SS William S. Ladd guns No. 1 to 5 were ordered secured and the Armed Guards were ordered to abandon ship. At 1930 the last Navy personnel and ship's officers abandon the doomed vessel. No one was killed, eight Armed Guards were wounded and hospitalized on Leyte. Today, SS "William S. Ladd" lies at the bottom of Leyte Gulf at approximately . SS William S. Ladd SS "William S. Ladd" (MC hull number 2084) was an American Liberty ship built during World War II, one of the 2,710 type 'EC2-S-C1' ships that carried all kinds and types of dry cargo during the war. She
William S. Rice Roberta Rice Treseder, published a book in 2009, "William S. Rice: California Block Prints" which is a biography and includes images of his printmaking as well as woodblock printing methods and materials. And his granddaughter, Ellen Treseder Sexauer, wrote a book in 2015, "William S. Rice, Art and Life". In 1978–1979, the Smithsonian American Art Museum held an exhibition called "American Color Woodcuts: The Years of Transition", that featured the works of 40 artists including Rice. In 2015 and 2016, “The Nature of William S. Rice: Arts and Crafts Painter and Printmaker” exhibition was released and travelled to the Crocker