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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. '
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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.-
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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 "
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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 .
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So deverfy and ;
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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
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crisp this summer in a
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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
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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