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THE LA GBANDE EVENIN&OBSERVER.LA GRANDE, OREGON
Pyle Spends First
pi ! Night on Okinawa
In Marine Foxhole
(Continued from Page I)
JIo Is very quiet, but thoughtful
of little things and , they both
sort- of looked after mc for sev
eral days. These two have be
come very close frifcnds, and af
ter the war they intend to ro to
I
60 to UCLA together and finish
J their education.
, The boys laid w could all
' lhr sleep lide by side in the
nim "bed." So I got out my
1 contribution to the night's
beauty rest. And it was a very
much appreciated contribution,
too. For I had carried a blan-
kt as well as a poncho.
These marines had been sleep-
i I lug .'every night on -the ground
l) ' with no cover, except their cold,
j rubperlzed ponchos, and they had
I almost frozen to death. Their
i packs were so heavy they hadn't
I been able to bring blankets
: ushoro with them.
! Our next door neighbors were
; . about three feet away in a simi
i ' lar Jevel spot on the hillside, and
' they had roofed it similarly with
: j ponchos. These two men were
I I Sgt, Nell Anderson of Coronado,
: Calif., and Sfjt George Valido of
! j Tampa, Fla. (Incidentally there's
' another Neil Anderson in this
' same battalion.)
So we chummed up and the
fivo of us cooked supper under a
' Ired just in front of our "house."
' The boys made a fire out of
j sticks and we put canteen cups
I and K rations right on the fire.
Other little groups of marines
I had similar little fires going all
over the hillside. As we were
, eating, another marine came past
, and gave Bird Dog a big piece
I of fresh roasted pig they had just
, cooked, and Bird Dog gave mc
I some. It sure was good after
days of K rations.
Several of the boys found
ibeir K rations mouldy, and
mine was too. It was the old
I fashioned kind and we finally
realisod they wero 1942 rations
and bad beon stored, probably J
in Australia, all this time. I
Suddenly downhill a few1
yatds, we heard somebody yell
I and start cussing and then there
i was a lot of laughter. What had
happened was that one .marine
had heated a K ration can and,
' because it was pressure packed,
it exploded when he pried it
open and there were hot egg
yolks over him. Usually the
boys open a can a little first, and
' release the pressure before heat-
ing, so the can won't explode.
I After supper we burned our K
) ration boxes in the fire, brushed
j our teeth with water from our
canteens, and then just sut on the
1 wound around the fire, talking.
Other marines drifted along
. and after a while there wero
' more than a dozen sitting around,
j We smoked cigarets constantly,
' ond talked of a hundred things.
As In all groups the first talk
Is of surprise at no opposition to
our landing. Then the talk drifts
to what do I think about things
over here and how docs it com
I pare with Europe? And when do
I think the war will end? Of
! course, I don't know any of the
j answers but we've been making
conversation out of it for months,
i The boys tell jokes, they cuss
a lot and constantly drag out
I stories of their past blitzes and
sometimes they speak gravely
t alout war and what will happen
to them when they finally get
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YANKS CAPTURE REICH CELEBRITIES On the roster of big
name Germans in allied hands are Prince August Wilhelm of
Prussia (uppsr left), son of the Kaiser, and his mother (upper
right), Empress Hermine, widow of Kaiser Wilhelm of World War
I. Captured also were Mbrshal August veil Macke.iten (lower
loft) 93-yonr-old German army commander of World War I, and
Dr. Munntr.'d Zapp (lower riqhl) chief nasi propagandist in the
United Stales from 1936 to 1941.
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"But mama, I haven't got a
thing to wear!"
(What about the millions in
tunr-tom hinds who arc arttiiilli
neurit naked? Bring your spare
clothes, shoes and beddinft to the
nearest depot of the United Na
tional Clothino Collection or
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home. :
We talked like that for about
an hour, and then it grew dark
and a shouted order came along
the hillside to put out the fires
and it was passed on and on, and
the boys drifted away to their
own foxholes or hillside dugouts,
and Bird Dog and Gross and I
went to bed, for there's nothing
else to do after dark in blackout
country,
PROTEST STRIKE CALLED
PARIS, April 10 (UP) The ad
ministrative council of the gen
eral federation has called on all
1vcnrh workers to hold a one
day strike May 1 in protest to the
government's alleged delay in
carrying out social reforms and
purging Vichyiles.
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Nazis Are Driven
From Po Bastion
ROME, April 10 (UP) British
Eighth army forces have driven
the Germans from the Argenta
gap northeast of Bologna and ad
vanced six miles from their last
reported positions to within 15
miles of the Po river, allied head
quarters announced tonight.
The Eighth army's Fifth corps
poured out onto the Po plain on
a four to six-mile front. It cap
tured Bcnivignantc, 11 miles
southeast of Fcrrara.
U. S. Fifth army troops pushed
to the outskirts of Planoro, seven
miles south of Bologna.
Fifth ormy forces were official
ly reported making "spectacular"
advances after capturing Mount
Adone, 10 miles south of Bologna.
The 655-meter high peak was
considered the :'.m;iin bastion of
German defAises south of Bo
logna, and speedier progress was
expected with its capture.
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Committee Plans
Drive for State ' c
KuiMing Funds .
PORTLAND, April 19 (UP)
Ralph D. Moorcs, head of a cam
paign to pass the $10,000,000 state
building bill at the June 22 spe
cial election, announced today
the statewide membership of the
r-jwly-formcd united citizens
committee will be given when
the executive group meets in
Portland next week.
Friends of higher educational
i nstitutions, labor and agricul
t u r a 1 organization representa
tives, business and professional
men, participated in the organi
zation meeting, headed by E. C.
tammons, president of the U. S.
National bank.
Passage of the bill is "abso
lutely necessary," Sammons said,
if Oregon is to discharge her
obligation to returned veterans
and other youth."
He said approval of this bill
to raise $4,000,000 for higher edu
cation buildings and $6,000,000 for
general state buildings will not
cost property taxpayers one cent.
"The bill, for technical reasons,
levies a special tax on property
for two years, but we are as
sured by the legislature and state
lax officials the entire levy will
easily be offset by income tax
receipts," he said.
Veterans Named to
Be Stassen-Aides
WASHINGTON, April 19 (UP)
Cmdr. Harold E. Stassen today
selected two wounded fighting
men to help him represent the
United States armed forces
throughout the San Francisco
security conference.
Stassen, who is considered the
armed forces' representative on
the eight man U. S. delegation,
announced that army Sgt. John
Thomson of Minneapolis and
Marine Lt. Cord Meyer Jr., of
New York will be his aides at
the United Nations parley.
Meyer lost an eye in the Paci
fic after surviving the bloody
battles of Kwajalein, Emwetok
and Guam.
Thomson was wounded serious
ly last January in the battle for
Aaaehen, Germany.
Grange Will Have
Initiation, Dinner
The Blue Mountain grange will
meet at 7:30 p. m. Saturday in
grange hall for a potluck dinner
which will be followed by initia
tion of a number of candidates
into the third and fourth degrees.
The first white men to discover
and record southern California's
native palms were Floridans.
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'HOUSE HUNTING' Members of a jeep crew of the Third army's
26th Infantry division take cover behind their vehicle while
searching out snipers hidden in a house in Germany.
Combat Casualties
Of U. S. Approach
1,000,000 Mark
WASHINGTON, April 19 (UP)
Officially announced U. S.
combat casualties, approaching
1,000,000, reached an overall total
of 912,000 today. This was an
increase of 12,810 in a week.
Meanwhile, German casualties
on the western front are mount
ing by the hundreds of thou
sands. Secretary of War Henry L.
Stimson disclosed at his press
conference today that British and
U. S. armies have captured 2,
100,000 Germans since Normandy
D-day last June 0. Of this total,
900,000 were caj-.tuied in April
alone.
The U. S. combat casualty total
included 813,870 army and 98,330
navy, marine corps, and coast
guard losses since Dec. 7, 1941.
Stimson reported that U. S.
army casualties in Europe during
March "were limited" to 47,023.
This included 6,214 killed, 35,443
wounded, and 5,366 missing.
Ground force losses in Europe
since D-day, he said, now total
473,215, including 79,795 killed by
the Germans, 334,919 wounded,
and 58,501 missing.
The all-service figures for total
U. S. casualties:
Army Navy Total
Killed 162,505 37,920 200,425
Wounded . 490,803 45,554 542,357
Missing 83,926 10,595 94,521
Prisoners .... 70,636 4,261 . 74,897
Totals 813,870 98.330 912,200
Of the army wounded, 261,596
have returned to duty.
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SPOKANE, Wash., April 19
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trucks, one police car, 27 fire
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to the home of Mrs. Joe La
face today, rushed into the
smoke-filled kitchen, but were
too late to save a veal roaut
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HOLLYWOOD, April 19 (UP)
The commander of the Holly
wood world war II post of the
American Legion resigned today
in a dispute over admission to
legion membership of Japanese
Ameiican war veterans.
Post Commander William F.
Schneider quit only a few hours
after Hurley Oka, world war II
veteran of Japanese ancestry and
central figure in the dlspu.e, had
also resigned. Oka was tlx- f"st
Japanese-ancestry, veteran ner
to become a legionnaire.
Both Schneider and Oka
blamed "intolerance" by world
war I legionnaires for their decisions.
From where
Have
Dee and Jane Cuppers used to
say that as soon as the children
had flown the roost, they were
going off together on a second
honeymoon ... take a trip.,, or
rent an apartment In the city.
So after little Suo got married,
I stopped in to say goodbye. Dee
was sitting in his favorite chair
before the fire, sipping a mellow
glass of beer. And Jane was busy
with her knitting, Just as always.
Ihej looked abont as restless as
the tubby cut on the hearth.
"Jane and I figured," Dee ex
plained, "that you couldn't beat
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DAUGHTER IS BORN
Dr. and Mrs. L. F. (Jack) Eakiij
are the parents of a clanighterv
born today in Spokane, . Wash.
The infant, who has bee(T named'
Nancy Lou, is the great grand
daughter of Mrs, E. E; Kiddle of
La Grande. ,
The world's highest suspension'
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I sit ... ly Joe Marsh.
The Cuppers
a Dream Come True
being at home alone together, .
with our own things -talking
and reading-enjoying my glass :
of beer, and Jane her buttermilk
-living and letting live. I guess
you can't beat home!" !(.,-
From where I sit, Dee's had a
better dream come true the
dream of peace and tolerance
and understanding that we all
are fighting for, and praying for,
today. J '
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