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PAGE fOUirrfZTf Tb OZXGOIi STATESMAN. Solera. Oregon. Sunday Morning. August S. 192 Service Men Where They Are 7 What They're Doing ; Mr. and Mrs. Albert B. Straw, 1848 South 13th street, have a son and four grandsons in the US navy since Lyle "Bob" Straw, 1120 Rural avenue, and Wilbur "Bud" Straw, 336 Oak street, re ported for duty in the construction battalion of the US navy last week. . Lyle is a son at the A. B. Straws, bat only four years old er than .Wilbur, bis nephew. Both have been sent to the na val base at Norfolk, Va where Wilbur's brother, Charles "Chuck" Straw, a petty officer second class, la stationed. An - ether brother of Charles and VfUbnr is Lloyd "Bill" Straw, who has been until recently at the Norfolk naval base but Is now on duty, in the Pacific. Fred A. Straw, 1270 Hoyt street, la the father of Wilbur, Lloyd and Charles. Lawrence Straw, 14, is the youngest of the family and is disgusted with regulations which keep him out of the navy. . Fred and Lyle are brothers and they have a third brother, V. A. Straw, 1830 South 13th, whose son, Wayne Straw, is with the Boeing aircraft company. He has been deferred because of his work but expects to be in class 1-A soon, He hopes to be able to enlist in we navy. Kay Straw, the fourth rrand aoa in the US navy, is the son f Mrs. Vera Straw, 160 Abrams street, and the late Arleifh Straw. Ray has notified his sother that he escaped injury when his ship was torpedoed in the Grill of Mexico recently and that he will be home soon on leave.- James Arnold, son of Mrs. Lona belle Straw Arnold, is the fifth Straw grandson in the US armed forces. He is with the US army, stationed in Hawaii. His father, Kirby Arnold, served in World War I and was inducted inthe US army several months ago for ' service in this war. Commission as first lieutenant has been received by Bert Victor, Mack Truck company representa tive for Oregon in the south part f the state. He reports for active duty with the motor transport di vision of the quartermaster corps at Stockton," Calif., on Wednes day. Victor was prominent in ac "tivities of the Salem veterans, past vice commander of Capitol post No. 9, American Legion, and past national cheminot of the 40 et 8 society of the American Le gion. Mrs. Bert Victor will go with her husband to Stockton. Pvt. Armin I. Harle, of Aurora, Ore., is a student glider pilot training at Twentynine Palms, Calif. Upon completion of the glider pilot course, Pvt. Harle will be promoted to staff sergent and awarded a glider pilot rating. Three of Five in Navy lot- A 1 r 1 XNf 17- :J I ,1 .f j S 1 v f A f v 't -J . p-l vmmru Three of the five Straws now serv ing In the United States navy are Lyle Straw and his nephew, Wilbur Saw, shown with Yeo man R. C. Erickson at the' Port land naval recruiting office as they attempted a pun on the name, and Charles Straw (left), a brother of Wilbur, a petty of ficer second class stationed at Norfolk, Va where Lyle and Wilbur have been sent with the construction battalion. ported, according to his mother, Mrs. M. H. Holcomb. He was honored for his part in the attack on the Marshall islands last Jan uary SCIO Donald D. Gonser, 18, member of Scio high school's 1942 graduating class, is leaving for Portland, where he will he in ducted into the US coast guard re serve service. He will report lat er to Port Townsend, Wash., training station. WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 The marine corps announced Sat urday the promotion of 65 lieu tenantcolonels to the temporary rank of colonel. Among them was John B. Wilson, 206 Fifth street, Corvallis, Ore. - . Technician Harold B. Allen of the service command unit at Camp White, Oregon, has been promoted to sergeant, it was an nounced recently from camp head quarters. Sergeant Allen is the ' son of W. S. Allen of Salem. He was mobilized with the Salem na tional guard unit on September . 16, 1940., His new rating places him as chief of officers' sec tion, camp headquarters. Sergeant Allen was formerly cartoonist; of the "Little Senator" and member of the advertising staff of The Statesman. Dutch Harbor Force Lauded PORTLAND. Ana 8wm-Pr3:M for the efficiencv of American armed forces in Alaska was voiced Saturday by Colton D. Harper, mcrainnviue youtn, on his return from Dutch Harbor. The construction worker said that "as long as we have boys like that up there, we are not in any danger." Of Japanese raids on the naval base, he said "the townspeople nearly went crazy but the soldiers and sailors and most of the con struction workers took it on the chin like men." Asked by an interviewer -about the number of Japanese planes in the raid, he replied: "The navy officially announced there were 15 fighters and four bombers." Shipyards Take Over 100 From Salem Classes During the month of July the war production training program in Salem sent out over one hun dred workers to1 the war produc tion industries, according to C. A. Guderian, local supervisor of the program. Of this number, 80 were welders (both men and women) sent to the shipyards at Portland and Vancouver. At the present time welding trainees are being sent to work after an average of 70 hours of training, which means that after ten days to two weeks the trainee is working in the shipyards. Men and women both are being trained as welders in all three schools the shop building, the downtown welding school and at Chemawa. Classes in welding operate on a 24-hour-a-day schedule. There are four classes operating in aviation sheet metal with one evening class to take care of those employed in the daytime. Both men and women are enrolled in these classes. Classes also are op erating in carpentry, ship joinery, marine wiring, machine tool op eration. These classes are from 6:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. A supplementary class in re lated instruction is also offered from 7 to 7:30 .m. This course includes blueprint reading and mechanical drawing. Further information is available at the Employment . Office, 710 Ferry street. Name Sought By Farewell Committee By ETHAN GRANT So far m is known, the only organization of its kind and site without a name is that started by a small committee of American Legion members of Capital Post No. 9 early in July. It has now become a full-fledged organiza tion incorporating the member ships and combined support of nearly all of Salem's veteran, fra ternal and civic groups. The purpose of the organiza tion is to express by staging fare well programs and presentation of gifts, the appreciation of the city of Salem for its army selec tees whenever they leave for mil itary service. Three such programs have already been staged, and others are scheduled. At a meeting held Thursday at the chamber of comrherce, the question of an appropriate name was brought up and a motion was passed to ask the people of Salem and Marion county to send in sug gestions. O. E. Palmateer, chairman of the original committee and later elected president of the group, points out that the name, prefer ably no longer than two or three words, should if possible represent the Junctions of the organization, rather than any particular veter an, fraternal or civic group par ticipating. 1 There could be no cash" prize offered, because the organization is designed to function with only voluntary contributions in food and small gifts and the volun teered services of the various com mittees in staging the programs.-: All suggestions for a name should be mailed to Mrs. Beth Mehlhoff, the organization's sec retary, at 1945. Berry street, Sa lem. - - :- r " - - -' Oil Company Gives Raises SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8 Standard Oil company of Califor nia has granted pay increases averaging 5 per cent to its mar keting department employes, Pres ident J. M. Stewart of the Stand ard sales employes'" council, an independent . union, announced Saturday. The increases, effective August 1, apply to Standard's office and plant workers, salesmen, truck drivers and like employes in all parts of the Pacific coast, Stew art said. Workers on a daily wage basis will receive a 5 -cent an hour or 44-cent a day raise. Salaried employes will get $10 a month more. Tacoma Firms Fear Clerks Lost for War TACOMA, Aug. 8 HJPh With the announcement that 5000 de fense industry jobs were open in Tacoma with no takers, many re tail stores, now closed - by labor strife, may not open their doors again for the duration of the war. This fear was expressed by the heads fo several large store own ers and by union officials when 30 retail stores, including all depart ment stores and most of the con cerns ' handling furniture, ready to wear, shoes and variety goods, failed to open for business Sat urday. The stores, all members of the industrial conference board, were observing an agreement made re cently "whereby any action against one. of the members was consider ed a strike against all members." Employes walked out of several stores Friday when they heard wage increase negotiations in progress for two - months had failed. Officials of the United States employment service in Tacoma reported Saturday there were more than 5000 jobs open in de fense industries of the city, and no one to fill them. They said they could not reveal if store clerks bad applied for the jobs. . Managers of concerns remaining open, contrary to the board agree ment, said they would lose their employes permanently if '"they closed their doors because the lo cal shipyards, and ' other indns-' trial plants, were pleading lorjem ployes at twice the , wages 'paid to store clerks, -j A spokesman for the clerks un ion denied any strike had been called but said ' after month of fruitless negotiations . the retail clerks just walked out An undisclosed number of small er concerns remained open today. Union of ficials said no pickets had been placed around these con cerns because they had promised to meet the union demands. Leo J. Prange, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. France, 1945 Maple avenue, has been promoted to private . first class In the hos pital corps at Fort Lewis. He entered the army in May. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar L. Donald son have received "word that their on. Pvt. George Ercel Donaldson, who has been stationed at Camp Grant, ill., in the medical corps since-JuneJ has been sent to Den ver, Colo., and enrolled in the sur gical technician school at Fitz simons US General hospital. His wife, who went east a few weeks ago - and has been residing in Rockford, 111., will leave for Den ver this week. , , Albert Linttbeck, who enlisted In the army two weeks ago, has written his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Lindbeck, that he has been assigned to the signal corps. He la 'now attending a communications- school in Seattle preliminary ft his assignment to active duty. PORTLAND,' Aug. 8-(VNavy nlistmenta her Saturday includ ed: Bert L Allbntton, Klamath Falls; Lewis C. Hutdiinson, Pen dleton f Cecil C. Moe, Ancil H. Payne (former Willamette stu dent), The Dalles; Ellsworth E. -Morley, Salem; Edward H. Mor ton, Medford. r PORTLAND, Aug. 8-p)-Army recruiting headquarters Saturday announced the following enlist raents: George M. Zartman, In dependence; Wilburn Pettijohn, Lebanon; Robert I. Beecroft and Frank Vance, Salem. Lt (JG) Keith Holcomb, 2305 Oxford street, whose picture ap peared in the Friday Statesman, was recently awarded the air rredal, rather than the distin guished LjixuL cross as then re- Postal Employes' Joining Deterred WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 Fearing possible disruption of mail service, the postoffice department is discouraging postal emDloves from enlisting in home and state guard units, Rep. Pierce (D-Ore) said Saturday. Enlistees might be called away from home thus imDairinff Dostal service, the department told Pierce, but added that no law or regulation prohibits employes trom joining up if they desire. Pierce said requests from pros pective Oregon enlistees prompted nim to ask for the department's attitude. Rail-Parallel Log Routes May Go PORTLAND, Aug. 8 -(-Elimination of logging truck routes that parallel railroads was being studied Saturday by state OPA officials as a means of saving tires. The Albany war price and ra tioning board informed state OPA director Richard G. Montgomery that use of rail facilities by sev eral logging operations in the Sweet Home area alone for ship ments to Albany would save 448, 000 tire miles daily. Building Lumber Freeze; Extended WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 JP) The war production board Satur day extended its freeze order on construction lumber an additional 15 days to August 27 pending completion of a new order set ting up a system of government control over soft wood lumber distribution. 0DES: EVES, vi On the ' Home Front You.womeiL at home nowadays have a double job of' Home-making and war work. You can't if'youuffeffrom vision A visit to Morris Optical Co. will make sure your eyes are good, . ;V :' . ". " . ..w FEEE EXAMINATION EASY CREDIT TERMS Fhon 5323 - If 444 State Terms as Low as 50c Per Week ' SALEM - SILVERTON - EUGENE Instruction Sleet ; Monday Defense County defense instructors are asked to meet Monday at 7 p.m. at the VFW hall for a course re viewing and bringing up to date the instruction j for county de fense instructors. New rules and regulations as taught by US gov ernment school "of civilian defense will be presented, according to Bryan H. Conley, Marion county defense coordinator. An instructors in the county are urged to attend. Anyone else interested in this phase of defense will be welcome. Ed Colby, senior instructor for state defense will be in charge of the meeting. 't It's Your Job to Keep In these busy times you can't afford to miss one day of work because' of illness f See your physician. 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