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"Ensign ‘Chuck‘ Rietz was home *mot long ago. (I‘m sorry I missed him.) By now he‘s commissioned his new LSM. (Shorter _ version of LSMFT? Isn‘t this a war of iniâ€" Page 2 Rev. and Mrs, Christoph Keller, 340 Prospest, are enjoying a visit from their son, Capt. Sherman, équadron navightion officer, and Lt. John Benson, of the AAF, arrived in town last Saturday to spend a 22 days‘ leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Benâ€" son, 1412 Pleasant. & ‘ Two years. in the service, Lt. Benson has served one year in the European area, performing 65 misâ€" sions over Germany. . He possessâ€" es the E.T.O. medal with 4 batâ€" tle stars. ~ At the end of his leave he will be stationed at a Galifornia ‘"He‘s still the same old guy but probably a little quieter than beâ€" fore . . . He‘s been in the Army since ‘41~which is a long time in any man‘s language. (Righto!) "Also home at that time was Marshall Johnson (son of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall L. Johnson of 2141 Oak Knoll Tr.) who‘d just finished preâ€"flight training. â€" Now he‘s â€"at some primary school although I don‘t know where . . . was just after he received his comâ€" mission. We met at Ravinia Opera on opening night.) IN THE NATION‘S SERVICE His of the brothe within whod, are_ represenfed ly their four sons inâ€"various areas of war. T:5 Melvin, "Bud," veteran of the invasion of Leyte, and with the first convoy to land on Luzon, is now in a New ‘Guinea hospital, reâ€" covering nicely from wounds reâ€" ceived in an engagement, in or near Manila. _ Lt. Robert, AAF, ‘and Pfe. Lioyd, member of a hospital unit, are stationedâ€"in â€"England. They met recently for a short visit. Pvt. Verne, AAF, training at Ft. Meyer, Fla., expects to become a gunner on a Bâ€"29. Two licutenants and one captain represent Mrs. George W. Keliner, 157 Vine, in the armed services. Recently 1st Lt. Robert, of the army infantry, married Lt \Evelyn Eiler, of the army nurse corps, adâ€" ding a fourth officer to the family sceore.,‘ 2nd Lt. William and (7-‘< George are both stationed in Ger: Alan was arsupply officer with a Seabee outfit for} 16 months in the Pacific area. . He‘s a surplus supply officer now and is touring war plants hereabouts finding ways of selling excess war mateâ€" Thomas Simpson of 130 Roger Williams Ave.) was home from Keesler Field, Miss., where he‘s in the MLP.‘s. ... tinls, though?) JOE IS OVER THERE ... "Lt. Jo Eyler (son of Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey J. Eyler, 334 Marshâ€" The Fred. Moong, 5 whod, are represenfed four sons inmâ€"various are "I‘ve been meaning to write you for a long time . . . Iâ€"read your column weekly and get a real bang out of it. (Well, Al, thanks, of" man.) _ Maybe this letter of: mine can give you some recent dopeâ€"on the goings on of Highland Parkâ€" man) writes that he‘s been in the CBI theater for over a year, but I can‘t find out what he‘s doing. (Nor I,, Al. Last time I saw Jo Special to the Highland Park Press .ABOUT HIGHLAND PARKERS ... â€"+«*~ Comes a letter from Lt. (i.g.) Alan Bede, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bede of 1813 Rice/St.. Highland Parkers will remember Al was the lad who had a straight "A" average at HPHS and Northâ€" western and who ran a speedy high hurdle race for coaches. A. E. SEES FRIENDS ... * "About a month ago S. Sgt. Tom Simpson (son of Mr. and Mrsâ€" One of the marine corps daughâ€" ters of the Hearst W. Cadys recentâ€" ly spent a 15â€"day furlough with her parents at 339 E. Park. Acâ€" companying her was a buddy, Pfe. Gretna Barker, of Lawrenceville, Ind. The young marines are staâ€" tioned at Pendleton Field, Calif. Cpl. Margot, the other daughâ€" ter, is stationed at Honululu, servâ€" ning in an auditor‘s office. She was one of the first of the corps to leave the country for overseas. "Deae" Wolters and "Chuck" Lawer. "Seaman 1st Class Dick Thorsch amp, brother, S/Sgt. Robert, also + AAF, is now‘ in Italy. _ The ers were inducted in service i one mornth of each other. Moons, 598 Homeâ€" l‘M IN THE ARMY NOW Our Readers Write Robert, radar 2/c, USN, has been for 15 months in the Pacific area. His wife and son live in Chicago. | _ Prior to reporting here, Capt. | Osborn â€"was engaged in special |services work at both Nashville, Tenn., and Louisville, Ky., at conâ€" | valescent hospitails. Before enterâ€" \‘ing the service,. Capt. Osborn worked with the Caterpillar Tracâ€" tor company‘ at Peoria, M. â€" He previously had attended Bradley | Tech in the same city. > veteran of 40 completed missions in the Pacific theater of war. The captain is the possessor of the disâ€" tinguished flying cross. â€" Two of the three sons of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Early, 214 N. Secâ€" ond,â€" have been wounded in the service of their country. in a hospital at Temple, Tex. â€" His wife and daughter are with him. He recently spent a 45â€"day furâ€" lough at home. He has underâ€" gone several minor and one major operation. Robert Wieder, coxswain, USN, 1943 graduate at Highland Park high, who left the country the folâ€" lowing August, after completing his basic training at Great Lakes, writesâ€"his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Wieder, 1916 Hiawatha, that he is now stationed on Leyte. HANK WRITES .A BIT, TOO . . . Lt. Hank Wilder â€" voted the most popular in his high school graduating class, "37, and_ one of Highland Park‘s favoritesâ€"writes this bit from away out on the lone= ly, blue Pacific . . . ‘There are so many answWersâ€" yet so few are correct~How desâ€" perately the world needs men with foresight, â€"leadership, and _ just plain GUTS! (Like navy officers who are executive officers on mine sweepers in bitter combat areas)... Pfc. Howa in Gerâ€" many last October, is Row a patient Pvt. Russell, now at a hospital in Walls Walla, Wash., was inâ€" jured in New Guinea last Septemâ€" ber. He expects a furlough soon. Thorsch, 137 Beech St.) is at Cor â€"** . . .‘There is so much that can be â€"done to help the world â€" both in our communities and in the world at large. (True, Hank. _ If more towns were as fine as Highâ€" land Park, this would be a better First to carry the news of Dewey «Manila was the coast guard cutâ€" ter McCulloch, which carried it from Manila to Hong Kong, where it was puyt on the cable. And a coast guardâ€"manned frigate fired the out as a world, I‘m thinking.) . . â€" onadoâ€"Cal., waiting to be shipped ship. (Hammam. 1 thought Dick was slated to be a Navy pilot.) "Remember Paul Wells? (Very well.) He‘s a dental officer in the Navy and is now aboard an attack transport in the Pacific. (Around Iwo Jima, perkaps?) . "Art Hoffman, after being at Great Lakes.for a while, is now at Pensacolz; Fla., going to aerial gunnery school He had a tough time making up his mind whether to be a radiq technician or a physiâ€" cal training instructor .. . . He‘s ane busy guy! who hasn‘t changed a bit and is still the prince he alâ€" wife and his baby?) Some day perhaps our old gang can get together once more. (Speed the day) I hope so. (1, too.) Best of luck to you, Whitt." (Same to you, Al. : And thanks for your letter. Write again soonâ€" and that goes for the rest of you Highland Parkers!) Camp Davis, N. C. â€" Captain Charlesâ€" Osborn of Deerfield, has reported here for duty as the as sistant. special ~services officer. Camp Davis is an installation of the army air forces personnel disâ€" tribution â€" command. (son of Mr. and Mrs. Coast Guard Firsts first shot in the recent liberation of the Philippines. aboard Lt. Le Roy R. Haas, USMC, Writes From Iwo Jima Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy R. Haas, 2116 Grove, Highland Park, have had several letters recently from Haas Jr., from Iwo Jima in the Lt. Haas, former Highland Park high school athlete and captain of the baseball team in his last year, talion, 3rd Jasco (joint assault signal company) of the 3rd marine In his first letter from Iwo, Lt. Haas said that he was writing from rectly behind the firing line. Arâ€" tillery and mortar shells were still exploding all around them and the whine of Jap snipers‘ bullets was almost constant. . The marines, however, were moving forward and crowding the Japs back against the ocean. Lt. Haas, who also participated in the invasion of Guam, characâ€" terized Iwo as the "most rugged u:finn"n!l.rnthc.hph::e-- mand had prepared their defenses well. Moving up the center of the island to the north, he reports that while the marines suffered casualâ€" ties, especially from the Jap 150 mm howitzers, they were gaining steadily and giving the enemy a mauling. . In his second letter, Lt. Haas said that while fighting was still going on, he had reached a point so far up the island that water was visible on either side and the reâ€" maining Japs were squeezed into two small pockets on the northernâ€" most point of the island.. He said that what he wanted most was a shave and shower, having had neiâ€" ther for more than three weeks, nor had his clothes off in that time. For generations these trees have been preserved If Highland Park is to continue to maintain its as part of the notU(ol beauty of Highland Park. prestige as a lovely place in which to live, it is Does fl"?"’ destruction mean that our communâ€" . essential that only those who appreciate the 'ctuyou’;oosssz?’ interest in protecting its most Preâ€" _ _ worth of trees be members of our Park Boord. Two of our Park Board members steadtastly opâ€" If y:u N44 ntâ€"to STOP ;:lrthe y butcherY of our posed the destruction of these trees. These two _ PCKS, it is your civic obligation to register your men, W. Fred Gallagher and Marshaill Johnson, _ disapprovdl of this ruthless tree slaughter. Go have consented to be candidates for reelection. to the polls and vote for at the regular Park Board Election, Tuesday, April 3rd at the regular nesday, April For generations these trees have been preserved as part of the natural beauty of Highland Park. Does their destruction mean that our communâ€" ity has lost interest in protecting its most preâ€" cious asset? 6e Two of our Park Board members steadtfastly opâ€" posed the destruction of these trees. These two men, W. Fred Gaollagher and Marshall Johnson, SAVE OUR TREES THE PRESS Until a few days ago this was a beautiful, wooded park on Roger Williams Avenue in Ravinia. :Every Woman Can Help | As Red Cross Nurse‘s Aide flying so low that he could disâ€" tinctly hear their machine gun fire. Japanese rifles, one a .25 calibre carbine and the other a .31 caliâ€" bre sniper‘s rifle, which their son sent them from Guam, explaining that "the guys he got them from won‘t need them any more." The volcanic ash which covers the clothes and food, and there was no escape from it. As he wrote, Lt. the marine corps and has been in the South Pacific a year. He trainâ€" ed at San Diego, graduated from officers training school at Quantiâ€" co, Va.; the communications school at Fort Monmouth, N. J., and amâ€" phibious operations school, Norâ€" folk, Va. He was promoted to first lieutenant in January. According to Mrs. Richard Kebâ€" bon, in charge of nurse‘s aide reâ€" cruiting for Highland Park, every woman can find a job by alleviatâ€" ing the nursing shortage. In progâ€" réss a* the present time is a camâ€" paign to recruit thousands of womâ€" en to serve in the nursing branchâ€" es of the armed forces and civilian hospitals. This campaign, states Mrs. Kebâ€" bon, is a part of a joint nationâ€" wide nursingâ€"recruiting plan just completed by American Red Cross officials and all agencies concerned with recruiting army and navy nurses, veterans administration nurses, WAC hospital technicians, Red Cross wolunteer nurse‘s aids and Red Cross home nursing stuâ€" dents. * * Lt. Haas left Northwestern uniâ€" edonia, India, Sicily, France, Aus tralia, Iceland, Greenland and the in the clubmobiles, leave area clubs, One Hundred One Girls Serve Red Cross Overseas farâ€"flung assignments. Women over 25 with college or professionâ€" ul experience to qualifyâ€" themâ€" for such work are urged to apply at One hundred and one girls from the Chicago area are serving with staff assistants. 829 5. Wabash avenue, Uhic personnel office, immediately. huts. Military Funeral for Irvin Veitch, Seabee Sailors from Great Lakes naval training station assisted at the funeral rites of Irvin Fred Veitch, of the Seabees, on Monday, at 2 p.m. at the United Evangelical church. Mrs. Theima Daggitt.sang by the pastor,: Rev. R. S.. Wilson. year‘s illness. . He was 20 years of Interment was made at the Northshore Garden of Memories. A brother, Willard, USN, sta> tioned at Ft. Lauderdale, was presâ€" ent for the services. "Also survivâ€" Veitch, his grandmother, Mrs. Elizâ€" abeth Johnson and an aunt, Mrs. Irving passed away at a naval hospital in California following a August Bleich; 625 Ridge. Staff assistants are called upon Thursday, March 29, 1945 First naval force to clean up the pirates of the Spanish Main during the bloodâ€"thirsty first quarter of Coast Guard Fixsts We Have a Fine Selection of EASTER S T a T 1 O N E R 37 S. St" Johns Avenue Telephone 567 Larson‘s for