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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1945
Page
3
A speaker urges Americans to back the 7th War Loan with doubling or tripling purchases to honor soldiers and ensure victory. He emphasizes long months of privation and the fighting spirit of released prisoners and servicemen, calling for sustained bonds until it hurts. The message notes two drives in one period and ties patriotism to Dollars for victory.
Uintah County public welfare records show 276 cases in March 1945 with total payments of 10343 dollars. Miss Belle Angus reports a 25 percent drop in cases and a 30 percent fall in payments from February, noting most aid went to old age assistance and aid to dependents.
Rachel Lopez received the Purple Heart this week awarded posthumously to her son Pvt Mike Lopez. He was killed in action in Germany on March 4 while serving with the infantry. Pvt Lopez entered service three years ago and went overseas in September 1944, with honors in Virginia Georgia and California.
The Vernal Junior Chamber of Commerce announced this week their group donation to the American Cancer Society of 25 dollars. Orland Johnson, newly elected Jaycee treasurer, said the whole group voted to subscribe to the drive.
In the May issue a baby was born to Mr and Mrs Wm H Siddeway and Mrs. Joseph A McKee on May 23. The item notes the lingering comet visible in mornings, rising earlier each day and predicted to rise at 3.17 on May 10, offering opportunities to view.
Pvt Colton McKeachnip and his younger brother Glenn, seaman first class on the battleship California, met at Fort Lewis Washington for their first reunion in sixteen months. Glenn, veteran of Saipan Guam Tinian Leyte and Leyte Gulf, enlisted in the naval reserve in May. Colton has served in the army since January 8 1945. Their wife Helen Fletcher and children Gayle Teddy live in Glines. They are sons of Mr and Mrs Thos McKeachnie.
Captain Elbert R Curtis of Ft Duchesne, son of Mr and Mrs, describes Allied prisoners in Germany during a liberation. The April 14 letter recalls two hundred mixed American and English POWs freed, many in tears or kissing, after starvation and brutal treatment. He witnessed villagers and soldiers, the camp march, and the cruel shooting of the weak and sick as they collapsed.
A witness recalls a German train abandoned with 2700 refugees aboard mostly Jewish, plus French, Belgian, Hungarians, Poles and 34 Americans. They had four days without food, many starving with emaciated faces and swollen limbs. Americans liberated the scene as fighters pressed forward amid devastation and charred bodies, urging life while recounting horror from the tank ruins.
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