Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XL, Number 22, 10 ʻOkakopa 1945 — News Of Big Isle Boys In Service [ARTICLE]

News Of Big Isle Boys In Service

Capt. Jiro Higuchi of Pearl Gits», Oahu, recently was awarde& Leglori oī Merit for outstaridlng- services as a ehaplain. [ He waīT cited for his work on !«ie Pifth Army front in Italy ' fand with £he Seventh Army in !Prance. T>uring one operation, Capt. Higuchi assisted the medical aid" imen tfnd i * - ' !barirage t re T i |ward aid" si )care of the ' Onee api ' report they 1 a sergeant 'in action s

The ehp out with b ' heāvily m areaa ānd after four tory. During an eastern Frai. went to one ( panies, where . to some seriously placed two of iheni attached to ,his jeqp a^ back to the aid station. When the hostile shel. eame so concentrated tha.. . ther progress was impossit>le, he stopped his jeep and with the help of his driver, placed thp casuaīties in abandoned siit trenches neax the road. His wife, Mrs. Hisako Higuohi, lives at 452 Kirkbridge Ave., Pearl City. A graduate of the University of Hawaii and Oberlin College in Ohio, he received his master of theology degree at the Umversity Southern California in 1938.

Chaplain Higuchi was the pastor of the Waipahu Comrmmity church, Waipahu, Oahu.

A short time ago, he was appointed regimental ehaplain.

EE SHIMA RYUKYU RETTO, JAPAN t Sept. 3—While waiting for their points to accumulate for discharge, the boys from Hawaii have formed a softball team known here as 'The Kanakies." ; Ooaeh anel manager of the bail team is Pirst Ciass Ted Langraf of Wiiheimina Rise, Ho- ' nolulu. Ted was also a well known athlete at Roosevelt fiigh, and was formerly employed by ' the Bishop National bank of Ho'nolulu. | During one afternoon after 1 chewāng some pork chops, I left ' the mess hall and passed by the ( bal"l park. A large crowd was gathered there, and I asked a ' red headed ehap from Boston ' what all the fuss was about. He replied, "The Kanakies are going to play the Irishmen in a softball ! game." j The first island boy I met on. the playing field barefooted was Sergeant Lui Kwan o£ Hilo, Ha- ' waii. Sergeant Kwan was employed by tiie Hilo Western Auto Supply as a bookkeeper. His wi£.e # ( the former Cal Lang of Hilo, lives on Kapiolani St Kwan is work■lng in the island command G-2 office as a clerk typist. | He told me that the mainland Gls get quite a kiek out of \vatching the Island boys play bare"footed around here. . tr ī Kaati V.«r

I a uc-fu appnmenea oy sevei a! OTs, and they all asked me if tne loeal boys ever wore ahoea baek home." ' I spotted a lad far out in centerfield woaring a T-shirt with the word "Hilo" on the front of it He was Corporal Peter Moj Lean of Puhonua, Hawau- } Pete is workmg a cierk in . the ordnance o£fice but &pends most of his leisure time out on . the baU fieid. He worked for i the Hawaiian Airlmes, Hilo «<branch, a clerk. j Wimuag all ot th<ar games so i far> the Hawaiian teaia is eomp>rised ot' Uie £oilowms bov«; i Pitchers—Private First daA.> ,Gut Xoun«: aad Corporal Alhert C, Oorporal Mc- , Laan; lst base»-Priv%te Pirst ( Ciass Ciarence of Wa■iuawa, Oa&u; 2ivd Priv*te , Fm»t d«as LAmdgraf; ba§ēi Francis P*r*rira, Wailuku, Mauu I abortstop~-Private Ciass R,idi«rd I<*aadro of Kauauki; sfe©rt c**nter—Pnvate First 1«. ,U*er Wong. Waipahu. Oahu; l FJekter&--OMporal fidward tencourt, Honoiulu, Pn\-at<> Fs»t C3ass Nicholas Somana. Kolwml, Kauai; Private F*rst Class G«MIaU, Lihue. Kauai: SUff S<>r AJs*l Koio*. Kauai: Privat(e Class IVnnngv Mali»aOv LiUhA Pxivatg Harold lV\«roauN, Y;c*ot-.* 6U» S,oai.t Kofcort K. Oahu, Ar.d $£xsc>a&t K. Wo«g, Uhu«, Kaua;.