The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-05-31
Eureka Junior Red Cross News

Eureka Junior Red Cross News
With the close of school last week
one more project of the Junior Red
Cross was completed. Articles for
the servicemen overseas consisting
of Christmas menu-covers, table
decorations, and favors will be
shipped this week in order to reach
hospitals, rest homes, clubs, and
hospital ships in ample time for
next Christmas.
Three hundred menu-covers were
made by the local 4th and 5th
grades, $50 by the Tooley Lake
school, and rs by the Ural school,
making a total of SIS. The Pinkham
school was responsible for making
the table decorations, which were
in the shapes of attractive little
trees. $50 nut cup favors were made
partly by the 4th graders and part
ly by group Of young girls from
the 4th, 5th, and 9th grades, who
insisted on returning to school one
evening to work. Mrs. Tom Sicily
and Mrs. George McGlen super
vised their work and afterwards re-
Warded them2 with sandwiches,
cookies, and cocoa. Their eagerness
to work on Junior Red Cross arti-
cles for the servicemen has been
typical of the spirit of cooperation
throughout the local and rural
schools during the year and shows
the willingness of each teacher and
child to do his part for the war ef-
fort. Their work has been greatly
appreciated.
MRS. STEVE MCCULLOUGH,
Junior Red Cross Chairman, Eu-
reka, Chapter.
OFT writes his parents, describing
the concentration camp as follows:
"One day | had the opportunity to
see German concentration camp.
went all through it. 1t is located at
Weimar The Germans kept their
forced labor in this camp | can't
even attempt to describe what |
saw there. You would have to see
it yourself in order to believe it
We saw dead people stacked up like
cord wood. These people died of
starvation and were just skin and
bones-and | mean skin and bones.
There wasn't any flesh whatsoever
oners still there and most of them
were walking skeletons. Some were
too far gone to eat any food
mean it wouldn't have done them
any good to eat anything. In
this place they had Russians, Po-
! locks, Seeks, French and a few 9TH
er nationalities (no Americans
were mentioned) The people
who were left in this camp were
very grateful to the Americans
/ when they were liberated by them !"
Dean w. Albee Receives Citation
The following word of citation
given to Dean w. Albee who was
liberated by American forces April
/ from Cabanatuan in the Philip
pines has been received by his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Albee.
Under the authority contained in
War Department radiogram %,
February 1945, the Asiatic-P Pacific
Campaign Ribbon is awarded by
the Commanding General, U. S. Ar
my Forces in the Far East, to the
following named internees who
have, by their fortitude and cour-
! age, contributed materially to the
success of the Philippine Cam
paign," There followed a long list
of names headed by that of Dean
W. Albee. This list was not written
alphabetically SO that his name
heading the list evidently had some
significance. Following the list was.
by Command Of Gen Macarthur"
Since the above information was ad
dressed directly to Dean in care of
his mother, it is hoped this may in
dictate he is on his way home. No
direct word has been received from
Dean and two of their letters have
been returned SO that his exact
whereabouts and activities since
i liberation are still much mystery
Former Pastor in Paris
According to an item in the Sun
day Spokesman, The Rev Stanley
l.. Welsh has been transferred from
the Infantry where he served as
Chaplain for five months in France,
Belgium and Germany, to Paris
where headquarters have been es-
tablished. Capt. Welsh was pastor
| in the Whitefish-Libby Mission
field before the Rev G. T. Masuda
took charge.