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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-06-29

hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Mccall, of
Nottingham. Pa, announce the en-
gagement of their daughter, Miss
Goldie Marie Mccall, to Pfc. Leon
ard Ross Kirk, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Kirk, Colora, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Lawrence and
sons and Mrs. Ella Reynolds were
Sunday guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Rus
sell Reynolds, Media, Pa. Mrs. Rey-
nolds remained to visit among her
children living near Philadelphia.
John Brown of Pilot, who is en-
ployed at Edgewood, was oversome
by heat and had to remain at the hos
pital there for few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Miller Ressler,
Quarryville. Pa. celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary Wednes-
day, June 81.
Mrs. Clara B. Keen is spending
some time with her daughter, Mrs.
Arthur Irwin and family, Narberth,
Pa a
Mrs Elwood Foster is visiting her
husband, Pvt. Elwood Foster, at
Camp Blanding, Fla.
Miss Jean Marie Abrams, Bay
View, left last week for Nashville,
Tenn, where she has entered cadet
nurses training school.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-06-29

Mrs. Louise Brokaw accompanied
Mrs. Ralph Wiley and children to
their new home just outside Wash
ington, D. c., this last week. Mr..
Wiley is still receiving treatments
for undulant fever in Washington
hospital.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-06-29

Mr.. and Mrs. Chalmers McFerran
have moved into the house recently
vacated by Ralph Wiley and family.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-06-29

Miss Lucille Anderson and Mr.. Carl
Sproul, Altoona, Pa, are visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Shingler.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-06-29

Mrs. Elwood Foster is visiting her
husband, Pvt. Elwood Foster, at
Camp Blanding, Fla.
Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01

Eenera Joseph T. Stilwell had trudged out of the hrmese jungle into India with the bitter statement, h claim we took a hell of beating and it's
 umilating as he'll" the enemy had been able to keep grip on Myitkyina in north Burma and block hpplies for China the Burma Road.
 | Now the tide turning After his retreat Still meu had trained and equipped Chinese army and started back from the hamlet of Ledo in the Hima- layas As he pushed through the leech- infested Jungle road was built behind him. The British had moved down the coast, headed toward Rangoon. | There had been sporadic raids on Japanese po- ihons conceived by the British general Orde C.. |Hingate, and ln March, 1914, winged commando force led by Americas colorful, dashing Colonel Philip Cochran and including one-time child movie tar Jackie Coogan dropped down on vital enemy mpply and message centers southeast of Myitkyina
 The Chinese fought down from Yunnan to meet with StilwelPs forces and complete the new life line to China In May they put Myitkyina under Hege and took it August 3.
 Macarthur now was ready to hit again. On Sep kmber IS, after his bombers had thoroughly pound- M the island of Halmahera northwest of New Guinea, his troops stepped beyond it to Moratai, mly 300 miles from the Philippines, | At the same time, Marines plunged onto the small coral island of Peeliu in the Palau island group N clear a path for great invasion forces massed at base MacArthur had built at Hollandia
 Moratai was relatively easy Peleliu was not.
 The Marines had to overcome a counterattack on the beachhead that was one of the wars most vio- lent The enemy holed up in Bloody Nose" noun sns and came out to strike at night Marine patrols spent days trying to find one sniper.
 Blood ran thick for month while the caves were bastedS one by one. Meanwhile other Tanks landed On Angaur, Ngesebus and Kongauru islands in the same chain
 When the Palaus were secured American casual ties had reached 6,7O0. There were l3,5O0 dead and Imprisoned Japanese
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On October 23 two American submarines ob- served the foes southern fleet moving up from Singapore for Surigao and San Bernardino straits, and reported to Admiral Thomas c. Knkaid whose U. s. Seventh Fleet standing off Leyte to the east. Then the submarines moved into the enemy procession, sank two cruisers and damaged third.
 Fast carrier airmen of Admiral Hasey's Third Fleet, of Luzon's northern tip, joined the at tack while Kinkads battlewagons moved in to battle at Surigao Strait
 Another enemy force now was steaming down from Japan. and Halsey turned north to meet it. Some of his planes sped to support Kinkaid's out numbered carrier forces attempting to hold the enemy units pushing through San Bernardino strait.
 At Surigao the officer in tactical command, Ad- miral J. B. Oldendorf put his lighter forces each side of the approaching column and ran his cruisers and battleships in line the strait. In this manner he crossed the T,'-the naval equivalent of ho]e-in- -one-and the Japanese were neatly trapped. They lost two battleships and three de- stroyers almost before they could open fire heavy cruiser and destroyer escaped, but airmen soon caught and sank the cruiser.
 At San Bernardno running fight developed. When contact broken off the Japanese had lost the pride of their navy the new batteship Musashi Three of thelr cruisers and three destroyers also were sunk and another battleship damaged. Americas losses were heavy, too-tWo escort car riers two destroyers and destroyer escort sunk, four other warshps damaged, 1o5 planes lost
 At Cape Engano, off northern Luzon, Halsey's planes probably sank two heavy cruisers and light cruiser, blew the bow off destroyer, and damaged four battfeships and other cruisers and destroyers.
 The Navy called this second Battle of the Philip pine Sea lone of the decisive victories of the war;
 Back on Leyte, the rains came in torrents. Tanks begged in deep mud and the Japanese across the islands mountains at Ormoc Bay became menacing. MacArthur threw one-two punch: he sent one division across the island to the south of the enemy concentration, and landed another behind the foe in the bay. The punch worked.
 Meanwhile, other forces had moved onto the ad- joining island of Samar where a Well-knit army of Filipino guerras had arisen to harass Hirohitos occupiers.
 Prospects for the rest of the Philippine campaign looked bright and December IS the Tanks sped up for another landing at the island of Mndoro. But suddenly, the other side of the world the Allied position changed
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"I HAVE RETURNED"

FOR month the fattops had been busy on the r Philippines, and now MacArthur was ready to redeem his pledge
 He sent forces under General Walter Krueger to make surprise landing on little Leyte, midway m the cham between LuZon and Mindanao. The original plans had called for first invasion at Mndanao in November, but carrier attacks against eyte brought out such little opposition and guerril las told of such enemy weakness that Nimtz and hacArthur agreed to hit that island first, and
 On October 20, MacArthur proclaimed to the tilpinos: T have returned. Rally to me. Let the ndomitable spirit of Bataan and Corregidor lead M,"
 But Leyte became more difficult than the Ameri- cans had expected
 There was first the question of Hirohito's fleet, which had held itself aloof from battle, awaiting chance to strike. It an opportunity to break up MacArthur's landings.
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joined with the French lst under General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny to battle the German forces still the French side of the Rhine In the north, the British 2nd the U s. 9th under General Wil- liam H. Simpson, and Hodges lst which had made a shambles of Aachen before entering it, plodded up to the Roer River before Cologne
 Concentrating in secret, Won Rundstedt found weak spot in the Ardennes forest south of Aachen He struck on December 16 Soon his tanks were shooting into Luxembourg. &@tE
 The Allied civilian world gulped. As the Nazis plowed into BeIgium--while some Belgians hur- riedly hid the flags with which they had greeted the Americans-the objective appeared to be the fortress of Liege, and then Antwerp and the sea, to cut off the Tanks and Tommies in the north A bigger Dunkerque might be in the making.
 Eisenhower calmly ordered his forces to keep the Nazs away from the coast by pushing their spearheads west instead of north Patton sped up to hammer the southern flank Inside the Nazi waves two U, S. islands held-one at St. Vith the other at Bastogne where the 101st airborne divi- sion and other units had been sent in as reinforce mentS.
 The Germans drawn in seize ring around Bas- togne sent in surrender ultimatum. General An thony c. McAuliffe the divisions acting com- mander, sent back a classic four letter repy: "Nuts!' The Tanks fought on and held
 Won Rundstedt's drive, hemmed in on north ana south carved out a chunk 60 miles deep When bad weather hampered Allied air and tank opera tions Patton ordered his chaplain to pray for clear ing skies. The clouds lifted
 Patton rescued the Tanks at Bastogne on Decem- Der 27 and by the end of the year the bulge was being hammered on all sides.
 Nevertheless the Ardennes break-through was bitter news for Britain
 Hardly had the buzz-bombs been beaten, with their launching platforms loSt when the NaZiS in- troduced another screaming terror weapon. This was V-2-a rocket bomb that flew into the strato-a sphere at speed greater than soundS had greater ranges than Vi and caused even greater havoc when it landed
 About 50 a week now came to London. Britons had no immediate defense. flying telephone pole' (that it's appearance) came streaking through the clouds There great explosion And only then could civilians hear the sound of it's coming
 The Nazls shot many at Lege and at Antwerp, too try to destroy Allied use of the port There were heavy casualties, with many pitiful scenes of mangled women and children. But London and Antwerp grimly continued in business. Planes searched and bombed the new launching sites and weary Britons prayed they too would soon be overrun.
Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01
THE NAYS STRIKE BACK

9syAIE'LL hang our washing on the Siegfred Line"
 Twas a popular ditty of British troops sitting out the "phony' in the fall of 1889, but it took five years to make the song come true
 After the Arnhem attempt failed, the Allies set tied down to the long, slow business of whacking at the Germans westwall Patton's 3rd captured Metz and nched toward the Saar with its rich re- serves ot coal General Alexander M Patchs 7th
Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01

MoeArthUr begon his Philip pine comeback with Q lending on Leyte ond then moved up 10 Somor, Mindoro ond luzon. This eompoign gave boses 10 mount on invosion of Jopon.
Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01
THE SATELLITES FALL

THE Nazis scarcely had time to gloat oyer their Ardennes counteroffensive and their Va weapon before the Russians were hammering them again.
 Since August, the Reds had driven the Nazis out
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-29
Kennewick Kiwanis
Provides Program

The Kennewick Kiwanis club.
joint sponsor of the new club just
organized at Richland, furnished
the program at Richland on We'd
nesday. They will take a prom
inent part also at the charter
night program on April IL, when
the district governor, Frank Tay-
Tor, of KiWanis International and
other notables will be present.
The Richland club is making
plans for a dinner occasion for
more than 200 Kiwanians and
their ladies from valley clubs will
be present.
Rev. Oliver M. Adams of Pasco
was the featured speaker at the
meeting of Kiwanis Tuesday. His
talk was a description of his trip
through Palestine in 1888, illus
trated with colored slides. He had
taken t he pictures himself. He
was assisted by Mrs. Adams, who
had accompanied him on the trip.
Rev. Adams gave a moving des-
cription of the country he said
was about the size of Benton
county with a population Of three
million. It has all t ypes of eli
mate from snow capped noun
tains to the Dead Sea 1900 feet
below sea level
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-29
Clothing Drive
Opens April /;
Need Urgent

April l marks the opening OF
the national clothing drive. Lo-
cally sponsored by the Kiwanis
club, Kennewick will carry its
share of the responsibility for col
lecting 15O, 000, 900 pounds Of good
disable clothing, shoes and bed
ding, to be shipped to the needy
in the war ravaged countries.
Chairman James Leavy has an
nounced that the main depot will
be the hutment behind the admin
istration building at the housing
project. In addition to this cloth
ing will be accepted at any of the
churches.
The need for clothing is ire
mendous. One shirt to a family
of seven in Belgium. Children
in France kept home from school
because there are no clothes for
them to wear. Crude shoes de-
forming feet in Holland. Fabulous
sums being offered for clothing
of deceased in eastern Europe. In
Poland four families living in a
single room sharing their shreds
of clothing.
The need is urgent. Kennewick
people are preparing to do their
part to help alleviate this distress.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-29
Music is Feature
Of USO Program

The Easter Night program on
April l at 9 pm, at the USO club
will feature special music by the
Congregational church and Meth
odist church choirs and a talk by
Chaplain Ben "A. Maginniss, of the
Naval Air station, Pasco.
The women of the Cornell COM
munity are bringing fifty home
made pies for the Easter supper
Mrs. F. L. Heitzman of Cornell
IS chairman for the supper.
The buffet supper Sunday eve
ming, March Is was sponsored by
the Riverview Home Economic
club with Mrs. Dan Hurley, presi-
dent and Mrs. Merrith Ayars, past
president, pouring. Serving ON the
committee were Mrs. Dewitt
Clancy, chairman; Mrs. J. c.
Cornell, Mrs. Wallace Preston, ST.
Mrs. Edwin West, Mrs. Herert In
gram, Mrs. Robert LINEAR and
Mrs. B. L. Rousier. Table decora-
tons were Easter Dummies and
spring flowers. The buffet supper
consisted of sandwiches, cake,
cookies and coffee.
The musical program was ar
ranged by Mrs. Catherine Maupin
of KenneWick. The Schubert club
of Kennewick, under the direction
OF Edwin human, sang, accompan-
led by Mrs. Neuman.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-29
Engineers TO Be
Here 10 Answer
Dam Questions

To answer everybody's ques-
tons, engineers will spend two
days in this area next week in
connection with construction
plans for the Umatilla dam.
Mark Nelson, the engineer who
explained the project at the hear
ing last week, will be at Hotel
Pasco Wednesday and Thursday,
April 4 and S. With him will be
Engineer Dave Meldrum who will
be prepared to 60 out into the
field to locate dyke routes.
These engineers state that they
are glad to have the opportunity
to answer the many questions that
have arisen. They urge everyone
with a problem to contact them
on those days.
Since the hearing held last week
many residents near the river
sought additional information as
to the height of the levees, the
location of them and the matter
of seepage water. It is to supply
this specific information that the
engineers will be here.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-29
Group Discusses
Farm-Labor

Recommending continuance of
the present 'farm-labor camp and
urging improvement with better
housing facilities a group met
Monday to discuss the matter. It
was pointed out that in order to
keep workers here when needed
better facilities are necessary.
Recommendation were forwarded
to the War Food Administration.
Present were Don Cresswell,
president of the Benton-Frank-
lin county farm labor association;
Larry Newsome, secretary; c. E.
Ridley, field manager and Walter
Click, county extension service.
The association is opening an
office in the court house in Pros
ser April 1. It will be in the pres
ent ariculture department. Mrs.
Pearl Durham will be in charge.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-29
Special Council
Session Acts
On Building

With a series of problems to
solve held over from last week.
regular meeting, the City council
went into matters exhaustively
at a special meeting Tuesday
night.
Discussing the question in all
its phases they finally requested
Councilmen Holden and Cox to
procure builders plans and spec
ifications for an addition to the
city building that would at least
partially solve the building prob
lem. It is proposed to add to the
building sufficient space to pro-
vide court room, county office
space and additional Jail space for
the sheriffs arrests. The county
will pay acceptable rent for the
use of this space.
City engineer G. D. Hall was
present to discuss with the coun-
Gil proposed sewer additions. 1t
is necessary to construct 700 feet
of sewer to connect the present
sewer on Dayton street with the
hospital site. No further action
has been reported on the trunk
sewer to be laid on Avenue B.
Hall pointed out the difficulty
and relative high costs of sewer
construction to serve Layton's ad-
dition. He suggested an air lift
to raise sewage to the needed
level.
Councilmen Richmond, Holden,
Neel and Scot were appointed to
work out an operational plan for
the proposed city air port.
The parking meters are report
ed to be on their way and a plan
of installation was adopted.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-29
Funeral Services Today
For Earl Ray Larkin

Funeral services were held to-
day for Earl Ray Larkin, from
the Mueller chapel. He died sud-
denly Tuesday. The service was
in charge of Rev. Leo Dyson with
graveside services by the Masonic
lodge. He was a member of the
Greenwood lodge in Seattle.
Earl Larkin was born at Gar
field, November 1893. He lived
in Kennewick a number of years,
leaving here 80 years ago. He
returned last October and has
been operating service station
at the Richland Y.
He served in the Marines in
the last war. He won considerable
fame as a baseball pitcher, play
ing with a San Francisco semi
pro club.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs.
J. G. Dennis, Kennewick; two
brothers: Roy and f. w. Larkin,
Kennewick, and three sisters,
Mrs. Opal Farnum of Palouse,
Mrs. Gladys Thompson of Rich
land and Mrs. Ray Bauer Of Rich
mond, Calf.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-29
War Correspondent to Speak on
Experiences IN Pacific War Zone

'"The entire Philippine cam
paign would have been impossible
without the almost unbelievable
cooperation of the ordinary citi-
zen who literally sacrificed every
thing for the liberation of his
country" Winter said.
Winter offers no prognostica-
tons on the conclusion of hostil-
tiles in the Pacific, but he does
not think the end will come near
ly so quickly as optimists like to
believe. The japs are tough, he
says, and will become tougher as
their home islands are directly
stormed.
This spring he will 60 to Eu-
rope, Russia and China as a cor
respondent '.more interested in
postwar plans to the countries
he visits than to the war itself"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-29

William Winter, internationally
known correspondent and COM
mentator, will be the 5th speaker
of the Kennewick Pasco lecture
secier in the Kennewick high
school Friday, April 6.
The deeply tanned correspond
ent whose short wave radio COM
mentaries to the Pacific these last
three years have made him one
of the "best known voices in
America" had several weeks in
Australia, where he was given al
most royal welcome.
Then after visiting many of
those pin-point islands rescued
from anonymity by the joint eff
forts of Macarthur, Nimitz, Hal
sey & Co., he went to Leyte where
he spent seven weeks lodging
jap bombs and wallowing in hot
tropical mud.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-29
Holy Week Services
Close Friday Night

sn Inc union Holy Week services
sponsored by the ministers and
n,, lsnes OF the valley in the COM
K anues OF Richland, Pasco and
Gem Gen19eWlck, will close with the
u,;os FRIDAY service. In Kenne-
in ~. ~ tne series has been held
Awe ule Nazarene church on First
OF Pasco. " ''a''oil
tuner 0ther Kennewick ministers par
P o,t IN the series have been
na, Leo Leo w. Dyson of the Episco-
the TSnu1cn, Rev. P. J. Luvaas of
Coui Htnehsh Lutheran, Rev. E. E.
Re,, r OF the First Christian,
arene - g. a. Brlece of the First MAJ
BAPTIST sal Rev. Clark Smith Of Fin
F;yst and sl Rev: J. B. Coan of the
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-29
Merchants Urged to
Attend Trade Meeting

All merchants in the vicinity of
kennewick will have an oppor-
unity to have their questions on
the new clothing, textile and
mouse furnishings regulation ans
wered by an OPA price specialist,
at a trade meeting to be held in
fasco on Thursday, April S.
inls trade meeting is for mer-
chants affected by the new regu-
laton, MPR $50, which relates to
pricing of ALL types of apparel
and household furnishings = a
complete list of the items covered
oy the regulation may be obtained
the price panel of your
90 OPA board.
we urge merchants to attend
tnls meeting, as it is planned that
a complete explanation of this
new regulation will be made at
mat time, and all questions will
De answered.
u. Ance M. Ash of the Kennewick
war Price and Rationing Board
amended a meeting of price clerks
III tne Spokane district office Fri
uay, March q, at which time de-
tailed instructions on MPR $50
were given.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-29
Mini Growers
Directors Meet

The board of directors of the
Washington State Mint Growers
met March 9th and formulated
plans for the collection of infor-
nation that they hope will lead
to practices that will produce
mint oil that will meet USP tests
in all respects.
All growers, whether members
of the association or not, are asked
to cooperate in this survey. The
necessary blanks are being pre-
pared and may be obtained by
contracting any one of the direc-
tors.
v. o. Humphrey reports that
the government chemists have
been unable to determine why the
optical rotation tests are so low.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-29
Music. Special
Services To Be
Easter Features
Churches Join in Dawn
Service; Schubert Club
In Concert

Easter Sunday will be observed
in the churches of the community
with special themes and music.
A brief sunrise service, open to
all, will start the day at the Ken
newick park. The service is
scheduled for $40. Rev. John B.
Coan, of the First Methodist
church, will deliver the dawn
message. Other churches will also
participate. This service has be-
come popular in recent years.
The program will include con-
gregational singing led by Mrs.
Robt. Mills, accordian solo, Mrs.
Ida May White, Scripture reading,
Rev. Pratt, prayer, Mary Bell
Taylor and songs by quartette.
An Easter choral program by
the Schubert club will provide
musical treat, at BIS in the Meth
odiSt church. The. program and
personnel of this group appears
in another column.
st. Paul's Episcopal church will
feature three special services. A
three hour service starting at
noon on Good Friday will be held
in Pasco. At 4::3O Easter Eve there
will be service of holy baptism.
On Easter day at 10 the church
will celebrate Holy Communion.
At the Sunday school at 2:30 mite
boxes will be presented.
With the topic, casters Insist
ent Message" the First Lutheran
church will feature an Easter
festival service at IL am.
Bethlehem Lutheran church will
have a special Easter service at
1920 and invite everyone to tune
in "The Lutheran Hour" Sunday
morning at $50.
Theme of the morning service
at the First Methodist church will
be "The Banished Shadow" The
service will feature special Easter
music and a baptism service for
infants and children.
There will be a special service
at the Finey church followed by a
basket dinner.
The bell of the First Lutheran
church will be rung.