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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 11, 1944)
The 02SCGQN STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon. Tuesday Morning, April 11. 1944 ' Word has been received here of promotion of Gerald . Bulkley to rank of first - lieutenant in ; the army air cops at; Boiling field, DC Bukley, jpilot in a staff squad ron, is a former Salem high school arid Willamette university student and was prominent in ! athletics Sgt. j Richard L. ' Morgan, Sa lem, has been selected to attend the enlisted sound ranging course at the j field artillery j school at Fort Sill, Okla. -only one of its kind in? the nation. How capably this school grounds Its trainees in fundamentals is testified to by the plight of Germans in North Africa, Sicily-Italy,- who .have come up out of their ' casements and shelters after a Yank bar rage,' dazed, benumbed, calling the accuracy of the Long Tom fire "uncanny, automatic." Salem Airman Has Vital Role In Berlin Raid sAN EIGHTH AAF BOMBER STATION, England Three Ore gon airmen played vital parts in one of the historic first large scale bombing of industrial ob jectives in Berlin. In the first AAF formations to sweep over ; the sprawling heart the savage combat that raged all the way to Berlin and back-again to the; German coastline. "Enemy fighters made their first pass at us as soon as we entered their terri tory and kept it up until the tar get was bombed and then follow ed us out," said Lt Hawes. "It was aj five-hour battle, with few breaks. - "Ovfer 200 German planes made passes! at us," said Sgt Pirem. "We were kept busy fighting them off almos all the way.". ! Sgti Le Baron added that the attacking fighters pressed in Sgt. Donaldson alogue 01 xravei reaos use a tra veler's guidebook. . .' ' ' SsrL Donaldson has been to Man Gets ffiniitiar WitliEnsland A talking encyclopedia on England" and the one-man travel bureau" are nicknames which per sonnel of a United States army sta tion hospital I serving American invasion troops have given Sgt George E. Dohaldson, 35, of 465 South Wmter ptreet, Salentr- Sgt Donaldson, a medical tech nician, is fascinated by two hob bies1 railroading and timetable reading. Taking advantage of 48 hour passes which each medical soldier Is permitted monthly by the army, Sgt! Donaldson has me morized most of England's compli cated railway timetables. His cat chester nd Birmingham, in Eng-; Where They Are What They Are Doing land's industrial Midlands; through snacespeanan country near oirai- ford; to blitz-levelled . Coventry through Dartmoor to sunny Devon shire; to the romantic and histori cal land's end region of Cornwall; to Plymouth, Torquay and Exeter; to Bristol through much of Wales. Sgt Donaldson j is the son of Mr. and' Mrs. Oscar L. Donaldson otJ590 JSouth. jCottage. street, Sa lem. His wife lives at 465 South Winter Street- Salem,- and is su pervisor of surgery at the Dea conness hospital. Donaldson joined the army in June, 1942, at Port land.' He received his basic train. here. His mother is Mrs,; Florence E. Cottew, formerly of Salem but now living j in . Portland. Mrs. Gerald Bulkley is ihe former Hel en I Cooke pf independence - Mr. and Mrs. Ray C. Abst. 1152 It South 12th street, have1 learned that their son, Raymond C. Abst, naval aviation cadet, has com pleted three l months - of jj physical VALSETZ Ceroid Barrett has notified his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Guorge Barrett, of his pro motion to staff sergeant at his station with the army at Camp Roberts, Calif. of Nazidom In a, massed daylight I close j than usual." He also com attack were: 1st Lt Warren H mented on the heavy barrages of Hawes, 22, of Redmond, an eighth air ; force . Flying Fortress pilot; TSgt.. Louis Le Baron, 25, of 1354 Baltimore street. Bend, a Fortress top turret gunner; and Sgt. Arthur Ll.Priem, 20, of 170 South 25th street, Salem, a waist gunner, . r On their safe return from the deep penetration of Hitler's home land, these f crewmen' described flak thrown up over the German capital by ground guns. 7 ? In spite of the savage enemy op position, the Fortress formations reached . Berlin, ' and aerial obser vations made by these and other crewmen, as the forts turned back after making the bomb run, indi cated ; successful bombing of the target - - ' conditioning and ground work at the naval pre-flight school at Ath ens, Qa. Cadet Abst has ftext been ordered to the naval air station at Memphis, Tenn-, where; he will begin progressive flight training which will qaulify him for combat service with a naval air unit. ) UNIONVALE Sgt Roy John son, son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Dixon is now at an army post in northern Ireland, accord ing to word received from him. ing at Camp Grant HL, and was sent to Fitzsimmons General hos- nitat in ' rianvr fr1 - 4m rA vanced training in rehabilitation, then to Camp White, Ore. PAGE TWELVE 4t4T it Teh. Set. Gordon Spence, who has been stationed for some time In Kunminr, .Ynnan Fo, ' some 400 miles southwest of Chungking, China. Spence,' so of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Spence, 5C7 North Summer street. Is in the ground force of the army air corps. Be has been ever : seas for over two years and be longs to the "Two Year club," members of which declared they would wear moustaches until returned to the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Spence recently received a letter from Lit. R. G. Williams of Santa Crux, Calif., a pilot with the same division as their son, in which he reported that St. Spence Is wen and "dotnr wonderful Job." The conditions have - Improved in recent months, be declared, though till very primitive. Lt PhUlip Himmel has written to his wife, the former Violet Locke that he had completed. 35 missions over the continent He is stationed at a bomber base in England, having gone across al most a year ago. He is the holder of the Distinguished Flying Cross and the silver cluster to the air medal. He has recently been ad vanced from a second to a first lieutenant in the army air force. His mother, Mrs. Grace Himmel resides at 653 North High street. Erland Lennart West, son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Sim mons, has received his call to re port for active duty with the ship repair unit of the US navy April 13. He was inducted in the navy last December. SCIO Cpl. V. V. "Jim" Bilyeu. , has written his family from Eng land where he has just been transferred. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Bilyeu and his wife was a teacher in the Scio schools for a number of years. V J if Mrs. Mary Mulcrone, 832 High . land avenue, has four sons In military service, three of them vermeas. Tf c. John Eldon Mul crone (top) has sent her Ms picture taken in the opening of a pill box somewhere In the south Pacific. Bis wife, the for mer Violet Wentworth, Is liv ing in Dallas with their six months old daughter, Valdeea. Cpl. Lloyd ' Mulcrone (Second from top) U an ambulance dri ver with the medical division la England; Floyd Mai crane (Third from top) is a seaman first class now stationed in Ha wall; . Fvt James Mulcrone (Bottom) is In the US army signal corps and now at Richmond,- Calif. Mrs. Roy Van Vleek, 1845 North Commercial, b a sister of the boys.! Van Yleck's brother, CpL Leonard Van Yleek, has just written his brother from some place in the central Pacific, saying "the flies are terrible." He Is with the a r m y engineers and has served 27 months overseas. Koaney Meyers received a: .mail letter from his brother Ralph, who has been overseas fori some time, that he was one of the sol diers to broadcast a greeting over a program from the Rainbow club in London, a Red Cross center. Meyers sent a "Hello Salem over the air during the broadcast which took place March 30. j Harold Neuswanger, seaman second class, who is stationed at Bremerton, Wash,' stfent the , weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. P, J. Neuswanger. Neus wanger was personal manager at Reid-Murdock before entering the navy in December. - . LIBERTY Lt Staryl C. Aus tin Is home on sick leave follow' ing some time spent in a Mitchell field hospital because ; of an ear infection. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. S. C Austin and will leave soon for an' army post in the east PRINGLE Pvt. Robert E. Wil liams, army field artillery, has been in New Guinea for more than a year and writes his mother, Mrs. Thomas Williams, that he is well but homesick army 14 years. He has been in the Pvt John Turner, son-in-law of Mrs. Williams is stationed in San Francisco where his wife is with him. Another son-in-law, Calvin Mann, has been recently inducted and has not been assigned to a permanent station. Mrs. Williams lives with Mrs. Mann who has four small children. Girl Marines Learn Radio CHERRY POINT, NC. Train ing in radio maintenance, a highly technical assignment has begun for women marines stationed here at the largest marine corps air sta tion in the country. Upon completion of the course they will release the combat ma rines now assigned the important task of maintaining radio equip ment on planes based here and at outlying marine corps air fields. The women learn the use of tools and the use, application, and care of electrical instruments. They are instructed in tuning, instal lation, operation, and care of var ious ' types of aircraft equipment and mobile ground equipment They are trained as "trouble- shooters." s n Before they start the radio maintenance course they , attend an eight-week course at the air craft radio school on the station. Studies include elementary elec tricity, mathematics, fundamental radio laboratory training, and lac tures and special laboratory work on a dozen different types of ra dio equipment In learning a job thai is vital to the war, the women marines also acquire a background for place in the postwar world. Winchell Turns Tables And Files Damage Suit April columnist and CENTRAL HOWELL Pf C Ro bert Way, has been spending an -extended furlough with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Way. He . had been undergoing treatment In " a Spokane hospital following "his return from two years in the south racific. ' :'.- NEW YORK, Walter Winchell, radio commentator, today filed suit in federal - court here for $250,000 . damages . against Rep. Clare E. Hoffman (R-Mich). ., The suit was based on an ar ticle -purportedly signed by the congressman and published In the Marcellus (Mich.) News. . The complaint filed by Former Rep. Loring RJ Black as attorney, declared - that ! the article held Winchell up to "public - scorn, hatred, ridicule, contempt shame and disgrace." r - ! I , -i 14 oh Gnttn Zfco jm ; j - r need tn i ' . 'oar-Dof.. i j oat- Bkstad, fflaajr Fresher and -better 'than ever i - 11-lb. Loai EDWARDS COFFEE ,., jar i Vacuum packed, extra quality blend 280 iflr FtTn a pu.) 5n9"PInnJa3w ,'i 49c Ml fUxruihSUSriJA 49c 2 lb. JJC l ib. 23c 22c ? Wn"-Grpf. i n. Shnt-.r --caiflrr oy.i Satia r-1.99 TlC0?kii Seat I a far far mmm af W f ft W A Dt!L -jo. And uu Peaut but7 a Bom Slid. Peanuts s f.r 10c Planters, 5j pkg. T7sh. Powder 24-ox. 19c Pop Brand : Dog Food S-os. skr. 9c -oi. pkr. 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