ARNOLD’S STORE PAYS TRIBUTE TO BOYS IN SERVICE
An unusual advertisement appears on Page 7 of this week’s Journal-Register. It is a full page bought and paid for by Arnold’s 5c to$1.00 store in honor of the Edwards county boys in the service.
For the past several weeks, parents, relatives, sweethearts and friends of Edwards county service men have been invited to take pictures of the boys to Arnold’s. To further stimulate the loan of pictures, the store offered a free ticket to either Albion theatre in exchange for the loan.
The pictures have been placed in the big center show window of the store, together with a small card bearing the name, unit, and address of the soldier, sailor, coast guardsman or marine pictured.
A week ago a picture was made of the window from which the halftone which appears in the ad, was made. In addition the names and addresses of all those pictured, were placed in the advertisement, thus giving a partial address list of our boys in the service. Since the cut was made several pictures have been added to the display, which, however, is being taken out of the window today.
Arnolds are, also at their own expense, presenting each person who loaned a picture a copy of last week’s Journal –Register containing the advertisement.
The entire generous gesture on the part of the Arnold store, was one that ran into considerable expense, but Mr. Arnold and Manager Stanley Clark feel that it was justified by the interest the window has created, by the crowds who have gathered around the display during the day and at night when the window was left lighted. “If the window has added to the pride and patriotism of the community, if it has done anything at all toward furthering the war effort, I’ am content,” said Mr. Arnold.
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Pfc. Clarence W. Abby is
located at Scott Field with the 10th Material Squadron. He is a
son of Mr. and Mrs. George Abby of Ellery, and has been in the army since June
of last year. (Written in pen 1941-1942-)
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S. Sgt. Clarence Abby arrive home last Thursday with his honorable discharge, after four years, five months in the service, two years and three months of which he spent in the Asiatic-Pacific theatre. Abby served as mechanic with the Fifth Air Force. He is entitled to wear the Asiatic-Pacific theatre campaign ribbon, the American theatre ribbon, Victory ribbon, Philippine Liberation with two bronze stars, and Good Conduct medal. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Abby of Ellery.
Carl O. Atteberry
S-Sgt. Carl O. Atteberry, former ACHS basket ball ace is
now shooting something deadlier than basketballs at a hoop. Now the tail
gunner on a B-17, Carl is shooting for keeps and here’s hoping the old basket
eye is all it used to be and more. Carl, who has been in air service
since last October is now in England.
Shortly before he left for overseas duty, he was married to Miss Eulalie Stroup of Albion, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stroup. Sgt. Atteberry is the son of Mr. And Mrs. Otis Atteberry of Bowling Green, Ky.
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Mr. and Mrs. Otis Atteberry of Bowling Green, Ky., and Mrs. Eulalie Atteberry of Champaign have been notified that Staff Sgt. Carl Atteberry, their son and husband respectively, has been in an English hospital for ten days recovering from burns suffered when something went wrong with his electric flying suit. These “suits” which are wired to heat up, are used for high altitude flying and the assumption is that the wires short circuited causing Atteberry to be burned.
Sgt. Atteberry, who is a tail gunner in a Flying Fortress, has participated in fourteen raids over France and Germany. Local rumors that Sgt. Atteberry had been reported missing in action are unfounded.
WAR HERO (Note date written in pencil of July, 1948)
ALBION TO PAY FINAL TRIBUTE TO WAR HERO
Albion tomorrow afternoon will pay final tribute to S. Sgt. Carl O. Atteberry, who was killed over Germany on Nov. 26, 1943, when the B-17 in which he was a tail gunner was shot down during a bombing raid. Mayor Tom Frankland has proclaimed Thursday a day of mourning and has called upon all business houses to close from 2 to 3 p.m., during the hour of the funeral, which will be held at the Albion Baptist Church.
Flags in the city will be flown at half mast during the day, the Mayor’s proclamation continues Mayor Frankland said that his order will apply to all future funerals of war victims, as they are returned here. Services for the former Albion boy, who was posthumously awarded the air medal with two Oak leaf clusters for meritorious achievement in shooting down an enemy plane and for heroic service during ten bombing missions over Germany during the early years of the war, will be conducted by the Rev. E. R. Wall, formerly pastor of the local Baptist church with the Rev. T. F. Cooper, present pastor officiating.
Cpl. Willard Anderson son of John Anderson of Albion has been in the service since June 1941. His present address is 304th Tec
School Squad U. S. Air Force Surfside Hotel Miami Beach Florida. In a letter
home in January Cpl. Anderson reported the weather in Florida nice and warm as
summer here. Having spent most of his days in Illinois he said that Christmas
and New Years seemed out of season in Florida.
A C Ray Nolan Atteberry,
brother of Russell, is an aviation cadet and his address is Thunderbird
Field-1, Class 43-1, Phoenix, Ariz. He enlisted last November.
According to word received by his mother, he is making satisfactory progress
toward winning his wings and a lieutenant’s commission.
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LT. RAY N. ATTEBERRY REPORTED MISSING IN ACTION OVER GERMANY
Lieut. Ray Nolan Atteberry, son of Mrs. Rosa B. Atteberry of 23 East Pine street, is missing in action over Germany since July 27, according to a message from the War Department received by his mother last Thursday.
Lieut. Atteberry was a fighter pilot and had been overseas, based in England for some months. Only last week the Journal-Register received the following release from an AAF Fighter Station in England:
“For meritorious achievement in combat over occupied continental Europe, Second Lieut. Ray N. Atteberry, 22, of Albion, member of an Eighth Fighter Command P-51 Mustang squadron has been awarded the Air Medal. “Lieut. Atteberry’s score against the Luftwaffe shows two victories, both recorded the same day. Before entering the service in November, 1942, Atteberry was employed by the Wolverine Tube Company as Detroit, Mich.”
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LT. NOLAN ATTEBERRY RECEIVES HONORABLE DISCHARGE
After thirteen months’ overseas service with the Army Air Forces, 1st Lieut. Ray N. Atteberry of Albion, is being honorably separated from the Army of the United States at the San Antonio, Texas District installation of the AAF Personnel Distribution Command.
Prior to entering the service, he was employed by Wolverine Tube, 1411 Central Ave., Detroit. While in the Army he was a pilot, participating in 45 combat missions and was a German prisoner of war for some months. Lt. Atteberry is a son of Mrs. Rosa Atteberry.
This facility at San Antonio is another example of the Air Force’s policy of “looking after it’s own,” and is speeding the flow of airmen back to civilian status.
Russell Atteberry, son of Mrs. Rosa Atteberry of Albion has been in naval service since last August. He has already made two trips across the Atlantic, His last to Africa. His address is: Armed Guard Center, South Brooklyn, N.Y.
(Note article is dated
1950)
No further word has been received from the War Department concerning the fate of Sgt. Roy D. Axton, who was reported missing in action in Korea more than two weeks ago. Sgt. Axton, a member of the 24th Infantry regiment, is a veteran of World War II, having served with the Third Division during the African and Italian campaigns. He participated in the Tunisian campaign and later in battles at Palermo and Cassino, before landing at Anzio beachhead. He was captured shortly after the Anzio battle and was a German prisoner of war for 11 months before being liberated in the spring of 1945. His two brothers, William and Floyd Axton, were killed in action during World War II. A native of Mt. Carmel, Sgt. Axton is the husband of the former Miss Bernice Thread of Albion. Mrs. Axton and their son Johnny, are at the home of her father, Frank Thread, here, awaiting news from the War Department. They were to have joined Sgt. Axton in Japan late this summer if the Korean War had not developed.
Transcriber added information:
Roy D. Axton
Edwards, Illinois
Born 1921
Sergeant, U.S. Army
Service Number 06918370
Killed in Action
Died July 16, 1950 in Korea Sergeant Axton was a member of the 19th Infantry Regiment, 24 Infantry Division. He was killed in action while fighting the enemy in South Korea on July 16, 1950. Sergeant Axton was awarded the Purple Heart, the Combat Infantryman’s Badge, the Korean Service Medal, the United States Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal and the Korean War Service Medal.
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