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.12 THE ALTOONA JULY 14, 1944 NO COUPON needed for RATIONED Shoes Formerly Priced to $7.95 An excellent opportunity for you to save your save your ration slarap. Included in this wonderful collection of shoes are whites, colors, blacks, browns and a variety of styles. All sizes but not in every style. 1409 Eleventh Avenue Our Sons and Daughters In Global War rmy Navy Coast Guard i In Xetv Hebrides. NEW HEBRIDES, South Pacific Cyril G.

Conrad, a former employe of the Yellow Cab company, Altoona. is now on duty at this remote island base with a chemical warfare company. Sgt. Conrad, who is chief mechanic of a motor pool, is serving with a unit that maintains and assists in the operation of a school designed to train men moving up to the fighting fronts. His duties consist of keeping vehicles in condition for 'traveling over rough island roads, overhauling electrical i rad entered the army June 6, 1942, and received his training at arsensal, Maryland, coming overseas in March, 1944.

His brother, Pfc. Michael Conrad, is with the 85th chemical battalion and is stationed at Austin, Tex. Are Overseas. Three men from Altoona a'nd vicinity are now overseas and have participated in a course designed to bridge the 'gap between training in the states and soldiering in an active theatre of war. and refrigeration units as well as They are: Sgt.

Patrick J. Kelley. barbering for his company and the son of Mr. and 'Mrs. P.

J. Kelley of 1212 Eighteenth avenue. Altoona; school. He is a son of Mrs. Helen E.

Walters, postoffice box No. 791, Louisana, Layfette, N. Y. Sgt. Con- Cpl.

John. C. Colbert, husband of Mrs. John C. Colbert of 103 Clark street, Hollidaysburg; and Sgt.

READ THE ALTOONA MIRROR WANT ADS MCCARTNEY'S 1107 11thAve. We Still Have a Fine Selection of FOUNTAIN PENS 89c Priced At Robert R. Naylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Naylor of Dysart.

At one of the air service command stations known as control depots, they were carefully processed by classification experts who make certain that they were well fitted for the job assigned to them. Their next station will be one from which America's fighting planes take off to chine. smash the nazi ma- Is Staff Sergeant. FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas- Jack Adelson, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Hyman Adelson of 2207 13th avenue, has been promoted to stal sergeant. He wa graduated A11 a High I in 192 and had i em ployed a store manage for Montgomer: and Ward com pany, Middle town, N. for Jack Adelson. ten years. ploye of Walter Bick, entered the army Aug.

21, 1943, and received his training at Camp Adair, Ore. Four Sons Serving. Arrives Overseas. WITH THE UNITED STATES ARMY TROOPS IN THE SOUTH Richard W. Snyder one of the three sons in the service of Mr.

and Mrs. Joseph Snyder of route. No. 2, Duncansville, has arrived overseas. His brother, Orville A.

Snyder is overseas in-the European theatre and another brother, Pvt. Melvin Snyder, is stationed at Indiantown Gap. Richard, a former sawmill em- BONDS AND Sf AMPS DRILL STAND ALCOHOL TORCH THAT THROWS 4 MOT FOG UGHTS KDALS lAttTlRlS CHICACO' $198 CUSHIONS LUGGAGE METHTOOl BOXES $1.79 LIT SHOT college; has been in the army nin years. Before going overseas served -at Indiantown Gap, A. Hill and Camp Lee, in Virginia and Vancouver Barracks, Wash The 26-year-old quartermaster offi cer has been overseas for the pas twelve months.

Is Promoted Overseas. Promotion of James H. Kugler aged 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jameh M.

Kugler of 2626 Sixth avenue, Ai toona, from the grade of sergean to staff sergeant was announced recently somewhere in England the 8th air force. He is a wais gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress Conduct Medal. A USSTAF AIR SERVICE COMMAND DEPOT (Somewhere in Pvt. Paul E. Hardy son of Mr.

and Mrs. William Hardy of R. D. No. 3, Altoona was recently awarded the Good Conduct Medal for exemplary behavior efficiency, and fidelity at air service command depot in the ETO.

Prior to his enlistment in the service Pvt. Hardy was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad. F. A. Bagley.

R. A. Bagley. Four sons of Mrs. Alice Bagley of 2924 Sixth avenue are serving the armed forces.

Cpl. Walter W. Bagley, aged 30, is in- the army. He received training at Fort Bragg, N. and was sent overseas last February.

He is now in New Britain. Pfc. Francis A. Bagley, aged 28. took basic training at Camp Sutton, N.

and later" was assigned to Camp Stoneman, Calif. Overseas for the past six months, he is now serving on Saipan. Pvt. Richard A. Eagley, aged 20, received basic training at Fort Me- Clellan, Ala.

He is now, with the invasion forces in France, having been overseas for two months. Pvt. George Bagley, aged 18, is now taking basic training at Fort Knox, and is expecting an early furlough. Trains In Texas. Pvt.

Charles Grannas. son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Grannas. was inducted into the army on March 6, 1944.

After' training at rjt George Meade, he was sent to Camp Barkeley, Texas. and transferred to the medical battalion. His wife and two children, Charles, and. Susan Carol, re-; side at 968 Thirty- first strf.et. Before entering a nyJhe WaS Chas.

Grannas by the A. and P. bakery. Is Staff Sergeant. Paul D.

Meiss, son of Mrs. Edna Meiss- of 874 Seventeenth street, was promoted from the rank of sergeant to staff sergeant recently. He serving with an ordjiance company somewhere in England. His wife, the former Ethel Porte, resides in Elyria, O. He entered army on Nov.

2, 194.2, receiving basic training at Fort George Meacle, Md. He also received diplomas from Aberdeen proving ground and Holabird motor school. Are Members of A. S. T.

P. Pvt. Arnold Belz. and Pvt. Hubert Gunnett, both of Altoona, are members of the army special- zed training reserve program to the.

Pennsylvania Mil- tary college in Chester. They will not only be instructed in Military science and tactics, but also will receive academic training in physics, chemistry, mathematics. Engish, geography and history. Is First Lieutenant. On July 4 the war department announced the promotion of Alva "Schadle.

son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Schadle of 500 Twenty-fifth avenue, to' the rank of first lieu- enant. Lt.

Schadle is an instructor in the automotive department of the tank destroyer school at Camp Hood, Tex. Arrives Overseas. WITH UNITED STATES ARMY TROOPS IN THE SOUTH PACI- Charles W. States, son of Mrs. Roy G.

Keith of 607 Seventh avenue, arrived overseas. Former- employed by the Pennsylvania ailroad Pfc. States was inducted nto the army Feb. 18; 1942, took his basic training with a barrage alloori battalion at Camp Tyson, and was with an anti-aircraft battalion at San Diego, until sent overseas. Rifle Marksman.

Chief Warrant Officer Robert T. Vtort, son of Mrs. Ida Mort of 816 Bell avenue, has qualified in rifle ttarksmariship in England, where ie is stationed with a finance disbursing section in a United States trmy combat supply headquarters. Warrant Officer Mort with he United States army at Fort Drum in the Philippines from 3936 1939, and reenlisted in July, 1940. He was sent overseas a year ago.

Receives Second Cluster. AN EIGHTH AAF BOMBER STATION, Lt. Paul of Baccavia, pilot in an th AAF B-17 Flying Fortress, has been presented the second Oak eaf Cluster to the Air Medal for 'meritorious 1 while participating in heavy bombing assaults on vital nazi targets in Germany and the occupied countries of urope. Th? presentation was made by Col. Karl Truesdcll, of Washington, D.

group commander. Lt. Bibnikar, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Ribnikar of Beccaria, entered he service Oct.

21, 1942, prior to ivhich he was a cashier for the jOOse-Wiles Biscuit company, Albona. Captain. NEW DELHI, H. Ault. son of John S.

Ault of Hunt- ngdon, has been promoted from rst lieutenant to captain in the rmy in India. The captain is to a. quartermaster truck unit of the services of supply in the China-Burma-India theatre of operations. He is stationed in the jungles of upper Assam at a. post along General Stilwell's main supply route.

Capt. Ault, who attended Juniata Was In France. Pfc. Donald Lindie of 1733 Margaret avenue, wrote to his sister, Miss Ruth Lindie of New Castle, on June 24 that he was in the invasion of France. Stationed in England with the infantry, he left the United States the latter part of March.

He enlisted in the army in October, 1942, and received basic training at New Cumberland and Camp Atterbury. He is a former employe of the Pennsylvania Railroad company! Donald Lindie Home from-Overseas. Two Altoona soldiers arrived at Fort George G. Meade, on July 1 after overseas service in the north African theatre of operations and are enjoying leaves at their respective homes. Cpl.

Melvin Shaffer of the ordnance department 'returned from twenty-four months of overseas service, reporting -to Fort Meade before coming to his home at 1818 Tenth street. Pvt. Thomas E. Perkins of the infantry was overseas for nine months. He is visiting his uncle, A.

J. Nedimyer, at 1018 Highland place. BID BLANKS FOR POSTOFFICE HERE Postmaster Paul, V. Tillard has received a number of blanks for the submission of bids to purchase the old postoffice building at Chestnut avenue and Eleventh street. They may be obtained at the local office by any person considering purchasing the building- as a realty venture.

The blanks give full instructions to bidders and the terms under which the building is to be sold. All bids must be in the hands of the commissioner pf public buildings, public building administration, federal works agency, Washington, D. up to 10.30 Aug. 9. The bids will be opened at that hour at the agency's headquarters in the national capital.

HOME SERVICE HEAD ANNOUNCED Announcement that Miss Ruth Miriam Severson, who has been home economist for the Iroquois Gas company, Buffalo, N. and the Kansas City, Mo. Gas company, has been engaged as home service supervisor, was made today by Christy Payne, sales manager of the Pe.oples Natural Gas company. Miss Severson succeeds Mrs. Lemabel Parry, who for more than a year has headed the home service "department of Peoples.

"Miss erson, in addition to her experience with other gas companies, more recently was dietitian at the Pratt Whitney plant'near Kansas City, where she supervised the preparation and serving of more than 20,000 meals daily to employes," said Mr. Payne. "This is a background of valuable experience for the work she will carry on for us." Severson already has started on her duties and is in charge of the series of demonstrations and canning clinics which Peoples is arrying on through the month of August in the area serviced by the company. HOSPITALS GET FUNDS. State Treasurer G.

Harold Wagner announced today that checks had been mailed to hospitals for the quarter ending May 31, -as follows. Nason hospital, Roaring Spring, $3,05.97, and J. C. Blair Memorial hospital, Huntingdon $3,349.80. GLASSES AT OUR LOW COST You Can't Buy Better at Any Price Dr.

Ray Heverling OPTOMETRISTS GOLDSCHMID BLDG. llth Ave. and 12th St. Associate, Dr. B.xRessler Take Elevator.

2nd Floor 1115-17 Twelfth Street- Need a Dress or Two See You Through the Summer? Good Buys In Our July Clearance Entire Stock Spring-Summer Dresses Reduced Prices A Special Value Group $JL A Few Plain Colors Others at 8.75 and 10.75 These Dresses That Were Priced 16.75 NOW 13.75 and 19.75 are NOW 14.75 ALL SPRING COATS AND SUITS REDUCED IN PRICE 24.75—Now 18.00 34.75—New 25.00 39.75—Now 30.00.