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ALTOONA TRIBUNE, Wednesday, August 30, 1944 With the AEF in Southern France Bicycle-Borne Infantry By KENNETH DIXON dale, Mo. He placed it on his WITH THE AEF IN SOUTHERN FRANCE, Aug. 23--(Delayed)--(P)-The speed of this fast breaking front is giving doughboys a rest from walking--and in more ways than one. In the first place they are riding trucks part of the time, except when they have to stop to clean out what the communiques always call "small pockets of resistance." For another, they are capturing enemy vehicles varying from volks-wagons to bicycles. One infantry squad had to pause in the village of Peyrolles, near the Durance river.

They drove the enemy out so fast that equipment of all kinds was a abandoned in frantic haste: toilet a articles, footwear, clothes, etc. But to more important were the bicycles. Pvt. Vernon Sutherland, of Cranston, R. grabbed the first bicycle and started strapping the barrel of a machinegun on it.

It looked like the doughboys might have more walking ahead for the Maquis reported other "pockets of resistance" in the immediate area. So Vernon didn't aim to walk. Neither did Pvt. James Bolin, Sullivan, who appropriated the next kraut bicycle for himself and then started collecting others. "I will get this whole column motorized if I can haVe a little time to look around," James shouted.

Meanwhile, Pvt. Everett Hanna, Decatur, was topping everybody. He slipped into a building which had been used as a garage by the Germans and got himself a motorcycle. The squad of soldiers reassembled. An aged French villager stepped out and gave a tricolor to Pvt.

Eugene Richardson, Herman- Local Soldiers Wounded in French Area Wounded In action in France on August 7, Pfc. Wayne A. Shaw, aged 21, son of Mr. and Mrs V. P.

Shaw of Hollidaysburg R. D. 1, is now making a recovery in an English satisfactory. The young soldier enlisted in the army September 17, 1942, and received. basic training at Camp Robinson, Ark.

He was assigned to an anti-tank company and served at Camp Carson, Col. Later he was transferred to Hunter Liggett military reservation at Camp Roberts, proceeding from the west coast camp to Fort George S. Meade, before being shipped overseas to arrive in England on July 4. Pfc. Shaw was immediately sent to France and was there only short time when he received wound.

He has notified his parents of his receipt of the Purple Heart. Prior to enlistment in the army Pfc. Shaw was an employe of the Pennsylvania railroad. He attended Hollidaysburg High school. A sister, Betty Shaw Lupo, is serving as an air WAC being stationed at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.

A recent telegram from the war department to Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Klevan, of 1102 Seventeenth street, informed them that their son, Pfc. Herman Klevan, aged 26, was wounded in action in the Paris sector of France on A August 12. "Zeddie" is now in a hospital in England.

He writes his parents that he is getting along all right, but will be in a hospital a long time. Pfc. Klevan was inducted into the army on March 10, 1941, thain ing with the infantry at Fort George G. Meade, Fort Myer, and Fort Benning, Ga. He was sent overseas in June, this year.

The young man will be remembered as an outstanding athlete, participating in various baseball leagues in the city, and in basketball. While in the service. he played army baseball with Fort Myer and Fort Benning teams. Prior to entering the service he was assistant manager of the Schiff shoe store in Altoona. A brother, Capt.

Myer Klevan, is with the signal corps at Camp Maxey, Tex. Flowers For Every Need A. A. WHITBRED, 6 30 St. BICYCLE Carrier will buy good used bicycle from owner.

Phone Tribune 8181. Levan 1300 Eleventh Ave. Require the services of regular full time saleslady to work in the capacity of a manager for the basement unrationed footwear dep't. Please consult Mr. Klevan between 9 A M.

and 12 Noon. a stock boy for full time work. We also nave an opening for young man who desires to learn shoe retailing -this is an opportunity which can he developed into a good position. A. B.

Clubmen Make Plans For Survey The A. B. C. club met 1 in the Oneida room of the Penn Alto hotel last evening at 6:30 p. m.

for a. dinner meeting. Thirty-seven members were present. president, presided. He brought a guest, his brother, of the state of California.

All the members are working on the project in connection with the drive for the salvage clear glass, scheduled for October. There will be a club golf tournament at Blairmont on Thursday afternoon, starting at 1:00 p. m. Joseph Orr, chairman of post war planning, led a discussion on this subject. Two forms have been prepared for the community adjustment survey, both a detailed workpile survey and a consumer purchases survey, Out of a list of 35 or more names, a club member selects 10, and visits the homes.

In the workpile survey, the consideration aro householder's repairs and additions. The householder cooperates by checking any of fourteen items he plans to buy as soon after the war as they become available. Several of these items are flashing and spouting, fencing, insulating, painting outside or inside, roofing, air conditioning, new plumbing, and electric fixtures and wiring. In consumer purchases study, householder checks if the he intends to build a new home as soon as conditions permit, if he intends to make major repairs, remodeling or extension to present home involving outlay of $100 or more, or if he has no postwar building plans. Also in connection with the consumer purchases study, there are a dozen items to be checked, purchases to be made as soon as products are available, as: car, refrigerator, radio, stove, furnace, stoker, piano, washing machine, home freezing unit.

or other furniture or furnishings over $100. Club Bars Asked to Close V-Day Mayor Brumbaugh in a formal statement issued yesterday to the officers and members of the Blair County Retail Liquor Dealers' association, commended them for their course in desiring to close their places of business on V-day. In referring to the proposed action of the association, the mayor said," This is very commendable and it manifests the proper patriotic spirit and respect for those who so greatly served this country this war. I hope have, that there will be no exceptions on this day SO that every intoxicating beverage bar will be closed along with the other unnecessary businesses of this city. "I now appeal to the clubs of the city to close their bars on that day, for it does not seem fair that the other bars should be closed and not all within the city.

It will be a very respectful and patriotic gesture on the part of all the ciubs to close their bars on that day so that the greatest amount of respect for the day occasion may be and that the people will be inclined to adhere to Divine Guidance in all walks of life, and that the city of Altoona may be outstanding 1 in unity and cooperation, for which I am certain the vast majority of citizens will be thankful and appreciate together with the mayor of our city." Allies Help Chinese Army Take Railway By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, Aug. 29 (P)- Supported by far-ranging American warplanes, Chinese forces today captured Suchowtang on the Canton-Hankow railway 55 miles north of the enemy-held bastion of Hengyang and increased their threat of Japanese communications along the vital Siang river, main supply line for Hunan province, the Chinese command announced. On the home front, the Chinese government announced the removal of Gen. Sheng Shih Tsai from the governorship of Sinkiang, in far northwest China. Gen.

Wu Chung Hsin, current chairman of the Mongolian and Tibetan affairs commission, was named as his successor. The change-taken as a friendly gesture to Russia one of the most important governorship switches in China since 1927 when President Chiang Kai-Shek's nationalists set up a government in' Nanking. In the maritime province of Chekiang, fighting continued north of Lishui. Maj. Gen.

Claire L. Chennault's Fourteenth airforce supported the Chinese. In the course of extensive operations, Chennault's planes sank steamers and damaged a smaller one the Yangtze and blasted five air. dromes and fields. SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND HEADQUARTERS, Aug.

29-(P)- The northern Burma strongpoint of Pinbaw on the Mogaung-Mandalay railway has been captured by British troops who are retreating Japanese on down Dr. H. Kriner Speaks to Rotary Club The Rotary club held its weekly luncheon meeting yesterday in the Logan room of the Penn Alto hotel, with a splendid attendance about one hundred. Howard Lindaman, president, announced that Bill Haller has the tickets for the stag interservice club picnic at Dell Delight Memorial park, on Thursday, September 7. All reservations should be in by next Tuesday.

Dr. Harry Kriner was the speaker, using as his subject, "The Teaching of Sex in the Public Schools." It was a discussion of social hygiene, how it is tied up with social science, with the social studies curriculum, and other factors, all of which working together insure a program of health which is exemplary. Dr. Kriner at a recent State college conference of leaders made a contribution to a discussion program on the same subject. Marine Cpl.

Spends Night Killing Japs (By Staff Sergeant James E. Hague, Bridgeport, a marine corps combat correspondent, formerly of the Associated Press, Baltimore. Distributed by the Associated Press) GUAM- -(Delayed) Last night, before the counter-attacks started, Marine Corporal Martin J. Scanlon was just a strong voiced, bigbodied Irishman from Pittsburg. This morning, he is a legend.

They'll never know just how many Japs he killed. His officer, Second Lieutenant William H. Grissim, Brentwood, says the six foot, three inch Irishman got at least 20, "but. it may have been 40 and it may have been 60. All we know is that all night long he lifted his big body onto the crest of the hill, cursed the Japs, and killed them." They do know that Corporal Scanlon left a large stack of dead Japs in front of him.

Wounded, he slung a 200-pound comrade over his shoulder and set off down an almost sheer cliff toward the aid station. He got within 50 yards of his destination before he collapsed. The wounded man was Private First Class Leo Ottrock, Farrell, Pa, The story of Corporal Scanlon was told by Lieutenant Grissim after the big Irishman was evacuated. Corporal Scanlon, whose home is in Pittsburg, was a member of Lieutenant Grissim's team of artillery forward observers who landed with marine assault troops and pushed forward to a hill the first afternoon. "That was our perimeter for the first night." said Lieutenant Grissim.

"Some of the men crossed the crest to dig in. The Japs, 100 yards away on the other side of the skyline, picked them off as they crossed. We huddled on the reverse slope of the hill and waited for Japs to crawl up at us. We couldn't see them. "We got some artillery fire down.

If the shells were to land among the Japs just over the hill. they, had to skim the crest. They parting our hair. I swear that if you reached up, you could have picked our shells out of the air as they sailed over us. "The Japs came the Arst time at 8 o'clock.

They crawled up, unobserved, to about eight o1 10 yards of the crest and lobbed grenades at us. All of my artillerymen were manning the line. We couldn't spare anybody. 'When the Japs started shouting, Corporal Scanlon picked up a weapon. I don't know what it Was because he used everything that night.

I never saw anything like it. He just fired all night long. First he'd use a Garand. Then a Browning automatic rifle would be nearby, so he'd pick that up and pour lead into the Japs. Grenades were his meat.

"There were no foxholes. You just dug yourself a little hole for your feet, stood against the cliff and waited for the Japs. Even when we fired star shells to illuminate the Japs, he'd stand up, scream at the top of his voice, and shoot away. He sparked everybody that night. "They'd pass the word, 'watch out, here they Corporal Scanlon would grab a weapon and let go.

How can you tell how many men a guy like that killed? I know it was at least 20. It may have been 40. It may have been 60." Just before dawn, the Japs tried again to through the pitifully thin line. Lieubreathe tenant Grissim called his artillery position and asked how many rounds of ammunition were left. "Fifty," he was told, "There was no chance br holding them off with 50 rounds," he said.

So we dropped back to the next crest, and then Scanlon was hit with a grenade. "Ottrock had a bad leg wound. Scanlon picked him up, tossed him over his shoulder and started back with him." "Scanlon brought Ottrock over some of the toughest country I've ever seen. Somehow, he got himself and Ottrock down slippery, sheer 50 foot cliff. He wag about 50 yards from our command post when he TOPSOIL- -MANURE The best of top soil and manure for your planting CALL 2-9219 With the Armed Forces: Chevron Comments bicycle.

Then the strange half-motorized column got into motion. The villager straightened up saluted the cavalcade as it wound slowly down the streets of Peyrolles. Once when I was with an advanced motorized unit I heard a strange order being passed sharply back from truck to truck -and the soldiers who spent five months to gain a couple of thousand at Cassino let trying, out howls of laughter when it reached our vehicle. It said "this advance will be held down to the rate of 15 miles per hour." The advance is so fast an armored column ran off two mapsbut still kept going. They borrowed French road maps from the Maquis, but there were not enough of them to go around.

So Sgt. Oscar Merver, of New York city, and Capt. Tom Piddington of Plainfeld, N. had to draw a freehand map on the back of a piece of scrap paper to show me roughly what the situation ahead seemed to be. One good reason why such swift advances were possible was shown when We captured a German general and corps, he headquarters, His desk contained official papers showing where the German intelligence said our invasion was going to land in southern France.

The papers were dated ten days before we hit the beaches east of Marseilles. They showed, how the defenses were all set up to greet us. The only trouble was that the defending troops were waiting west of Marseille, and from there to the Spanish border. Child Treated For Dog Bite Samuel Lynam, 9, of 1406 Sev- enth avenue, was taken to Mercy hospital dispensary yesterday and four stitches placed in a wound in his ear. The youngster had been bitten by a dog.

At the hospital, he said he had gone to a neighbor's and was petting 4- weeks old puppies. Florence Crisman, 10 of 1413 Second avenue. injured her left leg. She said she had been pushing her bicycle when she tripped over a stone and fell, injuring her leg on the chain, Others treated at Mercy hospital dispensary included: Thomas C. Fonner, 3 1-2, of Hill Top, Hollidaysburg, who fell while wearing his glasses, He was cut between the eyes and one stitch was used to close the gash.

Beverly A. Carter, 6, of R. D. No Duncansville, was struck on the head with a hoe yesterday and his parents took him to the dispensary where three stitches were used to close a laceration on the right side of his scalp. Jacob Frederick, 47, of 3027 Washington avenue, scratched his hand while working with waste kitchen fats and the wound became infected.

Treated at Altoona hospital dispensary were: Helen Louise Senesky, 3 of Coupon, who suffered multiple adrasions of the face and legs, and Marguerite Keller, 5 of 1810 Twelfth avenue, who injured her elbow when she fell down a flight of seven steps while at a store. She is to return today for an X-ray. Thomas Rhule, 9 of 1506 Fourth street, had one stitch placed in a cut of the left wrist; and Richard Norris, 10 of 215 Martin street, Bellwood, who fell in a barn injuring his right arm was X-rayed. The member was broken. John Flanagan, 14, of 1500 Eighteenth street, had the nail torn loose on his right, middle finger, having been injured while playing football.

Pressure was used to stop the bleeding and a dressing applied. Raymond G. Maurer, 34, of 607 Fourth avenue, Juniata fell from a truck yesterday and complained of pain in the right side of his chest. An X-ray showed that his right side was negative to bone injury. He is employed as a truck driver for P.

Park and company. Three PRR employes were treated for minor injuries including: Lee Reininger, 54, of Roaring Spring, a boiler maker helper, who almost had the end of his small, left finger cut off, had three stitches used. E. B. Gunderman, 57 of Harrisburg, a passenger conductor, had three stitches placed in a gash on the back of his head.

Chester Troutman, 50, of 222 First avenue, a car builder helper had three stitches placed in a cut Real Estate Transfers Nickolas H. Lamont, et to C. Kennedy Murray and Carrie E. Murray, his wife, Nos. 417-21 Hudson avenue, Altoona, $4.400.

Haiman Colbus, et al. to Central Trust company, No. 1502 Nineteenth street, Altoona, $1. Investment Building and Loan association, to Frank J. Bilka and, Margaret M.

Bilka, his wife. No. 714 Jackson avenue, Altoona, $2,135.89. MOVING STORAGE CALI. 5103 DRENNING'S LARGEST MOVERS IN CENTRAL PENNA duty on an aircraft carrier somewhere in the Pacific.

Lieutenant Lingenfelter entered naval service as an ensign February 1, 1943, reporting to Harvard university for training in communications. He Was a graduate of the Altoona High school, class of 1980, and attended the Penn State school of electrical engineering for three years. He received his bachelor of science degree from Shippene burg State Teachers college. MASTER SERGEANT SAMUEL H. LOUNDY, son of Mrs.

Anna Loundy, 1804 Fourteenth avenue, serving with the Fifth Army in Italy, has been promoted to a second lieutenant on the battle front. He joined the Army in March 1942 and worked his way through the ranks from private to master sergeant after which he refield promotion to ceived, tie, lieutenant. He has been serving overseas since September 1943. Private Robert S. Rothrock, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Robert S. Rothrock, 217 Sixth avenue, is receiving his 'basic training with the field artillery at Fort Sill, Okla. Private Rothrock entered the service April 5, 1944, in the army V-12 program and received specialized training at the Virginia Polytechnic institute. He r'eceived his diploma in uniform at the graduation exercises of the Altoona High school in June, and recently spent a 17-day furlough at, the home of his parents.

John F. Schaeffer, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Franklin Schaeffer, 223 Aldrich avenue, is enrolled in navy V-12 program at Dartmouth university, New Hampshire.

He entered the navy in July of this year. Seaman Schaeffer was a graduate of the Altoona High school, class of 1944, where he was a member of the varsity football team, Private Max R. Loose, son Mr. and Mrs. Roy W.

Loose, 2013 Beale avenue, and veteran of the African invasion, is now stationed on the Island of Corsica. Private Loose entered the service December 10, 1941, and has been overseas for two and one-half years with the Third Service group of the army air corps. He landed in England first but was later sent to Africa and then served in the invasion of Corsica, where he has been since last January. While there he met Sergeant Bill Clemens, son of William Clemens, 1926 West Chestnut avenue, and the two Altoona boys frequently get together to exchange newspapers and talk over Altoona in pre-war days. Second Lieutenant Horace Kes- selring, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Harry L. Kesselring, Altoona, R. D. 3, has reported to Randolph field as one of the expert flyers selected for training in AAF central instructors school.

Upon completion of a month's specialized training here he will go to another training field of the AAF training command as an instructor of aviation cadets. First Lieutenants Martin J. Mordsco, 112 East Sixth avenue, and Karl K. Thompson, 310 Pine avenue, have been assigned to duty at Camp Grant, Ill. Private First Class Alvin S.

Dodson, son of Mrs. Minnie Dodson, 3305 Sixth avenue, has been cited by his regiment of the 34th "Red Division, and awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge for participation in combat enemy on the Fifth actual, Army front in Italy. Lieutenant (jg) John R. Lingen- felter, son of Mr. and Mrs.

I. G. Lingenfelter, 408 East Grant avenue, and former sanitary officer in the city health bureau, has been assigned to communication Private First Class Clair M. Swope, aged 20, son of Mr. and Mrs.

D. S. Swope of Cresson, has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal for heroic achievement in combat in Italy. The citation companying his he award tells story of valor and courage, for Private Swope was one of a group of volunteers who completed the surrender of the enemy and took 29 prisoners in addition to those killed and routed. Private Swope entered the army from his third year in Cresson High school on March 8, 1943, training at Fort Bragg, and Fort George Meade, Md.

He was sent overseas with the infantry in November. A brother, Sergeant Walter Swope, aged 27, has been in the army since December, 1941, and is stationed at Fort Benning, Ga. COLLABORATIONIST LOSES PANTS -This French collaborationist, who lost his pants to an angry group of Parisians, is saved by the French Forces of the Interior and taken into protective custody during mop-up fighting in the French capital. This is one of the first original pictures from liberated Paris. (AP Wirephoto).

Mayor Urges Enlarged Police Force An increase in the size of the police force has been deemed necessary by Mayor Brumbaugh and at a meeting of city council held yesterday the mayor asserted that it is clear there, should be a large force of public guardians. No figure but there was general agreement that the present force of approximately fifty-five men, not including the commissioned officers is inadequate to meet the requirements of the times in safeguarding the lives and property of the city. It was pointed out that it is customary to have one officer for each 1,000 population. When Mayor Brumbaugh was asked by Councilman Weber when he proposed to appoint a chief of police, provision for which office was made early this year, the mayor replied, "sometime." He made it plain that the appointment would have to be made under the law from the personnel of the department. This, it was indicated by others, would not prevent him appointing some one as a patrolman, then promote him through the grades until he reached the oflice of chief.

The mayor did not at any time reveal his intentions on the matter. These issues came up when the mayor presented the revised rules and regulations to the council, and after some discussion. council adopted the rules. Intoxication, drinking while OD duty. sleeping while on duty, failure to pay honest debts or furnishing persons outside of the police department information that would interfere with the service are among the causes for dismissal, but with reference to debts it was made plain that it was not retroactive and the rule would be applicable from this time forward.

Under the new rules police officers are enjoined from participating in any game of cards or bowling while in uniform and they may use their clubs only in their own defense or to prevent the escape of prisoners. They may not leave the city without permission and they must not join any society or organizations that might interfere with the rules and orders of the department. Council approved a resolution presented by Mr. McCartney for the transfer of $4,500 from one item to another in the highway department. Former Altoona High Coach Buried Yesterday YORK, Aug.

29-(P)--Funeral services for Edward F. (Snaps) Emanuel, York High football and basketball coach, were held this morning from the crowded Christ Lutheran church. The former Gettysburg college athlete was killed Friday when his auto was struck by a train in nearby Goldsboro. Eight members of the 1943 York High football team who would have played again on this year's team bore their coach to the Mt. Roase cemetery mausoleum where it will rest pending final burial.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Emanuel and daughter, Joy, with the coach at the time of the accident, remain in the York hospital where the former's condition is reported to be good. The daughter's condition is regarded as serious. School board officials will announce coaching plans for this year's football 'team -tomorrow. the line, Allied headquarters announced today.

Wiping out a strong rearguard at the entrance of Pinbaw, the British found the town unoccupied when they entered. Starvation and disease were reported spreading among Japanese troops in the Kabaw valley farther east after Allied Banking moves and air blows had severed their communication lines. Nearly 1,000 men, including all officers, were said to have been lost from one Japanese battalion in this area. Gov. Martin Addresses Naval Men Governor Edward Martin addressed the combined graduating classes of the and Bedford Naval Training schools at the graduation exercises held last evening at Bedford Springs.

This is the fourteenth class to graduate from the radio schools since their inauguration. Governor Martin told the class that "police forces and armies and navies must be maintained to protect law abiding men and law abiding nations from criminals and from tyrants." Martin declared "our form of government requires eternal vigilance, eternal struggle for the right, if it is to survive. "There are always those among us--and outside our borders who would challenge our fundamental ideas and beliefs. "Too often they do this in the name of patriotism. They seek to stir up hatreds between races.

groups and classes. They are preachers of discord and disunity," added the state executive. Asserting that We must have the same faith in institutions that was held by forefathers, our Martin said "They conquered new frontiers because they had faith. If we possess the faith of these men and women we can conquer the frontiers of our time." Speaking directly to the graduates Martin declared: "We pray that the last gun will soon 1 be silenced and that you may return to your homes in peace. Yet when the war is over, we cannot cease fighting.

We must always fight in War and peace. for a better nation and a better world." Eight large motor buses were required to transport the naval students and officers of the Keystone radio school at Highland hall. Hollidaysburg to Bedford. Yesterday morning the sailors of the school were put through a battalion review. inspection and calisthenics on the street fronting the school building in preparation for the event at Bedford last evening.

The Hollidaysburg contingent returned late last evening. OBITUARIES Funeral Notices Will Be Found On. Classified Page HARRY E. WAHL Harry, E. Wahl, 2804 Sixth avenue, died yesterday at 12:15 noon at his home following an extended illness.

He was born in Duncannon, April 20, 1878, the son of Frederick A. and Catherine (Swartz) Wahl. He was married June 23, 1904 at Duncannon to Miss Mary Earley, who survives with one daughter, Miss Blanche Earley Wahl, a teacher at the Irving school, at home. Also surviving are three sisters: Mrs. Edward Valentine and Mrs.

Luther Swank both of Duncannon, and Mrs Robert. Dennehy, Ardmore; one brother, Charles, Harrisburg and several nieces and nephews. Mr. Wahl was a resident of Altoona for forty years and retired from the Juniata machine shops in 1939. He was a member of the Second Presbyterian church, the Men's Bible class of that church, the B.

F. Davis lodge, 1. 0. O. F.

and the Modern Woodmen. Friends will be received at the Laughlin funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening. Flowers For All Occasions IMPERIAL FLOWER SHOP Building Permits The following building permits were issued yesterday by Building Inspector John A. Larson: R. Sigrist, 1215 Eighteenth avenue, roof repairs.

$50; J. R. Hopper, 1624 Twenty-first avenue, chicken house, $20; Howard J. Hite, 526 Twenty second avenue, reduce two car garage to one car garage. $50; H.

Ross, 413 Tenth avenue, Juniate. enclose porch end, $40: H. W. Erbeck. 419 East Hudson avenue.

one car garage. $100, and G. M. Chippenfield. 105 Halleck Place, enlarge porch, $100.

Serving in the army nurse corps in England, Second Lieutenant Hazel E. Kimmel, aged 21, of Mrs. Betty Kimmel, 1211 Eighth th avenue, reports that she is stationed near her brother, William Kimmel, aged 27, who been stationed in England for the past two years as a member of. the air force, taking care of bomb sights. Lieutenant Kimmel entered the service March 1, and has been stationed at Fort George Meade, and the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Captain Joseph A.

Ronan of the army medical corps with headquarters at the Wyandotte, hospital and plasma center, is spending a furlough with his wife family at their home, 5733 Ohio avenue, Eldorado. The well known Altoona native and mediCal practitioner was called into military service March 28, 1943, and served at various army medical centers prior to his present assignment near Detroit. Captain Ronan will return to army duty next Tuesday. Quartermaster Second Class Jack O'Donnell, former Altoona High school athlete, is spending a 12-day leave from duties at the Key West, naval base, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

F. W. O'Donnell, 516 Sixtie avenue, Juniata. Seaman O'Donnell enlisted in the navy the day after his graduation from Altoona High school with the class of 1943 and received his boot training at Sampson, N. Y.

While at Key Jack has met two of his former Altoona High school football teammates, Owen Fasick, end, and Lieutenant Brooks Kaufman, quarterback, who is now a marine corps pilot serving overseas. Former Pa. Governor To Support Roosevelt WASHINGTON, Aug. Gifford Pinchot, former Republican governor of Pennsylvania, announced today he is supporting Pre: lent Roosevelt for a fourth term, The tall, 79-year-old Pinchot called on the President at the White House this afternoon. Leav.

ing, he handed reporters a statement saying "the choice between Roosevelt and Dewey is like choosing between a veteran leader of many battles and a raw re. cruit Pinchot, who served as Pennsylvania governor from 1923 to 1927 and from 1931 to 1935, voted for Mr. Roosevelt in 1940 but did not support him in his Arst two campaigns. Fung Hwang is one of the four symbolical animals supposed to preside over the destiny of China. 1944 Auto Licenses 24 HOUR SERVICE T.

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