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X N In The Service WINS BRONZE STAR Sgt. Franklin Newkirk, son tf Ben Newkirk, 318 North 16th street, was awarded the Bronze Star for “heroic achieve ment August 28, 1944, in France.” Serving as a tank commander, Sgt. Newkirk encoun tered strong re sistance from NEWKIRK anti-tank guns in the vicinity of Vancourt, France. He moved forward and engaged three, destroying them and killing the crews. “Sgt. Newkirk’s out standing achievement reflects great credit upon himself and the armed forces,” the citation con cludes. CONVALESCING Pfc. John 0. Pierce, of Olym phic, recently arrived at Welch Convalescent hospital, the Army’s new reconditioning center in Day tona Beach, Fla. Pfc. Pierce entered the Army, December, 1943, and has served seven months Jpi the European theater of opera tions. His wife, Margaret, and two ehildren reside at Olymphic. He was formerly employed by the L. B. Price Co. of Wilmington. • ON FURLOUGH T/'Sgt. R. E. Chadwick, Jr., re cently spent a furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Chad wick, 27 North Front street. Sgt. Chadwick has returned from the Alaskan theater of operations and a stay in the Birmingham General hospital in Van Nuys, Cal. His wife, the former Luise Anderson, of Salt Lake City, Utah, joined him enroute. The couple have gone to Miami, Fla., there he will be reassigned. MADE SERGEANT Allen West, husband of Mrs. Winnifred West, 108 Queen street, automotive mechanic at a P-51 Mustang fighter base in England, has been promoted from corporal to sergeant, it was officially an nounced recently. The 25-year-old soldier has been serving overseas for the past 17 months with an ordnance supply and maintenance company at a fighter base. Prior to entering the service in October, 1940, Sgt. West was engaged in ranching at Miles City, Mont. -V FAMILIES VISIT CONDEMNED TRIO, RALEIGH, March 8.——Good byes were spoken today by the families of three youths who will die tomorrow in the State’s gas chamber for the fatal shooting February 19, 1943, of E. J. Swan son, elderly Jamestown store keeper. Elmer Hardie Biggs, 21, William Dalton Biggs, 20, brothers; and John Edgar Messer, 19, twice have been convicted and twice repriev ed. They maintain they are Inno cent. The wife and mother-in-law of i William Biggs, and the Biggs boys’ I father visited them today; and the | six sisters of Messer, all from ji Weshington, were with him fori' several hours. All were hopeful j that a last-hour reprieve, such as:. Governor Cherry granted* three ! weeks ago, might save the trio. i| Overtures were made again to the , Governor, but he said that unless new and convincing evidence tend- I ing to show innocence was un/ov- | ered, he would not intervene. The | youths previously had been grant- , ed a stay of execution by former Governor Broughton. -V SATURDAY WIND-UP CINCINNATI, O., March 8—OJ.R) —It happened on Saturday:' Mrs. Matti Saturday sued for a divorce from Theodore Saturday. ■_ / for Scout Action-** | has become the campaign motto of the nation’s 1,866,356 Cubs and Boy Scouts as they swing into the WPB’s urgently-re quested waste paper salvage drive during March and April. To every Cub and Scout col lecting 1000 pounds of paper will go a bronze medal—the Boy Scout Gen. Eisenhower Waste Paper Campaign award, pic tured above—attached to a red \\_ and white service bar._^^ First Infantry Captures 60,000th Nazi prisoner BONN, Germany, March 8.— TP)—The U. S. First Infantry Divi sion, commanded by Brig. Gen. Clift Andrus, captured its 60,000th prisoner today—rounding out a bag equivalent to an entire Ger man army with two corps of three divisions each. The famous fighting first, many of whose men are from New York, rolled up its record in campaigns in North Africa, Sicily, France, Belgium and Germany. -V CO-EDS WEAR ‘FATIGUES’ IOWA CITY, la., March 8.—(U.R) —Co-eds at the University of Iowa are wearing something new these days. Threatening the popularity of “blue-jeans,” the girls are walking the campus in Army “fa tigues”—they have the huge patch pockets and ’that sloppy look so dear to a co-ed's heart. |f CKfnc Feature! Syndicate. All Fl*hU Reierved. I DIONNE‘QUINTS' I promptly roliovo coughing of I CHEST COLDS [mm Q P| I I |] IMPORTED BY i| ■ BACARDI IMPORTS, INC., N.T.J | ■ RUM • 89 PROOF 41 I Atraveller in asiadiscovered the eirstchIke. SOME MILK-IN A SACK ON HIS DONKEY'S BACK-WAS SO SHAKEN UR IT SEPARATED INTO WHEY AND A FIRM, SMOOTH-TEXTURED MASS WITH A NEW, DISTINCTIVE FLAVOR/ / . You’ll make a pleasant discovery, too, when you first taste the richer, fuller, Distinctive Flavor of Zesta Crackers. 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