American Women's Voluntary Services - Jan 1944

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sunny climate in England this .winterTbut who are we to-re ad'be twee n,the lines? Keep us posted and ,'iii- the meantime^.have fun, . ,'Lt . RODMAN BA TES Isn't sporting tha t .determined'chin for 'nothing be -cause he's at last landed, just' where he-wants to b e i n the air som e-where over ,-Texa's. If took a little c ha ng in g fr om Inf ant ry t o Tan kXastroyer to Air Co rps , but Rod is now soloing aro und a spot calledLcaVia. Congratul ations and we, know; you'l l ha ve thos e wings' in nole at] all..,t. NORMAN W, MARKS manages an Interesting letter even "though the cen -sor does cramp his style a bit so he .should-be able to write a book-when the ban is,lifted. How about "Marking Time in Ind ia fV Norman?Lt, Mark s'is "stationed o n -a'huge tea plantation miles 'from the nea r-est city and..; he says that if it wer en't for seeing oth er m en in uni -form , he,J;d- hink he'd dozed off and then awakened in the dark ages',"Cows, oows, more cows, dirt , filt h, and a type of ignorance that Inever knew existed," You're ri ght, it'doesn't, sound too tempt ing butfust think how uncluttered Milltxirn Avenue is going to look to you,Ve guarante e no t e ven one' stray , sacred : cow will slo w up tha t big',riotory parade we're all looking forward to . Now 'th at the loc alMailman has finally delivered a Tattle to you we hope he'll round upthe back issues you've missed.Thanks, Cpl. EIllER'SCHROEDHR for writing us from J acks on, Miss iss ipp i.We're, glad two copies of our news finally caught up with you-- andfrom now on here's ho ping they .don't arrive in bat die's. We'll., be lo ok -ing for that ne w address of. yours and hope Uncle. Sam pic ks a ni ce wa rm.sunny one. " ', ' ... ; .

JAMES W, ilLLWANGER seems to be in a GO'ZJ location' out at FortOuster, Michig an, both as to his Work'and-social life,, Jim has be entraining Military Police'troops,for the past nine.months which hesays is very interesting.. Aslalfway between Detroit ana ok and forth so that, theVestern hospitality both burghs are noted f or,2/o SHELDp N EISUNBfiRG writes' us a nice "tha nk-y ou" 'note wh ich .ha s usmr rin g and licking 'our chop s. Incidentally, She ldo n, old boy,, thissame dandy letter also had Us com pletel y.bew ildere d over- the way s of;he Navy unti l a more nauti cal mind cleared every thing up , . e ..readyour writing as saying you were' at ski s ch oo l a baffling enough p ic -ture,; for a1 Se am an , but even more so when .we noticed said sch ool w as ,:._,-"it tkiinbridge, Maryl and* Exouso- our d umbn ess. "'We are, glad and re.-,'"'.ieved to learn you are at Storekeeper's School because what Maryland

to the "Social Department-t he post is,d Chica go, with special trains shuttl ingme n can, take advantage' of all -that fine

pLses for snow, or on graduation, what the Fleet,more than v/e could figur e. Man y t hank s, and ifwe promise to'be quicker on'the old trig ger, ,uses for ski'runs Ms -you'll' write soon agai n

tfot that we're gettin'g , rank -con scio us, but w hen ,not onl y a gold-b'raidVdLieutenant Commander,.but, also our ol d'pal, DASH ING DOU GLA S CLEVELA NDtakes time to whip off a V-mail' full of compli ments , we can't keep f ro mglowing, Doug says "Its hard to think of Santa Cl^ us in a land where 'there are no chimneys to , come' down , but Uncle Sam is doing hi s best toremind u s. " Old sleuths that we are,' we, gather Lt , Com dr, Clevelandhas moved away from Hawa ii, but wherever he la in the Pacific Area wewish him all kinds of luck,,. But hurry home as soon, as you 're throu ghcleaning'up, Doug. Short Hills , the Oranges, and point s Sout h all mi ss,rou.Another six feet of talent which is badly missed around Short Hil ls isDICK RUMERY. Pardon us , it's Sgt. Richard G, Rume ry no w. Than ks for,,four V-mail from Italy and we're, glad you enjoyed yo ur Z ma s pac kag e"id the Tat tle , , Since, being overseas Dick has been in Afr ica 'and no win It aly, and whil e his prese nt addr ess is ,th.e be st of't he, two,' nei the rcompares with the U.S.A. Glad you'v e gained... weight and th at t he old. 'health is thriving on Army l ife; but we bet that'fine Rum ery chassis':I11 is on the willowy side.

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3.MICHAEL PASSARELLI is a prince of a guy for brushing the Japsaside long enough to write us twoV-mail letters in one week. Mikeis allowed to tell ue nowthat he has been on NewCaledonia and thatthe newaddress is somewhere in the Solomons, He's working as a crewmember onone of the planes and nowonder he gets a kick out of

watching its number of missions grow. In case you get that chance togo for a ride "just to see what actual combat is" wewish you ahappy landing and of course all 'one luck in the world, Mike,This is really aohg comes CM1/c EDMOMDV. "BOIJTEMPO with three V-mails written in.as many days. Sd says that when he reads in the Tattle of boyswhoare bothered with too much heat and sunshine i t makes himlaugh. TheBonternpo frame snuggles down under four blankets and even at that isapt to wake up "with a fewhomemade i cicles. ' They're busy popping offJap" planes wnich. is a happy thought, especially \-uieneach bit of junki i l f h i b k h

recordj, Wethought, Cpl, PASSARjiLLI held it , but al-

turns, into gor0eous rings-and bracelets for the girls back home.Pujlle_ase_ hidi Your third letter absolutely movs us to the floor withexcitement - and no fair keeping us guessing too long, Ld says ^hatfrom now.on ha can't turn out anymore bracelets because of a metalshortage (does that mean a Jap shortage too?) but he promises a finetrinket which will be even better. If you are too busy we'll let. youoff on that, Ed, but not on these newsy let ters.Somehow,we got awhen quick swish of grass skirts -' (or was i t only palmleaves?) - when weopened theV-mail envelope of Pvt, JOSEPH M, PEPEU.S.M.C.R, Joe wasfinally taken off mess duty after a month andis glad "to be back at work on the searchlights. " Aside from moneytroubles this generous oldMarine never canmake i t last until thenext pay day --Joe is having a pleasant time. Says he took "a tr iparound the Island" onwrite about i t . DearA.P.O. addresses won't tel lmoney goes fast in Millburn

h i daydear, they writeoff and i t is even pret tier than peopleaoout iio many places butwhere, Take i t easy Joe, and cheer up -too. rememberAnother of our special friends (don't sulk now, you are all special)is Pvt, JAMBS N, SUTJJKA who V-mails as from Italy, (By the way, al lthese dainty envelopes ana their contents are gratefully received butyou must al l promise not to be disillusioned after the war whenyoumarch home to find your Tattlers with neatly crossed eyes.) Jim andbrother Larry who is in the South Pacific will certainly have plentyof news to swap when they get home, Jimsays there are many beauti-ful places xn Italy andhe"expects to really cover ground and seemore before i t ' s over. Glad you like it better than jtforth Africa buthow about trying theview from Millburn's four corners some finesunny day.Speaking of having a sunny day - ALFRjD GRiJNBKRG M,M, 2/c dreamtlongingly of a "White Christmas" - Al is cruising around so eventhough he hadplenty of viator- (hosnow. Come, come,Al says he read ineven a slight case

l don' t giveThe Tat tle thatof sea-sicknessor cold?) he missedyour family secretshis brotner - quoteon the trip over" -lieve i t because, "Heused to get sick standing on the>ier just watching the ocean,"

the lack ofaway like that,-"Didn't getAl can't be-Long BranchLt, D, APOVKLL JR. U.S.N, airmails us from the South Pacific, or,as he puts i t "South of the Mason-Dixon Line and a lot further $a&v,When vie last heard from him he was at Submarine School in New London,D, A. and Mrs.Powell rattled about that town for six months with noworries except the housing situation but what is three moves in al lthose months/? Life is s t i l l pleasant because Lt, Powell is on sub-duty with never a dull moment even when in port. What do youmeanj"pleasant1*? Ouch and us whocan't sven enjoy a crowded elevator.Our hats are off to you, Lieutenant.Well, well, wewere just wondering what hadbecome of our Air FanMail and then three fine let ter s fl ut te r onto the trusty typewriter.On top is this from A/C PAUL B. OCOKMSLL who is Booming around (inmore wa/s than one)Freeynan Field, Indiana, Paul is in the throesjobs all very fine except thatf advanced training on twin-engineas soon as Jack Frost showed us theSouth to his present address. Army moved himfrom the sunny


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Now real lyl. .Slippery Rock, Pa. is as snappy a spot as we've never "heard, of - and just to think that A C/S GEORGE WBGNSR is down there.There is .lots of work and l i t t le free time but, according to; George,.."The'chow is marvelous and there are 180 coeds to dream about - wedon't have, time to see' much of them." Personally, 180 C.E's leave uscold .but if we had time for a t rip Slippery Rock and thevictuals would both be our cherce. Thanks, George, but sorry we can'tpay back your nice le tter by obliging with your friends' addresses.Read our1 permanent notice if you think we're old meanies' i t ' s TheLaw,And here's a nice (as usual) and gorgeously-easy-on-the-orbs epist lefrom Pfc TONY PASSARBLLI. He was good enough' to pop in the A.W.V.S.office on a recent, furlough and we are only sour that a l l of us could-n' t have met him. As you all should know by now, Tony is the oldoriginal Fleet Foot among- our friends and readers, so we aren't sur-prised ,.at his being invited to runfin an indoor Track Meet in NewYork, Why.don't you accept and then keep on running towards Mill-burn?. We don't see how the Passarelli even has time for work, theArmy, keeps him so busy keeping the rest of his group in condition . Pfc Passarelli (he says that stands, for Praying for Corporal) has aclass, in Judo, goes in for-boxing, basketball, more running, and thensnoozes from 11:00 P.M. to 7sO0 A.M., bright for more exercise on thedouble time as he watches the sun come up*Cpl. HENRY L. (RED HEAD) SMITH writes us at last after a seven-dayleave in, as he calls i t , Charles Boyer's Town of Algiers. UnlikeMonsieur Boyer, Algiers is very old - and exports lots of things nowbesides peacetime oranges and tangerines. Built on the side^of a hilli t . i s a town of s tairs, but a very modern town according to Red Arabs and soldiers a ll dashing about, dodging buses and catchingtrolleys on the fly. Incidentally CpOU Henry, we're pret ty proud ofthe Smith family. With you and brother T-ommie spending your secondXmas. overseas, and Jackie in the WAVES all this country needs is afew more Smiths and you'll al l be home again soon. . .According to Cpl. P. STAN2IALE, distance, regarding the Tattle, makeshis heart grow fonder. Somewhere in North Africa "Stits" says heappreciates us'more than he ever did before he went overseas. -Maybethat's because We miss you more. Anybody that says Africa is warmmust be c-c-c-razy. Using four blankets and a mattress cover full ofstraw is not the' fashion if you're only doing i t to keep off the mos-quitoes and we thought Africa would -be fun after all this snow.Cpl. STANLEY H. RUDIGER should be warm'enough with or without blanketbecause he's s t i l l a busy bee down in New Guinea. Stan misses a lotof the simple pleasures which go unnoticed in civilization but are,to say the least , a bore in their absence. Take i t easy, Stan oldboy, and we'll a ll try to make up for lost time when you get back toyour long red flanuols and home. .Another good Corporal is JOHN S. MC KESVSR who, now that he is inIndia, never realized he could enjoy a paper so much. That mans Usiiand a deep, deep bow, John,' Watching the natives work using teeth,feet and hands bounds pretty fancy but the rest of the country mustbe like looking in a mirror. John says everything is backwards - thatgoes for civilization and modern methods in general, with cars, buses,water buffalo and sacred cows all using .the wrong side of the street.That's all very fine but when you next nit Millburn remember .to .crossover to. the right as you drive past the Police Station, WashingtonSchool and .the A.W.V.S. headquarters,Cpl. W. H. REITMANN feels he's part of Uncle Sam's forgotten force ashe cools his heels in faraway Iran. At loast Werner gets some comfortfrom reading in the Tattle (which finally found him) that a lot of therest of his Millburn friends are travelling too. , He encloses a niftypoem - which we haven't room to relay to you - but i t gives us theidea that Iran - as Werner also notices - is not the desert sceneconveyed by Short Hills' Lucille Manners when she brightens "The


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5.desert Song" at the Paper Mill . Iran is also the or iginal locale forthe Garden of Sden - but Cpl. Reitmarua takes tha t with, a grain of .sal t too, .Never mind, Werner., dod^e the sand storms and raindrops be-cause they can' t l ast forever - and we 'll make up z'or everything whenyou next poke, that pretty sunburned Puss into Mil lburn,Pvt, JOHN RUS3SLL LYONS should have a nice tan by now too ? what witha furlough with his Mother in Florida and''then a' transfer to SunnyCalifornia. We only nope that well-known dew doesn' t make a l iar outof us because Hus.se.ll.,is now at Fort Ord. Incidental ly, he has justfinished Infantry training at Camp Wheeler, Georgia, so ei ther the sunis following, him or vice-versa. Ditto for Kirs. Lyons Who would havehad good reason to bask even.if- she'd romauned in Short Kill s thi swinter Sons, Suns, etc. , get it?Our reporters have fer ret ted out the fact that both S/S^t. TiiadlJOEEKINUM and Pfc CLARENCE B. HOKE are now in Sragland., Also that finefavorite., NICK. MAKCAivfOHIO? so ptei haps they' ll sta' ;e a home townreunion in a Red Cross Canteen.Others who should get togetherj this time somewhere in Italy, are Lt .JOHN CORTELYOU CORY (on leave from combat duty) and Cpl. FREDERICK H.MIELKB-. Both men nave written tnat the s"ig;htseeing' is fine and theyare in good health.Also thriving is Pvt . CARL.W. DINGER who returned with an added 15pounds after Basic .Training in Alabama* Carl is now at Rutgerswaiting to gd to' O.C.S.May we compliment the RIZ1;O family for bringing up a fine batch ofthoughtful boys?' We 'hear by grapevine that the ir sons, .n io-iony,Nicholas and Frederick a l l took time out to shop for and send" homebeautiful presents in time for Xra-'is, morning..This may bum you far-fr.om-home members but both the SVE!T boys v/erohome for Christmas. We're, not being coy either '.cause we' re talkingabout Lt. Com. ARTHUR B. SW/ST and Tech. Sgt> RIClJurtD W. SWBET JR.Staff Sgt, PRijDERiCK S. STONclALL had a nice Christinas too, even if i twas spent in his pres.ent Nor Lii African homo. Fred says they had r;real tii.ee (variety unknown) and decorated i t with homemade ornarnonts.Lt. CALEB G, BAXTER, always one for .bigger, better things, is nowtraining as JNavigator on a Plying F.ortress. He's out at Siou>: City,Iowa, and, we hear., doing Just dandy,An'other flyer v; miss S'eeing around i s A/C lifcRGLI) A. BLiL^TT. Hal hasqualified as a pilot ana is in the throes of Preliminary Training atSaitei Ana, California..Back with his windblown nose in books is GrhOhGE R. wAJJuACE. IIo hascompleted his sea braining aiid is now at the Hierch;..u'o Marine Acaderay,Kings Point, Long Island, for furoiier study,Lt. JAMES GORDON die! the nej&t b"ast thing to getting- home for Christmas.Jim is in California so spent yhe festive day vvith hi s Short Hil lsfriend, Mrs, Herbert C. Cawley who is now living there. Lt . JOHN A.CAVTEY managed to ; ^ t home too and ot'ii r gueets t/ ith faLiiliai' faceswere Com, ROBERT C. BGULNE and I.lrs. Noume of Ivlorristown - - ox-PoarlHarbor.We expect lots of snnpp-y tiews from Pvt. JACK BSMSiilCT '-


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d o e sascot. Nicknamed "Pepi,11 he is a smart little bird who not onlyodd jobs for them such as keeping the fire going, but he also amusesthem by filling up on their rations. How about when the war is over,Wes? Will there be a Pepi Bennett joining the family circle?No wonder Seaman WLLIAM D. MLLER enjoys Radio School in Newport^He had a marvelous Christmas dinner with the tables actually set up,a Christmas tree, and entertainment. Just to give you all a sketchyidea what that means Gipsy Rose Lee paid them a visit recently!iiSpeaking of entertainment, Sgt* RAYMOND H, HAPVARD runs the movieshows for the boys at Camp when he's on'duty.- Then, just as a bus-man's holiday, he took in a few more movies while on a recent fur lou-gh in London.Lt. DONALD CONNER is now an aerial observer in the 222nd Infantry.Just in case that doesn't ring a bell, said infantry was formerly theRainbow Division which made history in World War 1. Don is flyingover familiar territory because the air field (and who are we to tellyou which one, even thought we know - this time) is the same where hewas stationed as a Cadet,

A n o t h e r A v i a t i o n C a d e t w h oN o w o n t h e l a s t s t r e t c h o f i s doing O.K. is CHARLES EDWARDS/UTTQN.one advanced twin-engine flying course atStewart Field, Charlie is due to sprout his wings any day.L t . L A U R E N Tt i o n a t t h e D E C A M P h a s j u s : e h a s s i g n e d G O t h e O p e r a t i o n s S e c -L a i ' r f o r m e r l yp a s t O c t o b e r .

Army Air Field in Rome, NewYork by Brig. Gen. C.a t t e n d e d P r i n c e t o n b e f o r e j o i n i n g ' u p a y e a r P . Kane,thisIf any more of our good doctorshave to laugh off worse than an decide to leave townoccasional sniffle. we're going toLaoest to prefera uniformed patient is 1st Lt. PASUALE R, DANTE who formerly servedas High School football team and Township employee's doctor, besideshis regular practice in Millburn. Lt. Dante will be stationed in thehospital at Fort Dix, combining a bit of home cheer to all newcomersalong with the usual treatment.Lt. (J.G.) GEORGE C. MILLERaround the Pacific.-, is as neat

formerly of Short Hills but now cruisinga letter-writer as he is a fighter. Sogood5 in fact, that one letter which George wrote back was grabbed upby all th'e local and Metropolitan newspapers. It not only made juicycopy but i t was lovely reading how our boats sneaked into hiddencover behind the Jap linos and then blaste_d the enemy's supply bargesfull of gasoline and incendiary gadgets. It must have made prettierfireworks than anything those monkeys dreamt, up in peacetime5 buteven so we bet George would like to Spend next July 4th on Old ShortHills Road with Hetty "and their three small fry.

Also headed for the sea and, who knows, just as exciting a career, isFREDERICK G. SCHROjSiM;, Fred has just completed boot training at theNaval Station at Sampson, New York, and is waiting for another.assignment..A/S DONALD R. ATKIN is also waiting to be qualified - for some branchof the Aii1 Service, Don has entered the Nashville Army Air Centerand is busy with the usual physical and psychological exams which willplace him where the Atkin brain" and brawn will do the most good0Lt. D. KING IRWIN U.S.N.R. was up here for a part of the holidaysprior* no his transfer out, to the Pacific Coast wnere he has highhopes of getting sea legs at long last. Aa can' t t ell you what on -in fact he doesn't even know his new address as yet - being somewherebetween "Here and There" at chitus posted. writing- - Good Luck, King, and keep


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HONOR-ROLLWe are proud to present Lt, THOMAS W. LYONS in this column, this'month, as..he was awarded ~ohe Silver Star for gallantry in action inthe vicinity.of Bontiempo, Sicily, in July - having led a tank columnunder heavy .fire along the- only approach to an important. town tocoiiiple oely crush enemy resistance. . Lt . Lyons was also awarded thePurple-Heart for oiie injuries he received which caused.hurt to beevacuated to North Africa for a month in the. hospi tal.

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It seem;:, that we" called DOROTHY JOHNSON a WAG- P.O. 1/c in theHoveruber: Issue when all the oinie she has been a Yeoman 2nd class inthe WAVES I - soyou; can pass usthe salt toput on them thar words;we are chewing - and, weletter putting us"jaep1! thpatient and kind young ladmi>jht pac'd, that when we c.et such a niceerroneous type gets quite tastyl Thisgoes on to say that sne has been in thes e r v i c e a year ,ar id bhree months and feels quite sal ty now, Nauti-cally she is known as "Johnson11 (or "Johnny"-, to her pals) She has

been stationed for the past year in the City of Brotherly Love(Philly to us) and thinks the Navy is Tops - says she would enlista l l , over again if she had to. Well., many thanks "Johnny" for yourgrand leoter and do write us again In one of your Infrequent sparemoments.While we're curtseying prettily with thanks - we'd like .to bob severalin the direction of Lt. MARY GRIBRSQ-7 and S/Sgt. JULIA LAROCCA fortheir- lovely Christmas cards and thank them for their vis i t s . -,Hahal Hero Is a. letter froni Sgi. AUDREY-MIT SOBER FERGUSON, writtenwh en ff. ,"!P V.was .still S&t.,:KITSCHER from the Marine Barracks at NewRiver, N..C.3 and1 not a hi nt does'.sue hand out -about her, then approaching-wedding (see Cupid's Corner), The day she wrote, she wasSergeant of the C-riiard whliing away a rare dull moment, in Ghat capacity, by penning us. unti l her attention was called elsewhere. ThisLady Leatherneck, doesn't believe in S. Glaus, we take i t , as shedidn't wait until Due* 25th to'open her U.S.O. package (the contentsof which she liked very rauchi)We are sorry to report that Ens. LlARY P.h i Fl C i t E t ELY, v/ave, came, down withl bichat old Dabbil Flu on Christmas' Eve - the only br.ight spot about i twas ..hat she was home for two weeks t.o .recuperate and "vie are delighted to hear that' ehe is O.K. now.Our newest \fAVS is Mies HELEIT JEGii.NLjjHNEtraining at Hunter College on.'January 27 who leav here for

P f c . JOSEPH COIABELLI writes to tel l us he's somewhere In the Pacific(his A.P.O. is out of Seattle) and that he hasn 't seen any Millburn-ite yet, but Is still, hoping - in fact "the nearest thing to home he' smet yet are a couple of Maplawood lads whoa he did not know back here- but who have become great friends of his out there... He was glad tohear of ohe PSTRILLQ brothers and Cpl. KARL KANE via this sheet (see"Permanent Notice" at the end of the Tattle about oheir addresses-,J o e ) ,tool Thanks for your swell: letter, soldier , and good luck to you-,JOHN R. BRAY S 1/c pens us a nifty note from one of those briny PartsUnknown where he is busy doing Naval Armed Guard work - and he saysthat, even though thousands of"'miles separate him from Main Street,nothing will stop a let ter from making the span (and nothing didl) .He's on another ;ship now but ,saysof Nazzy Submarines, looking brav y gJohn wants us to say "Hello" to Joe Devi to for him ("Roger?" - Joe?)and to tel l said Devi to that he's kind of lucky being out amongthose co-eds??? John has just found out. that Ens. WALTER KABIS isin his outfit but they haven't met as yet.

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s .W. E. WAREKEME Cox. must be way the heck away - as he writes one*let ter , date,] December 1st , to thank us for the arriva l of hi sSeptember Tat tle?? (Mo doubt, the Christmas Edi tion wi ll reach himby Easter?) His second let ter ? eleven days la te r heralds the a r r i -val ox' the October issu.3 oO mebbe things are picking up? Anyhowhe 's somewhere in the South Pacific and warns us that Jungles areno push-over (a tidy bit of info he says he found out quickl) He'shad his coxswain's rating since November (and congrats on that,Cox'n, ole boy - nice workl) and ha wants especial ly to say "Hello"to Carl Schoener who is somewhere close by that area (he thinks).Sorry we cannot pr in t addresses. B il l , see "Permanent Notice" atthe cad of ihe Tattle and sl ip us ano uher newsy note at the sametime.'We hear, via our local tfinchell's, chat Pvt. GLEN VAN WAGBNEN,formerly in Italy, is traveling aâin, but ox' course we don' t knowwhere, and couldn't t e l l if we aid.Other bits of "Shan,:;ri La" grapevine are -chat Lt. ROY BUMSTEAD hasflown overseasj" and that Pvt, xtlGHAT&J B. DOYLE is off- on anotherout-of-country fl ight after a few lioon'ths in Virginia*

SMALL ..'JORLPThis latter arrived just as one December ibsue had crouched intothe maw of the raimeo ;raph so we had to hold i t over until this monthwith great reluctance &; w,e wanted to squeeze i t into the Christinasedition ever so badly - i t was so fu.ij. OJ. news. I t ' s from MajorWAITE W. .WORLSH, U.S.K.C. and we'll try DO flash up lite high lightsfor you - it 'S jus t fraught with "S.W." items. The Ilajor has beenout o^ the U. S. since April, 1942, and since L,hen he has met threelocal lea thernocks - namely Capt. Bud Arnadoi'f 3 Capt. .Eddie Roffand Capt. Thomas O'wlahoneyj in fact he's seen Eddie and Tom severaltimes and le t ' s us m on one secret bhat caere it; a Mrs. ThomasO'Mahoney, a very charming Australian gi r l who is-duo to visi t. Mill-bur n any day now. Major W or den has al: o met Lt. .E, MORTON FEKMER -anc, smallest of S-all worlds.',- Capt. DOUQLAS Ivl. SMITH and the Majorare on duty together with the-same, ba tt al ioni Cur kind correspond-ent sighs off with the

Hlcupid" news chat JACK YU11CK (M,H.S.

l34)is a 1st Lt . in the Army Air Corps and recent ly married a girl* hemet in Liichigan, while he was attending Ivlichiân State. Many, many,many thanks 'to you, Major, for" sending us buch a fine batch ofnews about Il il lburnitcs - anc; we are lookin,; forward to hearingfrom you again GOonI

Pfc CLARENCE B. HQKE JR. is a nice thoughtful guy - he sends us twoV-mail letters with largeish writing to that our lamps don't getcompletely crossed up (as they wcruld have if he had sq.uizzled theentire: message on one V sheet). Hej'.s oom-3j.he.rt; in England and saysho lik^s his new location lo:ts better ind bhat chore is nothingwrori' with his appetite - but definitely I He sends ^ jasons Greetingsto ED KAISER and. FRED BROWN and "US" aud the "Small World1'! part isthat he and GEORGE EADtfOVTCH are planning their Christmas Day t o-g et&1 ar . Clar enc 3continue our job"imbibe in that Kaletter #S with "Keep Typing 'em and we ' llOkey Doke5 Hoket and we're s t i l l waiting to .jr 's Coke' vîth you when you couc marching homel

Here is a neatly printed V-mail l etter from Pfc M. C. KAS LHliSiN butwhat with the i-edaction in size of the le tter we CJ"ot, in comparisonto the ori ginal , our r i ,ht and le ft eyea are prac ti ca ll y braided to-gether 'trying to decipher i t - even with the axd of our ton's JuniorG-men magnifying glass 1 I t ' s a swell let ter: , though, make no mistake;about that I and he tel ls us that, while in Africa he saw that of t-met trio - JOHNNY PETKILLO, NXCK. MARCAtfTONIO, and NICK MARCK3TTA andalso ROCCO TOLVE and th a l CK. MARCANO,h:-d a happy reunion. "M.C." (does that


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stand for Mike or Martin?) says he hope s to see JlI.LiY GROS UO andsome 'of the other local boys to o n ow that he is in "Sunny" (oh,Yeah?) Italy. He wants us to say hello to the TOLVAJ-Vito. and hiscousin, the aforementioned Rooco .soldier , and you know we send the Thanks for all your nice wishes,same to all of youIHero's a q.ueer one for this dep artme nt, Cpl . HU GH FIT ZSthe Service Club at Camp Cars on, Colo ., recently, whenfamiliar facebut, he wasn't quite sure whether or notre'&lly was EDDIE MA.LLON or just someone who had a strollalso this hauntingly-fam iliar-looking soldier looked athan the Eddie of Hughi e rs memory , back hone.. Vfell, itright~-but Eddie wasn't sure it was Hug hie , ei th er s ospoketoil I tchj How. do we know? Each boy;, wrote homethought he had seen the othe ra nd their mothers got tothe let ters soo ooo d o n H bo such sfcy violets next tine

II.IMONS' was inhe spotted athis faceg rosemblancelot stouterwas Eddie allneither oneand said heget er' on:, boysjA/0 ROGER WENT writes from "Deep in tjie Heart of " t h a t he met A /cEARL MELLEN at midnight recently in Corpus" Chris ti, all of whi ch wasquite a pleasant !.uirprlse--(hu:.ihoii? about your bea ut y sl ee p, b oy s? )Roger expects to graduate around the end of this, monthand we knowthis young mariner will look handsomer than ever with those win gs !Ear-to-tho-ground data for this departmentitems :- us the following

Lt. P. A. HAKDVTLLE was invited to dinner by the Col onel ofhis outfit and was delighted to find his former SpringfieldMinister among the gue sts, meaning, of co urse, I.lajor Melberr;who is, now head of the Chaplains in the W este rn Pacif ic area*Lt, Handvillo might change his name to "Handsful l" at thi spoint as lie is in corimand of his '.otacftrient on account ofhis Captain has just.been naue a IIa;jor.Pvts. JOHN 1?AIR1


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TOO BADFrom Nash ville, fe nn. S/Sgt. LEWI S BITFO writes that he has beeneliminated fr om Air Crew Training because of physical reasons andis awaiting transfer to the Armorer School at Denver, Colo. Weknow how disappointed youmust have been, Le w bu t we're glad youare taking youx* troubles in yourheading for one fine school,to^ stride and we're also glad you areLew chides us too about dubbinghis bro the r, Cpl-. MIKS BUFO-, a Captain in one of our past issues {anincident that still nak.es questi on mar ks of our eyebrows???.) and addsthat Cpl. Mike wasamong those fightin 1 lade out at one of thoseSouth Pacific Islands that we Tve been realing so much about. Maybe ;'that's why we haven't heard from Hi ke h er e we've bseii kidding himabout the hula---and all along Itc been the Nasty Nips that have kepthim too busy to write*Our- reporters have just popped up with the sad news -that Lt.7/ILLIAMTAP IN is in the hospital (flat on his face-'-according to our FirstAid lure) with' a broken back.caused by an unruly mechanical mustang(Jeep) which not only tossed hl;.i Into a ditch, but had the :,all toland on top of him! Well, we trust the- eventual Iron corset won'tput your tunic toomuch out of chapearid hereafter we suggest ridingthose Jeeps with your spurs on (the way they rode ITieuports andJenny's in ore last war I) Seriously, though, we are fraught withsympathy andbest wiab.es for your painless and speedy/ recovery.We are happy to inform youappendectomy In England,.

- Vit J- AEL LULLS IB reooveririf, from an* * * * * * * * * * * * *

SILVER LININGHere are two cheery V-mails from our old pal "Smitty"Pvt THOMAS E.SMITHWho finds the vim and vitality to smile and.sound ohipper Inspite of the Tact that he has just recovered fr.oia a 3 weeks hospitalsojourn In Icelandhavin g been laid lowwitr Rheumatic Fever, Hesay fs he'sfeeling first rite nowand to say i. llo to his formerschool mates , the POLIOARPIO twins and to- give fyis r eturns to OleMillburn . Another reason for Smitty's beaming countenance is thathe has just received a nice fat batch of SAreporting to us, me la,d--we go for itII] from home.!

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We see by the Item that Major R0ESR1 L. IJRJGET landed home for theHoliday season after a large axiount of flying in India, Burma, andChina (to all three of which he will probably, hie again upon thecompletion of his reports to Washington}-*, The really silver part isthat !jiedreamed of a "Thite C hristmas 9-thome while In Chunkinglit-tle whotting that his dream would coxae true I Major "Vright is aveteran of World War 1 who volunteered aft or Pear l Harbor and wholias been in active (vory_ active!), service, over sin ce. The best ofeverything to you, MajorI! You deserve it IA fine way to delebrato your first wedding anniversary (or any other)is to be able to arrive home arid surprise y our foiiilies w h i c h Isjust what Lt. and Mrs . PALMER BEADNER di d by air I! Pvt.WILLIAMBRADNSR ivas ho me , too, nd it was the first time the brothers had metin almost twoyearsThat broad grin onPvt. IAVflGNCii LSVJIS* handsome face is because he'snow In Officers Candidate School.Pvt. H. G-. ELLEN is wearing a. bit of the same on his glanour-pussbecause he has just bee n accepted for training in the Army AirForces and is smilingly awaiting transfer at this writing.Tech. Sg t. DINALD V. CHASE received the Air Force Medal in Novemberfor completing successful bombing missions over Roumanian Oil Fields


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11.(and howl) and o oner missions as well we're beaming with youand for you Sarge'lOur girl ish pans gleam on and on for Sgt, JOHN N. TAYLOR who has com-pletely recovered from his recent operat ion.And smiles galore, for 2nd Lt. THOMAS M. STEVENS, who received hiswings on January 7th. Ditto for Robert V. Finnea^ey who receivedhi s wings' a clay earl ier - January 6th.Any day now, we antic ipate beholding the fine features of Cpl. M. E.STAINZIALE who is back in the homeland from the. South Pacific and ex-pects uo make a trip back here.I t ' s nice to learn that Pfc i' elix Cardone is back .v/ith hi s companyafter a spel l on che cl in ical cot.Of course Millburh doesn1 t feel smug over her fighting men or any-thing - (yeah?) - but just to add to the mounting l i s t of our ownlads who distinguish themselves - we give you Ensign ROBERT SLhGKR-BEAUX who was among the top ton in his gradual tin,u, clase of over 500men at ^uonset, R. I . - he wi ll cp^cialize in Special Devises whichsounds not only very secret , out also very ominous to the enemy.Another happy couple who were able to coiue back to Millburn forChristrnab were Lt. and LIrs. ROSS L. CUJ.MING, - Lt. Cummins is nowacting as Personal Consultant at j?t. McPherson, Ga.Sgt-, JIT.11IY GROSSO received the purple He.scrt recently - and coivTat-ulat ions , Jamost We sincerely hope-, you will rest on these lavenderlaurels and not go getting wounded againi

CUPID'S CORNERI t kincla looks as ii oho 'New Year' s cherub and Li t t le Dan were doinga heart throb duet - at any rate, war or no war. Dame Romance everrears her lovely headiThis fi rs t item came to us r.s a last minute flash for the Decemberissue - but - arrived jutst LOO late &o be included - so3 here i t i snow. . :, '--.JOHN B. RBTALLACK JR. and His,. Nora Heath, of Madison, were marriedon December Gth. The groom is with the Merchant Marine, Our tardybut sincere best wishes to them bothiAnother wedding ox' interest was that of Ensign JACKSON ALLBIN RIKERU.S.N.R. and Miss Jane Liarie Lonergaiij botii of Llillburn, who weremarried at St. Rose of Lima and had a gala recept ion at Chant ic ler,Among those who nave announced their intended troth are Tech. Corp.JOSEPH DUETSCII and Miss Margaret Labadics ox iMewark; also Chief PettyOfficer ROBERT deC. JOHNSON, U.S.N. and Blanche Brouard, S l/c WAVES,have announced their engagement. We have no idea as to any definitewedding date tho' - as one lady in question i s now taking furthertraining in Georgia and the groom-to-be xs awaiting assignment toanother snip. Ensign E. B. Y/ilHvSYiiiR h$s put a lovely so li taire onthe hand of Miss Pear l Marie Black of Montclair - and we hope-wewill hear lots of wedding be lls soon - for a l l the above "engagees".As we go to press. Marine Sgt, AUDREY MITSCHEIR5 one of oui1 VictoryBelles , is stepping down che aisle at St,. Stephen's Church to becomethe bride of 2nd Lt. ALLEN RICHIuOFD FERGUSON A.A.F. of Paw tucket, R.I . We believe that Sgt, Audrey is the f i r s t member of Millburn' slady warriors to hark to the wedding bells (ana if we are wrong,we're sure you' ll let us know I) - at any ra te our congratulat ionsto the lucky Lieutenant for his excellent choice. He, by the way isstationed in California and his bride is stationed in North Carolina,and we hope onu or the other will get a more proximate transfer soon.


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1 2 .P f c . JOSEPH H. WITTKOP seems to be wearing two hearts these daysa Purple Heart award on his mainly chest - plus his own heart on hissleeve in honor of Miss Barbara Hendrix of Alabama. -The f i r st hereceived in the Tawara Battle, and the latter of course was a farmore pleasant bit of arrow targe cry from DanM Cupid* Anyhow hehas arrived at the Navy Base Hospital in San Diego5 Cal. and as soonas he gets a thirty-day leave he plans to do the double "I do" withMiss Hendrix- and take. in the home, town on his honeymoon*Another guy, with Holy Matrimony, gleaming in his eye, is Ens, PIERCEA. CASSiiiDY JR. who expects to get leave in March, during which howill come home and get Married..And here' s an Ensign who didn't wait for the Ides of March we referto Ens. JQSiSPH WiSITZISlteiiRG who cook as his bride Miss Martha Perkinson De-ce.r;j.ber 26th at Los Altos, California. A foivaer M.H.S. schoolmatei^ns. ROSS HADDOK GRAY and IIrs.- Gray ivere on hand for the nupt ialfestivi ties which made everything about perfect, as these twoNautical one-stripers have been pals for years ana are only stationedabout 25 miles apart now.Sgt. J. J. SPERANZA was- married December 19th to Hiss Margaret LaFleur- of Plattsburgy ilevu York. .And another Sarge who became a Benedict iri December was Sgt. JBffl-.IYMONACO We hear his bride is a Puerto Rican blonde beauty with blueeyes and her .-first name is Magda . which all sounds, very veryromanticIWho op si here we are late again! (and, we confers, a bit hazy as to.details still1,) Anyhow, Pfc SAIHGL SAGGIO was married in October toa girl from Hontasono, Washington. H6w about telling us more abouti t Sam?Here's a last-minute heart ohrob flash that just came pulsing in overche vine in time to print The e&gag:efneirb of Lt. JOHTT A, WARH&Rto Miss Jane Taplin of Llillburn has just been announced* AhQ withthis final arrow, Dan .signs .off t i l l February,

STORK.'.CLUBA v e r y n i c e A i r m a i l l e t t e r has f l o i t o in our window f rom Lt . THQIvIAS W.MURPHY U .S .H .R . -( one of our m any l o c a l p h y s i c i a n s now d o c t o r i n gf o r U n c l e Sam) w i t h the happy news cha t he ahci Mrs. Ivlurphy are thep rb .u a p.: r e n t s - o f a son, b o r n a few .months ago * Phie M oth er and t h e i rt w o c h i l d r e n are d u r a t i o n i n g i n g a s h i n g c o n , D.C., -whi le the n a u t i c a lm e d i c o i s b o b b i n g a b o u t on the P a c i f i c . C o n g r a t s on the new y o u n g' u n . L i e u t e n a n t 5 as w e l l as on y o u r p r o m o t i o n to a f u l l t w o - s t r i p e r .L t* and Mrs. EDWIN LABViilY h a v e a l o v e l y now dau,_.h t. ., r named S h i r l e yC o l l e t t e who p r o m i s e s to be cue l i r enda Fraz jLor of 1 9 6 0 ? a c c o r d i n g toreports.Another feminine bit -who augurs a turmoil in the stag line somesixteen years hence is Miss Barbara JVan I'.asi who arrived via stork-bi l l on November 21st to Cpl. and Mrs. Vincent P. Masi.

O RCH ID EXCITAIVTGEWe'll start off our "Thanks" column this month v;ith girlish squeaksof "Oh Joiumy - Oht" as v;e peruse a V-l.jt/Ur from that star of ourSmall World department .-(you guessed it',) - Pfc JQKHNY PS'xiULLO. He'sthe guy everyone meets up with, smacks into ~ or plain bumps upon.,who


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1.4,"7o received a.JOSEPH P. DAYpromise.!) toEstate. His

very amusing (and complimentaryi) l etter from Gap t,Jr. A.G.F . who promised us a visit (and he kept h isthank .us in perso n for our struggle w ith the Four theighteen-year-old-son,the A m y on December 6th and is now Pvt. JOSEPH P.at Ft. Devens, DAY III enteredMassachusetts,

Our thanks for their cards of thanks are heartily extended to Gapt.W, B. SIICPARD, A/C VKMAN KA NE , Col* JOSEPH DU3 T3 CE, Dp i. FkFl) IIEITKAMP,C. RAYMOND J1IGHBROWN S 2/c, and F/O JOHN C. FLAIISRTY* Yo ur respectiveaddresses have been noted too--and brought up to date.All the many and beautifu l Christmas cards we received f rom our se r-vice men and women were greatly appreciated. The bounty was s uch,howeve r, that we would have to take up the entire issue of the Tattl eif v/e-mentioned each name in acknowledgement j so w are sure that thelarge group (practically the entire personnel of Tlillburn's fig htingforces! ) will understand and accept our wholesale b ut h eartf eltthanks.

SPOftTSHere we ar e, curdling our frayed bit of brain aSsin to try and giveyou a well-scrambled resurae of "the sport world (being about asathletic as boiled macaroni our sel ves y ou can imagine the enormityof this task-!We regret to report that the Blue and VJhite Five lost thei r op eni nggame to Clifford Scott , 40 - 5 0, on the opponent's court, but notwithout pl enty of excitement and. competition , as Milltxurn was ahead37 - 35 at- the end of the third period. Gap t. Pil l Joh nson was h igh scorer for IJillburn with twelve point:..The Blue and White Jay-Vees vindicated the local honor by creamingClifford Scott's Junior Varsit y 45 - 11 with Bob Hende rso n corral linghigh score what-have-you for the home team by making sixteen of thesepoints."Alps" still lives up to its high sounding name- by leadi ng the "A"League in bowl ing hig hest individual scores being held by May o -?.66 (Father of Coast Guardsman Komia'n Mayo.) and Pri tch ard - 2 35 .And now v/efll bowl you over with, the New Year's D ay B owl scores infootball as foll ows: Rose Bowl, Southern California 89W ash ing ton 0;Sugar Bowl, Georgia Tech. 2.0Tulsa 18 ; Orange Bowl, Louisiana State19 Tex as A & M 11; Cotton Bowl, Randolph Field 7Texas II. 7; .SunBowl. Southwestern Texas 7 Mew Mexico 0; Oil Bowl, SouthwesternLa . 24Ark ansas A & M 7} Vulcan Bowl, Tuskegee 12 Cl ar k 7; FlowerBowl, Allen University 33van;.-'.ton-Salem Tech. 0 ; Shr ine Ga me , East 13-vfest 13 -- and pard on us while we"' jump Into the neares t Was sailBowl to recover from all this tallying.In the local Hockey , the Millburn Blue Wings triump hantly opened theseason by whamming the puck to a spectacular overtime victory againsta fast-moving Madison team 6 - 5.The New York Rangers aren't doing too well in the big le ag ue t he irlatest defeats being at the hands of Boston who downed them 13 - 3, andthe Canadians did likewise 6 - 5 .In boxing, Beau Jack used his leather-padded duke-s to beat Lu lu Co s-tantino in a final decision at Ma&i-son Square Gard en . There seemed tobe plenty of footwork to o a s , according to-the newspapers Jack spentmost of the evening, chasing his quarry h ither and yon about thesquared circle in order to get a poke at Costanti.no' - fast reced ingchinall to a chorus of boos, of courseIn go lf " Ju g" .KcSpaden of Philadelphia wo n the Los Angele s open-with278 for 72 hole s, Johnny Bulla came in second wit h 2 81 .Toodle-oo till next time.

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15 .The REVEREND HENRY J. CAL


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1 6 ,Tfe want to thank thefolio-wing for calling at A.V/.V.S. Headquarters- your visits were enjoyed by us.A/G \I. W BettefidgeLt. Palmer BradnerPvt. R. M. BrambilaGpl. Anthony OaivanoLt. E. L, ChalifGpl. Don W. CooperLt. R. W, CookS S/o J* J. CaffreyPfc. Robert JT.Drui.nondPvt..Arthur R. FracfcenpohlLt . Mary B, GriersonPfc. Harry E,Hooley, Jr.3 M 3/cAnthony D'lonnoPfo. A. L, KaspereenSgt, L. E, Laeser

Pvt. a. A. MazurkiPvt, Howard G. MellenQ M 2/o J. S. MoultonSgtj Audrey I, Hit sellerR T l/o S. G. Re1sonPvt. R. H. ochroedorSgt. John B# Schil lingPvt. Florence 3# StokesS l/ c W. u. Szpara8gt. Virgil V/. SajnmsLt. Coxadr. Arthur B SweetCapt. S, C. Tap1inLlid'n Bruoe I/innerpl. Carl ifilliams

Mrs# Carl Egne-r

Mrs.Ivlrs,

Mr;;.

Mrs>Mias

Mrs. '

G* W. GiliaanR, i1. Lay ton

A. E. French0. V. Smith '

E, T. BurtonLI, S, Anderson/inne Zirmuerman

Report .eraMrs', John S BachellerMrs, Dominick Bufo-lira, Coleraan BurkeMrs, P. A. CassedyMrs, Paul GillMrs', E. R. JeffcoattKrs, F, ;/i Lawrence'ill"3. P, J. Lor.ibeckT.Irr!, Robert L'lausflira. 0, J. Ilorelock, Jr .IIrs, Q. W. Rege stei nI\:rs'. Robert A. oinoerlieaurcMrs, S,. 3, SpencerCiroulati'on Manager^Mrs. G-.P. Robinson

James MMrs, L. G, Giles, Aso't.

Symington, Chairman ,!a.'/.Y.3. Millburn-Short Rills Unit

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