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-* JI riti on. won in: unsuccessfuly in the spring oi \i Increase veterans unemploy- 11)14. it- - - — — - - —— — — - .........— —------------~---------- *cVIasWhitesville Hero To Beyid 1 •Honored At Bond Rallyt u: Ji R■siPCap!-tin Frank “Jungle Jim' be buck and that. I was able to lakeGyovai, who (or three long years caie of myself.UAc:The past 3 years experience is pih fought the Japanese in the PhiJjp-I pines a a guerrilla while his par- one long story and J could write ent , Mr and Mrs. Steve Cyovai, letter after letter and not cover itti-oi Red Dragon, thought him dead, all, so I’ll wait until I get home Qlhi,clyl.irwill he given a rousing home comat a bond rally reception at Whitesv ille on July 29.mgand tell you about it. I don’t think that even Frank Buck’s hair-raising experiences—orstjblt;anyone titGyovai, who was a when he was reported missing upon the fall of Corrcgidor andprivate else’s have anything on me. nicUno Yesterday was one of the happiestolmoments of my life. I am in goodreceived his rank of captain after health and raring to celebratenhis liberation, will share honorswith Major H. C. Conner, jr., ofFast Orange, N. J , who command-l m anxious to get all the news fioin home. 1 guess I’ve been more worried about mother’s andthStAnrd the band of 3,000 hill-dwelling f|ad s health than I was about my-n1.nIINegritos and Americans with whom the Boone county man fought.self at times. 1 am anxious to hear how things have been going at home for the past three years ,,, , . . . with my friends and relatives. 1I he reception and bond rally, (i(„rt know as yct whcn rn bc.home. When I come the first thing1 want 1o try some of mother’sbeing planned by Branch 482 ol Whitesville and branch 25 of Mountt(be conducted .it 2 p. m. July 29 in the Whitesville high school auditorium with Peter S. Canady, of C’harle ton, manager of the for-lounf liope of the Veihovay b t a- (.(K)|lt;in„ j hope you are well and , Miial limitance association, will happy and ready to celebrate withme.* I“Love and best wishes to all.“Frank or Jungle Jim.Well, “Jungle Jim” now is corneign dej artment of the Kanawha ina home, and in addition to theorRlt;d.WofettttValley bank, as muster of ceremonies.Invitation^ to attend theauspicious occasion sent out by Louis Gall, of the Whitesville \ erhovay branch, have been tentatively accepted by U. S. Senator Harley M. Kilgore, Statr Senator Alney M. Hall, G. J. Beidenmiller, of Huntington, treasurer ot theGlogora coal company, William Blizzard, secretary of district 17rousing wecome being panned for him, there’ll be plenty of what he’s been longing for — mother’scooking.THREE COUNTY MENTO GO TO PACIFICthFimmMn rheICpl. Joe Garnetti, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Milano, of Glen ,, .. .. , ... ... , ~ White: Cpl Charles Griffith, hus-ol ho United Mine Workers, Cir- , , Mr Cha,.lcs c„ltmh,cuit Judge Ben H. Ashworth, of . P(l. paBerkley, Dr. Tibor Kerekes, executive secretary of the Amer-Beckley; and Pfc. James P. Farley, son of Winfred Farley, of Daniels, are now enroute to the Unit-ican-Himsartan Federation, and S. Stales from overseas and areJ Shelton, member ot the Booneotceretha VPlt;511B(_ county board ot education.being processed at Camp Atlantain Northeastern France, as mem-John J. Mates of Washington, thc' n'-t ETO Tnwred di-D. C., representative of the inter-t.r1inational office ol the United Mine Workers, in answer to an invitation to John L Lewis, indicatedvision to be ordered to the Pacific.They served with the 13th Armored division in the Battle of.. . , , .. , . the Ruhr Pocket and in the drivedial it representative of the Inter- thioush Bavaria into Austria.riMf lonal I? Ivl Yv miP I a • . ....1national U.M.W office might attend.The welcome will have a olemn note with the presentation by theAll will be given furloughs before the division begins its training for action in the Pacific.Verhovay association of oil portraits to the parents of two sol diers killed during the war in lineof duty.One of the portraits is of Pvt. James Gyovai, brother ol tire hero of the occasion who war killed mCANTEEN DONATEDclt;E. J: W on pr in2 TRAIN TICKETSAiofThe committees in charge atthe Raleigh count\ servicemen’sa plane crash over northern Ire- ,‘;ink'f,n havlt;? Dvo train tickets onland, and the other is of John Nagy, of Mount Hope.Parents ot both men have received insurance payments from ’ the Verhovay association.The lust news that Frank wasnot dead but a very-much alive menace to the Japs came when his sister, Margaret Gyovai, an employe of the office ot defensetransportation in Washington, D C , on February 1 read a dispatchwritten by Frank Hewlett, UnitedPn ss war correspondent, and published m the Washington Times-| Herald“1 could hardly believe my eyes, Margaret declared after reading the story which stated: “Pvt. Frank Gyovai was one ot the six barefoot Americans, bearded, tired but happy, who marched up the Luzon plain with the flag held high on a bamboo pole, singing as they walked backinto the American lines.Gyovai and his guerrillas had participated in a raid on the prison camp on Luzon and the American flag they carried hadbeen kept sewn in a pillow forthree years and had never touched the ground in three years of J* anese occu pa11on.“i had hoped that ho wouldbe one of the prisoners who were released, but this was even better news,*’ Margaret said.Fhe tirsl personnal message the Gyovai family heard from Frank since December, 1941, came shortly alter the discovery that he wasI still alive,j' Written on Jan ordinary shand for servicemen who may find a need for them.Pharmacists Mate Robert Ashworth, ot Berkley, now stationed with the navy at Harvard university, Boston, Massachusetts, sent a ticket from Hinton to Washington, D. C., to Mrs. W. A. Burke, generalchairman, recently, saying “maybe some boy in the service could use the furlough ticket,” and private Lula Faye Dillon, ot Oak Hill, who visited at the canteen left a ticket from Cotton Hill to Richmond, Virginia.Private Dillon is stationed with a W.A.C. medical unit at March Field, California,tinetovireiswiExamination Set Forwl.soGio f WarviJ.PiMarfrance PostmasterLEWISBURG, July 17 — Thecivil service commission has called an examination of aspirants tor the appointment of postmaster .it Marfrance. Applications dost onAugust 2 The olfiee pays $1,028 a year.Rcryvilt hiJ:ip-Jumping Branch ManSustains Head InjuryHINTON, July 17 L, D. Hatcher, of Jumping Branch, sustained a head injury Monday while at work for the Ball Lumber company, and was brought to the Hinton hospital for treatment.i Vise:P.Stmbi•IKn*1 n u 8 ry JO, 1945, o11. , hect of loose leafebook jKiper, the letter was r- full of lnn-ifi^ for home, 'Hello everyone/’ Gyovai wrote,^up;s y ou \\ i!| be rathered to hear from a little has been missHu for threes. D’dn’t 1 telj *rother and when they came down to FortMARRIAGE LICENSESLEWISBURG, July 17 The following marriage licenses have been granted at the oft ice oi tin countv clerk: Arthur Hentv Funstir-boyand Grace LaRue Fleshman, bothot White Sulphur Springs; Time Albert Livesay of Clifton Forg. \’a . and France Ellinor Brown of)rgan Cave( I* *Kvsee me that 1 wouldNI W STAMP
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Beckley Post Herald
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Wed, Jul 18, 1945
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