- Page Eighteen.
THE REGISTER-GUARD, EUGENE. OREGON.
News of Lane County Men Serving Uncle Sam
I y
' ij f: i
i
. Av? ; i A. i
if4 '
- JAMES (LEFT) AM) OTIS JAY, sons of Mr. and Mrs.
William Jay, Noli, are built serving in (he U, S. navy in the
Pacific area.
1 !
'Roo Hunting
Sport of Yanks
'Down Under'
Kangaroo hunting Is among
the sports of American soldiers
in Australia, judging from a let
ter received by Mr. and Mrs. R.
A. Rankin, 383 W. Broadway,
from their son, Lt. Robert R.
Rankin, now on duty "down un
der." "I've done some real hunting
over here," he wrote. "Some of
us went kangaroo and pig hunt
ing today. We got two 'roos, five
pigs and one emu (Australian
ostrich). It was great sport
chasing them down in a Jeep.
You never saw a funnier sight
than the one we made. Four men
bouncing around in the jeep try
ing to hit a 'roo on the Jump."
Lt. Rankin was at sea in the
Pacific area when Pearl Har
bor was bombed. Later he saw
action at Java before being
transferred to Australia.
He was a student at the Uni
versity of Oregon before enter
ing the army air corps. At the
university he was a member of
Phi Kappa Alpha.
Oakridcje Sailor Describes
Coral Sea, Midway Battles
ROBERT (BOB) SAVAGE,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Sav
age of Marcola, who is a ma
chinist's mate second class,
serving with the U. S. navy
somewhere in the Pacific.
THE SWINDALL BROTHERS, Eldred (left), and Wilfred,
are both in the army. They are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Swindall, Eugene. Eldred, a graduate of Eugene high, and a
former OSC student, is now stationed at Karachi, India, with
the air corps. Wilfred, a private with the 59th infantry, un
derwent training at Camp Welters and Camp Benkelcy, Texas,
before being transferred to Fort Devins, Mass,
Dave Crittenden at
Will Rogers Field
Private David M. Crittendon,
formerly of Eugene, is one of the
soldiers stationed at Will Rogers
Field, Oklahoma, army air force
bombardment base.
Private Crittendon is assigned
to a bombardment squadron as
a mechanic. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles J. Crittendon,
2259 Kincaid street, Eugene.
Before entering the army In j
January of this year, Private
Crittendon resided at Eugene and
was later employed by the Boeing
aircraft company. Before report
ing to Will Rogers Field on May
13, 1942, he was on duty at SheD-
pard Field, Texas.
vy-Vv'- " I "2. O V
h V; I . vr
Springfield Boy On
Duty In Australia
Serving with American forces
someplace in the Pacific area is
Serg. Robert A. DeHaven. son of
Mrs. Rober L. DeHaven, Spring
field. He enlisted In the army In Aug
ust, 1941, from Eugene and under
went basic training at Ft. Leonard
Wood, Missouri. Later he served
at March Field, California, where
he was made a corporal.
He was promoted to a sergeant
shortly before leaving for over
seas duty on January 12.
-
w' 5-
8 j-Ax
I A fy:J
By MRS. CHARLES CRONER
(Register-Guard Correspondent)
OAKRIDGE First Class Fire
man, Howard Shuey, home on a
furlough following participation in
the Battle of Coral Sea and later
In the Battle at Midway, admits
he was "quite scared for about five
minutes," then he forgot every
thing except to kill as many Japs
as possible. Howard is the son or
Tom Shuey and has lived in this
area practically all his life. His1
motner is dead. He nas a brotner, i
Jack Shuey, now with the army In
Australia. Howard joined the navy j
Dec. 7, 1941, and is a 50-calibre!
machine gunner. He can not tell;
on which ship he is serving. I
The attack at Coral Sea was not '
a surprise, the youth reports. Scout i
planes were sent out by the Japs
Major McEwen Takes
Posl With Engineers
Muior John James McFwpn
former football coach at Uia IlnlJ
versity of Oregon, has reported
for active duty in the office of
chief of engineers at Washington
D. C, according to a press dis-
paicn.
Maior McEwen whn urtnfUaA
Webfoot teams about 15 years
ago, was assigned to his post June
17. A graduate from West Point
in 1917, he served through the
World War as an infantry officer,
and from 1919 through 1923 was
football coach at the military
academy. He resigned from the
army in 1925. John Warren, pres
ent Oregon mentor, was among
the Webfoots who played under
McEwen. He later coached at
Holy Cross.
and dropped a great many bombs.
Most of the Jap planes were shot
down by the Americans. After the
battle, Howard said his outfit re
turned to Pearl Harbor. It was In
the Coral Sea battle that the youth
said he was scared at first it was
his first battle.
Then came the Midway en
counter. Howard's ship was bat
tered but reached its objective. "A
great many planes and ships took
part in the battle, but the Ameri
cans sank all but three Jap battle
ships and left one of them so badly
damaged it probably didn't get to
port," Shuey said. He took the first
shell out of his machine gun be
fore the battle of Coral Sea and
also at Midway and removed the
powder and kept them as souve
nirs. Howard is enjoying his travels
In that he gets to see much of the
rest of the world. Ht particularly
liked Australia and said the peo
ple are very friendly. In some of
the countries where he has been he
said there was a shortage of food
and money was of no value.
Referring back to the Japs,
Howard said: "The Japs will fly
low enough so that you can see
them grin broadly and will wave
at you, then drop a bomb on you."
Recently, Howard saw two other
Oakridge boys while on duty (he
can not say where). They are
Walter (Lefty) Kissinger, son of
City Marshal and Mrs. William
Kissinger; and Wallace Ellefson,
son of Mr. and Mrs. William Ellefson.
Editor's Note: Below Is the ,7
Whistle." desired to be elipJeS
tailor, or marine. The "Whistle" u In?"! ItU?
fellow at sea or to some dlsUnt 'T?
hi. home town. To that "n My T", "Eft
Hons, either from men to sefcnr . 5m-
are sincerely sollelted 3 ?m u? or
' " "reiuil. stodiei, "
numeiown WhistlJ
A rtly dlnrt of
eonuaimtiT fcr Un,
Strife Soys;
tugene'i AthVH,
Week's Highlights
Lane county is doing Itself
proud In the current ruber sal
vage drive . . . especially are the baseball oW iS'
service station ntunim ,v straight . .01t :
as middlemen without one cent of J4 w Oint HP
personal nrofiL Dlff.r.t n land Fir... I .WW '.
panies and service groups are viel ne?day they JH
ing to outdo one another in the 4"2- However ST1, 1
campaign, says Chairman AH 7 mate Ho . ' 1
ger, and so far only one case has the CascadTV0 C;
been found wh. . r.ic,i. waae tec
price loaded a tire casing with field. UcJ.Z.
rocits. lotter, was
VLT has another play coming up Cincinnati ReKl'!
early in JuIt when i,i,i. xA, " rerpnt u n". Ioa.:
man will take me iH V-.'l. A C 1 hat
She. from Punkin Crick." Maybe h appeared in iL
this is a sign of a dwindled treas- Boss. He', wSJfT
ury usually U, says McGurk himself in JS2f
Anyway, Glen Hasselrooth wiU Champ ,m 0 :
direct, and Marlon Krenk will . ing disouaifl
,?JL..'L sor,e. for tni "'west A lot of
. wk tor the
shoot at th. T,,....
ween out uiass naj bn W
CORPORAL WEB Me.
PHERSOX of Springfield, is
with the regular army in Ha
waii. He graduated from
Springfield high in 1940.
Rodney Jensen at
St. Mary's for Training
Rodney Jensen, 19, son of Mr
and Mrs. Elmer Jensen, Rt 5, Eu
gene, is now at St. Mary's college
in California undergoing pre-flight
instructions as a U. S. naval avia
tion cadet
Jensen, a graduate of Eugene
high school where he played foot
ball, attended the University of
Oregon for a year before enlisting
in the navy air corps.
CORPORAL ROBERT
(Bob) MATLOCK, one of
Uncle Sam's volunteer soldiers
who was on duty In Hawaii
when war broke out. He is (he
son of Mr. and Mrs. A. M.
Matlock of 311 Sixteenth av
enue east, Eugene, and a grad
uate of Eugene high, rlnss of
1934. He also attended the Uni
versity of Oregon.
Lt. Ray It. Hewitt
Lt. Ray Hewitt Gets
Marine Commission
Home on furlough this week Is
Lt. Ray R. Hewitt. 21, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Roy H. Hewitt. 1923 F.. !
nun, who has Ju't received his
wins in the marine air corps at
the Corpus Christi naval air sta
tion in Texas.
Lt. Hewitt, who will he here un
til! the last of June, entered the
marine corps from the Universiiv
of Oregon when a junior. He Is a
member of Delia Tau Delta fra- ;
ternity. j
After his furlough he will he
stationed at Fort Worth, Texas
for additional training in person
nel work.
Vernon Sprague
Now at Annapolis
Vernon Sprague, son of Mr. and
Mrs. G. M. Sprague of Eugene,
this month received his master of
arts degree from University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor. He en
tered the service immediately and
has left for Annapolis to enter
training for the war physical fit
ness program.
Vernon received his B. S. de
gree at the University of Oregon
in physical education. Last sum
mer he did advanced work at
University of Southern California,
going to Ann Arbor the past win
ter. Mrs. Sprague has left Ann
Arbor to return to the west coast
and will visit here for a time with
Mr. Sprague's folks.
M m I
ADAMS GRADUATES
Richard T. Ariam. ID .
- ..,, u, BVM1 (II
Mrs. Hugh Smith of Eugene, will
graduate Saturday from the naval
training school at the Sand Point
naval air station. Seattle, where
he has attended a school for
aviation machinist's mates during
the last four months. Young
Adams enlisted in the navy on
September 13, 1941.
Kenneth Ruth Places
High In Marksmanship
Kenneth Ruth of Eugene, now
in training with the marines at
San Diego, Cal., was one of three
men in his platoon to place high
est in marksmanship, according to
word reaching his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. C. B. Ruth of Eugene. Of the
three ranks, marksman, sharp
shooter, and expert, Kenneth plac
ed as expert in rifle and as sharp
shooter with pistol. He has been
on the rifle range for the past few
weeks.
ROLLIN A. MOORE, 24. son
of Mrs. C. M. Vermillion,
Springfield, has been in the
navy since October, 1941, He
attended the gyro-compass
school at the Brooklyn navy
yard. Rollin is a Thurston high
graduate.
Cecil Dresser Promoted
To Staff Sergeant
Sergeant Cecil H. Dresser of the
army air forces, stationed at Mc-
Chord field. Washington, was re
' cently promoted to the grade of
staff sergeant.
J Staff Sergeant Dresser enlisted
i In the army on January 30, 1940
! at Vancouver Barracks. Wash. He
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. S.
i Dresser, Dexter, Oregon.
PRIVATE PROMOTrn
Melvin M. Mason, nf Kim-n,,t.
Marcola. has been promoted from
private to private first class, ac-1
cording to word received from the '
Harhngen army gunnery school 1
at Harlingen, Texas, where he is I
stationed. I
WILBURN McFARLAND,
son of Mrs. Claude Miller of
n,.4A 9 I ' I. t. I
in this south sea scene. He
joined the navy in September, ,
1941. I
Two Creswell Boys
In Army Air Corps
Two more Lane county boys,
Jahu B. Wilson of Eugene and
Jack D. Wagar of Creswell, have
been accepted for training in the
U. S. army air corps ground school
and have left for an air corps re
placement center, the army re
cruiting office announced Tuesday.
Wagar Is the son of Mrs. Har
riett E. Drew. Wilson Is a former
student at Eugene high school and
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry E.
Wilson, route 2.
Lt. Lorence Receives
Flying Commission
Lt.. Howard C. Lorence, son of
E. H. Lorence, 75 E. 24th, has re
ceived his commission at the Enid
army flying school in Oklahoma,
according to word received from
there.
He now undergoes advanced
training, which will include form
ation and night flying.
HOME OS LEAVE
Alwin P. Johnson, nrlvate first
class, of Fort noncrlac TTtaH im
home on a 15-day furlough on
business and is visiting his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred B. John
son of Springfield. He entered
service on March 7. 1941, and this
is his first furlough, although he
was home last September on a
three day leave from Camp Rob-
erts, Calif. Johnson is in the ninth '
corp area service command at Fort :
Douglas. He will spend .Sunday :
with his brother-in-law and sister, I
Mr. and Mrs. George s. Mrr. I
ken at Dallas, Oregon.
. m
fairgrounds frolic.
City Recorder John Fields got shoot at the "e1
of Cn?.Pl fCimers th,!s week ?ay GIass "a, beSfc
-- .... puueemen and n practice rounds mrf
!' ul n wants more. Frank and J. B iw
Might be that the salaries, which there to uphold fe w,
weren't mentioned, hav. . town v me hot !
thing to do with the trouble. "Jumpin' Joe-
, t0 ead the American is,
Th Hf.ne. tins . 1 . ... t
--'..o. .cam coming up 6 kwow, uouiaai ri
Monday evening may have some haiIi"St him as the pu J
surprises, "Coagulator" Merriam baU PIa.v- His cunrl
suggests. If they are not on their ava?c is .376, just i J
iocs, uie air raia wardens and an" 01 another wihb-
nummary ponce may und them- uonion nntr (
selves bottom-side up in a shell kini ' hitting wfco ,
hole. , . . were around, but he hj
The combination navy-bond fmu lift ith tte r-
drive was a fine, patriotic affair. y' IJ'e Harri. W
wonaer about the recruits who v ' ,m 01 0111 '
had to walk hnm.i versity of Oregon, m
"Irannants Oen.rat m,..,.. ,he ""vivon of the Led
' VHOiUS
H Martin, told the lumbermen a bohm- ,
lot of things about the war. He Aifc.n m, ZrJZ'S
objected to reporters' use of the JS? Mr- M 8 Bml e!
nicKname, "ironpants." but the Mn Aim swSm
reporters off the record (more DuKtiie". to Mr. md iti
or less)-had a reply: If all the & ,r"4.M.
general s adjectives used to des- tr,. Mr. md m. Vi
cribe the Japs had been included Mr- "'' Mrj- 01m P!te u "
in th. .nTO ..I !"4 Mr. snd lln u
would have been embarrassed.
On the home-eountv nniitiat marriage ucissb-J
front, both democrats and repub- stlVml' M-S"H.mJlScto?
licans began Dreliminarv nrpani- ciawson. both stit Ukc i
zation for the NovemW .wti 5"k. ""P1" 1
. : ' " pnrtiand: Georm w. Horn
this week. Both county central orim. bmh (yrmS: it,
pnmmlHm nt anA AiuAj and Mjrlrl Ti-wm. botii
ricers. C. A. "Shy" Huntington for r.t ir,. -j 1
the third term heads the repub- nOT- rufpn; wind e3
lican group; and D. W. Crites has ctt tfl
oeen namea cnairman for the Pwini. A vKiorn w. n fc
June Kerh. both tiifew:
aldtton and Tmt SUnberrr,
'.and; Irvine O. Jackun 19
Conant both Eufene; Clffl H
Esther AnkarberK, both Xura
democratic central committee.
,
Society Notes
June Is doing a good Job living
up to its reputation for weddings.
Friends in Eugene have been
congratulating Joe C. Keever and
Muriel Tyson, (June 18), James port: Mr Marr Bdora etc J
Robert Stevenson and Marjorie
(Bobsie) Roehm (June 12). Kath- both of Rodeo. CaL: Btrsi
Ipen Dnucrherfv anH Mtnnan n Portland! Edward at Bri
rjtt i ii . n . - Grove: Infant daufhter Of Mr
n nuras wune Ul. Vivien l.ev- WllllJm w,bln. Jr Bar,
ltt went down to Fort Ord for a imam damhter of tai
military wedding to Lieut Ober-
lin J. Evenson, June 7. Mr. and Mra. W. L TWUnr
DIED Mn. Martha Aaartd
Mr, rrrd Ludford. Mn A:
mers. Ed McClanahan. Ttri
Mra. Grace TiveT. and Hu!r-
all of Eugene: CltrftmJ Mwl
GENE V. IIAXSEV. 19 n
of Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Hansen.
Cottage Grove, is now aboard
a United States naval vessel.
He left for duty December 8,
1941 and was a former Cottage
Grove high student
rv
LEWIS A. CROW, 17. son of
Mn. W. A. Dull. Trent, joined
the navy in June, 1941. He Is
an aviation metalsmilh, sta
tioned at the San Diego naval
air station. He attended Dras
ant Hill high.
SOI.DIFR STAR
LONDON. June 13rl)l"c,ene
Raymond, film star and first lieu
tenant In the United Slates army
air force combat command, ar
rived in London today.
Lighting fixtures
Give softer light . . . moi
beauty to your home.
ELECTRIC
1070 UUUmett
C8S
GOLD SEAL
i I CONGOLEUN
j I RUGS
Lyons & Peters
MIOGLEYS.
1
Saatari
Doors rhlnet Work
PHONE 1059
Insulate Now!
Throughout the summer, Veep your rooms cool
end eomiorlobU with RED TOP insulating wool
placed between celling Joists. Il costs to little!
Throughout the winter, insulation will greatly
reduce your fuel bill and keep your home warm
and livable.
INSULATION PAYS FOR ITSELF!
Ask for particulars
Twin Oaks Builders Supply Co.
If e dont render complete Building Sen ice. WHO POFS?
EUGENE JUNCTION CITY
669 High St.. Phone 2600 Phone 92
REDECORATE
VI
( MINTS J
PAINT to repair for defense! ... to
conserve your old furniture for the
duration. Repair and prepare now
with lasting Fuller Paints!
Preston & Hales
857 Willamette phon ,
WALLPAPER LUGGAGE LEATHER GOODS
Candidate Davis 21;
Gets Commission oon
Monday will be the twenty
first birthday anniversary for
Candidate Earl D. Davis, who on
next Thursday will receive his
second lieutenant's commission at
the engineer's training School at
Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Earl is the
son of Mrs. D. C. Lindgren, 1338
Washington street, Eugene.
Candidate Davis has been In the
army for three years. He held a
technical sergeant's rating, going
to Fort Belvoir from Camp
Beauregard. Louisiana, having had
charge of map reproduction for
the fourth corps, third army, at
Beauregard.
HERE OX LEATI
Private William L Hi'
the U. S. marine corps w
Seattle is home on fariisl
ing his family. HU win i
dren will Join him the
nxsrtpra fan br
He is stationed st i M"!
depot there.
FORESEES Sum Ui
BUTTE, Mont. u-1
close of the war, the fi
v. . lilvn-.nllM
stead, according to . 4
-. f the SunstrJ
mine. He declares toJ
sumption of silver wi
the past few months tx
ily being used as fi
for tin.
They all use Electricity!
loacry, many oi tne iaciui.f u.. 1
trical appliances are busy w:tn -i ... J
.1.- j ,i i.. Kriiart rurr.ber w:ii t c73--"!
ui9 uuiuutjii, uiiiy u ii.iii.t
for home use, thus releasing vast surp.:es
materials for the war efforti
i of v
... . . . ,r v.. VsrL-.7
loure worlclng lor victsit -i ., j
equipment in gooa o.utri - - g. ;-l
vour o!octrir-ol crcDliar.ces . . . ky n".a-' '
Repair now, and be assured cf s; ie-,