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Manning Monitor articles ------ 1944
Hear of Son's Berlin Broadcast
The announcer stated she was sorry all the Christmas messages could not be read in time.
Respectfully yours, Mrs. Violet Bender, (relay listener) Wayne Cole In Air Corps Mrs. Roy Cole of Slater, formerly of Manning, sends her subscription to the Monitor and with it a note about her son Wayne who is a Second Lieut. in the air corps. He graduated from the Advanced Pilot School at Phoenix, Arizona, Febr. 8th and received his wings, and commission. Now he has been sent to Randolph Field, Texas to take a course in
Basic Pilot instructing. He was home for a 10 day furlough after he graduated. Lt. LaMorne Miller formerly of Manning writes from El Paso, Tex. as follows: "I wish to take this opportunity to thank you very kindly for putting me on the mailing list of the Monitor. It's a stimulating boost'' to any soldier's morale to have the news from the old home town. Tho there are always new names one doesn't know, there are always the old stand-bys that are so pleasant to recall. Some of which are associated with happy memories.
"Perhaps I'm the only army nurse from Manning, I don't know I for sure but in my travels
across the nation I've found a few of my patients from home and lots of boys from Iowa.
"Am at present finishing up an intensive five weeks training in overseas tactics,
preparatory for whatever the future may bring. Transferred to Ft. Lauderdale We have been informed that James J. McGrane has been advanced from Seaman 2nd Class to Specialist 3rd Class and has been transferred from Fort Royal, Va., to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida where he is now stationed. Vinton Staff Sergeant Charles Carlson, 28, holder of the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal and several Oak Leaf Clusters, is missing after his one hundredth mission, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Carlson have been informed. Serving as tail gunner on a Liberator bomber in the Southwest Pacific, he was preparing to come home after the flight from which he is missing. He had considerable difficulty getting into the army because of a limp resulting from an attack of infantile paralysis in his youth. Ottumwa Ernest Louis Foster, chief motor machinist's mate and a 15-year navy veteran, is reported missing in action, according to word received by his, mother, Mrs. Helen May Lupant, and his son, Richard Gordon Foster, 6. No futher details were given. He has been in submarine service. Keith Bingham Gets Discharge The Monitor received the following interesting letter from Keith Bingham, formerly of Manning: "I have just finished reading the Jan. 13th issue of the Monitor; which, as all previous issues have been, was most interesting and informative of events back "home." Getting the Monitor has always been a weekly event that I've looked forward to since I've been in the Army, but I am writing this to in form you that I am being discharged from the army, Tuesday, Jan. 18th. "I have been in the Reams General Hospital here at Palm Beach for the past three months, being admitted for treatment of an old knee injury I acquired playing foot; ball at Manning High. Since entering the hospital became ill with double pneumonia and have spent the past eight weeks recuperating from that. "My future plans are indefinite but I plan to go to Philip, South Dakota, from here to join my wife and daughter who are now visiting her parents there. Tentative plans include a visit to Manning to visit Jay and family and renew old acquaintances. In case this visit doesn't materialize I want to take this opportunity to thank you and the American Legion for sending me the Monitor during my too short a career as a soldier, and also the Legion and V. F. W. for their Christmas greetings.
"As soon as, I establish a permanent residence you'll receive my subscription to the
Monitor for I couldn't get along without it now! Five Sons In Dedham Family In Service In the window of the Mr. and Mrs. J. Anton Soppe home at Dedham hang five service stars for their five sons, Edward T., 31; Leo F., 30; William J., 28; Clarence J., 25; and Lawrence H., 22; who have entered the service of Uncle Same. All of the five sons, who are part of a family of eight boys and three girls, were induced through selective service. The boys, reared in Carroll county and educated in the Dedham and Templeton schools, are now scattered in army camps in the U. S. from the east to west coast. Two of them are now Sergeants and two are corporals.
First to be called was William J., who left his trucking business on March 12, 1941 and is
now at Oakland, California. Next to go was Leo F., who left his farm work near Tipton and
entered on June 16, 1941 and is now a corporal at Newport News, Va.
Sgt. Lawrence H., youngest of the five entered the service on August 25, 1942 from farm
work near Dedham and is at Camp Atter Bury, Indiana.
The three girls are Cecelia. Florence and Kathryn. Sailor Visits in Manning Larry Schneider, who has finished his basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, is spending ten days visiting his parents in Missouri and his friends in Manning. |