Navy and Marine Family Notices From Local Pacific News
Seaman apprentice Bettie M Maurer enjoys two week leave with parents after boot camp at Great Lakes. She will enter Navy hospital service school in San Diego April 15. Pvt Donald Whiteneck, 17, completed combat training and joins 17th Infantry in Korea. Lt Stanley J Osserman USMC flew 72 combat missions, assigned to Cherry Point air school after receiving Air Medal aboard USS Sicily. Herbert C Jenkins earns Korean War service medal. Jack E Crafts reenlists with 63rd Infantry at Ft Ord. S/Sgt Norman W Moy earns three Excellence Awards from Kwajalein contest. Lt Col E R King announces May Kwajalein contest winners. Mrs Virginia Johnson and daughter join Lt Rey G Johnson aboard USS Lipan in Hawaii.
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Bettie M. Maurer
Waves Usn
John H. Maurer
Cedar Ave
U. S. Naval Training Center
Great Lakes
Polytechnic High School
Long Beach City College
A Maurer
Navy
San Diego
Donald Whiteneck
Ray Whiteneck
Ximene Ave
17Th Infantry Regiment
Korea
Wilson High School
Last Jiue
Glee Club
Stanley J. Osserman
USMC
Emanual Osserman
Galena St
Marine Corps Air School
Cherry Point
N.C
Osserman
Corona Ave
North Carolina
Sicily
Korean
Norman W. Moy
Flor
MATS
Kwajalein
Washington
Dies
Wright Field
Dayton
Virginia Johnson
Linda
Euclid Ave
Hawaii
Rey G. Johnson
USW
Lipan
Pacific Fleet
Johnson
Military Sea Transportation Service
FBI Checks Mobilization Office Staff After Wilson Hoover Clash
Washington April 9 UPI FBI is examining every employee in the Office of Defense Mobilization after Director Charles E Wilson won a clash with FBI chief J Edgar Hoover Attorney General McGrath told a Senate subcommittee that Wilson demanded investigations of all agency staff and Hoover had argued it was not the FBI's function McGrath said he yielded due to the President's office influence.
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FBI
Washington
UPI
Office of Defense Mobilization
Charles E. Wilson
J. Edgar Hoover
McGrath
Senate Appropriations
Wilson
Hoover
Good Time to Clean Out Garage From Old Newspapers
A Long Beach study shows scrap dealers pay about 70 cents per hundred pounds for old newspapers and magazines, rising with other scrap materials. The article urges households to clear garage clutter, noting higher prices and on delivery payment, aiding budgeting and civic defense aims.
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Omes
Civic Defense
Long Beach
Army employee named in Texas deal on routing cargoes
Washington April 9 The Senate preparedness committee charged a civilian Army employee with accepting about 4500 to route government cargoes through Orange Texas The named employee Harold F Dowell former chief of the port control unit freight branch Army Transportation Office The committee referred the lease to the Justice Department and the Army for action and sent a complete record to Orange City The report noted the amount involved was not large but violated public principles and that power should not be sold.
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Washington
Senate Preparedness Committee
Orange
Texas
Harold F. Dowell
Commercial Service Traffic Division
Army Transportation Office
Justice Department
Army
Doctor H E Bicknell Opens New Clinic in City
Dr H E Bicknell long time local physician unveils a new clinic at 1400 Pacific Ave with staff including son Dr Stewart Bicknell and Drs Kuffel Albright and Sophene. Biographies note medical training from Toronto USC Harvard and Harvard, plus WWII and Navy service.
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H. E. Bicknell
Pacific Ave
Stewart
Bicknell
Mark J. Kutfel
Robert
W. Albright
Toronto University School of Medicine
Stewart Bicknell
USC Dental College
Kuffel
Santas Ana
USC
Henry Ford Memorial Hospital
Detroit
Mich
Sophene
Cleveland
Ohio
Harvard University
Western Reserve University
Home at Last for Family of I Cape Cod Widows Help
The Wilcombs a carpenters’ family from Salem Oregon find refuge in Malden and then a Cape Cod widow provides a rent free five room house on a 10 acre Bridgewater farm. Mrs Mabel L Rose offers ongoing aid and work for Mr Wilcomb to finish the nearly completed home. The widow’s offer comes after her husband died in World War II and she seeks to help the nine child family start anew.
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Yannis
Mass
Wilcombs
Cape Cod
George F
United States
Salem
Ore
Bridgewater
Malden
Wilcomb
Malden City Infirmary
Mabel L. Rose
Mareham
Cape
Hunt Ends for 8-29 Lost in Pacific
The Far East Air Forces announced the search for a B-29 missing for 10 days on a flight between Okinawa and Korea has been abandoned. Col. Payne Jennings, 34, of Palm Springs California, commander of the 19th Bomb Group, was among 12 men aboard after 44 combat missions over Korea.
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Far East Air Forces
Okinawa
Korea
Payne Jennings
Palm Springs
Calif
Jennings
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Herbert C. Jenkins
USN
Denver Ave
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Ft. Ord
Pvt. Crafts
John Dewey Continuation High School
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