This Day in History: 1943-05-05
Richard V. King, son of Mrs. and Mrs. William O. King of Franklin Turnpike returned home for a very brief visit with his wife and daughter from his post in the merchant marine. Before the war he was employed as personnel man with the Isthua Steamship Company, the post he then filled with the merchant marine. More recently he had resigned his position on the Township police force in December to go to sea. He had been on a number of trips some of them extensive, to the war zone. He returned to duty in Boston on May 6th, accompanied on the train by his wife. She returned from Boston on the 9th. (Bristow)