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No Beckley wns Yet Listed as Dead or Wounded in Pearl Harbor Bombing There was still no word today from more than 20 local youths already reported in the war zone, but one Beckley family learned of the safe arrival in California of a nephew who left Hawaii a few days before the outbreak of hos tilities. Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Fleshman received a telegram from his nephew, A. C. Fleshman, saying that he had landed in California after leaving Pearl Harbor on De cember 3, and that his wife and two small children left December 4 and arrived Tuesday on a liner. Fleshman, who has been a me chanic with the naval air force for the past 11 years, made his home with his uncle here before en listing. He had been stationed at Pearl Harbor for the past two years, and his wife and children had been with him during his en tire stay there. He will go to Seattle, Wash., where he was previously transfer red, and his family will arrive Sunday at the home of Mrs. Fleshman’s mother, Mrs. Charles Sweetston, at Talcott. A list of 37 additional soldiers lost in the Japanese attack on Hawaii Sunday announced today by the war department, brought the total to 158, and named three West Virginians. Those on the new list, swell ing to seven the state’s roster of casualties, are Corporal Claude I. Bryant, of Summersville; Pri vate Robert L. Hall, of Wheel ing; and Private Russell P. Vidoloff, of Mahan, Fayette county. Other wartime developments in the state included notification re ceived by Adjutant General Carle ton C. Pierce, acting selective ser vice officer, that men with pre vious military service must be re classified. Such men have been deferred and placed in class 4-A. A second suggestion that anti aircraft guns be stationed around vital spots in West Virginia such as the Kanawha valley — which houses a multi-million dollar chemicals industry—was made by David Giltinan of Charleston, sec retary of the state board of aero nautics. Giltinan made public a letter to U. S. Senator Harley M. Kilgore of aircraft units and fighter planes be stationed in the state. He asserted that enemy bombers could start at Gauley Bridge and bomb Kanawha Valley industries through its entire length “with nothing to stop them.” In the meantime, the formation of civilian defense organizations was carried out in some state cit ies while others—their councils es tablishing air raid warning and ready organized—laid plans for protection service, medical assist ance, rescue squads,and the like. Restrictions made necessary by the war blocked more than a score of aliens in their plans to become citizens of the United States. Edward J. Kennedy, immigra tion and naturalization service ex aminer, said at Charleston that nearly half of a class of 56 peti tioners scheduled to appear in fed eral court today would have to delay. Kennedy explained that new regulations require Germans and Italians to give 90 days notice to the immigration service through the clerk of the court in order that the department of justice may have time to investigate. The governor's office was notif ied by the council of state gov ernments that all activities per taining to the apprehension and detention of enemy aliens will be “handled and handled only by fed eral authorities.” Governor Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota, president of the coun cil, told Governor Neely in a tele gram that it was “of the utmost importance” that such measures be directed by the federal bureau of investigation and the department of justice to avoid complications. All state and municipal law en forcement agencies were requested to make all reports and suggestions directly to the F.B.I. and refrain from taking direct action with re spect to the roundup of aliens. The state federation of labor sent a letter to President Roose velt promising the “whole-hearted support” of its members until a “complete victory is won” over the Japanese. The letter, signed by President Thomas Cairns and other officials, pointed out that many A.F.L. workmen have suffered for some time “from importation of china and glassware from Japan, so now if there is any way we can assist x x we will gladly do so x x.”
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Beckley Raleigh Register
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Fri, Dec 12, 1941
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