March 5, 1945 (4 pages)

oe Ty WITH OUR BOYS AND GIRLS _IN GLOBAL WAR — Paul Carlson— Aboard Carrier. somewhere in Pacifice—(Delayed)—-Marine Second! WLieutenant Paul O. Werner Carlson, 28, of Nevada City. is a radio officer . a leatherneck air. unit aboard a carrier, ‘serving with The assignmént of his’ unit mark-, ed the first time in, this war that Marings were iver’ carriers from . which/to fight the enemy. fore joining the Marine Corps January, 1943 L,ieut. Carlson was) a i for the American Potash and Chemical Company at Trona, . Calif. ey His. wife, Ellen and two children, Esther 2, and Christian, 10 month live in Nevada City. a 1 ae Francis Thompson— ie Francis Thompson, U. S. ‘marine corps who has been in Virginia two ,years, spent Friday and Saturday’ in‘ Nevada City with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thompson. He was accompanied by son. his wife and infani Craig Davies— Craig Davies, .U. Ss. is somewhere in the South Pacific. -He wrote father, Frank Davies, the latter part of last week that he had seen Robert James marine corps, his also in the! marines. Robert is,on New. Britain . Island. Robert James— ‘out o = ek or xecomplishment) .and caveed muh . mirth .or the Oo aw ward 1 ys Via howed sign language, much faster his ‘mother knitted and told me it wold ke 2 veats for finish. Thi plodded on. B me how me to admit‘ed, % « the terns y, M1 Are -om!} jodq ws for a w in English. After-I told him down in Greek and reit to himself in En2jish sexI knew he waned to us: the term so later I handed him my knitting to hold for a moment and said “thank you.” Sure enough a pleased expression came over his face ias he came forth with “you are welfeome”’ he wrote in seated eral times. . 1 3 Greex. because I am Lieut. it Leatherneck aboard Marine air unit. ANEVADACITY class sleeper, which was the first break of real luxury we had had these many months. (We. do live comfortadly. however, don’t mistake). The French first class is really’ good and we felt at.uthe time like spending our leave riding back and forth on the train between Pdris and Lyon. All this time we were eating carrier ‘snacks we had brought with us be. Cause it is well nigh impossible, to buy food. only on the black areal or in American meesses. We. ate lunch at an offices club in Lyon. The Americans at the station there tried to persuade us to spend. leave (in Lyon. Their job is the RTO. We had one hour to make lunch and get the come. ] CGET = tmobe — as offi‘iaig we pu t that’ point. They knew t ersonnel had o be train, but instead civilians back or ‘vrovidinz which ist ng. they let a -small Toose. Marty and BunnydarhAy ed on the jal military car nio the train to claim our seats rele I remained -with he porter helping us. overtipped him and poor old palsied fellow stuck hy e to. the end. I couldn’t begin to ge through the mob 10 deep and 10 wide even to hand the luggage inside to Bunny and Marty who by this time were trapped in the middle of an aisle anyway. Four other Red Cross girls were in the same predithe. luggave 7 welrtts Luckily nny. grossly it was a Morrocan ‘and which. pilot. We went to the air corps hotel eriodically marched up and downjand dances. I had .a very good time. he main streets playing marshall) Lots of those boys are over from nusie, There was a colorful major . Italy. I couldn't help wishing ~that ‘omo and justs behind followed @!Ernest was among them. dressed up goat which never seemed . I-am sitting on the beach now in to deviate an inch from his placel ag beach chair, writing this letter. I with the band. 'amlooking out across the sea toI shopped a lot in the army PX/ ward Italy and wishing I could hop which wag open that day and manover there. This is the closest I aged at last to get some perfume! have been to Buzz. Actually it isn’t at a reasonable price. Cannes, like; very far. I wish we could have met the rest of France, is suffering from! here but I. haven’t. even written I ‘errifie inflation. The worst place! am here because I wasn’t sure when I have seen yet though is Brussels.' 1 wag coming and figured it was imTuesday I did shopping -in French! possible anyway. : stores. but purchaséd very little. My’ Red Cross won't let us fly without one folly was a lovely hand painted . special permission and planning to leather belt. But, I had a few things . get to the Riviera alone is a tremen__ MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1945 ul Carlson of Nevada City, . with camént too. Finally I decided to ; % ea be aes tk ieneae give up trying to get either the basfrom «him. The companion didn't gage or me om the train, and I got speak at all. But, evidently they : . into the clear and relaxed into a day were very hungry and craved eigar-. aream which was broken by the jettes for they ate everything we French officer yelling “‘Americain, handed them and smoked lots of ¢i-. pag Cross, Americain’’ I hopped to garettes. It developed they were not!i+ wnite the officials held off the fed either by the Americans or Brit-. owg 1 slipped through a space ish mess, so they had a hard time .ix sizes smalled than myself. The getting food. They were trying to) )ittle pid porter handed me the lugget back home. Their families had gage. I threw it in the aisleand evidently moved to Australia, where fumed silently at the French. they were going to settle’down. They said they got very little food in the ~The last Red Cross girl fell into German prison camp and that Redj. the train just as it started off. The ‘Cross packages had’ never*'been re-. babble and excitement and anger ceived because the Germans , took and perspiration and: tears and yellthem. ing by the French was terrific. The When we got to Marsailles that} French glowered at the Americans evening we decided to stay over night! and the Americans glowered at the and continue to Cannes the next af-. French. Everything finally cooled ternoon. There again, we found that off to a dull rage and we proceeded the sheets not fresh, no hot water to enjoy the scenery which is simor heat but being tired I slept like a ilar to that of Southern California. log. First though, we went to tle) Never have I witnessed such a stark Red Cross offieer’s club “and had raving abandonment of courtesy. cookies and-hot coffee’and ice cream. . The ice cream was a real treat. I've . From the time we reached Cannes ‘the shop keeper-wanted very badly, iso I made a slight bargain and partied with them insead of my money. I have no doubt she sold them at enormous profit. There are many beautiful things in the stores, but mostly we just look at them. I think I'll buy just one more thing—some buttons for a suit. They have most unusual ones here. Wednesday I had a very interesting trip. Marty, Bunny, Gizzie and I. and another girl (Avis) who joined us went to a little town called St. Paul which is built on the top j. one of the hills back from the sea. . We went in a Red Cross car. St. Paul ‘is a town dating from the Renais;sance. I doubt if anything about it ‘has changed exectp the people. We . couldn’t take the car in because the . streets are narrow, rough and steep. . We:entered the town under a deep ;Stone arch and climbed a rocky . street to the church. The entire city ris surrounded by a wall for’ protec. tion. When southern France was invaded by the Americans the inhabi. tants watched the battle ‘going on. we have had nothing but luxury, rest. Both sides were shooting over their dous job without planning further. I doubt whether they would be that considerate of my desires anyway—l hope the war is really near an end now. and maybe then I can stop ‘worrying about what to do about things like that. Ms Yesterday eleven of us ate a French lunch, strictly blackmarket. It cost each of us 600 francs or approximately 12 dollars. It wasn’t worth that much but we had a lot of fun. The first-course was a fish and potato soup unusual for the fact of ‘that the short fat ugly open mouthed fish was served whole with head and dead eyes and an expression on his face which looked as if he resented being snatched out of the beautiful (Mediterranean and set afloat in a bowl of soup. The next course was wolf fish noted for its ferosity. The proprietor said it is the best fish in the Mediterranean. It is about 20 inches long and .tastes very much like trout. The main courses was roast lamb, fried potatoes’ and lettuce salad. I enjoyed the lamb because it was so long since I have had any. Very good’ : train and.the lieutenant at the RTO In a leiter received last week, Pfe. got us a car which rushed us to; 1a it about 5 times since I came Robert James, U. marine corps, lunch and back again. But, an inter-. °VeTseas. When I get home I want stated he hoped to get a furlough before log. He has been: over seas two years this cothing March 21, when he left go. Robert had met Craig Davies also} a marine the’ marine base at San Dic-; and: they: enjoyed a grand visit and trip into, the country. Bob chum in-them he looked in best of health. He has been changed to Ist Filliam #ames— Sgt. William James. oldest soy of Mrs. Nance : himself showing him, to ‘be nr Mh f spirits and health in French Moroé eco ,North Africa. tures shows the country to be beautifa. It was raining when Bill wrote . ‘and he stated it was getting warm-. er for: which they were glad. Mail} had been delayed and he had receiv. ed six of his mother’s letters at once} —she writes twice a week—Bill stat-. ed it was like reading a continued . story. The group had turkey dinners on St. Valentine and Washington’s . Birthday. Scenery in the pic1 GRAY LADY WILL BE SPEAKER} ‘Mrs. Verna Taylor, chairman of the Grey Ladies Corps of Grass Valley, will be the guest speaker Wednesday evening at the March dinner meeting of the Grass Valley Business and Professional Women’s Club at the Bret Harte Inn. Mrs. Taylor will describe the work of the corps which is chiefly engaged in welfare and_ entertainment programs at DeWitt General Hospital near Auburn. Mrs. Nellie Parsons will introduce the _ speeaker. . Presiding will be the club’s presi-. dent Miss Betty Eldredge. national crisis almost developed when we took advantage of — the French driver. . He had been ordered by. the lieutenant to wait for us while we ate lunch, “but when we arrived at the feave and-send another car (larger one back for us.) We-didn’t dare take a chance of gettin® left so ; We took the keys of-the car into the lunch with us. Of course the renchman was in a small rage, ‘but we didn’t care. In the meahtime a larger car arrived for us and we left nim threatening to report us to the colonel who was demanding his serWe decided to quick escape and clambered back to our train’ not so comfortable as the last and crowded. Upon getting we found opposite us a colonel and Maggie told him story. He was the colonel. But’ he laughed. On the train I sat between a GJ from Louisiana and a Greek who had just escaped after 36 months in a prison in Germany. He could speak Japanese, German, Greek. and vices. make a 'a smattering of French, and was a friendly soul. In his few words of English he asked me if I spoke Japanese. That was out of the blue and floored me, but he came forth with his other linguistic accomplishments and Bunny who speaks French like a native and I with my extremely limited German vocabulary carried on a three way language conversation most of the afternoon. It was four way if the sign language is included, I was knitting (new accomplishment) on a sweater I am making settled . lievaenant . the . j at leasts® quart for my first plate. ful. That is going to top off a gallon of fresh orange juiee, a big slice of tender ham a o,dzen fresh fried eggs and a gallon I'll throw of fresh milk. Maybe in an avacado. have coffee and French pastries for breakfast at the ted Cross officer's elub about! 10 a. a. .We finished in time to e&t lunch at an/officers mess and then proceeded to walk about the town; a ‘little. Marty and I got separated from the other three so we wanderen a little, toa tired to really do much sightseeing. We arriyed hotel a little before train time and just stood there in a estate of fatigue from travelling. Sudfront of our denly I saw two GIIs driving a com-! jmand car With an empty rear seat. {On an impijlse I put up my hitchasked where we Were going. I said, “sightseeing” and they said, “climb in,’’ They took us to an officers club in which they were assigned to duty. It was a beauty but best of all we had a magnificent view of Marseilles from high on the hillside surrounding the bay. Marseilles is a city with beauty and definite character even though it has the reputation of being one of the most wicked cities 1n the world. ‘Marty and I got back to the hotel left already by car. Bunny was waiting for us, we got ready, and left for the station and the worst rat race I have ever seen. The RTO gave us reserved seats but it was a question whether there was any possibility of getting into the train to claim them. Lita da tt again this year * GARDEN VICTORY The time is here and the need is urgent for steady and serious work in your Victory Garden. Every bunch of vegetables and every bowl of berries and fruit you grow at home aids in the tremendous task of feeding the men and women who are fighting for us. Let’s do it again this ) year. Top the total of more than eight million tons of food grown in Victory gardens during the peak year of 1943. You will help PACIFIC GAS AN food rationing. You. will release more commercially grown an: packed foods to our men and women in active service. You will help nourish back to health our men ond women who lie in hospitals dreaming of their ha> oy homecoming. Dig bard, dig deep, dig often and keep a rotation of crops growing in your Garden for Victory. There is health 2nd muscle tune-up in every spadeful of earth you tu.a over. There is nutritious good eating in every garcen-‘resh morsel of food you eat from your own gardeu. 2lan—work—plant—now and keep at-‘it. . PGE: D ELECTRIC COMPANY GE11W345 2s eo The next day we arose in time to! * lowing ‘kers thumb. and they stopped andto find that Maggie and Libby had) }andpeace and beauty. I this letter have set aside several times because I have spent most of my time} here seeing the sights and spending iny money. Now I must leave ‘tomorrow so I had better finish this letter and mail it. . We have lived this week in a very nice hotel which, used. to cater to resort trade. It is called the Savoy. Several of the best hotels have been taken over by the army for rectation purposes. The Savoy is a smaller hotel which the Red Cross controls. I have a nice single room (for 1 change) which looks out onto the. sea and La Croisette, the street folthe We have all kinds of service including breakfast »in bed every morning. We eat lunch }and dinner at the Carlton Hotel for shoreline. 120 francs (40c). That is the regular ,army mess. The first day we came the car of a general was at our through a Red Cross big shot who subloaned it to us. The general‘s driver took us to Nice along’ the shoreline road. It is a pretty city, also, but we couldn’t stay and wander around because the car was due back at a certain hour. We wanted to go to Monte Carlo but it is a neutral is there so the army is very strict about letting anyone in. The MP let us turn the car around inside the been in Monaco. I was disappointed that I couldn’t get to Monte Carlo because a lieutenant in our army had given me a package to deliver to his parents who live-in Monte Carlo and if I had been able to do that I would probably have been given a fine reception. Now I am planning to ship it in via a Russian general of the last war whom I met briefly yesterday. I am hoping to get some Monocan stamps by the same method. The lieutenant who gave me the package to bring down Was born in Sweden. His father wag in the Russian Red Cross in the last war. After the war they moved to France. The boy went to school in Switzerland. He went to the U. S. and joined the army, fought in the Aleutian campaign, in due time ‘became a citizen of the U. S. and thereupon an officer. He now interrogates German _ prisoners. Actually he has spent approximately one year’s time country. On the return trip from Nice we is famous fot ies. They were closed that day. because it was Sunday. The town was a‘*peaceful looking place nestling in the hills facing the Mediterranean. After we got back to the hotel we had tea with Mre. Macfarland, the Red Cross woman who rung_ this hotel for.us. She serves tea every afternoon and we usually drop in. Simetimegs there are some French people: there. Cait . . Monday the stores were closed again because it was a holiday. The first few days we were here there was a Maardi Gras celebrating the Fete of the Mimosa. It is the mimosa disposal . country and the boundary of Italy: border so at least I can say I have} within the borders: of his adopted came through the town of Grasse. It-! its perfume distilleri heads while they sat: cosily inside . their wall. We learned that from a French bread was, also, served. Desert was crepe suzzettes. They were Frenchman we met outside: of the] exéllent.I ate three. We drank red church. One of the girls asked him. wine with the dinner and that was ‘what we should see in St. Paul and{good too. We started to eat at 1 p. m. . we found he and his sister spoke ex-; We left at 4 p. m. . eellent: English. They and his wife I had tea twice after that and were very friendly and hospitable.i ginner again later. At one.of the teas hey ireisted on taking ws to, their American woman margiven by an home which they showed us from the ried to a Frenchman and who has cellar to attic. The man took us into! lived over here many years, I met his small garden where he urged us, the Russian general and his wife. to pick all the lemons and oranges . Today I have sat on the beach and we wanted. We few fo We; walked around the shops but I just could brag to those we left in the icy . bought. a ‘kind of climate up north. : . Then we were sat took'a nice looking key ‘rinz. I am trying to send off a package to Maxine because I finally got some perfume. The APO is so fari brandy. Monsieur Challian made the) away. I may have to carry the packupon a veranda and given grapes and wine and mine and brandy himself. The wine age around with me for awhile. was pretty good ‘but the brandy . Tomorrow we leave to go back to , would have started the kitchen fire . work. It is going to seem worse than . with wet wood. We stayed about 4p . before we came down because of the , hour and then we had to go home . contrast. I hate to go back fo the . again because of the car. terrible destruction, but maybe it I have been told that there is a won’t.be long now before the war . famous place there for weaving. ends and I want to be on the job . We went down under the deep stone. when it does. arch again and stepped into the 20th century. ¢ Just outside the walls are lovely villas and a very nice modern hotel which isn’t ‘doing business now. I am going to write to Buzz and then have tea. Keep well and be careful. ae Your loving daughter, HELEN. BIRTH THOMIAS—In Nevada City, Nevada Wednesday night I was inveighled into seeing some of the night life of Cannes. Another Red Cross girl. County, February 26, 1945, to Lieut. I knew in Holland was along—Ruth. and Mrs. Hervey Thomas of Grass Houck. It was with a young air corps, Valley, a daughter, MORE HEAT FOR YOUR MONEY . Every drop of Standard Furnace Oil fairly bulges with heat (many exacting tests see to that). Every drop burns completely—goes farther. 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oe Ty WITH OUR BOYS AND GIRLS _IN GLOBAL WAR — Paul Carlson— Aboard Carrier. somewhere in Pacifice—(Delayed)—-Marine Second! WLieutenant Paul O. Werner Carlson, 28, of Nevada City. is a radio officer . a leatherneck air. unit aboard a carrier, ‘serving with The assignmént of his’ unit mark-, ed the first time in, this war that Marings were iver’ carriers from . which/to fight the enemy. fore joining the Marine Corps January, 1943 L,ieut. Carlson was) a i for the American Potash and Chemical Company at Trona, . Calif. ey His. wife, Ellen and two children, Esther 2, and Christian, 10 month live in Nevada City. a 1 ae Francis Thompson— ie Francis Thompson, U. S. ‘marine corps who has been in Virginia two ,years, spent Friday and Saturday’ in‘ Nevada City with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thompson. He was accompanied by son. his wife and infani Craig Davies— Craig Davies, .U. Ss. is somewhere in the South Pacific. -He wrote father, Frank Davies, the latter part of last week that he had seen Robert James marine corps, his also in the! marines. Robert is,on New. Britain . Island. Robert James— ‘out o = ek or xecomplishment) .and caveed muh . mirth .or the Oo aw ward 1 ys Via howed sign language, much faster his ‘mother knitted and told me it wold ke 2 veats for finish. Thi plodded on. B me how me to admit‘ed, % « the terns y, M1 Are -om!} jodq ws for a w in English. After-I told him down in Greek and reit to himself in En2jish sexI knew he waned to us: the term so later I handed him my knitting to hold for a moment and said “thank you.” Sure enough a pleased expression came over his face ias he came forth with “you are welfeome”’ he wrote in seated eral times. . 1 3 Greex. because I am Lieut. it Leatherneck aboard Marine air unit. ANEVADACITY class sleeper, which was the first break of real luxury we had had these many months. (We. do live comfortadly. however, don’t mistake). The French first class is really’ good and we felt at.uthe time like spending our leave riding back and forth on the train between Pdris and Lyon. All this time we were eating carrier ‘snacks we had brought with us be. Cause it is well nigh impossible, to buy food. only on the black areal or in American meesses. We. ate lunch at an offices club in Lyon. The Americans at the station there tried to persuade us to spend. leave (in Lyon. Their job is the RTO. We had one hour to make lunch and get the come. ] CGET = tmobe — as offi‘iaig we pu t that’ point. They knew t ersonnel had o be train, but instead civilians back or ‘vrovidinz which ist ng. they let a -small Toose. Marty and BunnydarhAy ed on the jal military car nio the train to claim our seats rele I remained -with he porter helping us. overtipped him and poor old palsied fellow stuck hy e to. the end. I couldn’t begin to ge through the mob 10 deep and 10 wide even to hand the luggage inside to Bunny and Marty who by this time were trapped in the middle of an aisle anyway. Four other Red Cross girls were in the same predithe. luggave 7 welrtts Luckily nny. grossly it was a Morrocan ‘and which. pilot. We went to the air corps hotel eriodically marched up and downjand dances. I had .a very good time. he main streets playing marshall) Lots of those boys are over from nusie, There was a colorful major . Italy. I couldn't help wishing ~that ‘omo and justs behind followed @!Ernest was among them. dressed up goat which never seemed . I-am sitting on the beach now in to deviate an inch from his placel ag beach chair, writing this letter. I with the band. 'amlooking out across the sea toI shopped a lot in the army PX/ ward Italy and wishing I could hop which wag open that day and manover there. This is the closest I aged at last to get some perfume! have been to Buzz. Actually it isn’t at a reasonable price. Cannes, like; very far. I wish we could have met the rest of France, is suffering from! here but I. haven’t. even written I ‘errifie inflation. The worst place! am here because I wasn’t sure when I have seen yet though is Brussels.' 1 wag coming and figured it was imTuesday I did shopping -in French! possible anyway. : stores. but purchaséd very little. My’ Red Cross won't let us fly without one folly was a lovely hand painted . special permission and planning to leather belt. But, I had a few things . get to the Riviera alone is a tremen__ MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1945 ul Carlson of Nevada City, . with camént too. Finally I decided to ; % ea be aes tk ieneae give up trying to get either the basfrom «him. The companion didn't gage or me om the train, and I got speak at all. But, evidently they : . into the clear and relaxed into a day were very hungry and craved eigar-. aream which was broken by the jettes for they ate everything we French officer yelling “‘Americain, handed them and smoked lots of ¢i-. pag Cross, Americain’’ I hopped to garettes. It developed they were not!i+ wnite the officials held off the fed either by the Americans or Brit-. owg 1 slipped through a space ish mess, so they had a hard time .ix sizes smalled than myself. The getting food. They were trying to) )ittle pid porter handed me the lugget back home. Their families had gage. I threw it in the aisleand evidently moved to Australia, where fumed silently at the French. they were going to settle’down. They said they got very little food in the ~The last Red Cross girl fell into German prison camp and that Redj. the train just as it started off. The ‘Cross packages had’ never*'been re-. babble and excitement and anger ceived because the Germans , took and perspiration and: tears and yellthem. ing by the French was terrific. The When we got to Marsailles that} French glowered at the Americans evening we decided to stay over night! and the Americans glowered at the and continue to Cannes the next af-. French. Everything finally cooled ternoon. There again, we found that off to a dull rage and we proceeded the sheets not fresh, no hot water to enjoy the scenery which is simor heat but being tired I slept like a ilar to that of Southern California. log. First though, we went to tle) Never have I witnessed such a stark Red Cross offieer’s club “and had raving abandonment of courtesy. cookies and-hot coffee’and ice cream. . The ice cream was a real treat. I've . From the time we reached Cannes ‘the shop keeper-wanted very badly, iso I made a slight bargain and partied with them insead of my money. I have no doubt she sold them at enormous profit. There are many beautiful things in the stores, but mostly we just look at them. I think I'll buy just one more thing—some buttons for a suit. They have most unusual ones here. Wednesday I had a very interesting trip. Marty, Bunny, Gizzie and I. and another girl (Avis) who joined us went to a little town called St. Paul which is built on the top j. one of the hills back from the sea. . We went in a Red Cross car. St. Paul ‘is a town dating from the Renais;sance. I doubt if anything about it ‘has changed exectp the people. We . couldn’t take the car in because the . streets are narrow, rough and steep. . We:entered the town under a deep ;Stone arch and climbed a rocky . street to the church. The entire city ris surrounded by a wall for’ protec. tion. When southern France was invaded by the Americans the inhabi. tants watched the battle ‘going on. we have had nothing but luxury, rest. Both sides were shooting over their dous job without planning further. I doubt whether they would be that considerate of my desires anyway—l hope the war is really near an end now. and maybe then I can stop ‘worrying about what to do about things like that. Ms Yesterday eleven of us ate a French lunch, strictly blackmarket. It cost each of us 600 francs or approximately 12 dollars. It wasn’t worth that much but we had a lot of fun. The first-course was a fish and potato soup unusual for the fact of ‘that the short fat ugly open mouthed fish was served whole with head and dead eyes and an expression on his face which looked as if he resented being snatched out of the beautiful (Mediterranean and set afloat in a bowl of soup. The next course was wolf fish noted for its ferosity. The proprietor said it is the best fish in the Mediterranean. It is about 20 inches long and .tastes very much like trout. The main courses was roast lamb, fried potatoes’ and lettuce salad. I enjoyed the lamb because it was so long since I have had any. Very good’ : train and.the lieutenant at the RTO In a leiter received last week, Pfe. got us a car which rushed us to; 1a it about 5 times since I came Robert James, U. marine corps, lunch and back again. But, an inter-. °VeTseas. When I get home I want stated he hoped to get a furlough before log. He has been: over seas two years this cothing March 21, when he left go. Robert had met Craig Davies also} a marine the’ marine base at San Dic-; and: they: enjoyed a grand visit and trip into, the country. Bob chum in-them he looked in best of health. He has been changed to Ist Filliam #ames— Sgt. William James. oldest soy of Mrs. Nance : himself showing him, to ‘be nr Mh f spirits and health in French Moroé eco ,North Africa. tures shows the country to be beautifa. It was raining when Bill wrote . ‘and he stated it was getting warm-. er for: which they were glad. Mail} had been delayed and he had receiv. ed six of his mother’s letters at once} —she writes twice a week—Bill stat-. ed it was like reading a continued . story. The group had turkey dinners on St. Valentine and Washington’s . Birthday. Scenery in the pic1 GRAY LADY WILL BE SPEAKER} ‘Mrs. Verna Taylor, chairman of the Grey Ladies Corps of Grass Valley, will be the guest speaker Wednesday evening at the March dinner meeting of the Grass Valley Business and Professional Women’s Club at the Bret Harte Inn. Mrs. Taylor will describe the work

of the corps which is chiefly engaged in welfare and_ entertainment programs at DeWitt General Hospital near Auburn. Mrs. Nellie Parsons will introduce the _ speeaker. . Presiding will be the club’s presi-. dent Miss Betty Eldredge. national crisis almost developed when we took advantage of — the French driver. . He had been ordered by. the lieutenant to wait for us while we ate lunch, “but when we arrived at the feave and-send another car (larger one back for us.) We-didn’t dare take a chance of gettin® left so ; We took the keys of-the car into the lunch with us. Of course the renchman was in a small rage, ‘but we didn’t care. In the meahtime a larger car arrived for us and we left nim threatening to report us to the colonel who was demanding his serWe decided to quick escape and clambered back to our train’ not so comfortable as the last and crowded. Upon getting we found opposite us a colonel and Maggie told him story. He was the colonel. But’ he laughed. On the train I sat between a GJ from Louisiana and a Greek who had just escaped after 36 months in a prison in Germany. He could speak Japanese, German, Greek. and vices. make a 'a smattering of French, and was a friendly soul. In his few words of English he asked me if I spoke Japanese. That was out of the blue and floored me, but he came forth with his other linguistic accomplishments and Bunny who speaks French like a native and I with my extremely limited German vocabulary carried on a three way language conversation most of the afternoon. It was four way if the sign language is included, I was knitting (new accomplishment) on a sweater I am making settled . lievaenant . the . j at leasts® quart for my first plate. ful. That is going to top off a gallon of fresh orange juiee, a big slice of tender ham a o,dzen fresh fried eggs and a gallon I'll throw of fresh milk. Maybe in an avacado. have coffee and French pastries for breakfast at the ted Cross officer's elub about! 10 a. a. .We finished in time to e&t lunch at an/officers mess and then proceeded to walk about the town; a ‘little. Marty and I got separated from the other three so we wanderen a little, toa tired to really do much sightseeing. We arriyed hotel a little before train time and just stood there in a estate of fatigue from travelling. Sudfront of our denly I saw two GIIs driving a com-! jmand car With an empty rear seat. {On an impijlse I put up my hitchasked where we Were going. I said, “sightseeing” and they said, “climb in,’’ They took us to an officers club in which they were assigned to duty. It was a beauty but best of all we had a magnificent view of Marseilles from high on the hillside surrounding the bay. Marseilles is a city with beauty and definite character even though it has the reputation of being one of the most wicked cities 1n the world. ‘Marty and I got back to the hotel left already by car. Bunny was waiting for us, we got ready, and left for the station and the worst rat race I have ever seen. The RTO gave us reserved seats but it was a question whether there was any possibility of getting into the train to claim them. Lita da tt again this year * GARDEN VICTORY The time is here and the need is urgent for steady and serious work in your Victory Garden. Every bunch of vegetables and every bowl of berries and fruit you grow at home aids in the tremendous task of feeding the men and women who are fighting for us. Let’s do it again this ) year. Top the total of more than eight million tons of food grown in Victory gardens during the peak year of 1943. You will help PACIFIC GAS AN food rationing. You. will release more commercially grown an: packed foods to our men and women in active service. You will help nourish back to health our men ond women who lie in hospitals dreaming of their ha> oy homecoming. Dig bard, dig deep, dig often and keep a rotation of crops growing in your Garden for Victory. There is health 2nd muscle tune-up in every spadeful of earth you tu.a over. There is nutritious good eating in every garcen-‘resh morsel of food you eat from your own gardeu. 2lan—work—plant—now and keep at-‘it. . PGE: D ELECTRIC COMPANY GE11W345 2s eo The next day we arose in time to! * lowing ‘kers thumb. and they stopped andto find that Maggie and Libby had) }andpeace and beauty. I this letter have set aside several times because I have spent most of my time} here seeing the sights and spending iny money. Now I must leave ‘tomorrow so I had better finish this letter and mail it. . We have lived this week in a very nice hotel which, used. to cater to resort trade. It is called the Savoy. Several of the best hotels have been taken over by the army for rectation purposes. The Savoy is a smaller hotel which the Red Cross controls. I have a nice single room (for 1 change) which looks out onto the. sea and La Croisette, the street folthe We have all kinds of service including breakfast »in bed every morning. We eat lunch }and dinner at the Carlton Hotel for shoreline. 120 francs (40c). That is the regular ,army mess. The first day we came the car of a general was at our through a Red Cross big shot who subloaned it to us. The general‘s driver took us to Nice along’ the shoreline road. It is a pretty city, also, but we couldn’t stay and wander around because the car was due back at a certain hour. We wanted to go to Monte Carlo but it is a neutral is there so the army is very strict about letting anyone in. The MP let us turn the car around inside the been in Monaco. I was disappointed that I couldn’t get to Monte Carlo because a lieutenant in our army had given me a package to deliver to his parents who live-in Monte Carlo and if I had been able to do that I would probably have been given a fine reception. Now I am planning to ship it in via a Russian general of the last war whom I met briefly yesterday. I am hoping to get some Monocan stamps by the same method. The lieutenant who gave me the package to bring down Was born in Sweden. His father wag in the Russian Red Cross in the last war. After the war they moved to France. The boy went to school in Switzerland. He went to the U. S. and joined the army, fought in the Aleutian campaign, in due time ‘became a citizen of the U. S. and thereupon an officer. He now interrogates German _ prisoners. Actually he has spent approximately one year’s time country. On the return trip from Nice we is famous fot ies. They were closed that day. because it was Sunday. The town was a‘*peaceful looking place nestling in the hills facing the Mediterranean. After we got back to the hotel we had tea with Mre. Macfarland, the Red Cross woman who rung_ this hotel for.us. She serves tea every afternoon and we usually drop in. Simetimegs there are some French people: there. Cait . . Monday the stores were closed again because it was a holiday. The first few days we were here there was a Maardi Gras celebrating the Fete of the Mimosa. It is the mimosa disposal . country and the boundary of Italy: border so at least I can say I have} within the borders: of his adopted came through the town of Grasse. It-! its perfume distilleri heads while they sat: cosily inside . their wall. We learned that from a French bread was, also, served. Desert was crepe suzzettes. They were Frenchman we met outside: of the] exéllent.I ate three. We drank red church. One of the girls asked him. wine with the dinner and that was ‘what we should see in St. Paul and{good too. We started to eat at 1 p. m. . we found he and his sister spoke ex-; We left at 4 p. m. . eellent: English. They and his wife I had tea twice after that and were very friendly and hospitable.i ginner again later. At one.of the teas hey ireisted on taking ws to, their American woman margiven by an home which they showed us from the ried to a Frenchman and who has cellar to attic. The man took us into! lived over here many years, I met his small garden where he urged us, the Russian general and his wife. to pick all the lemons and oranges . Today I have sat on the beach and we wanted. We few fo We; walked around the shops but I just could brag to those we left in the icy . bought. a ‘kind of climate up north. : . Then we were sat took'a nice looking key ‘rinz. I am trying to send off a package to Maxine because I finally got some perfume. The APO is so fari brandy. Monsieur Challian made the) away. I may have to carry the packupon a veranda and given grapes and wine and mine and brandy himself. The wine age around with me for awhile. was pretty good ‘but the brandy . Tomorrow we leave to go back to , would have started the kitchen fire . work. It is going to seem worse than . with wet wood. We stayed about 4p . before we came down because of the , hour and then we had to go home . contrast. I hate to go back fo the . again because of the car. terrible destruction, but maybe it I have been told that there is a won’t.be long now before the war . famous place there for weaving. ends and I want to be on the job . We went down under the deep stone. when it does. arch again and stepped into the 20th century. ¢ Just outside the walls are lovely villas and a very nice modern hotel which isn’t ‘doing business now. I am going to write to Buzz and then have tea. Keep well and be careful. ae Your loving daughter, HELEN. 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