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First Lieutenant Donald C. Bird, USMCR, son of Chas. G. Bird, Stockton retail lumberman, arrived from Japan December 8, after three years' service. He shipped out from Hawaii in January, 1945, for the invasion of Iwo Jima, stopped over at Eniwetok and went in on first wave with the Marines on Iwo Jima. He had a close shave there when, under fire, he took refuge behind a stack of barrels, which he found later were filled with 100 octane gas. Recuperated on Hilo and left in August for invasion of Japan, arriving there in September after peace had been declared.

First Sergeant Robert M. Bird, Mr. Bird's other son, returned home in October, 1945, alter 33 months' service, two years of which was in Hawaii with the Quartermaster Corps as a member of a gasoline drum and reconditioning plant. lle was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, "For meritorious service in connection with military operations against the enemy from 26 September, 1943, to 2 September, 1945." (Quotation from citation.)

Seoul, Korea, Nov. l9--Captain Don,ald S. Spaulding, Burbank, Calif., is awarded tl.re Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service in the Okinawa battle by Brig. General Joseph L. Ready, Commanding General of the 7th Infantry Division. A veteran of the Attu and Leyte campaigns also, the "Hourglass" Division Finance Officer r'r'as formerly credit manager of the Blanchard Lumber Co, in Burbank, Calif. He attended Gallagher College in Kankakee, Ill.,

Ken Conway, who was a Sgt. Major in the U' S. Army Air Forces, is back at his old job with the Holmes Eureka I-umber Co. in their Los Angeles office. Ken was discharged from the service last June, and spent the last few months at the company's mill in Eureka.

Lieut. Wm. L. Frese, Army Air Force, son of Otto Frese, San Francisco wholesale lumberman, is now on terminal leave until lannarv 24. He will enter Santa Clara University.

Lieutenant Colonel Jack Cosper, U. S. ager of Vallejo Lumber Co., Vallejo, tioned in Hong Kong. He has spent seas. in Europe and the Pacific area.

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Capt. Glenn Burke, U. S. Engineers, rvho was in the Portland office of the CPA for some time, is notv on terminal leave, and will be associated with American Factors, Ltd., in their Portland office after the first of the year. He was with the Union Lumber Company, Fort Bragg, Calif., when he entered the service.

Lieutenant Colonel Russell T. Gheen, Quartermaster Corps, U.S.A., is on terminal leave and has returned to Los Angeles. When he entered the service, he was Southern California representative for the C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation.

Major Charles B. Cross, who has been in the Artillery for the past four years, and has seen service in Hawaii, the Philippines and Europe, has received his discharge and has resumed active management of the Truckee-Tahoe Lumber Co., Truckee, Calif.

Dick Hoover, son of wholesale lumberman, turned to his home in Patton's Third Army, years.

A. L. (Gus) Hoover, Los Angeles is on terminal leave and has reLos Angeles. lle was with General and was in the service nearly five

Lieut. Commander Robt. J. Wright, U.S.N:, has been released from the Navy and will return to the office of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California, Fresno, as secretary, January 15. He has been in the service more than three years.

Robert McMullen, who was a Corporal in the Army Medical Corps, attached to the 36th General Hospital in France for the past two and a half years, is out of the service and is back with his former employer, the CutlerOrosi Lumber Yard, Cutler, Calif., since December 15.

Douglas J. Freeman, who was with Gorman Lumber Sales, Oakland, when he enlisted four years ago, has now been discharged and will be associated with Gosslin-Harding Lumber Co.,,Oakland, afier January 1. Doug saw service with the Army Replacement Command in New Guinea and Leyte, and for the past eight months was stationed in Manila.

Lieutenant Ray Schaecher, former manager of the Reedsport, Oregon, ofifice of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., returned from Manila the middle of December and saw his new son for the first time. He was executive ofifrcer of the 7th Naval Construction Battalion. (Seabees).

Sgt. Dave Maris, former lumber and plywood salesman, and younger son of Homer B. Maris, Oakland, Northern California representative of Simpson Industries, Inc., is now in Seoul, Korea, and hopes to be home in a month or so. He is with the 77th Tleavy Artillery, Seventh Division, and experienced a lot of action on Okinawa, where he was until V-J Day.

Captain Gilmore O'Neill, son of W. H. O'Neill, Sr., O'Neill Lumber Co., San Francisco, arrived in Seattle, December 29, Irom China, where he was adjutant of the 10th Air Force. He was stationed at various points, including Li Chang, Kunming, Hankow and Shanghai. He was released from the Air Force early in January after four years' service, and is now on 90 days' terminal leave.

Cpl. Dick O'Neill, Mr. O'Neill's youngest son, received his discharge from the Air Force December 15. He was an instructor in navigation at different air fields throughout the country

Buys Mill

Don Buchanan, Tacoma lumberman, has purchased the Bradley-Woodward Lumber Co. sawmill at Bradwood, Ore., from Nate Bradley, owner and operator since the mill was started in 1934. The mill will be known as the Bradwood Lumber Co.