The OREGON STATESMAN, SaUin Oregon. Wednesday Medina. May 16. 1945
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Victor Crocker
Is Rlissing in i
Pacific Action
ALBANY Leland Victor Crock
er, machinist's mate SC, is miss
ing in action, his wife, Martha
Lean Crocker of Albany, has been
notified by the navy department.
The message conveyed no data or
indication of the area of the action
where Crocker was engaged, i He
has been in the service about 19
months and had been i aboard a
destroyer In the south Pacific. "
Arthur Harris Out of
German Prison Camp .
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JEFFERSON Mr. and Mrs. T.
P. Harris received word from the
adjutant of the army, saying that
the secretary of war desired him
to express his pleasure that their
son, Arthur I .Harris returned to
military control 'April 15, 1945.
Private Harris had been in a pris
on camp in Germany since Octo
ber 19.
WITH THE 1104TH ENGINEER
COMBAT GROUP IN GERMANY
In! little more than a year's time
the first squad, second platoon, of
Co. VCn 246th engineer combat
battalion finished its training at
Fort, Lewis, endured a; turbulent
Atlantic crossing, disembarked in
England for continental invasion
training, landed in France D-day
plus five, and literally worked and
fought its way through the Nor
mandy, Northern France, and
Germany campaigns. The squad
includes CpL Robert E-i Brown of
Salem, Ore. j
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Chi Omegas at
Dyer Home1
Mrs. William Conn ell Dyer
and Mrs. Claybourne Dyer were
hostesses to the Chi Omega
alumnae at ' their North 13th
street home Monday night.
Bridge was in play during the
evening witn prizes going: to
Mrs. Robert S. TarrelL jr., and
Miss Edith Libby. . i
A late supper was j served by
the hostesses. The supper i ta
ble was centered with a bou
quet of red and white! carnations
flanked with red candles.
Attending were Mrs. George
Hill, Mrs. John Fredin, Mrs.! Ir
win Harris, Miss Edith libby,
Mrs. Paul Nieswander, Mrs.
Richard DeCamp, Mrs. Elwin
White, Mrs. Conrad W. Paulus,
Mrs. Robert Farrell, Jr., Dr. Hel
len Pearce, Mrs. Grey Munjar,
Mrs. George Neuner and the hos
tesses. I i
I Miss Lorafc Kate Griffith, who
is a cadet nurse at the Univer
sity of Oregon Medical school,
was here from Portland for i the
weekend at the home of her par-
- a- ' f r ' t - fiM
enu, nor. ana jxirs. ixwu urn
Cth. Saturday Mrs. Griffith, ac
companied by Mrs. William Pau
lus, attended the cadet nurse in
duction program at the Neigh
bors of Woodcraft hall in Port
land.
j The National association of
Letter Carriers and auxiliary met
on Monday night at the chamber
of commerce rooms. They decid
ed to assist in the sale of pop
pies and to make a donation to
the Red Cross for the purchase
of a record player for the Cor
vallis naval hospital. Hosts were
Mr. and Mrs. Mem Pearce i and
Mr. and Mrs. . John French.1
I The Royal Neighbors will hold
their regular meeting) tonight at
8 o'clock in the VFW halL Mrs
Winston Purvine, juvenile direc
tor, will Sold a ; get-acquainted
meeting for the juvenile society
members in the VFW hall at
p. m.
Mrs Lester. I.. Colgan.. of
" Grants Pass is visiting at the
home of Mrs. G. . H. Colgan
1349 Waller street ' CpL Lester
Colgan is now in Germany, his
family has learned. ;
1 Major and Mrs. Woleott E
i Buren have returned from
I week's trip to San i Francisco,
I Berkeley and Modesto, Calif. At
I the latter city. they visited with
Major Vera W. Miller.
1 Maccabees Willamette No.
i thimble club will meet today for
( a no-host dinner at noon, at the
home of Mrs. Elisabeth Taylor,
! 523 North J8th street.
Mr. and Jfrs-B. E. 'Owens en
tertained at dinner and bridge
f Sunday night at their home for
; the pleasure of members of their
. club. Covers were placed for 12
St Agnes Gnlld of St Paul's
Episcopal church will meet I to
night at the parish house; at 7:30
o clock. j '
Mr. and Mrs. Arthvr ColUn
of San Francisco are visiting here
a few days as the house guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Kiches
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DFC Awarded to
I Dallas Man
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DALLAS Hi CpL Kenneth G
Steele was presented a Disting
uished Flying! Cross and an Air
medal during an impressive mfli
tary formation held recently . at
Hamilton Field, Calif , CoL Curtis
A. Keen, commanding officer of
the Hamilton1; field base unit of
the air transport command's West
Coast wing, making the presenta
tion.
The awards Were for meritorious
achievement In participating In
more than 200 hours of operational
flight over enemy territory while
stationed in India. The son of Mrs.
E. J. : Steele, the has spent two
years with the army air corps in
India. !
per has notified his mother,
Mrs. Mable Knight that he has Clifford HelgerSOll
enlisted In the navy lmmedl- UI JJaiiasf JJies 111
aboard a flagship in the Pacific DALLAS -& Mr. and Mrs. Clif
before Ids first leave home, 2S ford P. Helgerson received noUce
montns mn im seam or we Friday of thi death of their son
equator. Since then he has been pfc Kendall Helgerson, 20, whd
stationea at uceanside, cam. Was seriously wounded in Ger
many, April 8. Ho was being
treated in an English hospital.
Born in Dallas he had lived his
entire life here graduating with
the class of 1942 from Dallas high
AN EIGHTH AIR FORCE LIB- schooL Aftef training with a mili
ERATOR STATION, England tary police organizzation he went
SSgt Carl H. Gustafson, 19, son overseas early in the year. He was
of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Gustafson, a truck drryer in a MP battalion
889 Blaine st. Woodburn. Ore., I attached to the 89th infantry regi
was recently awarded the Air ment :
Medal for "meritorious achieve- Surviving! are his parents and
menWin aerial combat with the a sister, Pft Elogene Helgerson,
453rd bombardment group. He is serving with the WAC at Dale
a nose gunner aboard the B-24 Mabry Field, Tallahassee, Fla.
Liberator 4Crows Nest"
ALBANY It Is First Lt Ron
ald J. Bowerman now, according
I to word received by bis parents,
Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Bowerman of
East Albany, He received his pro-
JEFFERSON Leroy Heiser, motion and , also the Air Medal re-
seaman 1c. is spending a 30-day cently. ; Lieutenant Bowerman, co-
leave with his parents, Mr. and puot on a B-29 bomber, has flown
Mrs. Frank Heiser. In the naw on combat:-missions both over
for Vi years he has participated China and Japan. He is a gradu-
in action in the Philippines, Mor- ate of Albany high with the class
ati, Marshaus, and Marianas. ox vin anaj nas Deen in ue army
two years and overseas smce No
vember. 1944. Before enlisting he
seaman First cusa Kiebaxd w. emDloved by the Tarlor Print-
waiter COOnse, USNK, IT. Of in CnJ nf Alhanv.
saiem, is at tne naval training
CHICAGO (Special) Ens.
Sgt. C. II. Gustafson
Awarded Air Aledal
Leroy Heiser Spends
Leave With' Parents
AUMSVILLE Wiiford LaFoan-
talne, fireman 1c, stationed at
San Bruno, US naval advance
base, was visited In San Fran
cisco recently by his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. LaFontt
taine, and his sister, Lonella, ill
ol Avmsvllle. II
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station, Norfolk. Va.f to undergo
stroyer of th. Atlantic fleet He l:9?? usseD' "V5??"
recently completed a period of
training at Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Salem, Oreif recently reported to
the officers! school at the naval
Son of W. S. Coonse of route two. T V V T. "
el, " " " IT"' receive instruction for duties
Salem, Coonse has a brother, Bill, aboard , destro r toe AUantfc
an electricians mate second class, fleeL Ens.iRusseU is the son of
in we navy, i IWr nf Mre t! I nucull not
N. Liberty st.. Salem. His brother.
somewhere IN THE WEST- Leland, 19.11a a private in the
ERN PACIFIC Rollin Dakynr I army. Before enlisting, Ensign
Page, 1623 Chemeketa st, Salem, Russell was employed by R-'L. Elf
Ore., has been advanced in rating strom in Salem.
from seaman second class to sea
man first class. He is on duty at
one of the gigantic mobile supply
and repair bases which operates
in the forward area of the Pacific.
First Lt Francis A. Harris (left)
Portland, former Willamette
university stndent Is eongrafa
llated by CoL John Haghes Std-
jter en receiving the bronze star
medal for meritorious service.
Harris, signal officer of an jjA.4
Imerlcan liaison team attached
lie the Chinese expeditionary
iforee In soathwestern Yunnan
province, participated in the
jSalween offensive which in elht
months, drove Jap invaders from
the province, making possible
the peninr of the new Stllwjell
Xedo-Barma) n road. Colonel
iStodter is eommaader of the
; liaison gronp. i;
Rice. Beatings
Provide Diet r
Of Prisoners :
CORVALLIS NAVY HOSPITAL
(Special) -The second Battle of
Manila Bay and its after effects
convinced Gunner Lee G. Mills,
32-year-old regular; navy warrant
officer, that stateside - duty is
great - particularly after an ab
sence of five yean, three of which
were spent as a Jap prisoner in
the Philippines. ;
Mills, who reduced his weight fit
one time to 89 pounds while on a
dainty Jap diet, is now conva-
escing at the UJS. haval hospital.
Corvallis. He has a wife and two
daughters in Portland. -
When the war broke, Mills was
serving aboard the Finch, mak
ing nightly exploratory sweeps to
prevent Japs from planting mines
in Manila Bay and in the China
Sea nearby. The day after Bataan
fell April 10, 1942 the Finch
was sunk by aerial bombs; C -
On May 6, the Japs took over
after losing 5,000 troops the prev
ious night Mills and other Arner-
cans spent the next 20 days on
the "Rock" helping bury and burn
the dead. Then the 9,000 prison
ers were moved to Manila and
marched up Dewey boulevard to
Bilibid prison. ' i t
To Cabanatuan, 110 miles away.
2,000 Americans again were, moved
in crowded box cars. i I
Mills said they were placed in a
fenced schoolyard, greeted by six
inches of rain and no sleeping ac
comodations. 1 i - i
"The next day we were ordered
to march. Heat exhaustion i af
fected many of the weaker ones
but none .were molested until a-
bout 50 had fallen. Then suc
ceeding stragglers I were jabbed
with bayonets and beaten with ri
fie butts j j '.
'The next day we were fed .just
rice. The guards I were i changed
to second line troops of Japs born
in Formosa. Later, at the largest
stockade visited during our , im
prisonment, we broke ground, cut
grass, farmed and chopped wood.
Colonels, doctors, all of us had
our hands in bard labor while a
goon squad of brutal Japs club
bed those who loitered, ate, or
stepped on plants. -
Three years later, seeing the
Jap guards scurry away leaving
SIXTH ARMY GROUP, Ger
many PFC Robert R. Akers
2397 Hazel ave, Salem, Ore-! is
among the veteran doughboys I of
the 142nd infantry regiment Who
experienced some of their hard
est combat in mora than 350 days
of battle recently when they broke
through the Moder line at Obfer
hoffen, captured Wissemboujrg,
and slashed their way through
strong Siegfried Una defenses,
prior to the nazi surrender. ;
MONMOUTH Of interest here
is the marriage of. Sgt James C.
Chatzauk of Monmouth to Miss
Lucille Miller of Sioux City, la
which occurred April 13. Chat-
zauk's mother, Mrs. Mabel Pollan,
and grandmother, Mrs. C C. Yeat
er live here. He was graduated
from Monmouth high school, serv
ed a 3 year enlistment in the army
at Fort Lewis, and re-enlisted the
day after Pearl Harbor. He served
in the south Pacific as mechanic
with the AAF, and for the last
yeas has been asigned to a post
at Sioux City, the home of his
bride:
Dr.: and Mrs. Frank V. Prime,
sr., have received word that their
son. Corporal Robert Prime, is
now In France. He left the states
in March. Before going overseas
Corporal Price was stationed at
Fort Columbia, Wash. His wife, the
former Willetta Griffith, resides in
Salem. :
AN EIGHTH AIR FORCE
BOMBER STATION, England
Staff Sgt. Harold H. Digman, 27,
of Salem, Ore., waist gunner on
a B-17 Flying Fortress, has been
assigned to the 95 th bombardment
group, cited for leading the first;
American bombing attack on tar
gets in Berlin. His wife, Mrs.
Gwenevier Digman, lives at 491
Nqrth Winter st, Salem.
J. Iloah Ward, enarman first
class, is spending his leave in Sa
lem at the home of his brother, '
Connell C Ward. The visitor has
been on duty on-a mine-sweeper
for the past year in European wat
ers, and previously was stationed
on the Atlantic seaboard for 18
months. He participated . in the
Normandy invasion.'
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ORCHARD HEIGHTS 'PTC Rob
ert A. Gannon, whe mads his
home here with Mr. and Mrs.
Wlllard Beehmer before enter'
lna the service, was liberated
from a German prison camp,
Staler n B, April 13. He enter
ed the service ta March. 1943,
and was with a para troop dlvi-
sien when he was taken prison
er la January, 1944. Exeept far
low of weifht, he is said te be
la fair health.
Lt. and Mrs. Howard '.;
Jenks Visit Relatives
ALBANY Lt. and llrs. How
ard Jenks, who . early this - year
came to the United States from
London, England, where Lieuten
ant Jenks had been stationed with
the AAF, and where Mrs. Jenks
had always lived, are visiting rel
atives in Linn and Marion coun
ties. -..-
Lieutenant Jenks Is a son of Mr.
and Mrs. Howard Jenks of Salem
and Tangent, who are now at their
country home near Tangent. He
is a grandson of Mr. and Mrs.
James Jenks, Tangent.
Jenks wears the Distinguished
Flying Cross, Air Medal with two
silver clusters and three campaign
stars. ' He participated in the r
day invasion of France as pilot of
Martin Marauder. Following
their visit here, Lieutenant and
Mrs. Jenks will go to Santa Mon
ica, Calif., where he will await iur
ther assignment.
T5 Alviii F. McCarthy
Discharged After ,
Long Pacific Service
! T5 Alvin F. McCarthy, who
came home from the south Pa
cific, where he had served 38
months, on a furlough following
the death of his mother, Mrs.
Frank McCarthy, 864 North 16th
st Salem, was presented with his
honorable discharge at Fort Lewis
on Sunday. !
; McCarthy, who saw action at
Hollandia, Saipan and Biak among
other places, was employed by
large bakery in Los Angeles prior
to entering the army. He is here
now with his father.
ALBANY Mr. and Mrs. B. C
Baxter of Albany have received
word from i their son, Harold R.
Baxter, that he has been awarded
the Purple Heart for shrapnel
wounds received' on April 21, in
the Philippines. The Baxters are
former residents of the Millers-
burg community.
the Americans free agents again
was "pretty nice.
Archie Brower ori
'. JEFFERSON Archie Brower,
seaman 1c, in the Pacific area
for 10 1 months, is spending a 25
day, leave with .his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. K S. Brower. In the
navy for 17 months, he received
boot training at Farragut, then
transferred to San Diego, where
he trained at the sound school.
CORPUS CHSISTL Texas '
Robert Lee Simmons, son of Mr.,
two, box 194, Silverton, Ore, has
been graduated from the naval air
training base here and was com
missioned an ensign in the U. S,
naval reserve. He is a former stu
dent of the Willamette university,
SalemJ, ' '
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