Gillespie County Servicemen Promoted On Duty
Local notes highlight promotions and leaves among Gillespie County men and women in uniform. Corporal Wesley A. Knopp, stationed in Tonopah Nevada, received a promotion from Private First Class. Alsis O Baumann in India rose from Corporal to Sergeant with the Air Transport Command. Other updates cover furloughs, transfers, and brief visits of Lt. Francis Stahl, Marvin Eckert, Lawrence Schandua, Edwin Petsch, Walter Loudon Jr., Ed Delz, Erwin Kammlah, and Marine Sgt Felix Vander Stucken among families and friends.
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Wesley A. Knopp
Hugo Knopp
Tonopah
Nevada
Francis Stahl
A. D. Stahl
Barksdale Field
Ontario Army Air Base
Ontario
Calif
Stahl
Roland Borchers
Jackson
Miss
Henry Borchers
University of Texas
Set
Marvin Eckert
Tech
Willie Eckert
Iron Mountain Camp
Cal
Eckert
Army
Tennessee
Kansas
Lawrence Schandua
U.S. Navy
San Antonio
Felix Vander Stucken
Gene Stucken
U. S Marine Corps
Stucken
Pacific
Indian Love To Be Given At Lions Meeting
Fredericksburg Lions Club will host Supt. W. R. Root at 7 30 p m Thursday for insights into American Indian customs. Root recounts service on Government Indian Reservation with the Army and will show Indian handiwork for guests at Sunnyside Tavern.
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Fredericksburg
Dawn of the Air Harbor Era and Postwar Planning
The piece argues that aviation will become a new inland harbor economy after the war. Airports will spur growth, create jobs for returning air force personnel, and require extensive planning for location, land, financing, roads, and utilities. Communities must prepare years in advance for air commerce.
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Hitler
Suez
Don
Dneiper
Stalingrad
Kiev
St. Louis
New Orleans
Boston
New York
Seattle
San Francisco
Miracle of Production Amid War Industry Growth
The United States shifted to war production after Pearl Harbor and reached peak wartime output ahead of schedule. WPB chief Donald M. Nelson cited 1943 as a record year with 85 919 aircraft built, a 130 percent rise from 1942, and naval and merchant output hitting world records. The 1944 plan calls for substantial gains across aircraft, ships, and tonnage targets.
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United States
Pearl Harbor
Houston
Mr. Nelson
Lend-Lease Marks Three Years Of War Aid
The Lend-Lease program reached three years on March 11 and has used 14 cents of every dollar of U S war expenditures to provide over 20 billion dollars in aid to Allied nations. The United States has received a little over 2 billion dollars in return in goods such as bananas and airfields. Foreign Economic Administrator Leo T Crowley told Congress that burdens are shared roughly equally among the U S and its allies, describing a pooled resource system funded by contributions and drawn upon as fighting fronts demand.
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United States
Leo T. Crowley
Congress
Seek To Establish VY F W Post Here
Major B L Maloney VFW public relations officer for Texas visited Fredericksburg last week to discuss forming a VFW post in honor of Admiral Chester W Nimitz. Eligibility requires service outside the United States and twelve members to found a post. For more information contact the Chamber of Commerce office.
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B. L. Maloney
Texas
Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW
Fredericksburg
Chester W. Nimitz
Continental
United States
Maloney
Chamber of Commerce Office
Four Women Injured In Sunday Auto Wreck Near Ernst Herbert Place
Four women were injured when their car left the Comfort highway near the Ernst Herbert place and crashed into a creek. Victims include Mrs. A1 A Goerges and Mrs. A B Geerges both seriously hurt with broken ribs and pelvis, plus Miss Eleanora Sagebiel concussion and head bruises. Beatrice Sagebiel released Tuesday. They had been visiting Harper at the Sagebiel home and were returning to San Antonio. Kerr County hires new home demonstration agent Emily Ritter to replace Miss Irma Ross effective March 16, coming from Wharton high school where she taught home economics.
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Comfort Highway
Ernst Herbert
A1. A. Goerges
A. B. Geerges
Feanor
Beatrice Sagebiel
H. A. Georges
A.B. Geerges
Eleanora Sagebiel
Beatrice
Harper
Albert Sagebiel
San Antonio
Kerr County
Irma Ross
Gregg County
Emily Ritter
Wharton High School
Soldier recounts tough Salerno mission and air battles
Sgt. Wurst says he earned eight Oak Leaf Clusters after arriving in England in September 1942 and serving in North Africa. He recalls the Salerno operation as his hardest mission with heavy ack ack and a near miss, but notes his unit bombed well, shot down seven Messerschmitt 109s, and returned safely.
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Wurst
England
North Africa
Sgt
Salerno
Jerry
Peach Grading Machine Urged by Jaycees
Fredericksburg Junior Chamber of Commerce adopts plan to study a peach grading machine for Gillespie peach growers cooperative use. A committee will assess feasibility and steps to install the machine to aid orchard owners in marketing their crop. A Jaycee eradication committee notes poison supplies and invites requests at the Agriculture Building. John Evers, Wesley Gold and Edwin Kiehne named to arrange the April general membership meeting.
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Fredericksburg
John Evers
Wesley Gold
Edwin Kiehne
Induction figures and theft report from Kerrville region
Sixty five men including fourteen transferees reported to the San Antonio induction center from Kerrville last week. In Kimble County 51 men were called. In Llano a car owned by Dr. R L Shepperd was stolen early Sunday night March 5 and recovered hours later in San Saba. a soldier was held in relation to the theft but released next morning with no charges filed. Roscoe R Simon twenty two son of Mr and Mrs August Simon of Mason was killed recently when fatally wounded cleaning his 30 30 rifle on a ranch near Rock Springs while his brother served.
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India
Alsis O. Baumann
Anna Baumann
Here
China-Burma-India
India China
Air Transport Command
U.S
United Nations
China
Himmalaya
Burma
Edwin A. Petsch
Emil M. Petsch
Los Angeles
California
Wm. Bean
el Paso
Petsch
Navy
San Antonio
Kerrville
Kimble County
Llano
R. L. Shepperd
San Saba
Roscoe R. Simon
August Simon
Mason
Rocksprings
Simon
County Clerks Report Poll Tax Vouchers by County
Kimble county issued 1589 poll tax es to eligible voters while Mason County issued 1837. Kerr County Red Cross mobile blood unit collected 148 pints in a one day visit with 176 donors reported and 24 rejected for various reasons.
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Kimble County
Mason County
Kerr County
Red Cross Mobile Blood Donor Unit
Husband of Local Cars Honored in Mediterranean APS
Staff Sergeant Harold J. Wurst, husband of the former Miss Irene Barrier of here, and son of Mr and Mrs H J Wurst of Wau kesha Wisconsin, completed his 47th mission as top turret gunner on a Marauder bomber in the 12th air force stationed in the Mediterranean area. He holds the Air Medal and is visiting his wife and parents in Mankesha Wisconsin.
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Walter Loudon
Walter Loudon, Jr
Robins Field
Army Air Force
Cpl
Ed. Delz
Harold J. Wurst
Irene Barrier
Here
H. J. Wurst
Waukesha
Wisconsin
12Th Air Force
Mediterranean
Mankesha
Wis
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