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World War II
Jan. 4, 1945
RANDOLPH - S/Sgt. Alfred Broer, with the Seventh Armored in Western Europe has been awarded the Purple Heart medal. His wife and relatives had received no prior word that he had been wounded, although he had written home that he was in a rest camp in Hollis for awhile.
S/Sgt. Broer has been overseas since June. He is the second son of Henry Broer to receive the Purple Heart. Sgt. Richard Broer received the medal for wounds he suffered in France.
Jan. 4, 1945
HARTINGTON - The OPA has announced that the first quarter of 1945 will see the tightest situation, with respect to food, that we have seen thus far in this war.
To avert a food crisis, and to ensure that food will be available to all United States citizens, changes have been made in the rationing program.
Effective 12:01 Dec. 26, the point values are restored to asparagus, green and waxed beans, corn, spinach and peas.
The value of butter is increased to 24 points per pound. Sugar stamps numbered 30, 31, 32, and 33 in Book IV are now void. All outstanding canning sugar certificates are also now void.
New stamps shall be validated at the rate of 50 points per each four-week period.
It was necessary to invalidate stamps and to tighten the rationing currency system to insure that all persons holding stamps will be able to obtain meat or processed foods when they present their stamps.
Jan. 4, 1945
HARTINGTON - Word was received in Randolph and Magnet last week from the War Department that two infantrymen, Sgt. Dale Johnson of Magnet, and Pfc. Glenn Heady, formerly of Randolph, had been wounded in Germany, the former seriously, the latter, slightly.
Heady, a former Randolph High School vo-ag instructor, now serving overseas with an infantry division, was slightly wounded in battle in Germany Dec. 14.
He had been overseas since October and wrote that he had seen 18 days of combat, so far.
Sgt. Johnson has been overseas since late summer.
He was at Fort Dix, N.J. before going overseas.
Jan. 18, 1945
HARTINGTON - Judge and Mrs. E.W. Hesse have received the Purple Heart medal which was awarded posthumously to their son, Lt. Edward Hesse, who was killed in air action over Berlin last Oct. 5.
Jan. 18, 1945
HARTINGTON — Pfc. Robert Thielen, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Thielen, is in a hospital in England receiving treatment for an eye injury which he received recently in Belgium.
Pfc. Thielen wrote his parents that he struck his right eye on a pipe extending from the end of a jeep during a blackout.
He was treated in a Belgium hospital and later flown to England.
He reports that his vision is still blurred, but doctors believe the sight in his right eye will return to normal.
