The Hutchinson News from Hutchinson, Kansas • Page 11

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1943 THE UTC I 0 KANSAS. A LD PAGE ELEVEN War Deportment Paul Cochran GetsABoche Hutchinson Feat Gives Mother Thrill One of those dramatic experl ences that are a by-product of the war touched Hutchinson mother Wednesday Bnd made.her "proud and a little sorry, too." Returning homo In the late afternoon, Mrs. V. Cochran, 721 West 11th, was greeted by her son, Homer, who asked, "Mother, have you seen the paper? It has Paul's name in It." On the front page of the News- Herald, Mrs. Cochran eagerly read an Associated Press dispatch from North Africa, which credited her son, Lieut.

Paul R. Cochran, with shooting down on enemy plane off the Tunisian coast. The story stated that the officer was from Arlington, Kansas, a misstatement. A Radio Announcer Lieut. Cochran, 27 years old.

was born in MoPherson county but was reared and educated in Hutchinson. Before his induction In the army air corps last February, he was an announcer over station KWUW and station KFBI at Wichita. He married Miss Barbara Reynolds of Arlington. Mrs. Cochran is living there with her parents, Mr.

and Mrs, Walter Reynolds. The Kansas flyer took his preflight training at Tulare, and went from there to Chandler Field at Olympia, where he was on duty when he received Overseas orders this December. Mr. and Mrs. Cochran know that their son was In Africa, but tills was the first word they have received that he has been in actual combat.

Another Kansan hi Thick of It Another western Kansas boy to bo mentioned in the news recently for his part In air raids is Lieut. Earl Healzer, 24-year-old flyer from Alexander, Kansas, who is at a U. S. bomber base in eastern India. Press dispatches contained the story.

"Employing a new bombing technique, U. S. heavy bomhers almost certainly destroyed two Japanese transports, totaling 12,000 tons far south of Rangoon in one of the most successful quick raids in this theatre. Co-pilot on bomber which scored six direct hits on a large vessel was Lieut. Earl Healzer, Alexander, Kansas." Lieut.

Healzer tolls of some of his experiences in a letter to his family. "I was airdrome officer of the day for a "24 hour shift yesterday. It was my duty to stay in the tower and control all air traffic, meet all incoming aircraft. I also inspected the guard at the hour of 3 in the morning! Long Raid Tiring "Was in the air this week on another long raid from 4 a. m.

until dark. I was so tired when 1 got in, I could scarcely walk. High altitude and all takes every last drop of energy out of all of us. The raid was a success, and I could tell you a lot, but that is impossible. It's a funny thing, but during the heat of the attack one is far too busy to feel any fear at all.

Please don't Worry about me. I'm only of course, all of us are homesick. But we've all got a job to do." Liqut. Healzer says in his letter that he has been reading Shakespeare every day and studying a book on the Hindu language. "I learn a few- words every day and am now able to toll my bearer most anything that I want in his own language.

Into Barracks Soon "We are going to move out of our tents soon into barracks. They will be cement with roofs, as all buildings have here. Native laborers are just now ting'on the doors, Boy, they are slow, They use the arudest of tools, a brace and to drill holes for door hinges, and it is run by a.cross bar and rope, just the same as in Bible times. Skilled carpenters get 60 cents a. day, regular laborers, 16 cents, but they live on that.

They don't require much and seem to be happy, "The days are hot and sunny, but the nights are cool, and you should see the beauty of a full moon in India I got up early this morning and took a long hike to a native village five miles away. It is nice and cool in the morning, reminding me of sprirtg in Kansas." On Duty Major William M. Scales of the Army Medical Corps has been transferred from March Field, to Portland, Oregon, His family accompanied Ji'rn. Sgt. Lewis Anthony has returned to his post in Los Angeles, after spending a 15-day furlough with his sisters, Mrs.

George W. Combs and Mrs. Clarence Halderman, 810 North Washington. Mrs. Anthony visited Hutchinson with her husband.

Corp. Alvin Doll is back on duty at Camp Cooke, after visiting his sister, Keenan, 910 North Elm. Harold Reeve, Syracuse, writes lha he is in Africa" with an engineer corps. Mr. and Mrs.

L. R. Martin of Hays have received word that their son, PFC. Aired L. Martin, has arrived safely in northern Africa.

Horace Edwin Whitchurch, son of Mr. and Mrs, W. D. Whitchurch, Leotl, is in training at the U.S. naval submarine chaser training center.

A chief machinist mate, he has seen- action in the Atlantic, Pacific and Caribbean areas. The training center where i is now located is the only one of its kind in the country. Commission Soon Corp. Orconllh Smith Is In the medical corps at Capip Pickett, Va. He expects to be graduated soon from the Officers Candidate school.and to bo commissioned a second, lieutenant, after which he Will sent to Camp Berkeley, Texas.

Corp Smith, son of the Glenn Coen Francis Cucn MRS. EMMA COEN of Garden City lias five sons in the army. A widow, she-was awarded a four-star emblem by the Emblem of Honor Association and is now eligible for a five-star. PFC. Arthur and PFC.

Ralph Coen are on duty in Alaska, S-Sgt. Francis Coen is overseas, Pvt. Harold Coen is at Camp Carson, and Glenn Coen is stationed at Camp Woltcrs, Tex. Harold Coen Ralph Coen HOWARD ENGENE WILSON, seaman guard, 2-c, who is stationed at Corpus Christ), is expected home on furlough soon. He is the son of Mrs.

Elmer Elston of Kendall. STAFF SGT. EVERETT Henderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.

R. Henderson, Scvcry, is stationed at Camp Crowder, Mo. Rev. aand Mrs. L.

O. Smith of Meade, Was formerly music director at Trinity Methodist church and attended the Julllard School of Music for two years after leaving here. On Alaska Patrol Sgt. Hugh W. House, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Irl T. House, 405 East Fourth, is a rear gunner on a bomher. He patrols certain areas in the Alaskan area but has not seen action as yet. Sgt.

House transferred from the National Guard to the army air corps two years ago. His brother, Dewey E. House, USN, on shore patrol duty at the Old Naval Station, Honolulu, where he has been stationed for three years. He was there during the attack on Pearl Harbor but was not wounded. Pvt.

Ray V. Pierson has been ill in hospital somewhere over seas, according to word received by his mother, Mrs. Ray Pierson, 701 East Fifth. Promotions Lt. Harold Thomson, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Albert Thomson, 100 East 17th, has been promoted to battalion personnel officer at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, where he will be in charge of the business office, He was transferred from the Officers Candidate school at Camp Davis, North Carilina. Robert Brice Nash, who is serving on a cruiser in the Pacific, has been promoted to fireman first class. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Bert Brice-Nash, Medora. Corp. Clifford Steierl, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Steierl of Sterling, to staff sergeant.

He is now at Texas. Robert G. King, son of Mr. and Mrs. Irl L.

King, 426 West 10th, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the quartermaster corps. He is stationed in the south Pacific area. Overseas Corp. Emanuel Boger fled parents, Mr. Jake Boger, Hoisington, in Australia.

Mrs. Floyd Hanson, has received word that band has arrived safely Africa. Pvt. Robert Schambcr, in North Africa. Mr.

and Mrs. W. C. Lakin, have heard, from has noti- and Mi's, that he is St. John, her hus- ln North Hays, Is Nichols, their son, Protect What You Have! See lis For Your Needs Goodposter INSURANCE AGENCY 82 E.

2nd Phone til Clifton, that he is with the U.S. forces in northern Africa. Pvt. Wayne A. Black of Attica has been transferred from England to North Africa.

Mrs. Howard Blanchard of Garden City has been notified that her husband, Captain Blanchard, is now in Africa. He formerly was stationed in England. GENERAL RESCUED Brig. Gen.

N. F. Twining (above) and 14 others were rescued after six nights and five days adrift on two small life rafts in the Coral sea. HAPPY HOLLOW BIG DANCE SAT. 6 New Floor 1110 IV.

0 1. V. Kelly, mgr. I'll Mil GET PROPER VITAMINS IN YOUR REGULAR MEALS EAT AT THE 13 EAST FIRST Opposite Fox Theatre May Employ Prisoners Mass Use Itt Farming Being Considered Washington Axis war prisoners may be used in this country to help produce the food that Allied fighting men will need to crush the'- enemy. J.

A. Walker, chief of the labor branch of the food production administration, discloses the government is considering using prisoners captured in Africa and Europe to help still agricultural labor shortages. Such prisoners would have to be used, he said, where they could work in large groups so they could be guarded efficiently. Their use would be limited largely to cultivating and harvesting commercial vegetable, canning and fruit crops. A major overseas in World War Walker has been assigned to recruiting workers for the record production goals of the agriculture department's war food program.

Walker told newsmen that some farmers have expressed reluctance to plant because of a fear 'that they would be unable to cultivate and harvest additional crops. "I have every confidence," Walker said, "that we will be able to meet the labor demands." To. meet the need for full-time workers, the government plans, he Said, to recruit 50,000 low-income and under-productive families in the marginal areas of the Appalachian and Ozark mountains and the cut-over timber areas of Minnesota and Wisconsin for placement on highly-productive dairy, livestock and poultry farms of the middle-west and elsewhere. The seasonal labor shortage, by far the worst, Will be attacked by several methods. Besides the possible use of war prisoners, the government hopes to recruit at least 275,000 migratory farm workers and other unemployed persons, and to import 60,000 workers from Mexico and other Latin-American countries.

In, addition, the government plans to enlist possibly 3,000,000 town and city residents for short- time seasonal harvesting operations. Classifications Following are new classifications of the No. 2 Reno county draft board: C'lann I-A 14 Barnhlll Vermillion, 800 Kant B. Samuel Crowe. 423 Park.

Nelnon Browning, South Main, Locke Huston, 223 K. Wealey Fetters, 222 South Maple. Harold Culllson, Eldorado, Ark. Allen Stevenson, 1410 West Second. Bliss Johnson, 215 East Sherman.

Perry Martin, Phoenbc, Ariz. Glen MeglU 503 West Sherman. Freo Rlerson, Oakland, Calif. Carl Doughty, 315 North Maple. Janzen, 1000 East Third.

Allen Freeman, 622 East Second. Mellendrez Gonzales, 220 West Wllker Palmalfer, 211 West Second. Alvis CaVl Trent, 430 East Campbell. Moses Garcia, 1030 East riarrel Scott, Seymore, Mo. Garcia Allcnman, 414 WeBt E.

IRIS NOW SHOWING Call 0101 (or Show Time, Don "Red" Barry In "WEST OF CIMARRON" Chape. "Dick Tracy VeriM Crlma" STATE NOW SHOWING Oall Ml fo, Show Timet The Roughriders in "GHOST TOWN LAW" Also "WOMEN WITHOUT NAMES" Plus Cliapt. 11 "Jr. G-Men of the Air" Now Showing, THRU SATCRDAV ISO0 WORK NIUIIT SA1.AHV fit'o. Marshall "TUB MOON AMI Hhown 1 Co-lllt Rech Hughes "OVBU MY DKAI1 HOtlV" Shown MID1AND BOB HOPE In "LOUISIANA PURCHASE" Shown CO-FEATURE Ann Rutherford Robert Sterling lo "THIS TIME FOR KEEPS" STRAND Kay Houston In "ALWAYS IN MY HEART" Mown co.

HIT Roy Hayes In "Sons Of The Pioneers" Shun I.ee Orcen, Ml West Garcia FlorP2, 736 Loewen. 713 1K.7.1— Richard Bhrrrnan. West A. Harvey East F. Alllano luarrz Bays, 217 West F.

Wllford Lee Nusser, 332 Will Second. Marshall .118 Soulh Walnut. Plna 310 Weal IV Roland nevlne, S23 East Park. Randall Cunningham. 204 East Third.

Vprnon ,120 East Blxlh. Joseph Bales. 511 East C. 11102-Edward Bilus Lee. S02VS East F.

Wtndelln Urban, 208 South Ford. Class ll-A Melvln Reitsser, 1205 East Fourth. Class I IB KruR, East Los Angeles, Calif 100.11—Charles Edward Haury, 1515 North Emporln. Class 11-0 Mftton Buchanan, RFD 3. Class 111-n Oscar Slrawn, Rock Island.

111. Carlton Cough. 701 West Seventh. Monson Rovenstlne. 407 North Cochran.

Byron Buchanan, Hartford, Conn. Carlton Busklrk, 717 East Sherman. Emlllo Martinez, Wichita. John Menasco, 515 East Nlnlh. 13SI Forrest Leone Boyd, 801 East Third.

Roland Morgan. 1011 North Adams, William Henry Dole, Leon. Class IV-1' Thomaa Ptomey, 500 Green Garden Drive. Markwood Snell. 428 East F.

Robert Strand. 719 East B. Wichita Flier Is Awarded Air Medal Allied Headquarters In North Africa Lt. Walter E. Bestgen, Wichita, hns been awarded the air medal with two clusters in recognition of his part in the air war against the German air forces.

He was one of 34 American fighter pilots'to receive the medal from MaJ. Gen. James H. Doolittle during the ceremony Thursday. Former Newton Man Is a Prisoner of War and Mrs.

W. L. Terry have received information from the war department that their nephew, Samuel Terry, formerly of Newton, has been officially reported by the Japanese as a prisoner of war. He had entered service from Roanoke, Va. War Baby Fort Wayne, Ind.

Wayne has a genuine "war" baby an eight-pound lad born Friday in a plant working on arms orders. His mother left her assembly line job with no word of explanation. A few minutes later a baby's wail was heard in the women's rest room. Mother and baby were reported doing well in St, Joseph's hospital tonight. Dutch Happy To Get Back Into Action Melbourne The comman- mander of Netherlands East Indies bombing squadron was so glad to be in action again in the Southwest Pacific that he led his planes down within 50 feet of the ground for a strafing attack "just to show the Japs our colors." The strafing occurred Monday during the squadron's first bombing raid after ten months of enforced activity, a story supplied by Aneta, Netherland Indies News agency, said.

The reequipped Netherlands squadron supplemented Australian air attacks on Japanese shipping and island installations, announced Lieut. Gen, George C. Kenney, Allied air chief for that area. Try News-Herald Classified For Dest Results. Public Invited to PENNY DINNER and OPEN HOUSE MEETING Townsend Club 7th WOODMAN HALL ZZVi West Sherman SPEAKERS WM.

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