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WILMA WILLIAMS FUCHS SCRAPBOOK
World War II Era Articles
These beautiful articles were generously donated by Wilma Fuchs in 1999.
Page 11
PAUL JUDKINS AND
PAUL PHILLIPS MEET
Former Glenwood boy
promises Mrs. Kier couple of petrified Japs for Rock Garden
Mrs. R.J. Allen is in
receipt of a very interesting letter from Paul Judkins, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Otto Judkins and well known former Glenwood boy, who is now serving in the U.S. Air
corps in Australia.
In the letter, dated July
22, he says:
"This is a pretty nice
country and people down here in Aussie. We are in the middle of winter
now. It seems funny calling July 1 winter.
"I've been over here for
about six months now. Time sure flies but we've been kept pretty busy, so
that helps.
"I think I will be home
by Christmas. I hope we will.
"I met Paul Phillips over
here. Quite a coincidence meeting your next door neighbor so many thousand
miles from home. We sure had a good old talk. He happened to have a
few Glenwood paper clippings which, of course, were very interesting. I
read them all through twice. News is the most welcome thing we can get
hold of. Believe it or not, we'll miss a meal to read any American
newspaper, no matter how old it may be.
"We are treated well over
here and I'm sure we'll get this over soon. I like the air corps much
better than the Infantry and glad I made the change. I've gone up for me
second Lt's commission and expect it most any time.
"Tell "ma" Kier I'll
bring her home for a couple petrified Japs for her rock garden."
His address is T Sgt Paul
Judkins, 19067499, 11th Replacement Control Depot, APO 510, co Postmaster, San
Francisco, California.
EVAN MILLER EXPECTS CALL
TO FOREIGN SERVICE
Evan Miller completed his
course in Aero Mechanics in Sheppard Field, Texas, on June 23 and is now
stationed at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, Mo., in the aero seats replacement
center and expects to leave very soon for foreign service.
Mrs. Miller returned this
week from a two weeks' visit which she spent with Evan and has resumed her
duties at the Glenwood State School where she will remain while he is in
service.
PAUL JUDKINS BROADCASTS
EVAN MILLER WITH HIM
On the Sunday afternoon
broadcast from boys in the U.S. Service in various parts of the world, Paul
Judkins, formerly of Glenwood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Judkins who now resides
in California, was heard from Australia. In the course of his remarks he
mentioned that his cousin, Evan Miller was there with him. Evan is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Miller who reside north of Pacific Junction. He
entered foreign services only recently.
PAUL PHILLIPS IS NOW IN
AUSTRALIA
Father receives cablegram
from son that he had arrived in Australia. Is with a Hospital Unit.
B.G. Phillips was in
receipt of a cablegram from his son, Paul W. Phillips, well known Glenwood boy
on Friday saying that he was in Australia. The message stated; "Arrived
safely in Australia. Tell everyone hello. I made a good change".
Mr. Phillips had not heard from his son since March 28th and it is assumed that
he has been enroute to his assignment during that time.
Paul left Glenwood with
Company I in 1941 and served several months at Camp Claiborne, being released
under the over 28 ruling. He was recalled several weeks after the outbreak
of war and assigned back to his old company then stationed at Fort Dix.
Here he was reassigned to the hospital corps and it is presumed that he is in a
hospital unit in Australia.
PAUL PHILLIPS CABLES
CHANGE OF ADDRESS
Paul Phillips, former
member of the Opinion-Tribune staff sent the following cable from "somewhere in
Australia" to Betty, Hazel and Esther." feeling fine. Having a good time.
Change APO to 923. Tell Dad could use some bull and blades."
AUDITOR ROBINSON HOME ON
FURLOUGH
County Auditor, Lewis
Scott Robinson arrived in Glenwood Monday on a ten day furlough which he is
spending with the home folks. Lewis Scott, who enlisted last May in the
Coast Guard service, is now stationed at Boston in the Pay Master's office where
his work is largely that of auditing claims of men in this branch of the service
whose pay has been transferred from one location to another in such rapidity
that they were unable to make proper application for pay.
He is now in line for a
Petty officer's rating and anticipates a transfer to this type of service in the
Coast Guard soon after returning from his furlough.
SGT. SANDERS TRANSFERED
TO LOUISIANA FIELD
Word has been received
here that Sgt. Lawrence H. Sanders, Silver City boy, who is in the service has
been transferred from the Proving grounds at Abredeen, Maryland, to the Army Air
Base at Barksdale Field, Louisiana.
Lawrence states he likes
it at this southern air base and enjoys receiving the home town paper.
LT. BUFFINGTON MAY GO TO
CALIFORNIA CAMP
Charles Rollin
Buffington, Ill, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Rollin Buffington, who was commissioned a
lieutenant in the artillery upon his graduation from Iowa State College at Ames
this month, is at present at Ft. Des Moines awaiting traveling orders which will
probably take him to Camp Roberts, Calif.
CAPTAIN DE YOUNG ENTERED
SERVICE TODAY
In preparation for
entering the service in the Medical Corps, Dr. Ward A. DeYoung closed his office
in the Glenwood State Bank Building on Saturday and moved his office equipment
to his home. Mrs. DeYoung and son, Judd, expect to remain in the family
residence here for the duration of the war.
He reported for duty at
the seventh corps area Medical Induction Center in Omaha Sunday afternoon at two
o'clock as requested, was formally inducted into service, presented with his
captain's uniform, and then ordered to report for duty Monday morning at which
time he would be advised as to his assignment for service. He returned to
his home Sunday evening leaving Monday morning to enter active service.
DR. ZELLER GETS
LIEUTENANTS COMMISSION
Dr. Wimm F. Zeller,
Director of the Department of Drama and Dean of the Academic Division at Ithaca
College, Ithaca, New York, was this week commissioned a second lieutenant in the
United States Army Air Forces. He is to report October 1 for initial
training at Miami Beach, Florida. Upon completion of a special officer's
course there, Dr. Zeller will proceed to permanent station at Morrison Field,
West Palm Beach, Fla., where he will be connected with the Codes and Cyphers
School of the Air Force.
Dr. Zeller is the son in
law of J.M. Wyant, of Glenwood. His wife, the former Wilma Wyant, was
recently appointed to officer's candidate school in the WAAC. She is to
report to Fort Des Moines for training on September 28. Upon completion of
her training, she will be commissioned in a rank equivalent to her husband.
The Zellers hope to visit
with their family in Glenwood late this month prior to entrance into Army
training.
VISIT BOYS AT THE GREAT
LAKES STATION
Mr. and Mrs. O.V. Byers,
accompanied by their daughters, Virginia Byers and Mrs. John Anderson, as well
as Mrs. A.A. Conrad, left last Friday for the Great Lakes Naval Training Station
on Lake Michigan, where they visited Roy Byers and a brother of Mrs. Conrad,
Max Schmaedecke, both of whom left Glenwood about six weeks ago to enlist in the
Navy.
The Naval Station which
is 75 miles from Chicago, was of considerable interest to Mr. Byers, who was
greatly impressed by the excellent facilities for training the boys for navy
service. Roy and Max, who have been there five weeks, have completed what
is normally a three months course of instruction which indicates the rapidity
with which the training program is being pushed forward. Mr. Byers reports
that some 9,000 young men have passed through the period of naval training at
the Great Lakes station since the boys went there. Both Roy and Max are
now listed among those in the outgoing unit which means that they will not be at
the station very much longer, and may even have left by this time.
On Sunday the boys joined
the Byers family and Mrs. Conrad in a trip down to Jack Benny's home town of
Waukegon where all had dinner together and enjoyed the day.
DR BLACK RECEIVES
LIEUTENANTS COMMISSION
Miss Phyllis Briley,
registered nurse, and Miss Eleanor Pritchard, psychologist at Glenwood State
School were in Omaha last Thursday where they had the pleasure of spending the
evening with Dr. and Mrs. E.W. Black and Miss Virginia Welch who were formerly
on the staff of the State School. This was in the nature of a farewell to
Miss Pritchard, who has now gone to Kansas City, where she will be employed in
the field of child psychology. Dr. Black received his commission as first
lieutenant in the Army Medical corps and is now awaiting his assignment.
TWO SONS IN AIR CORPS,
ONE IN NAVY
Another Glenwood family
recently joined the ranks of three serving in the armed forces. Mr. and
Mrs. W.E. Herman now have three sons in the service.
The most recent one to
enlist from this family is Harry, a graduate of the class of '42, from the local
high school. Harry enlisted in the U.S. Navy, July 2, being sent to the
Great Lakes Naval Training school at Chicago, Illinois, and at the present time
is enjoying a ten day furlough here.
Earl a graduate of the
class of 1941, enlisted in the air corps January 2, and is stationed in the
radio department at Mitchell Field, Long Island, New York.
The older son, Robert,
better known here as "Tarzan" and a graduate of the class of '34 enlisted in the
air corps May 4, and is stationed as an airplane mechanic at Chanute Field,
Illinois.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman have
one son, Carl, who is still a student in high school.
GAIL MILLS WRITES FROM
AUSTRALIA
Mr. and Mrs. Charley
Mills this week received a letter from their son Gail who is in Australia.
Gail, well known to the
folks in this community, is with Company M, 127th Inf., and has been in
Australia since early in the summer.
He says that he likes it
fine there. The days are warm and the nights cool. The country where
he is stationed has a great similarity to the state of Iowa.
Gail further states that
he is getting the Times and greatly enjoys the home town paper. He says
that mail service is poor. The last letter he had received from his
parents was July 18. His letter was written August 25 and received here
September 24.
DR. WARD A. DEYOUNG NOW
AT CAMP CROWDER
Dr. Ward A. DeYoung
who
entered the U.S. Army Medical Corp with a Captain's commission last Sunday, left
Omaha Wednesday night for Camp Crowder, near Joplin, Missouri, where he will be
stationed for a time.
MALVERN DOCTOR LEAVES FOR
ARMY SERVICE
Dr. T.E. Shonka of
Malvern left Wednesday for Texas, where he will be inducted into the army as
first lieutenant in the medical corps, attached to the 1st chemical battalion at
Fort D.A. Russell, Texas.
Mrs. Shonka and Mr. and
Mrs. W.R. Byington drove to Texas with Dr. Shonka.
DR. MAIDEN OF BLUFFS
CALLED TO ARMY SERVICE
Dr. S.D. Maiden of
Council Bluffs, eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, has been called into
active service of the army medical corps with orders to report at San Francisco,
Calif.
He will leave August 5,
to report for duty and is commissioned with the rank of major. Dr. Maiden
served with the medical corps in the last world war.
JOHN CROOKHAM ARRIVES IN
GULKANA, ALASKA
Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Hill
are in receipt of a letter from John Crookham who left here several weeks ago
for work with a group of engineers and construction men to assist in building
the highway into Alaska. The men were delayed at Edmonton for about three
weeks awaiting airplane passage to Fairbanks, Alaska. In his letter John
says, "We had a swell ride by airplane from Edmonton to Fairbanks. It was
a wonderful trip and we saw a lot of country. I could hardly believe there
were so many mountains as we flew over hour after hour."
"We are camped on a river
near Gulkana between the mountains. To the east of us are two peaks 1600
feet high and there is a volcano in sight of the camp.
"Our address here is F.C.
Lytle Company and Green Construction Company, Eblen and Ekdahl Camp,
Alaskan Highway, Fairbanks, Alaska."
The letter which was
dated at Gulkana, July 14, is postmarked at Fairbanks indicating that this point
where he is stationed is but a short distance from that city.
DONALD BURGOIN GOES TO
FORT LEAVENWORTH
With the reading of the
oath of induction at the Fort Leavenworth Reception Center the life of a soldier
in the United States fighting forces began this week for Donald C. Burgoin, son
of Gail Burgoin.
A few days of preliminary
instruction will be given at the center and then thirteen weeks of basic
training for the new soldier at one of the Army Replacement Training Centers
will follow.
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"JIM " FINDS LIFE IN NAVY
DIFFERENT FROM SILVER CITY
Former Linotyppe Operator
on Silver City Times and Glenwood Opinion-Tribune Likes Life in Navy
James Hafer, son of Mr.
and Mrs. W.H. Hafer of Silver City, who served as printer and linotype operator
in the office of the Silver City Times until this spring when he came to the
office of the Glenwood Opinion-Tribune to take over the duties as linotype
operator succeeding Stewart Osterholm who entered the First Military Police
Battalion of the State with commission as lieutenant, is now himself in the
United States Navy. Jim, as he was known to his many friends throughout
this and his home community of Silver City, volunteered for duty in this branch
of the service. In a recent letter he tells of his first few days of life
after entering service, saying, "Life in the navy is much different than it was
in Silver City, and hard to adjust yourself to the first few weeks.
"After reporting in Omaha
at 4:30 Thursday afternoon, June 25, all the recruits, about 100, were taken to
a ball game between the Omaha All Stars and the Great Lakes Navy team. We
were taken to the fame in three large Union Pacific buses, and this was some
fun. We had an escort and didn't have to stop for red lights. Just
before the game started, we took the oath on the ball diamond.
"We left the ball game
about eight for the train that brought us to Chicago. On this train we
really road in class. We each had a berth and I made good use of mine.
We had breakfast on the train at about six o'clock and reached Chicago about
nine o'clock. We were taken from the station by large taxicabs to another
train which took us to the training station. Shortly after arriving, we
were taken to dinner and as soon as we finished eating, we were given our
physical examination. By six o'clock, we were in the Navy. We were
completely examined, clothed and had our civilian clothes on the way home.
It is said they can examine a thousand men a day here.
"I didn't get much sleep
the first night. We had to sleep in hammocks and it is quite a trick to
balance them. These hammocks are about four feet above the floor and I
fell out twice the first night, but have had no trouble since.
"The next day, Saturday,
we were vaccinated and given two shots which made our arms quite sore for
several days. We also got our hair cut--or almost a head shave.
"Sunday morning we went
to church and the rest of the day was free for anything we wanted to do.
This week we have had
several lectures, marching, and they have told us a lot about the navy in
general.
"We have to wash our own
clothes, and I don't like this part of it a bit. Most of the time we get a
good job, but now and then we don't get them clean. We wear white suits
and the camp we are in is just a new one and not quite completed and is very
dusty, so we have to wash every day.
"We really had a feed the
Fourth of July. We had cream of tomato soup, crackers, turkey, apple
dressing, sweet potatoes, gravy, asparagus, lettuce, ripe olives, bread and
butter, rolls, ice cream and coffee. This meal was one of the best I have
ever eaten. It tasted just like a home cooked meal but we are fed well
every day and you never leave the mess hall hungry."
Jim, however, admits he
misses the "printshop gang" and states that he enjoys reading the "old home
town" paper more than ever, now that he is away from it. His address is
James A. Hafer, A.S., 5th Reg. 27th Bat. Co., 508, U.S. Naval Training Station,
Barracks 1502 W, Great Lakes, Ill.
SGT. OSTERHOLM TO
OFFICER'S SCHOOL
Staff Sergeant of Company
I leaves after nine years. Now studying for Lieutenant's commission
Orrin Osterholm in a
letter to the home folks says, "I am now in Service Co., 133rd Inf. At the
present time, I am going administrative work in the personnel section. I
hope to continue in this service until called for school."
He refers to officer's
training school, which, in a previous letter, he had told the home folks he had
been selected to attend preparatory to receiving his Lieutenant's Commission.
He had indicated that there was a possibility he might be returned for this
course of training but in this letter he states that he is quite sure the school
of instruction will be held over there.
Orrin, who was Staff
Sergeant with Company I, 168th Infantry, says, "Certainly hated to leave "I"
Company after having been a member of it for nine years. When saying
Good-bye, I had more than one tear in my eye. The company was formed and
presented to me, and I made a farewell speech. We had just received some
new men so I made it a welcoming address, too."
"Capt. Milligan seemed
truly sorry to see me go. He gave me his picture and wanted a snap of me
after graduating from officer's school. He has been a fine leader, as has
Lt. Kibler.
He further says, in
speaking of his present assignment, "The men here are very cordial and make me
feel at home. My connections with the officers have been few but they are
surely down to earth. I know I'll like it here but will still anxiously
await my call.
He said in conclusion of
his letter written on August 23 that he was planning on seeing the Radford boys,
Stone and Hunt as he had not seen them since his arrival there.
LUGSCH SAYS BOYS IN OLD
IRELAND APPRECIATE PAPER
Sgt. William Lugsch
writes parents of how boys in Ireland appreciate news from home
Sgt. William Lugsch, son
of Mr. and Mrs. William Lugsch of this city to whom the Opinion-Tribune sends a
package of papers from each issue to be distributed among the boys in Company I
who are now located in North Ireland, in a letter written Aug. 18 relates how
the boys appreciate word from home.
His letter in part
follows:
"We got a couple of bags
of boat mail but all I got was a couple of packages of the home town papers.
They were very welcome and the boys gobbled them up rapidly. When we get
in a package like that, the boys study those things from the front page to the
back. Even the boys who have never been near Glenwood read every word.
The last bunch we got was dated July 16. Wayne had an article in it that
the boys all commented on. They really enjoyed it. Any time that
some editor puts something nice in the paper about the guys who are a long ways
from home they really go for it. It sort of gives them a feeling that we
are not forgotten and that the folks back home are back of us all the way.
Tell Wayne that we really do appreciate the papers and tell him to keep writing
those articles, anything to sort of sum up the news around there. He
always seems to be able to get a personal touch to it that all of us really
enjoy.
"If nothing happens there
is a chance that I might get a 2 hour pass and take another of those trips into
Belfast. It is about the only place in the country there is to go where
there is any life at all. At least I could go to Gone With the Wind.
That ought to be an enjoyable four hour sit. After that probably go down
to Ulster Hall to the dance and probably have a good time. Then the
problem of getting back to camp always arises. The train service around
here is lousy as I have probably told you before so we will probably end up
coming back in a cab.
"Last night Jim Evans sat
up until 2 or 3 a.m. typing out a column to be sent back to Wayne, and said that
some of them should be appearing before long because he had sent several
through. There is just a chance that Hod has had trouble getting them
cleared from his end making them late, but they will be coming through soon."
EMMETT SCHOENING NOW AT
HUNTER FIELD
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Schoening have received word that their son Pvt.
Emmett Schoening, who was
inducted in the army early in September, has been transferred from Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas, where he remained but eight days to Hunter Field, Georgia.
Emmett's address is now
Pvt. Emmett Schoening, 304th Bomb. Squadron D., Hunter Field, Savannah, Georgia.
SAYS "PETE" KIER COULD
WHIP JAPS WITH HIS COOKING
Pete in U.S. Navy Writes
from "Utopia." Says his bread looks like French pastry with the Mumps.
"Pete" Kier, well-known
former Glenwood boy, who recently resigned his position as manager of the A. &
P. store at Carroll to enter Uncle Sam's navy where he is apparently being
trained to finish of the Japs with indigestion, but listen to his own account of
it in a letter received at the Opinion-Tribune office this week.
It was dated August 28
from "Utopia." He says, "My morale was just raised five cents worth.
We keep interested in class by betting a nickel on each page of our assignment.
Nosed Ben Schmoutey out by one page today. If my luck holds out, I may
have boat fare to and from shore by next liberty night. They tell me the
U.S.O. is a nice place to go the week before pay day.
"This class is about to
close its second chapter of Naval experiences. We will take our final exam
very soon and once again break our short, but long to be remembered,
relationship.
"Am finishing my
schooling on calories, vitamins, temperatures, blend splits, enzymes, weights
and other such nonsense in the bake-shop. Would feel much less a deceiver
when I am made a baker if my good friends, the Sunnyfield flour users, had
taught me to mould bread long ago. Try it sometime, Wayne. Mine
resemble French pastry with the mumps.
"Wally Raymond, the
Chicago Kid, has found a new way to entertain the gang and also a new use for
the Opinion. Most of the fellows are from large cities, therefore know
very few of their neighbors back home. When the Opinion arrives, Wally
opens it before I see it. He picks a name from an item, gives me the
initials and some words of the description from the item. I am to give him
the name without looking. When he gave me 'O-P Staff, Australia,' I scored
by answering 'Paul Phillips.'
"John Wright has asked
the Navy Department to rush me to sea in hopes the Japs will get a taste of my
cooking. No Japs--no more war.
"Nothing much happens
here any more. The boys had a big brawl over in town last night. The
only honors our barracks could claim, were a broken nose, two black eyes and a
cracked arm.
"Ed, Chap, Ben and I are
raising victory gardens. Boy, how they do grow in this California climate.
Only three days old but quite evident. If the itching stops and the rest
of the gang doesn't shave them off, we will have quite a crop by fall.
Hoping to see you at harvest time--yer mate, Pete Kier.
EDMUND LUTZ, J R. IS IN
NAVY TRAINING
Word comes from the Great
Lakes Naval Training Station, Chicago, that Edmund L. Lutz, Jr., 19, son of Mr.
E.L. Lutz, Sr., of this city who recently enlisted in the U.S. Navy is now there
taking his preliminary training. During this training the new recruit will
be given an aptitude test to determine whether he will be retained for further
instruction at one of the Navy's many service schools, or assigned to active
duty at sea or some other naval station.
WAYNE LOWDEN LOCATED AT
CAMP SWIFT, TEXAS
Wayne Lowden, who
volunteered for service July 16 and entered service July 18 at Fort Crook, and
was sent at once to Fort Leavenworth where he was stationed for five days, is
now located at Camp Swift, Texas, according to a letter received this Thursday
morning at the Opinion-Tribune office. He states that he saw Charles Noll,
former manager of the Natural Gas Company here, who is now in service when he
was at Fort Leavenworth and that Ronald Hurst and Grafton Rexroat are also
stationed at Camp Swift.
This is a new camp just
opened July 15 and is located 30 miles east of Austin, Texas.
Wayne's address is 95
Div., Recon. Troop, APO 95, U.S. Army, Camp Swift, Texas.
C.C. HARRIS RECEIVES
CABLEGRAM FROM SON
C.C. Harris, who resides
north of Pacific Junction, has just received a cablegram from his son,
Herbert E. Harris, who has been stationed in Ireland with Company L, 168th
Infantry of Council Bluffs. He states that he is now stationed in England,
that he recently saw all members of Company I, 168th Infantry, of Glenwood, and
that the boys were all well.
He also states that about
three weeks ago he met his cousin, Lawrence Turner of Council Bluffs at a
"fishing spot" in Ireland. Neither had known the location of the other
until they accidentally met.
CHARLES NOLL LEAVES
FRIDAY FOR SERVICE
A "no host" party was
held at the home of Dr. and Mrs. L.D. Simmons Wednesday evening in honor of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Noll who are leaving Glenwood, Mr. Noll having resigned his
position as manager of the People's Gas Company to enter government service.
He will report Friday in Des Moines and be assigned at that time to a camp for a
period of basic training preparatory for entrance into an officers' training
school. Mrs. Noll and little son will be with her mother in Fairbanks,
Nebr. for a time, at least.
Those present at the
farewell were Mr. and Mrs. Floyd James, Mr. and Mrs. Bud Phifer, Mr. and
Mrs.
Bob Austin, Mr. and Mrs. Russel Ridenour, Mrs. Rex York and
Rose Fangman.
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COUNTY HAS 702 MEN IN
SERVICE
Army enlisted 336;
inducted 197; Navy 137; Marine Corps 12: Coast Guard 20 men from Mills County
Mills County now has 702
men in service according to the selective service records which credits this
country with having provided the Army with 336 enlisted men, 197 who were
inducted, 137 in the Navy, 12 in the Marine Corps and 20 in the Marine Corps and
20 in the Coast Guard.
This makes approximately
47 men per 1000 population of the county which places it among the high ranking
counties in the state.
Linn County ranks first
in the state having provided 5, 882 which is over 65 men per 1999
population for the county. Among southwest Iowa counties Pottawattamie
which has furnished 58 men per 1000 population leads.
Montgomery stands second
in this section of the state with over 50 men per 1000 population to its credit.
Mills ranks third with an
approximate 47 men per 1000 population with Fremont as fourth 43 men per 1000
population, Adams crowds close with 42 men per 1000 population, Union follows
with 41 men per 1000 population, Cass has an even 40 per 1000 population, Page
has approximately 35 men per 1000 population, and Taylor has 31 per 1000
population.
LEO PLUMB HONORED AT
MICKELWAIT HOME
A farewell dinner was
held Tuesday evening, November 3, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Parl Mickelwait,
honoring Leo Plumb, who had enlisted in the ground crew of the Air Corp.
Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Julius Buch and daughter Janet June, Mr. and
Mrs. Gail Powers, and Miss Audrey Mickelwait.
Leo left Wednesday
morning, November 5 for Farrant Field, near Fort Worth, Texas, where he will
receive his preliminary training.
ROBERT KRUSE ADVANCED TO
RANK OF CORPORAL
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kruse
of Mineola have received word that their son, Robert, who is with the Army Air
Corp at Barksdale, Louisiana has been promoted to the rank of Corporal.
Robert was inducted into the service in January of this year.
JOHNSON TWINS GRADUATE AT
GREAT LAKES
Word has been received
here from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station at Chicago, Illinois that Wayne
and Wesley Johnson, twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. Elias Johnson of this city, were
graduated Monday from their preliminary course and will now be assigned for
active service.
PAUL CRISWELL IN AIR
CORPS AT KEESLER FIELD
Paul M. Criswell, son of
S.M. Criswell, of this city, who enlisting in California, is now located with
the Air Corps at Keesler Field at Biloxi, Texas.
Miss Priscilla Marshall
left by train Saturday morning for Houston, Tex., where her marriage to Aviation
Student Donald Kieth Hopp takes place.
CLIFFORD FIESELMAN,
JR. JOINS NAVY RECENTLY
Clifford Fieselman, Jr.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Fieselman formerly of this city but now of Milford,
Nebraska, has joined the Navy and on September 1, left Omaha for the Great Lakes
Naval Training Station at Chicago, Ill.
Clifford who finished his
junior year in the local high school last spring, has signified his intentions
of studying ship-fitting or welding. His address is Co. No. 874, No. 27,
Great Lakes Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois.
GEORGE LACEY ENLISTS AS
ARMY AIR CADET
George M. Lacey, son of
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Lacey, has passed his mental and physical examinations
for an Army Air Cadet and expects to be called to service within a few months.
His training will probably begin in Texas. George, who was graduated from
the Glenwood High School with the class of 1941, entered immediately upon a
business course in Omaha and has now for some time has been employed in a bank
in that city where he will remain until he is called into service.
DALE ROBERTS JOINS COAST
GUARD TUESDAY
Dale Roberts, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Roberts, has enlisted in the United States Coast Guards
and left Omaha Tuesday. Where he will be stationed is not known as yet.
Dale is a graduate of the
Glenwood High School with the class of '42 and since his graduation he had been
employed in defense work at Hastings, Nebraska.
FRANK BROADFIELD NOW HAS
SARGEANT'S RATING
Mrs. Beatrice Broadfield
has received word from her son, Frank, who has been stationed at Camp Blanding,
Florida, that he's being transferred to a camp in Texas. Frank's many
friends here in Glenwood will also be pleased to learn that he has been advanced
to the rank of sargeant which is a rapid advancement considering the short
length of time he has been in service.
EUGENE H. BUFFINGTON
ENTERS TRAINING SCHOOL
Plunging into the study
of how to keep an army tank in battle trim, Pvt. Eugene H. Buffington of
Glenwood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Buffington, has reported to the armored
force school tank department, upon orders of Maj. Gen. Jacob L. Devers, chief of
the armored force.
The armored force school,
headed by Brig. Gen. Stephen G. Henry, commandant, turns off its human assembly
line the thousands of technicians needed to man the nation's hard-hitting
armored divisions.
In the modern shops of
its tank department, headed by Lt. Col. Frederick M. Thompson, students tear
down tanks piece by piece, study the motor and driving mechanism and then do
their own trouble-shooting and repair on running motors in a half-million dollar
tank engine-test building.
The vast armored force
school, one of the largest technical schools in the world, graduates more
officers and men annually than any civilian university or college. Classes
operate on two shifts, six days a week. Students on the first shift are up
with the sun, marching to their shops and classrooms at 6 a.m.
SERGEANT HUBBELL REPORTED
IN HOSPITAL
Mrs. Verris Hubbell
received a letter this Monday morning from her husband, 1st Sgt. Verris Hubbell
of Co. I which was written September 15 arriving here six days later. Verris was in a hospital at the time he wrote. He said he was having his
first vacation from active duty owing to infection in his left hand caused by a
blister. He further said his nurse was a real Scotch lassie. He
promised his wife that as soon as he was able to go to town he would get and
send her a plaid skirt, leaving no doubt but what he was in Scotland He
indicated that his life in the hospital was not too bad, saying that he had a
radio in his room and listened to American programs.
LEO PLUMB STATIONED AT
FARRANT FIELD, TEXAS
Leo Plumb, son of Mrs.
Blanch Plumb, who enlisted some weeks ago in the Air Corps, left Thursday
morning, November 5, for Farrant Field, Texas. Farrant Field, which is
located near Fort Worth, is a training and schooling center for aircraft
mechanics and welders. Leo is a graduate of the Government Welding school
at Shenandoah.
LEO PLUMB NOW AT BROOKFIELD, TEXAS
Mrs. Blanch Plumb has
received word that her son, Leo, who recently joined the Army Air Corps,
is now stationed at Brook Field, Texas.
Leo's address is now Pvt.
Leo Plumb, S.N. 1716426, 53rd Air Base Sqd., Co. F. Receiving Detachment, Brook
Field, San Antonio, Texas.
ROBERT OSTERHOLM JOINS
R.R. BATTALION
Mr. and Mrs. O.C.
Osterholm have received word from their son Robert, who has been in Cheyenne
where he has been employed as private secretary to the General Freight Agent of
the Union Pacific, that he has joined the Army as a member of the 702nd. Railway
Battalion.
Robert, who graduated
from Glenwood with the class of 1940, attended business college in Des Moines
and for the past year has been employed with the Union Pacific. He is but
nineteen and had advanced rapidly since leaving high school.
He is the third son of
Mr. and Mrs. Osterholm now in military service. Sergeant Orrin Osterholm
who went to Ireland with Co. I and was later transferred to another regiment and
returned to this country to attend Officers Training School is now at Ft.
Benning, Georgia, being transferred there last week from Camp Croft, South
Carolina. Lieutenant Stewart Osterholm is serving at present with the
Police Battalion at Camp Dodge.
JULIUS SIREF INJURED IN
VIRGINIA CAMP
Mr. and Mrs. M.G. Siref
received word last week that their son, Julius, who is stationed in the
Quartermasters Corps at Camp Pickett, Virginia, has been injured while on
maneuvers.
In some manner, while
jumping a fence, Julius fell breaking his knee cap and was taken to the camp
hospital where he was placed in a cast from his ankle to his hip. It will
be necessary that he be bedfast from six to eight weeks. Latest reports
are that he is recovering as well as can be expected.
His address is Pvt.
Julius Siref, Ward B 14, Station Hospital, Camp Pickett, Virginia.
MAJOR SEITZ TO LEAVE FOR
FOREIGN SERVICE
Major Charles R. Seitz,
former commander of Glenwood's Company I, writes the Opinion-Tribune requesting
that his paper be sent here after to 39th Air Service, Group, A.P. O. Number
3085, Care of the Postmaster, New York City.
The Major who has been
stationed this summer at Hill Field, Ogden, Utah, said he expected to leave
there September 3 or 4, going to the east coast where he expected to be for
about a month after which he would "sail across the big pond. Destination
unknown."
BONNIE HUNTER WEDS SGT
JOSEPH EVANS
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hunter
announce the marriage of their oldest daughter, Bonnie, to Sergeant Joseph R.
Evans. The marriage took place September 13, at Carvallis, Oregon, where
he is in the army and she is employed in defense work. For the time being
they will make their home in that city.
DR. LAWRENCE BISHOP JOINS
MARINE CORPS
Dr. Lawrence Bishop, of
Salem, Missouri, who has enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, visited one day last
week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bishop, before leaving for the Marine
Corps Reception Center at St. Louis, Missouri.
Lawrence served one
enlistment in the Marines from 1928 to 1932, being a member of the band during
this period. He has again been accepted as a member of the band.
Mrs. Bishop and
daughters, Sandra and Marsha, will make their home in Shenandoah where she is
employed by the Henry Field Company.
BLAIN WILCOX JOINS AIR
CADETS
Blaine B. Wilcox, son of
Mr. and Mrs. H.B. Wilcox, has passed his mental and physical examinations for an
Army Air Cadet and expects to be called within a few months. Blaine
graduated from Glenwood High School in 1935. He is now an employee of the
Burlington Railroad at Pacific Junction where he will remain until he is called
into service.
ARTHUR BARNES ENLISTS IN
SIGNAL CORPS
Arthur Barnes, son of Dr.
and Mrs. Van F. Barnes has completed his enlistment in the U.S. Signal Corps and
left this Monday for Milford, Nebraska, where he will take a three month course
in advanced radio work.
Arthur who has been
employed by the Vega Air Craft plant at Burbank, Calif., for the past year, will
be subject to call at any time after the completion of this course.
JACK MESSINGER RECEIVES
STATE GUARD PACKAGE
In a letter received
Saturday by Mrs. Faye Messinger from her son Jack, who is in the armed service,
he states that he was now in England and that while he likes it very much, he
still thinks that the best place yet is Belfast, Ireland.
The letter which was
written October 15, says he had just received a package from the Iowa State
Guard and wanted to thank them for it as it was very much appreciated.
He tells of meeting Lt.
Col. Golbranson's son from Council Bluffs who was also formerly with the 168th
Infantry and that he was now with the Military Police as Jack is. In the
conversation Mr. Golbranson told Jack that most of the 'old outfit' had been
getting a lot of commando training.
MRS. ALLEN RECEIVES
SOUVENIR FROM AUSTRALIA
Mrs. R.J. Allen is in
receipt of a souvenir in the form of a paper knife made from Nulga Wood, a
native wood of Australia and sent to her by Paul Judkins who is in service
there. This is a souvenir which she rightly prizes very highly.
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WOULD LIKE TO SEE
RODABAUGH WHEN IN MILITARY DRILL
Bill Lugsch says
Co. I boys would like to get in, get it over and get Home.
Bill Lugsch of Co. E
writes of life over there in the following letter received here last week.
Dear Rodabaughs:
Now that State Guard Camp
is over, what does everybody think of camp and army life? It is sort of
fun for a week or two, but this steady diet is a little monotonous. All of
us over here have about come to the conclusion that we would love to dive in and
get it over with. That is undoubtedly what is going to happen.
Anyhow, we might as well get at it as we will get home just that much sooner.
It will cost a few lives, but that can't be helped and anyway, we expect that.
When it is over I hope they never mention the words army or war again.
Not Much Recreation
About the only recreation
there is a little town close to camp that we go to but there are entirely too
many soldiers for its size. We might get a break after while and get
stationed near some fair sized town. That is almost too much to be hoped
for. Personally, as I said before, I would just as soon get into it and
get it over with so we can all go home and forget about it, like you do a bad
dream.
Appreciate Home Guard
Interest
We have heard that the
Home Guard has been sort of helping us along the tobacco situation. That
is really swell. We certainly do appreciate anything that they do. We
also sincerely hope that we are worthy of all the nice things everybody does for
us. Someday maybe we will be able to express our appreciation in person.
Our main object in life right at present is keeping everybody from worrying
about us and still putting out every ounce of energy to be good enough to just
ship heck out of those Nazis once they turn us loose.
Thinking of Home
I would sure like to see
Bill going through some snappy bayonet drill, or grenade throwing and hasty
entrenchment. From all the reports we have received the boys really did
themselves proud while at camp. They are setting a mark for us to shoot
at. If they must be the best company in the regiment, we will have to
exert just that much more and be the best in ours. Of course, we think we
are pretty good, but what is our opinion? We still have plenty to learn.
We will try to keep up with them as long as possible. I am sure that they
will continue to have a fine organization. We will never forget what they
are doing for us. About all we can do right now is say thanks to them, but
there will come a day and believe me, that is the day we are all looking forward
to. Marching back down Depot Street is going to be the happiest day of our
lives. We will even be able to keep in step with the school band and its
race horse rhythm.
We will have to have a
party of some kind. Probably another one of those Military Balls like we
had just before we left. That was really a party. I think most most
of the boys will try to settle down pretty much after this mess is over.
Probably right there in Glenwood if it's at all possible. I suppose jobs
will be plenty scarce when we get back.
Swing Band Morale Builder
We have sort of a swing
band in the company that can play anything from "Turkey in the Straw" to "St.
Louis Blues." We use them for moral builders when we are all sitting
around feeling sorry for ourselves. It usually does the trick. Right
after mail call is when we feel the lowest. Everybody is thinking about
home and it is especially bad if you don't get any mail. Then is when our
little band gets in the groove and brings us out of the dumps. You would
be surprised what a little music can do when a guy is feeling like heck and
wondering when and if this darned war will ever be over so we can stop all of
this darned foolishness and live like human beings and be treated like human
beings. Soldiers are just like a herd of cattle. They have to be
herded here and there and whether you are herded or being herded, it certainly
isn't any fun. Well, you can certainly see what is uppermost in our minds.
I must close now and get
this in the mail. It is almost time for it to go out."
So long,
Bill
P.S. Tell Bill to keep up
the good work in the company.
DELMAR WILEY REPORTED
MISSING
Relatives here have
received word that Delmar Wiley, Glenwood boy who has been in the Navy since his
graduation from high school here in the class of 1940, is "missing in action".
His exact whereabouts were not known other than that he was somewhere in the
Pacific. The message came from the Navy Department last Wednesday.
ARTHUR FRIEDMAN ADVANCED
TO STAFF SGT.
Friends here have
received a letter from PFC Arthur Friedman, former Glenwood merchant, who
enlisted in the armed forces about six months ago.
Arthur at present is
stationed at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas. He says "The fourteenth division will
soon be activated right here in Camp Chaffee, and am slated to transfer into it
as supply sergeant. The rating will be Staff Sgt. under the new set up, so
hopes it works out."
"It will probably be a
month or two before I expect a call to Officers Training school. There is
quite a waiting list, and the procedure is slow acting."
Arthur further said that
his younger brother Lester, was in Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, the last he had
heard from him and his other brother Maurice was living in California.
DR MARGARET RECEIVES A
COMMISSION
Dr. Ernest C. Magaret,
M.D., young Glenwood physician, who enlisted the first of August at the request
of the Iowa Medical Recruiting Board, was commissioned a first lieutenant in the
Medical Department of the Air Corps in ceremonies held Saturday morning in
Council Bluffs by Major Henry H. Fox. The commissions are issued according
to the age of the volunteer and Dr. Magaret is therefore gratified that he was
named a first lieutenant. He expects now that he will be called to duty
the latter part of October and will not know where he is to be sent until he
receives his orders, which he now awaits. Mrs. Magaret and their two small
daughters plan to remain in their home in Glenwood for the duration.
DR. MAGARET CALLED TO
SERVICE OCTOBER 25
Dr. Ernest C. Magaret who
was recently commissioned a first lieutenant in the Air Corps, has been notified
that he has been chosen one of a group to take military medicine in the aviation
cadet school and is to leave Oct. 22, reporting at San Antonio on Oct. 25.
Capt. George Dunn arrived
in Glenwood Tuesday from his post at Quantico, Virginia for a few days visit
with his uncle and aunt Attorney and Mrs. Clyde Genung. Capt. Dunn expects
to visit his sisters, Mrs. Ben Buffington at Battle Creek, Michigan and also
Miss Marianne Dunn in Denver, Colorado.
ENTERTAINED FOR ROY
COGLEY HOME ON FURLOUGH
Mr. and Mrs. R.E. Cogley
and family entertained the following guests at dinner Sunday in honor of their
son, Roy, who is home on furlough from Camp Barkeley, Texas; Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Cogley, Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Cogley and son, Dwayne, Mrs. D.M. Ettleman, Mr. and
Mrs. Lloyd Cogley, and children, Danny and Carolyn, of Council Bluffs, Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Cody and daughters, Alice and Irene, of Council Bluffs, and
Lawrence Alberts of Malvern.
PEARL HARBOR SURVIVOR
VISITS UNCLE CHAS. HERNDON
Lt. Commander and Mrs.
John Paul of Osceola visited here Saturday with his uncle Chas. Herndon and
family. He is a Doctor of Dentistry and has been serving in the U.S. Navy,
being stationed on a boat at Pearl Harbor at the time of the Jap attack,
December 7. He was among the survivors but the boat on which he was
stationed was lost. He was recently returned to the states and after a
short furlough, which he will spend visiting Iowa relatives he will report to
the Great Lakes Naval Training Station for duty again.
HERMAN BROTHERS ALL
ADVANCED IN SERVICE
The three sons of Mr. and
Mrs. William have all just recently been advanced in their own particular branch
of the armed service.
Robert, well known here
as "Tarzan" is now in Officers Candidate School at Miami Beach, Florida.
He has been at Chanute Field, Illinois for the past several months where he has
been attending the Air Corps Technical School.
Robert's address is now
OC Robert Herman Sqd. 30, Officers Candidate School, Miami Beach, Florida.
The second son, Earl, has
been promoted to corporal in the Air Corps at Mitchell Field, Long Island.
His final papers have been approved for an Air Cadet. His new address is
Hdq. and Hdq. 1st Flight Command, Mitchell Field, Long Island, New York.
The third son, Harry, who
is in the U.S. Navy has just recently been promoted to the rank of Seaman,
second class, and is taking a special course in radio and code. His
address is Harry Herman, 2/c Co. 5, Sec. E.N.T.S. (sr) Burton and Judson Court,
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
CLYDE HUFFMAN IS NOW WITH
MARINES
Mrs. Clyde Huffman has
returned here to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Harbold, while her
husband is in the service. Mr. and Mrs. Huffman left the forepart of
September and visited his parents at Hitchcock, Oklahoma for a time before he
enlisted with the Marines on October 3. Mrs. Huffman has received his 25
yard 2 inch Bulls eye target practice cards which show Clyde certainly played
close to the center of the target. His address is Pvt. Clyde Huffman, Pit,
930, R.D., W.S.M.C.B., San Diego, California.
SGT. ORRIN OSTERHOLM HOME
FOR IRELAND
Sergeant Orrin Osterholm,
who was returned to the States last week after having gone to Ireland with Co. I
and later transferring to the Service Co., 133rd Inf. out of which he was
selected for officers training school in the United States, arrived in Council
Bluffs Friday on a nine day furlough after which he expects to enter officers
training school in South Carolina.
A family dinner was held
in his held in his honor in the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O.C. Osterholm
on Sunday.
Those present were:
Lisle of Cedar Falls;
Celia Wiek and son Wendell of Cedar Falls; Lt. and Mrs. Stewart Osterholm and
children of Des Moines; Robert of Cheyenne, Wyoming; Mr. and Mrs. Jake Riekena
and children of Lewis, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. C.J. McIlwain and daughter, Mrs.
Donald Groggins of Lincoln, Neb., Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dalton and son, Bobby; Mrs.
Ed Hayes and Barney; Ed Hanks; Virginia Atkins; Claire Detlef; Alyce Haley; and
Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Osterholm and Gary and Douglas.
Orrin leaves Saturday for
Camp Croft near Charleston, South Carolina, where on Monday he reports for
officers training.
NORMAN BRAKE LEAVES FOR
ARMY AIR CORPS
Norman Brake, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest Brake, left Sunday evening for Rock Island, Illinois where he
has been employed in the arsenal there. On Tuesday he planned to leave for
Chicago for final examinations in the Army Air Corps, which he just recently
joined.
IN MEDICAL CORPS
Word has been received
from Hershell Nuss, who has been visiting with his sister at San Diego,
California, that he has entered the army and is in the medical corps. He
is stationed at a camp in Texas.
JOHNSON BROTHERS HERE ON
NAVY LEAVE
Mr. and Mrs. Elias
Johnson and family are enjoying a visit from their twin sons Wesley and Wayne,
who arrived Sunday on furlough from the U.S. Navy.
Wesley and Wayne are
stationed at Quolset Point, Rhode Island where they are attached to -squadron.
WAYNE KELLOGG FINISHES
PRE-FLIGHT SCHOOL
Future pilots for Uncle
San's war planes graduated last week from the San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center,
pre-flight school and went to primary training fields.
MALVERN BOY JOINS THE
NAVY
Allen Poe Howard, 17, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Howard of Malvern, last week reported at the Great Lakes
Naval Training Station for a period of recruit training.
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BOSTEDT BOYS WRITE HOME
FOLKS
Mr. and Mrs. John Bostedt
hear from three sons in Phillipines for first time in Six Months
The John Bostedt family,
well known residents of the St. Mary's township community, this week received
word from their twin sons, John and Joe, and their older brother, Glenn all of
whom are in the navy and who were stationed in the Philippines at the time of
the Japanese attack. The word received consisted of two letters forwarded
in a government post office department envelope from San Francisco which is
postmarked August 7.
One letter from Glenn was
dated Feb. 16 and the other is not dated but appears to have been written at a
later date.
Glenn is his letter said,
"Another week has gone by since the last letter. Will write at least once
a week and maybe you will get some of the letters, I hope.
"We haven't had any mail
since about the first of December. Sure would like to receive some once.
"There isn't much I can
write about, but the main thing is to let you know we are still ok so don't
worry too much about us.
"Life isn't so pleasant
now but I guess it will get better as time goes by and we can't get enough to
eat so I sure am going to make up for it when we get back. Don't forget
how to cook.
"Can't tell you where we
are or what we are doing but maybe later on we can.
"If you get a chance,
send us some candy, as we don't get many sweets. Write often and tell us
the states' side of the story."
The other letter was
written by John who is writing for all three. He said in part, "Just
thought I would drop you a line to let you know we three are still ok.
"I guess Glenn has
written you a couple of times and told you most of everything."
"Keep your chins up
because we will see you at good old Frisco again in a short time. When you
come out to meet us kids, we will really be able to celebrate all we have missed
during the past few years.
"Keep praying for us."
This is the first word
the family had had from the boys since the first of February and relatives and
friends alike all feel greatly encouraged as it had been feared they had been
taken prisoners but it now seems that they might be quartered on one of the
small islands where it has been impossible for mail to get in or out and if so,
they might be able to return sooner than had been expected.
NEILS LAWSON JOINS STATE
POLICE BATTALION
Neils Lawson, deputy in
the county treasurers office has resigned to enter service with the state police
battalion at Camp Dodge and left Saturday for Des Moines.
Mrs. H.J. Widows will
succeed Neils as the deputy county treasurers office.
MEMORIAL DAY
Not since that memoriable
July 4, 1776, has the anniversary of the birth of our national independence seen
the security of the flag and all it stands for more severely challenged than it
is on this July 4, 1942.
The flag has before been
under fire from a foreign foe on its native soil; has gone forth on sea and land
to battle for the principle of human liberty for which it stands and has been
fired upon from foes within the borders of its own land. It has always
emerged victorious, asking nothing more of its vanquished foe than acceptance of
and adherence to the principles of which it stands.
It has again today been
attacked on both sea and land by foe of those principles of liberty, equality,
and justice which those who live under its protecting folds would see extended
to include humanity the wide world round.
Our boys today are
overseas again, in the Orient, on ships on aboard the seas, in subs in the water
of the deep, and in planes in the air, over land and sea the world around,
offering their lives if need be in defense of the principles for which this flag
stands.
What are we on the home
front going as our measure of sacrifice and our part in defense of this flag and
all for which it stands.
Thousands are engaged in
defense industries. Other thousands are engaged in government work of
various kinds. All have accepted the rationing restrictions as part of the
necessary war effort yet these are small in comparison to the great contribution
being made by our men who are in the military, naval and air service, and small
in comparison to what those principles for which this flag stand mean in the
lives of all who live under its protective folds.
Everyone can and must do
more in protection of the flag and for the preservation of those principles for
which it stands. Everyone can and must help finance this war effort.
It is an investment for future security--security for the American way of life
and security guaranteed by the nation for the money its citizens loan the
government to finance our common effort against our common foreign money which
will be repaid in full and with interest when people comes again as it surely
will, bringing with it security again for the flag and for those principles for
which it stands which will then had been extended to a larger portion of the
people of the world.
ENTERTAIN FOR SAILOR HOME
ON FURLOUGH
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Fritz
entertained Friday night honoring Mr. Fritz's brother Jack who is home on
furlough from the Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Va. Those present were his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Fritz, of Silver City and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph May,
parents of Mrs. Homer Fritz.
GUY ALLEY WRITES FROM
CAMP ADAIR, OREGON
Word has been received
from Pvt. Guy H. Alley, who was inducted into service October 26, that he is at
Camp Adair, Oregon. He said that all of the Mills County boys who left
Glenwood at the same time that he did are there, but as they are in different
barracks, they do not see each other very often.
Guy's address is Company
K, 382 Inf., 2nd Platoon, APO 96, Camp Adair, Oregon.
LOUIS JENS IN THICK OF
FOREST FIRE ON COAST
Well Known Glenwood Boy
in Army Camp Near Fresno, Calif., Writes of Fight With Forest Fire There.
Mr. and Mrs. L.F. Jens,
Sr., are in receipt of a letter from their son Louis, Jr., telling of his
experience in fighting the forest fire in the San Juaquin Valley near Fresno,
Calif.
Young Jens is well known
throughout this vicinity and his letter in part follows:
"Just recently we were in
the hilly desert and a grass fire started up and went into the timber. We
fought all day and all night, until we were relieved. It was terribly hot.
We may have to go back yet tonight, it's still going. I had my jacket and
leggings burned off of me. I'm not burned any except on my forehead.
It was terribly hot. It was 110 degrees out there any way and the fire
made it just that much hotter. There were men laying all over out cold
from the heat and the smoke. Three of us got trapped in a small area.
It was terrible down there. The flames were so hot and the smoke so thick
one didn't know where to go. Emmett passed out and we barely got him out,
when the other guy passed out too. I got under a tree and started to sit
down. I didn't sit down, because I went down on my face. I came out
of it all right and in an hour I went back to work. I worked about three
hours and then passed out again. I guess I got too much the first time.
"Well, I'm awfully weak
this morning, but feel fine. I don't think I will have any after effects
from it.
"Don't worry, the medical
boys attached to this outfit are really swell. They worked like beavers on
all of us, gave us first aid, salt and lemons.
"Boy, no wonder the Yanks
can win the battles. You ought to see the boys fight. They fought
until they dropped, then got up and went back for more. Our commander was
really proud of us and that is something.
"Well, I guess we are
going out again. It's hell if I ever saw it but it's real training.
A man gets used to seeing men drop over in front of him, and then step over them
and go on."
His address is Pvt. Louis
F. Jens, Jr., Co. C. 831st Eng. Bn., Hammer Field, Fresno, Calif.
LESLIE KEENE INJURED NAVY
TRAINING ATHLETIC
Leslie Keene, former
Glenwood boy now serving in the United States Navy, was recently injured in navy
training athletics according to a letter received by his sister, Nora M. Keene,
in which he says:
"Last Wednesday morning
during physical education period, I fractured my knee and tore quite a gash in
my right cheek. They sewed the cheek up, but I will have to be in bed
about a month or more after the knee is operated on and I expect to be in a cast
much or all of that time. I think they will operate tomorrow. They
sent me back to Great Lakes so you write to me there. We were relay
racing, everybody had his head down running at top speed and I and another
fellow ran into each other. He had a bad head injury."
Leslie would doubtless
appreciate letters from Glenwood friends. His address is: Leslie M.
Keene, A.S., Ward 73, North, Naval Hospital, U.S. Naval Training Station, Great
Lakes, Illinois.
HUBERT COWARDIN
APPRECIATES GIFT
The following letter
comes to this newspaper this week from a Pacific Junction boy, who says:
January 10, 1943
Pier 6, Station I.
New York.
This is from a sailor of
the Mosquio Fleet, to thank the people of Glenwood who contributed to the swell
box of cigarettes and candy sent to me. The box, in itself was a luxury,
and the thoughts and good cheer which it conveyed were the things which make the
responsible organization a grand success.
In closing, I again wish
to express my sincere thanks for so nice a gift,
Yours truly,
Collin Hubert Cowardin,
Petty Officer 2nd Class
Y 2C-U.S.N.
Staten Island, New York.
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BOYS ENJOY HOME PAPER IN
IRELAND AND IN AUSTRALIA
Jack Messinger Gives
Harry Hoffman Opinion-Tribunes in Ireland, Paul Phillips Enjoys Paper in
Australia.
The Glenwood
Opinion-Tribune is following many of the boys in service out into the far
corners of the world these days. A bundle of 25 complimentary copies are
sent by the office twice each week direct to Company I in Ireland and the list
mailed individually to men in service grows steadily with the increasing number
who are continually leaving for service in the air, on land, and sea here and in
foreign lands. The old home town paper is going today into most of the
army training camps throughout the country, is being forwarded to boys on board
the ships in the Atlantic and in the Pacific. It goes to men now in
service in Alaska, Australia, Canal Zone, several South American countries, and
provides a connecting link between these boys and the folks at home.
This newspaper is always
glad to get letters from the boys or to have families of the boys furnish
extracts for publication from letters which they have received. Not only
the friends of these boys here in the home community but the boys themselves
like to hear where friends they knew back home and are now serving even though
it be on the other side of the world and in a different branch of the service.
Messinger Meets Hoffman
Faye Messinger is in
receipt of a letter this week from her son Jack who is in Ireland. This is
the first letter received since May 5.
In the letter Jack stated
that he had "found" Co. I and was so glad to see them. He also tells of
Lt. Harry Hoffman being over to see him and asking if he had any
Opinion-Tribunes. He had several and said Harry was glad to get them.
Jack, who has been a
radio operator for the past year, has evidently changed his line of work for he
says, "I'm sure having fun with my new truck, if you could call it a truck; it's
a peep, jeep, blitz wagon, motorized roller skate, watch charm, or anything else
you might want to call it. I'll send you a picture of it when I have some
taken. It is sure cute and has plenty of power. I drove it up a goat
trail this afternoon to a command post."
He further says "Life
here is the same as usual, not doing a heck of a lot, but we're having a good
time. I hope they have more maneuvers, I like them, and they might give us
a chance of seeing more of the interior of northern Ireland."
He states that mail
is now coming through regularly and that he has received letters, papers and the
boxes sent him. He mentioned particularly enjoying the cigarettes sent him
indicating that he considered British tobacco "terrible." He mentioned
being located near a roller skating rink which has always been one of his
favorite amusements and seemed to be in general good spirits. This letter,
which had been written June 15 arrived here June 30, having come through in
record time.
Phillips says "Late but
Welcome"
A letter written June 8
by Paul Phillips who is serving with a hospital unit in Australia reached the
Opinion-Tribune office this Thursday morning. In the letter he says, "Just
a few lines to say that the Opinions look better to me than ever before and
although they have been rather late, they were sure plenty welcome.
"When I tell the boys I
used to work for that paper, they like to kid me but them even though they come
from New York City, Philadelphia and places like that, I notice they also like
to read a little semi-weekly that comes from where the corn grows taller.
"I said 'late,' well not
so late, the last one I got was May 5 or 3, I believe.
"Say, Wayne, I danged
near lost an arm last night. Tell you when I see you again. Some
fun!
"Wayne, I am enclosing
several copies of the newspaper that we received daily on the boat coming over
and these, though small, were the most cheerful part of the day for me. I
know you will enjoy them as I did as you were always interested in other
newspapers. Note--no advertising."
RICHARD HUNT "BEST'
SOLDIER IN CAMP ROBERTS
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hunt
received word this week from their son, Richard, who is stationed at Camp
Roberts, California, and who has been promoted to the rank of Sergeant.
Richard, who was inducted
into the service on June 25, was awarded a $25 war bond last week for
being selected, by vote of the personnel as the "best soldier in camp.
This honor which was bestowed upon Richard came as a complete surprise, but was
none the less appreciated. In his letter Richard stated he expects to
leave Camp Roberts Sunday.
GLEN CHRISINGER JOINS THE
NAVY
Word has been received
here that Glen Chrisinger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Chrisinger of Chicago, has
enlisted in the U.S. Navy and at the present time is located at the Great Lakes
Naval Training station near Chicago.
Glen will be remembered
here by many as he is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Clark Mosher of this city and
of Mr. and Mrs. W.B. Chrisinger of Pacific Junction. He is also the great
grandson of E.E. Goodrich of this city.
TED ROUNDS EXPECTS TO GO
TO DUTCH HARBOR
A letter was forwarded to
the Opinion-Tribune office this week by Lt. Stewart Osterholm, who is with the
Military Police Battalion of the State Guard unit at Camp Dodge, from Ted W.
Rounds who is stationed at Fort Lawton, Washington.
Ted states that he is
fine. He says that he does not know when or where he will sail but that he
expects to be in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, soon.
He wrote, "It is rainy
and cool here most of the time. The temperature stays around 80 degrees.
I suppose in Alaska, it will be much warmer. It should stay hot for the
Japs up there."
He states that he would
like very much to see the Company I gang again and sends along an order for a
six months' subscription to the Opinion-Tribune so that he will, as he says,
'know what's cookin' and where."
TOM BENTON RECEIVES
CAPTAIN'S COMMISSION
Word has been received
here that former deputy county treasures, Tom Benton, has just received his
captain's commission at Ft. McClellend, Alabana. He and Mrs. Benton have
been residing at Anniston since he has been at Ft. McClellend.
CPL. CECIL KARR RECEIVES
HIGHEST SCORE IN TEST
Mrs. C.W. Karr is in
receipt of a letter recently from her son Corporal Cecil Karr who is stationed
with Co. H 358th Inf. at Camp Barkeley, Texas.
Young Karr who left here
March 25, being sent from Fort Crook, Nebr., to Fort Leavenworth, Kans., where
he was for two weeks before being transferred to the Texas camp where he has been
since.
In his letter Cecil says
"We have taken our gunners' test on the 81 millimeter motor and I received the
highest score or grades, with 198 out of a possible 200 points. This is
almost a perfect score, which is the highest ever received. It was a
plenty tough test."
ROLFE STILES, JR. JOINS
THE NAVY
Mrs. Rolfe Stiles,
formerly of this city, but now of Council Bluffs returned Friday from a visit
with her husband and son, Rolfe, Jr., at Flagstaff, Arizona, where Rolfe is
employed in defense industry and Rolfe, Jr., has been working with the Engineer
Corp there.
Rolfe, Jr., a member of
the graduating class of the Glenwood High School with the class of '41, has
enlisted in the Navy and will leave Flaggstaff, for the Great Lakes Naval
Training station at Chicago, Illinois, September 22. He is also grandson
of Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Stone, of this community.
TED ROUNDS WRITES FROM
SOMEWHERE IN THE PACIFIC
Bill Stivers is in
receipt of a letter from Private Ted Rounds, a former member of Company I, who
has been in service on the west coast for several months, but was known to have
sailed several weeks ago. Bill Stivers and family were in California on
their vacation this summer. They visited his brother, Harry, who was then
stationed at a west coast naval base and they also visited Ted Rounds. He
at that time indicated that he expected to be sent to Alaska. In his
letter he indicates he had not seen Harry for some time and says he would like
to know his whereabouts. He also says, "I'm indeed much to the left to
where I told you earlier." This would be interpreted as meaning that he
was to the left of Alaska and would place him in the vicinity of the Aleutian
Islands.
He further says, "I am
sure you would like to know how we are doing here and if we are getting anything
accomplished. Well, definitely I would say we are pushing them back and
that we are a pretty optomistic out put of rugged individuals with but one
thought. It's looking quite favorable and very encouraging lately, if I
may be permitted to say so."
Continuing he says, "I
sure hope the men of Company I are ok over there in Ireland. I had quite a
scare the other night. I was accidentally thrown off a ship dock down 15
feet to the water. I came up like a cork and swam to a floating pole where
a rope was tossed to me. The water at this place is about 50 feet deep.
I'll be more careful next time."
Ted's address is Co. B,
802, Eng. Bn. Avn. A.P.O. 948, Seattle, Washington.
RICHARD CLIPSON ENLISTS
IN U.S. NAVY
Richard Clipson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Clipson, of Silver City, has enlisted as a naval cadet in the
U.S. naval reserves, and has been sworn in by the Kansas City naval aviation
cadet selective board. When ordered to active duty, he will report to the
navy pre-flight school, St. Mary's college, California, for three months of
physical conditioning and instruction in naval essentials, military drill and
ground school subjects. From there he will be sent to one of the navy's
reserve bases for primary flight training.
CHARLES NOLL GOES TO
OFFICER'S TRAINING SCHOOL
Russell Ridenour of this
city is in receipt of word from former manager of the People's Natural Gas
Company here, Charles P. Noll, who had been stationed at Camp Roberts,
California, stating that he has been transferred to Fort Benning, Georgia.
His address is Candidate
C.P. Noll, 3rd Platoon, O C. 163, 10th Company, 1st Student Training regiment,
Fort Benning, Ga.
He reported that he is
getting along fine, would like to hear from more Glenwood friends, and that he
hopes to see all of them after the fifth of February when he will graduate from
his officer's training course, at which time he plans to spend a few days of his
furlough in Glenwood.
RECEIVED RECORD OF SON'S
BROADCAST
The American Red Cross
which sponsors interview programs with the boys in service in various parts of
the world which are radioed by short wave to this country completes the service
of getting the message to the home folks by making a recording which is sent to
the Red Cross Chapter Chairman in the home county of each boy with instructions
that it be delivered to the family.
Such a recording of an
interview with Evan Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Miller, was received
Saturday by Wayne D. Choate, Mills County Red Cross Chapter Chairman. The
record was delivered to his mother and his wife that afternoon. They had
not heard the broadcast and were naturally delighted to hear Evans voice which
the record reproduced with the same clarity that it would have been heard here
on the broadcast. These records are made of a waxed cardboard
surface and are good for fifty playings on each side. It is a souvenir of
which any family may well be proud. A transcript of the record follows:
The radio announcer said:
"This is Evan Miller of
Glenwood, Iowa.
How do you like
Australia?"
"Just fine. I think
it's a swell place. The people are very nice, there's plenty of
entertainment and that all helps to make the time pass."
"I'm using V-mail and I
hope that the folks are doing the same."
"The other day I met my
cousin Paul, and we made a wonderful day of it."
"Do you think there is
anybody at home listening to this?"
Yes, My wife and my
folks. I would like to tell them Hello and that I miss then an awful lot."
"Is there anything you
would like to say to them?"
"Yes, I would like to
send birthday greetings to my dad whose birthday is on September 7 and to my
wife whose birthday is on September 27."
LYMAN GOLTRY HAD BEEN IN
NEW GUINEA
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Goltry
recently received a letter from their son Lyman who three years ago
entered the service of the U.S. Army and is now stationed in Australia as pilot
of a fighter plane. Lyman writes "I feel grand, but a little on the
nervous side. I just got back from two months duty in New Guinea and I
guess you know what that's like from the papers. I'm still all in one
piece, but there were several times I wasn't sure whether I would be or not.
Had two close shaves, but you know a miss is as good as a mile, they say.
Why don't you get a
camera and take some pictures of the kids, the house and garden" It's quite a
treat to get things like that when you've been away for three years."
He further writes, "Write
some and send me some good American cigarettes, Lucky Strike or Camels.
They're a big help when you're dodging bombs and things like that. I know."
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GOVERNOR PRAISES DEFENSE
TRAINING PROGRAM OF COUNTY
Governor George Wilson
in a letter to Dr. Van F. Barnes praises civilian defense work here
Dr. Van F. Barnes,
chief air raid warden of the county, is in receipt of the following
complimentary letter from Governor Wilson concerning the defense training
program in this country.
Dear Doctor Barnes:
I am pleased to learn you
have been placed at the head of the important work of preparation for civilian
defense in Mills county, for that assures a vigorous prosecution of a work that
is an absolute necessity as a part of our war effort.
We must get together,
work together, put into force the best we have in that fine spirit of
cooperation for the public good that has always characterized the people of
Iowa. In the darkness of this dark night of world history, the people who
believe in liberty must think and toil and sacrifice. The big job of today
can only be done with team work.
What is there that the
average civilian can do? That depends on many things. Certain it is
there is work enough for all. Most positively we are going to be called
upon to do many things never before done by a free people.
The purpose of the
organization for civilian defense is to be prepared for anything or everything
that needs to be done.
This work compels
unifying and solidifying the community spirit. It means mobilizing the
whole population for whatever work is to be done. It looks to finding out
what each and every person can do and will do if and when the time comes for
action. It goes straight to community cooperation in the highest
degree--for protection, for safety, for life saving, for property
protection, for making good on our Iowa pledge for the dedication of ourselves
and all our worldly goods for winning the war and driving through to a kind of a
peace we can approve.
You and I and hundreds of
others have been long engaged in urging cooperation in all things good for Iowa,
and now good for the nation, and good for all the nations of all the people who
would live their lives in their own way. Organization for civilian defense
is a practical application of sound Iowa principles.
Sincerely yours,
G.W. Wilson
STATE GUARD OFFICERS
GUESTS AT ROTARY
Captain D.N. Barnett and
Lieutenant Russell Ridenour of the local state guard unit, were guests at the
Rotary club dinner on Thursday evening of last week at which time the program
was presented under the direction of Lt. Fred Empkie and consisted of reports
concerning incidents in the recent state guard encampment at Camp Dodge.
In addition to the short talks made by Captain Barnett and Lt. Ridenour and
Empkie, Cpl. C.F. Kilpatrick and First Class Private W.H. Rodabaugh also
reported on camp life.
CIGS COST SOLDIERS $40
CARTON AT CORREGIDOR, FOOD NEEDED
Hearing Lt. Florence
McDonald on the Army Hour on the radio two weeks ago Sunday, when she told of
her experience as a nurse in the hospital at Corregidor, Mrs. R.J. Allen concluded that she write her and ask if, in her work, she had come in contact
with Joe, John or Glen Bostedt, sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Bostedt, of St. Mary's
Township, or Raymond Seitz, son of Major and Mrs. Charles Seitz of this city.
Lt. McDonald was in San Francisco at the time, having just returned among a
group of refugees from Corregidor.
This week, Mrs. Allen had
a reply from Lt. McDonald who is now at Brockton, Mass. Her letter
contained none of the hope or information relative to the local boys who have
not been heard from now for nearly six months, but it did contain rather
startling statements concerning conditions and an appeal that influence be
exercised to correct these conditions.
Realizing that the letter
may add to the uneasiness and discomfiture of parents and friends of boys 'out
there,' yet believing that if conditions are as Lt. McDonald says, some action
should be taken and that such action can best be obtained by rousing
public sentiment, has led Mrs. Allen to present the letter for publication in
its entirety.
Brockton, Mass.,
July 11, 1942.
My Dear Mrs. Allen:
So sorry I did not know
the young men you asked about. I was on Corregidor after Dec. 30th and was
in the hospital during part of the turmoil. We never saw many of the boys.
Occasionally they came over from Bataan for supplies, cigarettes, etc.
Cigarettes were $40 a carton.
I am sorry I can't give
you any information about your friends or family.
If they are still there
as prisoners, food will be the sorest need. Try to get someone of
influence to try to get food over there. Rice and fish is the Japanese
diet. Our boys will starve on that. I can see them yet, eyes,
sunken, skin drawn over their cheekbones, gaunt and weary but still courageous.
My heart aches when I think of it. Try with all your might to do
something for those brave men.
Sincerely,
Florence McDonald
1st Lieut. ANC. 88 Weston
Street,
Brockton, Mass.
STATE GUARD
The Glenwood State Guard
men reported this Thursday morning that in three days, they have collected over
25 tons of scrap metal. The Guardsmen want out Wednesday with 7 trucks and
27 men to collect scrap metal.
Trucks will be out
collecting this metal each Wednesday and Friday evening. Persons having
metal they will contribute to the guard company are asked to phone either number
4 or 454 and a truck will call.
Persons residing in the
same neighborhood in town can aid materially by placing their scrap metal in a
central pile in the alley where it can be loaded into the trucks.
STATE GUARD TO ARMY SHOW
TUESDAY
Glenwood Headquarters
Company of the Iowa State Guard will attend the Army Show in Omaha in a body
next Tuesday night. They have invited Major Forrest H. Davirson of
Clarinda to accompany them.
The men will report at
the armory in uniform at five p.m.
RODABAUGH WRITES OF LIFE
IN STATE GUARD ENCAMPMENT
Men All Well and in Fine
Spirits. "Hell, We Love It!" Company Largest and Best in Camp Food Excellent.
The following letter was
received at the Opinion-Tribune office this Monday morning concerning the life
of the men who make up the local state guard unit and who are starting their
second week of life in the state encampment at Camp Dodge.
July 18, 1942
Dear Wayne:
We have been in camp a
week tomorrow and have had two of the three required typhoid shots and, while
several of the boys including Capt. Barnett were pretty sick and sore for a day
or so, they are all fine now. Not a man in the infirmary. Most of
them are in town or swimming or something this afternoon since Saturday
afternoon seems to be an off day in this army.
Several wives are due to
meet their husbands over here this week end but only Mrs. Burchett has arrived
at the camp so far. As brown as we all are I doubt if most of them would
be able to recognize their husbands without being introduced so I am sticking
around to see that no really serious mistakes are made.
We have the largest
company encamped here at the present time and, I believe, are the only full
strength company here. Our tent line is three tents longer than any of the
rest and has every block occupied. The tents are the pyramidal type, about
18 feet square and erected over a slab of concrete which serves as a floor.
Very airy and very pleasant both to sleep and to rest in. Have only
contacted one mosquito so far, few files and no other vermin.
We eat three times a day
and when we eat we EAT. I ate a typical breakfast yesterday which
consisted of six slices of bacon, three pieces of toast, a pint of scrambled
eggs, a quart of milk, a big spoonful of jam and about a quart of coffee.
My breakfast at home is usually one piece of toast and a cup of coffee.
After eating a camp breakfast we can usually stand it until we can get a real
meal at noon and another at night. If you go away hungry it is your fault
for the mess sergeant will nearly always ask if everyone wants seconds.
Carl Cook visited in camp
yesterday together with Mrs. Cook and Elizabeth, Everyone was glad to see them
more especially Edgar. Whitney and Virginia Gilliland were out for a few
minutes the day before looking their usual selves. Visits from an
ex-captain (Incomplete)
RECEPTION FOR 19 MEN
LEAVING FOR SERVICE SATURDAY
Farewell Reception Will
Be Held on Square Saturday Afternoon Concert by Glenwood Bank. Public Invited.
All are invited to
participate in a public farewell reception for nineteen men called out under
selective service to report for active duty. This reception will be held
on the square in Glenwood on Saturday afternoon at 4:30. There will be a
concert by the Glenwood band. Those who are leaving at this time are
reported to be as follows:
Hershel Dean Cape,
Glenwood, Fred Henry Schroeder, Route 1, Council Bluffs, Richard Francis Plumb,
Hastings, Maurice Edward McIlnay, Glenwood, Donald William Maher, Imogene,
Lester Emil Knop, Hastings, Marion Washington Wilson, Hastings, Harold Lloyd
Wilson, Pacific Junction, Billy Ivan Good, Glenwood, Roy Joseph Millsap, Pacific
Junction, Leo James Powers, Glenwood, Lawrence Alphus Finch, Glenwood, Clifford
Allen Baldozier, Malvern, Clifford Edward Saar, Glenwood, Charley James Hall,
Hastings, LeRoy Jeanne Eacrette, Malvern, Elvon Nathan Brown, Henderson, Herbery
Leroy Stogdill, Malvern, Walter Earl Edie, Emerson.
PUT CHRISTMAS REMEMBRANCE
IN FOR CO. I NOW
The Glenwood State Guard
boys who have placed boxes in various stores in the town for you to deposit your
remembrances of cigarettes, smoking tobacco, gum and razor blades for the boys
of Co. I who are now overseas, call your special attention to the fact that the
shipment of the Christmas package which goes out of here must be packed and on
its way within the next two weeks. Previous shipments have gone out from
the contributions made by local citizens in the tobacco barrels which were
placed on the square for two consecutive Saturdays and from the boxes which were
later placed in the stores.
It is expected the
Guardsmen will have a fine Christmas shipment to make to the boys of Co. I.
Don't delay. Get your contribution into one of these boxes in one of these
stores this week end. When you buy a package of cigarettes for yourself,
throw at least one more package in for the Christmas box. If it is a can
of smoking tobacco or gum you buy, remember that fellow over there who is
fighting your fight may not find these obtainable. The least you can do is
to help the supply that is going his way.
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CO. I REUNION NOT HELD
BECAUSE OF WAR THIS YEAR
Twenty-fifth Annual
Reunion of Men of World War I Company I Called Off For the Duration of War
Glenwood and this entire
vicinity this week have missed the reunion of the World War I Company I men
which has been held annually since its organization in 1929.
This reunion has been
held each year on the anniversary of their taking of Hill 212 in the Chateau
Thierry drive on the 28th day of July, 1918. The members of this
organization here, throughout the years, became scattered to the four corners of
the United States. They came to Glenwood each year to renew friendships
that had held fast during the passing of the years, and to talk over the days of
their service when they did their bit to help keep this country safe for
democracy.
This year there was no
reunion. This year their country is again at war. Their sons,
brothers, nephews and friends have volunteered their services and have again
gone forth to save this country from the vultures who strive to destroy it.
Many of these men, able
to do so, are now employed in national defense throughout the United States,
doing their part in this great battle. Some of the members of this old
Company I are in veterans' hospitals.
The men have decided that
for the duration of the War they will have no reunions. After the war is
over the World War Company I men will again meet the 28th day of each July
to rejoice in being fortunate to live in this great country of ours.
Among the members of the
first World War Company I who have sons in service are Ed Hays, whose son Blaine
is with the present Company I in Ireland as is Charles Radford, son of George
Radford and Ross Boyce, son of Elmer Boyce. J.W. Wertz, son of
Jay Wertz,
also an old Company I man, is in the air corps stationed at the present time in
Florida.
FAREWELL FOR REGISTRANTS
SATURDAY
The Mills County
Selective Service board announces that five more boys from the county have been
accepted for induction into military service and there will be a farewell about
2:00 o'clock Saturday afternoon, August 15, at the Glenwood depot in their
honor.
These boys who have been
accepted for service are Russell Tyman, Coppock, Thomas Dwayne Killmon, Hugo
Vida Seitz, and Wayne Fasnacht.
COLLECTION POINTS FOR
SCRAP METAL NAMED IN COUNTY
Herb Hammer's Junk Yard
on South Hazel Street Will Be the Local Collection Point. Bring in Your
Scrap Metal.
As the demand for scrap
increases in the nation's war effort, the Mills county salvage committee is
making a new effort to get to market all available metals and vital materials.
I.L. Donner, chairman of the committee, announces that a county central salvage
depot has been established to supplement the regular junk dealers in the various
towns of the community.
This is located in
Malvern, just across the street north from the Green Bay Lumber Yard.
The local collection
point will be the Herb Hammers Junk Yard on South Hazel Street. All scrap
metals will be weighed when they are brought in and you can either donate the
stuff to the government or you will be paid an established price for it.
Other junk dealers in the
county will continue to buy whatever scrap metal you may have.
These are as follows:
Emerson: R.L. Grayson, Hastings: Ben Shaw, Pacific Junction:
Jim Mulvaney.
SELECTEES LEAVING FOR
MILITARY SERVICE
Six selectees left
Glenwood this Thursday afternoon to enter military service and two more are
leaving Friday. Those leaving Thursday were: Lester Harding
Friedman, Glenwood; Albert Brandt, Council Bluffs; Charles Brandt, Council
Bluffs, Melvin Bledsoe, Council Bluffs; Dean Wing, Farragut; Marvin Reddrit,
Malvern. Those leaving Friday are: Myron Rohrberg and
Frederick Schoening both of Mineola.
Sixteen more Mills county
young men will leave for service in the army next week, the part of the
August list of selectees who passed their physical examinations and were
recently inducted into the service.
Most of the group will
leave Sept. 9. A farewell reception at 4:30 p.m. will be held in front of
the Selective Service office located on the west side of the square.
The boys: Leslie C.
Shaffer, Strahan; Clyde L. Shook, Malvern; Mark Moore, Hastings, Cloid H. Rist,
Emerson; Elvin H. Bird, Glenwood; James L. Alpin, Glenwood; Marion L. Thomas,
Glenwood; Ora R. Shelton, Henderson; Floyd H. Anderson, Malvern; Herbert W.
Nansel, Council Bluffs; Harry L. Conrad, Imogene; Burnett C. Fagan, Pacific
Junction; Edward H. Wiseman, Hastings; Roy Saunders, Jr., Glenwood.
On Sept. 10, Donald C.
Eastwood of Emerson will leave for service and on September 11, Max Ferrell of
Glenwood will leave.
GUARDSMEN COLLECT OVER
FIFTY TONS SCRAP METAL HERE
Service committee elected
by members of company to administer funds. Want township volunteers.
The Headquarters Company
of the Iowa State Guard 3rd Battalion located here has collected now over 50
tons of scrap metal. The guardsmen are still on the trail of all available
scrap metal and, as a patriotic duty to bring out into active use all metals
around the farms and homes throughout Mills County, the guardsmen are starting
to form township organizations to locate available metal and assist in reporting
it so that it can be collected by trucks operating out of a central point.
The guardsmen will
appreciate having persons who reside in the various townships volunteer for
service. Persons may report to any of the officers of the company, to
Ralph Raine at the auditors' office, or W.H. Rodabaugh at the Power Company
office, as well as Lt. Empkie at the Boyle Farm Equipment office or Lt. Ridenour
at the armory.
The company has elected a
committee to administer the money raised through this scrap metal drive, which
will be known as the "service fund." Members of this committee were
elected by the active members of the company.
The personel of the
committee is Lt. Fred Empkie, chairman; Sgt. Ralph Raine, treasurer; and Cpl.
C.F. Kilpatrick and Pvts. Hamilton and Desenberry.
Rules for administering
the service fund were drawn up in order that the public may know how these funds
are to be expended. The committee requests that the following be
published.
1. Moneys expended from
this fund shall go only to further the Military Training of Headquarters Co such
as not furnished by the State and for comforts and services to the members of
the Federal Armed Forces.
2. Moneys will not be
spent for the purchase of any type of alcoholic beverages.
3. No moneys will
be spent for the benefit of an individual but only on the Company as a group.
4. Moneys will not
be spent to make up deficits of any social activity or deficits in any other
funds of this company.
5. No moneys will
be loaned to individuals or any other funds.
6. The moneys in
this fund shall be considered only as Military Funds for the use of this
Organization as a Unit and is in no way to be considered as a social or
fraternal organization.
DEPARTING SERVICE MEN
HONORED HERE
Glenwood State School
Band Gave Concert on Courthouse Lawn at Noon Wednesday During Reception Hour.
Several hundred persons
assembled for the farewell reception for seventeen young men of Mills County
Wednesday noon on the courthouse square in Glenwood. The Glenwood State
band furnished an hour's concert, the Glenwood Rotary Club provided each young
man with cigarettes and candy while several business houses presented individual
farewell gifts to the boys who were leaving that afternoon for induction into
the armed forces of the country.
This group, like all
other young men who have gone from this community previously in groups as well
as those who have singly departed, have not gone unnoticed and constitute a
contingency of patriotic sons of which every resident of the county is proud.
Those for whom the
reception was held Wednesday noon were as follows: Linal Elvin Lewis,
Emerson, John Eldon Mitchell, Malvern, Abel Lee Andrew Cary, Malvern, Pierce
Roberts, Silver City, Maurice Joseph Doyle, Imogene, Curtis Ryan Steiner,
Glenwood, Melvin Charley Durkee, Pacific Junction, Bernard Earl Mabbitt,
Silver City, August Louis Pontow, Hastings, Clyde Grafton Rexroat, Glenwood,
Ralph Claire Dalton, Malvern, Ronald Charles Hurst, Glenwood, Virgil Edward
Hunt, Hastings, James Henry Rupe, Pacific Junction, Kenneth Owen Johnson, Silver
City, Raymond Jason Love, Mineola, Gilbert William Carlson, Jr., Emerson.
MEN 17 TO 55 CAN JOIN ST.
GUARD
Lt. Ridnour, recruiting
officer for the local St. Guard Company, states that the age limit has been
changed for membership in state guard companies in Iowa and that now any boy who
has passed his 17th birthday and any man who is under 56 years of age and who
can meet the physical requirements is eligible to State Guard membership.
The local company would
welcome new recruits as men are continually leaving its ranks to enter military
service or leaving to engage in defense work. The training which the state
guard troop provides is invaluable to the young man who may later be called into
active military service. The local company expects to put on a drive for
new members within a short time. In the meantime any boy who has reached
his 17th birthday may enlist by making application to Lt. Ridnour, at the
Glenwood Armory.
SATURDAY ENLISTMENT DAY
IN GLENWOOD
Lt. Russell Ridenour,
recruiting officer for the local State Guard Company, announces that Saturday is
to be "enlistment day" in Glenwood. A special drive is being made at this
time to increase active membership in the local guard unit to replace men who
have left for service or positions in defense industries. Saturday there
will be a special effort made to secure the desired number of enlistments.
Members of the guard in uniform will visit Glenwood business places and offices,
interviewing eligible persons and explaining the opportunities which guard
enlistment affords.
Edgar Cook, Bob Austin
and Harry McCollester have enlisted in the local Guard Company this week.
The officers desire to secure at least 12 more enlistments to bring the company
to its proper strength of 60 before going to state encampment at Camp Dodge July
12 to 26.
FAREWELL FOR SIXTEEN
SELECTEES ON MONDAY.
There will be a farewell
reception on the Glenwood square on next Monday afternoon, October 26th, at 4:30
o'clock for a group of Mills County selectees who will entrain for the reception
center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Included in this group are: Guy
Hersell Alley, Glenwood, William Siref, Glenwood, Virgil Evan Harold, Emerson,
Kenneth Park Killmon, Glenwood, Garland Ward Johnson, Emerson, Cecil Clyde
Harris, Glenwood, Harold Randers Strand, Glenwood, Robert Lee Bachman, Silver
City, Carl William Schroeder, Council Bluffs, R. 1, John Drexel Leet, Glenwood,
Roy Dean Hickey, Thurman, Jess LeRoy Love, Mineola, Earl Maddocks, Jr.,
Glenwood, Vergil Carl Garges, Malvern, William Henry Childs, Silver City, Isaac
Horace Morse, Silver City.
FAREWELL FRIDAY FOR 6 MEN
LEAVING FOR SERVICE
The Mills County
Selective Service Board announces that there will be a farewell in Glenwood
Friday afternoon at 4:30 for six men leaving for military service this
week. The band will be unable to participate, but civic organizations are
cooperating in the farewell ceremonies. Enlisted reservists who leave are
as follows: Forrest E. Smith, Jr., Silver City, Myron C. Ballain, Imogene,
Iowa, Roy J. Hammers, Pacific Junction, Glen P. Weatherhead, Tabor, Iowa,
Bernard R. Parker, Malvern, Iowa, Hayden Walker, Glenwood, the first colored selectee leaves Saturday at 4:30.
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STATE GUARD MEN LEAVE FOR
CAMP AT 3:30 A.M. SUNDAY
Special Bus Will Take
State Guardsmen to Camp Dodge for Two Weeks Encampment. Empkie Named
Lieutenant
Special buses will roll
into Glenwood at 3:30 o'clock Sunday morning to take the men of the local State
Guard company to Camp Dodge for a two week's period of intensive military
training.
Lt. Ridenour announces
that the men are scheduled to arrive at Camp Dodge at 11:15 a.m. Sunday and will
be served a hot dinner immediately upon their arrival.
The lieutenant also
announces that due to the fact that there are no funds available for any
entertainment of any nature those from the hoe community who visit the boys at
camp this year, will have to furnish their own meals as the men will not be
permitted to invite guests to join them at mess as was the custom in the days
when the national guard men were at Camp Dodge for their annual state
encampment.
The company goes to camp
this year with 59 men and three officers. Frederick D. Empkie has been
advanced to the rank of second lieutenant replacing Lt. Stewart H. Osterholm who
has been transferred permanently to the First Military Police battalion.
Although a brisk training
schedule has been arranged there will be time for recreation, Camp Dodge boasts
one of the largest and best swimming pools in Iowa also entertainment will be
furnished each night by organizations from Des Moines and the men have been
asked to bring musical instruments and athletic equipment.
Mailing address for men
at camp will be: Pvt. John Doe, Headquarters Company, 3rd Bn. 1st
Regiment, Iowa State Guard Camp Dodge, Herrold, Iowa.
All men on the
accompanied roster have signified their intentions of going except C. Lynn Boyce
who recently spent a 30-day period at Camp Dodge, so that W.H. Rodabaugh and E.F. Hartman, Jr. might attend camp with the rest of the company, Lynn being
left behind to manage the destiny of the power company.
The complete roster
follows: Capt. David N. Barnett, 1st Lt. Russell B. Ridenour, 2nd Lt.
Frederic D. Empkie, 1st Sgt. Emer E. Hatcher
Sergeants: Leland
E. Chrisinger, Charles E. Hunt, Walter C. Jordan, Frank S. Davis, Chas. C.
Lipsett, Ralph S. Raine.
Corporals: C. Lynn
Boyce, Charles F. Kilpatrick, William Siref, Leon B. Burchett, Claude W. Hamlin,
Ervin A. Queek, Ward C. Slothower, Elmer F. Hartman, Jr.
Privates 1st Class:
Donald Culley, Ira Aistrope, James N. Endicott, Neils V. Lawson, Morris M.
Moore, Clifford C. Morgan, Edward W. Pein, Leslie R. Pippitt, William H.
Rodabaugh, Edwin N. Ross, Charles L. Thomas, Maurice E. Wyant, George F. Clites.
Privates: Roy L.
Ahart, Kenneth A. Asmussen, Harvey L. Brake, Robert C. Booth, Robert T. Caley,
Edgar E. Cook, Max K. Crosby, Herschel W. Dalton, Emmet W. Delavan, A. Ivan
Dusenberry, Walter S. Glenn, Isaac T. Griffiths, Berwyn H. Hamilton, Floyd R.
Hanson, Gene B. Hoover, John C. Howard, William L. Jones, Richard L. Leet, Harry
G. Markel, Albert F. McCollester, Harry A. McCollester, Jess H. Meridith, Fay M.
Morford, Delbert W. O'Dell, David A. Richardson, Jr., Robert L. Roland, George
W. Ross, Edgar A. Slater, Clyde L. Kruse, LeRoy J. Kruse, Harry E. Ranne, Ola M.
Ross.
U.S. SOLDIERS WED
RECENTLY
Evan Miller marries Co.
Bluffs girl in ceremony at Wichita Falls. Floyd Patton and Evelyn Carter
Marry.
Purdy-Miller
Mr. and Mrs. Orland K.
Purdy of Council Bluffs are announcing the marriage of their daughter, Orlan
Kaye Purdy, to Cadet Evan A. Miller, of Sheppard Field, Texas. The
marriage lines were read by Rev. W.J. Whettstone at 3 o'clock on Sunday May 24th
in the First Presbyterian church in Wichita Falls, Texas. The only
attendant at the ceremony was Cadet Alvin Mikkelson, friend of the groom, from
Sheppard Field.
Mrs. Miller is a graduate
of the Abraham Lincoln high school of Council Bluffs and also a graduate of the
Jennie Edmundson hospital school of nursing. She is employed at the state
school hospital, continuing with her duties during the absence of Mr. Miller
with the U.S. Air Corps.
The groom is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Miller, of Pacific Junction, he attended the Glenwood high
school and has many friends in this his home community. He has been in the
armed service the past four months, being stationed with the mechanical division
of the air corps, at Sheppard Field, Texas.
CARTER-PATTON
Announcement have been
received here of the marriage of Miss Evelyn Carter, of Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas, to Floyd Patton, of the U.S. army, the marriage ceremony taking place on
April 30th in Kansas City. The bride was attended by her sister, Miss
Margaret Carter.
The groom is well known
here in Glenwood, being a son of Mrs. Maude Patton. He has been in the
U.S. army 2 1/2 years, having spent a part of that time in Honolulu, Hawaii.
He has been stationed at Fort Leavenworth since last November.
The bride is the daughter
of M.L. Carter, of Kansas City, and made many friends when she accompanied Mr.
Patton here on a visit recently.
MILLS COUNTY MEN WILL
ANSWER CALL
Large group go to
induction, center for final physical examination. Farewell ceremony will be
held at later date.
40 young men will answer
the call next week for induction at the local Selective Service Board going for
physical examination to a nearby induction center. A new procedure is now
in effect which provides that every inducted man will be released from active
service at the induction station for a period of approximately fourteen days
unless he prefers to proceed directly to the Reception center. Every man
who wishes to return to his home will be given the opportunity to do so without
being required to establish his reasons for returning.
A farewell ceremony will
be arranged at the time the group leaves for the Reception center, since all of
these men will have passed their physical examination and have been accepted for
military service. Some of these men have already enlisted in other
branches of the service.
Men included in this June
call are: Howard Kendall Hilton, Glenwood, Iowa, Willard Dale Chismore,
Cedar Rapids, Linal Elvin Lewis, Emerson, Donald Dean Steiner, Emerson,
(Enlisted U.S. Navy), William Leland Young, Tabor, Donald George Kinsinger,
Malvern, Wayne William Massey, Fort Madison, Iowa, John Eldon Mitchell, Malvern,
Delbert Ralph Davis, Glenwood, Abel Lee Andrew Cary, Malvern, Willis Richard
Shannon, Glenwood, Iowa, (Enlisted U.S. Naval Reserve), Volney Russell Evans,
Emerson, (Enlisted U.S. Naval Reserve), Richard W. Coppage, Emerson, (Enlisted
in U.S. Coast Guard), Leo Lindley Beem, Pacific Junction, Theodore Roosevelt
Alley, Malvern, Pierce Roberts, Silver City, Maurice Joseph Doyle, Imogene,
Curtis Ryan Steiner, Glenwood, Forrest Erwin Smith, Silver City, Melvin Charley
Durkee, Pacific Junction, Bernard Earl Mabbitt, Silver City, Edward Jerome
Martin, Imogene (Enlisted U.S. Navy), August Louis Pontow, Hastings, Clyde
Grafton Rexroat, Glenwood, Iowa, Ralph A. Hummell, Malvern, Ralph Dewey Myers,
Henderson, Melvin Owen McClary, Glenwood, Ralph Claire Dalton, Malvern, Ronald
Charles Hurst, Glenwood, Everett Lowell Fasnacht, Glenwood, (Enlisted U.S.
Navy), Virgil Edward Hunt, Hastings, Clarence Edward Cromwell, Hastings, James
Henry Rupe, Pacific Junction, James Austin Hafer, Silver City, Kenneth Owen
Johnson, Silver City, Leonard Lee Smith, Malvern, Raymond Jason Love, Mineola,
Emery Murl Scott, Glenwood, Gilbert William Carson, Jr., Emerson, Harold
William Echternach, Glenwood (Enlisted U.S. Navy)
C.C. HARRIS
C.C. Harris of Pacific
Junction is in receipt of word from his son, Herbert E. Harris that he is
located now with the U.S. army base troops in northern Ireland. He writes
that he is getting along fine and that the American soldiers are treated very
good by the natives.
Young Harris left here
with Company I, but is now stationed in cook service with Company K of Council
Bluffs.
"DUTCH" SAAR TELLS OF
ARMORED DIVISIONS
Friends here have
received a very interesting letter from Clifford "Dutch" Saar, who is now
stationed at Camp Polk, La.
He says, "Sorry I haven't
written sooner but you know how the Army is, up at six in the morning and drill
and classes all day and more classes after evening chow, till :45 and lights out
at 9, that is our schedule, and in case of combat that will be attached.
Also a chemical warfare will be attached.
"Our job is the same as a
German Panzer division, to bust a hole in the enemy lines, when going gets too
touch for the rest of them. The Signal Company job is to maintain
communications within our own division. All the weapons we will carry will
be merely as defensive weapons to shoot our way out in case of emergency."
The Armored Division is
an army in itself. It contains headquarters, medics, infantry, artillery,
maintenance supply, Signal Company and everything a modern army has except air
and in front.
"I do not know what I
will be yet, but I hope to get something in the Signal Company. They have
all kinds of wiremen, radio operators, mechanics, cooks and what not. I
guess we will have to learn to be able to handle several jobs just in case we
get into action we can step in and carry on the show.
The Signal Company does
not the grade will be used for instructors.
"There is a mighty fine bunch of officers
in this new Army. I got to drive one of those big army trucks the other
day. It is called a 6 by 6, meaning six wheel pull, four behind and two I
am down in the deep south where they say "you all" and "we'ns" and so on.
It is quite warm here for the men from the north, but the southern people say it
is quite chilly and call it winter.
"We have it pretty luck here in the
11 Division and the nineteen men that came here when I did are receiving special
training. (Incomplete)
COL. HALLAGAN TO TALK ON DEFERMENT HERE ON THURSDAY
Public Urged to Bring Questions on
Selective Service Deferment to Meeting in Armory
The Mills County Selective Service Board
have secured Lt. Col. Frank Hallagan of the State Selective Service
office in Des Moines to address a public meeting at the Glenwood armory on
Thursday evening, July 23, at 8:30 o'clock.
He will discuss the question of
agricultural deferment and all persons having any questions relating to this
subject or any other phase of deferment are urged to be in attendance.
REQUESTION TO RECLASSIFY
What with the army being expanded to
4,500,000 men, navy personnel increased 500,000, and the U.S. Marines and air
corps including pilots, airplane crews and ground forces, another half million,
all by next January 1, the war is getting ever closed to deferred men, and an
order has come down to the Mills county board to reclassify all registrants in
four classes.
The men will be
reclassified in four "categories," under the new arrangement. They will be
inducted into the armed forces in the order of dependency, beginning with the
first category, men with no dependents.
The bulletin received in
the draft board office relating to the new reclassification mentions the fact
that congress has now passed the law providing funds for dependents of men in
the armed forces and it is interpreted to mean that this had something to do
with the classification by categories which are explained as follows:
Category 1 Single men not
entitled to deferment: married, or divorced men not living with wives or
children or contributing to their support; men married on or after Dec. 8, 1941,
or married when their selection for the army was imminent.
Category 2 Divorced men
paying alimony or child support; single men on whom one or both parents, minor,
incompetent or invalid brothers and sisters actually depend for support.
Category 3 Registrants
with wives but no children, married before Dec. 8, 1941, and actually living
with wives and maintaining bona fide relationship in their homes.
Category 4
Registrants with wives and children, or children only, due to divorce, desertion
or death of wives, who maintain home for such wives and or children, and the
family unit is living together in actual bona fide relationship.
The four classes that are
being re-examined include 1-A, un-married men without dependents; 1-B men who
failed to pass the physical examination; 3-A married men with dependents or
single men taking care of parents; and 3-B men necessary to the war effort who
are producing food or working in munitions factories.
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DEAR POP:
Dear Pop:
I went to see this war -the other evening and I haven't seen as many people turn out for such a
useless demonstration since Wendell Willkie visited Omaha.
It was a great show but I
couldn't help wishing our boys "over there" had this equipment on the field of
action instead of having it out on parade here. I'll bet you, Pop, those
Company I boys could put on a better show for the Nazis with that equipment than
we saw in this sham battle.
None of us mind putting
the old family car in the garage and the old tires into the salvage drive,
giving up on the old metal heirlooms and keeping the kids home from the picture
show to buy war stamps, but, Pop, I'll be derned if I believe I am the only one
that like to see them send a convoy of Jeeps out with a bunch of cow bell
ringing boosters into the surrounding towns of a city burning up enough rubber
to keep all the milk and grocery delivery cars in that community rolling on good
rubber for a year, with an idea that they are making us "war conscious."
I believe what needs to
be remembered, is that most of us have a boy from our own home or from the home
of our neighbors next door, across the street or just down the road a
ways, who is over there in Ireland, out there in Australia, down in the Canal
Zone, sailing the submarine infested seas or piloting bombers over enemy land,
to make each and every one of us war conscious without any tin pan celebration
burning up rubber and using vital war equipment in play time pursuit.
Well, Pop, here's another
suggestion for you to pass along. The government is said to need sugar to
make alcohol, one of the necessary ingredients in the manufacture of gunpowder.
I gave up my sugar in tea and coffee and did it gladly but if the government
would just turn this sugar over to the old time whiskey makers of prohibition
days it would go much farther. Let these old tea kettle distillers of the
nineteen hundred and twenties manufacture corn whiskey from the sugar and then
let the chemist extract the dynamite from the whiskey. There used to be
enough dynamite in a single drink of corn whiskey to blow up a battleship.
Well, it's a shame, Pop,
that you and I can't get into this scrap somewhere along the line. There
is one thing, though, we and all those like us can do and that is to keep right
on boosting every phase of the war effort that will back up those boys who are
out there doing our fighting for us.
Say, Pop, speaking of
these boys who are doing the fighting, do you know that selectees of the present
war are not only taller and heavier than selectees of the last war, but they are
much better educated.
Today 11 per cent of the
white selectees have had a college education. In World War I only five per
cent had finished high school.
Today 30 per cent of the
citizen army are high school graduates. In World War I only four per cent
had finished high school.
Today 28 per cent have
had one or more years of high school study. In the last war only 12 per
cent had had that much.
They just naturally have
it on us old vets in every way and with such an army, we can't help but
win unless we get to fighting so much among ourselves here at home that we let
the boys down (Incomplete).
RESTRICTIONS ON OVERSEAS
MAIL
Packages must not exceed
specified measurements and weight according to new ruling
To assure the armed
forces that all available ocean and air transportation space is devoted to war
essentials and to prevent congestion at ports of embarkation and debarkation,
the War and Navy Departments are directing and supervising shipping facilities
used in ocean and air transportation to and from the U.S. territories and bases
and to foreign countries.
As a military necessity,
the following restrictions shall become effective immediately:
1. No parcel or
package of any class of mail, including air mail, addressed for delivery outside
the continental United States shall be accepted for mailing if it exceeds 11
pounds in weight or 18 inches in length or 42 inches in length and girth
combined; provided that these restrictions shall not apply to matter addressed
in Canada or Mexico nor to official matter of the United States government on
which postage is paid or which is entitled to be mailed free of postage under
the penalty privilege. Mail addressed for delivery "outside the
continental United States" as herein used shall include:
a. All mail for
Alaska, the Canal Zone, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the island possessions of the
United States;
b. All mail addressed to
Army Post Offices in care of the postmaster at New York, N.Y., San Francisco,
Cal., or Seattle, Wash.
c. All mail for
naval forces addressed in care of the postmaster at New York, N.Y., or San
Francisco, Cal.;
d. All
international mail except that addressed to Canada and Mexico.
2. Not more than
one such parcel or package shall be accepted for mailing in any one week when
sent by or on behalf of the same person or concern to or for the same addressee.
3. Perishable
matter regardless of weight or size addressed as set forth in paragraph 1 above
shall not be accepted for mailing.
Another important item to
note in mailing packages is the fact that numerous complaints have been received
in the postal department advising that matches are being sent in the
international mails by persons in the United States. As matches come
within the category of dangerous or explosive articles, they are prohibited in
the international mails.
NEW REGULATIONS ON MAIL
TO SOLDIERS OVERSEAS
Mrs. A.J. Belt, Glenwood Postmaster,
this week announced that until further notice only V mail and letters in their
usual form weighing not in excess of two ounces may be accepted as air
mail for transmission to foreign countries and to overseas Navy Post Officers
and A. P. O's. Packages of merchandise, prints, etc., will not be carried
by air from the U.S.
TO COLLECT TOBACCO FOR
BOYS "OVER THERE"
In a recent letter to
Lieutenant Ridenour, some of the boys of Company I have mentioned how they miss
American cigarettes and American tobacco. The officers of the State Guard
Company in session this Thursday afternoon decided to give the people of this
community an opportunity to provide this tobacco for Company I boys in Ireland.
A barrel will be placed at the northwest, southwest, and southeast corners of
the square each Saturday hereafter and you are requested to drop in a package of
cigarettes or a can of smoking tobacco.
These barrels will be out
this Saturday for your contribution.
"SMOKE" BARRELS COLLECT
50 POUNDS OF TOBACCO
The local state guard
company "smoke" barrels which were put out at four places on the square Saturday
with the request that the public put in tobacco to be sent to boys with Company
I who are serving in Ireland met a nice collection of 50 pounds of tobacco in
one day. One barrel was placed in front of Siref's, one at the State Bank
corner, one at the LaRue corner and one at the Wheeler Service Station corner.
All the barrels took in a fair contribution.
The barrel in front of
Siref's contained 7 cartons of cigarettes along with a nice miscellaneous
collection of packages of cigarettes, tins of smoking tobacco and even two plugs
of chewing tobacco.
Lt. Ridenour reports that
11 bundles were made up and sent out to the boys which cost the State Guard
Company $6.00 in postage, but it will provide the boys in Ireland with the
American tobacco which is what they have been asking for.
The barrels will be out
again in their same position next Saturday and you are asked not to forget the
lads "over there" when you buy a smoke for yourself.
RECENT CHANGES OF
SUBSCRIBERS ADDRESSES
Arno Millse from Roscoe,
Cal., to 900 South St. Andrews, Los Angeles, California, Lt. Elmer Skaggs from
St. Louis, Mo., to 1233 Collins Ave., Miani Beach, Florida, Sherwood K. Kier to
Company 45, -209, U.S. naval training station, San Diego, Calif., Joe Martin,
Omaha, Nebr., to 529 North 40 Street, Omaha, Nebr., Leland Flora from state
institution to 211 North Locust street, Glenwood, Mrs. Constance Ward-Harper
from Commercial Hotel to route No. 3, Glenwood, W.E. Filkins from Glenwood city
to route No. 1, Glenwood, Pvt. Roy R. Cogley to 357 Inf., Company B. Camp
Barkeley, Texas,
PRISCILLA MARSHALL
BECOMES BRIDE OF FLIGHT OFFICER HOPP
Ceremony took place at
Ellington Field Chapel immediately following graduation of Flight Officer Hopp
Mr. and Mrs. W.C.
Marshall announce the marriage of their daughter, Priscilla Ann, to Flight
Officer Donald Keith Hopp, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo D. Hopp, which took place at
10:30 A.M. last Tuesday, Nov. 10, in the chapel of Ellington Field, Texas.
The chaplain, the Rev. A.S. Peterson, performed the double ring ceremony.
Witnesses were Joseph Hill and Eugent G. Brink, classmates of the groom in the
Air Force.
The bride was attired in
a dress of powder blue with a heart-shaped hat of fuchia velvet. Her
corsage of roses matched her hat in shade.
Throughout the wedding
rites, the chapel organist played nuptial music softly.
The wedding supper was
served that evening in the Empire Room of the Rice Hotel in Houston. Mr.
Hopp and his bride arrived in Glenwood on Friday evening and were here until
Tuesday when they left for Salt Lake City, Utah, where he has been assigned to
service.
An hour earlier than his
marriage on Tuesday, Mr. Hopp was graduated at Ellington Field, and his bride
had the honor of pinning his silver wings on his uniform. A new commission
which has just been instituted in the Air Force and is called Flight Officer has
been given him. He now has the distinction of being the first Flight
Officer in the
United States to be married after receiving his commission.