Major's Parents
Keep Secret for
Five Long Months
Angelo, Wis. IB This tiny vil
lage too small to have a post of-fice-r-held
a military secret for
five months.
The hub of this secret was the
Angelo village blacksmith, Ulys
ses Grant Anderson, and his wife,
Lena. They were entrusted with it
by a U. S. army officer because a
central figure was their son, 31-year-old
Maj. Bernard L. Ander
son. He was one of the American
officers who slipped thnough the
conquering Japanese hands at
Corregidor in 1942 to rally Fili
pino guerillas.
Besides helping to keep the al
lied offensive on the islands alive
during the darkest months of the
war, Maj. Anderson had a per
sonal grudge to settle with the
Japanese. He explained his feel
ings in a letter written to his par
ents on Jan. 22, 1942, from Bataan.
Wedding Date Set '
"If the Nips hadn't taken Man-'
ila, or I mean if we hadn't de
clared it an open city and moved
out before the 10th of January, I
would have been married on that
day. . . .' She ts Betty Lou Gewald,
and everything anyone could want
and more."
He explained further that Miss
Gewald was a distant relative of
Policeman Harold Hovland of
Sparta, Wis., where Angelo's 100
inhabitants get their mail. The
major-added that her father was
with the Pacific Commercial Co.
in Manila until the war started
and later became a captain in an
engineers' unit. A nurse who re
turned from the Philippines said
that Miss Gewald's father was
kUlod on Corregidor.
The war department reported
Maj. Anderson missing in action
on May 7, 1942, the day the west
ern half of Corregidor surrender
ed to the Japanese. His parents
heard no more of him until they
got a letter written Sept. 20, 1944,
by Lt. Col. Allison W. Ind, a friend
who escaped under orders to Aus
tralia. They had met at Selfridge
Field, Mich. Col. Ind told the An
dersons that their son was alive,
but he warned them not to tell
anyone that they knew it.
Doing Valuable Service
"I can assure you" he wrote
Maj. Anderson's parents, "that he
is doing a most valuable and un
forgettable service."
The elderly couple sensed from
Col. Ind's letter that their son was
a man with a mission a danger
ous mission. It wasn't easy for
them to pretend that he still was
classified as missing in action.
They were happy to have the
pressure eased "one February
morning, when a neighbor, Mrs.
Agnes Webster, came to their
home. She said she had heard a
radio broadcast that their son had
reported to Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur's headquarters in recon
quered Manila. It was the first in
dication that they need not guard
their secret so closely any more.
Their son's decision, announced
in a letter Jan. 29, 1945, to stay
with the guerillas for a "fight to
the finish" sounded alarming. But
other passages made them feel
that the death of Miss Gewald for
i ; -
want of adequate medical atten
tion to an infected appendix while
she was held by the Japanese had
not made him bitter permanently.
Longs for Home Meal , ,f
. This, for instance: -,
- "Many times in the past months
I have longed to sit down to the
table and enjoy one of those deli
cious meals we used to have," he
wrote. "Mother, I will never again
complain about having to eat po
tatoes and bread before the des
sert," -
Another home interest that sur
vived in him was the Civilian Con
servation Corps, which was sus
pended by the government after
he went overseas. He had been in
charge of a CCC camp at Ettrick,v
Wis. He asked his parent's to get
in touch with Jay Marshall, Sr., to
ask him for a letter telling about
the condition of the CCC program
and its plans for the future.
Anderson was Marshall's clerk
at the Sparta CCC base for four
years before his . induction. He
went to Manila in May, 1941, as a
1st lieutenant after training at,
Selfridge Field, Mich., He was
transferred to the air corps from
the infantry. "
A brother, Sgt. James, is serv
ing with an air force unit at Camp
Stewart, Georgia, a veteran of 4
years service.
'SEES WORLD' WITH PATTON
Wallagrass, Me, IP The Third
army of Lt. Gen. George S. Pat
ton moves too fast for one of its
members. Pfc. Alphie Gagnon
wrote to his parents here that he
"was getting tired of running
from one country to another and
one town to another. When I get
back I'm going to stay home for
a full year and not go outside at
all."
Soldier and Mascot Wounded
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Suffering from gunshot, wound in lower jaw, "Skipper," a U. S. Army war
dog receives medical attention while his wounded master, T5 Frank
Oliver (left), Detroit, Mich., watches anxiously. "Skipper" was with 25th
Division In action at Balete Pass, near Baguio, Luzon, warned infantry
men of approaching Jap patrol. Signal Corps photo.
Hospital Finds
G..'s Interested
In Art Studies -
Van'Nuys, Cal. UP) GI Joe,
who thought with most Ameri
cans that art was for the favored
few, has discovered he was wrong.
And doctors at the Birmingham
general hospital here are capital
izing on his interest in things ar
tistic to recondition war wounded
soldiers.
More than a dozen prominent
Hollywood portrait painters, car
toonists and commercial artists
are contributing their time to
teaching 300 students in hospital
classes. . '
One teacher, Dolya Goutman,
in ceramics, drawing and paint
ing, Russian-born painter, com
ments, "The falce doctrine that
art was for 'sissies' kept these
men from expressing themselves
artistically in childhood. If the
much-publicized era - of - the-com-monman
is at hand, certainly the
Referendum Due
On 3 Milk Bills
Salem, Ore., April 12 UP) A 'pre
liminary petition asking referen
dum of three milk control bills of
the recent legislature, will be filed
in the secretary of state's office
here before May 1, Henry Fruitl
geiy Portland, president of the
milk producers distributors o f
Oregon, had indicated today.
The bills, which call for the
pasteurization of milk from non
certified disease-free herds, are
objectionable to many producers
and distributors, Kruitlger said,
particularly those dealing in raw
milk'.
Kruitlger said he would take
the action after a conference yes
terday with Sen. W. E. Burke,
Yamhill county, one of the oppo
nents of the bills at the recent
session, and Attorney General
George Neuner.
He particularly objected to the
bill granting the department of
agriculture power to set stan
dards for .fluid milk and cream, he
said. -
Completed petitions bearing at
least 14,442 signatures, must be
filed with the elections division
here before June 15 to put the
bills on the 194G general election
ballot.
While flying high over the target
at Munich enemy fire destroyed
the plane's oxygen transmission.
Forced to low level flying the
pilot called for fighting support
as he dropped out of formation.
The escort protected the bomber
until he was pretty close to the
German border. When the plane
was forced down at Stuttgart all,
the crew members except Staff
Sgt. Thomas Marshall, Fin., para
chuted to safety but were taken
prisoners. They are now being
held in a prison camp north of
Stettin. .
War Briefs - -
common man should be nermitted
to enjoy the arts as part of his
daily life."
Gls interested in expressing
themselves packed the first art
class when it was announced the
model would be starlet Jinx Falk
enberg, in person. They weren't
scared off by the announcement
that they'd be drawing such pin
up cover girls as Dusty Anderson,
Chill Williams, Karen Gaylord,
Eileen McClory and Marguerite
Chapman from first-hand obser
vation. .
The Rod Cross supplies the
semi-weekly classes with materi
als, easels and drawing boards.
Sgt. William Willard, former!
Hollywood sculptor stationed at j
the hospital, originated the art I
school. He was rewarded when a !
war bond poster contest sponsor
ed by a Los Angeles department
store was won by a recently dis
charged veteran, of five Pacific
campaigns.
Ex-Bend Resident
Wins U.S. Medal
Madras, April 12 (Special)
Captain George H. Chilson, sta
tlofied at the Madras air base,
presented the air medal to Mrs,
Ray Ballantyne at her home In
Madras Saturday afternoon in
recognition of the meritorious
service under enemy fire per
formed by ner son, Second L.t
Glenn Ballantyne. Lt. Ballantyne,
21, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Ballantyne. He was born in Bend,
hut the family moved away from
that city later. He graduated from
high school in Spokane. His father
is an employee of the Warm
Springs Lumber company.
Young Ballantyne was a bom
bardier on a Flying Fortress
(By Unllml Prm)
Western Front American van
guards reported across Elbe, last
water Darner before Berlin.
Eastern Front Red army col
umns reported 20 miles west of
Vienna in drive aimed at Hitler's
Berchtesgaden fortress.
Pucific Large B-23 fleet blasts
Japanese war plants in Tokyo
southern Okinawa stalemated
fourth day; .Americans gam on
Luzon. ,-
Italy American Fifth army
storms into Carrara, 12 miles
from La Spezla naval base; Brit.
Ish force Santeino river at cast
end of front.
Rhoda Is Named
Madras Principal
Madras, April 12 (Special)
Carl Rhoda of Hallway has been
elected principal of the local high
school replacing Dennis W. Patch :
ot Adrian who was unable to ac
cept because of his wife's illness.
Rhoda has been on the Adrian
high school faculty for the past
eight years. He is a graduate of
Willamette university and has
been principal in the Adrian
school for the past two or three
years. He will bring his family
here the first part of June.
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