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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1943)
The OUTGO!! STATESMAN Calexa. Oregon. Sunday Karris?, fuse IS, 1543 )(BIPVI1B(B r Where They Are What They Are Doing mBm f David F. Furlough has received a letter from Charles E. Winslow, formerly of 1569 Chemeketa street, Salem, praising" the members of the local VFW for sending pack- aces through to the boys in the service. Winslow, veteran of the marine corps in the first world war, has enlisted to serve again in the navy. Furlough is serving as Hungry Nit of Carry on Puptent No. 8, and Mrs. Furlough is sec retary of Marion post 661, VFW, ftferiU Gran: Van Clere. taraed. ssaa second class te the Halted States navy, is astasia la actlan . according to official Information received by his wife, Mrs. Alice Van Cleve, 2054 North Canreh street. A similar menage was - received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B.Taa Cleve of Aan Ille. MeriU Vaa Cleve. 24. was graduated from AanutviUe high cuvn mm mm avavi mwvch. mum attended Willamette anlversity where he participated In nam erons campus activities prior to his enlistment ia. the navy la June, 1939. On his last furlough in Salem last autumn, at which time he and Mrs.' Vaa Cleve. the former Alice Tacker, were married. It was made knswn : that he had been serving on a submarine which had been cred tied with sinking f oar Japanese hips and damaging three oth ers. The submarine was at Ma ' alia at the time of the first en : cay attack. Relatives In add! Uoa to Mrs. Vaa Cleve and his parents include two brothers, David and Kenneth Van Cleve, ad his grandmother, Mrs. Bea trice Merrill, !! Katcliff Drive. Salem, sad Mrs. M. G. Vaa Cleve, Winloek, Wash. Marion county men formed large part of the servicemen who were inducted into the. navy a Portland recruiting station re cently. Men inducted from - the district were: Charles Harold Beardsley, Lyle Donald Dierks, Lyle Leslie Dow, Ranald Vernon Haskins. Raymond -" Gerald KLecker. George David Lassie, Owen Keith Londberg, Lawrence Lester Plank, Harry Gordon Rob- ertson, Daniel Harding Ross and 'Peter Schweigert, Salem; Calvin Elbert Welch, Hubbard; and J D. Neal Bruce and Wayne Tom my Finnegan, Scio. Sgt. Tech. Otto Bowman, Salem attorney and active Chemeketan up to a few months ago, is spend ing a brief furlough in Salem with his mother, Mrs. Mary M. Bowman and . his young nephew, Sammy Bpwman. A brother, Carl Bow man,, who Is completing his work toward a master's degree at Uni versity of Washington, spent the weekend here also. The sergeant leaves Monday to return to Camp McCain, Miss, y Mr; and Mrs. George O. Sur geon of Parkway Drive have re ceived word of an impending vis it from their son. First Class Pet ty Officer George Lee Surgeon, and Mrs. Surgeon in July. Mrs. Surgeon will arrive about the first of the month while Surgeon will come several weeks later in a na vy bomber. Surgeon has been in the navy over two years, training at San Diego and seeing eight months service in the South Pa cific! Since October he has been stationed ' at Cleveland, Ohio, where he is an instructor in the General Motors school. Mrs. Sur geon is the former Ruth Brawnlee of Salem. Auto Driver In Accident Is Jailed u Sgt. Melvin Huff, driver of a car which mowed into two parked cars in the Hollywood district Fri day night, resulting in Injuries to one of its seven occupants, was committed . to the Salem city jail Saturday when he failed to pay a line of $100. The fine, meted out to him by Municipal; Judge Alfred , Mundt, was on a charge of reckless driv ing and followed police and civil ian testimony to the effect that no other moving vehicle was! in volved hi the wreck and that the Huff car was driven at a high rate of speed. . - 1 Huff and a Sgt. Reeves on Fri day; night bad. maintained that they were sideswiped by another vehicle. ' - - . :-' i . k ,-. " f s; V i No report on the ; condition" of Sgt. Robert Mund, injured in the crash, was available Saturday. He was taken by city first aid men to an army first aid station in the Salem area and by ambulance or dered by medical officers to Camp Adair hospital. r i j - S-- 3 Ray Farmer, son of Mrs. Vel man Farmer, Salem, has report ed to Salt Lake City for his ini tial training and will later com plete his training at Camp Hood, Tex., for service with an anti tank platoon. Farmer had com pleted three years at the Univer sity of Oregon before enlisting in the army and was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. - Pvt. Kenneth L. Wilkinson, son f Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wilkinson of Turner, has reported to Kan sas State college where he will take courses preparing for his ap pointment i as an aviation cadet In the army air corps. Neil A. Thempsoa, petty officer third class, has retarned to Sa lem after spending 16 months la the Alaskan combat district with the fleet.' Tbompaea told his mother. Mrs. Veaera Thomssoa. . that looked mighty good to Mm." Enlisting fat the navy as appren tice seamen who will take recruit training at Camp Farragut, Idaho, for six weeks are: Wendall Ulysses MacklfcV route three; Arthur Douglas Parkes; John Peter Crockatt; Freddie; Theodore h of Silverton; Neville Sevald Johan- aen, Silverton; Corwin , Charles Locue and-Robert Cecil Landon of Scotta Mills; Elmer Malon Jor- gesson, Gervais; John Lanier Loyd. Independence; James How ard Smith, James Oral Sheldon, and Ansell Trone Ramer. route four, Salem. Our gardens are ia full' bloom. Reserve your trees now for fall from 239 varie ties. -. , -. ; v "Also available, Cc a tfozen. r - 4A Keady aow for serial combat daty, honor stalest Bill G. Cogswell, aviatisa amaehlnista mate third daoa. rooelred ais diploma aad the eommeadaUoa of his eoi maadlag officer at , graduation exercises for his class in serial gaaaery at the naval air gun- aors school. Jacksonville, Fla. . Be was aae of tea mea selected from his class for special hon ors. Cogswell is the son of Mr. and Mrs. David O. Cogswell, route 2, Saleam. Before enlist ing In the aavy he attested Sa lem high acaooL graduating la 1940. He received his earlier aa vy training at Saa Diego as vol training station aad earned ais petty officer rating at the a via tlon machinist's mate school, Navy Pier, Chicago. The course hist completed has made the 2t year-old Mae Jacket aa expert with all aavy small arms,' la eladiag the .59 calibre machine guns, bombs, fuses and signal flares. His ability to asemble, re pair aad shoot with accuracy aay of the aavy weapons Is at tested by Ms high honor grades. He is naw qualified to fight, as a machiae gaaaer ia any of the navy's patrol, .scout, torpedo or bombing plaaes. Commander . E.! Dolecek. a Pacific battle vet eran aow serviajras command ing officer of the school, praised the top ranking graduates for their diligence throughout the difficult course. (Official US aa vy photograph.) Tour Salem men will be inter viewed over KG W on Sunday night's program "We're In which originates 'from the Port land induction station. Salem men who will be heard from the sta tion at 10:15 p-mJare Fred Deck ebach, Dan Garrison, Charles Beardsley and Lyle Dierks. ' JEFFERSON Mr. and f Mrs. Harold Knight received word this J week from their son, BUI Knight, in New York, that he was leav ing immediately for a visit at home. He is on active duty in the .navy and; this will be his first trip home since his enlistment. Mrs. Blanche Libby visited re cently with her nephew, LL Wil liam B. Adams and Mrs. Adams. Lt Adams, who has been an in structor at Las Vegas, Nov., for the past seven months, is being transferred to Del' 'Rio, Texas, with an eight-day leave,; allowing them to make this trip and visit other relatives on the coast be fore moving farther east. Lt Maurice Mangis, pilot in the US air force training corps, is now stationed at Madras. He vis ited his grandmother, Mrs. W. W, Warner, and Jefferson friends Wednesday. Mrs. Mangis and children are staying with her par ents, Mr. ; and Mrs. Ralph Wed- dle in Salem, former Jefferson residents. ; , . Mr. and Mrs. Irvine Wright enjoyed a visit last week with Mrs. Wright's brother, Cpt David Lane, who is in the tank destroy er's division stationed at North Camp Hood, Texas. He had been visiting bjj, father, C H. Lane at Gresham, who has been ill. Mrs. Wright had not seen her brother for 15 years. Cpt. Lane reported that LeRoy Beach; of Jefferson was in his division at North Camp Hood, while in training. 'Chute Bomb Ni3tv Weapon For Invasion ST. LOUIS-WV-The invasion of Europe may be heralded by clouds of ' parachute - bombs, filling the sky and raining deadly metal fragments on enemy personnel. ; The use of par chutes la coa jaetlon with rragmeatatioa bombs was disclosed today by the army ordnance department as a aew-bat-old weapoa prov ing Its worth against the Japaa- . ese In the southwest Pacific. The -Mrachute bombs, strewn bv low firing planes, float earth ward slowly and explode accu istely , at: any desired distance above the around. The bombs are small never .weighing over 30 lbs., but contain a high ratio of metal to explosive. The blasts distribute the fragments at huth velocity. : v. Parachute bombs are not .new. They were developed in , this countrv some 10 years ago.' but now are undergoing a revival of use, said Col. Merle H. Davis, commanding officer of tie ot Louis ordnance district Lieut Gen. George C. Keaay, commander of allied air forces In the southwest Pacific, helped develop the parachute, weapoa origiaally. Hal Harrol. mmle US navy. arrived by plane Sunday for a two-day visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Harrold of 1820 Ferry street He has for the past two years been on active duty in the south Pacific. He reports his brother, Bruce Harrold, well, and recently advanced to shipfitter 1c. The boys have been ship mates for the past three years. The third brother, Sgt Harry B Harrold, is in New Guinea. : Mrs. Lacy Lichty received word from her son. Pvt Russell H. Lichty, that he was in a hospital in the south Pacific suffering from atfthma. The war department re ported another son, Donald R. Lichty, as still missing in action In the Philippines. Her son-in law and daughter, Pvt; and Mrs. Ernest Doerfler, at Camp Young, Calif., sent word they were en joying California. Edward J. Yarnelt son of Mr, and Mrs. Jay YamelV 215 Park street Salem, is stationed on the campus of Northwestern univer sity studying radio transmitting and deciphering navy code mes sages. Alter completing nis cour ses at the university within the next 16 weeks. Yarnell will be assigned to duty with .the fleet Staff Sgt Mark W. Margasoa, son of Mrs. Cassie Margason, 331 First 'street Albany, Is missing in action in the European area, ac cording to a war department an nouncement ; r '- " z: WL Julian II about your need for , Autor mobile Insurance protection under the . ; Oregon , Motor Vebiclc Safety j Responsibility Act ; Complete lrormation. No ob ligation. Come In and see us. E::!-B:UcicrIi:- ' Next U Grand Theatre I PIipSfE 4317 ; All Ciads af Insurance Roy Lets, sea of Mr.' and Mrs. Letz, of Ft Lewis, Wash-, is .home over the weekend.. Another son, Walter, is at Camp Claiborne, La. and i William , is attending cook's and baker's school at Vancouver, Wash. : ; Miss Zemlicka : Ge3 to Trinidad , JEFFERSON Miss Fem L ?mltckg of Portland has ' been visiting' the past' week at the home of her parents, : Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Zemlicka of Jeffer son, before leaving; for Port of Spain, Trinidad, where she will Blood Donor Registration Urged Here Registrations of persons willing to cive a Dint of blood for the American Red Cross blood bank to bo used in transfusions for fight ing men on the nation's battle fronts are needed before Tuesday, E. J. Scellars, American Legion blood bank chairman, said Sat urday. The mobile unit operating out of Portland, will be at the First Methodist church here from 10 a. m. to 2 p. m. Tuesday, with an ar my doctor, Red Cross nurses and volunteer assistants from the Mar ion county Red Cross chapter. ; Requests for a later apearance of the unit here, so that blood could be' donated after regular working hours met with the ex nlanation Saturday that no other hours could be used for the blood donation. The material " gathered here must be taken to Portland, proper ly refrigerated and sent In the one shlnment which leaves that city daily for me Berkeley plasma plant Blood given at anotner nour could not be shipped within the necessary time limits for plasma manufacture, Scellars explained. The Berkeley plant is one f two on the Pacific coast and it is "dat ed" to receive and care for the Oregon shipment at a specific time. Persons interested in making this needed donation to the war effort and to the men who are bearing arms may register by cal ling the Red Cross office, 9277. GT Club Raises Red Cross Funds With Fish Pond ROBERTS GT club met with an all day .meeting to sew on Red Cross material In the Lee Eyerly basement Proceeds from the pot luck lunch and "fish pond" netted the Red Cross funds $10.25, ' Members- present were Mrs. Alice Cooiidge, Mrs. S. C Daven port Mrs. Arthur Thompson, Mrs. Lee Eyerly, Mrs. Ernest Gray, Mrs. Frank Needham, Mrs. John Orsborn, Mis. George Higgins, Mrs. Clara Blankenship, Mrs. Frances Bressler, Mrs. A 1 b er t BlankenshiD. Guests were , Mrs. George Judson, Mrs. Blanche King. Cynthia Needham, Mary Jane Orsborn, Yvonne Grayv and Donnie Blankenship. . Club will meet again at the home of Mrs Alice Cooiidge, Jnly t. Protest No-Strike Bill : Protest to the proposed labor anti-strike bill were made to con gressional -' leaders today by .the Portland Metal Trades Council, AFL. If mm T ' o7)f3i r- 0 lr i I - J YOU LUCE IT-IT Salem LUCES YOU Oregon S13 IT. Liberty Ct Tlione C751 be employed by the US army en gineers.' Miss Zemlicka was grad uated from the Albany bish school in 1949. where she was also majorette of the Albany band. She has been employed at the Portland army air base for the past year. She left 'Tuesday night on the Portland Rose for Miami, Fla4 where she will em bark. Miss Jane Symms "of Port- land will accompany Miss Zem licka.' '" ' - ' . Mrs. : Irene Pratt and children have moved from the Parrlsh house one mile north of Jefferson, to - Mrs. - Bishop's house a half mile farther on the " Jefferson Talbot road. - MrsT Oswald Pendegraft and children of Salem , are . spending a week In' Jefferson visiting at tha home of her pa Mrs. VT. L. Cobb. Heads Field Stati . Lee W. Jacobs, Ulamat was named head of tha field station which will repi the Klamath Falls district offil July 1. ,- .r 5 'g - ?fy7rTyfA S' yhu 1 f ' Ll K' .;:?,-v ' ' ' When you say ''Precious Furg" now, it is mors fiian a figure of speech . . . . it i literal truth. Just as scarcity has made many other things precious, so has scarcity made furs precious. And if you have planned on navinqr a fur coat for tha coming years .... let us urge you, to make your selection nowv Many of our best fur trappers, designers and operators have gone to the armed for ces." There will be fewer furs trapped and rKrturally fewer fur coats as time goes by. Due to a fortunate earlier purchase, we are able to offer you finest quality furs at prices which are lower than' they will be again for a long time to come. Select your fur coat now. Well care for It and store it in our vaults until you wish to wear it next Fall. We've d budget plan you may use for con venient "payments. Notable Selections in NORTHERN HOLLANDER MUSKRATS J CANADIAN SQUIRREL ; SILVER FOX JACKETS IVAT0RAL OPFOSIBI NORWEGIAN FOX RUSSIAN SQUIRREt SILVER FOX. COATS , . NATURAL SKUNK BROWN PONIES PERSIAN LAMB BLACK PONIES INDIAN LA1MR and Many Other Outstanding F ursi r mm 4 ' ' l: - t -V f - - ; - 1 I J I i . .. ; Attractively Priced. . . $P850 to $ 795- mCm- First! 4 i t i v -it'- ' ,1
