by The March 23, 1944 edition is not available, so here's an article from the March 25, 1943 edition of the Ralston Recorder. This article recalls the devastation of the Easter tornado of March 23, 1913, as told by several longtime Ralston residents.
Note this edition also has a lengthy front-page article announcing that Sgt. Wilmer N. Baker, Jr. of Ralston, who had been listed as missing in action since April 9, 1942, was alive and a Japanese POW. American forces had surrendered following the Battle of Bataan, and approximately 75,000 American and Filipino POWs were forcibly transferred to Camp O'Donnell in what was later known as the Bataan Death March. Thousands of prisoners died during the march, and many thousands more died in captivity. Baker survived and was liberated in 1945 from a Tokyo prison camp. He was discharged from the Army in 1946, married, and moved to Las Vegas where he lived until his passing in 1988 at the age of 70.
