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OClUtitK 7, IV4; LOCAL NEWS ST. Pt I tKbBUKG IIMfci FALL OUT" Burton Took Part in Raid On Convoy in Tokio Bay Lt. Col. Haesckcr Leaving Army Lt. Col.

Harvey L. Haesckcr ONE OF THE newest ships in the army's navy, reports Ships magazine, Is a floating power plant capable of furnishing enough electricity for a small size city. Medal Awarded Capf. Archibald BICLE Ml CALL by Gertrude Enz The following Pinellas county men received honorable dis In the Faclflc since September charges from the army yester day at Camp Blanding: this city, who was overseas "for 15 months with the army air forces in the P)uropean theatre of war, is returning to civilian life 1944, Robert Lee Burton, seaman 1c, 2341 Thirteenth avenue north, is returning home aboard TSgt. Thomas M.

Moody, 720 the USS Collett, famed destroyer Twenty-first avenue south, St Petersburg. SSgt. James S. Tachtirls, Tarpon Springs. CASH IN 5 MINUTES tor yeut Olam.ndf 014 Geld, Platinum, Watcht Rlnfi, j.walry and Gold TttHi.

PCI I JEWELRY BCLL anj LUGGAGE S2f CENTRAL AVL of Admiral Halsey Third fleet ARRIVES A HOARD USS INDIANA: Calvin J. Rawls fireman 1c, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. C.

Rawls. Clear His ship was one, of the nine destroyers which slipped into Tokio bay, last July 22 and blew Pfc. Troupe F. Griffin, Palm Harbor. up a Japanese convoy in an op SSgt.

George A. Tate, 146 Nineteenth street north, St. Pe eration comparable to a Jap sea water, docked at the west coast, Sept. 29, aboard the USS Indiana. He had returned direct from Tokio but will not be given leave home as the Indiana is scheduled to take USE SANITARY t- raid on Alcatra? island.

Capt. T. H. Hederrnan of Wash ington. D.

C. commanded the sen tersburg. Pfc. Donn C. Croson, Tarpon Springs.

part in the Navy Day celebration. sational operation which was car Sgt. Edward M. Owens, 250 ried out without the loss of Forty-fifth street north, St. Pe single man or ship.

Admiral through the point system, according to announcement by the commanding officer of the army separation center at San Bernardino, Cal. Prior to being called to active duty, Col. Haeseker was co-owner and partner with Stewart I. Jones of the Jones-Haeseker Motor company, (formerly Tenth Street garage) well-known Studebaker and Mack Truck dealers, in which firm he will resume active participation. Col, and Mrs.

Haeseker with their two children, Jean six, and Henry four, are returning to their home at 3045 Tenth street north. His last duty assignment with the army air forces was at the 822d AAF Specialized depot, Los Angeles, the largest specialized depot of the Air Technical Service Command. tersburg. prior to receiving his discharge from the AAF. He is completing Halsey, highly pleased with the TSgt.

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Money refunded if not paratory to entering a dental col ron. messaged: "You are un 5005 Thirty-first avenue south, was discharged Sept. 28. He had popular with the emperor Good work." Hederrnan replied: "So been in the European theatre are you." lege. Mrs.

Brinson returned to St Petersburg last week after visiting her gon at Alabama Tech. with the Ninth AAF since De sausriea. lit cember, 1943. His wife is the IT WAS A DARK and windy Arcadia, Fla. T' 3 former Miss Barbara Beckhard, night, the St.

Petersburg blue daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bruno jacket writes now that censorship has been lifted. "The Japanese Reassigned Beckhard, Gulfport. ROBERT L.

BURTON il' y. 'Z would have been less surprised Released From USNR by an earthquake. The sea was the Japanese aware of the American destroyers in the bay. THE AMERICANS saw half of one ship explode and then another caught fire. The Japs tried DR.

M. H. MORROW Chiropractic Office and X-Ray Laboratory NOW LOCATED AT 619 First Ave. No. Phone 72-501 to turn and run, but the de stroyers reversed course and CAPT.

ALEX M. ARCHIBALD choppy and a typhoon was blowing up not far away. "We moved in off Oshima island and saw the twinkling lights along the little island chain at the entrance to the bay. We thought hell would pop then, but it didn't." A clipping of the Associated Press dispatch covering the daring raid, mailed home by Burton, reports that Oshima island lies directly athwart the entrance to Tokio bay. It is Japan's Cor-regidor.

The nine destroyers running In blazed away. The enemy tried to fire back but apparently they were shooting anti-aircraft guns. ine tsronze Mar medal was conferred upon Capt. Alex M. Archibald, this city, for "meri The Yanks came to the conclusion that the Japs believed they I 1 I W'A a '-i i and were under air attack U.

S. torious achievement in connection with military operations against the enemy on Mindanao. planes had been overhead as the Clark's Sunset Golf Country Club destroyers started to attack. The one-sided battle lasted less Philippine islands, from April 23, 1945 to June 30." He serves -'v It" a column at high speed swept than an hour. The convoy, which nto the mouth of the bay about consisted of three merchant ships CALVI.V J.

RAWLS Rawls was home on leave a year ago after two and a half years' sea duty. At that time he had earned nine battle stars on his Asiatic-Pacific ribbon for participation in nearly all the major Pacific naval engagements the and an escort, was left sinking. midnight. Suddenly they picked up targets which turned out to be the big convoy trying to sneak Only the escort was known to have escaped. out by night along the coastline.

Burton adds that the raid was Snell Isle COCKTAIL LOUNGE Green Fees, $1.00 SERVICE MEN, 75c Street Car and Bus Transportation "We closed in to 10,000 yards invasions of the Solomons, Mar fhalls, Gilberts, Marianas, Palau the Collett's seventy-seventh trip and came at the heighth of its Pacific operation. During one period of 110 days at sea, he had been only four hours on shore at juarcus and tilice islands, air strikes on Truk and the Philip and opened fire with torpedoes," the AP release quotes one of the commanding officers. "It was so quiet we could hear down the line as the tin fish hit the water and exclamations of 'two tor ROBERT SWEET a supply base. pine Sea battle. Rejoining the Indiana for Overseas since October, 1943 with the 31st Infantry divisions 116th Field Artillery.

Capt. Archibald, an employe of the Florida Power corporation at the time of his entrance into the army in 1940, when called to duty with the National Guard, has been in the Pacific since February, 1944. He is also a veteran of the Wakde-Sarmi campaign in Dutch New Guinea and the Morotai, Netherlands East Indies, operation. CITATION accompanying the Bronze Star commends Capt. Archibald for action during, the period mentioned when he not only performed outstanding service as commanding officer of a firing battery of a light field artillery battalion, but frequently moved to the front as a forward The returning bluejacket, son IRVING W.

LAKE Irving W. Lake, chief boat pedoes away' and other signals of Mrs. John Fogarty, 3774 Ab- Cpl. Robert Sweet, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Stanley R. Sweet. 3827 second tour of Pacific duty, he has added the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, the first Tokio from other destroyers." Queensboro avenue south, re In fewer than four minutes, 18 swain's mate, was released from the U. S. naval reserve Oct.

3, and has resumed civilian life raid and was with the Third Fleet cently was transferred to the torpedoes were streaking through ington avenue south, had been an engineer for 17 years at the St. Petersburg gas plant at the time of his entrance into the navv in March, 1943. His wife, Mrs. Fleta Burton, continues residence at the EXCLUSIVE DEALERSHIPS OPEN for Famous GIBBS Small Ninth Air Force and now off Tokio for the past few months the water at the same time the with his wife, the former Miss The Clearwater bluejacket was jriven a brief leave when his bat based in Marrackeck, North Africa. He served 22 months with the Eighth Air Force based in Mary Tuck.

They are visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. destroyers opened up with their five-inch guns. It was apparent that not until that moment were Thirteenth avenue address.

Irving Lake, 4705 Azalea way. England and France. tleship docked last week. He spent his liberty visiting with his sunt, Mrs. Stanley Ograin, formerly of St.

Petersburg, now liv i Lake entered the navy in August, 1941, and had been in the Pacific since Jan. 2, 1945, On Furlough Cpl. Sweet's new unit, the 369th Bomb squadron of the 386th Bomb group is engaged in mak News of Record observer. ing in Los Angeles. aboard a cargo attack vessel.

He "On May 29, 1943, and on June A student of Clearwater high ing aerial photos of North Africa earned two battle stars for action school at the time of his enlist 1. 1945, while the battalion was to complete maps which give a at Okinawa and in the Philip -NEW COTKT CASES rnent, Pawls was 17 years old when he donned navy blue. He subjected to intense and accurate artillery fire, with complete dis more accurate detail of the ter rain. Elf-anur B. vs Stanley F.

Lee, divurue, J. K. Sutterfiild, atty. Robert D. Ltun va L.tona J.

Leon, regard for his own personal saiety will be eligible for discharge on His brother, SSgt. Jack Sweet, aivurre, L-iair uavm, ally. pines. Pacific Veteran Opens Cafe Here arrived at Newport News, Va Thi'lnia Roberta William va Julius and with calm assurance, Capt. Archibald directed his battery to return fire although extremely rus birthday, Jan.

20, 1946. ATC PILOT Lt. Charles A Wednesday, en route home. r. Williams, divorce, Clair Davis, aity Alary Lou Baker aa ex.

va Jnhn Tur. accurate enemy artillery fire was rlo and othera, mortKaKS foreclosure, v. W. Harna and Harry C. Chubb, falling in his battery area.

Naval Aviation Cadet Sweet, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Sweet, 1506 Fifth avenue north, altys.

When MSgt. Johnny Leonard "He continued to move among hue Bel ADtiline va Jospnh TT in. piniK, uivuici-, joe arppnior. any. his men seeing to the safety of those not required in serving the was discharged from the service Sept.

2, he made up his mind he was going to have a business of his lias been assigned to an AAF base near Dacca, India. He formerly flew on the Pans to Cairo air Claire, M. Newman vs Carl C. New man. divorce.

Joe Carpenter, atty. Auine Jjruseua Mary Mayee va Jen own. His ambition was realized pieces and personally assisting in carrying his injuring to the aid station or supervising first aid. ton Christy Mayae, divorce, T. J.

Col-Unx, atty. recently when he opened John route. Wins V-12 Acceptance bieannr Frances Hamiltnn va Charles ny's Cafe at 10010 Gandy boulevard, serving plate lunches, sand 'This service reflects great Scott Hamilton, divorce. T. J.

Collins, atty. -i jut' wiches and soft drinks. credit upon Capt. Archibald and the service." Formerly of Selrnar, Klma Powell vg Claude Powell, divorce, T. J.

Collina. atty. Citv of St. pHtembursr vs Pertain The caDtains wife, Mrs. Mary Leonard was known as best sheet metal man in the southwest Lands, lien foreclosure.

C. I. Carev. F. Archibald, resides at 737 High-i atty.

land street north, witn tneir Hvff E. Flanriera Parsons Murnhv 1 A Pacific." He was stationed on New Guinea with the Third vs. John E. Murnhv. divorce: James two children, catnerine.

seven, and Archie, 13 months, whom the Buoth. attorney. GIBBS vee-skmt Dealerships are now being offered by GIBBS Gas Engine Company to qualified applicants desiring to handle a complete line of dependable small boals embodying the latesl in postwar design. Three of these famous GIBBS boats are now in production, one of which is the 18-foot GIBBS Vee-Skiff shown above. Built entirely from waterproof plywood, she is light, cannot leak and is equipped with a four-cycle, air-cooled engine that drives her along at good speed.

We expect to make first deliveries around November 25. For full particulars about a dealership in your territory write: Small Boat Division GIBBS GAS ENGINE COMPANY Flagler Street, Jacksonville 7, Florida Miriam II. Marshall vs. Earl H. Mar- decorated officer has never seen Attack group, known as the "Grim Reapers." He was part of an air force squadron called shall, divorce; Lloyd M.

Phillips, at- lorney. Mildred C. Lassiter va. Palton Las- The Character," and made his Marine Corps Accepts siter. divorce; Lloyd M.

Phillips, at-t jrnoy. Jacob Bate estate. In re. anneal Joe 3-Year Enlistments Davis, attorney. reputation when a transport was needed to go back to Australia for food.

Taking apart three A-20's, he made one perfect plane which flew the errand success The marine corps is now ac 1 cepting enlistments in the regulars for a three-year period, it LICENSES (Applied For) Richard Noble. 22. Don Ce-Snr. and fully. Later he made other planes for transport out of junk and was announced yesterday by Marine State Headquarters, Florida Ruth Irene Hanson.

23, St. Petersburg. Lawrence Lamukin. 44. and Lil be completely lebuilt a B-25.

Theatre Building, Jacksonville. Mae Hudson. St. Petersburg, Jack M. Hillev.

22. and Alma E. All men who are eligible lor SSGT. II. S.

SILVERBERG SSgt. Henry S. Silverberg is spending a 30-day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Silverberg, 520 Twenty-eighth avenue north.

He flew as gunner on a B-17 of the Eighth Air Force and was returned to the states from the European theatre. His awards include the Air Medal with an Oak Leaf cluster, a Distinguished Unit badge with a cluster, the Good Conduct ribbon and the ETO ribbon with three battle stars for aerial support of the Ardennes, Rhineland and Werner. 22, St. Petersburg. Plans Party at Beach enlistment under the corps' latest Ralph s.

Bryant. 37. and Lillian volunteer program, which covers Plans for a Halloween party to Frances Cocke, 22. St. Petersburg.

JAMES W. CULLIS Curtis White. 25. Clearwater, and men from 17 througn are be held at the government beach Bonnie Casey. 21.

Lakeland. house, Madeira Beach, Oct. 30, John J. Zeiler. 22.

Dunedin, and Mil eligible for the new three year service period, instead of the old dred Louise Kerstein, IS. Chiratrn. were made at a meeting of the T. C. Cantonis.

28. rtnd Helen McKa- four year period. THOMAS S. BRINSON local chapter of the National loudes. 17, Tarp-jn Springs.

Present enlistment quotas tor Federation of Federal Employes, the marines are unlimited and held Thursday night in the Em men mav jeo to active duty at ETERNITY CAPE, a lofty once, headquarters said. headland on Saguenay river in LEWIS GIFT ART STORES WONDER-LAND TREASURE-LAND CENTRAL AT FOURTH Canada, has an altitude of 1,700 pire building. First reading of new constitution and by-laws and discussion of new and proposed legislation affecting federal employes were main items at the meeting. Central Germany campaigns. A graduate of Shorecrest Outdoor school and a former student of Junior college, Silverberg entered the service in January, 1943.

feet, and the water at its base James W. (Woodv) Cullls. naval aviation cadet, son of Betty Chilis, 226 Twentieth avenue southeast, recently was transferred to St. Mary's college, from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Cadet Cullis has been in the navy since June, 1944.

He was a student in the navy V-12 program at Duke university until July of this year when he transferred to V-5 at Chapel Hill. He recently signed orders to remain on active duty for two years after completion of his training. SEEK PASSPORT END NEW ORLEANS (U.R) A cam- has a depth of about two-thirds that figure. paien to eliminate passport re quirements for Latin Americans entering the United states was started recently by the Committee on Consuls of the New Or leans association of commerce. A Returned to the states from Japan after qualifying for navy V-12 training, Thomas S.

Brinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Brinson, 526 Fourteenth avenue northeast, entered Alabama Polytechnic in-ftitute, Auburn, Sept.

24, as a reserve officer training corps student. The St. Petersburg cadet was one of three chosen from 120 applicants among the crew aboard his ship, the USS Chicago In Hal-sey's Third Fleet In Japanese waters. Brinson was flown by transport plane to Guam and from there to Pearl Harbor where he boarded the carrier USS Lang-ley. He arrived at San Francisco and after spending several days at Farragut, Idaho, was sent on to Auburn.

Ala. His brother. 1st Lt. William E. SENSATIONAL VALUE PRE-WAR DUALITY I statement has been forwarded to the State Department in Wash ington.

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