Nogales international., 1944-07-21
REQUIEM MASS ON JULY 3lST
FOR MEN KILLED IN S. PACIFIC
Regimental Chaplain Has
Highest Praise For
Boys Of Co. A

In response to request by 19
local men in the 158th Infantry
in New Guinea, Solemn Re-
QUEEN Mass for three members of
their company who have died in
service will be held in Sacred
Heart Church at 8 a. m. Monday,
July 81, on the anniversary of the
Feast of st. IgnatuS.
The request was made in a letter
to Monsignor Luis Duval. pastor of
Sacred Heart Church. by the regi-
mental Chaplain, Patrick F.. Shine.
Father Duval said the Requiem Mass
would be said not only for Eduardo
Carrillo, Carlos Peters and Hum
berto Ramirez, but also for all SER
vice men of this vicinity who have
lost their lives in the service of their
country.
A donation of $1O0 for the SER
vice accompanied the letter. Father
Duval replied in a letter to the
chaplain that the Church did not
wish to accept money for conduct
ing the mass, and instead had pur-
chased war bond to help the boys
in their fight. He said the Santa
Cruz County men will be home
when the bond natures, and they
may decide then how the money
shall be ued for the Church.
The nineteen men who joined in
having their desire for the mass
submitted to the Catholic Church
here, and contributed to the offer
ing, were: John o. Patton, Carlos
A. Jury. Ventura Rodriguez, Jaime
c.. Teyechea, George S. Urbina,
Robert M. Espinoza, Hector L. Fern
andez.
Jose G. Flores, Alfredo T. Gar
cia Raul L. Rodriguez, Manuel V.
Felix, Jay j. Goodman, Wilfido R.
Ohnesorgen, Robert A. Pesquiera,
Alex Ramirez.
Arturo L. Robles, James Sproule,
Alonzo " Villanueva, Robert B.
Yslas, and Armando F. Parada.
In his letter, the regimental
chaplain said of the Bushmasters.
as the 158tl Is called: "You should
be tremendously proud for many of
your schoolboys are in it and have
made it regiment to be feared in
the Southwest Pacific how
divinely glad I am to be with such
a glorious combat unit.
After their last slaughter of the
better troops that TOTO puts on the
line in these parts their Regimental
Commander paid them such a tri-
butts as few troops have heard be-
fore. He said they made an en-
viable record-such record as could
never lose its luster no matter how
poor their next campaign would be. "
OF the local men who had died,
Father Shine wrote: The boys OF
Nogales who died went to Heaven,
Monsignor. We feel their joy upon
us these days as we wait for our
next assignment.
Of the living, he said: And the
boys of Nogales who go home will
meet their companions in that In
finitely Better World for the sacri-
fices they sustained in the foXholes
of the Southwest Pacific theoter of
operations.
They are good Christians and
when they return they will be lit
for finer practice Of their Holy
Faith for they know the value OF
Christ's Sacraments with terrible
sincerity for their experience and
many, many of them receive daily.
1t would make you shed tears, only
their devotion is too deep for tears.
In regard to the mass, the chap
lain wrote: Can you arrange to
have the Requiem on the Feast of
st. Ignatus, July 81. A Soldier Saint
would be pleased by prayers OF the
grandest soldier boys in the World.
The Spanish and Indian and Mexi-
can American boys have proved
themselves to be outstanding sold
inrc -