Verhovayak Lapja, 1944 (27. évfolyam, 1-52. szám)

1944 / Verhovay Journal

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VERHOVAY SPORTSMEN

of BRANCH 1S4

—- CHICAGO, ILLINOIS -------December 27, 1944

Our Christmas party for the kiddies held December ,17th was a great success and everyone had a grand time but I’ll have to leave the details for a later article as letters have been coming in from all over the world and I’m sure you’d much rather hear about our Servicemen. Without further ado, I’m going to let you read excerpts from the letters I have received.

“DEAR MARGE,

It is over three years since my induction into the Army. A very long time. It makes vie very happy to know,, that in such length of time, the good old Verliovay 164 does not forget its members who are fighting overseas. I received the Christmas present for which I can only say thank you. I appreciate it very much.

FRANK FEIFAR Netherland East Indies’’

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“May I take this opportunity

of thanking you for the most welcome gift in the form of a money order, I received from the Verhovay Club. It means a lot for a fellow to receive gifts from friends and especially at a time when he must spend the holidays away from home.

MICHAEL LEBAN, F.C. 3/c U.S.N.R.

U.S.S. Venango”

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“I received your Christmas present and am taking this time to say thanks, thanks a lot._______

P.F.C. ALEX ARVAY, Somewhere in France” * * *

“Please except my thanks for the gift and the kind thoughts of all the Verhovay members.

Pvt. Marcellus von Redlich Newark, Delaware”

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“I’m a little late in writing my thanks for the Christmas present I received but better late than

THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE

(Continued from Page 2) merely resorting to an alibi if we blame the results on our leaders and on them alone. We can be thankful that this is a democracy, that we do have our own representatives in cur State Legislatures and our Federal Congress, and that these representatives are willing and, in fact, anxious to be guided by the majority expression ctf opinions of their constituents. If they fail to get it from home, the sins of emission from the performance of a duty will rest upon the shtiulders of the home folks.”

& H: * -‘We need mass study, mass thought, and decisions by the masses. We will not get such study, thought, and decision unless we work for it. What better approach is there to the home folks of our states and communities than via the very fraternal societies which are so well represented in this convention? In several previous talks before fraternal gatherings, I HAVE WARNED YOU THAT FAILURE TO PRESERVE THE LODGE SYSTEM WOULD BE REGRETTED IN THE FEARS TO COME Historically, in fact, and actually in our Fraternal laws, the lodge system is recognized and required as the basic foundation of fraternal existence. Certainly it is via the lodge system that you folks, you who are leaders in Fraternal affairs, can interest your membership in their responsibilities to themselves and to their country. You and they can measure up to your responsibilities as good fraternalists by creating new interest in your local ledges, by turning those local lodges into educational centers, into public opinion forums, in which you wiil be able to develop the study, the thought and the decision by all fraternalists | as to how to handle the problem of Pest War America.

Once the leaders of cur Fraternal Societies interest their members in these problems which face us with such grave concern, the members of your societies in

their daily contacts with their families, friends, and associates will spread their own interest so that study and thought will be created and developed throughout the country. Once we create and develop that interest I for one am ready to express and to abide by my faith in the decision and the action of the majority of our people.

Again I say to you, we can have faith in the outcome if we know that all the people are interested enough to be expressing their interest, their thought, and their will in this great Problem of Post War Planning. There is safety, there is right in the will of the majority cf our millions of Americans if we are certain that it results from the active thought and actual decision cf that majority. The future of all we hold dear, including the future of your fraternal societies, depends so much on the course which our states and our Nation pursue in the next few years that I cannot overemphasize the importance which I attribute to the place of your societies in our American Way of Life.”

.“Get your membership interested in the future of America as they discuss it in your lodges. Öo so, and, it is my belief that yonr membership will increase rapidly.”

“I urge you to go back to your local lodges and to recreate in them centers of local interest which will develop ideas and vision; which will generate in your membership not only intelligence but the wisdom and the honesty of purpose which is our first need in charting our course through the troubled waters, the many cross-currents of the Post- War Period.”

“If the fraternal and other social leaders cf this Nation do their duty in the days immediately ahead, we may look forward ■vith renewed faith in the future of fraternaiism: of our Amer- i an Way of Life and of this great nation for which our sons and laughters are fighting and dying today.”

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never. It’s swell of the lodge to think of all the G. I.’s in the service. So I’m sending my thanks to Verhovay Br. 164 for making me and the rest of the boys feel a little closer to home by their gift.

WILLIAM CHUDEK AEM 3/c Norfolk, Va.”

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“I wish you would convey to the members of the Verhovay Organization my thanks for the Christmas check which was sent to me.

GUST WOJTAS JR. U.S.N.”

May I add that Gust is a survivor of the destroyer Abner Read down near the Philippines. We are glad to see Gust home for a well earned Shore Leave.

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“Let me thank you for the money order I received and it came at a time when payday was ■ some time away.

FRED KRUEGER S.l/c

So. Wey, Mass.”

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“I am dropping you a few lines to let you know received your Xmas gift money order. I am very thankful, also glad to know l was again remembered this

year by the Verhovay Br. 164. My many thanks to the members of the Verhovay that have made this gift possible.

P.F.C. PAUL VALKO, Somewhere in France” * * *

“I received the Christmas gift from the Verhovay and want to thank them all. I’ll be thinking of all you people on Xmas day and hoping that we all be together soon.

Pvt. LOUIS KOLLAR, Overseas”

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“It gives me a icarm feeling inside to know that my friends of the Verhovay have not forgotten me. I have received your Christmas gift and am very grateful for your thoughtfulness.

Stephan J. Ehas FI c”

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“I was very happy to find a present from the Verhovay. The gift was very welcome as it just came in time to pay for my share in our barracks radio which is the best means of keeping that contact with homo. It’s not the gift but the thought that goes with it. I thank you all fbr both.

Lt. AI,EX J. SABO,

. England Base”

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“I want to thank the lodge for remembering all of us fellows overseas.

T/Sgt. FRANK KOLOVITZ, Somewhere in France”

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“I’m writing on behalf cf the lovely gift that was sent to me. Here in England money don’t go very far and I sure made good use of the gift.

S/Sgt. JULIUS S. JONES England”.

Julius was awarded the Purple Heart quite some time ago and we are happy to know that he is getting well and will be out of the hospital soon.

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THE VERHOVAY EPIC

Again we are proud to present to our readers seme Verhovay soldiers who, by their' deeds and achievements add another chapter to the “Verhovay Epic.”

A DIRECTOR'S SON

We regret that no story was sent to us together with the pictures of these boys because we feel certain that there IS a story as the rank attained by these brothers seem t: indicate.

Louis Vizi, Verhovay* Director and President of Branch 59, of Scalp Level, Pa., has three sons serving in the armed forces. One of them, Robert, recently figured in the news.

Sgt, Robert Vizi serves with the Air Force, as a photographer on reconnaisanee missions. This is a dangerous job, as most reconnaissance planes carry no fighting equipment yet they are sent over heavily defended enemy territory. Before Normandy was invaded, Sgt. Robert Vizi and many others took photographs cf the territory and the defenses, thereby preparing the invasion. These flyers have made a substantial contribution towards the success of the Normandian campaign.

In recognition of his valor and his valuable services, Sgt. Robert Vizi was recently awarded the ‘Distinguished Unit Citation Ribbon.” Robert is only 20 years old but he proves himself a real man and a grand soldier! •

A DIRECTOR’S DAUGHTER

Not. for heroic action but for unusually high achievement, Lieutenant Beatrice Korosy, daughter cf Director and Mrs. John Körös toy, of Alliance, O., deserves a chapter in the “Verhovay Epic.” Writes, the “Alliance Review”. (Dec. 6, 1944.)

One of the first WACS in the United States to receive a direct commission from enlisted ranks is Second Lieutenant Beatrice Kcrosy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs John Korosy of 766 East Summit Street.

Prior to being commissioned is a Second Lieutenant WAC in the Sanitary Corps on November 30, she was a technical sergeant. Enlisting in the Woman’s Army Corps March 6, 1943, she received her basis training at Daytona Beach, Fla., and was assigned as a laboratory technician in the Station Hospital, Fort Brady, Mich , July 4, 1943. From October 19, 1943 until she received her commission, Lieutenant Korosy was assigned to the Sixth Service Command Laboratory, Fur Sheridan, 111., as a laboratory technician.

Lieutenant Korosy received her bachelor cf Arts degree in bacteriology at Ohio State University and did one year cf pcst-graduate work in social science at Columbia University, 'New York City. Before her1 enlistment she was a medical technician in haematology in the Cleveland Clinic.

Lieutenant Korosy left the 'i-st of the month for a two weeks orientation course at Billings General Hospital, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Lad.

^Congratulations to ’ Lieutenant Beatrice Korosy and fa her proud parents who have started her out on a great career.

THREE BROTHERS FIGHT JAPS

Quite seldom it happens that three brothers are sent to the same theatre of war. But such is the case with the Nogrady brothers, the three sens of Mr. and Mrs. J. Nogrady of 738 Richmond Avenue, Grand Rapids, Mich, members of Branch 136.

LT. LESLIE J. NOGRADY

Lieutenant Leslie Nogrady has been fighting the Japs since 17 months.

SGT. ROBERT C. NOGRADY

Marine St. Robert C. Nogrady has been 26 months in the -Japanese front and has participated in the Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Saipan campaigns.

CPL. EUGENE W. NOGRADY

Cpl. (Lab. Techn.) Eugene W. Nogrady has spent 12 months in New Guinea.

Indeed» the Nogrady family has a proud record!------------------v-----------------The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children.

—PHILIP G. HAMERTON