Navy to Accept Men in College
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox approved new terms to enlist 14 000 college graduates or students for navy reserve commissions. Age limits lowered for apprentice seamen to 19 with top limit under 28, minimum height 65% inches, single status. Junior and senior students may enlist and finish education before active duty. Midshipman training shortened to three months plus a 30 day prep. Up to 7 000 seniors and 7 000 juniors to begin training after next June and in 1943. Recent enlistments listed include John Henry Stephenson and Frank Michael Hiben for regular navy and several reserve recruits across Ohio locations.
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Navy Reserve
Secretary of the Navy
Frank Knox
C. S. Keenan
Navy
Canton
Naval Reserve
John Henry Stephenson
12Th St
Frank Michael Hiben
Housel Ave
Clayton Roy Herrington
Schriver Ave
Clyde Sandon Arnold
S. Archst
Alliance
Howard James Atkinson
High St
Louisville
Samuel Howard Abernathy
East Canton
Gordon Montclair Belknap
Ensign Kintner Ranks 26th in Naval Graduation
Ensign Edwin Earl Kintner of Paris graduated from the U S Naval Academy with high honors and ranked 26th in the top 38. The Pearl Harbor raid altered his first assignment from the destroyer Shaw to the cruiser U S S Trenton after Shaw was sunk. Kintner, editor in chief of The Log and leader of the Midshipmen orchestra, is the son of Paris postmistress Mrs. E F Kintner. Other Ohioans listed among graduates include William Thom reporting Kintner’s rank. Life, the station’s first Negro enlistee in years, joined as a mess attendant.
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Pearl Harbor
Edwin Earl Kintner
Paris
Annapolis Naval Academy
Kintner
E. F. Kintner
Shaw
Knox
U. S. S. Trenton
Stark County Navy
U. S
William R. Thom
Log
Annapolis
Midshipmen
Merry Christmas Planned For Ohio Soldiers At Camp Shelby
Thirteen thousand of Ohio's 37th division will stay in camp for Christmas though furloughs are limited. Maj. Gen. Beightler urges resolve amid a grim world. Trees, gifts, home-style festivities, church services, a noon banquet, and a Christmas ball in New Orleans accompany hospital broadcast chats for shut-ins.
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Associated Presa
Camp Shelby
Miss
Ohio
37Th Division
Robert S. Beightler
America
Turkey
New Orleans
WHAS
Louisville
Hattiesburg
Marion Star workers approve bonds deduction plan
The 65 full-time employees of the Marion Star authorize payroll deductions to purchase defense bonds, a move announced from Marion on December 20 by The Associated Press.
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Marion Paper
Associated Pres
Marion
Marion Star
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Edwin Kintner
Stark
William Iddings
Robert Clayton Purdy
Arlington Ave
Stacey Franklin Trimble
6Th St
Arthur Edward Wall
Beloit
William Abraham Watkins
Erbet
Massillon
Bernard Charles Zwick
Bauman Ct
Adonna Lingerie
Asc
Sunny Tucker
Woo
Healthtex
Cynthia
S&ynthia
of Se
Chenille
J.C. Penny Y Co
HOMER
Cleveland Ave
Third St
Canton Retail Merchants Board
Furniture Division
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