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29 DISTRICT MENLEAVE THURSDAYFOR ARMED UNITSTwenty-nine selectees have boon ordered to report Thursday morninj: for induction into the armed forces by .Fayette County Local Draft Board No. 1, with headquarters in the PostofficeBuilding in North Arch street.The men, who arc located in ConneUsville and South Connells-ville and Conr.cllsville, Buliskin, Saltlick and Springfield townships, wJl report to the board office at 5:30 o'clock Thursdaymorning, prepared to leave aboard the Baltimore Ohio Railroad train at 6:05 o’clock.They will go to Pittsburghwhere they will be inducted, assigned tc* a branch of service and then sen': to a training station to begin thoir military careers.Leaving the same day will be selectees from Dunbar and Perry opoJi a*.The three board* have also ordered registrants to report Friday morning, July 20. lor t'neir pre-induction physical examination:, in Pittsburgh.Tne CcmjeLlsville contingent which will leave July 19 for Pittsburgh for induction into the* armec? foices follows:Palsy nelladonna, 904 Morrell avenue. Connellsviile.Ralph II lien, Connellsviile, R. D. 1.George W. Rilonour, South Connellsviile.Dwight M. Skinner, Mclcroft.Melvin R. Win grove, Scoltdale.Ifr.rohi M. White, Indian Head.Miles E. NeJJ. Detroit, Mich., formerly cf Connellsviile.Paul Zuijovich, South Connells-vLlle.Austin Kotineih Brooks, South Connellsviile.Cliarlcs R. Ilt;irvey, 136 South Eighth street, Coiu'.eilsville.Harold Clayton Bates, 40? Sny- i dor street, Connellsviile. jV?illi run Dascani, Conr.clisville, R. D. 1.Arthur Lee Glass, colored, Con-nellsvillc, F:. D. 2.Daniel Jlt;rdan, 123 West Peach street, Connellsviile.Raymond Christ nor. MountPleasant, H. D. 2.Earl Calvin Mincrd, ConneUs-ville, K. D. i.John W. Schroyer, South Con-nellsvdlc.Melvin B’ooks Rupp, Scotidale, Star Route.Milton Hr.ndrickson, Connells-1 villc, R. D.Rudolph Martucci. 713 South Arch ‘-dree.. Connellsviile.EcUvnrd Voda, South Cormclls-ville.Thomas Z. Dickert. 94 Cropland Court, Gibson Terrace, Connells villc.Fred Gnlln, 510 Second street, Connellsviile..less V/. Sanner. CoatcsviUe, formerly of Connellsviile.Robert Lee Stair.es, 609 Highland avenue, ConneL’sville.William Arndy, Mount Pleasant.James 13, Showman, Barberton, Ohio, formerly of Connellsviile.Thomas O. Sheppard, Mount Pleasant, R. D. 2.Harry W, Davis, 95 Crcssland Court, Gibson Terrace, Connells-vi He.After Three Years, Hokkaido No Longer Safe From YanksBy RICHARD \V. JOIEXSTON United Press Wr? Correspondent.ABOARD U. S. WARSHIP, WITH HALS2VS 3RD PJ-EET OFF HOKKAIDO, July 14— For three years Hokkaido has been sale from the w.t—until today.This was Japan's Mr northern safety zone, [t was just beyond range for B-29 b »mbing armadas from Saipan.It was a l.tUe t- o far for north-ern-bisecf bombers from the Aleutians.This lorested idar.d lies with Us horns perched above Honsnuon the map of Jo »an—and todayAdmiral Wilhsm v. fBuID) Hcl-scy's airmen let th » islanders have it.We came info Hokkaido just as we did into Tok:-o—with a rapidity which the Japanese did not suspect. Aginn 1,000 U, 3.carrier planes fluv over many targets,A pilot who just came hack reported theie was :o airborne rc-s.smr.ee cr^er Hok ::iido, but the ttak was as intons-- as it was *n Tokyo.Hokkaido’s J.Oc-O.OQO people had scon U. S. j lanes befare. They were B-29 .Supei fortresses which were h gu oveihend on reco.-maisancc. But they hud never come cown through the cJouda of miit w uch cling to Hokkaido's mountain peaks as our Corsairs, Hcllc *ts, Avengers and H el Id. vers are doing today.They had never s *en before today these siugle-cr tinged planes which strafed their airfields andt oomber ships aroui i the southern port of Hokorfn-e,They saw them same planes and t € men that were ovir area only four cays ago.today—the -aime n;r-tho TokycResignation Of General Ghemiault In China ReportedBy International N© vs Service.LONDON, July 14 —Reuter reports from Calcutta today indicated that Major G moral Claire CncnnauK, comman-ier of the U. S. 14th Air Force in Asia and China, has res gaed ils post and will return to America.The colorful Army crTicor who organized the now d-funct ‘‘Fly. ir.g Tigers” was quote I by Reuters as say-ng that he plannee to re-ma.n m Chungking until ir.eWASHINGTON, July 14—Men 26 and over vv^io do not measure up to artncd forces physical standards can now change jobs Continued on Page Two.transition to a ne*.v or :anization is = accomplished.The general apparei tly referred lo the recent announcement in Washington that Lieu-enant General George Stratcir.eyer is scheduled to assume command of American Air Fores in the Chinese theater.Pfc. John E. Waller Returns From Europeitti:KTea i d: st B U
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Connellsville Daily Courier
Connellsville, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Jul 14, 1945
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