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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 28, 1943)
Hi OEEGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, tforexnbei 23. 1S13 ScBEPyBdB. Mom Where They Are What They Are Doing 'Swab That Deck!9 Says Sergeant James Motherly, second class petty officer, arrived in Salem Thursday from Chicago, where he has just completed six month's advanced training as an aviation machinist He will spend his ten day leave visiting his grandmoth er, Mrs. Cordelia Herrington, and his. aunt Mrs. Hugh McCain, be fore going to his station at Tongue Poinf Lt Albert EL WIckert son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wickert is visit ing at the home of his parents on a week's leave. He recently com pleted an advance officer course at Camp Davis, NC, was stationed for two weeks in Orlando,. Fla and is to report to his station at Seattle. He is in the coast artil lery and formerly was stationed In Seattle. EH. TEUTON Cast Harry I Riches, former Marion county ag ricultural agent has written Sil verton friends that' he has r. been In Italy for the past eight; weeks, and I that his troops have been housed in an old monastery built in 1022. At Naples, he had writ ten,! they found the shop; closed because of a .bombing Just a few days before their, troops arrived. Kenneth Allen Jsza, sen cf Mir, and Mrs. Tom Jura, will , leava Monday to jreport Jfor duty at San Francisco ; 'a f t e ' spending 'a month's leafe visiting at home. - if i - I .4 i! ii Philip France McKinlay, whose Salem addriess is $33 North Win;- i ter street, pas Deen promoted irom second lieutenant Jto first lieuten fil' j ant in the army air corps. ISKUSXXSSMSSSi THE BEST GIFTS fo I -. f , . ' i:Jj . (ST--. ' r 1 i A Arthw Staab (left) and Walter "Bud" StoUer. seamen first class, en listed together ever a year are and now make op a gran crew en a merchant ship. They were sent to Farragnt. Idaho, and later attend ed ffimnery school together. After being In the orient, they spent their leave at their homes In Salem. StoUer is the son of Mrs. Maude Stot- ler of Salem. - x X , 'J (Km j .a J First IX. Floyd II. Emmons has been promoted to captain and Is officer in charge of transit ster age branch at Paseo, Wash. He Is the. son of Mr. aad'Mra O. W. Emmons. Capt. Emmons took his officers training at Camp Lee, Va. j y ; t - t - i f 1 i. V ; i - .i. "- ' " ' " r 11 pv n 1 SjlnrlUMIimuM Sgt, R, W. . Peters, above, was gradsated recently as a navi gator in the Royal Canadian air force from the observer school at Edmonton. Alberta. Bom at Rosthern. Saskatche wan,, he received his education In Salem. His home address is en Route S, Salem. GERVAIS Sgt. Francis Scho mas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jo seph Schemus, was king for a day at the army air field at Victoria, Kansas, recently. Sgt. Schomms is chief clerk of the 70th bomber squadron orderly , room. The "king for a day" Is chosen from all soldiers on tho . field. Qualifications are mili tary beating, and soldierly ap pearance. The winner becomes the guest of the Lamas hotel and gets everything the hotel offers free including one of the best rooms and four meals a day for ' himself and his wife or baddy. Sgt. Schemus was born in Port land where he lived for IS yean. His parents moved to farm near Gervais where he at tended high school. He entered the army in January 1942 and was in Panama for four months, in Puerto Rico for a time and later six months in South Am erica at the auxiliary air base in Ecuador. f 4 v I :. JV.t ,..y: - A - v v "i . . - 1 - x- ; i.K I M- . Tlie Marlon, county sailors are the "victims" but they dont teem to mind In connection with fulfillment of First Sgt. John Easterwood's long-held ambition to give orders to navy men. Sgt. Easterwood formerly of Cullman. Ala is superintending sanitation duty per formed by Franklin Ragsdale of Mill City and Calvin Samuel of Sa lem, seamen hospitalized at Camp Adair when they became ill while on leave but now ; are recovered and making themselves useful around the station hospital while awaiting further orders, Cut cour tesy Camp Adair Sentry. . ' . Dwight K. Runner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth O. Runner, route 6, Salem, and William W. Strong, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford L. Strong of Canby, have reported to the army -air-forces navigation school at San Marcos J Texas, for an 18 weeks course in advanced aerial navigation at the AAF training command base. They will receive intensive train ing In the four methods of navi gation; pilotage, dead reckoning, radio and celestial and fly more than 15,000 miles to . put into practice lessons learned in the classrooms. Upon graduation ca det members of the class will re ceive the silver wings of the AAF navigator and commissoins as second lieutenants or . appoint ments as flight officers. Student officers will receive their wings. Robert B. Marr, signalman sec ond class, US navy, is home on leave visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Marr, 215 South Com mercial street. Marr'a 1 ship, was .torpedoed October 11 . and. when picked up he was taken to Guadal canal Island where he was picked up 18 days later and brought to the mainland. Pfc Thomas R. WaddelL son of Mrs. Ella Mae Waddelh 461 North High street, is visiting at .home on furlough. He has been sta tioned at Fort Dir. NJ. for the past ten months. He also will visit his aunt, Mrs. Howard Wall, and his grandmother.' Mrs: : Lottie Tweed of Portland. Oregon army officers who have received temporary promotions, according to an announcement from the war department Satur day, include George Dwight Blan kenbaker, CE, route two, Albany, promoted from second lieutenant to first " V Carper, third a Gerald Lavern class ships' cook, is spending nine day leave with his mother Mrs. Lola Carper, box 10, Madro na avenue. He has been In the navy for eight months, received his rating on enlistment and has been on duty at Adak, Alaska, WOODBURN Lt. Orlando As per of the US air corps, and bride, the former Clair Renn, left Fri day by automobile for Columbus, Ohio, where he has been assigned as an instructor of bomber pilots at the army air base. ;: FORT RILEY, Kas.-(JIV-Pvt Keith Caywood didn't - have i a chance to eat turkey Thanksgiv ing day. ' f In the morning, he waived his rest period and qualified with the top rating of an expert on the Fort Riley rifle range. In the afternoon, he scored two touchdowns and tossed a touch down pass as Fort Riley defeated the University of Kansas football team, 22-7. After the game he rushed to his home In Emporia, Kas- arriv ing 30 minutes before his 7-pound, 10-ounce son was born. oam a-reston ueunan. seaman first class US navy, is a sea of Mr. and Mrs.. Sam Preston, 119 Washington -street. Dallas.- He -. enlisted la the aavy la May 1941 at the Salem recruiting of fice and has seem active duty in the north and south Pacific. Among the fit US soldiers re cently announced by the war de partment, as prisoners of war in Germany Is Staff Sgt Kenneth C Sayles, husband of Mrs. Evelyn M. Sayles, 421 W South Eighth street CorvalUs. . : 14. wmiam 'Haskia has beea transferred from the quartermas ter department to the army-en-CLneers and will be stationed at Tort Belvoiri ; Va, for further training. Before Joining the "arm ed forces Lt Haskin was employed by the state highway department Pvt Charles B. Stryker, son of Urs. Katheryn Stryker,-Park ave nue, Salem, Is visiting at home on furlough. Ha was the honor guest tt the Tt-.r.r.rvizs dinner t the teas cf tii mother. S Pvt. Jack IUr- ntit, tea cf . IZi. said Mrs. Frank J2Tr.t' t2tl3nci la Seattley tzs " - , t I (SIIiEisfiiiias : I 5 Pvt. E. Ivan Atter has written his aunt. Mrs. Charles Jenness, 520 Kingwood. West Salem, from his base (October 5) in SlcUy. He writes "Received your let ter and was pleased to hear from you. Ton are having quite a hard time finding a house, to live in. Ton should be like I am. I earry my house with me. Whenever-1 stop I put up my little puptent and there I live. "You asked me what eaosed say . lead -poisoning. I guess I never made that clear, Tat sor ry. 111 relate the story to you. I landed on Sicily la the first wave of the invasion force. 'I made lt alright for the first two days. The third day we ran into tough German resistance. One f the beys was wounded had I went out to give him first aid. Before I got to him I was wounded myself by a German saachiae gun. It was serious but I saade it alright New I am back; with my outfit aad all's welt "laeldently In that skir mish I got the silver star aaed I for bravery. I have been wounded twice mora so you see I have a handful of medals. 6XLYEKTOX Mrs. Gertrude Moed has receive a gray kangaroo skin from her son, Sgt Alvin Moen, who is in Australia. Sgt Moen has been in the hospital but has recovered and Is back on duty. Perry Hayes of Silverton Is an attendant to. the hospital at which Moen was confined. - Raynaond; naU. ' second class seaman, recently has been award ed new rating of petty officer, SM 3C and is stationed at San Diego. He Is the son of Mr. and Mrs.' Lewis A. 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