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SWEGLE, Aug. 17 Ensign
Glen Larkins is spending . 20-
day leave at the home of his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. "Glen Lark
ins, sr., on Gardeh road. He came
home from Chicago where he com
pleted his carrier plane training,
and Will. go to San Diego for as
signment :.i4':..4 '' '4444' '
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na high school in 1942 he has been
trained as a civilian pilot, had
pre-flight and flight training. He
received his wings at Corpus
Christi, Texas in March, ,trans-
Dort instruction, ' and for ' two
months was in Florida.; ' '
Raymond Bond was home for a
short furlough from Camp White
with his parents, Mrv and Mrs. O.
P.; Bond, route six. .
Fvt Marios West arrived home
for a short furlough from Camp
Roberts, Calit, on Saturday.
Arnold Nelson, son of Mr. and
MrsJlDan Nelson, has received his
discharge from the navy. Last
week he and his wife moved from
the' home on Swegle road where
she has been living to a home at
Pratum.
IX Robert Byrkit of 1365 Mission
street, spent Us leave of 11 days
' at the family home and has been
ordered to the replacement cen
ter at Lincoln, Neb. - .
Byrkit (rained at Stockton
field as a B-17 pilot and was
stationed for a few weeks at Las
Veras, Nev., before beinr or
dered to Nebraska. He entered
the service in January, 1943.
41st Veteran
Back in US.
Pvt kennethj Cater, son of Mrs.
Harold Burns ok Salem, has all he
can do to keep tvarm in Lettennan
hoBpitatafteriitwofc :anda half
years in' the South and Southwest
Pacific 4 j . ,- V - "
. A welcome telephone call came
from thie veteran of "Salem's Town"
41st division tft'S. week, telling of
his safe arrival tin' the .United
States and conmenting , that he
was wearing tvjro pairs of pajamas
and was still cold, 4 i -
Private Cateif, who suffered re
current malari4 14 times, told his
mother no other Salem: men" re
turned -with hm but indicated
some were expected to follow.
It was understood he was tabe
transferred . from Letterman, in
San Francisco,, to. another army
base hospital within a few days
Sergeant Fniechting
Given Airj Medal forj
Bombings in Europe
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, AN EIGHTH ; AIR j FORCE
BQMBER. . STj ATION,.. England
Staff .Sgt Raymond. J. Preuchting,
25, . of Salem) ?re-waisi gunner
on an; Eighth air force B-17, has
been awarded the Air Medal for
"meritorious achievement while
participating . in tbombing attacks
on naid war industries, and on
coastal defenses and supply lines
in ui9prt of the t allied invasion
of. FrahceT i :j V :- .
: He is the son j ot Mr. . and Mrs.
John ti. Freuchtinf of RED 2, Sa-
( Special to The Statesman)
15TH AAF IN ITALY Master
Serreant Marion L. Scharn. son of
Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Scharn of
- Salem, Oregon, has been awarded
' a" distinguished unit citation rib
bon. ' - r
Sgt. Scharn -is the armament
chief in a P-38 Lightning squadron
of a veteran group which was cited
for outstanding performance Ijn
aerial combat over Steyr, Austria,
on April 2, 1944. The Lightnings
. achieved a striking aerial , victory
' in beating off an attack by a su-
perior number of enerpy aircraft
; which 'attempted to attack the
bombers they were escorting, j In
' destroying twenty of the Luft
waffe's aircraft, the group's pilots
helped make possible the success
. of the bombing.
Sgt.; Scharn also wears an African-European-Middle
East Cam
paign ribbon adorned with ' four
bronze battle stars which -shows '
that his unit has participated uVj
the Tunisian, Sicilian and Italian i
campaigns as well as the air of
fensive against the enemy over
Europe. -
Mrs. Marion L. Scharn, his wife,
resides with his parents in Salem.
Sgt. Scharn's brother, CpL Leon
ard D. Sham, is in the paratroop
- ers, stationed in the United States.
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MOSES LAKE, Wash., Aug. 17
Private Clarence E. Grubbs, for
. merly Shell Oit service station op
erator, at Salem, now stationed at
Moses Lake army airfield . near
v here, has recently been promoted
. to the rank of corporal,
j Entering the service September
f 15, 1943, Corporal Grubbs,. upon
. completion of - his basic training,
was stationed at Hammer field,
.near Fresno, Calif, until May 1 of
this year when he was transferred
tot his Fourth air. force post. r. ....
; i He has been assigned to duty at
the air supply depot
Waldo Gilbert, son of Mr. and
Mrs.: Ralph Gilbert, has been ad
vanced to staff sergeant, according
to a letter sent to his parents. Sgt
Gilbert has been in the South Pa
cific for 30 months and has been
in the campaigns of Salamaua,
Hollandia and Biak.
WPB Ortl4rsStopage
Of House Construction
Portland Aug. njeyp.
War Production board, charging;
its regulations: ha; been ' violatedj:
today ordered contractor Josephf
A. Hull to sfop vail work on al
$10,000 house pn which construc-l
turn was well underway l
According to C' T. Mudge, as-r
sistant WPB director here, an or-e
deri ssued in Washington, DC, as-i
serted that priorities and lumber
conservation regulations were Vio-
lated. i Hull ihvas; forbidden td!
make even alterations. !
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Pvt. Kenneth Hoogerhyde arrived
in Salem this week, flown 7000
miles in four days from the Gil'
bert Islands to be at the bedside
of his mother, Mrs. Cornelias
Hoogerhyde, 498 Ford street.
'Pvt. Hoogerhyde has been ov
erseu la Hawaii and.the Gilbert
Islands' 30 months and this It his
first furlough since he was In
ducted In February, 1942.
. Mrs. Hoogerhyde has been In
bed six weeks and suffered sev
eral paralytic strokes but was
conscious and recognised, her
soldier son when he arrived
home Monday. He Is on a 30
day emergency furlough arrang
ed through the American Red
Cross.
Besides Kenneth a daughter,
Mrs. Hobart Dixon, lives In Sa
lem and a brother, Clarence
Hoogerhyde and a sister, Mrs.
Ross Sherman live In Dallas.
507 Pounds of Beans ;
Record Season "Take" I
TJNIONVALE.Au. 17 Mrs
Robert KelleyJ regular picker hi
ik. TT to ! 11J' '.' Oti'i. T 1.J:
bean yards in
the. Unionvale dis4
trict, picked 507 pounds of bean$
Tuesday, i ThiA is the record
ing so farirepol'ted for this seasonf
The regular! scale of- wages, of
2V2 cents land bonus, is paid.
S
w.
is included in
wounded
- (Special to The Statesman)
15th AAF IN ITALT-Second LL
Harold W. Maker, 25, of Breek
avenue, Salem,. Ore., navigator on
a B-24 Liberator bomber, has been
a warded the air medal and an
oak leaf cluster, 'two 15th army
air force announcements released
simultaneously today, declare.
Almost identical citations'' ex
plain that the award was made
- for meritorious - achievement- in
aerial flight while participating in
a u s t a i ned : operational activities
against the enemy." "
Lt .Maker, who enlisted Octo
ber 12, 1941, is a member 'of ; a
group which has seen , action in
the Italian campaign ior live
months and has participated in re
peated aerial flight against the
. network of German industrial
centers thoughout southern Eu
rope. -
100 Persons: Attend I
Metal Workers Picnic
Annroximatelv 100 Dersons! at
tended the pcni given, Suiida
at nouywpoa ipanc Dy aneei uviej
Members of thie - comniittee iri
charge were Albert "Johnitoi
Fred BadfertecbetS. S Griffin
Charles HfeatH and -Joseph Wich?
man.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kist, 124
KTnrth ' 1 fill Wf' Salm. veti
..vi . .w-t -, W
day received a cable announcing
the promotion of their son, Cec
W. Nist, froml the rank Of lieiiten-
ant colonel tdl CQlonel in the fbrmf
infantry. Thfj plomotion bedamjB
effective AugLstlO, approprlatel-
ly enough! in that the colonel! was
44 yeirs ld fort (that day.
Col. Nil it, a graduate of 1 Veft
Point, has befen in the servic s 25
years; He is bow believed tn be
stationed somewhere in the Pas
cific area
The nimelotiSUff Sgt.
Palmer, sbn of Mrs. Clam
Palmer, 2?9 Rock street, Silverto8
ia list of Oregon knert
in Ictibn in the South--
west Pacific ire released by.
war department Thursday.
Salem's Yourig Salts?'
Wliere Dud Hit the Texas
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Salem and adjacent communities in the mid-Willamette valley
underwent ah "invasion" Thursday.
But the "invading" forces were friendlyt a
and other communities on their line of march In mildly expld
eiirA en4 - oThtihoMnr $ a cViiam f f E I file
; . Making up the "conquering horde's"! were some 88 young inn
xrom this section or the "volun
teer' state", home on the first leave
after graduation from boot camp
at Camp Farragut, Idaho.
-Salty" Looking , ' .
The more than four-score youths
now trim and "salty" looking
navy r blue jackets are members of
the Salem area's own "Victory
Volunteer" company of 17-year-old
enlistees who by an odd co
incidence,
last June
tr9
landed: at Farragut on
64f0day"-and ghidt
uated from if'boot camp", on tie
day American forces opened their
invasion jot southern France. - I
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tveryi memoejr. oi uie aaiem
company completed the boot camp
adventure without mishap or Iser
ious illneis of-any kind. Ddri-Jtg
recruit school, this all-Oregon! uil
it distirigiiisjied itself - for high
marks in many phases of training,
, L i!Ll ' -J ill!
mciuuing iwjjnraing, visual eiKutif
ing, strength! test, drill, seaihan
ship, ; plane recognition and other
acUviUes. f .
Get 13-Day teate
Upon gifediiatfon, the youngl na
vy men ; aulhyere advanced from
apprentice! starnjen to 4he rating
of seamen second-class. They j will
enjoy, a l B5-day leave before! r-
for-
turning , ti Farjfagut - for f uEther
duty assighni
ces.
The Salem
traveled y
A repair crewman Inspects a hole made In the side of the US battle
fhia Texas by a dud shell while the vessel was shelling German
coastal batteries at Cherbourg. (AP Wrephol from US navy).
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tion
was
ex
ent in the naval
' area navy youths
tmn from Farrhgut
io, Portlarjd ajid- trickled into!
lem. in groups --yesterday by
or private! canyeyitnce. .
Station Thronged . .
The local riav recruiting si
In" the Irioslaffice' buildmg-
thronged iviHh groups of rctuAtifig
sailor boyk who; dropped in td tell
recruitersl tnerf, iioout their
periehceS j in j boot camp. "
-It ; was! the general concensus
of 'opinion among them that3"tiie
boys are pretty,. happy about beuag
m.theria.Vjl' S... J.
Worked Hard - . l
, worked -ard,- drilled hard
and studied; hard to be the best
company Ithat Farragut has jeer
turned oit 1 ana we pretty-
succeeded" 1 6n member of the
unit -said-jprpudjf. f- ;,.;;
5 "At tha simev time, though
added, V'e Ihad a lot of funj and
interesting expercrGes.
that Jjve were all pom
towni or the samel part
e made it a lot more fun
a grouji.of
a lot of
The ; fact
the same
of the sta
than belhgj among.
strangersi'
Capitol it Market St.-- Salem
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TTcdncsday at Chorch j ,
AMITY, Aug. 17 Tho Wo
men'sSociety of Christian Service
of the Amity Methodist church
lem, and his .Wife is Mrs. . Jean
Eruechtinf ; of Tulia,-.Texas, j He
entered: the AAF in May, 1941; -
met Wednesday. Mrs. W. E. Tay
lor led tha opening devotions and
lesson, her topic was "Achieve
ment Through Self Discipline !
V A social hour was enjoyed and
refreshments, served to 18 mem
bers and guests. .'
i Hostesses for the afternoon were
Mrs. John Gibbs, Mrs. Wiel Patty,
Mrs; " Clarence Rosenbalm and
Mrs. Ernest Gibbo. t
Aids Vital Farming
Marvin YanCleave of tha Hazel
Green area is continuing to aid in
the operation of a large farm. It
was erroneously reported . In a
story on the farm page Thursday
that he had been In the servic
and had been given a medical
discharge.'-.,
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Florida Orange Juice
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