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Home firb*hl'qol fl% length is{Pvt. Edward Nechville, only son| of Me. and Mrs. Brung: Nechville, ford, Naval signed, arg selected to man these craft. The especially constructed to transport and heavy equipment, has a that can be opened when it comes the beach, â€"enabling men and equi; to land ready for acâ€" tion. Thi is the largest of amphibiâ€" _ The ibjous Force, of. tremenâ€" in n n m on e vyl is, in f Atlantic, ioday, -'3& the way for raining Camp Bradford, NOB, M&t §, f . Adolph :[Volpendesta, sor of Mrs. Diana V 219 Liewelyn Ave., MHighwood, is a member of the Amâ€" phibious of| the U. S. Navy, having Nmt;otlp crew of an LST fer active since completâ€" hunted idf the others. He didn‘t find them. ‘THiy hadn‘t‘ jumped, ‘he learned days. later,| [The pilet got control of the ship and rathirned to his base one hour after ‘L.t. Thayer had" jumped. And‘ thase are the :fellows I‘d like y to write afjout, too: men who do the Ts barglimen might is the Arey who havdl | Air Fe "l'niz;‘lén-ndp‘n- ments, propeliers, and do scores of jobs vitally necessary if our ers and bombers are ‘going to. fly safély. In The Nation‘s Service "We wire at 11,000 feet. I couldn‘t see an. ; because of the heavy fog. But, once II got through the fog, I kinâ€" Lt. Th tary scho the Atm wings . as and he bombs airfields. lead By coupla .ti the i Last I talked with and interâ€" viewed I# Lt. Thomas L. Thayer, 27, & â€"tail, ; slowâ€"speaking officer who has much action in this war. By way, : fellow Army writer Ernie \‘talked to <Lt. Thayer a coupla tifies . and recorded parts of the 1i t‘s story in his book. : Lt. Thiyer used to teach eclemenâ€" now, I kinda like flying imy Pâ€"991Typewriter for. the AAF. It‘s intere work and jammed with ¢xperience. And, using a good newspaper sentence, 1 do meet interesting people. M;:"d heroes who aren‘t shooting down planes, but who are keeping dur planes flying so they can | lhat 1s, Rot yet anyway, | Perhaps |one day this corporal will get the .he has wanted for many and will go over to comâ€" bat areas ind write about soldierâ€"heâ€" Wa-mg«a'.whm I‘m a : relations man for the Army in the United States.> In that work,‘ to I‘ve heard a lot about the war and i‘ve seen some of the reâ€" gults. like most of the soldiers in our, Arfy, d‘ve not seen combat. combat duty. In a for or other branches of the 5 the successful candidate ink a thorough and varied curâ€" of this branch are greater As in the Naval Air Force / He decided to enlist in ‘in May, 1941. He won his | navigator, went overseas, to drop 282,000 pounds of enemy . ships, subâ€"pens, and Air Medal has nine oak F Cross. .: . f regained consciousness, he -dtt:h-ebuc!ch'e es» highly trainâ€" of performing all of the to which they are asâ€" ious sort of a| way, your :fl’fimtfiamb & | ies of men fihohanmdfm 282,000 ap I‘M IN Flying A T chool, .Pvt. Nechville attended Cenâ€" ral Y.M.C.A. college it Chicago prior o his induction, July $, 1943. :"";‘w N*flti'm So you set, Highland Parkers, I‘m Leeiflg this‘:;r, seeing lit through tlf;“ eyes of such and ‘who have been in the thickest of} combat. And my duty is j ord their stories and pass them 1 to you spaper ‘readâ€" hter of funter, College, New York, for trainâ€" fllnextl(?. daughter of Emil auridsen of S laniq.}sbein;‘nd. ate of the | high and atâ€" eles. ‘She is a present engaged in ffice work for the Highland Park ell Telephone Co. | ptes m“" ; TS i . c' 4 Sgt. Pugh won the DSM for that ission. He won it because he had olunteered ; | he | had ‘remained at . his il gunner‘s position wlien the tail wa; most" shot !mn ; he administered aid to aâ€" disabled airmah; and he had potted landma the fliers to return to an‘ Allied base." ~. > ~_ lorists, 1740 Deprfield} road. For the ast: six ;flritbq-- 'Pvt‘.lf{Nechville has een stationed in Yukan and Alaska, ngaged in winter reséarch work in uels and lubricants, country, he inds, is sparsely d, inhabited for he most part by French Indians and Zamdians.ml?ad it not for the inâ€" cresting nature of l-m;ork. young Vechville worakUnve f life rather o emtaran e h ome: ; 5 f \ graduate #‘..g Highland Park high Lt. Willis McLeod, | fighter pilot, 'SHC.wl\oreceived%wingzs_uad mmission at Corpus Chrigti, | nh?.ufl&"'m?- arried to the formerJanet Whiteâ€" Mof\:&wumww ide, a 15â€"day leave at the home of hter of Mrs. < ; "w‘_“s;4 orth Ave., has been &worn into the Ts wound out of actionâ€"but we five f their planes. r plane a nose and tail sembly when |we fimally: made an gency ing. y buddy was illed on raid. _bravery won im the sional |Medal of Hoâ€" ," concluded (the, gopdâ€"looking serâ€" 1 like my wo "We were fflying at 4 ,000 feet," he old â€"me. ?‘T‘m insuspécting Japs beâ€" ow us had 125 ;&cros'l ed ‘up on the irfield. â€"If joniy :we (had had some tatubst ::]:. [ / :) t solp=* s "We mapp their fikld. We bankâ€" d, headed fdr home.‘ We looked back ind saw 20| Zeros -~' after us. xygen hygraunc. "M C lived to 6,000 f¢et. We battled them or 80 minutes. | > tih n toa sales on ut o n vsopice / P r ons ) Somgcuii ns aio ce feng. roimaed Ind. on of fetomâ€"but we Their bomber; took| off without ombs, heavily . \| with camera quipment, Aifter a 1 ‘flight, they eached their| objective.! . bot‘g‘s For Capt. . Miller‘s radio show, | had ‘to pf a~story: on Staff Serâ€" geant H t ~W.. Pi 24, gunner ind t:rdw or on the . famous )omber, M f j Sgt. â€" Pugh 276 combat hours. He‘s helped to drop 225,000 ounds of rbom on the ‘enemy. He‘s hot down two Jap 2 And he wears the Disti‘xui | Service Meâ€" lal, Distinguished Flying Cross, and he Silver Star. He told me this story, It seems he and fellow crew nembers yolunteered for an important mapping ws§wn, of in fslands in he Southwest Pacific. * . ext morning, Argbs killed the te the stew for | Then we limbed on some and rode for ours, We a ‘Krench outpost 1at night, | ‘days I got back ): camp." | | > | | He tried to |reward the friendly rabs ; they would not his money. ut they had seen plmfimphs of his irl friend in his wallet, they :wanâ€" hen ‘ the ligutenant gave them the "I couldn‘t sleep because of all the eas," he said. "Four |Arabs and : a at were" sleeping in same room ith me. When we got up early the .eAnbmde.fsnfu,rufmu’hu ter »discovered,) was a) leader of a He was taken| to the here he was given foo rites for Gienn | ® y ‘rs to report. again research center at Â¥ bamcd&them ago. . f |Actionâ€"but we| 0f his < $ their planes. ca nd‘y nose and tail ojohn fibally© made an| has att Id. We bankâ€" e looked back ning after us. ed out our systems. We granddauâ€" rab‘s house. He tried to He is Pekptt stt adt sota, Fla., after 17 mor Alaska, has been joine: eE weg w o i ror 1¢ Ave, Highwood, son, : Charles John, “‘ is 21. Lt. Robert Hutchison, USN, who is 23, is now stationed at an overâ€" seas base in the Pacific area. "Bill", 17, and a high school sehior, has taken ¢xaminations for the air force, ind ekpects 4o Join up To fune He is Grady, Forest Ave. "Bob" and "Bill" are in ure. . Lewis, USN, w xwfithree weeks ago. w“. L ining at \Mr. Harrison, who i and the father of two 1i cla and Linda, has left charge of Mrs. Harris is:â€" "Business as Zone'home.” 0 [ Five starg will appear of the Ravinia Autc Burton Ave., when Geo the proprietor, 1733 eceives his impending erchant Marines. giving the enemy a tast ; is S/Sgt. Frank Sp; ‘Mr. and ‘Mrs. Joseph S ve.,. Highwood. He ve taken part in a Germany.. In a letter ¢ssity, in detail, he s escaped with nothing mo frozen feet, which kept ital for a couple of da isted in Nov., ‘42, ining at Miami B graduated as a i & y Tufll, received wings at Las Vegas, N been overseas since No â€"The three Hutchison Cpl. John. Fiore, stati John Edward Conners Mary Conners, 1417 C has qualified for Army det training, according. 4 V 'iwxlfi ‘W. Van B oo e Aaraduat Q:J : _\Notice has been received from, the QOffice of Public Relations‘that Richâ€" ard E. Wilson, 20, son of| Mr. Everett L, Wilson, 200 Central A has comâ€" pleted the prescribed fiight training course at the Naval Air Training Cenâ€" ter at Pensacola, Fla., and has won his "wings of gold," being ¢ommisstoned an:Ensign in the USNR. | Pensacola is known as the "Annapolis|of the Air." Designated a Naval Aviator, Ens, Wilâ€" son will go on active duty at one of the Navy‘s air operational training centers before being assigned to a comâ€" bat zone. Prior to entering the Naval service,. Ens. Wilson attended Illinois University for 2 years, and was a memâ€" ber of the varsity baseball team there. \ Seaman â€" 1/câ€" Edward ‘who enlisted in the Seal i ed for duty in A: ived his training at Gulfport, Miss., has in New. Hebrides since: re also. stationed: Cha 1)eerfield.4 and John °S this town. The scenery beautiful, but the clima 18, is the son of Mr, Stewart, 637 Glenview ted as combaf pilots from Randolph Field, Texas, on March 13, was:Gunâ€" ther H. W. Ullmann, 1 East Aveâ€" mue. In this recordâ€"breaking: Central Flying Trainiig Com d graduation, including men from ‘state in the Fnion, Ohio Jled, with fliers, and filinois, with 207, was |fourth. ‘Chiâ€" tago led all American tities with 62 gtaduates. : . ombpleted in 3 years, h f his class during his s ind ~earned a full tuiti o Johns Hopkins Uni as attended fo rthree his F Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Mcâ€" x So. Elimwood E. At the end \of fiis "léave, Lt.‘ M. expects to report to ‘a base in No. ina. _ _Mr. and ‘Mrs. John Klemp, 310 N. idge Rd:, who have three sons in the ice, are enjoying a visit from their ,mrdd son,. 2nd Lt. John Kiemp Jr,, who was graduated as an army air pilot last week at bany,) Ga. Lt. Klemp, whose visit is the first in 15. months, expects to report to the air base at Westover, Mass., dn March 25. A. *l.ixhhm'l Park high gchool gradâ€" uate, ‘he was an employee at Western Electric, Chicago, prior t iihis enlistâ€" ment, Pvt. Mathias, 21, & s is stationed at Camp Crowdet, Mo., reâ€" c¢iving signal corps training, and A/C Earl, 18, is receiving his basic trainâ€" ing at State Teacher‘s College, Moorâ€" head, Minn. s Among the local boys In company with mote than Nllk | n t Seredc Columbia. He chison, USN, ed at an overâ€" hi 31, married, le girls, Marâ€" on th eservice ‘Service, 1610 ge D. Harri« Pleasant Ave., call from the s of + the Raâ€" now | in the .. Carl ; Bonn, ‘of. a Bâ€"26 , jboth of the 231 North s |reported ‘to t raid over » of necâ€" ‘that he hasâ€" ie serious than im in the hosâ€", 3. Sgt. Spano ived his basic , Pic. at Amâ€" ‘his gunner‘s vada, and has ember, 1943. a| scholarship ity, which he onths. now overscas t bf what it‘s no, 20, son of son of Nffg3. akmont Ave., ‘Aviation Caâ€" p: Capt.‘F. A. irén St., Chiâ€" 1¢) Chappaqua d .A Ave 6 affairs in N. ‘Stewart, Jast July, gust and reâ€" ip Perry, Va., een stationed eb. 8, where till les ~ Grubert, hwalbach, of he states, is hot. Edward. De Pauw Mrs: Peter thrown away their craystal had made‘a few down to quiries,. their fe ished like:a mist before t ing «wun. | ( $ His opponents ‘had '&reir eye on the soldier vote ‘and were .ehor mesmerized into | believing tfnt t would plump solidly in lap of the Commanderâ€"inâ€"Chief.. y beâ€" lieved, : so ‘cr?ulom thcy ere, that officers would\ be able to |influence their men to vote for 'th#s e Comâ€" their men to vote for this Comâ€" manderâ€"inâ€"Chief. | If t ad‘ only W 2 o h ud hi oas oo ue c ut ts c T L d ce 1 dn 0000 Right i .‘!M‘{“, " has wflj the smartest pol ical trick of his career out of his b pulled out right: under the noses and: with the help of his.most ‘ardent jenemies Whether ‘he ‘vetoes the ‘so flfi "states ‘rights" soldier vote bill, allows it to pass with a few of the scathing: remarks for which he is wellâ€"known, he has maneuvered his enemics ‘into the. uneriviable, position of being guilty: of ;tprivihg the fight. ing man of ‘his voet.: The trick, if it really was planned ay such, went off so smoothly thn:‘t the victim wlf went for it hook, line JanT sinket, haven‘t felt the hook yet. | . n . aas I can offer no stronger proof of imy honésty, abilitylintegrity and willingness t work,fl':umyfieoorddurhgthefourye I you as County Treasurer. . H. Fredbeck. I was educated in Lake county sciwjols and Lake Forest sify.. Mywife is a Lake county girl, we hhive two daiighters and maintain a UP TO NOW tir km mave ir t eur sxrra Bomos 1 â€" t REPUBLICAN CANDID fa Upon My Record 1 Ask for Your Vote RFEIFL ball and earth inâ€" ave vanâ€" he morn» / BUT, the boys di hang onto:fSeir crystal . ball," and Whether. they Bike it or not,, however much i â€"#nay now warble about their love f e soldier, they| were only tecting his ultimate rights, FD n now say, "Well, f s, I wantd®} to make it easy for to vote." people t you‘d : vote / it them, so they‘ve wrapped your to yote up in so much red, tape you‘ll nevér get wfjh in time. tobuse it." f | & 1 DCt meck : Every man that) backed the stacleâ€"ridden :"states ‘ rights" fi branded for the rest of his the eyes of the icemen as * Soldiers, |particularly â€"those | offer seas, don‘t like lining up and wain well eno: to do it unless they Mve to not even to votel?" Aithough ties "states rights" boy$ don‘t seemk to know it, they have other thi their minds besides &lections and i. ticians. ere arg â€" exceptionsf of tourse, but. your . average fighiing man is too busy on kis off time, t ~ ing about ho parents, his #rirl, chances of) a few| days leave lo'ky much attention to: politicians, | po 8 Dealer would bé | to Y for Alf Linds J-L?::d.t deerednen, i may es is cap LAKE COUNT TO THE VOTER My na wflmtwmh election to be Held, Tuesday, April 11, 1 as a candidgte for Condfer of Lake County. papers. , ‘Well, fellows, I wantdg: to y: for to vote." ' it ‘d : vote / it they‘ve wrapped your ) in so much red, tape ver get to it in time.t e by their ballots not ATE FOR CORONER || ; 'r-z’day.Aprim. 1944 iR i‘aflunhov,htudl/-y- people than ever before. F though things are gett tighter, we‘re going to give the best telephone service: sible. â€"And it‘s still the telephone service in the we We‘ve â€"« LEAF 6 FAR AS WF CA M ne Susanne Howe Make Semester Honor Roll At Indiana Universit Last semester‘s #4 honor role at the UniverSity of In in~ cludes the name â€"of Miss | Suzanné Howe, daughter of Mr. Mrs. L. L. Howe, 2115 Ashland ~ The honorary list includes 179 and 65 men students. « The Highland Park Music Club met on Wednesday with Mrs. Donald S, program was presenfed by the followâ€" ing :‘ Miss Jean Schick, E guest pianist;. Mrs. D. G. ider, "soprano; Mrs. Lawrence Meyer, <«contralto. fln dgcet Those guys keep on yelling that FDR is no statesman, but a poliâ€" tician. Maybe so, but he sure poli« ticianed them to. death â€" political death, on that play. H. P. Music Club ofâ€"those jerks that wouldn‘t. lef us vote." The servicemen himself, later on, forget about it, but mo poliâ€" fician who knows enough to‘ for himself{ will ever let the i die, and every time one of boys yuns for any public office hig opponâ€" ent; can, will and should get) up and yell, "He‘s the guy that. ‘t let you vote.". was io served | following |the pro+ »ps> kes iR