Pag e Thirty-four

THE JEWISH NEWS

Me day you ittew a p

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Friday, Apnl 7, 1944

KELLY'S SERVICE STATION

McNichols, Corner Santa Barbara

jEWETT CLEANERS

4510 Joy Road

U. H. HACK MFG. CO .

7049 Lyndon

HUNGARIAN VILLAGE

RESTAURANT

8160 W. Jefferson

ROSENTHAL BROS.

Mortgage Specialists - Property
Management . . . Established 1924

2325 National Bank Bldg.

ENTERPRISE HEAT
& POWER

Walter Cytacki, Mgr.

2314 Hewitt.

HANDLEMAN

DRUGS AND SUNDRIES

Wholesale Distributors

1455-57 Centre

GRAND JEWELRY CO.

1224 Randolph

GARDNER FURNITURE CO.

8308 Vernor Highway W.

ELSEY METAL PRODUCTS

1535 Spruce

ALEXANDER LICHT CO.

1326 Broadway

DUNK DONUT CO.

8532 Woodward

149 W. Six Mile Rd.

BOOTH INSULATION CO.

7748 Grand River

EASTERN CELERY CO.

140 Twelfth

But the biggistisush of the battle was
just ahead.
They had to attack a Jap-held *pla-
teau called the Bench, which meant
scaling a steep cliff, in the face of con-
tinuous gunfire from the Japs, smugly
entrenched on top. The final 25 yards
were so steep, the soldiers had to drag
themselves up by plunging their rifle
butts into the snow.
The Japs lay quietly in wait, until our
men were almost to the summit. Then,

It was the 26th of May, 1943.
To you, it was a heavenly Spring day
that just had to be celebrated in some
way. Besides, you were so bored with
all the talk and headlines of war.
To our men on Attu, it was the fif-
teenth day of incessant fighting. That
is, to those who had not been killed, or
'put out of action with wounds or frozen
feet.
They hadn't slept for days; their sun-
burned faces ached; their heads and
'beards and wool-covered bodies itched;
their feet were never dry. The dead lay
all about them in the fog and snow—an
occasional Jap, twisted grotes4uely
4eath, over the body of an American.

without rising from their fox holes, they
rolled grenades down on them. Three
times new groups of Americans scaled
up the cliff to be blown to eternity.

And suddenly — one American stood
alone on the Bench.With his rifle pointed
down he walked deliberately from or

fox bole

to ariother, shootint into them

with deadly accuracy. Impervious to the
Jap grenades call about him, ,be went on,
finally using his gun butt to bash. the
Japs as they trembled in their holes.
He was still bashing away when our
troops finally reached him.
Asked later 'how he did it, he ex-
plained his best friend had been killed
as they started up the slope and lie
didn't remember anything after that.
Asked by his Colonel what he wanted,
he said since he'd been a Corporal so
long, Sergeants stripes would be nice.
He got his stripes and he's mighty
gratified. He did not get an invitation to
your party, but that's all right—he was
too busy to attend.

Did you have a good time?

THIS WAR BOND MESSAGE IS SPONSORED BY THESE
FIRMS AS THEIR PASSOVER GREETINGS TO THE COMMUNITY! ,

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EASTERN POULTRY MKT.

2534 Riopelle

BILL CHAUSSE

4453 Fourteenth

TRUCKING, INC.

Earl F. Winters

2940 Myrtle

SCHOSTAK BROS. & CO.
industrial & Commercial Real Estate

1442 Griswold

ENDURO PRODUCTS •

32-38 Davenport

JULIUS BERMAN

Real Estate

1936 Dime Bank Bldg.

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