li Thursday, October 21, 1943. PATTON NEWS BRIEFS Mr. and Mrs, William H. Gwynn, 8r., have. received word that uneir two sons have met “somewhere in North Africa.” smce November, 1942, and left ior overseas in June of 1943. Pre, Ar- thur 1. Gwyun entered his country’s service in May of 1942 and saileu 11 July of 1943. Neither brother knew of the whereabouts of the other. Capt. George l. Dvorchak of the Mewical Letacnment of Camp Van Corn, Mississippi, 18 spending a fur- Jough with his iather, John Lvorchak Sr., of Third Avenue. An initiation of new members will be given by Court Our Lady of Vice tory No. 722, Catholic Daughters of America, on Sunday afternooun, ucto- ber 24th at 3 p. m,, in the K. of C. rooms, Barnesvoro. At this time lo reception or dinner will be given in honor of the new candidates, but at a later date the new class will be tendered a banquet. Pfc, Garvey Weakland, of the U. S. Army, stationed at Red Bank, N. J,, spent a week end leave with his par- cuts, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Weak- land of Chest Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Flick of Chest Springs, announce the birth oi a daughter, named Marjorie Marie. Pvt. Roy McConnell of Fort Jack- son, S. C., spent a furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs, Roy McCon- pvell of Chest Springs. Fireman First Class Thomas Shultz of the Great Lakes Naval Training School, Illinois, is spending a fur- lough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Car! Shultz of Chest Springs. Mrs. P. J. Yeckley and Mrs. George Cunningham have returned home af- ter spending the past week with Mrs. Yeckley’s daughters, Mrs. Jos- epn Kinney, and Larraine Yeckley at Media, Pa. Week end visitors at the home of Mr .and Mrs. Harry Baker of Pat- ton were Mrs. Leonard Baker of Pat- ton and Mrs. Francis Baker and chil- dren of Johnstown. hurt | BUY YOUR WINTER CLOTHES FOR MEN AND BOYS LAST YEAR'S PRISES YOUR MONEY BACK IF NOT SATISFIED JOE'S CUT-RATE STORE Barnesboro | Mrs. Edgar West and daughter, Vivian Lee, Mrs. Louis Baker and son, Lewis, Jr.,, and Miss Martha Ba | | ker, all of Washington, D. C., are spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Baker of Patton. | | A chicken supper will be served in| the St. Augustine Church Hall or| Pvt. Wilham H. | the benefit of the St. Augustine | to guard Army Air Force bombers Gwynn, Jr, has been in the army |Church on Sunday, October 24th, at| was graduated recently from the Har- [5 o'clock, which will be preceded by | | Bingo at 2 o'clock. The general pub- | lis is cordially invited to attend, | | Miss Mary Bearer, student nurse jat St. Francis’ Hospital, Pittsburgh, | | spent the week end with her parents, we. and Mrs. J. karl Bearer. A special meeting or the Garden Study Club was held at the home of srs. E. P, Cooper on October 18th to formulate plans for the ensuing year. he regular monthly meeting will be held on Tuesday, October Zoth at 3 P. M,, in the Patton Drug Co. rooms. | his meeting will be a fall siesta | with Mrs, Frank Schwab as hostess for the evening. Refreshments will be | served. | of port Meade, South Dakota, are spending fifteen days with the for-| [mer’s parents, Mr. and Ms, James | ' Lechene, Cpl. Albert Haluska, who has been | is spending a several days’ furlough with his wife and other relatives in the Patton section, He will return to a Pacific coast post next Sunday. James Leon has moved his Barber Shop from West Magee Avenue, to the Central Hotel Room on Fifth Ave., formerly occupied by Sottile’s Shoe Repair Shop. The American Legion Auxiliary | will hold a Bingo party in the Com- {1aunity Hall next Monday evening, | October 25th, at 8 6'clock. A short | business meeting will be held after | the party. | Capt. and Mrs. Albert A. Mayko- {vich of New York City, are visiting | their parents on Fifth avenue. Capt. | Maykovich is a staff officer on the | General Staff of the Commanding General of the Eastern Defense Com- | mand. Another guest of Mr. and Mrs. ! Frank Maykovich was their daught- | er, Helen Marie, of Washington, D. C. Sgt. Bill Henninger of Camp Dodge | Dcs Moines, Iowa, is spending a sev- en day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Heninger, Sr., of Beech avenue. Week end guests at the Henninger home were Mr. and Mrs. Henninger’s son-in-law and dau- ~hter, Mr. and Mrs. Oral Ernst of Greensburg, Pa. A Hallow’een Dance sponsored by the St. Augustine Sodality Girls, will be held in the Church Hall at St. Au- gustine on Saturday night, October 23rd. The public is invited to attend. All must be masked. Warrant Offices John H. Gray, husband of the former Helen West- rick of Patton, has been honored by Skytrain, = publication of Langley Field, Va. An article in the current is- | sue, lauds the Patton man for the photographic work which he has done | for the publication. It also carries a | brief biographical sketch of Gray, al- ong with a picture. The officer is lin charge of the base photographic | laboratory at the field, having taken | courses in photography at Scott Field, Tlls., and Lowry Field, Denver, Colo. | Som of Mrs. Martha Gray of Spang- ELECT--- Roy B. Griffith County OE EC (435-0) I) Treasurer EE A Qualified by Thirty Years’ Accounting and Adminis- trative Experience. Now Serving As Your County Treasurer by Appointment. Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. eC ——— er PROTECT YOUR WAR BONDS FROM FIRE AND LOSS Use Our SAFEKEEPING Department | First National Bank, Carrolltown | | chaplain; Forest Gobert, finance of- Cpl. Arthur A. Lechene and wife, | stationed at Camp Barkley, Texas, | UN1ON PRESS.COURIER. ler, the officer is a graduate of the Spangler high school, Prior to enter- ing service in 1939 he was employed oc some time by the U. S. Forestry Service and later by the General El- ectric Company, He is the father of an infant son. Another class of aerial triggermen Iington, Texas, aerial gunnery school and among the qualified sharp shoot- ers of the sky was Pvt. Patrick H. Gill, son of Mr. and Mrs, Max Gill of this place. Along with his diploma he received a pair of Aerial Gunner's wings at brief graduation exercises. Officers for the 1943-44 term were elected by Walter McCoy Post, No. 614, American Legion, of Patton, at its annual reorganization meeting of last week. Peter Boback was named commander, succeeding Peter Sch- imp. Other officers are Metro Bob- by, Jr., senior vice commander; Ben O. Short, junior vice commander; J. J. Sheehan, adjutant; John Single, ficer; Charles Swab, service officer; and Delmont Pardee, sergeant-at- arms. Boback, Bobby and Pardee are veterans of World War II, all three having received honorable discharges recently, The officers of the Patton, | Carrolltown and Spangler posts will | be installed at a joint exercise to be held in the near future. Officers of the Clearfield Branch of the Cambria County Red Cross Chapter appointed Miss Betty Weak- lana of Hastings as chairman of vol- unteer services at a meeting at Has- tings recently. Miss Weakland suc- ceeds Mrs. Nell Knarr, who no long; er is a resident of this district. Spe- akers were Miss Catherine Benford, Johnstown, who emphasized the val- ue of home nursing casses, and Gorge Clark, vice chairman, who urged sup- port of the United War Chest appeal. Lt. Howard M. Linn has been pro- moted to the rank of Captain. He has just completed a two months’ course at Investigators’ school at Fort Cus- | ter, Mich., and is now stationed at | Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. where he is commanding officer of the Military Police Detachment. Don’t forget the ‘First Night” showing of “This Is the Army” to be at the Grand Theatre, Patton, on November 8th. Aside from actual ex- penses all proceeds go to the Army Relief Fund. Buy a ticket. EEE EE Trinity Methodist Church. Sunday, Oct. 34, 9:45 A. M.—“The Church at Study.” Theme for study, “Honoring Our Parents.” 10:30 A. M., “The Church at Wor- ship.” This is annual missionary Sun- day—“For Those Who Benefit?” 6:30 P. M. Youth Fellowship. 7:30 P. M. Evening Worship. | Tuesday, October 26-—Hallow’een Party—Youth Fellowship, 7:30 P. M. Wednesday, October 27 Junior Lea- gue, 3:30 P. M. Mid-week service at 7:30 P, M. 7 ¥ Thursday, October 28. District Conference in First Methodist Chur- ch, Altoona. This will be an all day session. Friday, October 29—2:00 P. M. Mrs. A. B. Camphor, wife of the late Bishop Camphor, colored Bishop of the Methodist Church in Africa, will be the guest of the Women’s Socie- ties of Christian Service of the Bar- nesboro Group of Methodist Church- | es. An interesting program is being | planned. All are welcome. The service will be held in Trinity Methodist Church in Patton. EXEEXE Dietrick—Becker Wedding. Miss Hilda Becker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Becker of St. | | Boniface, became the bride of Pfc. | Raymond Dietrick, son of Mr. and | Mrs. Stephen Dietrick of Patton, at | a double ring ceremony at 9 o’clock Saturday morning, October 16th, in | St. Boniface Catholic Church. The! Rev. George Brugger, pastor, sang the nuptial high mass which follow- ed. Miss Christine Dietrick, cousin of the groom, was organist. The at- tendants were Mr. and Mrs. Robert | Dietrick, of Cleveand, Ohio, brother | and sister-in-law of the groom, The | bride wore a white satin gown with | train and a veil with train which was caught with a tiara of pearl flowers. She carried a prayerbook and pink rose buds with streamers. The brides- maid wore a gown of pink chiffon and a tiara of flowers with a shoul- der length veil, and carried a bou- quet of peach and white chrysanthe- mums. Both mothers wore a corsage of pink rosebuds. A wedding dinner wage served to the immediate relatives at the home of the bride’s parents, A reception was held in the Community Hall on Tuesday evening. The newly- weds returned to Virginia on Wed- nesday where Pfc. Dietrick is sta- tioned with the Army at Fort Mon- roe. { at Carp Ee Se ts. We Be, Wve. Sime Sit Interned Yanks Still a Problem State Department Estimates Americans in Grip of Axis at 12,000. WASHINGTON.—Still behind Ger- man and Japanese lines in occupied Europe and Asia are thousands of American citizens. The state de- partment estimates the number in the grip of the Axis at 12,000. Merchants, teachers, missiona- ries, all walks of American life are represented. Aging expatriates have died behind internment camp bar- riers and children have been born in the same camps. Aristocrats and beachcombers rub elbows in more than one internee community. World War II has outdone any former conflict in this respect. The swift encirclements and occupations of this war have caught far greater numbers in enemy hands. The pos- sibility of espionage and subversive activity through short-wave radio has been a new factor bringing far more stringent measures against captive populations than ever be- fore. The treatment of these civilians is covered by no formal international agreement such as the Geneva Con- vention, which regulates the care of military prisoners. However, after Pearl Harbor all belligerent governments declared their intention to apply the princi- ples of the Geneva Convention to ci- vilian prisoners. Among these was Japan, which had not signed the agreement but had declared her in- tention to abide by its provisions. This country has interned as possi- bly dangerous aliens some 3,400 Jap- anese, 2,300 Germans and 350 Ital- ians. In addition, 108,000 persons of Japanese ancestry have been placed in relocation centers. Possibly two- thirds of these ‘‘relocated” Japa- nese are American-born and are, therefore, American citizens. Before any estimate can be made of Americans caught abroad in ene- my territory, the first question is: “What is an American?” Let Passports Lapse. Many American$ abroad had let their passports lapse. Others had lived abroad most of their lives and never had claimed fully their American citizenship. Many had alien families. A few cannot speak English--for example, an American- born Pole whe returned to Poland as a child with his parents. All these received an opportunity to re- turn to the United States on officially chartered evacuation ships in 1940. In the Philippines there probably are 4,000 bona fide Americans. The state department is proceed- ing on a basis approximating the number of up-to-date passports and other documentary evidence of citi- zenship as of the beginning of the war. Boiling it down to this qualifi- cation gives a figure of something fewer than 4,000 in Europe. Relatively few of these are listed as interned. State department officials esti- mate that the total of those who may have some claim to citizenship, but which they have not registered or kept up-to-date, may reach nine or ten times this figure. Through the Swiss government American funds have been made available to these Americans for their livelihood where their own re- sources are exhausted—with the ex- ception of Manila, where the Swiss officials have not yet been able to | relieve the situation, state depart- ment men say. Yanks Standing Up Well Under Tropical Hazards BEND, ORE.—American fighting men are standing up well under haz- ards of fighting amidst tropical dis- eases at South Pacific bases, Col. Frank G. Crandall Jr., post surgeon Abbot near here, an- nounced. Crandall, recently invalided home after serving 8% months in the South Pacific theater, said U. S. army medical corps is ridding the is- lands of mosquitoes as a first step in reducing spread of disease. The corps is much better situated now to care for sick and wounded men than at the beginning of the cam- paign, he said. What, No Ham on Side? Carelessness Somewhere CLARKSBURG, W. VA. — John Rocca’s hens are taking their ‘“‘food for victory’ instructions to heart. One of his New Hampshire Red Hens, weighing about nine pounds, laid an egg which looked as if it might take first prize in a contest for size. Rocca showed it to the neighbors and then decided to fry it for supper. Rocca cracked it open and found another egg with a complete shell inside. Army Engineers Save Timber Near Rifle Range BEND, ORE.—Marksmanship is one thing, conservation of lumber another. So the self-styled Paul Bunyan Woodchoppers of Camp Abbot, engi- neer replacement training center near here, held their first meeting near the rifle range. From Lieut. Col. C. G. Kustner down to the last private the tyro loggers felled valu- able timber to prevent its being rid- dled with bullets. A A Eg yb Ee WHAT A SURPRISE SHE'S GOING TO GET! I'M GIVING MY WIFE A DIAMOND FOR CHRISTMAS! CHOOSE NOW AND SAVE! USE OUR LAY AWAY PLAN Elaborately carved 14K gold ring with genuine diamond. 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