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Home My WebLink AboutMilitary Supporting Materials '!► lk Air jr - - i �� Y I�� f � 1 4 �� _�. /�F� 1 �J ,, ' �, L ... 1 �7\ �. o� 1_i ti i �, i. I` -� � _ - � � I. �� `t��. _� 1� _ __ _.___ J �� yy e�6. _ � `J �- -� f `� 1 1/^' � V L � ■�ti� r ti !-tTu�� - hlberk !-{b aA- IZGu1,M,,,�d WiIK.- OV4 o us 'Ltrnxru r vnG��- W Sc H4vvu IY 1r1Vmlk TO, WLACA 14 .v u ss - w ise 3 tul t i CuNuL(,V, u 4v-- I1-tLAW i _ 9 TH MSDAT, APRIL 6, 1961 THE PRO a SX 5f( g r, r .{l h` �n 4 w ?o, }} YF i; OTTO SEEMAN HONORED AT TEXAS A&M—Otto P. Seeman,former,farm foreman for the Texas A&M College Animal Husbandry Department, was honored at the school's 10th annual Swine Short Course for 31 years of service. He retired recently.I A certificate of swiineciation at A&Mnand Drd a tR.Dch eLere wissdiret or of to he Texas d Agricultural Experiment ofessor in charge q i Tr-or NJrAVIMII{Nt I�IM.IIN/NIIININ111N11NN M IIM�.r1�V��w-W.Mas,�•..,1+N/•�r..�,r111.i1.�}� '�lt>��,.. Si; a .l; `,1a�f'MPL��i4t�r,�T17•! .il<� af.r'�7T1F }L -kF4,a�'r r'. ..`",.PI iV•t„�,I.y\.rij V yr�RtJ�'1+rltli'il/F4T I�`IN 4'�(,i�If��1��.'11•. r M. -.� � ..,�;i �1, .,1 r �l/ if w..N11� •;1: i1, 11' a. �a �ry�t1 fit. i ►��((iiy : 11. .t. .a t yll/s w•++r-w.w...wn�,.....r'i"f."'-t-a1 M..w•wu.wM- t t/t+ri�stM'tY/ri11 1. t. taR�'jSq�l�iipM�",fx+t�MM�R�f.` 'F LIPINQS0ID� - f J J S ' "kX RS- CoTttinued o- yt�. ` sC h '►f aC�+ . =plgrrq'^the.guns-had been removed" Iri a3YQhearb #ow at ves. .told" Millsthat to urkter,, a straf of ths',:town,';t >va�y airmen:" since:l`escue ! had,Y helped'`.th 1~'rllpiriol3.:rset•;,up:;the~:.guri�;::The shot:ciowri`-twoatraAng Jap plane efore�expending•the"ammunition .,X7 Others rescued."included'. Lt s,Alfred.,'Rl Preimesberger,»"Xp + were the latest Amcricatr song.sT f:pleton, Wis.;,Lt ,Paul Yuschak, -1 ° �•; Philadelphia and ':Staff'.-,Sgt What.were the latest movies?: .,, Midhael J. Gannaw,••Oakland, V-. a-, iers'returned ,toAhis base _CaliY:, all survivors of.one bomb aboard(rescue planes.in from 26 to crew.:Survivors;of :another ,to:.30..days after pa achuting!'o k"crew were Tech Sgt,David N. L crash landing ":'•-�.;It, k�=k, , K Beyery••of-.:549-:Stanbridge :St,r x-;Gjertson wha had walked ba a.- Norristown, Pa h Staff Sgts. Eu foot`fq�;;three days•'with no gene:C Rosiaki, Chicago, Rich.: effects, immediately`drew ard"`Beard;.Fort'"Scott,="'Kas, pf-OFbrogans:^AA. ip later s.Peter F .Gjertson, Jr,:Lisbon,. xeluned;:biist� N. D.; Lts Willars Si.Magee,,04 ,.,City, Pa and atN 1Vlann �'l[.;' jington, Tex 'Gjertsori said t17e.`r'escu is :and' "Survivors found"a crashed;'burnec <American-•iiomber enroute-,to'-tir Guerrilla:haven It`was in,Ja , held territory, but they waited uPRY 6 til nightfall.removed the bodies ;. :.' ,t ''?• 'h • ,<.. t„ " ' SeCO two,American airmen, -and 'gE as Flhnino �ueri las�,a-171 i r l t' them.imilitary' burial'before: c r , y .. ummg.march r, rr"�� *. "They held the funei al in a dr+ �t'y ro 'Z * . P, `'"N"N �' • ilei6l r'airt," sard,Caj�rt ot} " � , 0 Air a fry u h Jap.`Lines :sounded taps'k-rcy x �:at ;'1 �-1. „ , '' z ti , d " +' :r nhrs•: Party aIstS `passed i, ,: v ([, ho .wrecked,Hglicat ° One Amer'icE t $ t David N L._ eye'.,, pr mer .ssrstant Vl nager>of da .:with ah injured foot.had lost of 'i �, � �atca Field,`Among.Thoset Re_scuec�-- Obs,,ye shoe. The natives, using.:bolthanksgiving. on;'Trail . , so hacked off a strip o1 rubber fro. a. the:plane's wheel and Yash�pn� � j,, By FRER,HAMPSQN ti L C :him a pair of shoes > .p They observed Thanksgiiving p , ed Pac flo Air Base.—Ten' *= „ Y � An 3th and Fifth"Airfocoe:�Air t the trail, "Wg had=three:Thanks men, shot down during',Philippines raids, returned to,this bag re giving .dinners of ricer earabat _! .liver and bananas" said-, je t- Gently-with a homeric tale.of.rest re by Filipino Guetrrllas F, From many parts.of.the island . .soil z z ;: . they were spirited through Japan: ;" '�� n The ;airmen,:aearned at: ese lines to the mountain home of �Japanese had many;training,air a Guerrilla captain,fed and cloth fields;-.their pilots practicing' og ; ad and taken on a 20-daythlke to ` `{any..native:movements on tralls o a safe beach from which rescue' s Strafed by tlae=aescue part r� Catalinas were able to pick.t iem 3 was strafed by a student a iato a �, le up : :E :u doing his morning lesson , , Staff Sgt• William R. Mills, German aviators, '•instructing 1p, Flushrrrg, N,:Y., sole survivor.-oi a a Japanese fliers,�almost.,cost•'Ser, eluding' 0 one-bomber crew,,told geant:Beard his:1#g. He parachut'• •" .ed and when he landed heard::sev n Jap ding planes site'.:the crash 3 x by :hidrrrg:behind-..fishnet pilings 'bye eral rifle Shots: He geld his hand g He was taken a hone by 20"natives ;aloft sir'.,>-surrender; and an::of and-escorted to the Guerrilla Gap : kzY� Oman;smoking a. cigar ran-out 'i !ia ns saw he a°was an American ems taro Enroute they'passed.a Japr, raced end kissed him:.; w m anese airfield and watched'.AmerY $ p +.,, d scan P-38s strµfe it.: she n five { w. he ex lamed"they`.thought f' 1- cheered``wildly � �a«+r r��r� �� n u.<• �'' S. erman pilot, ;Beard sai re `;Once to cross a'road thick wit The"natives had been lmpoyer Sshed.by the Japanese-but even sp Japanese -traffic; the,natives covx - "our:slightest`:request:-:was .a`da• a ered Mills with mud; dressed him' in_rags, put him atop a carabao::? � Brand':'Bears said We had to be• '"`The:masquerade worked lrnrouta' # »x 3 careful'and ask only f9r whatrwel to the group captured two .Japape, needed most" h �;?� �+ `- ht Besides fatigue`, and' wounds;? e- pilots, • s `.' ; y greatest'hardship on the rescue, ' F Norristonian Rescued ' On the trail they' came up0n a treks was leeches',', sucking blood se wrecked U. S. Navy.Hellcat:fig anti! :leaving="burriing; tunni4 Et t Ores said Heard A� 'v �`"Conti>�ued on Pape Trao%� .• �'I i N,'L. >At even. the smallest Vlliages;, j 'y'+.. µ- . } r.y.',Y;. : .t'.aV � ��the '.Filipinos .,asked the samq tr1t� questions .When•were'the'Am= ericans coming?Had the'Japau e ese•'••:Navy been''destroyed;'. `Roosevelt still: i 13 4- 12 •.V'. " ,' ,w ad pia'O '�r:Vol�Q,O . 0NwOC��yi -._y. �'Ul.: a0 r-4 bo s3' Cd bD Cd-fi r .. `'tf �bap,i,', Pa •�3 aid _ - �:•O",.,,d t'4"' /7- 44 OLT 5 X% l �/o� ar'�f>,1.�¢�. �a�)/:X,s ¢iref jilt o^Q 7X¢ ors / 2.Sr1S- Cal 7� .� � .yr- r��✓ e.,v - f _ icy ouln /¢.S 7ZI al 1 ¢e_ !eo/6-ii�y T Q�s�1 Af t c� 7lovl ',perI7,1 /lood,r�,/r �•�eQ7��¢ e-•7 A6a4� ��a�r-so�ads rye �2. P�i/j6_ die J ' 74 700, f�_•, F;T r� c ter. r _ Ole IVY 1' t } r ' i l l Y .. t, ( UNITED STATE ' :F'ORC S IN:. THE PHILIT'.c' NES >.`. LATARY r1FT: � ° i0H '43�'IC CP�V','DI1CIE 24 November t`44 P kNDUM t Al Units in the Field T j 1. The. .American Officer. and NCOs mentioned below are Q1i c. l.aC� .l,c� 1 ts[�car L, .bo 1�1LG.'.`�lstri a G. II� t1gtt b -�'ao�* I+ j:L inslf.ruction of the DCTi0 2 d Lt` ,A T .MiiNN T (d) S -Sgt k pETE`TGERTSON Unl.ts should furnsh them guides to the safest route unt l they reach the: District Headquqrters . I is desired that the b green prav� elo to zaul :�i.ud it��la Ldliud U111 W.Lo *aY . Pj—Qrdar of,t Col A13CEDE: �r RODOLFO, R. YES / DI 0 710 — OFF ICI.4L: Y� —- -- Mai , ------- ---- ------ lst Lt , Infantry* FOR D E TIME P.M. M j 4 OF P ON 0 { FAX 7 PHONE MOBILE RETURNED 3 q Y ` C t �+xV AREA CODE UM EXTEN ION - ME GE PLEASE CALL L CALL GCi AGAIN E TO YOU S TO 3 ED K� SEE YOU -. IWI FORM 4006 -fz 1 I . 14 i �s ;t f� .. r/�C-C p�V� �� ' __ __. /?2� r �� .. ��- v �� ram•=�� 2c.�� C.. �-«1�-e. .,. _ - � __... ___._ ;�. ,� �� v _�_ ----- --_ o �" ��- � __..._ . �� ?� � � , / --m / r /. 1 a�wvh . . l� �l'l�, (f/� ��rn� ��, 4 —Part I C,11r +4allas Morning -News Sunday, September 9, 1951 Bonham Business 11�t�. •r . res Vte Will Act ®n shows. Uptrend �� :.A,�• .��..L:�� :�"::�r��;�;,;n:�= :� r� �Lake Lease Special to The News moved into larger quarters and a Special to The News 'BONHAM Texas Sept. 8.—De- chain grocery store moved into a .: — P g Y R. DENISON, Texas, Sept. 8. 7 ite reports of a crop failure in modern and much larger home.An-s 'Paris Presbytery is expected Bonham merchants other completely remodeled en- :_.:<:::�>: . �.< -,`>:>�;:.•...::'r �`aR,•ri�.;;;.:;:<::::::.....:: Fannin County, P Y �"::s=.:.4 .r:a>,•`.;.< , .r s : t: ?.,a:.:#.. a.:�:.. :.:. ,:::: '$::: .;;;.:;,:;;::;:.. ? ;:._..::.:..::::>.;.;:;.:.::.: ::>: :1. ... ...#. , - take affirmative action next Tu increase of 11.4 er,cent lar ed and improved its facilities. .... ..... . .. ,.. ,....: <,... :...............,...,........::......... -. ......:.:...:::.:..:....F............., ..... tt r'Port an e P S P ,.;;�.,•�a`�� ,.�,. .:� ,a:,:?...., 3.�:.x.: '# • ��;• .;: :�•:vs;..:.... :..,:.:.:........<::.T:,:'..... .: a x day in a development 1 f an. Y t an for or he period o J .>_::<.f=:,;�..:.:.:.:::....:.:.::.:::,:::.;,.;,:;.;:.;:.,::..;.::::::::::;:.......:;...;;:;:..........,.:::::,:::;;:.:: ;::::::::.-::,::::. :.::. ..::..... ..._.\....::<:: ...> P P m business f t p �... :::? .:. shr�.:8.<.� r;�r:� �.:;,;;>•::�*^::,,;;:: . P � 1 1951, to Aug. 31, 1951, a Sanitation Engineer -<�:. �, �' �.:.,�,-..:;.. :°;�<,:<>�::::�;:,.:::�.�:.:<..n:<::;:::;:.;�•:..::�;.>�<:~<><:..;;ate:<. �, :�'S' 38-acre lease on Lake Texo: pared to the same period in 1950. 3 `. .>: granted the First Presbyter - revealed These facts were revealed in a Named In Wood County .v .-. ; }; ;. k Special to The News .;. >,,� . . :w;y..r '^�.�. Church of Denison by the Co: • survey. made of local firms this ��:* � k:;:;�:.`.:.�_.;. _': ,., u < �of Engineers. week. The surveyincluded stores QUITMAN, Texas, Sept. R—E. I. : Y Y Dreschel has been employed2�x , The church lease, announced of ever type and the were as the grouped together as food stores, de- new sanitation director for the ` s= a �6 ;Resident Engineer Richard C. P, partment store sales, automobile Wood County Health Unit by Dr. - Engineers, is of the Corps of dealers sales and service,. tractor James Strong with the approval A i twenty-five years. The site is of commissioners court. �% ,the east side of Preston'Peninsi and implement sales and service, s s on a tract adjacent to a lea auto appliance and hardware store Dreschel replaces J.C.Jones who granted last year to the Boles n sales and drugstore sales. resigned the first of September. He , s g has been sanitation director of the a n �� ;, "'> Phan. Home of Quinlan. It is a Y. SF, Every group showed an increase Gainesville (Cooke County) Health .: f:>='<''?` proxmately two miles 'north * over 1950. Department for the last sik years. r :. ;': r �a� �k3 Island View Camp. Contrary to the state-wide trend, He also spent about a year as san- The Rev. Edward S.Bayless, pa: department store sales were up 4.5 itation director in'Lamar County. a' 1 for of the Denison church,said thz Per cent and merchants reported :the:the church entered into the leas the outlook for fall as being good. s:.... " ar �e= with the hope that the developmer Automobile dealers reported an 8 Youth Benefit Show &A d x 7 would be shared at least by th per cent increase in sales and sere- 'Paris Presbytery. ice. Sales and service of tractors Planned at BTOWriWOOd x 2 e Next Tuesdaymorning a Special to The News �<" ' ' F' `tr.•• S grou and implements showed a gain of MP: s of Presbytery delegates, who wi 12.6 per cent while auto appliances BROWNWOOD,Texas,Sept.8.— s arrive in Sherman for the start c and hardware stores showed gains The Horace Heidt show, with fifty � � H a 2-day meet, will be taken out fc of 12.3 per cent. Drugstore sales entertainers,will present a program Out inspection of the site Memo- were u 7 r cent.All reported the on the night of Oct. 16, in Memo- " <x: t of this, Bayless said he ho e outlook for fallas being good. real Hall, under sponsorship of the :sx ` 3= to get Presbytery approval. P ` j a , The largest gain was rtr orted by Brownwood Junior Chamber of :X � s; r .<. (� �. The Session of the Presby.Wa P I r ::. `� Church here has issued a form: tores which showed a Commerce. 4' ':- _ x x .'�.: ,. .. ... ... era. .. �' "'v.�' . the food s ..;.:...?N.: ..: .`g�€<� . ':;:,<'<:::'= Profits from the show have been •.��>>:,•:::, ;>: •:. :..,� �� :�� ,.: :...::<s�:•;;: • .�. .,.x,...... ..: . :;..;;�>:;::�<:<::::>:< :::>;.::::::: ..::..::.. �<:, invitation to the Paris whopping 24 per cent Lump. :. : ::-. .. . .:.. >.F :_:..:::.::... ...:...... ;.:�� .ar a arcs Presbyter . -b.�t.<�i .. ..a........:..... :::.... :.:..:=?S;<.....v.,.....�` . c�,c ::�.;;:�'iiR•A.�::.:rti: .. ?:{{t: The First National and Bonham earmarked for the Jaycee Christ-. to share in the control and develo] State Banks reported their. farm mas fund with which gifts and food A LOT OF PORK ment of the camp. At present, baskets for hundreds of Brown- 3-man committee composed of > loans were 9.5 per cent with wood children and unfortunate Otto Seeman, swine herdsman at Texas A&M College, looks over the big litter of D. K. Jamison, E. L. Hopkins ai collections being good.They report- families are provided annually. pigs of this 2-year-old college-owned Duroc sow, Miss Golden. Miss Golden broke out C. H. Waldron head the resc ed an increase of better than half a Y g 'million dollars in their deposits on of her pen the night of Sept. 3 and was found next morning with nineteen pigs. Six planning. Rev. Bayless said Prf bytery members would be added Aug.31, 1951, as compared to Aug. Athens Legion Elects months earlier, she had given birth to eighteen pigs, all of which were raised— the committee and later, a boa 31, 1950. Special toThe News Two new department stores AT with the help of another sow that produced a smaller litter. Three of the litter of of directors named to operate t 8.— opened their doors for business in Hubertrt L.L. Texas, Sept.Boyd was elected coin- nineteen, however, were found dead as the sow was unattended• resort.He said he hoped to develop 1 Bonham during the past year and a mander of American Legion Post vice-commander; Tom Baker, sec- officer; Norman Anderson, his- at arms; Mack Stover, child we]- camp over the winter so that br new hardware store opened only 173 to succeed Ed Barron. Other and vice-commander; Joel Lusk, torian; the Rev. D. H. Bonner,I fare officer, and John K. Simmons, junior and adult groups will be a this week.One auto appliance store new officers are Travis Scott, first adjutant; James Fulton, finance chaplain; George Brown, sergeant service officer. _ to start using the camp next su r Sunday, September 9, 1951 T11r Dallas Mnrltilt!; Nrws Part I — 3 i PAPERS SHOW Fort Worth Bond Issue co Cautions AND THEN T H�;.�E'S ALSO -a Possibility CAUTION AMONG THIEVES Nazis Eyed flits ControversyHi h U. S. Break if Air Attacks CHICAGO, Ill., Sept. 8 (APi.—Norman J. Cowan, FORT WORTH Texas, Sept. 8 was made by Coates and E. O. GiI- 38, an extremely cautious man Saturday met his match p aek in 1938 (AP).—The proposed $28,900,000 lam, northside soap manufacturer BELGRADE, Sept. 8 (AP).— for caution and thoroughness. Fort W,)rth bond issue, which will also op posing the issue. arshal Tito cautioned Yugoslays Cowan, a jewelry salesman, ';ad installed a siren in WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (AP).— be voted on Tuesday, hit a high The council said granting per- iturday that "fe must be awake" his automobile, hooked up to wail loudly if anyone tam- The State Department Saturday blaze of controversy Saturday mission to individuals, as such, when gainst the possibility of air at- pered with the car doors. published another batch of seized council was added by the city would set a precedent for anyone_ ick. German documents which included to expect the privilege. The other . Preparing to leave Saturday for St. Louis, Cowan years before The .-ouncil refused a request request was granted to an organ- jewelry h he mentioned no coun- evidence that three g Friday loaded his car with two suitcases, his jewelry Pearl Harbor the Nazis considered by opponents of the issue to paint ization—the Junior Chamber of nes specifically, his reference and silver samples, and a set cif golf clubs. Then he breaking off diplomatic relations signs er, downtown sidewalks urg- Commerce, it explained. bviously was directed toward Rus- with the United States. ing defeat of the bonds. Earlier The two biggest propositions in is and the Soviet-led cominform v Among the 551 documents was . the proposed issue have been pro- Saturday morning Cowan was amazed to find his a memorandum dated Nov. 22, signs granted permission for such vidin the hottest controversy,whom he is feuding. i- signs calling on citizens to vote g y, Tito spoke in a location town at automobile had been broken in o and its contents, in- 1938,from a subordinate to Foreign „ though the entire program has for" the bonds. t end of a week marked by at eluding the back seat, CaTr1P.d Off. Minister Joachim Ribbentrop say- The action was promptly labeled been under attack. ist a half dozen shootinginci- ing that disadvantages of a break The largest single item is $23,- nts alongthe Romanian nd Al- The thieves, no less thorqugh than Cowan, had "are not so decisive that they could by Claude Coates, who has opposed 450,000 for street and storm sewer crawled under the car, cut every. electric wire, then not be gut up with, if need be." much of he 8-proposition issue, as improvements including some $8,- "In frontiers. broke a window t0 et into the car. An accompanyingundemocratico Coates, head of "In case of aj.r. .attack," Tito as- � g paper indicated the Fort Worth Property and 000,000 to buy expressway right fired his audience, "we shall not Cowan's tripto St. Louis=a $ delayed. He couldn't that the foreign office had an;in- of way. It and the $1,750,000 prop- YA� srt:r.c;. owners' Association, alone,and such an attack might c Greater Fort Worth t ofn severindydi diplomatic Internationalosition for e Airport have been g art his automobile. He estilted his loss at 1500. sa.d association members felt they rovoke a world war.' g p should have equal privileges. g Spokesmen for the Western The Nazi regime was furious the target of much of the critici§nL p dent last summer against Nehru's with the Roosevelt administration The request to paint the signs Opponents declare steamroller ewers have made it clear that Nehru Appointed ley would consider an attack upon wishes. and public opinion in the United methods have been used to force ugoslavia an attack upon world Then, with only four dissenting States, the papers showed, in the Blaze Damages the bond issue on taxpayers.Coates pace generally. Party President votes cast in a gathering of 300, wake of the Munich settlement and Gillam have charged "unfair Tito discussed relations between the Committee adopted a resolu- which gave Hitler a grip on and strong-arm tactics." ie church and the state, em- NEW DELHI, India, Sept. 8 tion asking Nehru to assume the Czechoslovakia. Grapevine School The battle is expected to con- iasizing the need for developing (AP).—Prime Minister Jawaharlol off'ce. Almost at the same time Hans tinue to the bitter' end, when bal- )rotherhood and unity' among all Nehru won the presidency of his Thomsen, then in charge of the GRAY JiNE, Texas, Sept. 8 lots are cast Tuesday. Then, a rec- oups in Yugoslavia. governing Congress party Satur- British Minister German embassy in Washington, (UP).—Classes will be held as usual ord turnout of some 15,000 voters But he said at the-same time that dayand a swift victory over Hindu recommended that the embassy's Monday-at Grapev.ne's$300,000 ele- is predicted by City Secretary Ed- ''r" " � accumulation of secret political mentary school despite a g. e church and the clergy would Conservatives who oppose his em- p p' $20,000 gar Birdsong. A be permitted to disturb "our phasis on the development of In- Prisoner O e S files should be removed to Berlin fire earl) Saturdiky. cialist building." dia as a modern, secular state. LONDON, 'Sept. 8 (AP).—The for safe-keeping "in view of cur- T&blaze,believed to have begun espionage His reference obviously was to The party's national committee Foreign Office reported Saturday rent strained relations." from faulty electrical wiring, dam- , e Catholic population of the unanimously accepted the prof- night that Britain's missing min- The documents were culled from aged four school noms. untry, roughly 7,000,000 of the fered resignation of Purshottamoas isi ar to South Korea is a prisoner- some 400 tons of Nazi foreign of- A volunteer cleaaup force,dozens international spies in an English vii- tal of 16,000,0000 and largely Tandon, the bearded leader of the of-war at Pyongyang, the capital of fice records which American troops of children, turner out to ready the lage,feature film, "cottage to let," ntered in Croatia. Hindu Old Guard elected Presi- Rc•c North Korea. seized soon after V-E Day. school for Monda; morning classes. WFAA-TV, channel 8, today, 1 p.m. i J' a brewf us s &Non .w T�• it::;;� .► ran .•,-•- ,_ �flil�i -- Q s Ar r h • di.rJ,.i M„�wn•r,r .a n Arnr•..n,,.n JI l 8� IqLt Trek, } t prtLW4- 0( i,ti CVa4w:� OF s ioC -rUa5 5w4e a A ) 1�r+ 4Zrb. Levi-s, 6 r c t)r of 4yvt `TES y4t , f � { I i P t -� 1 � �-fie � � �• .-�r"- �, -.� "µ}- F o 7 s 04 9 a' Om Vi OFF- a a QI-1-1 P. r2 M _ % arur�7.r�zrzr�zrzrzrzrzrz.r�u _ 7 aS,mj �- TTI SEPT.1949 ai.J�i.ASE%. �21Gu' 'u�J�Ykl111 e�uC�2�lY2T�'I2Y2J2121t11!!i'_Y2f2Y2f212f21-L'J"c�i✓ -. ta a ,�c 11,tt lour GAS' �U WVA 'Ot C�rZt�C ��,��zuzzrzizrzzizr�zr�zrzr�� - d SZEM "4[OLLE��zy The Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College System is "the lengthening shadow" of the men and women who have given it devoted and able service. Those who have served for a quarter of a century or more have been most important forces in directing its development, and shaping its character. We therefore, as friends and fellow workers, do hereby express to OTTO P. SEEMAN our gratitude and appreciation for twenty-five years of loyal, fruitful labor, and our sincere wish for many years of continued happiness and helpfulness to mankind. College Station, Texas CHANCELLOR, TEXAS AGRICULTU L AND December 17, 1954 MECHANICAL COLLEGE SYS EM . ,S is .. a —International News Photos. These alumni of Texas A. & M. refused to let war inter- Nettuno beachhead. They even contrived the customary fere with the custom of staging the annual muster and barbecue (right) and had something wet with which to barbecue of old grads. So they got together on the Anzio- quaff a toast. _ — 4 i Ir V, lei �• � a MERRY 8 �. - , et .�Ze�lleu,Y,-�ceux _ de 1' �. �' ✓�. - en �crnce poor � �uuelle ../�irrnee. v N R NAM ( EXtLAIS/OIL SERVICE PD L1z MitrMRs. ✓finis Q F4rWlTr �`,lAof y!. ..r.. . was.��b.w...i.- j oL �L�E SYA�IeN r� '[� n XTENsIaN SrR✓ICi ti NO[%$ ADDR[IU `��'�►'�— y1...�«e.,. Srgr/DN N—�— --- �.c- f.yZ. .1'J e. /'//N oaw.aart�-. o.n U � OLN110N].1TANY 7i Aq! 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Rangers stormed the beaches at Eagle Staff Writer "It was St. Patrick's Day, Normandy. 1944," he said, without a On June 6, 1944, in a feat of Most World War II veter-I moment's hesitation. determination and courage that ans have their own spe, His plane landed in Kosovo put Rudder's Rangers in the cial horror story about behind German lines, where he history books, then-Lt. Col. combat. Fred Sicilio is no dif spent 75 days before being res- James Earl Rudder and about ferent. cued- He said two planes landed 600 Rangers scaled 100-foot An Air Force pilot in Europe in a cow pasture at night and cliffs at Pointe du Hoc under during the war and a retired airlifted 53 American and constant enemy fire and Professor of chemistry at Texas British airmen, including him- destroyed German gun batter- A&M University, Sicilio self, to freedom June 3. His ies. Rudder himself, who later remembers the day his plane escape to freedom occurred was hit in the skies over Vien- three days before Rudder's See RUDDER, Page A5 /f -I W- q9 Asked about his exploits that ../ Rudder day, Kelton just smiled and said, "No, I don't think I'll say any- thing." From Al NoeSalinas of San Antonio, at 75 one of the youngest in the became a major general, was chapter, had a similar reaction. wounded twice during the fight- A member of Darby's Rangers, mg, but his Rangers successfully he saw action in Italy and was helped establish a beachhead for shot in the leg during the Allied Allied forces. landings at Anzio. As bad as his experience was, His eyes moistened a bit when Sicilio told two surviving mem- asked about his memories of the bers of Rudder's Rangers on Sat- war. urday at the Ramada Inn in Col- "I look back with fond memo- lege Station, it was "nothing ries because of the type of men I compared to what you went was involved with," he said. "We through." were so loyal to each other, and Standing with difficulty and we went all out for each other. with white hair curling to the "It's a shame we're disbanding ' shoulders of his gray suit, Sicilio the group," he said with a sigh. said, "I salute you." Margaret Rudder, James Earl He made his tribute during the Rudder's widow, shared those annual reunion of the James feelings. The years are taking Earl Rudder Chapter of the their toll on her, too. She said Ranger Battalions Association this year she has spent 66 days in World War II. Seven veterans the hospital. showed this year—David Ran- But on Saturday, she fixed her dolph and Mac McNichols of hair, donned a bright red jacket Rudder's Rangers and five veter- and flashing smile to attend the ans of the five other Ranger Bat- final meeting of the group. talions that served on battle "It gives me a feeling of sad- lo/ fronts in Europe and Asia—in ness that we're not going to do what the members decided was this any more," she said. to be the last meeting of the The chapter will leave a trust chapter. Old age and illness are fund and give out a Ranger doing what the German and Recognition Award each year, Japanese armies could not. Randolph said. The chosen cadet "Our ranks are thinning such will receive a$200 scholarship that we can't get everyone and a fighting knife. together," Randolph said. "We Members of the Rudder's used to have 80 to 90 members, Rangers Company of the Texas but now we have just a handful." A&M University Corps of Cadets During a business meeting, the were on hand to honor the veter- seven members of the chapter ans, unanimously voted to deactivate The company was named after the chapter, thus closing a the hero of Normandy, who in decades-long tradition in the 1959 was named president of Bryan-College Station area. A&M and in 1965 president of the The decision ended a chapter entire A&M system. in each of these veterans' lives, Cadet Sgt. Patrick Soule, a but most seemed content to luxu- junior from Houston, said the riate in each others' company. company was carrying on Rud- Unstated memories, not tears, der's legacy as well as his name. filled the room. "He exemplified all the quali- Homer Kelton,for example, is ties of a Ranger—integrity, a veteran of the 6th Ranger Bat- leadership by example," he said. talion, led by Col. Henry Mucci. "He's a role model for cadets." On Jan. 30, 1944, C Company and a platoon from F Company struck 30 miles behind Japanese lines and rescued 500 emaciated and sickly survivors of the Bataan Death March. SEA F MEMORIES Sailors read - Y for annual reunion in CS By BLAIR FANNIN Eagle Staff Writer Some of the scenes that took place during World War II aboard the USS Ulvert M. Moore are fuzzy to X: Dick Peacock. Others seem as if they ' happened yesterday. All "One of the most impressive things I remember is burial at sea," said Pea- cock, an 81-year-old former crewman. "When we would have a ceremony, d get on the far tail and slide them into the water." Choking back tears, he said, "It's hard to forget something like that." And through the years, the crew members aboard the USS Ulvert M. Moore haven't been forgotten either. The `:tight-knit group" has held reunions every two years and will gath- er for the 19th reunion Aug. 5-9 at the 4r Hampton Inn in College Station- 4 "It's an honor to have these guys here that shaped our country's history," said Merrill Kirkpatrick, manager of con- vention sales and services for the Bryan-College Station Convention and Visitor Bureau. Peacock and his wife, Katy, will serve ' as hostesses in what could be the final reunion of the ship's crew members. "It could be the very last," Dick Pea- cock said. "Only 23 crewmen will be here. We're just all getting too old and we've lost a lot of them." Of the 200 crew members during the war, approximately 45 are alive today —and there are some who go to great lengths to make it to the reunion. s Even a blind, 87-year-old crew mem- ber from Amarillo will make the trek to Eagle photo/Dave McDermand 0-1lege Station to give the invocation at Dick Peacock, 81, holds up a flag from the USS Ulvert M. Moore, the ship he served on dur- See SAILORS, Page A8 ing World War 11. Peacock and his former crewmen will meet for a reunion this week. long and about 38 feet wide," he Sa i lors Said. "Today's ship that does the same type of job are about 100 feet longer and three times larg- er. Those old ships didn't go through the waves, they went up the evening meal. and down." "He said, `Dick, I can't see, but Many of the crew members of I sure can pray,"' Peacock said. the older ships didn't have In addition to the Texans, crew amenities such as freezers or air members will be traveling to the conditioning. area from as far as New York, "These guys were not sleeping Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri, in bunks. They generally slept in Kansas and Illinois for the hammocks hung over equip- reunion. ment," Bradford said. "Ventila- Peacock, formerly the co- tion wasn't the greatest and, owner of the R.C. Bottling Co. again, today we have air condi- and later the owner of Shipley's tioning." Doughnut Shop and News Office Peacock said the USS Ulvert Supply before his retirement in M. Moore, which was construct- 1983, spent 2 1/2 years in the ed by Brown Ship Building in Navy during World War II. Houston, was built for one pur- "I was second class when I got pose—"To be a submarine out. They offered me to move up killer." to first class, but I had a wife and "We had a secret weapon two children at home," he said. called the `hedge hogs.' There "After the service, I moved back was a group of eight or 10 to Marlin." [bombs] that propelled over the Peacock went to radar school bow in a circle. You would let in both San Diego and Pearl Har- those hedge hogs down over the bor, where he became a crew bow and, if they detonated, you member of the USS Ulvert M. knew you hit something." Moore. "Hedge hogs" were advanta- Under the command of Lt. geous,he said, because they Cmdr. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., interrupted sonar capabilities the Moore was involved in the only when they destroyed some- Luzon invasion in January 1945 thing, unlike traditional depth and, later that month, the Lin- charge explosives. gayen Gulf invasion during the After managing a clinic and Philippines campaign. bath house, Peacock moved to The Moore also served during ' Bryan in 1954, when he became a the June 1945 invasion of Oki- partner in the R.C. Cola Bottling nawa, helping guard American Co. naval convoys from both air and "I starved to death for five sea attacks. years until I sold my half out in "The DE-442 was a little differ- 1959 and got into the doughnut ent than most ships in the shop," he said, laughing. "I Navy," he said. "We had 200 stayed in that until 1971, when I men, and you knew most every- bought News Office Supply. I one by their first name. The sold it in 1983 [and retired.]" Moore was a tight ship. We were Peacock said he decided he a tight-knit, close group. I was 26 could do just about anything years old when I went in. Every- anybody else could. one else was 17 or 18. They were "All you got to do is know peo- just kids to me." ple and like people," he said. "I `Jim Bradford, a professor at like people, and I love to meet Texas A&M University who spe- people." cializes in naval history, will be As for when the crew of the a guest speaker at the reunion. USS Ulvert M. Moore meets Bradford said the destroyers again in College Station, Peacock built during that era were small- said: er than the ships of today. "We're just an old bunch of "For example, those ships sailors. We were lucky to have were about 1,350 tons, 300 feet come back. A lot didn't." The Tgle Sunday, Vember 15, 1998 , .� low, L��I ..• Scout From A9 lie the woodwork."ionKramer said the girls "were treated like royalty" when the stayed at a YMCA hotel in S Francisco. "`It was a Young Men Christ. <-. Ian's Association and they let women stay there," she said. news to me." SCOUT "That was n\ HONOR The men, the majority of LJ whom were soldiers stationed a nearby port, invited the G• women to a quickly organized irls role model ', dance. After checking with th YMCA manager, Kramer recalls 50 years allowed the girls to go. "Every girl was the belle of the ball," she said. "The boys of camp, cookies saw the girls and they remind them of the girls back home. By GENEVA WHITMARSH Those boys swept the girls off - Eagle Staff Writer their feet. They were literally standing in line for an oppo When Eileen Kramer joined the Girl ° nity to dance with them. I'd Scouts, American troops were never seen anything like it." fighting World War II, Jackie The girls spoke excitedly ' obinson was breaking records on the about the men after the dance 4-baseball field and the first electronic com- something Kramer said she puter was being introduced to the public. quickly cut short. Fifty years later, the 83-year-old Bryan "I was pretty hard on them," resident says only one thing has remained $he said. "I told them that it's the same: normal to be crazy about boys "We're still selling cookies. Can you — I'm crazy about boys and imagine how many cookies that is?" even married one—but,when On Sunday, Kramer will be recognized we're in Scouts, we do scouting by the Bluebonnet Girl Scout Council for things." serving more than 50 years as an adult =s The troop participated in a Girl Scout. During that time, Kramer pro- variety of activities during the vided a role model for hundreds of young trip, including learning how to girls, officials said. sui"vive outdoors by building a Kramer considers a cross-country trip fire, catching food and then she took with her Girl Scout troop, which preparing it. consisted of high school juniors, as one of ,��' "I see a great change [in the her most memorable experiences in the Girl Scouts]," Kramer said. organization. She is sketchy on the date of "The old style was being able to the trip, but vividly recalls the event itself. Eagle photo/Butch Ireland make something from nothing, "We worked 11 months selling tickets to but now it seems that things are Bryan resident Eileen Kramer will be recog- ,> spaghetti dinners to earn $4,500 for the kind of given to you. nized by the Bluebonnet Girl Scout Council for ` trip," she recalls. "I remember being at Kramer said she has not been i dinner and mentioning how much we had serving as a role model for young girls for more active in Girl Scouts for about than 50 years. raised when the man sitting next to me three years, but she tries to jumped up,threw his napkin down on the returning to Texas. attend activities whenever pos- table and said, `What did you say?You "We all dressed alike and the store man- sible and her uniform still made young girls work?' ager in Lufkin gave us a good price on hangs in her closet. On Sunday, "Itold him`Yes, sir,' but I'd never been matching handbags," Kramer said. "We she will wear it when she is rec- so shocked in my life," she said. got a lot of attention—and boys popped ognized for her service to the The troop, which was based in Lufkin, up everywhere. They were coming out of organization. carded a bus and traveled to California, — "I can't imagine my life if I Washington; Canada and Colorado before See SCOUT, Page A15 hadn't joined Girl Scouts," she said. "I've had a ball." 2,�-1� A&M a vas women ca ets VMI on Corps assistant d tails difficulties , of integrating ail ale academy R By KEELY COGHLAN "I explained to (VMI officials) the Eagle staff writer problems we had separating women out (into all-women units) and how Retired Air Force Reserve Maj. we've come a long way" by integrating Becky Ray is blunt in describing Texas women into the same units as men,Ray A&M's tumultuous history of adding said. women to the previous male-only Corps Ray emphasized she did not give VMI of Cadets. advice on integrating women into the Ray, who serves as special assistant all-male military academy, which is to the A&M commandant and advisor considering becoming a private institu- on gender issues, didn't mince words tion rather than admitting women when she talked to Virginia Military under court order. Institute officials. "As far as I know, they are still look- "We still have cadets who would pre- ing at going private," Ray said. "They fer women were not here, to be blunt," wanted me to tell them the program she said. "We have some units that mistakes we made along the way." have women in them and some that When Texas A&M's Corps of Cadets Eagle photo/Keely Coghlan don't." first admitted women in fall 1974, She has seen male cadets' attitudes female cadets did not even live on the Retired Air Force Reserve Maj. Becky change, however, as more of the units Quadrangle, Ray said. Ray recently served as a consultant to become integrated — and as the men Within a couple of years, female Virginia Military Institute on the inte- see that the women work as hard as gration of female cadets into the all- they do. Please see VMI, Page A5 male military academy. Corps, said Ray, who joined the .,��' commandant's Staff in 1991 as the �' first female staff officer not on active duty. From Al Ray joined the Air Force Reserves in 1971, at a time when 'cadets were living in segregated women were not allowed in the ,dorms on the Quadrangle, but not ROTC programs or in the Armed until the Fighting Texas Aggie Forces service academies. ,Band accepted women in 1985 did "I was sort of a rebel just to con- any of the units become co-educa- sider the military back then," tional, she said. Ray said. "I don't consider myself That segregation slowed down a rebel." the process of women being Theoretically, all units in the .accepted into the Corps, Ray said. A&M Corps are open to women, 'Some of the growing pains we but A&M will not place women Are still going through now could alone or in small numbers into a .have been decreased," she said. unit unless the woman insists on "In hindsight, (integrating the it, Ray said. units) was a matter of something "We feel more confident about that has to happen for it to really it knowing that there is a support work, but the administration did- system in place," Ray said. "We n't know it," Ray said. make sure there is an upper-class VMI officials listened to those female in proximity to them if statements, said Col. Mike there is not one in the unit. Strickler, VMI director of public "I'm pretty sure it's pretty lone- relations. ly out there if you are the only "One bit of information that female with 60 guys," he said. everyone heard was that at first Five of the eight Air Force Texas A&M separated the units are integrated, and at least women," he said. "They found two more Army units will be inte- that it didn't work well — that grated this fall — partly because 'integrating women within the the Army has been aggressively units with men has worked much recruiting female cadets, she better." said. Two Navy and Marine units VMI is operating on two tracks have women, she said. regarding the admission of Ray also told VMI officials of women. The administration and A&M's efforts to redesign the its Board of Visitors are develop-, women's uniforms piece by piece ing a co-educational program, over the past three years to make while alumni are examining the them more attractive — instead -possibility of turning the school of just men's uniforms in small into a private institution, sizes, she said. New jackets will Strickler said. be added this fall. The VMI Board of Visitors — Women meet military physical which is similar to the Texas standards in the Corps, and most A&M University System Board of female cadet recruits try to pre- :Regents — will make a decision pare in the summer by doing later in the year, Strickler said. pushups and running, Ray said. Ray is the first representative "Many young women are ath- from an outside school to meet letes in high school," Ray said. with VMI officials, Strickler said. "They consider it a challenge. She was invited by VMI Col. They pull their own share of the Michael Bissell, the assistant to load." the college's superintendent, who She also said she understood had met her on a visit during an the emotional effect just consider- �mnual exchange program ing the changes could have on `between the schools. VMI alumni. "I felt very humbled standing in front of their board of visitors "When you have deep-rooted as `the expert' when I don't con- traditions for more than 100 sider myself an expert," Ray said. years, it tugs at your heart to "All I can do is share what I change things like that," Ray know." said. "I do know that if they Texas A&M is continuing to decide to (admit women), they integrate more of its units in the will do the best they can." . - -22- - �— � Rchoo boys world altered ' by attack on Pearl Har bor "RI�TM » mma FAR MI mmamMI 13 / \ . MIMI As W s Me W RANIUMMEM MI MR //��2 \ \ MI � � 11 Wer \ RISC�� ImaI % mr � f D _ � =10 WMCQ Mr OR Re III Imp � IRMUR MIAMI� �MAY *mI � J{41 Hill f.. -was--a- ✓� _ _ V _ _ nnunity and was a Patsy Seitz of Iola;�a .con, Full Gospel Church, 1406 his forehead?" John Peterson, hanging out retired grocery worker. He also Charles Leslie Seitz of Houston; Ursuline,Bryan,77803. at Tipitina's, asked. "Now it's the same thing." Maxene Andrews of the singing sisters trio dies at 79 HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — Maxene Andrews, Pentagon's highest civilian honor, the Medal one third of the Andrew Sisters trio that sang for Distinguished Public Service. "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" and a string of Her adopted daughter and manager for the e ' other swing hits,has died.She was 79. past 21 years, Lynda Wells, said Sunday she , - �y Andrews,of Auburn,Calif.,died at Cape Cod remembered Andrews for her "wonderful wis Hospital at 4:20 am. Saturday after suffering a dour and her honesty." heart attack while vacationing on Cape Cod. "She was probably one of the most frank to a ; Andrews and her sisters Patty and Laverne, fault people that you would ever meet. You ,. ? were one of the most successful women's wouldn't hear anything but the truth from her, y singing groups,with 19 gold records and sales of and if you weren't prepared for the truth, get nearly tom, 2001nI1110I1 COpIOS_ 9tit9f , In addition to "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,�� Andrews was born in Minneapolis on Jan. 3, their best-known songs included "Don't Sit 1916. Under the Apple Tree," and "Rum and Coca The sisters began performing in the early Cola." 1930s, scoring their first big hit with "Bei Mir At the height of their popularity in the 1940s, Bist Du Schoen," in 1938. y. I the Andrews Sisters appeared in 16 films, But before that it was hard times,Wells said. including 'Buck Privates," "In the Navy," "The Depression wiped out her father's busi- "How's About It," "Hollywood Canteen and ness, so Maxene and her sisters left school and "Road to Rio." They also had their own radio went out on the road to sing to support their a . show, "Eight-to-the-Bar Ranch." family," Wells said. Laverne Andrews died in I 1967, and the trio Andrews married Lou Levy, who managed The Andrews Sister,above,wowed troops during WWII officially broke up the next year after trying out the Andrews Sisters and helped them get their a possible replacement. first recording contract with Decca Records in with"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy' and other hits. Maxene Andrews began a solo career in 1979. 1941.They later divorced. last performance with Patty, and Wells said the Her last performance was Oct. 8 in the show The rock 'n' roll era dimmed the Andrews two have been estranged. "Swing Time Canteen" — her off-Broadway Sisters'popularity,but their music found a new Maxene's Andrews solo career was interrupt- debut — in New York City's Blue Angel audience after Bette Midler released her ver ed by quadruple bypass surgery in 1982.But she Theatre. sion of the "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" in the picked up and went on, releasing her only solo She also recently sang "America the early 1970s. album in 1990, "Maxene: An Andrews Sister." Beautiful" for thousands of veterans in After the trio broke up, Andrews became Her memoir of World War II, "Over Here, Over Honolulu at ceremonies marking the 50th dean of women and an instructor in speech and There,"was published in 1993. anniversary of V-J Day. drama at Tahoe Paradise College in Lake In addition to Wells and Patty Andrews, Many of those veterans had mobbed the Tahoe, Calif. She was later promoted to vice Andrews is survived by children Aleda Levy Andrews Sisters when they performed for sol- president of planning and development. Andrews Hunt and Peter Todd Andrews Levy; diers at military posts and hospitals in Africa But she left that job to star with her sister foster son Steve Sharpe. and Europe during World War H.Andrews was Patty in the musical "Over Here" at Memorial services were being planned in Los recognized for her service in 1987 with the Broadway's Shubert Theatre in 1974.It was her Angeles and New York. — SPORTS, WEATHER, NEWS MOVIES AND MORE. 776-5463 Brenham Knights of Columbus LE:. 1st Annual * SEPTIC PROB Texas Big Buck challenge SunipsonOrmond dies Corps drill field wa named in his honor By GENEVA WHITMARSH that secured Samoa during World Eagle Staff Writer War H. At war's end, having been promoted to lieutenant colonel,he Lt. Gen. Ormond R. Simpson, a joined Douglas MacArthur's veteran of four wars who served Supreme Court staff during the as Texas A&M's assistant vice occupation of Japan. president of student services and In 1968, Simpson was ordered to was instrumental in the structur the Republic of Vietnam,where he Ormond Simpson ing of the Corps of Cadets, died served one year as commanding had been assis- Saturday at his home in Bryan.He general of the 32,000 enlisted men tant vice presi- was 83. of the First Marine Division. dent of A&M and After graduating from TexasLouis Newman III, a former A&M in 1936, Simpson joined th Marine captain, served in Viet served Gen. Marine Corps and served as assis MacArthur's staff i tant operations officer with troops See SIMPSON, Page A2 in Japan. WS tinguished Service Medal, four Simpson received A&M's first awards of the Legion of Merit,two President's Distinguished Service awards of the Bronze Star and Award, was designated a Distin- sevenonseven Toreign decorations. guished Alumnus and was in the 1 He retired from the Marines in first group of four former Corps From A1971 as a three-star general and members to be selected for the nam under Simpson's command. moved to Bryan, where he Corps Hall of Honor. "When [President Richard assumed the position of A&M's Upon his retirement in 1987,the Nixon] started pulling out of Viet- vice president of student ser- Board of Regents voted to� the Corps of Cadets drill fieldname, nam, the Third Marine Division vices. was pulled out so at that time He acted primarily as the advis- Simpson's honor. Simpson was in command of all of er to the university's Corps of Retired Marine Gen. Richard the troops serving in Vietnam. Cadets and served as the head of McPherson served with Simpson "He was very revered by the the School of Military Science. in active and inactive duty and men and was referred to as th Howard Perry, former A&M described him as a "effective Robert E. Lee of the Marin associate vice president of student leader in times of peace and Corps," Newman said. "He wa services, worked with Simpson peril." "He had the absolute highest gentleman, statesman and aristo for more than 20 years. crat — everything you woul w arniperson," hessaid V"He a very�really that integrivery integrity," ty never faltered not admire in a man." loved students and when he was as a military officer, no as a Simpson also served four tour in Washington, D.C. connected with A&M,and particu- administrator for the university His military decoration larly the Corps, they were very a and ndiv dual."He was included two awards of the Di T fond of him." Ormond SiMPS011 the U.S. Marine Corps and worked as March 16, 1915—Nov. 21 1998 the assistant vice president for stu- dent services, with primary responsi- Graveside services for retired bility for the Corps of Cadets,at Texas Marine Lt. Gen. Ormond S mpson, A&M University. 83, of Bryan are set for 2 p.rn. Tues- Simpson Drill Field was named in day in the College his honor, since he was a distin- Station City guished alumni and a member of the Cemetery. Hall of Honor. In addition, he was a Chaplain Don member of the Marine Corps Associa- Breland will offici tion, Brazos Beautiful Board of Direc- ate. - tors and the First Baptist Church of Visitation will Bryan. be from 5 until 8 Survivors include his wife, Marjorie p.m. Monday and Simpson of Bryan; a son, Richard 0. 8 a.m. until 1:30 Sili Simpson of Austin; a daughter, p.m. Tuesday at Martha A. Simpson of Greensboro, Memorial Funeral Chapel in Bryan. N.C.; and a granddaughter, Kristen Gen. Simpson died Saturd y morn- Simpson of Austin. ing at his residence. Memorials may be made to the Bra- He was born in Corpus Christi, zos Valley Rehabilitation Center. served as a commanding g neral for I 1 Holocaust survivor recalls slave labor Woman to file class-action lawsuit against Volkswagen for war-era exploitation By CHELSEA J. CARTER �'�Q "Germany has apologized for the Holo- Associated Press 1 caust. This lawsuit is a test of whether it will O put justice where its mouth is," Weiss said. NEW YORK — As a teenager, Elly Gross But it's about more than money for Gross. was waiting her turn to die at the Auschwitz M In April 1944, 15-year-old Elly Gross, her concentration camp in Poland when she was mother and brother were loaded on a railroad instead sent to work as slave labor for Ger boxcar from their native Romania for a six- man automaker Volkswagen. day trip to Auschwitz. While fortunate to have escaped the Nazi "When we arrived, people were screaming. camp where her mother and 5-year-old broth- Dogs were barking. Everybody was yelling," er were gassed to death Gross was forced to she said. work long hours with no pay and still has She was told the family would be reunited trouble breathing from the paint she inhaled in several days. It never happened. After sev- as a youngster. eral months she was shipped to a Volkswagen A class-action lawsuit expected to be filed factory near Hannover, Germany, were she Monday on behalf of Gross and others like �� "� spent nearly a year painting machinery her demands compensation for the work of parts. slave laborers, alleging that Volkswagen not ^" "* "You have to understand, after what I had only exploited slave labor, but worked with M, been through at Auschwitz— sleeping in the the Nazis to ensure its steady supply. * mud, eating sand to fill my belly, watching In a similar action, attorney Ed Fagan filed people die—the factory was like heaven. We a federal lawsuit Sunday in New York City , • had food and blankets," she said. against several German and Austrian compa- But the 12-hour work days under the super- nies — including Volkswagen — over use of vision of Nazi guards, who beat those who slave labor. made a mistake, took its toll on her health. "The industrial companies of Germany "I coughed up the paint," said Gross, a 69- played an integral role in the Holocaust," year-old retired bookkeeper who came to the Fagan said. "They masterminded and imple- AP photo United States in 1966. mented with the Nazi regime a ... conspiracy Elly Gross, who was forced to work as a slave In the waning days of the war, the factory to purposely enslave and exploit Holocaust workers were shipped to another concentra- victims and to profit from the Holocaust." laborer for German automaker Volkswagen ing World War II, holds a photograph of her herdur- tion camp, where she was eventually liberat- Fagan's lawsuit also named Siemens, younger brother Adalbert Berkovits at her home ed by American soldiers. When she returned Krupp, Daimler-Benz, Audi, Wurttembergis- Sunday in New York. Gross and those who were to Romania, she found strangers living in her the Metall Warenfabrik,Heinkel, Eicon Tech forced home and learned that her family was dead. a class-action lawsuit Monday against Volkswa- nology, BMW and Leica Camera. - work as slave labor are expected file While her battle against Volkswagen has a The lawsuits against Volkswagen and other just begun, Gross earlier this year closed a companies follow the agreement by Swiss gen. door on another part of her past. banks to settle outstanding Holocaust claims The government has so far turned down In April 1998,she returned to Auschwitz.At for $1.25 billion that were negotiated in part survivors' demands for back wages,but Volk- a camp museum, she found a picture of her by Fagan and Weiss. swagen said in July it would establish a fund mother and brother standing next to a box- "Nobody can give me back my mother and to pay back wages. Lawyer Mel Weiss, who car. She believes it was taken shortly after brother. But they can make right what they said he will file the lawsuit Monday in feder- their arrival and hours before their death. did to me,"Gross,of New York City,said Sun- al court in Newark, N.J., said the company's "I had my family reunion ... on Friday, day proposal was not acceptable. April 23, 1998, in Auschwitz," she said. "I Historians believe more than 7 million peo- Volkswagen did not immediately return promised that day, I would tell everybody. I ple were coerced to work in Germany under telephone calls seeking comment to its offices promised them everything would be made Hitler's regime. in Germany and the United States. right." MILITARY DAYS IN BRYAN/COLLEGE STATION 1 . How many members of your family were in the Spanish-American War. What do you have in the way of letters , photographs and memorabilia from this war. A: I have no knowledge of any family history for this period. 2 . How many members of your family were in World War I anytime during 1914 to 1918 . What do you have in the way of letters , photographs , medals or any other memorabilia from this war . A: To the best of my knowledge, none. 3 . Where were you when ou heard about the United States entering World War II . What did you do next? What was your family doing for a living at the time? A: I was in Milam County, near the Clarkson Community, visiting my Grandmother , with my father and mother. I was 16 . My father said that if this lasted asllong as WW I , I would be involved. I continued my highschool education. My father, John A. Blasienz , was the bookkeeper for Lawrence Grocery Company, a wholesale grocery company, in Bryan. 4. Did anyone in your family (men or women) join immediately? How old were they? Which branch of the service did they join? Where did they o for training and how long was it? Where did they go after that? A: I did not join immediately, but attempted to join before I was 18 , so as to have a choice. In June, 1943 ( I was la in April ) I picked up my draft papers and drove to Houston, hoping to go into the Navy. I was inducted in the Navy Construction Battalions (the Seabees) . I trained at Camp Perry, Virginia for 12 weeks and at Port Hueneme, California . We shipper. to the South Pacific in December, 1943 . I was with the 105th Seabee Battalion. I served in New Guinea and during the retaking of the Philippine Islands, on Leyte and Samar. 5 . What was it like on the homefront during World War II in reference to rationing, black-outs , shopping, fashion, trains , transportation, golf, recreation, YMCA, socials , big bands , victory gardens , farming, the war effort? A: In Bryan, we had no real hardships prior to my entering the Navy. Highschool continued and our athletic teams competed. Schedules were reduced, as was travel „ The teams traveled to games in private automobiles in the fa=1 of 1942 . Parents who had access to commercial gas ticketsiused their cars . At Bryan High we collected metal for the war effo t. The popular music was patriotic. 6 . During World War I' , explain sending and receiving letters , censorship, telegrams , newspapers , newsreels at the movies , radio programs, telephone calls , and opportunities to visit loved ones? A: My letters home from the Pacific were censored as to anything relating to my location or what I was doing. My father and I had, prior to my leaving thq states , numbered all Pacific Islands to that I could write, " I suppose Butch ( our dog) has killed 12 possums by now. " 12 would indicate the number of my location. Then my family new where I was located. My letters were photo ' d and reduced to V mail ( about z the size of the original) to reduce the volume and weight of mail the military had to send home. My mother was able to send cakes and cookies to me, even to the South Pacific. She would bake a cake in a ' can, or put cookies in a can, hermatically seal the cans and mail them. Even after 6 weeks or so the cookies or cake would be good and undamaged. While in California I once made a phonograph record letter and mailed it home. We could telephone in the U. S . but long distance lines were frequently busy. The paperback books were started and we had many available( thanks to USO) to read aboard ship and at our bases . I had a 10 day leave from California. Three to four days travel each way and only a few days in Bryan. We could see lots of stars and the big bands in California . Their shows were aimed at service men. Radio shows and the mcvies being made were mostly patriotic or about the war. 7. What was life like aroun the A&M College during World WarII? The Corps , the A&M news , the Battalion paper, Mothers Club, Aggieland Orchestra, A&M College Band? Did your family ever go to Guion Hall on campus for any orientations regarding the war? Where there support groups for families whc lost loved ones . How many churches were here at the time? A: I entered A&M the first time in January, 1943 . My interest was to join the Navy so I was not a very enthusiastic student , and did poorly. Freshman were put in a single dorm, near Sbisa. We were very conscious of the military training and later the Senior and Junior classes were drafted because the military needed more officers . Many of my friends entered the V-12 program and were allowed to continue school and earn a commission. "Weve Never Been Licked" was filmed while I was still in highschool . We visited campus and watched some of the scenes being filmed. 8 . Were you or any of ,your family involved with the Bryan Air Force Base or Coulter Field during World WarII? Explain any work your family did to go away to work in the war effort, such as the ship yards, factories , or prisoner of war camps? A: None. Lawrence Grocery Company sold wholesale groceries to the base . 9 . Was your family in business during World WarII? How did the war affect the business , the advertising, prices , credit , supplies , shipping goods, receiving goods, and the work force? A: Lawrence Grocery was affected by the short supply of some items and did their own "rationing" to customers . Apparently there was adequate gasoline for their deliveries , with extra coupons . (They tried to use them all so the next issue would not be reduced. ) 10. Explain an experience you had in the military regarding troop trains, mail call , censured letters , entertainment , "sea rations, " newspapers , boxes from home. A: The Navy traveled in sleeper cars for troop trains . Travel across country was in G zigzag pattern. We went from Virginia to Cincinnati , to Chicago, to Kansas City, to Amarillo, into New Mexico, to Salt Lake and to Sari Francisco. I do not remember the number of days . On the troop ships we had six high bunks, two meals a day. Everyone was on deck with life jackets at dawn and dusk each day. Lots of boredom and reeding. I experienced two typhoons , one aboard ship. No combat. The seabees were construction oriented. Roads, docks, warehouses, etc. I chose Civil Engineering as a result . 11 . Explain any battles, badges or medals you or your family received during World War II . A: I only received Pacific Zone medal , Philippine Invasion medal and Good Conduct medal. 12 . What was it like as a returning soldier after World War II regarding adjustments , housing, continuing college, cost of living, marriage, and what medical facilities were available. A: I was returned to U.S. in December, 1945 and received a 30 day leave, after which I was discharged from Camp Wallace, near Houston, in February, 1946. I was able to enter A&M that month and graduated in January, 1950. My only gift from the South Pacific was malaria, which surfaced for two years while I was at A&M. As a veteran, my education was paid for plus a monthly stipend. I lived at home in Bryan. Finances were not great, but adequate. Those veterans who had married during the war had many more financial worries than I . The A&M medical facilities and the old St. Joseph Hospital on West 28th street in Bryan were all that were available right after the war. There were also a number of GP doctors in Bryan. Of course the population in Bryan and College Station was less than 15, 000 . and there were only around 7000 male Aggies. John A. Blasienz 147 OOB: 4/5/25 night. Some men speculated that the artillery fire came from our own artillery, but on the 20th there was no doubt that it came from the east and was German. On the 20th, just before noon, the pace picked up until the artillery bursts were continuous. Nabors was visiting with Staff Sergeant Joe South, Platoon Sergeant from Bartlesville , Oklahoma, in front of the building where the 505th Regiment bazooka teams were stationed. The men felt safe since the shells coming over the building were falling quite a distance from the street where they were . Orders were, that in case of enemy attack across the river, we were to pull out of town and defend the high ground along the west side of the valley. An attack following the heavy artillery fire was a distinct possibility. We realized that the old orders preceded the Arrival of Lt. Col . Vandervoort. Nabors elected to go to the headquarters and get clarification. He took off at a dead run dodging from building to building to foil the continuous tnachine gun fire . When he returned, to advise the orders were still in effect, no one was in front of 'the building. An artillery shell had struck the top front edge of the building and exploded right above where men had been standing just a few minutes before. The cobble stones were chipped with fragments of steel from the shell where several men had been. It was fortunate that when Nabors departed on the run, the men became uneasy and all had ducked for cover. It was several minutes before he found Sgt . South in the basement of the church. The four bazooka men were still in the building. Chalk up ',another miraculous save for Company C. THE PARATROOPERS ATTACK A messenger told Nabors to release the four men from the 505 Regiment . He ordered them to return to their Unit, twice. They remained where they were. After about 15 minutes a Captain, probably their C.O. , arrived and asked who was in charge. Nabors admitted to being in charge, and advised him the bazooka teams had been released. The Captain carried a tommy gun and spoke to the men with great urgency, telling them they had work to do that night . Tabors was not sure whether it was "Unit cohesion" or the Captain"s tommy gun that convinced them to follow the C. 0. At dusk, the 505 Regiment Company E attacked up the cliff toward the east. They scaled the cliff and were under artillery fire as they did so . Company F followed. The battle raged all night and the next day, until late afternoon. Col . Vandervoort asked for permission to send the reserve company up the hill to insure that they were not pushed off, and to permit withdrawal after dark. He lost the argument . Nabors was ordered to place riflemen on the top floors of 8 buildings along main street and direct fire at the German machine guns along the edge of the cliff as an aid to the withdrawal . He did so, and was directing the fire with his field glasses until ordered to report to headquarters. Col. Vandervoort inquired about the overpass over the railroad tracks. Nabors advised that the steel beams of the overpass had been cut in two with a cutting torch, but the beams were now supported by a crib of cross ties stacked from the ground to the bottom of the beams. In Nabors opinion the overpass would support tanks. Vandervoort wanted the overpass mined, but not blown. He said to set the charges and show the igniter to one of his men. Some jeeps remained up the road on the high ground. Installing the explosives would be simple enough if a route to the overpass could be found free of small arms fire. Two teams were to search for a suitable route. Both were to carry the explosives. Nabors headed a team that would try through the railway station. Sgt . South headed a team that would approach from the other direction. Nabors stopped in a protected area behind the river bank opposite the overpass and visited with some paratroopers who had just come down the hill. They said that the enemy was the hardest charging in attack that they had ever encountered. The enemy had machine gun nests that were backed up by tanks and very difficult to handle. A11 bazooka teams had been lost trying to attack the tanks. To make matters worse, the enemy had captured a radio early in the battle, and were able to listen in and know what the paratroopers were trying to do . At this point Sgt . South arrived and reported the overpass had been mined, as planned. All that remained was to get back across the river and report to headquarters, or so we thought . Tracer bullets were everywhere. Finally, after carefully dodging intense machine gun fire, Nabors reported to the Colonel that they were successful . He then ordered Nabors and the second platoon to send one man to pull the ingiter and blow the overpass. After careful analysis, Sgt. South and Lt . Nabors chose Pfc. William J. Casale, native of Fairfield, CN, for what might be a suicide mission. There was not the slightest doubt that Casale or any other man in the platoon would make the attempt . After about thirty minutes, Casale reported back to platoon headquarters soaking wet . He said "I almost got killed. I had to jump in the river to escape. " We knew that there was no chance for him to blow the overpass but orders were orders. We were very thankful that he survived. Lt . Joseph B. Milgram, H/S Platoon, who entered service from Rochester NY, was charged with blowing the bridge across the Salm River for the second time. The paratroopers had repaired the bridge earlier. That account is covered elsewhere and will not be repeated here, except to mention that he received the Silver 9 Star for completing the task in spite of very heavy small arms fire. COMPANY C RELIEVED Major Yates was ordered to return with Company C to the 51st: Engineer Combat Battalion Headquarters in March, Belguim. The 505 Parachute Infantry #ad settled down to defensive positions on the high ground west oflthe Salm River valley. Company C departed after dark. An officer from the 505th insisted that Nabors and the second platoon form up and march in step up highway N2W to load into trucks for the trip to Marche. That was to insure that the men of the 505th regiment would know that it was an organized trip and not a bunch of straglers. Nabors, having gone three days and nights without sleep, slept all the way to Marche. They arrived at 2330 Hrs . Some of the acco nts above may vary from other accounts, published and unpublished. All are from first-hand experience, or first-hand accounts from others. The 51st Engineer Combat Battalion and the 7th Armored Division, which fought just down the road from Trois Ponts at St . Vith, each: received the Presidential Unit Citation. This may have been the first time and entire Division received that award. It may have been the first time in military history that one Battalion, the 51st ECB, was relieved by five divisions ! Captain Scheuber and Lt. Milgram received Silver Stars, and Major Yates received a Bronze Star. Yates was superb in misleading the enemy at Trois Ponta. He deserves much credit for stopping the armor there with nothing bigger than 50 Cal . for his troops . It is interesting to relate that he also had a hard in stopping an armored column, outside Marche, Belguim, on December 221 following his action at Taois Ponts. Here Nabors was also in the thick of battle and had first hand experience . YATES IS CAPTURED, 'BUT ESCAPES The 84th Division bad relieved the 51st ECB at Marche . Troops were dug-in around the perimeter in strong defensive positions. The Second Platoon, Company C, was assigned to providing security for the Division Headquarters in the town center. All was quiet on a beautiful sunny afternoon on the 22nd. Major Yates collected Capt . Scheuber and Lts. green and Nabors in his command car for a ride out to the outskirts of town to check on a bridge or rather a culvert across a very small creek. They were to determine If blowing the culvert would provide a road block for the defense against armor. The road was very familiar to Nabors who had been passing that way every day for a month to check sawmills operated by the second platoon. Vlore about that later. The road was a connecting road to the main 'Highway to Bastogne. The command carrr• n P.� g 10 was parked at the edge of the valley where the men of the 84th Division were dug-in. No reports of the enemy in the vicinity had been received, and the four officers walked about 300 meters to the culvert over the creek. The creek was not an effective barrier to tanks, and it would take a lot of explosives to blow the culvert. When they had been there only a few minutes, Nabors saw a head wearing a beret rising above the military crest of the hill. He suggested that British tank crews wore berets. Yates said "lets get off the road to discuss it" . The officers broke for the ditch on the downstream side of the culvert. That was a mistake because the upstream side was forested, but downstream was cleared. The tank fired its 8 MM machine gun into the officers. The bullets passed between Nabors and Green and between Green and Scheuber. One hit Green's binoculars hanging from a strap around his neck. Another bullet passed through Nabors' shirt front. No one was hit, but the command car driver observed what he later described as "tracer bullets passing through the bodies and the officers falling down" . He didn't bother to wait, but went immediately to Battalion Headquarters and reported all killed. Chalk up another miracle ! Nabors was the last off the road, and looked up the hill toward the command car. He saw a picket fence of tracer bullets.. Without thinking or saying, "Excuse me" he turned and crawled through the culvert which was about one meter square in cross section. It didn't occur to him that such an obvious solution would be missed. He ran a few meters in knee deep water up the creek and then stepped out and ran up the hill through the forest to safety. Green and Scheuber followed Nabors, but amazingly, Yates didn't know where they had gone. He may have had trouble with his formerly broken ankle even if he had known. The armored column advanced to the culvert . Major Yates was hiding beneath a small pine tree and was captured. The Germans took his side arm and left a grenadier to guard him while the column advanced towards the defensive line of the 84th Division. When the firing started the dug-in men of the 84th Division radioed for a tank destroyer. There was barely enough time for the tank destroyer to get set in a previously prepared emplacement before the column advanced. The delay to capture Major Yates was just enough to doom the advancing column. Nabors watched from the forest on the opposite side of the valley as the battle was fought . Five armored vehicles were destroyed in three minutes with no losses for the 84th Division. The Bulge stopped there ! Captain Scheuber and Lt. Green and Nabors were able to return to the 51st ECB Headquarters about one hour after dark, but Major Yates took a little longer. Some engineers upstream from the culvert where Yates was a 11 prisoner blew up a dam and released a torrent of water. The guard left the Major to cross the road and get a better look at the water. The creek was flooded outside its banks. Major Yates escaped by jumping in the flood and swimming under water downstream until out of range. It was near midnight when Col. Fraser received a call from the Division Hq. asking if he knew a Bob Yates. He was glad to get him back, soaking wet and nearly frozen. This is one of General Harvey (Scrappy) Fraser I s favorite stories at 51st ECB reunions. Major Yates is no loger with us, and he probably never bragged about stopping the enemy at either Trois Ponts or Marche, but incredibly, neither place ever fell to the Germans. Company C was able to get a few days rest before joining in the fight to eliminate the Bulge. In this fight they considered themselves lucky to support the 82d Airborne. WHY WAS THE 51ST AGAIN SO LUCKY? Mature personnel who had a trade or special skill , such as carpenters or contractors, were assigned to engineer units. Company C got more than its fair share of talented recruits. There were many transfers, but the Company seemed to maintain a quality advantage . Training really began in December 1942, with the first trainload of recruits unloading in three feet of snow at Plattsburg Barracks, NY. Nabors' second platoon was lucky to get the first recruits who were mostly from Oklahoma_ Many of those recruits stayed through out the war. Unit cohesion was always strong. Training was long and varied. We could do almost anything in the line of fighting or working. On December 17 , 1944, rumors of the Arednnes Breakthrough were well known to the 51st . Such news spreads fast . Company C was operating sawmills. The second platoon was spread over a wide area with sawmills at six locations. Some were cutting and hauling, others were helping store the lumber. Trucks and equipment were scattered far and wide, It was truly amazing that after a hard days work they could be assembled fully equipped at Company C Headquarters, located at Hotton, and moved as a unit about 50 or 60 kilometers to Trois Ponts by midnight. Jeep driver Pfc. James Magrutas Snow deserves some credit . He knew where Lt. Nabors was, as always. Every morning Snow and Nabors had been passing along a main street in Marche to check the sawmills. It so happened that a young lady, Susan D. was almost always walking to the milk vendor's to get a jug of milk for her family who lived on the street. The two in the jeep smiled and waved as they passed. After a week or so, Snow was urging Nabors to stop and get acquainted. Some officers at the 51st Batallion Headquarters, which was located in Marche, were planning a dance and inviting local girls. It was time to accept Snow's advice, and get acquainted. The trouble was neither was fluent in the others language. Nevertheless, the date was arranged. 12 The dance was a disaster because we Americans failed to realize the class distinctions. Daughters of working parents weren't permitted to associate with daughters of Professionals and Government Employees. Susan was well chaperoned with an older brother, but the dance ended abruptly for the reason mentioned. It turned out that the older brother had a masters degree in languages. Naturally, he and his sister would help Nabors with the French language. The first lesson was scheduled on December 17, 1944, at Susan's house . Nabors arrived about seven ( 1900 hrs. ) , and was really learning, when Jimmy Snow knocked on the door. He said, "We 're moving out" . It wasn't necessary to ask why. Nabors had always believed in dramatic departures, sealed with a kiss when soldiers were going into battle, or any other excuse. He asked Susan. Her reply was "Fiance"? Since Nabors was already engaged to his present wife, he missed the kiss. 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STAVELOT Baugnez W RBOMONT -'0 heneux oppen A� ae _ Q�' f►/ .`Pe( ' L oo mez 0�1 ndenval Hunnanc Sw c ahier Pe / peoel Thiri Moderscheid �— je3 TROTS mon^V y ,`5F 1S5.Pz'S i f ou_ip 11PONTS a ''6 LIG`EUYILLE Honsfeld eurm Basse 824 c Bodeux o Wanne AMEL � Heppenbach I c �;j Mirfeld 51J I ues Logbierme Kai Holzheim Q01 serbaracke Recht 1SSPZ. Grand Hansen H Born Bra alleux Poteaux Herres cc Odrimont Andler r a q, MANHAY `f' 7 Ard. Schoenberg Ytr LIERNEUX VIELSALM SAINT-VITH 18Dec. de 16 h3c. a 24hoi) ��`� (F.ES TRIC TLD) READQ;UARTERS EIGHTH SERVICE COLL:AND SMVICES OF SU:'FLY OFFICE OF THE GENERAL SAG 326.6 (ERC) (ASTP) Mobilization Dallas, Texas. X 201 (M:C) Each man named. March 17, 1943 f>ubJect: Travel Orders. 1,0: Each Enlisted Reservist Listed. 1. The Enlisted Reservists (ROTC Students) named below, now at �,dcM College of Texas, College Station, Texas, will report at their own e:xpense to the Ccm,;.a,^,dir,g of;'icer, Reception Center, Canip Beaur eguard, 'Louisiandy on March 25, 1943, for active duty with the Army of the United 'Mates, Carrying with them a transcript of their college academic and ROM-! '.z•ecords for presentation tb the classification officer: FIRST YEAR ADVANCED STUDENTS SIGINAL CORPS `Charles N Adams, 18073481 (SC) Roy W Lewis, 18073683 (SC) . .`. Edmund H Anderson, L8073443 (SC) Walter W McMahan Jr. 18073300 (SC) .'Charlie M Baker, 18n73695 (SC) William F Wagee, �Jr.,18073526 (SC) Roscoe R Baldwin, 18073663 (SC) Albert A Malooly, 18073657 (SC) James L Boone, Jr., 18073329 (SC) Marvin M Monk, 18074074 (SC) Robert B Brunkhorst, 18073053 (SC) Wade H-Morgan, 18073810 (SC) Charles D Catt, 18073594 (SC) George H Morris, 18073841 (SC) Robert C'Courtney, .18073944 (SC) Edward H Myre, 18073668 (SC) Sidney C Cox, 18073575 (SC) Roy K. Nelson, 18073047 (SC) Herman E Crice,'Jr.,18073387 (SC) Frank R Nye, Jr., 18073246 (SC) William H Culver, 18073809.;•(SC) �Faul Q Olschner, 180.74046ic(Unasgd) George E Darsey III, 18073455 (SC) Homer V O'reilly, �8072996 (Unasgd Alberto J DeIachica, 18073095 (SC) Joseph •P Faulekas, ,18073633 (SC) Harry C Dillingham, 18073314 (Sc) John N Ratcliff, Jr., 18073794 (Scj Albert J 8ruce, 18073802 (SC) Russell H Saacat, 18073613 (SC) Lloyd E Elliott, 18073592 (SC) Glenn E Tanner, 18073513 (SC) Charles C Garner, 18073305., (SC) Nahum A Tate, 18073282 (SC) Ralph M Podfrey, 18073518 (SC) Wallace F Tate, 18073061 (SC) Guy S Halter, 18073399 (34 , Nil-'red B Truax, `1 073764 (SC)"- , I rvey D Heiman, 18073601 ,(SO) Hugh 0 Walker, Jr.lg3-9 -15069 (SCp<- George ;C Johnson, 18073699;:(SC) George C ti'Estes've1�t.�i.e.;,rl807344LC (SC Russell B Jones, Jr. 18013186 (SC) Billy A Whiting, 18073107 (SC) Tom B Journeay,: 18073639 •(SC) Leo Wiman, 18159654 (Unas d) =; Albert M Kageler, Jr.,18073040(Unasgd) Alvin B Wooten, 18072905-f� S .Craig 8 Kennedy, 18073691'(unasgd) Fhillip W Young, 1807.3746.KSC) s . Oran G Kirkpatrick,Jr.18073448 (SC) Roberto Zuniga, Jr:,18073566- (SC) .:.; 2. Each man will leave A.&M. College Of Texas, College-Statipn,.'—,.'j. Texas, in such time as to,,enable him to report of the Reception;Crenter oriti�.:s larch 25, 1943, at 8:00 A.M. r P. A;r.> (RESTRICTED)