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Show , - so Czech Missionori to , ' At Monument Unveilkng, Oa' , r , , ' ".,, ' - I . . - ..., , - ,,,,,,,;. , , , , , , ' ' ' , - , 1 , '-- , , . . , , zi ., , , s ,4. ALN , , . , , dA i I . -- - - - - - - , -, - - ,4 ' ' , .. I i , - ; "' ( -- - iiverasmalLrillag nent moi-ir-n-- ,,,,,,,,,r..,1,,,o...$1.,,, - Clarence L. Madsen did! his way down. she 18,000 feet from counted only ,nine parachutes and wondered if the had his burning 4 Liberator over successfully' bailed opilot u t. H e relittle did he Czechoslovakia, watched the horrifying specalize or think that some daye,he tacle of their plane crashing, would repreient Ills country and and exploding below him. - When they jumped, they were Church at the dedication'of ,a B-2- - z - , ' J , , WHEN 1 ..:; e001""1" t - es Represent-Buddi- 1, l . - t , r - ,.,z1 nolliiirthieTiint. . nately they drifted several ' , -.' , 4 His one terrifying thought was miles south and apart before 1 . '',.,, '6 - 4' 2 ' ,6 and I t ite, . where was he going to land landing. The village was gar,bral7fel)..1.2 , ,,.1 r 41 , I1 tit , 1 ye ) , w 4,, ', .0 into whose hands WM he going risoned by German SS Troops. , took the Germans only ten , , , , , , , But through the cou- - It fall. to '. ' . fifteen minutes to reach the ,, f ', - or - . - e , where-th- e rageous efforts.;of7,-theezzc,. generalvicinity ig, ' , , , 4 Underground who rescued him Americans had landed, but by ; . $ ek. y 43 '4,-t Pa ' ' , 'Ai: as Dom as he landed, Madsen that time friendly Slovak farmt ' i tE( ' : , i . 3 7...!..... 2...... I . , with other downed flyers was ers had hidden them. , ' ----, .....r flown ---to safety in ,. eventually land,t, . The where : ',', vicinity they - - , , . Italy.-covhills ed was rolling partly . J - ', ,r' ' '' i ' Near the village of Sobotists, ered with patches of trees, scatr-',, ' .,,,4' N -- Slovakia. where he and his cor- n- tered farm yards with hillside 2", : paniona landed, the Czechs are pastures and potato fields. ,, 4 building a monument in honor,- sen barely missed landing in a - ' of the crew and especially dedi' patch of trees and instead-lande- d k' ''), ---' on a hillside pasture. cated to Harry F. Eddy, the one ,,, ,,,,...:,.., , ' crewman who was killed. ; the help Through unstinting '', i 4 ,.....'', :, 1 - ,e'- , , Elder Madsen, who has seof the Slovaks, eight -- of the ,, , r 4 crew were brought together 1turned to Czechoslovakia m a 1 , I 4 on the third day; the ninth missionary of the Church to I 1 . member of the crew had been bear testimony of the restored captured by the Germans and Gospel, has been officially in, I vited 'to attend the dedication L spent the restof the war in with Lawrence A. Steina '111POW camp. Eddy, their . 'along radio operator, was killed I CZECHOSLOVAKIAN hardt, the American ambassaMONUMENT HONORS AMERICAN FLYERSSO grateful ore when his parachute did not dor, to Czechoslovakia. the people of Sobotists, Slovakiart to the Americans for assisting in their release from ' open. The event to be marked- ocif German bondage that they are erecting on imposing monument in honor of Madsen' spent the following curred on September 13, 1944, who partKhuted to safety near their village. Clarence L the crew members of a when the 455th Bomb Group of month with the Slovak partisan , the 15th Air Force, stationed at and guerilla forces and by cover Madsen, who was a memberof the crew and now a missionbry in Czechoslovakia, has Cherignola, Italy, was assigned of dark, migrated toward Banbeen officially invited by the mayor of Sobotists to participate in dedicatory ceremonies. to bomb the Bleekhammer syn- - ska Bystrics, a Slovak strong60 miles south in hold Slovakia. oil central The thetic on .a small Island. No one was their country, Elder Madsen has refinery us in the Kingdom of God. of Berlin. Madsen's plane was a American OSS men who were Injured. Later in the day they not yet met any of the towns- - This is a wonderful - work member of this group. there radioed to the American found the island to be the secret people who so heroically ,bewhich has brought me untold After. having -- beenseverely Air Force headquarters in Italy, headquarters' of MarshallTito friended this crew-- of --Ameri-. blessings and the happiest excan fliers. His invitation to at. periences of my life." damaged over their target by Several days later, 25 American and his guerilla forces. Two stranded days later Tito had then retend the dedication has come Elder Madsen is the son of fire, they were planes arrived, and flyers were flown turned to Italy aboard a small from the mayor of Sobotists. He Mr. and Mrs. tlarence Madsen limping back to their base whers' American has the ,permission of his mis- Sr., of 1517 East Ninth South tramp steamer. they were attacked by enemy - back to Italy. sion president and is now Street, Salt Lake City. After being returned to the Madsen, who was planes. in 25' fighter Madsen participated ' -he --waist issions-over-Trance, anxiously awaiting thsevent. , , , - - , elmany, I United -- feels it a great honor to gunner each Awned one of the CzechOslovakia,' Bulgaria. and assigned as a 9 gunnery"instructor at the Las Vegas pursuit fighter planes. But the the Ploesti ail fields in Rumaappear with the American 'amGermans accomplished their nia. Returning from an earlier , bassadors and his former flying Army Air Field where he rethe huge Liberator mission in Rumania, his plane mained until his discharge. objective coittpanions and feels even more Colburst into flames and started had been badly damaged. They lie wu attending Weber the 'joyous privilege that is his ) earth- were unable to ELIEVED to be 'the filet full to represent the true Church of lege in Ogden. Utah. when be falling crazily toward the maintain altitude B ' received his mission call. On God as a missionary. It is the 18,000 feet below. over the Adriatic Sea. With time missionary) from the realization'of his fondest dreams state of Louisiana, Elder Charles April 6, 1947, be departed for Madsen recalls now that he their landing gear and hydraulic : - totbe with and talk to the peo- William Dickson departed this , didn't take time to decide system damaged, they were his mission. whether or not to jumphe- just forced to make a crash landing Though he is now again in ple of Sobotists, and elsewhere week from the Northern Cali.. in Czechosiovakiawho. without fornia Mission. He is a native thought to their own of Scotiandville., Louisiana, and ., sagiv1 , and well being, risked a member of the Baton Rouge ''-' their lives to .-help him,escaPe Branch of , -- --from the Nazis- , Mission.. ', Elder RAserved islands Marine and States nineDickson, who Is . Corps of peace in the Elder Madsen feels that to AA ELDER Keith' Arnoldweek to gospel ' teen years old, has saved 6700 where he was formerly engaged as a gunnery sergeantexpresswho left this really successful in the mission man one "one ed as, his mission expenes by military towards must one field love fill a mission in the Central Pa- - in warfare. the truly since he was twelve- - years old For six years Elder Renstrom of the toughest jobsr in war." lie people to whom he is a miscific Mission, is realizing one of his ambitionsto Preach the was a member of the United fought in some of the hardest sionary. He has many reasons bYworking part time and full and enjoys timein-- a- drug storeasHe his he sawactionin theMarshall is le, schooling would permit. among working Islands, Maui, Saipan, Tinian, the youngest of seven children. he have reports, greeted --Jima. Iwo and open arms and have I At Tinian he was wounded him with I him a znarvelous returned for hospitalization given life industry can do anything ,1 and to Maui. While in Tinian, he be- He says: which genius cart do, and very 141 some came acquainted with Japsincerely believe that luny things which it cannot. , anese Saints. Commenting on , there are many people here H. Iv. Beecher. . I who believe that we have the this, he . said: true Gospel and many other PPLICATION is the Price' to I - discovered that Mere. , , be paid for mental acquisiPeople here who are awaiting . Jatps , were fine people, and , to hear the message of the tion. To have the harvest we nit bate for them stopped. 1 e' Restored Church. Many of ,,, must sow the seed.Gamtliel . learned to like them after all Bailey. my bitter fighting against ' these will soda, day join with desire to had I and a them. ..., . . return and preach the Gospel ' , to them after the war." , , ' . , ' ,,,k ',I , After recovering from his In- , ,, , , .V IN. , juries, Elder Renstrom again , I Ilk , ,'." IIV' ' , ''' ' , 1r went back into action in the in' - t.....'' ' 4, 1 ''' Ix It , t ..., '''',N, ' was 4,'Ile Iwo of Jima. vasion , ,, .. 1 ewounded again after eleven 01,, ! . v ,1 I , , , 0,0, ..4 , ., that g terrible of i fighting days t t, ' ,...-t ,1) ' ( , .,. ,, p i '" 1 and evacuated to the Hawaiian r', 441 . k N' ., ,r ' Islands. Later, he was sent to i ., . 4, ' k, ' San Diego. 'I's, ,,...eve ,''; ,. , 7 ,,",,,,. Throughout his service in the . , , , f . Marine Corps, Elder Renstrom i . , : , was actively- engaged in Church ' work, both- as a group leader, i1 . e , and in doing missionary work. I t At San Diegoqie was at first a : 4 counselor, and later president ' of the Servicemen Branch un' '''',. ' , der the direction of Servicemen . . Coordinator Willard L. Kimball. it, Elder Renstrom, who is 27 I , 4.01k years old, is from Huntsville, if , , ) ,ANaiiiiiMANOWItoldObbial.MOJ I Utah. lie has completed one tillwolatatmos..74os,towei., , R0.4,,......,...,. , ,,,,. year of study at Weber College, SCHOOLMATES MEET IN MISSION FIELDAt a recent in Ogden. He is the son of Ar1 nold P. and Ruby Salt Rem. missionary conference of the Canadian Mission held in t , strom. , Toronto, Ontario, eight missionaries, all graduates of Jordan High School, Sony, Utah; posed to hove their ---, rZENITINIC good taste consists picture taken. They are, front row, left to right: Lois ,,,-- ,..k ,..1in saying Inn& in a few Evans, Thelma M. Morgan, Evelyn Crane, and Bonnie Jean I words. In choosing among our I Arnold Keith Esperson; bock row, Glen E. Socos, Paul F. Price, BATTLE TO AREASElder. RETURNS j in having order and thoughts, Robert Mission fill in the to a who week this Moynes, and Keith Hogon. left Renstrom, arrangement in what we say, where he Central Pacific Mission, points td the islands and in with composure. speaking , Fens Ion., SOW active in the in the recent war. February 14, 1948togo i - --- . - - ."', '4 , k,..,,,- ,, , , , , 7 2 k; - - - , di - 4 - $-- .. .,, - ,,,- i ' - ..,--- 4.-- 111,1 74 - - ,,, - - -J- 2L-4---- ., :-- ----- . - -- Mad-.,,,,,,- 04 .- ' , . - - - 4 1 ' II B-- . .. -- anti-aircr- aft I ' Louisiana Sends -- . B-2- First Missionary , - , , ithéi,En.pipiés: Eidér i ampaigns--of-the-Parlf-tcwheri them-The-peop- ' ' , w1 , - A ak, , - - y . . - It ' !, . . - ,. '' , ee,------ - , ,- A - - -. ,- r . - . -- . P k '' , - N li , - . -- . i |