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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8. 194050 MORE CONSCRIPTEES GIVEN QUESTIONNAIRES FOR SELECTIVE SERVICEDraft county,Questionnaires have been issued to a second group of 53 consciip-in the area sehred by Local orad No. } 0f Fayette _. increasing to 1Q0 the total who win be required to till out v.e blanks and' retubi them to the board office m the Postofficc - Balding wtthiji five days.The questionnaires will be used in the classification of the registrants according to their availability for compulsory mihtazy training as provided by the Selective Service Act.The registrants are advised that neither the board personnel nor its clerical force can assist in filling out th© forme. The individual , must look after the form himself or consult the legal advisor lor the draftees.The additional 50 for whom . Questionnaires were placed in the mails Thursday afternoon follow: Robert Weddy Armen, 145 West b aimew avenue.Harry Benjamin Martin, MeJ-croft,Roy Emerson Battenfield, 220 East South Street.Harry Reed Pirlf 221 East Apple street.George Albert Rummel, Box 309, Connellsville, R. D. 2.Tony Eonadio, 112 West Crawford avenue.John Harold Lerch. 832 Morrell avenue.Donald Duscani, Box 3 90-A, Connellsville, R. D. 1.Roy Anthony Siesky, 106 West Patterson avenue.George Leonard Berkey. Con-SwitzerlandTightens Belt For Tough WinterUy United Pres*.ZURICH, Switzerland, Nov. B.— Switzerland, entirely surrounded by nations at war and subject to the European blockade, today tightened her belt to face a winter of shortened rations.Rationing of food has been extended and a limit placed on quantity purchases, Even dairy products, one . of Switzerland's chief agricultural standbys, have been placed under state control. Purchase of woolen goods has been prohibited under an order effective at midnight last night. .The order applies to thread, yarn, Piece goods, blankets, knitted goods and clothes.However, best available information from official sources indicates that Switzerland still has an ijmple food reserve. Food re-strtctions are spreading but do net pmch the average citizen.This yeai's wheat harvest was good despue the mobilization of large numbers of peasant youth. Combined with the wheat reserves set aside in, the first year of war, present wheat supplies were consider^ sufficient lo carry the country until the next harvest. Wheat cultivation will be extended, with government support, by 30,000 acres next year, and urintffr
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Connellsville Daily Courier

Connellsville, Pennsylvania, US

Fri, Nov 08, 1940

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