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PAGE TBI 'The OPJEGOII STATESMAN. Salea. presoa, Tuesday Morcing, May 2, 1SH Where They Arc What They Are Doing s Elweod A. Myers ui eom- pleted . his training as an army tu r r e t gunner at Amarillo And Kelly Field, Texas, and is' en route to an unannounced foreign destination. - During his ; training period on the Flying Fortress he achieved a, record of outstanding precision marksmanship. Myers' wife and son are visiting with her parents in Portland. He Is the son of Harry Myers, proprietor of the Myers Glove company of Salem. T J 1 .L. i i ' ; -t f '' I IV. .. J s ' -' " Naval Aviation Cadet Jack X. Bel dinger, graduate of Salem high " school la 1S42 whe the family . lived at 142S North Summer street, la attending Roanoke college at 8alem, Va. He took ' boot training at Farragnt and . -was sent from there to sigaal ' school at the University of H . linois, Vrbana, and then to Nor - foir. Va and was assigned to . a destroyer in the north Atlan tic. From there he was trans? ferred to the naval air corps and took pre flight at Wesley an nniversity, MlddletownJ Conn. His mother Is Mrs.! Lillian A. 'heldinger, a private doty none, and now in McMinnville. UK .V' I-:- ;.(,5;. '-..5 News of the promotion of Sgt. Newell V. Hurst to the rank of staff sergeant has just be received from the central Pacific where he is stationed.; SSgU-Hurst is a draftsman with the 7th air force engineers.: His wife lives at 755 Ferry street,-and his-parents, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hurst, at 2455 State street. He has been m, the I has been:)paduated from the basic armed forces for two years and I pilot scnopl at Majors Held, Texas, sSarvln Franklin Fredericks, an . air cadet, who left this week for Sooth Carolina to return to Pal sner field after spending- a fox lough with his mother,. Mrs. Ira , Fitts. , " Jil eiLYEXTON ' CpL MarsiaU Pcwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Powell of Silverton, has landed in New Guinea, according to word received kte in the week by his parents. His i wife and infant daughter are at Camas, Wash. 8Sgi Charles Perry. 166 West Washington street, Salem, parti cipated recently in a reunion party held, at the American Red - Cross Mostyn cl u b i in London. Oregon soldiers with the US ar my in Great Britain shared hon ors with! the boys from Wash ington ftate. V Huskier outnum bered; the Webfeet seven to five. Pfc. Thomas B. Williams Is now enrolled in the army pre- med training course at the Uni versity of New Hampshire, Dur ham, NH. Williams will enter medical school in November. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.; Carl M. Williams, and after graduat ing, from Salem high, attended Willamette university. . ' Pvt. Wendell Allen Halseth Is fa training for the post of radio operator : mechanic at the AAF radio training school, Sioux Falls, SD. At the end of the 20-week training period, he will take his place as a member of a highly skilled bomber crew with the ar my air forces." Halseth is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Halseth, route 3, Salem. - 1 4 v r - 'A f y t r V j if x t mation received here. He Is the son of Mrs. Sadie Barkhurst, and was wounded several months ago fighting in New Guinea. Wesley Grogan passed his phys ical ! examinations and was in ducted into the army last week. Mr. and ' Mrs. Grogan have two small children. MILL. CITY Ensirn Edward Radaf USN, spent a 10-day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs". Frank Rada. He is stationed at Oakland, Calif, and returned by plane to his base Sunday. Mrs. Edward Rada and son, Steve, will return home later after a month's visit here. Another Rada son, Ru dolph Rada, is stationed, in Cen tral Africa. . f " 'V ; Pvt. Mervyn L. Hurley,' US marine corps, 19, '- i 1 shown emerging from a lamooflaged pap tent at San Diego, Calif, marine corps base, ; where he Is undergoing recruit training. His parenU, Mr. and Mr. Guy G. Hurley, re side at 1011 Lee street, Salem. Word hs been received In Sa lem that-l Ted v Ogdahl. former Willamette football player and son of Mf. and Mrs. T. M. Og dahl of Portland, has received his commission as lieutenant in the US marines at Quantico, Va. July, 193, attending the College of ! Pacific at ! Stockton, Calif, until November 1, 1943. He Was at Paris teland, SC, until the be- Uoned at the LaJunta, Colo, air ginning oj this year. Since Janu base and bis wife and son. ary, be rlias been assigned to Frank TJL arc with Wnt Capt. Quantico i His Wife, the former Prime Is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Jean Donaldson, Joined him there i Frank V. Prime, w, of Salem, at tnat ttme. Word reached Salem Saturday that Li. Frank V. Prime, Jr, baa been promoted to captain. He Is sta- First LI. Charles E. Campbell likes England because of its simi larity to i;Oregon, he has written his mother, Mrs. B." W. Macy, in letters written shortly after his ar rival there and received last week. SILVE&TON AvbUon Cadet RaymondliE. Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Victor P. Davis of Silverton was 7 formerly a student at Salem high school. Cloake Gets Air Medal and wilMreceive advance flight training ait Ellington field,' Hous ton, Texas. -. - Lt Vernon L. Barkhurst, Sll verton, yhas one of the men who spearheaded assaults a week ago at Humboldt bay near Hollandia New Gumea, According to infor- Wlllla Grafe. 23, son efLcftey Grafe, Idanha, Ore, war' enrolled recently in a month's radio re fresher course at the pre-radio naval training school located at the US naval armory in Michigan City, Ind. - ; ' The bluejacket's radio - ability.' was discovered in a series of ap-; titude ' tests given during his re- cruit training, j The short course includes the basic principles of! electricity,- algebra and slide-rule, fundamentals.. 1 SDL VERTON j Pfc, Paul D4 Almquist arrived home the last of the week from Cuyahoga . Falls Ohio, for furlough visit with; his mother, Mrs. George Almquist and .other members of his fam-4 ily.t Pfc. Almquist has recovered from a rheumatic condition tha kept him hospitalized for months after being inducted Into the ser4 vice about two years ago. . j rel Pfc Robert' E. Gannon, ported missing in action in Italy since January 27, is a German war prisoner, his father, Ernesi Gannon of Vancouver, Wash.; hai notified Mr. and Mrs. Willard H, Boehmer, with whom young Gan noh made his home in Salem. ; ; Camp Adair's Sgt. Fenner Is One of Six CAMP ADAIR, May 1 One of the six fighting Fenners, Sgt. George ' H. Fenner,- 270th en gi -neers, 70th division, lays claim to having the most brothers in the service of any soldier at C a m p Adair. ( -' . ; i:-. : U . ' -?'V:i :J Sergeant Fenner enlisted in the 349th engineers on March 1, 1942, and served, at Camp Mur ray, Wash, b e f o r e joining the 70th division at Camp Adair. On ithe same day, his eldest brother, Sgt C. C. Fenner, signed up with the engineers , too. He won the Purple Heart: in Africa f" and is now in England with the invasion forae. V" .f;'' '-WXJS'': v'' Also in England is 1st Li. M. G. Fenner and he, too,' enlisted in the combat engineers, August 28, 1942. Pvt. F. J. Fenner is -with a railroad battalion in ? New York via the Volunteer route' June 17,' 1943. C ".-- l-VV I All four of them were; railroad men as civilians, taxing alter their father, H. C. Fenner, who is yardmaster at Corpus j Christ!, Texas. , The two youngest - brothers both wear bars. Lt W. J. Fenner wears a silver one of the tank destroyers after having i enlisted in the 56th cavalry June 1, 1939. Lt L. NJ Fenner jvearS a gold one. He went into the 56th at the very same time and is now in the tank destroyers also. t ; Trailblazer Fenner corresponds regularly j with his brothers and manages to keep a private situ ation map just from- reports of his brothers letters. He is proud of the fact that every one of the Fenners VolunteeredT. ior - service every one . is' an army -. CpL Thomas Medley, who Is stationed at . Camp . Bickett, Va where he is art editor for the 78th division paper, has been home the past week visiting with his moth er, Mrs. L. C. Mitchell. ' David W. Eyre, yeoman 3e, United States navy, is now sta tioned ; at Camp Wallace,' Galves ton, Texas, according to word re ceived here by his famly. He re- recenty completed his boot train ing at Farragut. i and - that man. !' Staff Serreant and Mrs. Ame dee Smith and daughter? Sidney i Ann; returned Saturday by plane i to Camp Hale, Colorado where he ; is stationed with .the ski : troops. They visited in Salem at : the home of Mrs. Smith's par- I ents, Mr, and Mrs. J. A. Fehler, 1 and in Portland with his family ! Enroute to Colorado the Smiths j stopped hi Salt Lake City, Ser geant Smith's former home. ' Army Meeting Is tonight Recruitmeni 'of a Salem regir ment of the women's land army gets inW its Initial phase tonight when representatives of women's service clubs of the city and of P a r e n t-Teacher organizations meet - with extension service farm labor specialists to out line the program. VVv;':: -S. Mrs. Mabel Mack, Corvallis, director of the women's farm la bor branch of extension work for the state, and 'Mrs. Gladys O. TurnbulL " Salem, who serves Marion county in the same ca pacity, win meet with the dele gates at 8 o'clock in the j cham ber of commerce rtwrnsv- This is the first of a series of such sessions representatives of ; other women's oragnixations(-wlll be called to attend. v - , , Details of the plan by which each club will be made respon- ' sible for recruiting of a specified ' number of women and for can? ing them to work for brief pe riods during peak cultivation and harvest seasons will be out lined. , . ' - " ' " " 1 ' I -y- Mrs. .'James TurnbuH was hostess to; the Alpha Gamma Delta alumnae ,at her j home ' on North 21st street Monday night 1- H. WASHINGTON, DC, May (iP)-M arine Maj. Wallace Cloake, Roseurg, Ore, who has been I reported missing in action since last September 18, has been awarded the air medal with a presidential citation, marine corps headquarters announced today. His citation reads: ' "For meritorious achievement while participating in aerial flight as a member, of marine fighting' squadron 213 In action against en emy Japanese forces In the Sol omon islands area from June 18 to July 18, 1943. "Directing his four-plane group of fighters on two vital assign ments over Rendova island and Kula gulf, Maj. Cloake coura geously launched daring, deter mined attacks against large num bers of enemy aircraft and, de spite overwhelming odds, person ally destroyed one hostile fighter on each occasion. "On another mission his flight escorting nine bombers. Inter cepted approximately ' 30 Zeros and, under his outstanding leader ship, prevented them from attack ing Our striking force. "Maj. 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