The Sikeston Herald from Sikeston, Missouri • Page 5

THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1945 THE SIKESTON (MU.) HERALD PAGE FIVE NEWS OP OUR WOMEN IN UNIFORM The job of helping keep America's gjant bombers in fighting trim for their aerial assaults on the Axis awaits Pvt. Lee Oscar Matthews, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben O. Matthews of Miner.

Pvt. Matthews has been enrolled at Keesler Field, Biloxi, for a 76-day basic airplane and engine mechanics course, having qualified for the Army Air Forces Training Command technical school with outstanding marks on the Army mechanical aptitude tests. Relatives have received word that Lieut. Marshall S. 'Waller has been injured in an accident in India.

The young man has been in service four years, having served in England as a member of the Royal Air Force in 1942 and 1943. He has been with the Tenth Air Force in the China-Burma- India theatre for the past several months. Lieut. Waller is a graduate of Charleston high school and is the son of the late Mrs. Iva S.

Waller of Charleston. His sister, Mrs. Orville Sanders, lives in Morehouse. Lieut. Dean Minner, son of Mrs.

Lina J. Minner, is stationed with the Army Engineers at St. Vicksburg, France. ENSIGN'S COMMISSION FOB MATTHEWS MAN Ted R. Morgan, son of Mr.

and Tom L. Morgan of Matthews, has been commissioned as an Ensign in the United States Naval Reserve, in ceremonies held last Thursday at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. The group with which Ensign Morgan was graduated included 865 new officers, the twenty- fourth class to be graduated from ithe oldest and largest Naval Reserve Officer Training School and bringing the total number of grad- 'uates to approximately 22,000. MOHKHOIISE MAN OK DIES Lieut.

Donald J. Pasaka, who is stationed with the Army Air Forces at Punta Gordo, will be released from the armed forces in two weeks under the new point system. Lieut. Pasaka has been in service for three years and has served in the European theater of war more than a year. Mrs.

Pa- saka is the former Miss Joy May Edwards. Tech. Sgt. Bon Boswell who had been visiting; his aunt, Mrs. H.

M. Nicholson, and family, has gone to his home in Marion, Ind. Sgt. Boswell, Aerial Engineer and Gunner on a B-24, was a prisoner of the Germans for 14 months. Mrs.

Ida Wood received the first letter in two months from her son, Clay Wood, stationed on Luzon in the Pacific. The young man, recently advanced to the rank of sergeant, wrote he had been in battle more than five months with the Army Infantry 25th Division. He has been serving overseas the past 18 months. Dr. and Mrs.

T. C. McClure received a letter from their son, Pvt. Thos. McClure, who recently rejoined his "outfit" in the Pacific, following a two months' stay in the States.

This was the first word received from Pvt. McClure in a month. Pfc. Arthur Brewer, released from a German prison camp last April, is visiting Mrs. Brewer and their son, Clifford Dale, and his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Homer Brewer. Pfc. Brewer and wife will go to Hot Springs, next week for a brief vacation. Sgt.

Bertice Moore, who had been stationed in Kentucky, are visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Moore, at Canalou, while on furlough.

Following his visit Sgt. Moore will be based in Georgia. Pvt. John Abernathy, stationed in California, is spending his furlough with his wife and son and with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Abernathy, at Morley. Upon his return to the west coast Pvt. Abernathy will report to a hospital there. Pvt. Ralph Gurley of the U.

S. Army at Camp Gordon, arrived last week on 15-day furlough, which he is spending With his family. Following his visit here Pvt. Gurley will be stationed at Camp Funston, Kansas. Cpl.

Charles L. Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Miller is now with the Engineering.Corps in France.

Cpl. Miller expects to be returned to the States at an early date. Pvt. Bill J. Hogan, son of Mr.

and Mrs. R. R. Hogan, has completed his paratrooper's training at Fort Benning, and has been transferred to Fort Or.d, where he is waiting overseas orders. Two Scott county men were commissioned as second lieuten- at Fort Knox, Satur- day as members of the 77th grad, uatmg class of the Armored Or- ficer Candidate School.

The new officers are Dawson L. Cook, son of Luke A. Cook, Oran, and Casper J. G. Miller, son of Mr.

and Mrs. C. D. Miller of Illmo. Sixty- five new officers received their gold bars upon completion of a 17-weeks course.

As their first Herman Little, Technician 5th Class, arrived home last Saturday for a 30-day visit with Mrs. Little and their children. Little had been serving overseas since last January. Gene Bowman of the Army Air Forces, who recently arrived home from England, Is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Sam Bowman. SIKESTON LIEUTENANt HOME FltOM NAVY SERVICE Sgt. Wilbert house, one Lieut, (j. g. H.

S. Matthews Route 1, Sikcston, has returned from a tour of duty in the Atlantic, where he served as patrol plane commander aboard one of I lie Navy's land-based Liberator search planes of 0 combnt patrols with Patrol Bombing Squadron 105. The Sikeston airman and his mates comprised one of the five (squadrons operating as front-line units of Fleet Air Wing Seven. The five groups sank 14 Nazi U- boats, probably destroyed two others and damaged 16. In their day- and-night patrols over vital sea lanes, they were of material assistance in curbing the menace of Germany's undersea raiders and speeding the safe flow of men and supplies to the European fronts.

Lieut. Matthews and his wife are spending some time near Sikeston with his parents, Mr. and Neal (H More-1 Mrs jiatthews. He entered si brothers Ule Navy five years ago a ter CKOWUER SOLDIEK ENTEKTA1NEI) MONDAY Mr. and Mrs.

John W. Utley of Crowder entertained with a chick- on dinner Monday night complimentary to Sgl. W. G. Norman, who returned to his station at Camp Sibert, yesterday following a visit i relatives at Crowder.

Other guests at the dinner were Mr. and Mrs. Gayle R. Norman and sons, Brenda Utley, Mrs. W.

G. Norman and daughter, Carole Raye, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Norman, parents of Sgt. Norman, Mist- Evelyn Norman and Alfred Layton.

Mrs. Norman and daughter companied her husbaad to Alabama. SOUTHEAST MISSOURI CASUALTY REPOKTO in the armed died on June attendi New Madrid and Sike s- --1 6 i of sustain- ton schoo i assignment, most of them will reed ln a vehicle accident, the War ceive practical training in com- Department lies advised his par- mand duties at the Armored Ree "ts. Mr. and Mrs.

W. Neal. placement Training Center at Fort No details were given. Sgt Neal, member of an anti- IMORLEY MAN HELPED KEEP SEA LANES SAFE Knox. Others will go to the Tank Destroyer School at Camp Hood.

Texas. Following additional training, the new officers will be assigned to armored or tank destroyer units as platoon leaders. Sgt. Leroy Green is expected home this week on 30-day furlough and is visiting his wife and his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

C. E. Green, at Matthews. Sgt. Green has been serving with the armed forces in Germany the past year.

Lloyd E. Sparks, Aviation Ma- aircraft unit who had been over- chinist's Mate, 2d Class, U. S. N. seas fo: 15 months, was stationed I of Morley, now returned on at Wursburg, Germany, when last leave, flew anti-submarine misheard from.

He would have been sions aboard a big Navy search 21 years old in August, and had plane as bow gunner during his expected to be home by a time. i tour of duty in the Atlan- Pvt. Joe L. Baker, who is a Born August 6. 192), at More-i tic.

tioned with the army at El Paso, house, he attended school there i He was aircrewman of a big Texas, is visiting his wife and wen into sen-ice in May, four-motored Liberator that op- daughter, his parents, Mr. and 1943. After basic training at crated from bases in the United Mrs. Grover Baker, and other rel- atives here while on furlough. Pvt.

Baker will return to Texas the latter part of the week. He is serving as a surgeon's technician with the Medical Corps. Chief Petty Officer Ben F. Carroll who spent a month here with his wife and his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Ben F. Carroll, has returned to San Francisco, Calif. Carroll served in the Southwest Pacific 25 months. Pvt. Charles Harold Lewis, who was inducted into service June 19, is stationed at Camp Fannin, Texas.

Pvt. Lewis, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H.

Lewis, was employed at Garrett's Drug Store before entering the service. William H. Crosno, who spent the past 15 months in the South Pacific, is visiting his sister, Mrs. Walter Carr, and husband. Mrs.

Crosno accompanied her husband here. Pfc. Raymond Landers, who had been serving with the Third Army in Germany since last September, is in St. Louis awaiting furlough instructions. Mrs.

Landers and son have gone to St. Louis and will accompany him to Canalou for a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abe Landers. Pfc.

Landers has two other brothers in service, Willie Landers, with the Ninth Army in Germany, and Pvt. Leslie Landers, with the armed forces in the South Pacific. Lieut, and Mrs. Clay A. Mitchell Jr.

of Memphis will spend the week-end here with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Mitchell.

Pfc. James R. Crocker, who recently returned from overseas service in Germany and Frajice, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.

R. Crocker. Pvt. and Mrs. Paul E.

Brewer Jr. of Hobbs, N. came this week for a visit of two weeks with the former's mother, Mrs. Paul Brewer. Mr.

Brewer, who is engaged in defense work at Camden, is expected to spend the week end here with his wife and son. Sgt. Lyman Pixley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Pixley, who had been serving with the Air Transport Command in Italy the past 18 months, was recently transferred to Natal, Brazil.

Pvt. Doyl Pickett, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. H.

Pickett, who has been overseas since last May, is serving as a radio operator with the Marine Air Corps in the Pacific. Mrs. G. A. Dempster on Monday received a letter from her son, Lieut.

Robert A. Dempster, advising that he is now on Okinawa with Headquarters Staff at the Naval Operating Base. Lieut. Dempster, who has been in service three years and overseas since last April, told of the severe drouth and heat on Okinawa. Recently be visited a town near Okinawa, with about 4000 population, which Lieut.

Dempster said had not been "touched by war." The people were very poor and dirty and their habits and customs were very primitive, he said. Some of the Mrs. Walter Givens and son, Richard, and Lieut, and Mrs. W. P.

Warner of Sacremento, Calif, are visiting the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lan Givens, and ncr sister, Mrs. Harold Dumey, aad family here. Lieut.

Warner, who recently returned from nearly two years of overseas duty with the Army Air Corps in the South Pacific, Mrs. Warner and Mrs. Harold Dumey and sons are guests of relatives at Cecelia, this week. Henry Brinker Jr. returned to his post at Harvard, Nebr, Monday after spending a two weeks' furlough at Oran with his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Henry Brinker. natives waved to the Americans, all looked amazed at their equipment, and some held out their hand and tried to talk to them. "They are really pitiful in many respects, he said, for they have been held down by the Japs who have exploited them in every way." CHIVED S. Sgt.

and Mrs. Curtis Cooper are guests of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H.

Cooper, this week. The Sergeant js attached to the Air Transport Command Headquarters at Cincinnati, Ohio, and has been in service for the past two years. Mrs. Cooper has been with him in Cincinnati and will return there with iiim at the end of his furlough. Before his induction two years ago, Sgt.

Cooper was employed at Lambert Field, St. Louis. Mr. and Mrs. Cooper have three other sons in service.

Warren Cooper is with the Navy in the South Pacific; Wendell Cooper- is with the Merchant Marine, now Serving as an embalmer a hospital'ship in the Atlantic, srd Harold Cooper has been in action over Holland since last September. Pvt. Douglas Blankenship, who had been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.

E. Blankenship, and sister, Mrs. Mary, at Oran the past two weeks, returned to South Carolina Sunday night for further training with the armed forces. Camp Stewart, he went over- Kingdom. His plane was attached seas in Apnl, 1914.

The five brothers in service are: Cpl Milton Neal at Diew Field. Pfc. K. D. Neal in Italy, who has been overseas for 16 months; Sgt.

James R. Neal. who is in Belgium and who has been overseas two years, anil Sgt. Charles Lee Neal who is now stationed at Nashville, after completing his required number of missions over Europe as gunner aboard a bomber, and Seaman Second Class Lester Neal. somewhere in the Pacific.

Two other brothers, G. Neal and John Neal ol Poplar Bluff, and three sisters, Mrs. L. C. Ferrell of St.

Louis and Mrs. Lester to the Navy's Patrol Bombing Squadron 110. Flying long, unescorted patrols in all kinds of weather in search of enemy U-boats and surface craft, he and his squadron mates litlped keep the sea lanes clear so that troops and supplies could be moved safely into the European theatre. Sparks, 23 years old, is a son of Mr. and Mrs.

Floyd R. Sparks of Morley. DISTRICT MEN FIND GERMAN TREASURES Two Southeast Missouri men-- Pvt. Charles Wagoner, son of Bill Wagoner of Oran, and Pvt. Pearl Hunt and Mrs.

Waldo Kord of I Ward, son of Mrs. Jennie Ward Morehouse also survive A HOT HALF HOl'R. minutes I've Pvt. L. F.

Fortner, who is stationed with the Army Air Forces at Scott Field, 111., is spending his furlough at Blodgett with relatives and friends. AuanI for Merilorius Sorvirc. Pfc. Walter W. (Buddy) Lankford, son of Mr.

and Mrs. W. W. Lankford of Sikeston, is a member of the 302nd Depot Repair Squadron in Italy which has been awarded the Meritorious Service Unit Plaque by the War Department. Capt.

Robert E. Keane, commanding officer of the unit, com- meaded all the officers and enlisted men for their superior performance of duty in the accomplishment of exceptionally difficult tasks in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations from June, 1944, to December, 1944. The 302nd Depot Repair Squadron is one of many similar organ- "The hottest ever sweated out." That is the way Pvt. Coy McDowell, son of Mrs. Ruby McDowell of Sikcston, told about a recent action he was in with the 24th Infantry on Mindanao.

The of Qulin, arc members of the Third Battalion with the Fifth Army in Italy, which discovered a vast collection of priceless art treasures that had been taken by the Germans from all over Italy and hidden in a 15th century castle in Italy. Tank-mounted troops of the battalion entered the castle and found a number of large, sealed crates rifle company to which he was at- German lettering on them. tached nud stormed across strategic river under a heavy bnr- uige of Nip machine gun and nfle fire, driving the Japs from their heavily fortified position without a casualty. Twenty-seven Japs were killed during the swift assault. The well- coordinated attack by the company's rifle and weapons platoon caught the Nips by surprise aad their resistance broke into a not, as th9y were forced into direct machine gun fire.

"The Japs thii'w everything they had at us." h.iid McDowell. "They even used an American water-cooled heavy machine gun against us, but our counter! ire Inspection revealed that they contained 350 pieces of art--paintings, sculptures, antiques all properly tagged and in good condition. There were works by Rembrandt, Rubens, Raphael, Michaclangelo, Botticelli, Holbein and Velasquez. in this theater. Pfc.

Lankford, an aircraft mechanic, and all personnel of the squadron are now busily engaged preparing aircraft for redeployment to the Pacific Theater and to the United States. izations which, until recently. I lovcd too hot for them." were engaged in the maintenance of aircraft for combat air forces GIVE NEWS ABOUT THOSE IN THE ARMED SERVICE The Herald wonts all the news obtainable about men and wom- e.u in the armed service Relatives are asked to sead such nows as soon as received. Home folks want such news, but, most of all, those in the armed forces who are receiving The Herald depend on such news very much. It is their only way of knowing what their former neighbors and associates, now also in the armed forces, are the week with his father, Dean doing and where they are lo- SPAATZ NAMED COMMANDER OF PACIFIC AlK FORCES Gen.

Carl A. Spaatz, who commanded the U. S. air forces in the strategical warfare which destroyed German resources, from the air, will direct the strategic air attack on Japan Undersecretary of War Patterson has announced. Spaatz wfll command the 20th Air Force, whose B-29's have been battering Japan's resources for more than a year, and the Eighth Air Force which is now being redeployed from Europe to the Pacific.

Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, who has commanded the 21st Bomber Command, will become commander of the 20th Air Force under Spaatz' overall command. Gen.

Henry H. Arnold has held the command of the 20th heretofore, in addition to commanding the entire U. S. Army Air Forces. Lt.

Gen. James A. Doolittle already has been designated to command the Eighth Air Force in the Pacific. Like LeMay he will function under Spaatz. The new strategic command will be known as the S.

Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific." Its headquarters has not yet been designated, but it was speculated it probably would be on Guam, where Admiral Nimitz maintains Pacific fleet headquarters. Okinawa is regarded as another possibility. Strategic air forces are assigned the task of knocking out enemy industries, transportation facilities and other behind-the- lines establishments which feed the fighting forces. Tactical forces work in close conjuction with land and sea forces, hitting mostly at front lines and immediate supply lines. The following Southeast Missouri men are reported this week as casualties of war.

The next-of-kln of these men have all been noti- I i the casualties are not necessarily of recent occurence: Hilled Marie Pvt. Joe L. Cox Jr. Sikeston. Theodore Schnlk, Poplar Bluff.

Pfc. Earl O. Surber, Qulin. Pfc. John T.

Wright, Arbyrd. Wounded Marine Pfc. Theodore L. Hager East Prairie. Marine Pvt.

Louis Hindbaugh, Chaffee. Pfc. Francis Fenwick, Perryville. Pfc. James Hart, Charleston.

Thomas H. Grady, Sikeston. T-5 Merrill L. Renick, Maiden. Pvt.

Wm. S. Sailors, Sikeston. Pfc. Martin T.

Smithwick. Senath. Pfc. Clarence E. Wade.

Farmington. Pfc. Eddie R. Jones. Fredericktown.

Pfc. Robert E. Hutchcraft. Dexter. Marine Pvt.

Billy K. Bledsoe, Campbell. Missing-. S. Sgt.

Carl Graves, Dexter, Calvin Tanner Bernie. Americans have lound .1 German plane which has propellers in the nose and tail and easily runs away from our fastest lighters, ing to a dispatch from Munich. The plane, which did not see action, was Hearing the production stage necessary for combat when found. About 40 of the planes, some in flying condition, were seized nt an airfield after Germany's surrender. The plant was built by Dormer and was designated the DO-335.

Murle Melverne Woadell, Ma- chinest Mate in the Navy, was killed in action in the South Pacific on June 23. Mrs. Wondell and infant son, Melverne Neal, whom he had never seen, reside at Oran. His parents, Mr. and Mrs.

John WondeU, two brothers and five sisters reside at Arbor, Mo. Sgt. Robert O. Minner has returned to his post at Truax Field, Madison, following a visit with his wife and infant son, Robert Nienstedt Minner, at Blodgett, TO RELATIVES OF THOSE IN THE ARMED FORCES The Herald is being mailed to hundreds of men and women in the armed every effort is being made by the publisher to see that copies of The Herald reach them. But there are frequent changes in their addresses.

Relatives of these men and women can assist the publisher if they will send The Herald changes in the addresses of ther relatives in the armed forces. In writing to your relatives in the armed forces who are supposed to be getting The Herald, please ask if the paper is being received by them regularly. If they reply that it is not, then let The Herald know at once, giving the latest known address. In this way there will be a mimimum papers failing to reach our fighting men and women. THE The Annual Swim Meet, sponsored by the different State Clubs at Chillicothe Business College, will be held in the municipal swimming pool nt Simpson Park July TjSgt.

Tommy Marshall, who is stationed with the Army Air Corps at Scott Field, 111, is spending Marshall, and fajnily. cated. Kenneth Hucker Discharged. Lieut. Orville (Kenneth) Hocker, who has been serving as an instructor at Perrin Field, Texas, is being released from the Army under the point system, it is announced this week.

Lieut. Hocker is to be given his honorable discharge at the Jefferson Barracks separation center. The son of Mr. and Mrs. F.

H. Hocker of Sikeston, the 27-year- old officer entered service Febru- ary 7, 1943, as a. cadet and served with the Eighth Air Force jj in England as a co-pilot on B-17's. He has 35 missions to his credit. Lieut, and Mrs.

Hocker and their son will make their home in Sikeston following his discharge. WE FLY THROU6H THE AIR WITH THE EASE FOR we DRINK MILk FPOM WOODS AS MUCH AS, WE PLEASE', tin Trained for Service IN OUR MODERN home we have every facility for considerate service. We are especially proud of our staff, each one expert in his assigned tasks. Whenever you visit our home, you may be sure of courteous and sympathetic attention. You will find them ready to help you in any way they can.

We employ a schooled licensed embalmer at all times so as to insure that you have the benefits of a skilled technician. Welsh FUNERAL HOME PHONE 380 The Home of Distinctive Service NOTICE! Due to a decrease in our present quota of sugar we are forced to close our retail store temporarily. Our bread can still be had at your local grocery store. Special orders for cakes can be handled through your local grocery. Hart's Bakery iWSPAPERI.