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Greenville HeroMedal PresentedSgt, Gus J. Kefurt9 s Widow Receives Congressional Medal of Honor in Pentagon Ceremony Today..,BY J. FRANK TRAGLE AP Special Washington ServiceWashington, Nov. 12—(IP)—Both were from Western Pennsylvania, Both were infantry staff sergeants. Both had been crane operators before they entered the Army in August, 1943.One was John W. Minick of Carnegie. The other was Gus Kefurt of Greenville.Within a month they both died heroically in the battle of Europe.A mine exploded under Minick on Nov. 21, 1944, near Hurtgen, Germany.Kefurt was shot through the throat the day before---♦Christmas near Bennwihr, France.The heroism they displayed before they died won for each ofAT THE HOSPITALAdmitted: Mrs. Richard Linn, R. D, 1; Mrs. Joseph Stull, 7 First Avenue; J. E. Dell, 142V* Main Street; William C. Bartlett, Jamestown; Mrs. G. S. Keenan,Fredonia; Mrs. George Chess, 17 Rosedale Avenue.Discharged: Carl Mofi'eLt, 22 South Front Street; Mrs. Thomas Eakan, R. D. 2; Mrs. George Powell and son, Pladley: Mrs.Samuel Presto, Adamsville; Mrs. Francis Dambaeher, 89 Clarksville Street: Mona Jones, Kinsman.Endurance Bid Failsthem the highest award of their government, the Congressional Medal of Honor.Today (2 p. m.) in his Pentagon office, Gen. Omar N. Bradley, Army chief of staff, presents the awards to the soldiers’ widows— Mrs. Mary R. Minick of Meehan-icsburg and Mrs, Frances E. Kefurt of Sharon.Among those with Mrs. Minick will be Sergeant Minick's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Minick.With Mrs. Kefurt, among others will be her two children, Robert, 9, and Patricia, 7, and Sergeant Kefurt’s father, Joseph Kefurt. Sergeant Minick, who previous-Longview, Tex., Nov. 12 had received the silver and•—The attempt of endurance fliers bronze stars for heroism, wasFred Vinmont and Bert Simons awarded the medal or honor forto crack the world’s record of 726 volunteering to find a pathhours ended last night in a crash- through a. mine field that waslanding. The two men had been in the air 529 hours when they were forced to come down after their engine froze,”Officer Beaten to DeathWashington, Pa., Nofc. 12—(/PI — Valoren Lee Neth, 17. of Coal [Center R. D. 2, today awaited court action on a murder charge in the death by beating of a 51-year-old man he said broke up my parents* home.” Neth was held yesterday by Justice of the Peace Austin J. Murphy at Speers, after Lee J. Beam, special officer for the borough of Speers, died en route to a hosnital.blocking the advance of his battalion near Hurtgen. In doing so In*, singlehaudcdly killed more than a score of Germans, captured more than a score of others, and silenced two enemy machine guns.KILLED 25 GERMANS Sergeant Kefurt was credited with killing at least 25 Germans and with capturing numerous others, including a tank, its crew and supporting infantry, in an attack near Benmvihr. He also was credited with the destruction of another tank. How he did that was described by Capt. John H. Toole HERO’S MEDAL. 2)
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Greenville Record Argus
Greenville, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Nov 12, 1948
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