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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1944)
i 1 FAGS ZZX Where They Are Whet Private Kenneth Iloecerhyde. who . hu netifled his pareata, Mr. and Mrs. necrhyde. ef his safe arrival la the Gilbert islands. He has been sUUae4 ta Ha waii for nearly two years. His brother, Kenneth, will he in d acted Into the amy aeon. ' . I-. ' ' '.! ' XX Charles Barclay, new sta tioned in England, has written his mother, Mr. James Barclay, an account of his experiences there. Particularly referring to the ac tivities of the Bed Cross, Barclay requested that his mother buy a membership . for him with five doilarsHLL Barclay Is a former employ of the Bishop, store in Salem. IX. Dwitfct X. Rsnaer, nivira- tor, of Salens, Ore, will soon complete an Intensive course in combat flying at the Alexandria army air field, Alexandria, La., and In the near future he will go overseas to a combat area. " He is a member of a Flying Fortress crew trained by the Sec ond air force, which has the task of readying ' four-engine ' bomber crews for overseas duty. Lt Runner is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth O. Runner, Rt 6, Box 273, Salem. He is a gradu ate of Salem high school, class of 1940, and attended Oregon State college. j . MONMOUTH MaJ. William Rettie, chief administrative offi cer' of the Camp Adair hospital for the last two years, has been transferred to - Barnes r General hospital, Vancouver. Mrs. Rettie and their three' children will re main here until school closes next week, when they win go to Sa lina, Calif, for a month's visit with her parents. They, have oc cupied the home of Inv and Mrs. A. S. Jensen while here. ; : ' MONMOUTH Chief relty Of ficer Lee Stillwell. who is in' the naval construction battalion, is home on a 30-day leave after spending 16 months in the Aleu tians. He and his wife, the for mer Nadine Mason, of Dallas, vis ited here Sunday with her par- .ents. Mr. and Mrs. w. L. Mason Other guests at the Mason, home were Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rosseau of Portland. ' i. MILL. CRT Ffe. Jehanle Siems has . been wounded in ar tion, according to information re ceived rby hi mother. Mrs. Ted Olson. Another son. Morris Olson. recently was discharged from the army and is now confined to a veterans hospital in-Roseburg. He is . improving. eccording to infor mation received here. His mother Visited him last week, Georgo S. Grant yeoman Je of the navy, who has been oh re cruiting duty in the Portland of fice for the past 20 months, la in Salem on special assignment work with A. C Friesen. specialist 1c In charge of recruiting in the Sa lem area, xeoman Grant u no stranger in Salem as he was em ployed aa 'field clerk for. the de partment of the interior in the construction of the Oregon capltol building, four years ago. He is the son of A. L. Grant, a business man of Baker, Ore, and Is enjoying a visit with his friends In Salem, together with his work. ELDUEDGK -Pf c Ernest Banyard-has returned to Camp Roberts, Calif,. after spending a 10-day furlough with his family and friends. He Is a son of Mr. and ' Mrs. Arthur Banyard. Seven WUlasaeUa valley enlisted in .the navy m Portland on Tuesday: Edward L. Jackman of Salem; Norman R. BethelL Monmouth; John W. Weder, Cor vaUis; Paul D. Frits, McMinn v 11 1 e; William R. Baldwin and Itaymond D. Fritz, both of Mo bile; and Harvey C Bartd, Dallas.- - .X " - .... .! av. ; ; t , ' . CWL GUI-GliiriG AGGQUuT ix V,0 KOKTKLY SISY1CS OIASCS I - - -tr t:o uva'.uuu txiAHZi izzvizzzi z::i;zd ctTuG nnTionnt Dnr::i They Are Doing AN EIGHTH AAF LIBERA -TOR STATION, England 1st Lt Richard G. Kelso, 1091 Elm street, Salem. Ore, a bombardier on a Liberator flying as a nose gunner during a recent attack on a nazi target, has received official credit for the destruction of a FW U0 during an air battle over Germany.'' Two FW ISO's attacked head on. Picking the loader of the two, Lt Kelso put a short burst of fire into him and he burst into flames. The second one fled. Kelso, a sheet metal mechanic for the Boeing Aircraft company in civilian life, entered the ser vice as an air cadet He holds the Air Medal and three Oak Leaf Ousters. His wife, Mrs. Dortha L. Kelso, lives , at 714 N. McKin ney street, Odessa, Texas. MIAMI BEACH, Fla, May 19- TSgt Vernon L. Rhoda, Kansas City, Mo, recently returned from service outside the continental United States, now is being pro cessed through the army air forces redistribution station No. 2 in Miami Beach, where his next assignment wOl be recommended. Set. Rhoda- flew 25 missions during 10 months In the Euro pean theater as a B-17 Flying Fortress armorer-gunner. He de stroyed one iIE-109, confirmed, and probably- one FW-190, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters. -Age 33, he is the husband of Flossie M. Rhoda, 3921 Warwick, Kansas City. His father. David L. Rhoda, resides at 478 N. Cottage, Salem, Ore. . Set Albert W. Ltndbeck left Saturday on his return to Fair banks, Alaska, after spending his 15-day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ltndbeck at 575 Rose street Sgt. Lindbeck, who is a radio operator in the army signal corps, spent 15 months on an island in the Aleu tians before being transferred to Fairbanks last December. ATHENS, Ga, May 20 Rich ard T. Drinnon, aviation radio man, third class, USN, of Salem, Ore, has reported to the US navy pre-flight school here for three months of Intensive physical toughening and instruction in ad vanced ground school subjects. Upon successful completion of the course, he will be transferred to a naval, air station to begin pro gressive ' flight training prepar atory to joining a combat unit Drinnon son of Mrs.; Emma Drinnon, 2340 Laurel . avenue, completed x naval - flight prepar atory school at Austin, Tex, and was transferred here from the CAA war training service school, Houston. - Set Richard L, Morgan Is spending a 10-day furlough at his home on route one. He is stationed at Fort Ord, Calif. OrvOle L. Malm, seaman sec ond class, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. B Malm, route 7, box 390, is at home on a 15-day furlough from Farragut, and will report for an assignment following his visit : A second son, Earl L. Malm, storekeeper second class, is on ac tive duty in the South Pacific, having been released from the hospital in Honolulu. Lt Robert Irish, pilot with the air force, sent word to his mother, Mrs. Conine Irish, that he had arrived in England by plane. He was formerly stationed - in New Mexico. '.. Seaman first Class Stewart Sharpnack is now in the South Pacific with the coast guard. Sharpnack, who has been hi uni form IS months, wrote his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Zena Sharp nack, of his general whereabouts. Pvt Robert M. Lawless Is heme on a 15-day furlough from his service unit at Hines, Ht He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Lawless of 942 North Liberty street " ' -. . - Sewing Susies 4-H dub Work Shown at Swegle SWEGLE Included In the open house display at the school house Friday night : was the work of Sewing Susies 4H club. The fol lowing were awarded prizes: Joan Stark, first prize; Joan Stark, sec ond prize; Lavonne Yost Vlda Standley, third prize. Other girls completing their first year of sewing were Nola Jean ZobeL Merlins Cozad and Donna Mae Brandt r The After 21 Years of Separation Salem Sisters Meet Again ; ! - By ISABEL CHILDS , -V j After 21 years of separation and almost 1 years of no corres pondence, Mrs. Lewis Ritzxnan, route seven, Salem, and Mrs. John Brennan, 575 South Winter street, sisters, did not -recognize one another.. However, the likeness of their features led casual acquaintances to ask the question which brought them together hero last week, I- . Joel H. Coe and Henry "Hi Haman, owner and manager of the Perfection Bowling alleys, where the two women waited for hus bands and sons, surprised Mrs. Brennan as she sat at the coffee counter by insisting that she- must have a sister and that the sister must,, be in the room. At ; first, Mrs. Brennan, who had been sep arated from older sister and bro thers when she was only three years old at the time of their! par ents divorce, denied existence of a sister. But Coe and. Haman did not give up. They inveigled the women into telling their given and maiden names, and comparison proved how right their eyes had been. v. J- 1 : So, since Wednesday, Mrs. Ritz man, who as a young widow was visited by her mother and young er sister in 1923, and that same younger sister, since married and the mother of a family, have .been putting In as many hours as they SSft Leonard A. Bohrman, son In-law ef Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wiederkehr of Jefferson, is spending a brief fnrlough from San Lute Obispo, Calif, with them and his wife. His wife. the? former Dollle Wiederkehr. wOl return to California with him. ; i . pain and vAnr.iBQ.. III I So many pretty sheers for -womeel So deverfy and ; ftlmf f vt so cool : We've ravan nrlntx. soft ! paste. 38-44 fJQ A vsjaesat - avaas M ontgomeryvrd 113 i:x tritrty 02G0N STATESMAN, Satan. can spare from their, homes be coming re-acquainted, a J' -" ; : As the Deck sisters, the pair spent portions of their gklhood in Salem. But they have only re cently returned here. Mrs. Ritz man came here with her family a year ago from Missoula, Mont When last December she was; a patient at Salem Deaconess hos pitaL'she looked out of her hos pital room window Into the yard of the house into which her sis ter's family had moved in Novem ber. . .",;:,::;':'';; ; - : '4 j . ; Of Mrs. Ritzman's five children, three sons are in the service. The oldest, Pvt James Moore, would have seen his aunt as his mother's double. He it was who suggested that one; sister wear her hair up and one leave it down so that the neighbors could tell them apart, He arrived home Sunday from Greenwood' Miss," on fur lough few hours before Sgt Harvey Moore had to leave to re turn to March field,. Calif, where he Is an aerial gmmef Instructor. The younger brother is putting to use some of the knowledge gained in two yearr service in the Aleu tians. ;. - - : . - The middle son has recently been sent to Camp . Roberts -for basic training as a naratrooDer. .. The . oldest of ! Mrs.'. Brennanrs four sons. Jack, 1$, is in the coast guard, where he j has served for two years, and is stationed at San Diego. Two younger sons, Albert and Tommy, play; in the Crystal Gardens orchestra with their fa ther. Mrs. Brennan was waiting for them, when Coe and Haman looked at the shape of her face, her nose, eyes and mouth and asked her to "say it over again when she declared she had no sis ter at least none whose address she knew. The . story of how the address was lost when Mrs. Brennan was told her sister was moving to Mis souri some 18 or 19 years ago is longer than that of how the sis ters found-themselves. But while Look forward to being de lightfully cool, enticingly crisp this summer in a weightless sheer rayon. Gay prints. 12-20. C A. O n Tics ZUi . , mm 1 Oregon. Sunday Morning. Mar Rexiew Acquaintance Mrs. Lewis Ritsman, left, and Mrs. - aft V coffee center after 21 years ef separatlen. The Statesman who asked them to similarity ef festares which led together. i. V.( " f the younger sister moved around, the older sister remained at Mis soula until sho and her family came west so that the husband the younger sister had never met could engage In defense work. In Portland, where they lived for a I ' T ,i r t vi , ' MONTGOMEKY WARD J. JJ ZJllUr- J fij j. I socoolefreihalveiglaattpwa I . t . . H? j " N i fjok tf s) e h caick ;? : I ) x ll. I I V C - - . 1 j y i I frehchcbf07..-.cfWdV ' : I " ". ' r U 1 I r; to I ' II j '!!."!' yoedothis Summer. Coate see lor ywiniUI . I 1 VI I Youl(Wslxts?te15,12lo2Ql53te4C ! ! i - V . r r . "... m vc&mz: f tizzttiii ..-. ; i : ' - ; . J:r, I ' " ' ';'f . II I ! " ' -- Jr j 1 1 rsBwaesaejaeaesaeaeiiiiiiiiiii im jiaeawaeaawsnsessssaiiiiii Biaeaei l " ' " - . ,..,, , , ' MMiain ,uuiiimii" ' t - i ' . " , - . -1 j " '"'" -t.i '. - I1''-'! " : : -.. -. j; . ..- i !. , : - . - - .. - . - ... -- . .. -- : .... .' .. . . 1344 .'.I Jeha Brennan, right, sisters, met "Jast took natural new" eaeght the easaal aeqaaintances te bring them A j ,: I J -y. , v y . ; few months before Ending a Sa lem residence, she hunted; indus triously forj Roxie (whose friends and family itoday call her: "Ame lia"). When' she met her in a bowl ing alley, she was the expression is trite but suitable-fbowled over. Car Accident Brings Suit Suit to recover $6350 for gen eral damages and $168 for special damages allegedly resulting from ah automobile accident has been started la the circuit court against W. M. ; Tate and Anna May Brandt According to - the complaint filed Saturday, Charles Duane Burt, a minor child, was riding as a guest In a car owned by one of the defendants, Anna. May Brandt est March 13. The car, op erated by the defendant's son, Glen Brandt collided' with an other ear at Nebraska avenue and 14th street The second car was owned and operated by W. M. Tate, the second-named defend an, , '- i The complaint states that the boy suffered concussion of the head, fractured ribs and fracture of the right arm. Suit Is being brought oh behalf of the child by Floyd Burt, guardian ad litem. Howard .Warren Rites Set for Monday Funeral services win be held Monday, May 22, from the Ham ilton Funeral home In . Vancou ver, Wash, for Howard L. War ren, 49; former forest service employe here, who died Satur day, May 1 13, in Vancouver. He' had been employed the past" 18 months at the Kaiser shipyards. He was a veteran of World War I. River Men Study Colombia Navigation U1IATILLA, May 20-(ff-Nav-Igation. possibilities - are . being studied by a group of riverboat operators who headed up the Co lumbia river today. . , The 400-mile trip along the Columbia and Snake rivers, wOl take four days and will end 100 miles above Lewiston, Idaho. Da ta wDl be presented at Walla Walla June 8 and at Portland June IS at hearings to be con ducted by army engineers. Rye Slumps am CHICAGO, May 20 j Rye broke sharply In heavy, trading today with the price for May and July deliveries off five cents, the limit permitted for i one day's trading by the board of trade. May and July futures were at new lows for the year. September and December rye, though receiv ing considerable support from commission - houses, shorts and professional traders, declined with the1 other months to new season al loWS. : i - ' The break in rye unsettled other grains and led to Increased sell ing of wheat futures, especially the July, which finished at a new low for the current downtrend. At the close wheat was Vi to 1 lower, July, S1.64H to $1.64. Oats were down to , July 77. Rye was 2 to 5 cents low er, May $1.15. Barley was down to , July SL21. Sharply
