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8 -Raleigh Register, Tuesday July 17, 10-15.i‘Jungle Jim’ Coming HomeWhitesville Plans GiantRally For Lazon GuerillaC r chlevBy GEORGE ARMSTRONGRegister Staff WriterCaptain Frank Jungle Jim' Gyovai, who for three long years fought the Japanese in the Philippines as a guerilla while his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Steve Gyovai, of Red Dragon, thought him dead, will be given a rousing home coming at a bond rally reception at Whitesville on July 29.Gyovai, who w as a privatewhen he was reported missinupon the fall of Corrcgidor and received his rank of captain after his liberation, will share honorsC. Conner, jr., ofJ.. who command-3.000 hill-dwelling Americans \uthwith Major H. East Orange, N ed the band of Negritos andParents of both men have received insurance payments from the Verhovay associationThe first news that Frank was not dead but a very-much alive menace to the Jap^ came when his sister. Margaret Gyovai, an employe of the office of defense transportation in Washington, D. C\, on Februarv 1 read a dispatch written by Frank Hewlett, United Press war correspondent, and published in the Washington Time.--Herald.“1 could hardly believe my eyes, Margaret declared after reading the -torv which stated:“Pvt. Frank Gyovai was onei eishtinW-duteiofoffCaMriniof the six barefoot Americans.GaNaSalt;TenieBoone county manwhom thelought.The reception and bond rally, being planned by Branch 482 of Whitesville and branch 25 ofMount Hope of the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance association, will be conducted at 2 p. m. July 29 in the Whitesville high school auditorium with Peter S, Canady, of Cnarleston, manager of the foreign department of the Kanawha Valley bank, as master of ceremonies.Invitations to attend the auspicious occasion sent out by Louis Gall, of the Whitesville Verhovay branch, have been tentatively accepted by U. S Sena tax Harlcv M. Kilgore, State Senator Alney M. Hall, G. J. Beidcnmiller, of Huntington, treasurer of thebearded, tired marched up the the fias heldbut happy, who Luzon plain with on a bamboopolirrfcinm yclthcv walked backhadpri-thehadforofalsterlev*CrcCleWosur! Rolt;from Frankcame short-that he was■VGlogora coal company, WilliamBlizzard, secretary of district 17 of the United Mine Workers, Circuit Judge Ben H. Ashworth, of Beckley, Dr. Tibor Kerekes, executive secretary of (he Amcr-ican-Hungarian Federation, and S. J Shelton, member of the Boone county board of education.John J. Mates, of Washington,D. C., representative of the international office of the United Mine Workers, in answer to an invitation to John L. Lewis, indicatedthat a representative of the International U.M.W. office might attend.The welcome will have a -olemnnote with the presentation by the Verhovay association of oil portraits to the parents of two soldiers killed during the war in line of duty.One of the portraits is of Pvt. James Gyovai, brother of the hero of the occasion who was killed in a plane crash over northern Ireland, and the other is of John ■Nagy, of Mount Hope.equ be T tonfiliianconinto the American lines Gyovai and his guerilla participated in a raid on theson camp on Luzon and American flag they carried been kept sewn in a pillow three years and had never touched the ground in three years of Japanese occupation.“I had hoped that he wmuld be one of the prisoners who were released, but this was even better news, Margaret said.The first personnal message the Gyovai family heard since December, 1941, ly after the discovery still alive.Written on January 30, 1945, onan ordinary sheet of loose leaf notebook paper, the letter was brief but full of longing for home. ‘ado “Hello everyone, Gyovai wrote.“I guess you will be rather surprised to hear from a little boy that has been missing for three years. Didn’t I tell mother and dad when they came down to Fort Knox, Ky., to see me that 1 would be back and that I was able to take |care ol myself?”“The past 3 years experience is one long story and I could write letter alter letter and not cover it all, so I’ll wait until I get home and tell you about it. I don’t think j that even Frank Buck’s hair-raising experiences—or anyoneelse’s — have anything on me.\ esterdav was one of the happiest moments of my life. 1 am in good i health and raring to celebrate.Im anxious to gel all the newsfrom home. I guess I’ve beenmore worried about mother’s and dad s health than I was about myself at times. I ani anxious to hear sub j how things have been going at Icon home for the past three years!| with my friends and relatives. I law don’t know as yet when I’ll be:od home. When 1 come the first thing stal I want to try some of mother’s!and cooking. I hope you are well and pov happy and ready to celebrate with Aur me.” | by“Love and best wishes to all.” ami“Frank or Jungle Jim.” yeaWell, “Jungle Jim now is com- ! tior home, and in addition to the j T ■rousing wecomc being panned fox j pol ! him, there’ll be plenty of what sueTnee disc the and fror Pcorr min sug;T a ws sue! , thatling’the; j vv h clysupmmTreccmg
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Beckley Raleigh Register
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Tue, Jul 17, 1945
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