anaheim-gazette 1944-03-02

Page Ten — Anaheim Gazette — Thursday, March 2, 1944 OUR BOYS WITH THE COLORS and THEIR SISTERS IN THE COUNTRY'S SERVICE (NOTE: If you have a son in any branch of the armed forces, or a daughter in any of the women's army services, The Anaheim Gazette would like to have news notes about them. If they are home on leave, if they write of interesting incidents of army life, or if they should be taken prisoner of war, etc, etc; please call The Gazette, phone 2206, and give an item for this column. Their friends will appreciate it too. Clip this column and enclose it with your letter when you write them.) JAMES E. COLLINS NOW IN ENGLAND Frequent letters arrive from England for Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Collins, 626 South Claudina street, from their grandson, Pfc. James E. Collins, of the Military Police company, Aviation corps. Pfc. Collins attended grammar school in this city, where his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Collins, now of Norwalk, formerly resided. He graduated from Fullerton high school, and entered military service a year ago. He has been stationed in England for the past six months. Former school friends who wish to write him may address their high school at Urbana, Mo. He married Bertha May Schachter, formerly of Washico, Iowa, and they are the parents of two children, Jack Lynn, age 3 months, and Billie Jean, age 1½ years. Privates Davis and Meador have been employed by the California Shipbuilding corporation. Private Haugen has been working for Fran Elliott. They are now at the Marine Corps Base, San Diego, taking their recruit training. MARINE SENDS SOUVENIR OF JAPS One of the recent letters which Mr. and Mrs. George O. Kirkelie, 201 North Emily streeet, received from their son, Pfc. George O. Kirkelie, jr., now with the Marines down in the Marshall Islands, contained a unique mememto of action in which he was engaged in early February. It was a 5-yen bill which he had taken from a dead Jap on February 2, and which he sent to his parents as a souvenir. "I didn't feel that I was stealing. He would never have had any use for it again," he wrote. In his letters, the young Marine disclaims any home-sickness, although he says that he has known experiences that he wishes he might forget but that will stay with him forever. It was in January, 1943, that Pfc. Kirkelie, a school athlete and basketball star, left Union high school in his senior year to enlist with the Marine. He did special guard duty at Bremerton, Wash., then was transferred to Camp Pendleton from which point he went into overseas service with the 4th Division, 14th Marines. MOTHER AND SON SERVING THEIR NATION Inspired by the fact that her son, relatives, including the R. H. Deckers, 889 South Claudin street, Mrs. Decker and Mrs. Olso are sisters. WALTER P. GUY WINS ARMY COMMISSION Aviation Cadet Walter P. Guyson of Mrs. Margaret T. Guy, 93 N. Palm, Anaheim, has been commission a second lieutenant in the Army Air Forces after completing bombardier training at the Carlsbad (New Mexico) Army Air Field. Lieutenant Guy now becomes one of the Army Air Forces new "triple-threat men"—airmen who have completed instruction in dead-recking navigation and aerial gunnery in addition to the regular bombardier course. As an officer in the Army Air Forces ready for active duty, his destination is not disclosed. He is a former student at the Univ. of Calif., at Los Angeles. SON OF SANTA FE EXECUTIVE KILLED Lieut. William C. Jones, 22, of 640 Broadway, Glendale, together with a cadet and another Army flier were killed when their plane crashed near Yuma, Ariz., early Wednesday morning, Feb. 23. The plane was on routine flight. Lieut. Jones is the son of C. W Jones, Treasurer for Santa Fe Railway. He is a graduate of the Hoover high school and junior college at Glendale. He is survived by his parents of Glendale and a sister, Mrs. Ralph Nowak of Denver, Colo. The body was sent to Glendale. ORANGE COUNTY MEN RECEIVE PROMOTION Advanced from first lieutenants Capt. Frederick Monroe Essig whose address is listed as 30 East Alberta street, and Capitol Hill Drive in New York City. from their grandson, Pfc. James E. Collins, of the Military Police company, Aviation corps. Pfc. Collins attended grammar school in this city, where his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Collins, now of Norwalk, formerly resided. He graduated from Fullerton high school, and entered military service a year ago. He has been stationed in England for the past six months. Former school friends who wish to write him may address their letters to Pfc. James E. Collins, 29563654, 1257 M. P. Co. (Aviation), APO 635, care Postmaster New York, N. Y. THREE LOCAL MEN NOW IN MARINES Anaheim contributed three youths to the U.S. Marine Corps this week. They are Bennie F. Davis, 28, of 425 South Ohio street, Carroll Gordon Haugen, 18, of 120 North Clementine street., and William Ray Meador, 25, of 853 North Helena street. Privates Davis and Haugen are former students at Anaheim high school. Private Davis is married to Lila Tremayne, formerly of Los Angeles, and they have a daughter, Kathryn Dean, age 1. Private Meador attended the Pfc. Kirkelie, a school athlete and basketball star, left Union high school in his senior year to enlist with the Marine. He did special guard duty at Bremerton, Wash., then was transferred to Camp Pendleton from which point he went into overseas service with the 4th Division, 14th Marines. MOTHER AND SON SERVING THEIR NATION Inspired by the fact that her son, Edgar Olson, is serving his country as SC, 2/c aboard the Saratoga, Mrs. Lydia Olson, formerly of 420 South Olive street, is now well established in her post as civilian nurse at the Station Hospital, Camp Beale, Calif. Mrs. Olson has practised her profession of nursing in this community for more than a score of years. She volunteered for duty several weeks ago, and left Feb. 19 for her new post at the Army hospital. Her son enlisted in the Navy in January, 1942. He has been aboard the Saratoga for the past year and a half and had leave during the Christmas holidays, which he spent here in his boyhood home. He visited his mother and other advanced from first lieutenants Capt. Frederick Monroe Essig whose address is listed as 30 East Alberta street, and Captain Harry Chester Proutt of La Habra Heights were among nine Orange county men whose promotion were announced during the past week by the War Department. With them were Russell Tarvin of Orange, promoted from captain to major in the Air Corps, and half a dozen who exchanged their gold bars for the silver of first lieutenants, Judson A. Blake, La guna Beach; Carl L. Sundquist Gerald Q. Sheppard, Smith W Ames, John H. Wilson and Arl Duane Winters, Santa Ana. ANAHEIM AIR MAN NOW 2ND LIEUTENANT Cadet Herald F. Kahlen, Rout 4, Box 144, Anaheim, was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Air Forces in graduating "Madam, we like your boy—and if he promises not to AWOL again, we'll feed him his Wheaties in the morning." COME AND GET THEM! Special For Friday and Saturday Only! RUSSET POTATOES COME AND GET THEM! Special For Friday and Saturday Only! RUSSET POTATOES $1.99 100-lb. Sack LARGE WHITE CAULIFLOWER head 19¢ IDAHO RUSSETT — (Handy Mesh Bag) — POTATOES 15-lbs.net 75¢ GOLDEN HUBBARD SQUASH (whole) lb. 6¢ EXTRA FANCY Washington Delicious APPLES 2 lbs. 23¢ -We have a large variety of Apples bythe box at Reasonable Prices. March 2, 1944 — MR P. GUY WINS COMMISSION Lion Cadet Walter P. Guy, Mrs. Margaret T. Guy, 938 Anaheim, has been comma second lieutenant in the Air Forces after complete bombardier training at the U.S. (New Mexico) Army Air Command Guy now becomes the Army Air Forces new threat men”—airmen who completed instruction in taking navigation and gunny in addition to the bombardier course. Officer in the Army Air Force ready for active duty, his son is not disclosed. He is our student, at the Univ. of Los Angeles. ST SANTA FE ACTIVE KILLED William C. Jones, 22, of Badway, Glendale, together cadet and another Army man killed when their plane near Yuma, Ariz., early day morning, Feb. 23. The man on routine flight. Jones is the son of C. W. Treasurer for Santa Fe. He is a graduate of the high school and junior at Glendale. He is surveying his parents of Glendale master, Mrs. Ralph Nowak, mer, Colo. Body was sent to Glendale. E COUNTY MEN PROMOTION Cedd from first lieutenants, Frederick Monroe Essig, address is listed as 303 Alberta street, and Capt. NATIVE SON HOME FROM ALASKA TION exercises held Monday (February 28) at the Institute of Meteorology at the University of Chicago. The ceremony for 282 Army Air Forces cadets and 31 Navy officers who have just completed the University’s sixth nine-month intensive training course in weather was held in Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. Cadet Kahlen received his commission from Colonel Walter T. Meyer of Chanute Field. He will go into active duty immediately as a weather officer in an Army Air Forces post in the United States or abroad. CAMBURN MILLER INARMY HOSPITAL A letter which this week reached George E. Miller, 756 North Sabina street, informed him that his son, Camburn Miller, well-known Anaheimer who has been in the Aleutians for the past 22 months, had incurred a broken collar bone and was in a hospital in Alaska, probably at Dutch Harbor. The letter was written by William Brown, one of Pvt. Miller’s fellow members in the searchlight battalion of Anti-Aircraft. This leads George Miller to believe that his son’s injuries were on the right side, otherwise he would have written the letter himself. The broken bone resulted from a fall on the heavy ice. Miller is wondering what has happened to his son’s favorite pet during his hospitalization. This pet, about which Pvt. Miller has written frequently, is a wild red fox which he captured and tamed until it follows him like a dog and even stands guard with him. NATIVE SON HOME FROM ALASKA JOHN R. MUNROE NOW AT BANANA RIVER Friends of John R. Munroe, S 1/c, who is in training in the U. S. Naval air service, will be interested to learn that he has been transferred from Jacksonville, Fla., to the Naval Station at Banana River, Fla. His address is now, C.A.C. 15-D. O.T.U., Box 2, N.A.S., Banana River, Fla. GRADUATES FROM NAVAL CENTER AT NORMAN Roger M. Harlow, 306 East Broadway, Anaheim, was one of a class of 44 Southern California enlistees who have graduated from the Naval Air Training Center. Norman, Okla., according to advices received from the Center. He now has a rating of seaman first class and will be transferred to a naval unit afloat or to another shore station for further instruction and work. Jack D. Goff, 450 Brooks Street, Laguna Beach, was the other Orange county boy in the graduating class. ANAHEIM H. S. GRAD IN V-12 TRAINING Warren Charles Heckman, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Heckman of, 519 E. Shartres St., Anaheim, is now studying at Central Missouri State Teachers College under the Navy’s V-12 program, the Eleventh Naval District announced today. Heckman is a graduate of Anaheim Union high school. Mrs. Wettton Dies At Advanced Age Born in Kildare county, Ireland, 89 years ago, Mrs. Mary Ann Wettton whose death occurred last Thursday, Feb. 24, at an Orange rest home on East Chapman avenue, had come to the United States some 75 years ago, and had Letters From Life Tell of Experience Although Mrs. Llewellyn Witt is most fortunate in receiving several letters a week from husband, Lieut. Wilson from post with the 22nd Marines in forced) of the 2nd Seal Medical Corps in the distant fic, she is never sure of just danger point the former part Anaheim physician may be by the time his letters arrive. For Lieut. Wilson as commanding officer of his company been in the thick of some most exciting action in the area, and one of his recent told of work for the wound Tarawa in the Gilbert Island although of course there is that he has to refrain from work but says he can tell where finally gets home again. Because the 22nd Marine such prominent part in action Eniwetok, Mrs. Wilson is deriding if her husband was a strategic point too. Her letter from him was dated 14, just four days before the tion began, and she is that future letters may give more definite information. Lt. Wilson has sent picture his staff, which numbers his dozen medical men with at one dentist. Their hospital event (all housed in army) is of the finest, including an apparatus and the best and modern of instruments and plies needed in major surgery. Even with this fine equipment the medical officers are dependent upon themselves for needed laundry work, and been for the past month. garments are clean but un-in HE COUNTY MEN E PROMOTION ced from first lieutenants, Frederick Monroe Essig, address is listed as 303 Aberta street, and Capt. Nester Proutt of La Habra were among nine Orange men whose promotions announced during the past the War Department. Them were Russell Tarvin e, promoted from captain in the Air Corps, and ozen who exchanged their is for the silver of first ats, Judson A. Blake, Laach; Carl L. Sundquist, Q. Sheppard, Smith W. John H. Wilson and Arle Winters, Santa Ana. M AIR MAN D LIEUTENANT Herald F. Kahlen, Route 444, Anaheim, was comd a second lieutenant in y Air Forces in graduaself. The broken bone resuted from a fall on the heavy ice. Miller is wondering what has happened to his son's favorite pet during his hospitalization. This pet, about which Pvt. Miller has written frequently, is a wild red fox which he captured and tamed until it follows him like a dog and even stands guard with him. NATIVE SON HOME FROM ALASKA Two years' service as legal advisor to troops stationed at Kiska and Attu, were concluded this week by Edward Rimpau, one of Anaheim's native sons, when he returned with U. S. troops to Seattle where the men will be stationed for a two weeks' adjustment period. He telephoned his mother, Mrs. Agnes Rimpau of Los Angeles, immediately upon arrival in Seattle, and she communicated the glad news to his grandmother and aunt, Mrs. Natalie Rimpau and Mrs. Claudine Clarke, 119 South Melrose street. Many joyous family reunions are being planned in anticipation of his early arrival in the Southland. Everybody reads the Gazette. Mrs. Wetton Dies At Advanced Age Born in Kildare county, Ireland, 89 years ago, Mrs. Mary Ann Wetton whose death occurred last Thursday, Feb. 24, at an Orange rest home on East Chapman avenue, had come to the United States some 75 years ago, and had lived in Anaheim for the past 21 years. Two of her five children live in this community, one daughter, Mrs. Edward L. Hackley in this city, and a son, Frank C. Wetton, in Placentia. Her other children are William J. and James Wetton, of Slater, Mo., and Mrs. Hugh L. Hackley of Little Rock, Ark. She also leaves nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren, and one brother, John J. Short, of Los Angeles. There was recitation of the Holy Rosary held Friday evening in the Backs, Campbell and Kaulbars chapel, with mass conducted Saturday morning in St. Boniface church. Burial was in Calvary cemetery. Husky M.P.Knows How To Keep PEACE And HARMONY... EAT THE BASIC 7 FOODS SETTLES WITH A GOOD IDEA! ALP FRIDAY & SAT No-Point LOOK OVER O POIN For Ration Coupon T Lge. Pkg. 24¢ Sml. Pkg. 11 VEGETABLE COCKTAIL HERE'S HEALTH BRAND (1 Point) 12-oz. Can PRUNE JUICE HEART'S DELIGHT BRAND (3 Points) Qt. Bottle GRAPE JELLY SAME FAS BOI IN WAR Lge. Pkg. 24¢ Sml. Pkg. 11¢ Sunshine Krispy Crackers 1-lb. Pkg. 18¢ Gold Medal FLOUR 24½-lb. $143 No. 10 Bag 62¢ CARMATION QUICK WHEAT Sml pkg 11c Lge pkg 22c EAT THE BASIC 7 FOODS VEGETABLE COCKTAIL 9¢ HERE'S HEALTH BRAND (1 Point) 12-oz. Can PRUNE JUICE 20¢ HEART'S DELIGHT BRAND (3 Points) Qt. Bottle GRAPE JELLY 32¢ PHILLIPS FINE QUALITY — (6 Points) 2-Lb. Jar SEEDLESS RAISINS 12¢ SUNMAID (4 Points) 15-oz. Pkg. PRUNES 16¢ ENSIGN EX. LGE. SIZE (4 Points) 1-lb. Pkg. TOMATOES 14¢ SUNRICH BRAND (12 Points) No. 2½ Can STRING BEANS 13¢ MT. HOOD BRAND (Point Free) No. 2 Can CORN 14¢ BUTTER KERNEL (10 Points) No. 2 Can PEAS 15¢ ATHENA BRAND (10 Points) No. 2 Can BAKED BEANS 18¢ PURITAN BRAND (8 Points) No. 2 Can RIPE OLIVES HEMET EXTRA LARGE Pint Jar 25¢ Nabisco's New BREAKFAST CEREAL 12-oz. Pkg. 12¢ SAME FAST BOIL IN WARD PACKAGE BAKING POWDER CALUMET BAKING SODIUM DIAL BRAND M.C.P. PECTION JELLY TIME WILL SOON Liberty's MIXED FINE FOR SALADS Liberty's PUMPKIN MAKES TWO PIES POST'S WHEAT A Whole Wheat Breakfast KELLOGG'S P A HEALTHY READY TO EAT QUICK LARGE 40-OUNCE PACK WAFFLE MIX CINCH BRAND Letters From Lieut. Llewellyn Wilson Well of Experiences in Pacific Area Although Mrs. Llewellyn Wilson is most fortunate in receiving general letters a week from her husband, Lieut. Wilson from his suit with the 22nd Marines (Re-arced) of the 2nd Separate Medical Corps in the distant Pacific area, she is never sure of just what longer point the former popular Rheim physician may be in the time his letters arrive. Lieut. Wilson as commanding officer of his company, has been in the thick of some of the most exciting action in the Pacific area, and one of his recent letters of work for the wounded at Iawa in the Gilbert Islands, though of course there is much he has to refrain from writing, says he can tell when he really gets home again. Because the 22nd Marines took up prominent part in action in Newtok, Mrs. Wilson is winning if her husband was at that strategic point too. Her latest letter from him was dated Feb. just four days before that ac-t began, and she is hoping future letters may give her definite information. Wilson has sent pictures of staff, which numbers half a dozen medical men with at least two dentists. Their hospital equipment (all housed in army tents) of the finest, including X-ray apparatus and the best and most modern of instruments and supplies needed in major surgery. Even with this fine equipment, medical officers are depend upon themselves for their needed laundry work, and have no time for the past month. "Our actions are clean but un-ironed" Harry Riley Files For Supervisor Rumors of the past fortnight that Harry Riley, former Orange county supervisor from the third district, would be a candidate for that post again this year, were verified this week when Riley took out the nomination papers, opposing James A. Baker, the successful candidate of four years ago. Riley, a former automobile dealer, is now with the Douglas company at Long Beach and will retain that position in the event of his election to the supervisoral body. WATERFALL BEDROOM SUITE WATERFALL BEDROOM SUITE 4-Pc. 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