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...refugees came to the U.S. and to Oswego, N.Y., in August 1944. President Roosevelt invited them; Oswego did not. What he intended was that the New World, giving them a haven, should bear its token share of the Old World's refugee burden. As their part of the bargain, Oswego's guests had agreed before sailing (from Italy) to go back...
...last week, with Europe's war over, they had long since changed their minds: most of them wanted to stay in the U.S. An Oswego liaison committee and Chairman Samuel Dickstein of the House Immigration and Naturalization Committee agreed that they should stay. But many Oswegonians (plus Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler) thought they should be held to the letter of the agreement: they had said they would go back, now let them...
Backfire. In Oswego, Kans., two women fired at a Peeping Tom. He ran away but soon returned with a shotgun, hit them both...
...Salvación was left behind. So, too, was a U.S. Marine, wounded in the throat by a bomb fragment and calling for help from a nearby trench. Rebecca Salvación crawled from her trench, made it to a building, summoned an Army doctor, Captain Benjamin Kysor of Oswego, N.Y., to help...
...band which speaks for itself with the most authority is one at Fort Ontario, in Oswego, N. Y. There the 369th anti-aircraft regiment, a Negro National Guard unit from Harlem, is having a year's training. The men of the 369th get more from their band than most regiments do. Almost every night they hear a jam session, almost hot enough to melt the icicles on the recreation barracks. The band's leaders are Sergeant Reuben B. Reeves and Private Otis Johnson-onetime trumpeters in Cab Galloway's and Don Redman's orchestras...