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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1945
Page
7
Cpl Leo Booy known as Leonard J Booy is described as a 4 ing ser ard and army clerk in the Air Corps. He sailed in October 1943 and landed in England where he has been stationed about 16 months. He enjoys his work and the duties of a clerk.
Pie Verle D. and Virgil C. Lubberden, Oska roes natives, are patients in the same ward at O'Reilly General Hospital Springfield Mo. They served in the Army together undergoing training and combat in World War II. Injured in action at Leintry France November 15 1944 they aided each other as medics. They began basic training at Camp Roberts Calif and went through ASTP at the University of Denver before joining the 44th Infantry Division sailing from Miles Standish and serving on the 7th Army front.
Cpl John Sybenga son of Mrs John Sybenga of Oskaloosa reports in the Oskaloosa Herald that he has been transferred with 23 others from the Fort Monmouth New Jersey Signal Corps Publications Agency to the new Air Technical Service Command organizing a publications agency. He will head a photographic department in a large laboratory near Fort Monmouth and his new address is Cpl John Sybenga ATSC 4151st Air Base Unit Red Bank New Jersey.
Keith Tait son of Mr and Mrs Wm Tait left Thursday February 16 for Fort Leavenworth Kansas to report for air corps duty. He will then proceed to Keesler Field Biloxi Mississippi for further training.
Mrs. Delmar Schultz of Sully received word that her husband Private Delmar Schultz has been wounded in action in France. He later wrote from a base hospital. The Schultzes, with two children, lived in Sully. Schultz formerly worked at Vander Ploeg bakery and later drove a truck for Pella Produce Company.
A garbled wartime note lists soldiers including Lt Clarence Van Dellen of the 1 3rd Battalion at Camp Ritchie Md Pvt Chester W Bricker of Company D 64th Regiment Camp Howze Texas and Pvt Wm G Gosselink among others with partial addresses and unit notes, likely a troop mail drop.
Navy communications man Paul Vand Lane, stationed in the Pacific, asks for a change of address via V mail. He reports a warm Hawaii visit at Waikiki Beach during liberty in Honolulu and mentions eagerly awaiting the Chronicle.
Congressman Paul Cunningham outlines a new program by General James Ulio to inform next of kin about casualties. It prohibits field officers from sharing details, requires brief diagnoses and progress letters, and sets timelines for overseas deaths and missing personnel, with security safeguards and requested full service details in inquiries.
Reports from the Home detail visits by Mr and Mrs Jonker and daughter Mrs PL De Jon and others including Mr Mess and two children, Mr John De Jong, Mr Christina, Mr Langstr and son Paul Langstraat, and multiple Hartog families. Local visitors travel from Chandler Minnesota and Sully to see residents, with nears and tans of neighborly contact.
The Champaign County record from June 11 1836 shows government rates for innkeepers including meals lodging and feed for man and horse and various priced allowances for whiskey gin rum brandy and pints. The document ties these price ceilings to early county governance and a historic OPA reference.
Walter Verought and families visit Den Hartog, Gosselink and Van Gorp households. Ernest Graham and Mrs Wm nd daughter from Lynnville visit Mary Brand. Multiple Aalbers, Van Rees, Vos households from Sully and Prairie City called on Peter Vos. Local sick list notes improvements and illnesses amid community visits.
Leona Vander Linden of United China Relief announced that American donors sent more than 9.5 million dollars to aid the people of China in 1944. The figure marks an increase of 12,586 15 over 1942, bringing total contributions since 1941 to 27 7. United China Relief has been a National War Fund member since June 1943. The funds, managed by participating agencies in China, supported aid to orphans, child welfare, hospitals, schools, refugee relief, cooperatives, transportation of drugs and medical supplies, and medical worker training. Dr James J McConaughy, UCR president, said the aid saves lives and strengthens Sino-American ties as China nears its ninth year of war, with continued need for aid and cooperation to build a better world. The National War Fund allocated an additional one million dollars for emergency aid in 1944.
A report notes that over 5,200 people lost their lives in the first three years of the period. It highlights a sustained toll and urges attention to the factors driving the fatalities.
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