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Hi Serving Uncle Sam Edited by Margaret Magee Lt. Raleigh Wirth, command er on a Saipan based B-29 Su perfortress, is presented the Dis tinguished Flying Cross with one Oak Leaf Cluster by Gen. O'Donnel. The officer, recently promoted to first lieutenant, has completed 30 missions over Ja pan and is now instructing new replacements in tactical train ing. He, in addition to the DFC, wears the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters and three bat tle stars on his theater ribbon. (AAF photo.) Sg t. Williams Here Spending an 18-day furlough in Salem with his parents is Sgt. George Glen Williams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Newell Wil ' liams of 346 South 23rd street, who arrived Sunday morning. Williams, an instructor at the air army air corps radio school at Sioux Falls, S. D., for two years, recently completed his gunnery training at Yuma, Ariz., and is now being transfer red to Tyndall field at Panama City, Fla. The younger brother of the air corps man, Newell Williams, Jr., is with a combat aviation tervice unit of the navy in the South Pacific. Southwick Visits In Salem on a 15-day furlough before reporting to his new as- ignment with the first air force at the base at Columbia, South .Carolina, is Pvt. Frank South fCuck, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph 'Southwick. A former Capital Journal car rier boy, the air corps man is a graduate of Salem high school and at the time of entering the service was a student at Willam ette university. He took his basic training at Keesler field, Miss., and recently completed his training at the advanced flight engineer's school at Long Beach, Calif. He reports to Columbia June 28. Aurora Cpl. Lester Rupp of Canby, Ore., recently was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for heroic achievement in action on the fifth army front during the Italian campaign as a mem ber of the 91st division. Rupp volunteered to carry badly needed supplies of food and ammunition to soldiers manning front line positions and although German machine gun fire swept the the mountain trail which was the only route forward, and a heavy enemy mortar barrage fell around him, he doggedly continued forward and delivered the supplies. A farmer In civilian life, he entered the service in Novem ber, 1942. His mother, Mrs. Lena Rupp, lives on route 1, Canby. Warrant Officer, Henry V. Snyder of the U. S. marines, son of Mrs. Diana Snyder Poling, has returned to his base after having spent a short leave with relatives. Arthur J. Jefferies of the U. S. army son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Jeffries of Aurora, is home on furlough from his base in Texas. In Germany Stationed in Germany' with the army of occupation as a purchasing and contracting of ficer is First Lt. Charles R. Campbell, son of Mrs. Anne Macy, city police matron. The talem lieutenant, on the con fient since D-day, has "picked up" some German, he writes his mother, but on the job has to have an interpreter to help him in transacting his business. Now living in Weiden, a city with a population of 7500. Campbell was with the 90th di vision, the outfit that captured the huge store of hidden gold, which he described as quite a sight, and was with Patton's third army until the end of hos tilities. Quartered on the third floor WATCH REPAIRING I specialize on fine Swiss ft American Watches and I make balance staffs for Oyster Rolex, Longines, Gruen, Bulnva, Buren, and other makes. IR. G. WARREN 135 N. Liberty St., upstair i With an Automatic Weapons Battalion of the )4th Anti-aircraft Command on Leyte Now wearing the Philippine Libera tion ribbon along with the Good Conduct Medal and Asiatic Pa cific ribbon with one bronze battle star for participating in the northern Solomons cam paign is Staff Sgt. William T. Mills of Lyons, Oregon. The soldier, an employe of the Evans Plywood corporation at Leb anon, Oregon, before his induc tion into the army in April, 942, received his basic training at Camp Roberts and Camp Haan, Calif. He left for overseas duty in August, 1943. Corberr Leaves Entraining from Portland Wednesday morning for Great Lakes training center was Theo dore (Ted) Corbett, son of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Corbett of 585 Shipping street. The former navy man, who this year was graduated from Salem high school, successfully passed the Eddy test and will, after com pleting his boot training at Great Lakes, take special train ing in radar at the navy's radio materiel school in Chicago. Cor bett and his parents drove to Portland Tuesday. Rickreall Mrs. Florence Ragsdale has received word of the advancement of her son, Robert C. Ragsdale, to chief radar technician, USNR. Rags dale has for some time been in charge of all radio and radar equipment on an aircraft car rier. He has served in both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets and participated in the Philippine and Iwo Jima invasions. it- '.' if , I . up - 1 ! f ' 'Vf ( . S V if! Motor Machinist's Mates 2c Robert (left) and Raymond (right) Thies, 19-year-old twin sons of the late George A. Thies of Salem and Mt. Angel, who have been spending their 30-day leave from navy duties at the home of their cousin, George Naderman. The twins, together since entering the service in February, 1943, when they left for their basic training at Farragut, Idaho, re cently returned from 17 montns of service in the New Hebrides. Graduates of the Silverton high school, the sailors after complet ing their basic training attended machinist's mate school at Law rence, Kansas, and the Packard school in Detroit. They leave Salem Friday to report for duty at Bremerton, Wash. One man from this area was listed as wounded in action in the fighting in the Pacific and two as liberated German pris oners of war on the army-navy war casualty list released last night by the OWL Wounded while serving in the Pacific was Pfc. Ervin C. Bottcher. husband of Mrs. Haze Mae Bottcher of Lebanon. Liberated prisoners were Pfc. Elttah H. Chambers, son of Mrs. Mahaia Chambers of Independence, and Tech. Sat.g Oale Sorensen. son of Mrs. Martin M. Sorensen of Albany. Griffith Promoted Word has been received here that Carl Griffith of the United States army, well known in Sa lem, has received his promotion to major. He is in the European " - - . 5 First Lt. Donald O. Cronemiller, pilot of a B-25 with the 12th army air force, is congratulated by his commanding officer fol lowing presentation to Cronemiller of the Air Medal. The flier is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lynn F. Cronemiller of 1760 South Winter street. (AAF photo.) of a large hotel in the city since V-E day the lieutenant and his fellow officers have their meals in the officers' mess hall on the first floor. The food he stated was excellent, then went on to say that as th,ey eat the German people walk by and watch them. The soldiers have chocolate and sugar, but there is none for the people in that town and food he stated was scarce, though the women dress well. Across the street from the hotel is a grocery store where women daily line up for their rationed food and sometimes wait two or three hours before securing it. Campbell compared the wea ther to spring time In the Wil lamette valley with days nice and warm. Two days before the officer wrote his letter Old Glory had been hoisted on a flagpole in a park in .the city, which has a large post office that has been taken over by the APO. For the entertainment of the men motion pictures are shown each night at the hotel and Me morial day there were services and a parade. Later Campbell hopes to visit in Paris. Under a central plan de veloped by dairymen, only one bull need be kept for 350 cows, the number varying with local conditions. theater. He is the son of the late Dr. Carl Griffith, many years practicing physician at Burns, and his mother is county health nurse for Haney county. He also is a nephew of the late Dr. Frank Griffith, for many years head physician at the Ore gon state hospital, and his cousin, Dr. John Griffith, practicing dentistry in Salem at the present time. Pvt. Schlegel Visits Arriving in Salem Sunday night for a brief visit before leaving for Salinas, Calif., to be with his parents was Pvt. Rob ert Schlegel, son of Mr. and Mrs Earl Schlegel, who for nine months was held prisoner by the Germans at Mooseburg, Sta lage 7-A camp. The soldier, a former Willam ette university student, was freed April 30 by his former outfit, the seventh army, under command of General Patch. On termination of his 30-day fur lough Schlegel will report to Santa Barbara. Silverton Tech 4 Norman Jensen, son of Mrs. Anna Jen sen, has been awarded the Bronze Star medal for meritor ious service up to April 20, in Germany. Jensen is radio oper ator and repairman. His wife, the former Laura Hall, is resid ing with relatives in Clatskanie. Cpl. Ronald Reed has receiv ed his discharge from the army and has returned home from a rest period at Santa Barbara after serving for 38 months in the South Pacific area. Reed plans to complete his college course. Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard have received word that their son Melvin Hubbard, USN torpedo- man 1c, has been awarded the Purple Heart for wounds i ceived in action May 4 against the Japanese in the South Pa cific area. Proves Wonderful For Itching Skin! 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The flier, in the service since June, 1942, spent 14 months overseas and for six weeks af ter his plane failed to return to its home base was listed as missing in action. Five letters received from him in December were the only word his wife had from him until his release. Farmer, who wears the European theater of operation ribbon with three battle star', the Presidential Unit Citation and the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, was at the Mooseburg prison camp where Major Stephen A. Stone, Jr., and Second Lt. William T. Fos ter, both of Salem, were also held by the Germans. Receive Discharges Fort Lewis, Wash., June 13 (U.R) Ninety-nine enlisted men from Oregon have returned to civilian life, following their dis charge from the service on the point system or over-age regula tions, Fort Lewis separation center officials announced Tues day, In the group were three from Salem, Tech. 5 Gilbert R. Stul ler of route 1, and Pfc. Richard W. Jones and Pfc. Theodore R. Rape, both of route 2; and two from Dallas, Sgt. George A. Lindahl and Tech. 4 Gordon E. Hansen. Weisner Here In the service since the Ore gon national guard was mobiliz ed in the fall of 1940, Pfc. Bruce F. Weisner arrived in Salem Tuesday from Camp Gruber, Okla., to spend a 10-day fur lough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Weisner. Weisner, a former student at the Sacred Heart academy, has been stationed at Camp Gruber since November, 1944, when he reported there at the termina tion of his furlough, which fol lowed 22 months of service with the coast artillery in the Aleutians. f ,1"'T'-'' ' Marine I'fc. Donald K. ( rnr, former student at the Chcmavva Indian school, who recently was awarded the Purple Heart med al for wounds received as a re sult of enemy action at Guam. Presentation of the medal was made at the U. S. naval hospi tal at Oakland, Calif., by Capt. A. H. Dealing. The marine is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Segerquisc of Woodinville, Wn. (Marine corps photo.) Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesday, Tune 13, 1945 3 serving with the 10th army in the Pacific, was wounded in ac tion in the fighting on Okinawa May 24. The corporal has been in thp armV for thrnn vnarc onrl riurinr 1 1 months nf that tim I has been overseas. He took part in the Leyte invasion be fore going to Okinawa. Woodburn Lt. Jerry Scol lard, who has been a prisoner of war in Germany for the past two years, arrived at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Scollard of Portland, Satur day. The family is well known in Woodburn where they lived many years. His mother is the former Nora Beck. Lt. Scol lard is a bombardier and was captured on his first mission over Kiel. 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