Men of Athens County No 1 Area Accepted for Armed Forces
Forty five of the men who left for preinduction physicals in Clarksburg W Va were accepted for service. Thirty three were Navy acceptable, 11 Army general service, and one Army limited service. Names and addresses of those accepted by the Navy and Army are listed, with transfers noted for Navy acceptees and Army general service transfers. All await induction calls.
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Athens Messenger
Athens
Ohio
Athens County No. 1
Clarksburg
W. Va
Office of
Athens County Selective Service Board No. 1
Navy
Army
Dover
Trimble Townships
Loren Rodney Phillips
Niles
Carl Gabriel
Edward Eugene Welch
Trimble
Harold Elliott Lucas
Dayton
William Clarence Channell
the Plains
Charles W. Barnhart
Marion
Arnold Lionel Maxwell
Worthington
Pearl Hobart Misner
Mantua
Courtney H. Pettit
West Carrollton
Ollie Townsend Shouse
Union St
Lloyd Francis Wade
Chauncey
Richard Morgan Stanley
Samuel Francis van Ness
Columbus
William Harison Goins
John Warren Tolson
Nelsonville
Max Berle Peden
Wilmington
Donald Martin Bolin
John Forrest Wise
N. Court St
John William Roberson
Montrose Ave
Harold Edwin Umbarger
S. Congress St
Lawrence Albert Malone
Summit St
Glouster
Lawrence Edwin Peck
Pratts Fork
James Edward McMullen
N. Shafer St
Shift to War Work Is Slow
Columbus Ohio war manpower commission director E L Keenan said last week the shift of 4-F registrants from less essential employment to war jobs remains relatively slow. He urged 4-F workers to seek war jobs to ease broader draft pressures and noted a compliance program to strengthen employment stabilization reporting to the U S Employment Service.
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Columbus
E. L. Keenan
Ohio War Manpower Commission
WMC
Keenan
U. S. Employment Service
Local WWII Service News Highlights Veterans and Transfers
Prolific notice lists sailors and soldiers from Athens County in or awaiting duty. Ernest A. Lucas, praised for Pacific patrols and two commendations, heads to Norfolk aboard a destroyer escort. Other residents complete training, ship out, or report overseas from Fort Knox to Memphis, Great Lakes, Sicily, England, and beyond.
Roscoe Simmons Dies Of Accident Injuries
Roscoe Jack Simmons 41 a painter for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad died in a Portmouth hospital from injuries after a fall from a bridge at Sciotoville where he worked his home was near Coolville he leaves two brothers and five sisters with funeral arrangements not yet set. Killed by Train in Marion Mrs Gertrude High 55 fatally struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad freight train while walking along the track.
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Coolville
Roscoe
Jack) Simmons
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Porttmouth
Sciotoville
Torch
Lawrence
Wilbert
Lora Clem
Ella Butcher
Weston
W. Va
Irene Brownfield
Marion
Gertrude High
Pennsylvania Railroad
Remembering Snow of 1901 in Morgan County
An Athens weather note recalls a heavy 24 inch snowstorm on April 19 1901 observed by assessor H A Wooley eight miles from Glouster. He says spots still showed snow in May and locals prefer today’s 60 degree noon heat to that winter. Weathers recorded 0.21 inch rainfall yesterday.
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Athens
H. A. Wooley
Foster St
Half of U. S. Negro Soldiers Overseas
Secretary Stimson says about 50 percent of America's Negro troops are overseas or en route. In a Congressional Record letter Rep. Ludlow cites responses to discrimination complaints. Of troops overseas 32 percent serve in combat and combat support roles.
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Washington
America
Stimson
Rep. Ludlow
D-Ind
Congressional Record
WCTU Praises MacArthur Anti-Scotch Ruling
EVANSTON Ill Gen Douglas MacArthur rejects Maj Richard I Bong accepting a case of Scotch whisky as a reward for shooting down 27 enemy planes. The WCTU calls the move gratifying and hails MacArthur as a moral leader.
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Evanston
Ill
Douglas MacArthur
Richard I. Bong
America
Women's, Christian Temperance Union
MacArthur
Ida B. Wise Smith
WCTU
Rorick Family News As Sons Serve Abroad
Nation at the U S Naval Training Station Great Lakes trains, with Gene Rorick returning to Washington after a weekend with his parents Mr and Mrs Roe Rorick Athens Route 2. Arthur serves in New Guinea and Carl in Italy. Pfc James Hooper at Camp McCoy spent a furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs Fred Hooper Athens Route 5 and his wife Frances works in Columbus. A family dinner at the Hooper home reported with several relatives in attendance.
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John R. Smith
Lath- Top
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
D. D. Smith
Broadwell
Albert
166Th Infantry
Amos F. Priest
Cpl
Jess E. Nagle
Cora Nagle
Athens
Gulfport Field
Miss
LaCrosse
Wis
Alliance
Nebr
Lee Beasley
USNR
Cleveland
Ralph Beasley
S. McKinley Ave
Sgt
Paul Beasley
E. Union St
U. S. Naval Training Station
Great Lakes
Gene Rorick
Washington, D. C
Roe Rorick
Roricks
Arthur
New Guinea
Carl
Italy
James Hooper
Camp McCoy
Fred Hooper
Frances
Curtiss-Wright
Columbus
Hooper
Ben Hooper
Jane Hooper
Pontiac
Mich
Frank Hooper
John Pedigo
Janice
Bonnie
Eugene
Ed Sycks
Lavena
Thelma
Margaret
Jackie Sycks
Bennie Hooper
Mary Rivers
Shade
Jim
Clifford Wade
Evelyn Lonas
William Holderman
Walter Stiers
James Wade
Ann Skinner
Thelma McCann
Canaanville
Arthur Fresh
Barbara Lonas
William Lonas
Lucille Dennis
Seaman
Tommy Dennis
U. S. Coast Guards
New York
Kenneth Wade
Dennis
Wounded Can't Wait Urges Blood Donors in County
Dr. Carl A. Frey, Athens County Red Cross Blood Donor Service chair, urged residents to donate as 540 volunteers are needed for the county. A mobile unit arrives from Columbus May 1 to 5, with blood plasma in urgent demand from battle fronts. Register now by calling Mrs. Ruth Herbert at the health office, phone 955, to make an appointment.
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America
Carl A. Frey
Athens County
Red Cross Blood Donor Service
Blood Donor Service
Columbus
Frey
Ruth Herbert
Poston Social and Personal News Roundup
Local social notes list gatherings and visits among the Poston area families. Families including the Sycks Hoopers Wade Fograssy and others hosted Easter and farewell events at homes and the Poston schoolhouse, with relatives traveling from Pontiac Columbus Akron Sandusky and New York.
Fines for Reckless Driving and Intoxication in Athens
Mayor Franz Woodworth fines two individuals today. Denver Stover, 20, from Athens Route 2, pays $25 and costs for reckless driving. Ivan Welch, 29, from Athens Route }, is fined $5 and costs for intoxication.
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Denver Stover
Athens
Ivan Welch
Franz Woodworth
Edward H Russell Celebrates 23rd Birthday Aboard USS North Carolina
Edward H Russell SF 2-c son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Russell Athens Route 3 observed his twenty third birthday April 12 aboard the battleship USS North Carolina. A Chauncey-Dover High School graduate he enlisted December 12 1941 and has not returned home on leave. he remains in the Pacific.
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Edward H. Russell
SF 2-c
Thomas Russell
Athens
North Carolina
Chauncey-Dover
Navy
Pacific
Cuckler Rites Held in Syracuse Funeral
The funeral for David T. Cuckler aged 67 was held Monday at Finsterwald Funeral Home with Rev. William Steen officiating. Burial followed at Wells Cemetery Downington. The piece notes accompanying relatives and local events including storm damage and visits.
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Syracuse
David T. Cuckler
Finsterwald
Liam Steen
Junction City
Wells Cemetery
Downington
D. B. Williams
Holzer Hospital
David T. Duckler
Donald Graves
James
Ruth Ann
Eva Nelle
David Cuckler
Keith
George
Canton
Reid Jenkinson
Joe
Columbus
John Cuckler
Akron
Owen Bartram
Huntington
William Steen
Mollie Clark
Marjorie Moore
Pt. Pleasant Chemical Plant
van Johnson
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Janes Furnes Wolfe
Wolfe St
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Edward Townsend van Dyke
Point Pleasant
John Floyd Rankin
Millfield
Edward John Moleski
Joseph Edward Tinkham
Karl Edward White
Hudson
Albert John David
Detroit
Willard Adams
Clarence Woodrow Sherwood
Gardner Purdy Hogie
Portsmouth
Mavin Edward Murphy
Harry Lee Coon
John Madison Jackson
William Edward North
First St
Herman Vance McKibben
William Monroe Johnson
John Spicer Dalton
Grand Park
Conrad — Clouston
Ernest A. Lucas
U. S. Navy
Lucas
San Diego
Calif
Dutch Harbor
Attu
Okhotsk Sea
Japheld Paramoshiri Island
Submarine Service
Norfolk
Verna Mulpas
Poston
Perry Lucas
Burwell
Beatrice Martin
Consolidated Aircraft Plant
Robert Sherman McDaniel
New Plymouth
Aviation Ordnanceman
Naval Air Technical Training Center
Memphis
Tenn
Robert L. McGraner
Mrs
Elva McGraner
Armored Replacement Training Center
Fort Knox
Frederick R. O'Nail
Helen F. O'Nail
Charles Hudnell
Mildred Hudnell
Albany
Wilbur Young
Juanita Young
David E. West
Drew Field
Fla
Edward West
Private West
Camp Crowder, Mo
A. H. Brooks
Pvt
Ivan L. McLeod
Camp Bark
Eley
Tex
Fort Sam Houston
Athens High School
Ohio University
E. W. Swisher
Guysville
Lieut
Glenn E. Swisher
Dale Dye, Jr
Dale Dye
Carpenter
Fairport Harbor
Boston
LOT
Sicily
Anzio
States
North Africa
South America
Walter V. Swett
England
Liverpool
Altringham
Manchester
Glennis Foughty
C. E. Foughty
Eva Foughty
California
Eddie Lou Howery
Columbia High School
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Shirley F. Howery
Floyd W. Casto
Cheshire
Route 2
Tank Destroyer Replacement ‘Training
North Camp Hood
Texas
Hoyt McAfee
R. H. McAfee
Army Air Corps
Sergeant McAfee
Curtiss Wright Corp
Raymond Augustine
Pte
Raymond Dewey Augustine
Bowman Field
Maxton
N. C
Paul James
Pfc
Glennis Karns
Paul Edwin Kimes
Florence Adena Kimes
E. State St
Roscoe Simmons
Athens, Ohio
United States
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
the City
Fred Sanders
Court St
U. S
M’arthur
Alec Fograssy
Matila
Isabelle
Susan Fograssy
Clinton Bartlett
Della West
Bartletts
Bartlett
Susanna South
Deliah Edwards
Ethel McDaniel
E. Stanley Haller
East State St
Keystone Custodian Funds
Roy E. Hawk & Co
Investment Securities
Dana Hysel
da Quisenberry
Annie Will
Lawrence Schmitt
Ohio Methodist
Lawrence Sellers
R. B. Sellers
Larry
White House
Berry Hotel
Are A Finance Corporation
Athens Pharmacy
Rardin Bros
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