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TrainingSome are War Widows.Some are Blue Star Mothers.Some have boy friends, brothers, relatives at the frontwho need guns, ammunition,supplies.All of them expect to taketheir place in American industry to help win the war.Those are the women who are enrolled in the pre-employment shop training courses now in progress at Defiance high scnool.Those are the women who will take their places beside more than 225 other men and women who have been trained for war work by the high school since classes first started in March of |1941.! Most of them have a personal interest in helping to win this war.FOR INSTANCE, there’s Mrs.Ethel Reed, 225 Fales street. Mrs. Reed is a Three Star pupil— two gold, one blue.The gold stars are for her brothers—Elvai and Mahlon Stitsel who gave their lives in the service of the U. S. Merchant Marine.Eivan was killed Feb. 15 whenan explosion of 3,000 gallons of gasoline on the tanker Point Breeze in Long Island Sound blew him overboard. Mahlon, j second officer on the tanker, W. D. Anderson, was killed a week later when his ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic.Mrs. Ethel Reed. 225 Fales street, taking the pre-employment shop training course at Defiance high school, had two brothers in the Merchant Marine and her husband now is in the Army.In the photo she is practicing use of a micrometer.The blue star is for her husband. Oaylord F. Reed, who was drafted Sept. 25 and sent to Camp Robinson, Ark.Perhaps there should be another star' for her sister-in-law, Miss Wanda Teeple, Henry ! street, who takes care of Mrs.Class lor Women War WorkersNow Has Opening forAt present, the evening class . shops Just as soon as they com- f j in shop training for women at plete their fundamental training, j Defiance high school from 5 to i Several women have been called t1n _ .. .. „ _ 11 p. m. is ready to enroll 10 new to jobs a week after their train-t _ _______ | trainees and the morning class ing started. Many of them startwhich meets from 6 to 10:30 a.»to work at 55 and 60 cents an m. has room for 15—a total of 25. hour.Lee, five nights a week so that Mrs. Reed can train herself for war work.THEN THERE’S Mrs. RuthVacancies occur daily as can- I Of the more than 225 persons didates are taken into Defiance trained so far, 75 per cent were, „ „ . u . 4 M _ , . . .. placed directly from the class, Coffman, 1211 Schultz street. 39- m. to 5 p^ m. each day at the room lnto Industry. Allbutafew, year old mother of seven chil- Holablrd Co., drives to Defiance of the other 25 cent havedren, who enrolled ast week to enter class at 7 p m trains cured bg as a dlrMt rMn,tHer brother, Lt. Franklin until lip. m., and gets back to thpir frainin„Beardsley, was killed Feb. 9 in Bryan by midnight.an automobile accident at Camp ! Shelby, Miss. Three haif-broth-ers are with Uncle Sam—Earl Beardsley, Great Lakes, 111.; Sgt. Robert Beardsley, somewhere over seas with the 37th. and Richard Beardsley, with the Army Air Corps in Alabama.Her eldest son, Rodger, 20, was ! with the National Guard at iMrs. Studenka and her husband, William, bring a groupof four other Bryan gins, ail of whom work eight hours a i day at regular jobs, to Deft- 1 ance with them. The sextet are being trained for the Aro Equipment Co., Bryan.THERE’S Mrs. Donald Hughes,Applications are filed with theU. S. Employment Service here1 which has girls from Bryan. t Paulding, Van Wert and other s surrounding towns on the list, j c Classes are free. Since their inception in 1941, the school has! s trained NYA groups and super- e vised two classes at the CCC_ „ „ ^ , 117 E. High street, whose hus- miimPntcCamp Shelby before his enlist- band is with a technical group,camp in addition to the adult en-1 ^ment expired. He expects to be u s. Army Signal Corps, Sandydrafted soon.Hook, N. J. Even though she Mrs. Coffman hopes to Join her has been deaf three years, she husband, Melvin A. Coffman, at receives instruction through theMINERS ADOPTthe Defiance Machine Works Qf a hearing device andwhen her training is complete.hopes to overcome her handicap and do her part in the Defiance war effort.The stories go on endlessly,SIX-DAY WEEKFOR some of the women, thetraining means real effort. i There’s Mrs. Ann studenka. 27. changing each day as new candi-of Bryan, who works from 8 a. dates enter the classes.Convention Resolution AsksTime and One-Half forOil
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The Crescent-News
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Wed, Oct 14, 1942
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