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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-07-19
Kenneth Sialey
Writes From His
0kinawa oxhole

0kinaWa oxhole
Following are parts of two let
tiers recently received from theil
son, Kenneth, by Mr.. and Mrs. r.
N. Staley. They were written
from the foxhole pictured above
on Okinawa.
Okinawa, June "a
Dear Ma, Pa. and Dean,
It was a todgn fight but my legs
managed to hold out and I got
back ok. I'm telling you, I was
one worried GIL. for a while. But
it was like Pa always says, "the
things you worry about the most
never come true, I've been lying
around in the SIN al day. I left
some water out in the sun for
about two hours, and 50 I had q
bath. I haven't eaten much lately.
can hardly look q can Of rationa
in the face ENTHUSIASTICALLY
after seeing fried and rotten Japs
lying around.
On the brighter side: the last
days up there was a great time for
souvenirs. I got two Jap 81 rifles
from q couple Of singed Japs. ]
also got q big pocket knife, two
chopsticls, and three little boxes
I" by 2" by s., in side them there
are little oil cans.
I had two fresh fried eggs and
bacon this morning! And an or
ange last night! Yesterday heard
the first music I've heard since
the middle of April except for q
couple of movies I saw in March.
This was from a chaplains por-
table organ. -
Since landed here I haven't
had the slightest idea Of what day
Of the week it is.
In q week I'll be a quarter Of q
century old, and I sure feel that
old too, even though most people
won't believe it.
It rains q little once In q while
and everything is green, except
the hills that were shelled and
burned off. There must be mil
lions of fox holes on the island
now. The noise was terrific to-
wards the last. Constant machine
gun fire overhead and artillery
and mortar. It about shook my
teeth out and my ears were, sing
ing at night. It seems 80 peaceful
now.
All my Saipan portrait models
are casualties except the two who
stayed there. Now you can under
stand why I can't understand how
I got through this mess.
June 20
Situation normal had <. p.
yesterday. I'm living about like
I was on Saipan, except that the
chow line isn't as long. The wea-
Their is hot and dry.
Two Of US Of the full squad
that started out this time stag
gered across the finish line. Won't
that be something to tell my grand
children about? Last night met
Swanson at the show. He was in q
Heavy Weapons Co. 50 wasn't a
bad off as us riflemen. He lives
about 500 yards from where I do.
Did tell you that I was In an
other grenade fight-about q
went off 1890 feet from me, but
I never got touched. About a week
ago two Jap knee mortars went
off IS feet from me, and all I got
was speck Of shrapnel in my
back.
I suppose you read about that
Yuza-Dake hill mass we had to
take? What a job. It was all coral
and full of caves. After weeks Of
blasting it was q mass Of rubble
twisted wire, bushes, twisted trees
and limbs. It was high and al
most straight up. went through
a smoke screen, but by-passed
machine gunner was chopping
away at where he though we were.
Boy I went up that cliff like q
monkey. What a beautiful sight
Continued on Page Five)
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-07-19

William Kratzer, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. lie Roy Kratzer, is leaving
for Seattle after spending q 30
day furlough at home. He viii
report back to the hospital at Sc
attic. Oils hand was wounded
while in Germany.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-07-19
LEArfEnlgEcK

LEATIIE0IECX
Daniel Wayne Polling, 10, Of
Kennewick, recently was enlisted
a Marine private and ordered 10
boot camp" at the Marine Corps
base, San Diego, Calf.
The 18-year-old leatherneck was
graduated from Kennewick High
School where he played varsity
basketball and baseball and repre-
sented his senior class at Student
Council.
He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold Wayne Polling Of Kenne-
wick.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-07-19

Ray c. LaRue, Route I, Ken.
newick, has been promoted t.
corporal in the India. Burma All
service command.
Cpl. LaRue, Is q member Of a
air depot, one Of the many All
Service Command installations
that has been backing up the TIC.
teal transport units In this necl
Of the war.
LaRue enlisted in the armed
forces in March, 1913, and haa
been in the India-Buxma Theates
for almost two years. He gradu-
ated from Riverview High School
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-07-19

AIS Calvin Simsen, con Of
A. c. Simsen's, who is stationed
at Shepperd Field near Wichita
Falls, Texas and AIS Duane
Pierce, son Of w. Pierce's Of West
Highlands, who is stationed In
Florida, met at Wichita Falls,
Texas and drove home. several
day ago. They are both on 15-day
furloughs.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-07-19

Pvt. 1/c Homer G. Davis who
was wounded in Germany il now
back with his company. He hopes
TO be home in November If every.
thing goes all right. ~
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-07-19

Sgt. Walter Le Roy Edwards
is on his way overseas. His wife
il in San Antonio, Texas. he
was stationed at Kelly Field, Tex
as for three years q q mechanic.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-07-19
wEGAlSD HOME on LEAVE

S/Sgt. Wilbur E. Wlegand. has
arrived home for S0-day fur
Tough, before going to the Pacif-
ic. He has spent the past two
years in England with the Eighth
Air Force in which he has re-
ceived six battle stars.
He is now spending his leave
in Pasco with his wife and daueh-
ter.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-07-19

: Bert Fallgren, who is with the
maritime service has just suf-
fered q fall which caused bad
injuries. Bert is in the hospital
at Portland. He made two COM
plete trips and was loading for
the third. when the accident hap
pened.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-07-19

Following are parts of two let
tiers recently received from their
son, Kenneth, by Mr.. and Mrs. r.
N. Staley. They were written
from the foxhole pictured above
on OkinaWa.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-07-19

Clinton Olson, Radar &c writes
that he has been In three majo.
battles in the Philippines. He is
on q geographical survey ship
Clinton was the manager Of Safe
way Store. before entering the
service.
Evening star., 1945-07-05
5000 British Subjects
Here Are Expected 10
Cast Absentee Votes

More than 5000 British subjects
now in Washington were expected
to vote today in the general cleo
tions which will determine whether
Prime Minister Churchill remains
in power or will be succeeded by
Labor government.
Their ballots will be sealed in
metal containers and flown to Lon
don by the Royal Air Force Trans
port Command. They must be re-
ceived in London by July Is in order
to be counted.
Under British law, the British In
formation Services explained, every
subject who is absent from his
homeland for reasons beyond his
own control is entitled to an alb
sentee ballot. This includes not
only those who are in the United
States on official war missions, but
also those mothers who have brought
their children here to escape Ger
man bombing. ..
Ballot Boxes Set Up.
Many British subjects applied for
and received their individual ballots
by mail. But in the large war
agencies here applications we're
made through personnel officers,
who received stacks of ballots for
distribution.
Ballot boxes were set up today
at the British Air Commission Of
fees, 1875 Massachusetts, avenue,
and at the British Admiralty dele
cation headquarters, 1925 Vermont
avenue. Voting began at the former
place at IL am. and at the latter
at 10 am. N6A
Those expecting to vote today were
divided as follows: Army personnel,
i 900; Royal Air Force personnel,
GOO; navy personnel, 1900; British
civilian employees and the wives of
officers and officials stationed here,
1000. Total, 5,100.
Many Agencies in New York.
1t was expected also that sizable
British vote would be cast in New
York, where many of the war agen-
cies also have Offices.
British subjects in America will
vote only for the representatives in
Commons from their respective con-
stituencies. not directly for the
Prime Minister Some persons have
two votes, as under British law they
may ballot for members of Parlia-
ment from the district in which
their business Office Is located as
well as the one in which they have
their home.
Evening star., 1945-07-05

siyely on economic subjects and
even since his appointment to the
bench has contributed to periodicals.
President Truman accepted JUS
tice Arnold's resignation with regret
and told him Yours has been
faithful and efficient service to the
Government and I am sure that I
speak for the Nation as whole
when I express gratitude therefor" !"
Won Group Health Fight.
One Of Justice Arnold's outstand-
ing legal victories was won three
years ago when the Supreme Court
affirmed the conviction of the Amer
lean Medical Society on charges of
conspiring to hinder the operations
of Group Health, Inc, medical
cooperative formed by Government
employees.
Although the New Deal was nota-
BILE for its sympathetic attitude
toward labor, Justice Arnold fought
consistently against restraints en-
ployed by unions and repeatedly
tried to curb them by prosecutions
under the Sherman Act.
His efforts in this respect were
directed particularly against the
building trades unions of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, but his
campaign collapsed under series
of adverse rulings by the Supreme
Court.
Justice Arnold also sought to re-
strain the activities of James Caesar
Petrillo, head Of the American Fed
Grafton Of Musicians, whose ban on
the production of recordings by
members of the union resulted In a
Senate inquiry.
Evening star., 1945-07-05
Patterson Expresses Pride
In CoIored Soldiers
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
Undersecretary of War Patterson
took issue today with the statement
of Senator Eastland, Democrat, of
Mississippi that Negro troops in
Europe would neither work nor
fight"
Senator Eastland made this state
ment during a Senate filibuster
against the Fair Employment Prac-
tices Committee, declaring that he
got his information from high gen.
erals.
Mr.. Patterson told his news con-
ference today:
IF any high-ranking general has
made such a statement / have no
knowledge of it. The War Depart
ment is proud of its troops and that
includes Negroes as well as all other
groups.
There have been number of
press releases in the last few months
commencing the behavior of num-
be- of units made up of Negro
troops. Gen. Eisenhower spoke of
the good performance of the volun-
teer platoons that were used In the
European theater. The inspector
general went out of his way to COM
ment favorably on the performance
of the gath Infantry Negro Regi-
ment In the Marianas and there
have been numbers of similar COM
mendationS."
Evening star., 1945-07-05
Allies Repatriafe
; Million From Reich
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OF nearly 5,800,000 displaced per-
sons found by the Allies in Germany,
3,260,000 have been returned to their
home countries.
They included 1,243,600 French
men, of whom 142, ,693 were returned
by air, and 1893 ,902 Russians.
Announcing these figures today
the War Department added that
Russians constitute by far the
largest group Of those not yet
repatriated.
The reason for this, it said, is that
there was no feasible method for re-
turning Soviet citizens until Ger
many fell and Allied and Russian
fronts were linked.
Others already repatriated by
June %, the announcement said, in
cluded 247,790 Belgians, 195 900
Dutch, 136,043 italians, 80, ,488 Czech
oslovsks, 2,05l Yugoslavs and 5000
Luxembourgers.
The department quoted supreme
Allied headquarters estimates that
the entire problem of displaced per-
sons may resolve itself by Septem-
Der ! into caring for the residual of
nonrepatriable and stateless per-
sons"
Evening star., 1945-07-05
hazi Prisoner Freed
In Death Of Comrade
BY The Associated press

BY The Associated pres& g
IS LONDON, July 5s--A British
military court today acquitted
Hans Klein, one of eight German
prisoners OF war on trial for Staying
a non-Nazi prisoner, holding that
the prosecution failed to prove he
participated actively.
The court refused to acquit
Herbert Wunderlich, ruling that
this prisoners own statement was
sufficient to establish a case. Wun-
derlich said he helped drag the
beaten body of Wolfgang Rosterg,
face down. across rough ground to
the prison lavatory last December %
where the man was left hanging
from an overhead pipe.
DR.. A. Rintoul testifiec that a
postmortem showed that Rosterg
was strangled during the dragging
and already was dead when his
body was hanged.
Testimony was presented that
Rosterg, who had asserted his nom
Nazi beliefs, was accused by a num-
Der Of other prisoners of being de-
seerted who had revealed valuable
information to the Allies.
Klein left the courtroom to re-
turn to the prisoner OF war camp
The other seven defenGents still
have opportunities to present de-
fenSeS.
Evening star., 1945-07-05
Arnold
Continued From First Page.)

ness opportunity and truly COM
petitive economy in the postwar
world. Industrial invention and q
new age of transportation have
created industrial opportunities fol-
all sections of this country which
never existed before. Full produc-
ton after the war and the elasticity
of our economy depend on the
release of new and independent
initiative in industry.
This, think, must be the di-
rection of successful liberal move
ment in America.
Your own public life has been an
outstanding contribution to that
movement. 1 believe that sort of
liberalism in business can be effec-
lively advanced from within the
business world"
A native of Laramie, Wyo., JUS
tice Arnold studied law at Harvard
and began his practice in Chicago
in 1914.
Later, he was member of the
law faculties at the University of
Wyoming, West Virginia University
and Yale. He served as special as
sistant to the Attorney General in
the early days of the New Deal and
then was assistant Attorney General
for five years before his appoint
ment to the bench.
In the Department of Justice he
headed the antitrust division and
vigorously warred on monopoly.
A particular object Of his attack
was the coercive practices of labor
unions, and he made several unsuc-
cessful efforts to handle these groups
under the Sherman Act, but was re-
buffed by the Supreme Court.
Former SEC Trial Examiner.
He also represented the depart
ment on the Temporary National
Economic Committee from 1888 to
l941.
Before his appointment to the
Justice Department post, Justice
Arnold was engaged in le.Ssl work
with the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration, the Governor Gen.
eral of the Philippines and also was
trial examiner for the Securities
and Exchange Commission.
Justice Arnold has written exten-
Evening star., 1945-07-05
Letters Will Inform
Doctors Of Polio Plans

Letters to health officers in near
by Maryland and Virginia concern
ing hospital facilities in the Dis
trict for infantile paralysis will take
the place Of general health con-
ference originally planned for FRI
day. the Health Department an
nounced today.
Last week DR.. Daniel L. Seckin-
ger. then acting health officer, re-
ported that apparently another polio
epidemic was under way and an
nounced that he would call con-
ference of health officials in the
metropolitan area.
Health Officer George C.. Rutland
has emphaticaily denied the pros
poets of an epidemic and cancelled
plans for the conference. DIR. Ruh-
land said yesterday that he saw
no need for such a meeting, since
plans for handling polio were worked
out during the epidemic last year.
The county health officials will be
informed of the Commissioners or
der of last Friday stating that in
fantile paralysis cases would be hos
pitalized at Gallinger Municipal
Hospital and Children's Hospital to
save manpower and facilities of 9TH
er hospitals. DR. Rutland said that
the order was identical with the one
that was written last year.
Evening star., 1945-07-05
Births Reported

Albright, Ray and Sue, girl
Alexander, Lyle and Helen, girl.
Houchard. Clarence and Evelyne Girl
Cellins, r. Paul and Margaret, boy.
Drake. Willie and Myrtle. girl. D.
Fadely, Henry and Evelyn, boy,
Field. Jennings and Elizabeth, girl.
Henley. Thomas and Helen boy
Hersberger, Aaron and Ruth, girl
jenkins. Luther and Edn% boy
Jones, Edward and Elizabeth. boy.
Ganfreda, Nicholas and Mary. boy.
Manning. William and Miriam, girl.
Meffert, Robert and Carolyn, girl.
Molina, Robert and Ann, girl
Morrison. Kevin and Lawisa. girl.
O'Connor, John and Jeanne. boy.
PRrkhurst. Eisene and Emma boy.
Snider, Sidney and Rita, boy.
Evening star., 1945-07-05
Election
Continued From First Page)

tween the two strongest parties
often were buried under heaps OF
personal abuse during the cleo
tioneering, which few, if any, recent
American campaigns have matched
in personal vindictiveness or parti-
sanship by the press.
The delay in tabulating the re-
suits will mean that when Mr..
Churchill and Mr.. Attlee, as oppo-
sition leader, attend the Big Three
meeting at Berlin, they will not
know which one will be the Prime
Minister who will have the task
of carrying out the decisions.
All voting will not take place to-
day. Because of local holidays, %
constituencies will vote July IL and
one on July 10. Another must vote
at an unspecifled later date because
"a candidate died. One Conserva-
tive and two Laborite candidates
were nominated without opposition.
A near-record total of f,674 candi-
dates are in the race for $40 House
of Commons seats. The Laborites
put UP COL candidates, the Con-
servatives SAT, the Liberals 305 and
the Liberal Nationals So. The 16e
Others were entered by minor par
ties or as independents.
In THE Parliament dissolved last
month, which had 615 seats, the
Conservatives had 358 members
Labor had 163, the Liberal Nationals
26 and the Liberals 10. while the re-
naming so were accounted for by
minor parties. independents and va
cancies. ae sftg f.s
1t is estimated $4,000. 900 or more
votes will be cast. 30 70 &
Evening star., 1945-07-05
Warsaw Recognition
by Britain and U. s.
Seen Possible Today
By EDWARD r. MORGAN,

Foreisn Correspondent of The Star and
chicag Daily News.
LONDON. July 5.-If all goes
well the United States and Great
Britain will announce their
formal recognition of the reor-
ganized Warsaw Polish govern
ment by midnight tonight, ac-
Icording to a reliable source.
simultaneously, the two powers
will break diplomatic relations with
the London Polish regime, which
already is in process of being dis
mantled.
1t is understood that Warsaw al
ready has communicated to London
and Washington a pledge to abide
by the spirit OF the Yalta agreement
concerning the reconstruction of the
Polish government. This involves
the holding Of free and unfettered'
elections as soon as practicable.
Responsible people in London
doubt whether elections can be held
before spring and, of course. 1t is
an open question as to just how
free and unfettered the voting can
be. Poland never has had an elec-
ton on British or American stand
ards, so it is probably too much to
imagine that. perfect one could
be organized now.
Censorship Is Issue.
However, it Is hoped here thai
both British and American observ.
ers will be able to circulate freely
In Poland by election time and thai
arrangements can be made, for AL.
lied correspondents to visit tht
country Immediately. One govern.
ment official said that the Foreign
Once would press Warsaw to liber.
alize censorship.
The British probably will noi
name an Ambassador to Poland i'm.
mediately. but will send a charge
d'affaires to Warsaw.
One responsible British source
| has admitted that the government
is very worried" over the future oi
the Polish armed forces now under
Allied command. It is obvious thai
these forces will be kept under AL.
lied control, responsible to British
and American generals, until some
kind of arrangement for their per-
manent disposition can be made
This, admittedly, is difficult due te
the unwillingness of a large per-
centage of Polish soldiers to &c
home on the grounds that they have
/ lost half of their homeland and that
the government is dominated by
Moscow.
Nevertheless, London is encour-
aged by the rapid, if somewhat linn
tied reorganization of the Warsaw
regime. For the first time since
March, 1943, when Russia broke of
with Poland, all members of the Big
Three will have diplomatic relations
with the same Polish government.
The fact that these developments
have been nailed down before Presi-
dent Truman, Prime Minister
Churchill and Premier Stain meet
in Berlin means that they will be
lable to spend most of their time
talking about problems now more
urgent than Poland. such as the
Peace Conference, the continued ad-
ministration of Germany, the future
of the Dardenelles, etc.
Copyright, le45, Chicago Daily Eews.D
Evening star., 1945-07-05
Chinese Officer Held
On Assault Charge
In Baltimore
Rx the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, July 5.-A 39-yeaT-
old Chinese who identified himself
in Police Court as Col. kim Chat
Of the Chinese Army was held with
out bail today for grand jury action
on charge of attempting to Grim
inally assault married woman, 81,
in Baltimore hotel.
The officer, who told Police Mag
istrate Walter j. Dewees that the
entire case was "a mistake" said
he had seen two years of service in
the India Burma theater OF opera
tions and now was stationed In
Washington to learn new military
techniques.
Col. Chat testified he couldn't find
a hotel room in Washington as he
told this story of events Monday
night:
He arose to get drink Of water
from the first floor, and, confused
in returning, entered the wrong
room ON the third floor, but walked
out again.
However, the woman testified Chai
got into bed with her. She screamed,
and he left, but returned via the
fire escape, she said. The colonel
denied he had returned.
The Office of the Chinese military
attache today identified Col. Kim
Chai as specialist in ordnance
who had been studying in the
United States. He is in Baltimore,
it was said, with group of other
Chinese officers who now are await
ing transportation to their home
land.
Col. Chao of the military attaches
office talked to the leader of the
Chinese group in Baltimore by tele-
phone and was told that Col. Chai's
arrest was due to his making a
mistake in the location Oh his room.
The group leader said that the
incident occurred several days ago,
and that the woman in the case
had made no complaint until today.
The affair was being investigated
further by Chinese officials here.
Evening star., 1945-07-05
|WPB Bans All Tires Made
Entirely Of Natural Rubber
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
No more tires will be made en-
tirely of natural rubber.
The move, announced last night
by the War Production Board, is
designed to conserve the Nations
dwindling stockpile Of natural rub
ber
In the future some synthetic rub
ber win be used in all tires. re-
gardless Of size. Most small tires
already are made entirely of syn
thetic rubber, and some Of this is
used in almost all tires. Because
Of this WPB estimated the new
order would result in q saving of
only 1900 tons OF natural rubber
q year.
The required amounts Of syn
thetic rubber vary from 100 per
cent for small tires to Per cent
for giant casings.
Evening star., 1945-07-05

in Office until defeat at general
election in 1881.
Mr.. Curtin was elected to the
House from Fremantle.. Western
Australia, district again In 1894 and
in October, 1885, became leader of
the Labor party, automatically
heading the opposition in Athe fed
eral Parliament and becoming Prime
Minister in October, l941. ",
The Prime Minister visited the
United States and conferred with
President Roosevelt at the White
House in April last year. They dis
cussed war issues and Mr.. Curtin
expressed Australia's gratitude for
United States assistance which
halted threatened japanese inva-
sion of his country.
Mr.. Curtin is survived by his
widow, son and a daughter.