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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1945
Page
3
Ada hosiery dealers adopt varied methods to distribute arriving nylon hose. Stores split customer groups by cash, credit, employees, and luck drawing names from boxes or sales tickets. Merchants expect shortages for months and ask customers to be patient, noting diverse plans aimed at fairness.
At Uraga Japan on December 23, 1,100 Nisei and other troops aboard the Matsonia arrive in a land of scarce supplies and cold reception. The starving veterans, 40 to 50 pounds underweight, receive first aid as they move toward a separation center two miles away, while civilians aboard ship feast on improved food.
Seaman 2/c James Olterman plans to return for Christmas. He attends the Naval Academy Preparatory School at Bainbridge Maryland after enlisting in June and completing boat training in San Diego and quartermaster school in Gulfport. He will take the Annapolis entrance exams in April.
Governor Kerr writes three days before Christmas and two days after, framing the holiday as more than a date, highlighting the birth of Jesus Christ as Savior and a call for peace.
Lt James B. Richmond Jr son of Mr and Mrs James B admitted to Borden General Hospital Chickasha for a medical check up. His RAF service began January 1942 with training at Camp Wallace Ellington Field and flight navigation. He flew missions over Europe, was shot down March 24 near Kassel, captured, liberated by Russians, received Purple Heart and holds DFC Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters ETO ribbon with six battle stars.
Navy personnel at Norman list shows Oklahoma men released from service with overseas months. Names include Clifford Collier Eugene Bayley Fowler Herman Davis Allen John Turley Sanders Sorrels Nathan Anderson Gaines Edmiston Teddy Evans Griggs Kelly Wright Ethridge Crawford Good Colbert Aldridge Sinclair Hoover Barnes Brewer Dismuke Harkins Butler Ames Standifer Armstrong Peters and others with home addresses and service times.
Rear Admiral Shigematsu Sakaibara testified at a military commission on Wake Island that he ordered the execution of 98 American civilian employees of Pan American World Airways on October 7, 1943. He said he lied about the killings to investigators and claimed the act was military necessity amid anticipated invasion.
Brig. Gen. Truman E. Boudinot commanding general of the 7th Armored division in Heidelberg Germany died Friday at Walter Reed Hospital after throat illness. Funeral will be held at Fort Myer Chapel with interment at Arlington National Cemetery. he was 50. Survived by widow Lolita and two sons including a West Point cadet.
Floyd Harper son of Mrs Bessie Harper of Los Angeles formerly Ada has returned to the west coast after two severe storms at sea aboard the Liberty Ship James B Porter The ship endured two typhoons one near Australia that killed the chief engineer and injured five seamen the other seven days from Manila on Oct 3 with a 12 hour pounding The master called it the worst in 35 years Harper 22 is due for discharge Christmas Day at San Pedro California He has traveled through India Ceylon Australia New Guinea and the Philippines A son in law Edward Stanley of the naval medical corps with 18 months on Tinian and Saipan is en route home for discharge and to his wife and their 14 month old baby
First Lt. Dale Hayden of 601 East Fourteenth received the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster at a formal Kimpo presentation. He joined the 26th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron in October 1944 and holds campaign ribbons for New Guinea Bismarck Archipelago Southern Philippines Luzon and the Western Pacific along with American Defense Philippine Liberation and Asiatic Pacific ribbons. He lives with wife Alma Claudene Hayden at Ada.
Cpl. Daniel D. Morrow of Ada is awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service with the Third Infantry Division. He served in Italy France and Germany. His father Lt. Francis Morrow resides at Rt. 4 Ada.
S/Sgt. Geoffrey D. Cantrell of 412 West Eighteenth has been discharged from the AAF after 37 months of service. He served in 1945 with the ETO in January 1945, member of the 447th Bomber Group.
Colonel Robert S. Moore former Ada resident at 1900 F Street honored with the Legion of Merit for outstanding service in the War Department. As chief Legislative Reference Section and budget adviser he prepared and defended appropriations before the Bureau of the Budget and Congress, contributing to wartime operations from March 25 1942 to July 6.
Cpl. Berlin L. Bray of Ada Route 2 left the Army Personnel Center Oahu T H for return to the mainland and reenlistment furlough. Bray spent 11 months in the Mid Pacific theater with the Air Transport Command and was stationed on Hickam Field. Prior to service he operated a farm near Ada. His parents are Mr and Mrs W C Bray.
Marine Corporal Paul H. Rogers, 19, of Ada, receives the Silver Star from Major General Keller E. Rockey for bravery on Okinawa June 16. He rode a tank rear with two wounded Marines, aided them under heavy fire, and delivered them to a field aid station as or amid combat. He is the son of Mrs. Edith Rogers and serves in the First Tank Battalion, First Marine Division.
Sgt Herman D Miser son of Mr and Mrs J H Miser Stratford has returned to the States after 28 months active duty in the Pacific with the Fifth Air Force He served in Australia New Guinea Netherlands East Indies Philippines Ryukyus and Korea He is entitled to wear the Asiatic Pacific theater ribbon with one campaign star He was employed by Spencer and Harris construction company before his induction in 1943.
Pfc. Preston L. Campbell of the Signal Corps Training School in Manila has reenlisted for one year under the Army Re-enlistment program. He entered service January 6, 1945 and arrived overseas September 19, 1945 in Manila. Campbell, a Latta High School graduate, wears the Asiatic-Pacific ribbon and prior to service farmed. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Campbell of Ada.
Lt. William E. Breeden of 931 West Eighteenth is discharged at McClellan Field California. After four and a half years in the Royal Air Force his last duty station was Red Air ae Saas.
Ist. Lt. Paul Denny, former Ada high school teacher in Okinawa, writes a Christmas card from the Pacific. He pleads for ships to bring home the soldiers, asking Santa to deliver not gifts but ships to lift the hearts of G I Joes and their loved ones.
Tulsa readers recall the paradox of hunters who blend ruthlessness with poetry. Vivid images include a mallard’s color, covey rises, dogs in pursuit, and the scent of burnt powder and campfires as they honor moments of the hunt.
Sgt Max W. Corbin, husband of Mrs M Corbin and son of Mrs T W Corbin of 604 West Twenty fourth, relieved from duty with the 98th Chemical Mortar Battalion at Base M in northern Luzon and to be discharged after return to the United States. An army veteran since July 1943, overseas since January 1944, he served in New Guinea and the Philippine Islands and wears the Asiatic Pacific theater ribbon with three battle stars, the Good Conduct medal, the Philippine Liberation with two battle stars and the Victory medal.
Navy sailor James M. Tyler of Ada ends his voyage on the destroyer tender after years of service. Tyler, a Navy man since 1943, heads to Norman separations center then Ada for discharge. His parents reside at 914 West Sea Word and Mrs. Bill Miller reports her husband’s return from 17 months on Saipan.
Former Adan describes vast wartime travels and roles from Eng land In First Army Hq to Bavaria post office and telephone networks. He lists stations in England France Czechoslovakia Belgium Luxembourg Holland Germany and Austria and details duties at Regensburg before returning home in October. Ada community launches an 80 000 drive to honor fallen East Central students with a memorial building set to break ground spring 1947 and dedicated to war veterans.
Ottawa county sheriff said the FBI informed him Robert Frederic Smith, 21, was captured at Blue Island Illinois and confessed to killing Roy Gordon Beh of Grosse Pointe Michigan. Beh, a sales representative for a Newark aircraft outfit, was shot in a car near Muskegon after leaving Chicago.
East Central outlines a bold growth plan including a $150,000 library between Science Hall and the Administration Building forming a quadrangle with a north side hub among Science Hall Horace Mann and the library. A new Industrial Arts building will rise on the old frame gym site. The college also buys a 15 acre tract east of the hill between the campus and Norris Stadium to ensure space for future use.
Valley View hospital runs at capacity with nine births in 48 hours and four more mothers in the maternity ward. Five new weekend patients and ongoing illnesses strain staff as Christmas approaches.
The United States, citing essential policies for peace, uses economic aid as leverage with hesitant governments. Acting Secretary Dean Acheson noted hopes for closer relations with Yugoslavia while criticizing Tito's Belgrade regime. The White House referenced Truman's China directive and Roosevelt’s letter to Armour as historical parallels.
Two Army lieutenants were found dead in the partly burned wreckage of a two seat plane, missing since Tuesday, in Sugar Creek Canyon, 15 miles north of American Fork. The officers, awaiting overseas assignments, were identified as 2nd Lts. Coffey, 22, of Coffeyville Kansas, and Lester, 20, of Corpus Christi Texas, who departed from Salt Lake Army air base on a routine flight.
In Anadarko C C Lucas, long denied invites to the lodge’s annual turkey dinner, planned a party for six friends after three years of cancellations. The event was called off once more, leaving Lucas with seven steaks as inflation bites. James J. Newman of B F Goodrich notes that plentiful supplies curb inflation.
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