“Some Gave All”
Oroville Mercury Register
July 21, 1945
Chico Man Lost In Sinking Japanese Ship
Chico- Lt. Philip Henry Farley of the United
States coast guard who was taken prisoner on Corregidor in 1941,
has been officially reported lost in the torpedoing of enemy ship
by submarine off the China coast. Oct. 24, 1944, Farley, son of
Mrs. George Farley of Chico had been a lieutenant in the coast guard
since 1939. A wife and two children live in New York City.
Oroville Mercury Register
July 21, 1945
SGT. Records Back In This Country After
Service In Italy
Sgt. Claude Donald Records, who returned recently
to the United States after thirteen months in Italy with the 15th
Air Force, is now stationed with the 203rd Base Unit
at the Jackson Army Air Base, Jackson, Miss. Sgt. Records
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Records, former residents of Thermalito
and Oroville, who now live in Palo Alto.
Oroville Mercury Register
July 21, 1945
About Local Folk
Returning home recently after a short absence,
Mrs. Jack McKillop was very pleasantly surprised to have the door
opened to her by her husband who had obtained an unexpected leave.
Oroville Mercury Register
July 21, 1945
Colorado Girl Bride of G. H. Rohrbacher
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kellogg Sheldon of Colorado
Springs are announcing the marriage of their daughter, Alice Marian,
to George Henry Rohrbacher, Jr. of the United State Army.
The marriage took place July 17, in Colorado Springs. The
groom is the son of Dr. and Mrs. George Henri Rohrbacher of Stockton.
His mother is the former Phoebe Westwood of Oroville, sister of
Dr. W. S. Westwood. He is a medical student at a St. Louis
Mo., college.
Oroville Mercury Register
July 21, 1945
GIs To Sleep In Shifts To Get Berths
Washington-(U.P.)- Train-riding GI’s are going
to test a plan of sleeping in shifts in an effort to get more use
out of the limited number of Pullmans available.
The army announced that it has authorized an experiment in “rotation
sleeping” on a troop train leaving Camp Kilmer, N. J., tomorrow
for Fort Sam Houston, Tex. According to the plan a group of
512 soldiers just returned from overseas will be broken up into
units of two. Each pair will be assigned two places on the
train – one a Pullman berth, the other a coach seat. While
one member of a pair sleeps in the berth the other will ride in
the coach seat. When the first’s sleeping “shift” is ended
the two will change places.
Army officials said there transport officers will decide today
just how long each man is to have in the coach and how long in
the Pullman. The war department said the guinea pig soldiers
will be asked at Fort Sam Houston what they think of sleeping in
shifts. If their report is favorable, it added, the army might
adopt the plan. The army said the system would make more coach
and Pullman space available for soldiers and civilians.
Meanwhile the office of defense transportation has asked both
the war and navy department to “double up” on coach and Pullman
accommodations for GI’s and gobs.
(Stu; The war in Europe was over and millions
of men were coming home or headed for Japan.)
Oroville Mercury Register
July 21, 1945
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Stu’s Notes: So sad a Chico Hero
loses his life to one of our own submarines. Sadly those young
daring American or British sailors had no idea there were American’s
on that Japanese ship. It happened more than we want to know.
It also happened by air planes dropping bombs on American’s not
knowing they were down there. And it still can happen even
with all our technology. I’m remembering Pat Tillman, who
was a Football player who became a real Hero in our Iraq, Afghanistan
war. He was born in San Jose in 1976 and played for the Arizona
Cardinals.
Well I took 3 train trips in my life across
our country. I was 5 and 7 and had to share a bunk with my
brother Larry. Well that’s the first time I’ve read the word
gobs. I do know that is a navy term, but don’t know where
it came from.