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— The Frontier I LXVI O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 31,1945 NO. 3 Holt County Boys In Air Force Honered i England, VE Day — Among the 185,000 men and women of the Eighth Air Force congratulated today by Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle, who assumed command of the Eighth in January, 1944, is Sergeant Wallace W. Mitchell of Chambers, Nebraska. Otner Holt county men honored at the same time and who are members of the Eighth Air Force, are Cpl. Darrell Wolfe, husband of Mrs. Alice Wolfe, O’Neill, of the Ordnance Department, and Pfc. Jerome J. Erd. "I wish to extend my personal congratulations and my heartfelt appreciation to every one of you for the magnificent job you have done,” Gen. Doolittle said in a messsage to all personnel. ‘‘Each of you,” he continued, “may be proud of your part in the defeat of Germany. I am proud of you. The world is proud of you.” The Eighth Air Force was the world’s mightiest strategic bomb ing force. Its personnel of 185,000 was the equivalent o|H 12 infantry divisions, and it could send 21,000 airmen in 2,000 four-engine bombers and 1,000 fighters over Germany at one time, a combat effort possible only through the support of tens of thousands of non-flying specialists. Since August, 1942, when com bat began, Flying Fortresses and Liberators df the Eighth dropped more than 700,000 tons of bombs enemy targets. Fighter pilots shot down 5,250 Nazi planes and des troyed 4,250 on the ground. Bomber gunners shot 6.000 Ger man interceptors out of the air. The Eighth dropped an average of a ton otf bombs every minute of the last 12 months. Airmen of the Eighth were the first Americans to attack Ger 1 many. The >early crews flew a handful of unescorted bombers a | gainst the powerful Luftwaffe, and proved the feasibilty of an American idea - - precision day light bombing over the Reich. As the Eighth grew in strength it was assigned the task of crush ing the German Air Force, which had to be done before the Allies could invade France. Bombers of the Eighth smashed Nazi aircroft production centers. Its fighters destroyed thousands of enemy planes in the air and on the ground. After beating tha Luftwaffe in to relative impotency, the Eighth threw its growing weight against the German rail system and vital sources of oil. These campaigns, in conjunction with the British Royal Air Force and the U. S. 15th Air Force, disorganized all trans port in Germany, restricted Ger man military operations in the air and on the ground, and paved the way for the march of Allied arm ies across Europe. Among the personnel of the Eighth at a Seventh Photo Group Station, Sergeant Mitchell is an aircraft mechanic for an Air En gineering Squadron. He is a son of Carl E. Mitchell of Chambers, Nebraska. SMALL DOSES • PAST AND PRESENT ^^B^omame Saunders Rt. 5, Atkinson You’ll have to let ’em talk. The safety valve of an inferiority complex has blown off. Post war planning has provided for everything but the buyers for the stuff to be turned out. Drugery—For the housekeeper: 1095 dish washings annually. For the farmer: Cleaning the cow and horse barns. Down at Grand Island 5400 of the 250 pound bombs charged with TNT are turned out in 24 hours, beside ton and half ton sizes in quantities. Kentucky—famous as the home of Daniel Boone, aristocratic col onels, beautiful women, thor oughbred horses, blue grass and bottled firewater —^nore than ha^f of the state has voted dry. Club women, churchmen, polit ical star gazers here in the U. S. A. are all out for maknig the whole world safe for the dove of peace to nest in. To the earth’s uncounted hordes of humanity, numerically we can contribute less than 10 per cent. The church v men would figure up about one f half of one per cent and the club women another fraction. Any way, you have to admire their courage. Rain has washed the earth clean. White clouds, squeezed empty during early morning showers, lie at rest in fluffy billows just above the prairie rim. Sun light and warmth lay on the land scape’s vast robe off green. Tree top and bush nod friendly to the kisses of the breeze. Meadow larks and robins, orange and black orioles, turtuedoves and thrush, buzzing insect and croak ing frog. Summer has come to the prairieland. — A comet, faintly visible in the southern hsmisphere, flashes through space. Scientists say these celestial wanderers have hit the earth in past centuries, ac counting for odd earth scars of our southeast Atlantic coast by a direct hit of an aerial bomb the size of the moon a thousand years before our time. “Out there be-1 yond the stars from whence the comet came,” a writer suggests, “there may be Powers which even now grow impatient at man’s latest effort to destroy himself. Some day perhaps They’ll say, Here, little, fellow let us show you how.” Of the making of books there is no end. Scholars at the Uni versity of Chicago from the Hebrew of Isaiah’s day, the Greek *of St. Paul’s, have brought out another translation of the bible. Lacking much of the literary glamour of earlier translations it nevertheless carries the reader through pages of sublime dignity in lofty yet simple English. This new translation is the result of some later language discover ies but makes no alterations in the principles or historical facts of other translations. By reason of bulk it is a book for the library rather than for general use. A delegation of hooded Arabs give a picturesque touch to an otherwise commonplace outfit at the 46-nation conference. But why are they present? The men a(f the desert have scored the favor of mankind since their hap less progenitor Ishmael and Ha gar his mother were kicked out of Sarah’s tent something less than 4000 years ago. An Alex ander nor a Caesar has not yet undertaken to subjugate the swarthy sons of an ancient race •roamig from Bagdad to the Red «Sea, from Damascus to the gulf, a race of (free men for thous ands of years before the “four •freedoms” were invented. Clean barracks, plenty of cig arettes. That’s the thing a Ne braska soldier counted of most importance to mention in a letter home after release from a Ger man prison camp. The j'Wnerican flag unnoticed, the body-sustain ing diet of American army cooks, back again among friendly faces, the good old Yankee language on everybody’s tongue and your own grand outfit. But the great thing was “plenty of cigarettes.” An officer with, the bars of a col onel says that the cigarette “re freshes like^ a dash of ice water in the face.” That ice water will shock, not refresh. I once fell through the ice in January while skating on “Hagerty’s lake.” j Nothing refreshing about that. Iwaited the other day in a bus depot. On the same bench sat a ] bejeweled young female with j Mrs. Nellie Storjohann Mrs. Nellie Storjohann died at her home near Phoenix last Sat urday, morning, after an illness of but three doys olf an attack of double pneumonia, at the age of 53 years, three months and nine days. Funeral services were held at the home Monday after noon, with Rev. M. Hubby in charge ond burial in the ceme tery at Phoenix Nellie Goeke was born at At kinson, Nebr., on February 17, 1892. She grew to young wo manhood in the vicinty of her home town and on June 22, 1922, she was united in marriage to August Storjahann and went to live on the farm neor Phoenix where she lived up to the time of her death. She was the mother of two children, Louis and Earl, both living in the northern part of the county. She is also surviv ed by one brother, Louis M. Goeke, who lives near Emmet, who with her husband are left to mourn the passing of a kind and affectionate wife, mother and sister. Mrs. Storjohann was very pop ular in her section of the country, where she had a host olf friends, and they will sincerely mourn her passing in the very prime of life. CARD OF THANKS We desire to express our sin cere thanks to the many kind friends and neighbors, who so kindly lent assistance and words of consolation, following the sud den de^th of our beloved wife, mother and sister, the late Mrs. Nellie Storjohann. August Storjohann, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Storjohonn, Earl Stor johann.and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Goeke and family. AAA News Notes Farmers offered beef product ion Payments: Beef production payments of 50 cents per hund redweight on good and choice cattle weighing 800 pounds or more - - the first direct beef subsidy to farmers - - will be ad ministered by County AAA offic ers similarly to dairy payments. The subsidy is part of a pro gram to boost meat prduction and to improve distribution. To be el igible Ifarmers are required to (1) own and feed cattle at least 30 days prior to sale for slaughter, and (2) sell to licensed slaughter ers. The minimum sale price is $14.25, Chicago basis, but varies by zones as defined in OPA Max imum Price Regulation 574. The maximum overriding ceiling price is $18.00. The subsidy is intended to move more cattle through the feedlots from the range which will yield “AA” and “A” grades of meat; also to direct more cattle into normal channels of distribution. When more information be comes available, it will be pub licized. Harry E. Ressell, Chairman, Holt County AA Committee. Marriage Licenses Joseph Pavlik, 28, of Verdegre, and Miss Otillia Ruzicka, 22, of Dorsey, on the 22 of May. Donald Tuben, 29, and Miss Hozel Traka, 22, both of Inman, on the 24 of May. Francis Mohr, 23, of Atkinson, and Miss Violet Seger, 17, of Stuart, on the 25 of May. Leonard Olberding, 30, and Miss Matilda Kaup, 25, both of Stuart, on the 29 ctf May. Morse Rodgers, 22, of Neligh and Miss May Spes, 16, of Ewing, on th§ 31st of May. Lt. (j. g.) Margaret Bosn ar rived lost Tuesday to spend her 30 days visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bosn. Lt. Bosn has been in the Dutch East Indies for 18 months, and it is her first leave in nearly three yeors. painted lips who “refreshed” her self with one white fag after an other. A half million hearts stop suddenly annually in Yakeeland Tobbaco heart? It’s the smok ers own business, but not many will try to hide a mightly en slaved taste for nicotine behind the fiction that it “refreshes.” Amelia Boy In The Thick Of It In Germany European Theater of Opera tions—Pfc. C. E. Standage, of Amelia,, Nebr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Standage is a mem ber of the 214th Military Police Company, one of the most re markable and notable military police units in the United States Army, and is serving with the XVIII Corps (Airborne), First United States Army in Germany. The 214th Military Police Com pany, overseas almost sixteen months and on the European Mainland over ten months, has compiled a briliant, outstanding and enviabe record. This organ ization was the-jfirst military po lice unit to land in force on the beaches of Normandy. Eighty one officers and men of the com pany landed before H plus 100 on D-Day, 6 June 1944. One platoon coming in at approximately H plus 60 in the first line of large assault crafts was on the ill fated LCI 92, which struck a floating mine 500 yards off shore, and while floundering about helpless ly was subject to a tremendous barrage of German 88, mortar,1 and small arms fire. Despite heavy casualties to the personnel aboard the craft, this military po nee platoon, unaer me command of 1st. Lt. Dayton D. Legg, now commanding officer off the 214th, was fortunate in reaching the beach with but one man wound ed. By dusk that night there were over one hundred of the 214th on the beaches, directing traffic, clearing the congested beaches, aiding the medics with wounded and ferreting out snip ers in the buildings and fields, as the envading forces began to drive the enemy back (from their fortified positions. Since that historic.day this mil itary police company has partici pated in most of the major cam paigns from the Normandy beachhead, across the Siegfried Line, the Rhine, and into the heart of the German Reich. Each j Military Policeman of the 214th MP Co., now has three Bronze Stars for the Battle of Normandy I No. 1, the battle a|f Normandy: No. 2, and the Battle of North ern France No. 1. This company has also participated in other ma jor campaigns but as yet the men have! not been awarded their par-1 ticipation stars. These men were in the Battle of the German Bulge in Belgium with the XVIII Corps (Airborne), and they were with : the First Army as they fought | through the fortified Siegfried dc- I fenses and across the Roer and i Rhine rivers. The 214th Military Police Com pany was with the Ninth United States Army as they smashed in to the heart of the great indust rial region of the Ruhr and now j as the final assault on Germany j begins the company is back with the XVIII Corps (Airborne). The interval during which time i this company was not actually in combat zone has been far from fruitless. During the days before the Port of Cherbourg was open ed, operating from Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, and later, in Belgium, on the vital supply routes from the great Port of An twerp to the fighting front, the 214th Military Police Company a gain distinguished itself in a not able fashion by working day and night under every kind of ad verse condition to keep the vital and necessary supplies and re inforcements moving up to the' (front. Besides their primary1 traffic mission, during these pas sive, non-combatant periods, this company was instrumental in breaking up numerous blackmar ket rings, recovering stolen and a bandoned US Army property and returning absentee soldiers either to their organizations or to the proper military authorities. For their outstanding and ef ficient performances, the indivi dual numbers of the company have received high praise from many high ranking military and civilian officials. The 214th Mil itary Police Company, as a unit has held a superior rating for ov er two years and has been com- j mended for its excellent work by the various higher headquarters it has worked for both in the United States and overseas. By virtue of the complete devotion to duty of the men in this organiza the 214th Military Police Com pany, is probably the most decor ated separate military police company in ETO, S. Sgt. William T. Orr of Mount Vernon, Mo., and Sgt. James S. Powell of Fyffe, Ala,, have been awarded the Sil ver Star Medal for conspicious gallantry and outstanding leader ship in action, 6 June 1944. Five other members of the company have been aworded the Bronze Star Medal ifor valor and out standing performance of duty in the face of the enemy 6-7 June 1944 and seven men of the com pany hold Purple Heart medals for wounds received in the Nor mandy Campaign. In addition to these awards , the one hundred men who landed on Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, 6 June 1944 are entitled to wear the dis tinguished Unit Citation Badge permanently by order of the Su preme Allied Cemmander Gener al Dwight Eisenhower. In addition to its other accom plishments, the 214th Military Police Company is also one of the few amphibious assault Military Police organizations in the entire United States Army. The corn pony’s training in amphibious op erations began in the United States in the Cheaspeak Bay area. After coming to the United King dom, manouvers in invasion op erations and intensive assault tac tics continued for a few weeks prior to actual invasion af the French coast. Lt. Robert R.van Wins Oak Ix'af Clusters An Eighth Air Force Bomber Station, England—2nd Lt. Robert B. Ryan, son of James B. Ryan, of O’Neill, Nebraska, has been awarded a second Oak Leaf Cluster to his Air Medal, it was recently announced by the com manding general. Eighth Air Force. As the bombadicr of a B-17 Flying Fortress, Lt. Ryan is one of the men whose efforts are be hind the all-out success of the Eighth Air Force’s bombing of fensive, which crippled indust rial Germany and paved the way for the invasion of western Europe, and which is now being concentrated against communica tions and supply systems feeding the enemy’s forces on the west ern front and military installa tions in the path o(f our ground forces. The courage, coolness and skill displaytd by Lt. Ryan on all these occasions reflect grtat cred it upon himself and the Armed Forces of the United States. He is a graduate of the Cam pion esuit Senior High school, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and attended the De Paul University, Chicago, 111. Prior to his entry into the Army Air Forces, he was employ ed as a law clerk. BRIEFLY STATED Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Rickley and family spent Memorial Day at Fullerton. Miss Marjorie Dickson qf Lin coln arrived Tuesday to spend some time here on business. Deputy Sheriff Lansworth and Miss Noren Murray made a bus iness trip to Norfolk Tuesday. Mr. ond Mrs. Dean Stretter and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Streeter and son Gene spent Memorial Day at Brunswick. Sam Bosn returned last Thurs day from Rochester, Minesota, where he spent several days on a physical check up. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Waldrop of Kearney, spent the week-tnd here visiting at the home of her moth er, Mrs. Theresa Murray. Supt. and Mrs. Ira George and family moved Thursday from the Mrs. Leona O’Donnell residence to the Naylor Apartments. Mrs Esther Reka of Omaha ar rived Tuesday to spend several days here visiting ot the home of her sister Mrs. Leo Mullen. Mrs. Fred Colfax and son, Brian, spent Sunday in Ewin^ visiting relatives. I Grand Island Blast Kills Seven Workers An explosion in the Ordance plant at Grand Island last Mon day, shortly after noon, resulted in the death of seven workers, one seriously injured ond two who, up to date, have not been lo cated. The blast demolished a new four-story cement building that had just been completed. Cause af the explosion has not been ascertained. Among the men killed in the blast was Martin E. Burke, of this city, brother of Mrs. T. J. Coyne and Mrs. Lawrence O’Mallty, of the south country. Mr. Burke had been a resident of Waubay, S. D., for many years, coming to O’Neill last November, and on January 1st went to Grond Island and went to work in the plant there, where he was employed up to the time of his death. Martin Burke was born at O’ Connor, Greeley county, on Dec ember 6, 1885, and was in his fifty-ninth year at the time of his dath. Mr. Burke was a sing le man, never having been mar ried. Most off his life was spent in Greelty county and in South Dakota. Deceased is survived by his father, two brothers and six sisters. His brothers are: Thomas, Sumner, S. D.; Frank, Waubay, S. D. His sisters are: Mrs. Chris Jensen, Lily, S. D.; Mrs. L. W. O* Malley, Chambers, Nebr.; Mrs. T. J. Maloney, Lily, S. D.; Mrs. Tom Becking, Florence, S. D.; Mrs. T. J. Coyne, O’Neill; Miss Emma Burke, Watertown, S. D. The body was brought to this city last Tuesday and funeral ser vices were held from the Catho lic church last Wednesday, inter ment in Calvary cemetery. The following relatives were here for the funeral services: Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Moloney, Webster, S. D.; Miss Winnifred Coyne, Den ver, Colo.; Mrs. Ray Keating, Greeley, Nebr.; Lt. Joe O’Malley, South Carolina. Consumers To Improve Their Lines West Of Here Following approval of proposed construction in the Valentine - Johnstown area, which is antici pated to provide two - way elect ric service for Ainsworth, Atkin son, Emmet, Newport, Basset, Long Pine and Johnstown, the BAard of Directors of Consumers Public Power District authorized General Manager, V. M. Johnson, at their meeting May 15, to ad vertise Ifor bids on the construct ion of 39 miles of transmission line between Johnstown and Val * entine. New Generating Unit at Valentine Arrangements have already been made to purchase an addi tional 1600 HP., 1000KW generat tine, and a contract has been let ing unit to be located at Valen for its installation. This addition al power supply, coupled with the new line between Johnstown and Valentine, will allow the District to take advantage of surplus pow er available in tho Valentine area for distribution to towns served by the District between Valen tine and O’Neill. The new line wil provide two - way power ser vice for all towns served in the area by Consumers and will make possible better voltage control as well as eliminate much possibil ity of outages due to storms or other damage since power can be sent in from either O’Neill or Valentine. The consumers engineers have been busy in this area for some time making surveys and other preliminary arrangements for the new construction. Actual con struction work will get under way as soon as contract can be completed and material is receiv ed. Officials of the District ex plained that the construction in this area is part of a vast im provement plan, estimated at ap proximately five millon dollars, which the District will carry on during the following few years, to improve electric service and increase power capacity of lines serving many communities throughout the state. Grass-Rohinson Miss Fern Robinson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Robinson, of Page, Nebr., and Dee Grass, of Page, Nebr., were united in mar riage at the Methodist parsonage at O’Neill on Thursday, May 24.! at 8:30 a. m., Rev. Dawson Park performing the cermeony. The bride was attired in a brown suit with peach and white accessories. Her corsage was com posed of tea rases and wihite daises. The groom wore an ox ford gray suit. The attendants were Alice Rob inson, cousin of the bride, and Lura Grass, sister of the groom They wore blue suits. Their corsages were composed of red rosces. The happy young couple will make their home on a farm northwest of Page. Vocational Agriculture Class Learning: How “Students of the Vocational Agriculture class of the O’NeiU High School learned about soil conservation practices by doing/’ according to D. A. Crosien, In structor. Arrangements were made so that two members of the class could accompany L. F. Brede meier of the Holt Soil Conserva tion District each day on his daily work. This arrangement enabled eoch student to receive at least a day of training in the field. They received experience and assisted in surveying for contour farming surveying for land leveling for irrigation, making grass seedings, tree planting, and identification of grasses. BRIEFLYSTATED Gordon Hiatt left Friday morn ing for Omaha, where he will work for the C. B. and Q. railroad this summer. Mrs. J. F. O’Donnell, of Los An geles, Cal., arrived Friday even ing ahd will spend some time here visiting relatives and friends. Miss Marion Dickson, of Port land, Oregon, arrived Friday afternoon to spend several weeks here visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. Fay Miles left Friday morning for Valentine to spend several days there visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs. Edna Seldon. Miss Jeanne Gladson left last Thursday for her home in Omaha, after spending a weeks here visit ing at the home of her grand mother, Mrs. Augusta McPharlin. The Misses Tana and Alma Bacon spent the week-end in At kinson visiting at the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bacon. Raymond Calkins, Richard Mor gan and Lester Strong left last Thursday for Omaha, where they will work on the railroad this summer. Mr. and Mrs Raymon Bright and son Ardell drove to Sioux City, Tuesday evening to spend Memorial Day there visiting re latives and frierds. Mr. and Mrs. Cnanes uownes of Scottsbluff arrived Tuesday to spend several days here visiting. iMrs. Downey will visit her moth er Mrs. Georgia Ralsey, and Mr. Downey will visit his father. Sumner Downey. Pvt. DeWayne Landis arrived last Monday to spend his 15 day furlough here visiting his moth er and other relatives and friends. Abe Saunto of Sioux City ar rived Wednesday to spend sever al days here visiting at the home- • of his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Saunto.