Oroville Mercury Register
March 5, 1946
Col. Hogge Dies During His Sleep
Lt. Col. Paul Hogge, 59 years old died in his sleep this morning
at his home at Pomona Avenue from a stroke. Col. Hogge was home
on convalescent from Camp Haan at Riverside, where he had been stationed
since last May. He had been on duty with the military police during
World War II. At one time he was in charge of the military police
along the Feather River canyon. During part of this time he had
headquarters at Belden. A veteran of the last war, Lt. Col. Hogge
moved to Oroville with his wife four years ago. He would have been
retired in May and planned to continue living in Oroville at his
home. Col. Hogge entered the army as a private in the coast artillery
in 1908, then went to the Philippines as a sergeant major. When
he returned to the United States he was in the medical department
and was sent to the Hawaiian Islands as a private in that department.
Later he was made a sergeant in the medical department. He re-entered
the army in 1917 as a captain in the infantry. He was promoted to
lieutenant-colonel in 1941. He is a member of American Legion Post
No. 95 of Oroville and of Oriental Lodge No. 74 F. and A. M. of
Spokane, Wash. Survivors are his widow, Alma E. Hogge of Oroville,
and daughter Mrs. June B. Minogue of Oroville. Two brothers, Charles
R. Hogge of Randolph, Va; and Harry Hogge of Dallas, Tex., and a
sister Mrs. Ester Taylor of Farmersville, Tex. Funeral arrangements
are under the direction of Hamilton and Riley.
Oroville Mercury Register
August 12, 1943
Coincidence: Three Brothers Come Home
An unscheduled family reunion of father, mother and three
soldier sons developed, into a community affair at Stirling City
Monday, Tuesday and yesterday with open house at the Harry Yount
residence. Without previous knowledge of each other’s furloughs,
Lieutenants Gale and Dick Yount and Staff Sergeant Ray Yount all
came home for a visit; Gale from Walla Walla, Washington, Dick from
officers candidate school in North Carolina and Ray from the desert
training center in southern California.
Oroville Mercury Register
August 12, 1943
Relative of Local Man Now at Airport
First Lt. W. E. Wells, Jr., a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Dahlmeier
of Oroville, is stationed at Oroville Airport with members of an
engineering company. His father, Wilbert Wells, a brother of Mrs.
Dahlmeier, lived here as a young man. The Wells’ live in Richmond.
Lt. Wells was a student at Martin College when he enlisted.
Oroville Mercury Register
August 12, 1943
Gable in Latest Attack on Germany
London –(U.P.)- Capt. Clark Gable stood for seven hours between
the pilot and co-pilot of the Flying Fortress “Ain’t It Gruesome”
during today’s raid on Germany but he was unable to get the pictures
of aerial combat that he wanted. The bomber’s position in the formation
prevented Gable from getting the pictures. But the big plane saw
plenty of action. It came back with 15 flak holes and survived five
head on attacks from Focke-Wulf fighters without serious damage.
Lieut. John Lee Mahan said the former actor had no comment to make
on the raid “because he is only another soldier now.”
Stu’s Notes: An old Soldier comes home to die, Lt. Col. Paul Hogge,
served his country well. I just went our to my papers and this story
was in the first one I picked up. Another name we didn’t have. He
will be honored in our Main Memorial, as he fits our guidelines.
The Tile wall will be for any American Service man or woman going
back to our Revolutionary War. People still say to me “I thought
you had to be from Oroville to be on that wall.” No, any American
service man or woman from anywhere in the U. S. We have sold almost
500 of these tiles now, with 4 lines of engraving on each one it
will be a History Wall of America’ Heroes, through out the years.
When I mention a tile to some Veterans they say, oh I didn’t do
nothing, well you did, you went off and served your country, you
did what you were told. If you were sent in harms way you would
have went without question. You served; the majority of us Americans
cannot say that. Be proud of what you did.
I’m writing this on Flag Day, one of those forgotten day’s. But
thanks to James Lenoff and Alberta Tracy, we had a ceremony at our
Liberty Pole on Montgomery St. and Huntoon.
I can finally say we have started the Memorial, actual work on our
site has started and Cary Construction has the Bid to do our side
walks, which was needed a the old side walks were maybe 100 years
old and they also needed to be moved in to let a car pull over out
of traffic.
A big thank you to Feather Falls and Gold Country Casino’s
for providing the Shuttle Buses on Memorial Day to get people up
to the top of Memorial Hill and also to Bill Mangus for providing
the sound equipment and to the workers at the Cemetery for helping
out. In WWII many Hollywood movie star’s became true Heroes they
went to War.