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By CHARLES LUDWIGDeclaring that Cincinnati, with every other interior city, **ia now squarely on the frontier of any possible new assault against our country,” Brig. Gen. Mervin E. Gross, commandant of the new Army Air Forces Institute of Technology, Wright Field, Dayton, warned at the Victory Day observance on Fountain SquareWednesday noon that any future aggressor bent on world domination ‘•will strike us with lightning-like rapidity” and without first declaring war.The general presented to Mrs. Jean S. Dewey, 200 HiUcrest Avenue, Wyoming, the decorations for heroism at Corregidor awarded posthumously to her husband, Lt. Fred S. Dewey Jr., who died when a Jap prison ship was torpedoed.Mayor James G. Stewart and Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergymen took part in the ceremonies arranged by the Public Observance Committee.The program opened with a con-, cert by the General Protestant Orphan Home Band under direction of Edwin Schath. Representatives of the Army, Army Nurses, Navy, WAVE, Coast Guard, SPARS. Marines, Marina Auxiliary. Merchant Marine and civilian organizations marched to the platform, with a honor guard from the Army Recruiting SUtion.“ * • * ' A * •(Continued on Page 18. Col. T)
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Cincinnati Times Star
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Wed, Aug 14, 1946
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