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The Rock Island Argus from Rock Island, Illinois • 9

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THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 24, 1945. STARTS WORK IN JUST 2 SECONDS LATE ADMIRAL AWARDED GOLD STAR TO MEDAL that the veterans in that state get suitable jobs. They supervise the operations: of the local U.S.E.S of offices in the state where the real work is done. Maybe, in getting down to the local wasted your time giving this background of the organization of the G.I.

Bill's, Veterans' Employment service. But I always say it's better to take a peek into what's going, on in the back room before you go around to the front door. Next time, we'll ring the front door bell to see if we can get in to examine, the U.S.E.S. operations in the local office. Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets).

After that the organization gets down to the state level. State Set Up. The law provides that each state should have a veterans' employment representative. For some time now, these men have been appointed. They are.

all veterans. and the law says they have to be. And they have all been residents of the state in which they serve for a period of at least two years before their appointment. These representatives are attached to the staff of the employment service of the state and have five main duties, which boil down to seeing sion; it's now the department of labor. The administrator of veterans' affairs is chairman, and he's allowed to delegate his authority to any executive secretary he may name.

So he did. He named Perry Faulkner. According to law, Faulkner's title is "chief of the veterans employment service of the United States employment service." If that leaves you out of breath, you can shorten it to "Chievesuses," if you want This chief has his own policymaking group at his national office (the old WMC building up on Pennsylvania avenue, between CASH FOR YOUR OLD PlilllO Regardles of Make, Styl or Ag Make your Idto piano available to Recreation Centers, ambitious students and others who really need a piano. Get CASH NOW1 We Mot Your Piano Free. Write Now to Argus Box M-31 Willis A.

Lee, Posthumously Pecorated; Was Crack Marksman at Academy, mi to) 4 7w Itymtf rmrM The late Vice Admiral Willis Lee, whose widow Jives at 1340 Fourteenth-and-a-halfj'Etreet, Rock Island, has been awarded posthumously the Cold star which represents a second Distinguished Service medal, it was announced th naw ripnarfmanf in -Nt- EARNS SECOND MEDAL The Gold star, representing a second Distinguished. Service medal has been awarded posthumously to the late Vice Admiral Willis formerly of Rock Is-land, the navy department announced today. i 1 1 Washington, D. C. The award was (exceptionally meritorious service as commander of battleship squadron 2 of the Pacific fleet and as commander of a task' force of battleships between July, 1944, and May, 1945.

The admiral died suddenly in his barge Employment Facts Placement Board Chief of Veterans is I I IH II pfcMBIw 'f m'1 fi, i sAn.it IN STRICT COMPLIANCE WITH VPB REGULATIONS, AIL TKXTILI MERCHANDISE IN THIS AD IS LISTED AT WARDS REGULAR LOW PRICES, BY MAJOR THOMAS NIAL. Washington Don't get to thinking that the G. I. bill offers Just three benefits education, guar ai asco cay, iviaine, Aug. xa, while returning from shore to his ship.

He was buried in Arlington 'Rational cemetery. According to the October issue of the American Rifleman magazine, it was Admiral Lee, who, as director of fleet training in 1941, was largely responsible for the reawakening of the navy's interest in arms training. The magazine stated that he was the only man in the history of the national matches to win both the national individual rifle and the national individual pistol events. He was awarded both these titles in August, 1907, while a midshipman at Annapolis naval academy. Thirteen years later, a lieuten- ant commander, he appeared at Quantico, as a contender for a place on the 1920 Olympic Rifle team squad and made if as an alternate but, his ability to; pro-.

il anteed ROCKVOQL SALE-PRICED I and readjust-m allow ances. There are a few other 1 rre In 1 bill likely to I -88 rev. Mill to have a bear ing on your fu r. tuie. it 1 ft iT i One of these Hi I I f-T fTTTT-T-rri 1 it is title IV I duce scores under difficult, con r'' sJ hW.b h-l ditions resulted in his being 'made 4-employment oi I That wi kAt lVk mall.

I VCLCldllft. A IldL I veterans. I Here's your chance to save money and get ready for winter, tool A 3" layer of Granulated Rock Wool can keep you warm and snug all winter delightfully cool In summerl Covers 1 00 sq ft. title is little U.XJ Ml bore and teams in the Olympic matches. Admiral Lee received his first major Second World war service decoration, the Navy Cross, for his performance of duty at Guadalcanal, Nov.

14, 1942, when he took his battleships, the Washington and the South Dakota, through a section of the Jap fleet and sunk a Jap battleship, three heavy cruisers and a -destroyer. as' commander of a battleship task force, as second in command to Admiral Halsey of the Third fleet, he received the Legion of Merit and the Distinguished Service cross. PHOTECT YOUIX roof nov, SAVE! 67' Co, his Kgulmrly 7 ft MODEHtJ DEDROOM SUITE, DED, CHEST AND VAfXITY 107.95 Known pecause njoiei. it's had little publicity. But it's as important as a lieutenant (junior grade) with delusions of commander.

In" this part of the G. I. bill, congress declared it was its intent and purpose that "there shall be an ef-feci'e job counseling and employment placement service for veterans." At the time the G. I. bill was passed, the.

United States Employment service already existed set up by the provisions of the Wagner Peyser act of 1933. Within the U. S. Employment service, there was what was called a Veterans Employment service. When the Second World war came in the forties, congress could see that, after the war, the employment "problem for veterans was going to take on huge proportions.

So when the G. I. bill was forming, title IV was inserted to clarify the provisions of the Wagner Peyser act. is hereby created," congress said, "to cooperate with an assist the U. S.

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