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THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1943 OUR CITIZENS IN UNIFORM A column of news about Washington County men and women who are serving with the Armed Forces. 1f you have a close friend or relative serving in any branch of the Service, why not send us in a little information about him or her, so that it can be used in this column. Send your news items to “The Hagerstown Independent,” P. O. Box 802, Hagerstown, Md., or give it to us over the ’phone. Our number is 3911. Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Bates, 1198|l Virginia Avenue, have two sons in i the Service—Joseph L. and Harry F. | Pfe. Joseph L. Bates joined thc‘f Army in October, 1941, and was as—(‘ signed to the U. S. Engineers Divi sion. He spent about eleven months | in Alaska, during the building of |] the Alcan Highway, and was re- |‘ turned to the United States last|! March. Bates, who prior to joining |] up was employed by the I’otomaci‘ Edison Co., is now stationed at Fm-ttl Lewis, Washington. His address is: | Co. D, 29th Eng. Staging Area, Fort Lewis, Washington. 1 Aviation Cadet Harry F. Bates en- |] listed in the Army Air Corps last|! October. He took his pro-flight[i training at Danville, Va, complot—!j ing the course last January, and was | then given a two-month fur]ough.[l In April he received orders to re- | port to the Air Corps Classification | Center in Nashville, Tenn. He com- | pleted his tour of duty there three | weeks ago, received a pilot classifi- | cation, and was sent to Maxwell | Field, Alabama, for the next lap of | his training. Cadet Bates, whose ad- ' dress is Squadron A, Group 1, AAFPFS. (pilot) Maxwell Field, | Ala, was formerly employed at! Fairchild’s. | ‘ s | | Act. Staff Sgt. Oneita Mary Cross- | white, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.| M. Crosswhite, 302 South Mulberry | Street, who enlisted in the WAAC’s | last February and took her basic | training at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., is | taking a 20-week radio course at] Kansas City, Mo. ’ Sergeant Crosswhite evidently be- | lieves that modern methods are | best, for she recently mailed her| parents a record, which she made at the Kansas City USO, in which she| told her folks how thrilled she was | to be a member of the WAAC’s and | how much she liked the radio work. | Her address is: Aladdin Hotel, | Room 403, Kansas City—6, Mo. i Cpl. Ada Gladys Grove, daughtcrl;‘ of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Grove, 137 Randolph Avenue, another Hagers- | town WAAC who is certainly! thrilled over the opportunity to| serve her Country, has just been | promoted from corporal to mess, sergeant. ! Sergeant Grove enlisted in thcj WAAC on October 1, 1943, took her | basic training at Des Moines, lowa, and while there graduated from the | Cooks and Bakers School. In Jan-f uary she was transferred to her| present base at Fort Oglethorpe, where she took an advanced course, | and last week she wrote home that she had just received her promotion | to mess sergeant, with a mark of 77 out of a possible 78. Sergeant: Grove’s address is: A-302082, 82nd | WAAC Mess Co., 3rd WAAC Trng. | Center, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. ; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kelsh, 115/ Clarkson Avenue, have two sons——t Robert H. and Grayson—and two, sons-in-law Charles A. Doleman and Frank Gant—in the Service. ' Sgt. Robert Henry Kelsh enlisted in the Army about four years ago and is now in the Quartermasters Corps, somewhere in North Africa. The sergeant, who has been overseas since May, 1941, was married short ly before sailing, and during his ab sence, his wife is living at her home in Denver, Colorado. He has writ ten home since the Battle of North Africa and although he could not write much of what happened, he assured his folks that he was well. Sgt. Grayson Kelsh enlisted a short time after Pearl Harbor and Is| now stationed in North Carolina with the Field Artillery. The ser geant’s wife, the former Miss Wini fred Geraldine Scott, daughter of Mr. Fred Scott, Hagerstown, is at present enjoying a visit with her husband, whose address is: Battery C, 732nd Field Artillery, Fort Bragg, N. C. Prior to enlisting, Sergeant Pa.Kekh was employed in Harrisburg, Pvt. Charles Allan Doleman, who married the former Miss Marguerite Ann Kelsh about a year ago, is the ~son of Mrs. Ann Doleman, Hagers town, and prior to entering the Ser ~vice about six months ago, was em ‘ployed by the Koppers Company _here. His address is: Co. L, 512th Truck Reg., Camp Cpl. Frank Gant, formerly from So O out a year : s e, T SR being employed in the Philadelphia |? Ship Yards. Corporal Gant's ad- ! dress is: 390th Port. Batt., APO“ 708, ¢/o Postmaster, San Francisco,v‘ Cal, { i ll Sgt. Charles E. O'Brien, son of | Mr. and Mrs. Clarence O’Brien, 34 | West Side Ave, who was inducted | into the Army Air Corps a year ago, | has been transferred from Blythc,!‘ Cal., to Moses Lake, Wash. Ser-! geant O’Brien, who was employed | by the Jamison Cold Storeage Door | Co. before entering the Service, " married the former Miss Belva |’ Rouzee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.‘ Frank Rouzee, 118 North Locust Street, about two months hc[oru‘ joining up, and has been fortunate | enough to have his wife with him{ nearly all the time. Incidentally, | they have been seeing quite a bit of | these United States. After leaving | Camp Lee, Va., the sergeant was | sent to Florida for basic training and | “his wife joined him there. His next | ‘move was to Salt Lake City; next | to Spokane, Wash.; then to Blyl,hv,: ‘California, and now back to another | section of Washington. { . Sergeant and Mrs. O’Brien are| ' hoping to get home pretty soon, as the sergeant is schedualed to receive | 'a 15-day furlough. In the mean- | ‘time, here is his address: 593rdf |Bomb Sq., 596 Bomb. Gr., A.AB, | | Moses Lake, Washington. ; | . | Eight Veterans To | Get Purple Heart | | Award On Sunday | ~ Military Order To Hold con-!, . vention Here June 26 and 27| | At Hotel Alexander. ' | | | Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord, |. ‘commanding officer of the Thirdf ‘Service Command, has notified | Meyer Berkson, commander of the| iHagerstown Chapter of the Military | Order of the Purple Heart, of his| lacceptance of the invitation to pro-!’ sent Purple Heart awards to eight| 'World War 1 veterans from Wash- | ington County, who were wound(‘d; in action. The awards will be made | during the two-day convention of| {the Order, which will be held in| {Hagerstown next Saturday and Sun- | 'day, June 26 and 27, with headquar- | 'ters at the Hotel Alexander. ‘ | Various business sessions will be | 'held and the convention will closé| |with special ceremonies at the City | Park at 8 p. m. Sunday, conducted | by the Hagerstown Chapter, which | will be open to the public. There | {will be a concert_by the Municipal | |Band, followed by the formal pre-i 'sentation of the new set of Chapter |colors by the Fairchild Employees | | Association Color Guard, and the | \presentation of the Purple Heart| |medals by General Reckord to the| leight Washington County veterans.i /Old Phonograph 'Records Wanted A nationwide drive to collect old phonograph records will get under way on July 3rd, and the Morris| Frock post of the American Legion will handle the drive in Hagerstown. } These old records are used to make new discs, which in turn are sent to members of our Armed Forces all over the world. This |worthwhile project is worked outl |on a non-profit basis and the rec-[ ords are made free of charge by lead ing orchestras and bands. ;l In the drive held a year ago, ienough old records were collected |to make 300,000 new ones, but it is lhoped that this year it will be pos {sible to collect enough old records| to make at least a million new re- | !cordings, all of which will be sent {to army camps at home and abroad. | If you have any old records, turn {them in to the American Legion |Home, 25 West Antietam Street, or| if you have no way to get them | there, just ’phone 2771 and arrange ments will be made to (;ollect them. .| Gushing Visitor And has your .| baby learned to talk yet? ‘ | Proud Parent—Oh, my, yes; we're |teaching him to keep quiet now. ) SRRSO | : Don’t spend your pay in J S bors for scarce civilian i ~ goods. Save, America, and | PRI e e THE GLOBE-INDEPENDENT, HAGERSTOWN, MD. Navy’s Construction Battalions Work Miracles In Building Bases Somewhere out across the Pa cific a small island is buzzing with | activity. Sixty-foot palm trees fall' at the lusty blows of an axe marked “Made in the U. S. A” In their place rise steel trusses that will to-' morrow form the skeleton of a giant Langer. Brawny, bronze-faced men with white Navy caps perched high on their foreheads, skillfully operate huge bull-dozers and un wieldly pile drivers. Out of the water great docks are rising while groups of natives stand staring on the beach, watching the scene around them with amazement and surprise. From every direction Lcomus the sound of men and ma chines at work in the green jungle Emass. l Who are these men? And what are they doing to this lonely coral atoll thousands of miles from the States? They are the SEABEES-—the Na- : \N\TH THE SMI S¢, Q" NN ;;:w? Gy A\ VYS A\ Q) “.,hi,'&" 2‘ \r A ’ O b~ N 4H BN ' & Q. | S PNYe., "‘ o - ‘Qafiy "ll’ \)\‘ © U, ,U-s. NAVY pfic?"o&" ¢ SUREAY oF vARO® * vy’s Construction Battalions. And]: they are engaged in the tremendous- ll ly important task of building onc} of Uncle Sam’s advance naval bases. il The naval arm of seapower con-{ sists of the combined strength of ] ships, men and bases. Stearn war-! ships depend on their bases for fuel, |1 supplies and general maintenance. | And airplanes which have b(_‘comc" a major tenent of naval stra'ogy,il have desperate need of landing ficlds and fuel stops near every | prospective theatre of war. If the | seven seas are to remain open high ways for our fleets at sea and air, a certain number of these bases must be maintained in each of thc[ four quarters of the globe. Com munications still dominate war and‘ the Navy must be ready to strike‘; anywhere at anytime. ! In the year since thev were es-] tablished the Navy Construction | Battalions, the SEABEES, have, achieved a record that has caused their fame to spread around the world. Working with one hand ‘while fighting with the other, these| trade experts have been a vital partl %of practically every major offensive iOf the Nuvy and Macines. Seabeest ‘were with the Marines when they it the beach at Guadalcanal. With rollers and bulldozers they smoothed Henderson airfield be tween raids. l The Navy’s Construction Battal ‘ions are expanding rapidly nine thousand construction workers per imonth are needed by the United States Navy for its construction bat talions, “the SEABEES,” who build and fight for Victory! 1 Men of seventeen and those of thirty-eight to fifty years of age, |are eligible for the SEABEES 'through voluntary enlistment. l A new paln of Voluntary Induc tion is open to men between the' ages of eighteen and thirty-seven { (inclusive) who have had construc- | |tion experience. Men with construc ‘tion experience in this age category who have not been called for induc-' Ition, now have a direct and simpli-' fied approach tc the SEABEES as follows: | First, they should go to theiri nearest Navy Recruiting Station. It |is necessary to take with them three |letters of recommandation from past -nd present employers Thay will be interviewed as to their exper ience in a trade and will be given' the Navy Physical Examination. If they are accepted they will be giv-' en a leitcr to their Draft Board stating that they have qualified for the SEABEES. This letter should be taken to their Draft Board where they volunteer for induction. When the Board gives them their clearance papers they must be taken to the Armed Forces Induction Cen ter, where they will be inducted as an Apprentice Seaman and then as signed to the trade job for which |they qualify, together with its ap- Following this, they will be given |seven days leave and then assigned ,‘to a training center. Applying at ithe Navy Recruiting Station does | not affect a man's present draft stat (us. He is not obligated in any way ;,umil cleared for Volntary Induc | tion by his Draft Board. | Men of Maryland who are not liv '!ing or working in Baltimore or Flk rltm, which have been dclared vital |defense areas by the War Manpow e!cr Commission, may make applica tion for the SEABEES at the fol | lowing N’avy Recruiting Stations: | Baltimore, Md,, Post Office Build ing; Hagerstown, Md., City Hall | Building; Salisbury, Md., Post Of [ fice Building; Cuamberland, Md., |Post Office Building. .| Any Army Recruiling Station can || furnish full information about the \need and similar opportunities for lmen with construction experience .Jin the Army Engineers Corps. Flavored. Dentist—What kind of filling do you want in your tooth? Junior—Chocolate, Prepared For Casey. Murphy What’s that in your pocket? " Pat (in whisper)—Dynamite. I'm waiting for Casey. 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Will you invest—a/l you can—in For the little children of Tepelini and Salonika War Bonds? and Athens who wait with swollen stomachs for the food ship that never arrives, there is nothing else to It’s not so much to ask. Many of us are making do-—but wait. more money than we have for years. The things ‘ : we’d like to buy with that money are scarce—or For the Russian peasant Wlfh no chon.ce but to unavailable. So, we’re asked to Joan money at good burn his home before the Nazis reached it; f.or the interest—s 4 for every $3 when the Bonds mature: Chinese of Nanking who sfufl'ered the terrorism of Money to help pay for the war—keep prices down— the Jap; for all of those in nameless graves and provide peacetime jobs and peacetime goods and a numberless cells—for /l o'f them—there was no generally decent world for all of us when the war second chance, no other choice. is won. But for you—a choice still r¢mains. For yox— Chances are you’re already in the Payroll Savings among all the peoples of the world, the road to Plan—buying War Bonds—doing your bit. But freedom is still clear. don’t stop there. Raise your sights: Do your besz! v ° - ———— £oos] YOUR BONO BUYING THROUGH THE PAYROLL SAVINGS PLAN s * This space is a contribution to America’s all-out war effort by R. M. HAYS & BROS., INC. 28-30 WEST WASHINGTON ST. .} HAGERSTOWN, MD. I Wanted: 3,500,000 Extra Farm Workers I M e e b 2 Y g 2 ’ BT o ,(, '% N ’)Zg/;;/’:f; B s / 7 5%/%’%4/ i bU e e R A% L %4.“;‘19,’%’;(,‘.5"—’;,:;., s Ve % f M\ NN o e S “ At A g //? V. eI e ¥ ? X 5 PR o s 7 T, o 4 Wi . Gone : G Y gl eVP TA o N I, ,-;//;”k; &el B b _’/,_ . * & ;v'%y:vfz 7 y, W ei W J’”“"'h" : /% . v ; W T e N A e i, . gPR2} b p % 5 e oAoi%P % i X D 4 “City Folk” have proved that lh(;y can be effective part-time farm workers, Men and women from offices, stores, and fac tories—3,soo,ooo of them—are needed to harvest the 1943 crop.. The workers in this picture were recruited by the American Women’s Voluntary Services whose Land Army is being raised in cooperation with the U, S, Crop Corps. RPS-OWI PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS TA R S SR LT NI A TP T W NS I B T SR O T T T T PR DON'T TAKE CHANCES ON LOSING YOUR LAUNDRY! ' LAUNDRIES ARE WORKING OVERTIMES AND MISTAKES WILL HAPPEN Complete with your name, ready for stamping on your laundry; indelible ink and pad. - Hagerstown Stamp & Engraving Co. 6 SOUTH POTOMAC ST. ’PHONE 1877 PAGE THREE