The Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, November 10, 1944 Page: 3 of 6
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Services on Guam While Battle
Rages for Possession of the Island
Mrs. Ben F. Wright sends a copy | rni.Mtir.HT FUTURE
Of a dispatch about a church ser-'
vice while the battle raged. She
comments:
“I am enclosing a copy sent us by
our son, Pfc. Floyd E. Wright, after
he, with his Outfit, helped recapture
Guam.”
The dispatch reads:
“By Sergeant Ray Fitzpatrick of
02 Pleasant street, Waterbury, Conn.,
a Marine Corps combat correspond-
ent.
“Asan Beach, Guam, July 30. — “I
will go unto the Alter of God. To
God who giveth joy to my youth.’.”
“With the Latin equivalent of
these words, Surtday mass was be-
gun on muddy, littered Asan Beach,
where only a week before Marines
had fought their way ashore to set
up the northern beachhead on Guam.
• “No cathedral ever had a more fer-
vent congregation than did this little
corner of beach by the edge of a1 When Sam was asked how he
sluggish creek that glories in the budgeted his income, he replied: “Oh,
name of the Asan river. With stret- ' about 40 per cent for food, 30 per
chers from a nearby field hospital cent for shelter, 30 per sent for cloth-
for pews and the ankle deep mud for j jngt ancj 20 per cent for amusement
kneeling-benches, weary battle-be- \ an(j incidentals.”
grimed Leathernecks joined in tri- “But Sam, that makes 120 per
HOMEMAKERS REPORT
On Nov. 1, 1944, the Future
Homemaking girls of Fulbright High
School elected club officers. They
are :
President—Robbie Nell Legate.
Vice-Pres.—Kennie Rae Watson.
Reporter—Inez Childres.
Sec.-Treas.—Patsy Turner.
Song Leader—Katy Stevens.
Year Book Committee—Billie Ruth
Stephens, Robbie Nell Legate, Max-
ine Thomas, Kennie Rae Watson.
Social Committee—Margaret Mil-
ler, Jacque Ridens, Katy Stevens,
Robbie Nell Kerbow.
We voted to have our meetings on
the first and third Tuesday of each
month.—Inez Childres, Reporter.
THE WAY IT GOES
bute to God.
“Similar scenes were being enact-
ed throughout our recaptured area
during the day, with Catholic, Pro-
testant and Jewish services being
held on a staggered bsais so that not
too many men would be away from
their duties at any one time.
The alter was a plank laid across
two oil drums. A stiff morning
breeze whipped the alb of the Chap-
lain, Lieut, (sg) Joseph J. Tschantz,
USN, formerly of St. Margaret’s
Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., about his
legs as he proceeded with the ser-
vice; below his vestments could be
seen stained fatigue trousers tucked
into field shoes caked with mud.
“Out in the water, where only last
night Jap shells had been falling,
amphibian tractors and ducks (am-
phibian trucks’ toiled away at the
job of unloading ships. Along the
creek, two bulldozers labored to wid-
en the channel.
“Overhead our planes droancd, the
even hum changing now and then
to a whine as they dove, beyond the
hills to bomb an dstrafe the enemy.
Occasionally the priest’s words
would be inaudible as our nearby
artillery batteries thundered out
messages of defeat. In the moments
of stillness, the crackle of rifle fire
and the chatter of machine guns
could be heard from the hills.
“The arms of the Marines attend-
ing mass were stacked to one side
of the ‘church.’ Guards patrolled
the beach road and the banks of the
creek. Lips of the kneeling Leather-
necks moved in prayer as the mass
went on. Relaxed, for a time, were
the faces of men who had looked
death squarely in the eye for al-
most 10 days. Almost all of them
stepped forward to receive Holy
Communion. Soon the words, ‘Deo
Gratias’ (Thanks be to God) brought
the mass to an end.
“Rain had started to drip from the
sky as Father Tschantz turned to the
group. He raised his hand in bene-
diction. ‘With this rain starting,
we’ll dispense with the closing pray-
ers so you can get right back to your
posts. God bless you, men. What-
ever your missions may be, God
bless each one of them.’
“Quietly the Marines picked up
their weapons, put on their batter-
ed helmets and began moving away.
Father Tschantz, folding up his vest-
ments. paused to watch them as they
cent.
“Lord, don’t I
agreed.—Liberty.
know it.” Sam
went swinging down the rainholed
road in their soiled dungarees.
“Sunday mass was over at Asan
Beach.”
BAIsESftORO
Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Hunt and
baby of Modesto, Calif., came in
Saturday for a visit with her mo-
ther and sister, Mrs. Effie Craw-
ford and Mrs. Homer Hobbs and
family,
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Ward expect to
leave soon for an extended visit
with their daughter, Miss Doris
Ward at Van Port, Ore. Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Wright will occupy the
Ward home the coming year.
Homer Hobbs has sold his second
prize winning hog at the Paris Hog
Show and shipped to Venezuela, S.
A., last week.
Miss Jeanette Parks spent the
week end with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Mack Parks at Lone Oak.
The rain which fell here Friday
made the roads almost impassable.
Our mail carrier abandoned his car
and got a tractor to take him to Bo-
gata. Three cars were left in the
road and ditches near here Saturday
night.
Mrs. Tom Slaton and daughter,
Miss Ollie and son of Deport, were
Sunday visitors in the home of Ho-
mer Hobbs and family.
Miss Laura Fee who has been ill
at the home of her sister, Mrs. G.
M. Womack, is able to return to her
home nearby.
Mr. and Mrs. T. Y. Womack are
building a new four-room home just
east of their present home, near the
Glendale road.
FVLBRtGHT
Mrs. Russell Humphrey and child-
ren visited her husband in Texark-
ana Wednesday.
Mrs. Herbert Miller returned Wed-
nesday from Hattisburg, Miss., where
she had been visiting her husband.
He has been transferred to New
York.
Mrs. G. C. Gill of Paris visited
Mrs. Perry Smith and other friends
last week.
Mrs. David Anderson entertained
her class of young ladies of the
Methodist Church with a weiner
roast Friday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Lee and daugh-
ter, Sue spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Lee Coursey of Clarksville.
Mrs. Cecil Ward and children of
Denison are visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. R. O. Legate.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Dugger and
son, Raymond, Jr., were in Dallas
and Ft. Worth last week on business
and visiting relatives.
Pvt. Kenneth Wright of Camp Mc-
Clellan, Ala., and wife and daugh-
ter Carolyn of Deport, are visiting
his mother, Mrs. L. R. Wright and
sister, Mrs. Oscar Legate and Mr.
Legate.
Mrs. Billy Kelley and son are visit-
ing Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Kelley.
Mrs R B Fisher spent Sunday in !
the home of her uncle, Ben Han- |
cock of Clarksville.
J. R. Kerbow observed his 91st
birthday Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Tucker, Irene
Hill and Mrs. Mack Glover went xo ,
Chandler, Okla., Sunday to the fun- !
eral of Johnie Kapp, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Clyde Wilson Kapp of Santa
Rosa, N. M., Mrs. Kapp will be rem- j
embered as Nan Berry, sister of Mrs.
Will Tucker.
Mrs. David Anderson and children
Johnie, Billie and Jimmie and Mmes.
A. B. Rozell, Luther Rozell and Will
Wilson visited Mrs. Annie Lee Rozell
at Bogata Sunday afternoon.
Cpl. Douglas Mitchell is reported
in San Francisco, Calif., on his way
home.
Rev. C. M. Hunt, pastor of the
Methodist church in Fulbright, ar-
rived too late in Detroit to fill his
appointment in Fulbright Sunday J
morning.
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The Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, November 10, 1944, newspaper, November 10, 1944; Bogata, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1108086/m1/3/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Red River County Public Library.