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This month's stack of mail is enough to make us blush for those Christ-
mas letters we haven't gotten around to yet* For busy boys you all rato
medals for A 1 correspondents-—not that the censors let tales of your
work get by—but we do read the papers*
Take this V-mail from your, and our, old pal Lti WILLIAM F. SIMMONS,
ffr instance. Bill is in England(off and on) as a navigator-bombardier
Liberator and says that he's earning all the money Uncle Sam pays
Flying in temperatures which hover around 55° below zero doesn't
sound tempting but we csan understand the kick you're getting out of
playing tourist to the Germans. Thanks for writing u s , Lieutenant, and
good luck in your travels.
Pfc CHARLES S. HUMMER seems to be working steadily Wast with every chang
Of address. At least you're getting a chance to compare climates even
if the home town still beats them all. After Kinsman, Arizona, Charlie
is now parked near Pocatello, Idaho—and cold too. Cheer up I \/ho
knows-—you may be able to trade potatoes for a California orange any
ek now—and that should warm you up.
d here's a nice Merry Xrr-.as from Pfc T. LING- 700 down at Seymour CTohn-
on Field, North Carolina. Bob (don't ask us how wo get that out of
T.L«W.T ) —it's a Chinese secret) must be one of the busiest and most
first .class privates at the Field. He is in charge of a squadron of
two hiundrud men, taking care of all the administration work, and, in
spite of that Pfc before his name is acting First Flight Sergeant. It
all sounds very complicated so we appreciate your letter even more.
And here are two newsy notes from Cpl. S. E. WILSON who has just jumped
from Camp Crowder, Missouri, to California. Steve says the trip out
was great and he wishes it' had taken a few more days, the scenery was sc
new to him and interesting. That jaunt into Frisco on top of a Model "A'
Ford sounded now, too, Steve, but something we personally would prefer 1
skip. The place was so crowded there wasn't a free bed, chair or couch
in town so he and a buddy took in a movie. At 5 A.M. the management
woke everyone up (evidently a spellbound audience) and from then on thei
was nothing to do but go for a long walk. At that it all sounds like
more fun than guard duty in the rain.
Speaking of guard duty, Pvt, JOHN E, D'ELIA says in his V-letter from
England that he just received his Tattle when ho come off guard, duty at
noon. Glad you were glad, Jack*.-and also glad you're so pleased with
England too. In fact the whole letter oozes contentment over the swell
chow—"It's the best I've ever eaten." To the country itself and the
Saturday night dances Jack says IVRENS are invited who are also "sure
swell to us soldiers." Of course the fact that Pvt. D'Elia mentions go-
ing steady with one particular little WREN may account for the unusually
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Another six feet of talent which is badly missed around Short Hills is
DICK RUMERY. Pardon u s , it's Sgt. Richard G, Rumery now. Thanks for,,
four V-mail from Italy and we're, glad you enjoyed your Zmas package"
•id the Tattle, , Since, being overseas Dick has been in Africa 'and now
in Italy, and while his present address is ,th.e best of'the, two,' neither
compares with the U.S.A. Glad you've gained... weight and that the old. • '
health is thriving on Army life; but we bet that'fine Rumery chassis
':I11 is on the willowy side.
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MICHAEL PASSARELLI i s a prince of a guy for brushing the Japs
aside long enough to write us two V-mail l e t t e r s in one week. Mike
i s allowed to t e l l ue now that he has been on New Caledonia and that
the new address i s somewhere in the Solomons, He's working as a crew
member on one of the planes and no wonder he gets a kick out of
watching i t s number of missions grow. In case you g e t that chance to
go for a ride "just to see what actual combat i s " we wish you a
happy landing and of course a l l 'one luck in the world, Mike,
This i s r e a l l y a recordj, We thought, Cpl, PASSARjiLLI held i t , but a l -
ohg comes CM 1/c EDMOMD V. "BOIJTEMPO with three V-mails written in.
as many days. Sd says that when he reads in the Tattle of boys who
are bothered with too much heat and sunshine i t makes him laugh. The
Bonternpo frame snuggles down under four blankets and even a t that i s
apt to wake up "with a few homemade i c i c l e s . ' They're busy popping off
Jap" planes wnich. i s a happy thought, especially \-uien each b i t of junk
turns, into i i
gor 0 eous rings-and l b r a c e l e t s for
f h g i r l s back
the b k hhome.
Pujlle_ase_ hidi Your third l e t t e r absolutely mov^s us to the floor with
excitement - and no f a i r keeping us guessing too long, •' Ld says ^hat
from now. on ha c a n ' t turn out any more b r a c e l e t s because of a metal
shortage (does t h a t mean a Jap shortage too?) b u t he promises a fine
t r i n k e t which w i l l be even b e t t e r . I f you are too busy w e ' l l let. you
off on t h a t , Ed, but not on these newsy l e t t e r s .
Pvt, JOHN RUS3SLL LYONS should have a nice tan by now too ? what with
a furlough with h i s Mother in Florida and''then a' transfer to Sunny
California. We only nope that well-known dew d o e s n ' t make a l i a r out
of us because Hus.se.ll.,is now at Fort Ord. I n c i d e n t a l l y , he has j u s t
finished Infantry training a t Camp Wheeler, Georgia, so e i t h e r the sun
i s following, him or vice-versa. Ditto for Kirs. Lyons Who would have
had good reason to bask even.if- she'd romauned in Short K i l l s t h i s
winter — Sons, Suns, e t c . , get i t ?
Our reporters have ferretted out the fact that both S/S^t. TiiadlJOEE
KINUM and Pfc CLARENCE B. HOKE are now in Sragland., Also t h a t fine
favorite., NICK. MAKCAivfOHIO? so ptei^haps t h e y ' l l sta'^;e a home town
reunion in a Red Cross Canteen.
This may bum you far-fr.om-home members but both the SV/E£!T boys v/ero
home for Christmas. We're, not being coy e i t h e r '.cause we're talking
about Lt. Com. ARTHUR B. SW/ST and Tech. Sgt> RIClJurtD W. SWBET JR.
Staff Sgt, PRijDERiCK S. STONclALL had a nice Christinas too, even i f i t
was spent in his pres.ent Nor Lii African homo. Fred says they had r;
r e a l tii.ee (variety unknown) and decorated i t with homemade ornarnonts.
L t . CALEB G, BAXTER, always one for .bigger, b e t t e r things, i s now
training as JNavigator on a Plying F.ortress. He's out a t Siou>: City,
Iowa, and, we hear., doing Just dandy,
An'other flyer v;^ miss S'eeing around i s A/C lifcRGLI) A. BLiL^TT. Hal has
qualified as a p i l o t ana i s in the throes of Preliminary Training a t
Saitei Ana, California..
Back with his windblown nose in books i s GrhOhGE R. wAJJuACE. IIo has
completed his sea braining aiid is now at the Hierch;..u'o Marine Acaderay,
Kings Point, Long Island, for furoiier study,
L t . JAMES GORDON die! the nej&t b"ast thing to getting- home for Christmas.
Jim i s in California so spent yhe festive day vvith h i s Short H i l l s
friend, Mrs, Herbert C. Cawley who is now l i v i n g t h e r e . L t . JOHN A.
CAVTiEY managed to ; ^ t home too and ot'ii^r gueets t/ith faLiiliai' faces
were Com, ROBERT C. BGULNE and I.lrs. Noume of Ivlorristown - - ox-Poarl
Harbor.
We expect l o t s of snnpp-y tiews from Pvt. JACK BSMSiilCT '-<m^xi he has more
time and Jess1 c-ctiou on his ha-nds. Just at pre'seia't a pen i s the l a s t
thing handsome Jaok wants to be burden'e.d with because lie'is in the
front line somewhere on the road GO Koine»
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mascot. Nicknamed "Pepi,11 he i s a smart l i t t l e bird who not only does
odd jobs for them such as keeping the fire going, but he also amuses
them by f i l l i n g up on their r a t i o n s . How about when the war i s over,
Wes? Will there be a Pepi Bennett joining the family c i r c l e ?
Also headed for the sea and, who knows, j u s t as exciting a career, i s
FREDERICK G. SCHROjSiMt;, Fred has j u s t completed boot training at the
Naval Station at Sampson, New York, and i s waiting for another
.assignment..
HONOR-ROLL
W
' e hear, via our local tfinchell's, chat Pvt. GLEN VAN WAGBNEN,
formerly in I t a l y , i s t r a v e l i n g a^ain, but ox' course we d o n ' t know
where, and couldn't t e l l if we a i d .
SMALL ..'JORLP
This l a t t e r a r r i v e d j u s t as one December ibsue had crouched i n t o
the maw of the raimeo ;raph so we had to hold i t over u n t i l t h i s month
with g r e a t r e l u c t a n c e &;„ w,e wanted to squeeze i t i n t o the Christinas
e d i t i o n ever so badly - i t was so fu.ij. OJ. news. I t ' s from Major
WAITE W. .WORLSH, U.S.K.C. and w e ' l l try DO f l a s h up lite high l i g h t s
for you - i t ' S j u s t fraught with "S.W." items. The Ilajor has been
out o^ the U. S. since A p r i l , 1942, and since L,hen he has met three
l o c a l lea thernocks - namely Capt. Bud Arnadoi'f 3 Capt. .Eddie Roff
and Capt. Thomas O'wlahoneyj i n f a c t h e ' s seen Eddie and Tom s e v e r a l
times and l e t ' s us m on one s e c r e t bhat caere it; a Mrs. Thomas
O'Mahoney, a very charming Australian g i r l who is-duo to v i s i t . M i l l -
bur n any day now. Major W or den has al: o met L t . .E, MORTON FEKMER -
anc, smallest of S - a l l worlds.',- Capt. DOUQLAS Ivl. SMITH and the Major
are on duty together with the-same, b a t t a l i o n i Cur kind correspond-
ent sighs off with the Hlcupid" news chat JACK YU11CK (M,H.S. l 34)
i s a 1st Lt. in the Army Air Corps and r e c e n t l y married a girl* he
met in Liichigan, while he was attending Ivlichi^an S t a t e . Many, many,
many thanks 'to you, Major, for" sending us buch a fine batch of
news about I l i l l b u r n i t c s - anc; we are lookin,; forward to hearing
from you again GOonI
A/0 ROGER WENT writes from "Deep in tjie Heart of"—that he met A/c
EARL MELLEN at midnight recently in Corpus" Christi, all of which was
quite a pleasant !.uirprlse--(hu:.i—hoii? about your beauty sleep, boys?)
Roger expects to graduate around the end of this, month—and we know
this young mariner will look handsomer than ever with those wings!
SILVER LINING
Here are two cheery V-mails from our old pal "Smitty"—Pvt« THOMAS E.
SMITH—Who finds the vim and vitality to smile and. sound ohipper In
spite of the Tact that he has just recovered fr.oia a 3 weeks hospital
sojourn In Iceland—having been laid low witr Rheumatic Fever, He
sayfs he's feeling first rite now—and to say i . llo to his former
school mates, the POLIOARPIO twins and to- give fyis returns to Ole
Millburn. Another reason for Smitty's beaming countenance is that
he has just received a nice fat batch of SA from home.!1 Keep on
reporting to us, me la,d«-«-we go for it—II] c i
We see by the Item that Major R0ESR1 L. IJRJGET landed home for the
Holiday season after a large axiount of flying in India, Burma, and
China (to all three of which he will probably, hie again upon the
completion of his reports to Washington}-*, The really silver part is
that !jie dreamed of a "Thite Christmas 9-t home while In Chunking—
lit-tle whotting that his dream would coxae true I Major "Vright is a
veteran of World War 1 who volunteered aft or Pearl Harbor and who
lias been in active (vory_ active!), service, over since. The best of
everything to you, MajorI! You deserve it I
A fine way to delebrato your first wedding anniversary (or any other)
is to be able to arrive home arid surprise your foiiilies — w h i c h Is
just what Lt. and Mrs. PALMER BEADNER did—by air I! Pvt. WILLIAM
BRADNSR ivas home, too, and it was the first time the brothers had met
in almost two years I
That broad grin on Pvt. IAVflGNCii LSVJIS* handsome face is because he's
now In Officers Candidate School.
Another happy couple who were able to coiue back to Millburn for
Christrnab were L t . and LIrs. ROSS L. CUJ.MING, - L t . Cummins i s now
acting as Personal Consultant a t j?t. McPherson, Ga.
CUPID'S CORNER
I t kincla looks as i i oho 'New Year's cherub and L i t t l e Dan were doing
a heart throb duet - a t any r a t e , war or no war. Dame Romance ever
r e a r s her lovely headi
This f i r s t item came to us r.s a l a s t minute flash for the December
issue - but - arrived jutst LOO l a t e &o be included - so 3 here i t i s
now. . :, •'-••-.
JOHN B. RBTALLACK JR. and His,. Nora Heath, of Madison, were married
on December Gth. The groom is with the Merchant Marine, Our tardy
but sincere best wishes to them bothi
Another wedding ox' i n t e r e s t was that of Ensign JACKSON ALLBIN RIKER
U.S.N.R. and Miss Jane Liarie Lonergaiij botii of Llillburn, who were
married a t S t . Rose of Lima and had a gala r e c e p t i o n a t C h a n t i c l e r ,
Among those who nave announced t h e i r intended t r o t h are Tech. Corp.
JOSEPH DUETSCII and Miss Margaret Labadics ox iMewark; also Chief P e t t y
Officer ROBERT deC. JOHNSON', U.S.N. and Blanche Brouard, S l / c WAVES,
have announced t h e i r engagement. We have no idea as to any d e f i n i t e
wedding date tho' - as one lady i n question i s now taking further
t r a i n i n g in Georgia and the groom-to-be xs awaiting assignment to
another s n i p . Ensign E. B. Y/ilHvSYiiiR h$s put a lovely s o l i t a i r e on
the hand of Miss P e a r l Marie Black of Montclair - and we hope-we
w i l l hear l o t s of wedding b e l l s soon - for a l l the above "engagees".
STORK.'.CLUB
A v e r y n i c e A i r m a i l l e t t e r h a s floito i n our window from L t . THQIvIAS W.
MURPHY U.S.H.R. - ( o n e of our many l o c a l p h y s i c i a n s now d o c t o r i n g
for Uncle Sam) w i t h the happy news chat he ahci M r s . Ivlurphy a r e t h e
prb.ua p.: r e n t s - o f a s o n , b o r n a few .months ago* Phie Mother and t h e i r
two c h i l d r e n a r e d u r a t i o n i n g i n g a s h i n g con, D . C . , -while t h e n a u t i c a l
medico i s bobbing about on t h e P a c i f i c . C o n g r a t s on t h e new young
' u n . L i e u t e n a n t 5 a s w e l l a s on your promotion t o a f u l l t w o - s t r i p e r .
Lt* and M r s . EDWIN LABViilY have a l o v e l y now dau,_.ht..,r named S h i r l e y
C o l l e t t e who promises t o be cue lirenda FrazjLor of 1960 ? a c c o r d i n g t o
reports.
Another feminine b i t -who augurs a turmoil in the stag line some
sixteen years hence i s Miss Barbara JVan I'.asi who arrived via stork-
b i l l on November 21st to Cpl. and Mrs. Vincent P . Masi.
ORCHID EXCITAIVTGE
And s t i l l another Pacific Seaman', This time it* S HENRY WINKLER S 1/c
who sends us some nice inky thanks in his very neat hand, saying that
he i s glad to get our news of the town he thinks the world of — a l l
of -which steps up our morale a t least, umpty-hundred percent too —
(You're r i g h t on your surmise about Mrs. Bufo keeping us posted on
your address, Henry.)
No\"; l e t ' s hop over the Atlantic to. "somewhere in I t a l y " from whence
cometh a V-letter from Cpl. NICK PARIS who v/rites to thank the U.S.O,
for his Christmas package and to s--.y. that they c e r t a i n l y w i l l make
the best they can of Christmas over' t h e r e , though he r e a l l y misses the
old home town and everything about i t .
We are simply aglow over this l e t t e r from JOSEPH P. MILLER S.F. 3/c
who has us gogle-eyed with a l l the nice things he says about the
Tattle or "That Light Brown Paper," as he c a l l s i t . Joe apologizes
for not being able to send us a Christmas card, but allows as how he
i s hardly within walking; distance from any corner s t o r e , being way
out a t sea. He also gives us the Small World item that he f i n a l l y
met up with his cousin, VINCENT SCKAULER, on Thanksgiving day, r i g h t
here in Millburn after searching a l l ov._r the globe, including' the
F i j i Islands, for hiinl
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"7o received a. very amusing (and complimentaryi) letter from Gapt,
JOSEPH P. DAY Jr. A.G.F. who promised us a visit (and he kept his
promise.!) to thank .us in person for our struggle with the Fourth
Estate. His eighteen-year-old-son, Pvt. JOSEPH P. DAY III entered
the A m y on December 6th and is now at Ft. Devens, Massachusetts,
Our thanks for their cards of thanks are heartily extended to Gapt.
W, B. SIICPARD, A/C VKMAN KANE, Col* JOSEPH DU3T3CE, Dpi. FkFl) IIEITKAMP,
C. RAYMOND J1IGHBROWN S 2/c, and F/O JOHN C. FLAIISRTY* Your respective
addresses have been noted too--and brought up to date.
All the many and beautiful Christmas cards we received from our ser-
vice men and women were greatly appreciated. The bounty was such,
however, that we would have to take up the entire issue of the Tattle
if v/e-mentioned each name in acknowledgement j so w© are sure that the
large group (practically the entire personnel of Tlillburn's fighting
forces!) will understand and accept our wholesale but heartfelt
thanks.
SPOftTS
Here we are, curdling our frayed bit of brain a Ssin to try and give
you a well-scrambled resurae of "the sport world (being about as
athletic as boiled macaroni ourselves—you can imagine the enormity
of this task-!
We regret to report that the Blue and VJhite Five lost their opening
game to Clifford Scott, 40 - 50, on the opponent's court, but not
without plenty of excitement and. competition, as Milltxurn was ahead
37 - 35 at- the end of the third period. Gapt. Pill Johnson was high •
scorer for IJillburn with twelve point:..
The Blue and White Jay-Vees vindicated the local honor by creaming
Clifford Scott's Junior Varsity 45 - 11 with Bob Henderson corralling
high score what-have-you for the home team by making sixteen of these
points.
"Alps" still lives up to its high sounding name- by leading the "A"
League in bowling—highest individual scores being held by Mayo -
?.66 (Father of Coast Guardsman Komia'n Mayo.) and Pritchard - 235.
And now v/efll bowl you over with, the New Year's Day Bowl scores in
football as follows: Rose Bowl, Southern California 89—Washington 0;
Sugar Bowl, Georgia Tech. 2.0—Tulsa 18; Orange Bowl, Louisiana State
19—Texas A & M 11; Cotton Bowl, Randolph Field 7—Texas II. 7; .Sun
Bowl. Southwestern Texas 7 — Mew Mexico 0; Oil Bowl, Southwestern
La. 24—Arkansas A & M 7} Vulcan Bowl, Tuskegee 12—Clark 7; Flower
Bowl, Allen University 33—van;.-'.ton-Salem Tech. 0; Shrine Game, East 13-
vfest 13 --— and pardon us while we"' jump Into the nearest Was sail
Bowl to recover from all this tallying.
In the local Hockey, the Millburn Blue Wings triumphantly opened the
season by whamming the puck to a spectacular overtime victory against
a fast-moving Madison team 6 - 5.
The New York Rangers aren't doing too well in the big league—their
latest defeats being at the hands of Boston who downed them 13 - 3, and
the Canadians did likewise 6 - 5 .
In boxing, Beau Jack used his leather-padded duke-s to beat Lulu Cos-
tantino in a final decision at Ma&i-son Square Garden. There seemed to
be plenty of footwork t o o — a s , according to-the newspapers Jack spent
most of the evening, chasing his quarry hither and yon about the
squared circle in order to get a poke at Costanti.no' s- fast receding
chin—all to a chorus of boos, of course I
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The REVEREND HENRY J. CAL<r?rGLL, Pastor of St. Rose of Lima Church
of Short Hills lias written this message, which la the ninth of a_
series of articles from each of the ministers of our townahip.
"Greetings and beet winhes fpr the. New Year to all the boys from
Millburn and Short Hills in the armed forces of the country.
The year 1943 demanded many, sacrifices of you yet you bravely carried
on despite the trials and hardships you had to face because God was
with you* Your u aunt less courage and heroioru on the different "battle
fronts has brought glory-and honor to the stars and stripes, „
In St* hose of Lima Church, here in. Short Hills we hold special ser-
vices regular].:/ for your benefit asking Divine Providence; to keep
an ever watchful eye over you at all time a, Many a mother's prayer
Goes up to heaven at the tie services for- the boys 'who are far from
home, Keep dp your courage then. In spirit we are all with. you. I
ask God to blesa arid protect you during the Hew Year,"
^.uiCT. NOTICE
If any of you v<ant to send letters to friends in service, address
them to the friend in care of the Tattle, A.V/.VfS. Headquarters,
Millburn, New Jersey, and T.ve will gladly forward them for you..
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Tfe want to thank the folio-wing for calling at A.V/.V.S. Headquarters
- your visits were enjoyed by u s .
A/G \«I. W, Bettefidge Pvt. a. A. Mazurki
Lt. Palmer Bradner Pvt, Howard G. Mellen
Pvt. R. M. Brambila Q M 2/o J . S. Moulton
Gpl. Anthony Oaivano Sgtj Audrey I , Hit seller
Lt. E . L, Chalif R T l / o S. G. Re1son
Gpl. Don W. Cooper Pvt. R. H. ochroedor
Lt. R. W, Cook Sgt. John B# S c h i l l i n g
S S/o J* J. Caffrey Pvt. Florence 3'# Stokes
Pfc. Robert JT. Drui.nond S l/c W. u. Szpara
Pvt..Arthur R. Fracfcenpohl 8gt. V i r g i l V/. Sajnms
Lt. Mary B, Grierson Lt. Coxadr. Arthur B« Sweet
Pfc. Harry E , Hooley, Jr. Capt. S, C. Tap1in
3 M 3/c Anthony D'lonno Llid'n Bruoe I/inner
Pfo. A. L, Kaspereen p l . Carl ifilliams
Sgt, L. E , Laeser
Report .era
Mrs # Carl Egne-r Mrs', John S« Bacheller
Mrs, Dominick Bufo -
lira, Coleraan Burke
Mrs, P . A. Cassedy
Mrs. G* W. Giliaan Mrs, Paul G i l l
Ivlrs, R, i 1 . Lay ton Mrs', E. R. J e f f c o a t t
Krs, F, ;/i Lawrence'
ill"3. P, J . Lor.ibeck
T.Irr!, Robert L'lausf
A. E . French lira. 0, J . Ilorelock, J r .
Mr;;. 0. V. Smith ' IIrs, Q,. W. Rege s t e i n
I\:rs'. Robert A. oinoerlieaurc
Mrs, S,. 3 , Spencer
Mrs> E, T. Burton Ciroulati'on Manager^
LI, S, Anderson
Mias /inne Zirmuerman Mrs. G-. P. Robinson
Mrs, L. G, Giles, Aso't.
Mrs.' James M Symington, Chairman ,!a.'/.Y.3. Millburn-Short Rills Unit