i t . ’ PAGB THUE .■S .I I /UJI I LBL. „■ ■ “!•WHSSSBB5555=5! — ■ scene of his traveling, was very for ard home. He left to return to duty tunate last week in that his vessel this morning. • .docked at a California port and he was Capt. Hale B. Eubanks, who is in able to get up here Friday evening to Insurance Specialist, F. R. Bull. s' 'Cspt. Hale B. Eupanks Had IA Week’s Christmas Leave Hems About local Bon In Swire I Wounded Riverton Boy Write* Major Darrell Brodie Family Parents Fr*m So. Calif. Hospital Here On Christmas Furlough :__ Mn Ir a B su mg aetee r e f iUv erie n, Mr>‘1 Mr*. Martha Pauli, of Gardiner, a 1 former well known Coos county lady I whose maiden name was Martha Miiie ranrwhowag tvoTi nn Fts h tr a p, Wednesday I f res from Belton. Texas, to «pend the ... * ..... * u it j ... u: s and W. <T. Miller, writes to Christmas holidays with his parents. . .. _ -• . . .. .. o —i » c v n U4 a wr tel* where her five boys in the U. S. Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Brodie at Norway; service are stationed. She tells of her mother, Mrs. LaVenea Finley reading letters from Coquille valley here, and other relatives and friends, boys to parents and friends and her were greeting some of those friends heart fills with pride for them. She, in Coquille on Monday, They will too, is proud of her sons and she leave for his post in Texas Friday' “prays that God will give me life and morning. strength to keep the home fire burn ing until they come home.” Lieut. Edward McCarthy Three of her sons are in the Navy: t Home For A Week’s Visit I Thurman E., Mo. M. M. 2/c, is at Lieut. Edward McCarthy, who flew San Diego; G. Royce, G. M. 2/c, on from Kansas City to San Francisco, the U.S.S. Tatoosh in the Aleutians, where he spent Christmas with his i and Nile B., R. M. 2/c in the Carib- sister, Mrs. Geraldine Thornton, ar ' beans. The two. in the Army are L. rived! here Tuesday evening for a Earl in Trailblazer Artillery division short visit with his parents, Mr. and at Camp Adair, and Ralph T. in Army Mrs. M. McCarthy, and friends. He Air Corps at Mopterey, Calif. will leave again next Monday and re turn from San Francisco by Sir to his Chas. Mclntee A Navy « post at Fort Leonard Wood. Mrs. McCarthy is expecting her other son. Aviation Mechanics Mate Jack, to be home for a visit next i j A. M. Mclntee, of the Mt. States week. •i Power Co., says the finest Christmas I present he received was the Navy certificate issued to his son, Charles Boyd Stone Was Here V., who is stationed in Texas and The Christmas Holidays who has just been made an Aviation Boyd Stone, who joined the Army Mechanics Mate second class. Charles Air Corps last July and took his train ! writes that he expects to be home on ¡ng at Butler University, Indianapolis, leave in February and that he was re fnd., was home last week and spent cently on a /light with “Buck" Gil a five-day Christmas holiday. He is bert, son of Carl Gilbert of this city, now stationed at Lincoln, Nebr., !°r and adds that Buck is a ------ of a further training. good flier. - Calling carda. M xor Sl-OCx who recently returned from visiting their son, Robert H., at Oakland, Calif., writes the Sentinel that the doctors and nurses are giving the wounded the very best of care and that most of the boys “want to go back and help finish the job.” From the Naval hospital at Corona, to which he was moved from Oakland, Robert writes his parents: “Arrived here yesterday. This seems to be a pretty nice place. The buildings are more permanent here. I can look out the windows and see snow-capped mountain peaks. "We crossed the Mojave desert on the way down here. It looks some thing like the Idaho desert except that it has more cactus on it. Looks pretty desolate, though. Just found out the name of the mountains that I mentioned. They are the San Ber nardino Mts. The town pf Corona is "about three or four miles from here and about sixty miles from Los An geles. “Bet you can't guess who came through and autographed my cast this __ .... Kay Francis, the movie afternoon: star. I She ___ ,___ hlso ____ gave me ___ an _____ auto- graphed picture of herself. “The day I left Oakland some la- dies came in and brought us several Christmas packages and today a Red Cross lady gave me a deck ot pin- ochle cards and some other ladies brought me a whole sock fulf of gifts, It had two combs, tooth powder, four packages of cigarettes (I gave them Mark Seeley Stationed At Remember — Norton’s for offiqg, away), stationery, razor blades, Fort Lawton, Wash., school and home supplies. 37tfs candy, nuts, etc. Photographers came in and took some pictures ot us in , Mark W. Seeley, who was inducted the ward for the Examiner. They are into the Army following his recent going to present a 810.00 bill to all vi,it here, writes that he is now Pri- of us who were wounded in action vate Mark W. Seeley, 391442, care 8th Traffic Regulating Group, Fort Law overseM.** ton, Wash. He says that he will be glad to contact Coos county men who A *43 C. H. S. Graduate may be stationed near there. TT Leaves For Overseas Pvt. Jack D. Stiles, ot the AT". Curtis Williams Commended Medical Corps who recently finished his basic training at Camp Berkeley, By His Commanding Officer Pvt. Curtis R. Williams, of Sanford Texas, has been assigned for over seas duty. His wife, daughter of , Heights, Coquille, was highly com- Mr. and Mrs. George Hall of Myrtle mended recently by the commanding Point, recently returned from Abi- officer of a bombardment group for lene, Texas, where she was with her his role in helping to complete an im- husband during his training period, portant rush assignment for the re- He having such a short furlough Mr. pair of a number of bombers that and Mrs. Stiles spent it with Mr. , were urgently needed tn the all ‘out Stiles’ sister, Mrs. Eddie Miller, and bombing of Jap installationa, accord family in Denver, Colo. Jack is a ing to official word received here by graduate of the 1943 class of Coquille the Air Service Command. According to th« letter of* apprecia High school. He is the son of Mr*. tion and commendation written by Lt. Julia Bracelin of this city. Col. Guy L. Hudson, Jr., to Pvt. Williams, the outfit Williams is with Dick Ray To Bo In did emergency repairs on a group of The Sub Service Soon planes needed at the front within 72 Bill Ray, eon o. Mr. and Mrs. Mor hours. The letter added, “Its is re ris Ray, who came over from their gretted that security measures pro John Day ranch to remain here until hibit the publication of circumstances after the first of the year, ia in the behind the story, however, it may be Army Air Corps. He enlisted in the revealed that these planes are now in Army last February and is now down contact with the enemy, a feet which in Texas for the second training pe would have been impossible except riod and when this eight weeks period for your cooperation and the splendid 1 is over, he will receive his wings. work performed by each man in con Dick Ray, in the Navy since Sep nection with the project.” tember, is now stationed in Iowa and Pvt. Williams ia an aircraft armourer when he finishes the course there he and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis will go into the submarine serivce. H. Williams, of Coquille. As a member of the Air Service, Tech. Sgt. John Cornwall Pvt. Williams is one of a large num Was Home For Christmas ber of experts behind the lines who Technical Sergeant John Cornwall, are directly responsible for "keeping who for the past year has been sta ’em flying” regardless of odds. tioned at Camp Adair, near Corvallis, where he is in charge of communi Keys made ter all locks. Stevens | cations, came in last week to spend Cash Hardware. Coquille. Ore. Christmas with home folks. Me doesn’t seem to think his army ser-l, vice will extend beyond the Adair camp. Two Boys From Here Graduate As Navy Hospital Apprentice* Two Coquille men earned the ac vanced rate of hospital apprentice,! second class at this week's graduation exercises held for the Hospital Corp« School at the U. S. Naval Hospital, at Great Lakes, Illinois. Gradustion terminite* a six-week course of preliminary training at the Hospital Corps School. Included in the course is the study of anstomy and physiology, hygiene and sani tation, materla-medica and weights uud uiuasuiO. flrri . ing. nursing, transportation of casu alties, and dietetics. The two newly graduated men, ready now to continue their hospital training at another Naval hospital, are: Wallace Lee Moore. 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Moore, and Clifford Emerson Anderson, 18, son of Mr. and Mr*. Clifford E. Anderson, McKinley Route. Ellis Racklefi !• Corporal In South Pacific Mrs. Grace Rackleff, formerly of Arago but now living in Salem, writes that her son, Ellis E., who ia some where in the South Pacific, has been made a corporal, and that it gave him a sort of home feeling recently when he ran across Russell Dement of Myr tle Point and Rod McKenzie, of Port Orford, boys whom he knew. That's our New Year Greeting. Win the War in '44. Resolve to make everything wo do hasten the day ot victory, o* peace. ot happiness. 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