 1945 Sees
Turn To Peacetime Living
The year 1945 saw this
city turn again to peacetime living after four
years in which little but the war and home front
production occupied minds of its more than 20,000
residents.
/last year Duquesne had
more than 2800 sons on the battlefronts and in this
nation's camps. They staged two giant celebrations
marking end of hostilities in World War II. More
than 1000 men returned to near-normal operations.
Unofficial totals listed 67 who died in
service.
Rationing ended on all
products but sugar and gradually community efforts
turned from war production to peacetime
activity.
Republicans swept into
office in the Nov. 6 election, with Councilman
Frank Kopriver Jr. making good his attempt to
defeat Mayor Elmer J. Maloy.
In January war thoughts
were interrupted by problems raised by the
Christmas Eve fire, a $250,000 blaze which swept
six North First St. buildings, destroying four and
gutting two. Homes were sought for more than 30
families, possible fire hazards were investigated
and Council sought a new 65-foot aerial fire truck.
The structures which were now skeletons were
finally razed.
Laundryman
Killed
A Chinese laundryman,
Charlie Yee, about 55, was killed in a fire which
wrecked his shop in West Grant Ave. A 10-mill tax
was adopted at about the time the city staged its
first and only blood donor drive.
Seven city men were listed
missing in action. The high school district
champion football team was honored for the first
time and was feted several times during the
following months.
A dimout of lighting and a
midnight amusement curfew came in February in line
with war measures to save power and energy. The
first honor roll ever compiled for World
[War] I was completed and displayed in the
City Hall. Scouts held their annual Scout
Week.
Cage Team
Loses
High school students for
the first time in school history answered
questionnaires on the attitude and opinions.
Duquesne High lost to Connellsville in the first
round of WPIAL play after winning the Section Six
crown. Plans fell through for remodeling the closed
Kennedy School into a basketball arena. Five from
the city were killed, two were missing and one was
a prisoner.
Councilman John P. Rush
resigned in March and the four remaining officials
deadlocked on a successor. A court appointment
later gave the post to Edwin M. Pirl. Health
Officer Francis P. Long resigned to enter business
and Police Captain William S. Raible was appointed
the following month. Council sought removal of the
North Duquesne Ave. labor camp, built to house
imported mill workers.
On the war front the
annual Red Cross Drive was staged and a salvage
paper drive brought in a railroad carload. Campaign
for a new basketball floor continued as the junior
high won the Section Eight crown, lost to Aliquippa
in the WPIAL semi-finals. William S. Kowallis was
named senior high baseball coach. Five city men
were killed in action, one was a
prisoner.
Fire Homes
Started
April saw the last wartime
Easter celebration. Two 12-family apartment
buildings were started in Duquesne Place to house
families left without homes by the Christmas fire.
Council aided an attempt to have Congressional law
require that government-installed machinery be
taxed. It turned down a part payment on the local
war plant due to lack of tax money for machinery.
Floyd Rader, city gardener was fired with action
upheld by the CIO. Council moved to eliminate
chicken coops.
Five candidates were
listed for mayor at the June 19 primaries. Burns
Heights organized a "Teen Town" youth city,
followed by Cochrandale Housing Project. News of
President Roosevelt's death stunned
residents.
J. L. Perry, president of
the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., denied value of
foremen's unions at a plant foremen's banquet.
Duquesne High's building passed its 30th
year. Thirty tons were netted in the United
National Clothing Drive. Two men were killed in
action, two listed as prisoners.
Celebrate VE
Day
In May the city quietly
celebrated defeat of Germany in Europe and held a
Memorial Day observance as the month ended. The
city opened its Seventh War Loan drive, which
eventually set a new record for bond sales. Pfc.
John Holuka was the first city soldier to be
honorably discharged under the point
system.
Schools honored four top
students, graduated 268. Miss Reges Kenney, board
secretary, Dr. W. W. Mills, school physician and
School Treasurer John C. Meighen were re-elected to
school posts. The senior play was held.
The city erased its
floating debt from 1944 of $15,000, and Democrats
showed a gain of 31 votes in field registration.
Two city men were killed in action.
Boy Drowned In
June
In June Gary Edgell, 9, of
Burns Heights, was drowned in the Monongahela
river, his body being found a few days
later.
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Mayor Elmer J. Maloy,
Democrat, and Councilman Frank Kopriver Jr.,
Republican, won nominations in the mayor's race
June 19, and that month William F. Allen was named
to the Civil Service Board. Dr. F. J. Madden was
recognized for 50 years of medical service, most of
them in Duquesne. A paper salvage drive netted one
carload. One man was listed killed in
action.
The Seventh War Loan drive
shattered an all-time record with more than
$4,650,000 worth of bonds sold as July got under
way. Independence Day was noiseless as it had been
for four years. The School Board increased its
coaching staff with John A. Donelli at the head of
the football team and William P. Lemmer head
basketball coach.
Executives in
Wreck
Big events were listed for
future patriotic holidays by a civic committee.
School sports broke even for the 1944-45 season. K.
H. McLaurin, Duquesne Works superintendent, and
Willis F. Doney, head of the First National Bank,
were injured in an auto accident. Boy and Girl
Scouts held their annual two-weeks' outings. The
city ordered its new 65-foot aerial ladder truck
which was still not delivered at the end of the
year.
Ground was broken for a
new bus terminal at Duquesne Place in August. A new
veterans organization, the Amvets, was formed. The
School Board reversed a decision when it made
William S. Kowallis faculty manager of athletics
after firing him in 1944.
The night of Aug. 14 was a
red letter day when frenzy broke loose over Japan's
surrender. The city was a teeming mass of human
beings, screaming their joy at the peace in a
night-long celebration. Plans were made for an
official V-J Day. City men over 26 years of age
became exempt from the peacetime draft.
City Celebrates
Again
The city celebrated peace
again at the businessmen's outing at Kennywood
Park, the day on which gasoline rationing ended.
Duquesne Memorial Post No. 448, American Legion
opened an honor roll drive.
A giant V-J Day parade on
Sept. 2 marked the second celebration of the war's
end. Schools opened with more than 2700 enrolled.
Council renewed pre-war arguments on location of a
proposed new garbage furnace for the city, with a
site eventually being picked at the McKeesport
Bridge. School grade teachers were given a
salary-boost under state law.
City schools held their
first state-required health tests in addition to
tests sponsored by the district. Democrats gained
50 votes over Republicans in field registrations.
Duquesne Businessmen's Assn. Sought action on
filling of the Kennywood ravine for a highway in
preference to building a new bridge at the point.
The Legion bought a new post home on South Duquesne
Ave. The United Fund Drive opened
Trade School
Seen
In October Fire Chief
Lawrence Trainor was honored in Pittsburgh as
retiring County Commander of the American Legion.
City schools obtained $20,000 worth of surplus war
machinery for a proposed vocational school.
Teachers were given a 25-day sick leave limit that
month and a bus stop at Second St. going up West
Grant Ave. was re-installed.
The city hall reached
freezing temperatures for about a week as officials
attempted to repair the building's furnace. Health
Officer Raible started new rigid state health
inspections of eating and drinking
places.
Duquesne defeated
McKeesport High in a feature football game. St.
Hedwig's Polish Church celebrated its Golden
Jubilee. Miss Mary Kisiak, chief clerk of Local
Draft Board No. 26 resigned. The Victory Loan drive
opened.
GOP Sweeps
Election
For the first time in
several years the city held a Halloween parade,
sponsored by the Businessmen and the
Legion.
The Republican sweep which
placed Kopriver in office and returned two
Councilmen, two school directors and a controller
featured November. It marked the third election
battle for the two mayor candidates, two of which
Mr. Maloy had won.
Catholic Daughters of
America received a bond citation. The city observed
a quiet Armistice Day. St. Nicholas Russian Church
feted the most Rev. Archbishop Alexis, delegate of
the Moscow Patriarch in November. A solemn
Thanksgiving was observed. Local steel-workers
voted 5 to 1 in favor of a Jan. 14 strike to
enforce a two-dollar a day pay raise.
Board
Re-Organizes
Corporal George Gonos
returned from Japan where he spent three and a half
years a Japanese prisoner.
In December Directors
George L. Gallatin and Raymond F. McDonald retired
from the School Board, with Robert B. Reed and
Clarence L. Smith taking office. J. Joseph Riles
was re-elected Board president, with Eugene R.
Hollar as vice president. A raise in city tax to 12
mills was virtually assured with introduction of
the budget by Council. Salary increases were sought
by police and the city employes' union. The School
Board boosted its fire insurance coverage by
$541,000.
Schools honored the
district champion football team this year. The
Lions Club made plans for setting up a youth center
at the newly-bought Leighty Farm, Westmoreland
County. The city joined a fund drive to build a
McKeesport Hospital annex. A heavy snow brought a
snow plow and a highlift into action. Councilman
John W. Bires threatened to sue the city over a
boost in tax assessment on his West Grant Ave.
garage and home.
Mayor Maloy presided at
his final meeting of the year. A $40,000 goal was
set in the hospital campaign.
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Holiday Sees No
Accidents
No serious accidents
marred the city's celebration of New Years Eve,
police reported today.
Despite a snowfall which
combined with a drop in temperatures last night,
caused ice and hazardous driving, motorists out for
a night of fun were involved in no serious
collisions here, police said.
Traffic lights continued
on the blinker system on all hill streets in order
to permit cars to retain traction. Red lights
blinked at side streets with cars going up and down
the hills given the right of way.
No fires were reported,
although two false alarms at South Duquesne and
Walnut Aves. And at south Duquesne and McKee Aves.
Brought firemen to the scene.
No public celebrations
were held in observance of New Years, but family
gatherings marked some of the most joyous
celebrations in years due to the outlook for a
bright and peaceful 1946.
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Fowler on Duty With USS
Siboney
Harry R. Fowler, son of
Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Fowler, of 1412 Highland Ave.,
is aboard the USS Siboney, a carrier with the
Pacific fleet. The ship was mentioned recently in a
dispatch.
Fowler is a former
basketball star at Duquesne High School. He played
for the 1945 team which won the Section 6
championship.
Army Nurse
Home
First Lieut. Ora V. Yaest,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Yaest, 101
South First St., is home on terminal leave from
Italy, where she was last stationed. The Army nurse
returned aboard the USS Randolph, a
carrier.
Lieutenant Yaest entered
service on Jan. 15, 1943 and went overseas in
October that year. She saw service in India, Iran
and Italy. She will be honorably discharged at the
end of her leave.
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