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them as to turn the tide of the battle and also end the war at Chateau Thierry. The simple title was:
Dramatization of the Heroic Deed - of - James I. Metrovitch of Fresno, Cal., Sergt. Co. M., 11th Inf.
Metrovitch lost his life August 10, 1918, and strange to say his name was not in the war history list. He died on the field carrying one of his wounded comrades on his back from the scene of carnage and forfeiting his own in the act. The French Croix de Guerre and the American Distin- guished Service Cross were awarded him after death. Of the fourteen heroic acts of the war selected by the government to be filmed in an awakening of America to a sense of the obligation to the boys who were sent across the sea to make the sacrifice for victory that of Sergt. Metrovitch was one.
It was the Elks' Club of Fresno that on the evening of March 6, 1919, launched locally the country wide campaign to raise the $822,000 fund for the support of the home service of the Salvation Army. Fresno County's quota was $15,500 or approximately eleven per cent. of its quota in the last United War work. The campaign lasted one week from Salvation Army Sunday, March 23-31. The Elks the country over directed the national drive. Dr. Charles Wheeler of Chicago was one of the orators sent to Fresno to carry it over the top and tell of the Army's work in war. The sale of dough- nuts, March 29, in the streets by seventy-five Salvation Army lassies netted over $1,000, and the highest price paid for a doughnut was twenty-five dollars. Fresno easily made up its allotment and a little more.
Miss Leona B. Mitchell of Selma had the distinction of being one woman entitled to wear the United States uniform of a yeoman attached to the naval service. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Mitchell and was a graduate of the Selma high and grammar schools, of the Fresno Normal school, and of Heald's Business College of Oakland, Cal. She volunteered as a second class yeomanette August 25, 1918, and in January received second highest standing in her class in the examination for first class rating. She was serving as a telegram clerk in the issuing section of the supply depart- ment at the Mare Island navy yard.
It was County Recorder R. N. Barstow that was first in the state with the approval of the supervisors to suggest the free recording of the army and navy discharges of returned men from the service. It was Fresno County that suggested the introduction in the legislature of such a bill as a matter of public interest and one to be strongly recommended not only by the citi- zens of the state at large but by official bodies and organizations as furnish- ing a record of the military service of its citizens of the counties and tending also in a measure to express the appreciation of the state for the services of its citizens. It was Senator B. M. Harris of Fresno who introduced the bill in the senate and it was passed and signed by the governor. The recording fee was eighty cents and many a soldier appeared that did not have that much to spare to preserve his discharge paper as a public document.
To help out the quota on the Fourth Liberty Loan, the county made a subscription of $100.000 purchased through the five commercial banks of the city. This gave the county an investment of $400,500 in government war bonds. The $500 represents a Fourth Liberty bond left with the supervisors to guarantee the donor a permanent home with the County Home for Old People.
Instructions came May 10 from Provost Marshal General E. H. Crowder for the official disbanding of the selective draft organization in the state,
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May 15, 1919. The state adjutant general planned then to begin at an early date to reorganize the National Guard and restore it to its pre-war authorized strength of 8,000 officers and men, which it never had.
The fifth Victory Liberty Loan was for a total of $4,500,000,000. It was announced to be the last of the Liberty loans. The buyer was given six months to pay for his bond. The quota of Fresno County was $3,522,150, and of the city $2,515,950. The drive was to continue eighteen days and close May 10. There were three days of volunteer subscription-taking with a total of $200,000, requiring a total of $2,315,950 to be collected to carry the city over the top in the alloted time, in other words daily subscriptions of $128,499. The county loan quota was made up as follows according to towns and com- munity centers :
Clovis
$ 58,700
Coalinga
165,600
Del Rey
15,750
Firebaugh
21.150
Fowler
62,500
Fresno City
2,515,950
Kerman
19,600
Kingsburg
119,950
Laton
14,400
Parlier
38,000
Reedley
159,100
Riverdale
101,000
Sanger
101,000
Selma
197,100
The tag day, Friday, April 5, 1919, for the relief of maimed and disabled French soldiers broke the record for city tag day subscriptions and by $500 exceeded the quota expected to be raised. The cash collections were $1,748.03, added to which was a donation of a lot of at least $100 value. The 5,000 tags sent here by the central committee in San Francisco were exhausted early in the day. The tags sold for twenty-five cents each. City School Superin- tendent Jerome Cross had the management of the campaign, and with the col- lection of $100 at the auditorium meeting at the illustrated talk on the "Battle- fields of France" a round $2,000 was Fresno's contribution to this cause. Never had there been a tag day in Fresno with the receipts over $1,000. The lot donor was Mrs. Viva La Moine of 1515 J Street, who gave deed to a lot at Port Angeles, Wash. The tag day fund was for "La Protection du Reformé No. 2," those maimed and disabled soldiers who, actually suffering as the result of the life and exposures in the trenches, are not eligible for French government pensions. The government pensions only those who are wounded in action and so sorely was the French national treasury depleted by the war that however much the government wished it there was not money to meet the demand for pensions for these poor fellows.
Revised army casualties made public April 15, by the war department, showed major casualties of 244,759 as follows:
Killed in action (including 381 at sea), 2,284.
Died of wounds received in action, 13,435.
Died of disease, 22,656.
From accident or other causes 4,248.
Wounded in action with over eighty-five per cent. returned, 197.574.
Missing in action (not including prisoners released and returned), 4,562.
A striking feature of the record was a reduction of 337 by reason of the identification of dead and the return of prisoners. Rechecking of the records resulted in the report May 1, 1919, of additions to the list of major casualties, bringing the total to 275,820. Corrected total of wounded was 201,847.
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On the 20th of February, 1919, Mrs. Fannie H. Paine of Twin Willow Vineyard near Fowler enjoyed a happy family.reunion with the gathering of five sons from war service in the American navy, the first reunion of the group to have been featured in twelve years. In the party were: Ensign Harry F. Paine, who had come overseas to visit mother on a furlough; Jack C. Paine, first class boatswain's mate who had arrived from China and the Philippines stations after four years, and on the torpedo destroyer Williams to leave San Francisco for New York and oversea service; J. Lee Paine who had come from the East where he was fireman on the U. S. ship New Mexico; Lyman H. Paine also from the war zone and chief machinist on submarine chasers and mine sweepers; James S. Paine who having served a previous enlistment had come from San Francisco where he was engaged in the build- ing of torpedo destroyers.
According to the grand jury report the supervisors allowed the following total claims on account of national administration war demands:
County Exemption Boards. $14,312.72
Council of Defense. 1,188.45
Food Administration 1,180.44
Total
$16,681.61
The figures of the state registrar would show that during the war years of 1917-18 there was a decrease in marriages in the state in the leading coun- ties with notable exception of San Diego, where the increase was from 1,690 to 2,008 and where Camp Kearney training camp was located. Fresno's figures were. for the years named 1,155 and 909.
February 20, 1919, was the date in company orders for the assembly of members of the Sixth and Tenth Companies of the California Infantry for muster out, S. L. Gallaher and Bert A. Primrose, the respective captains. They were at the time paper companies in a misunderstood plan of an organi- zation to replace the state guard companies during the continuance of the war. The companies had existed in name only since their strength went into federal service, when it became apparent that they would never be called upon for other than armory service at home, after all the representations made to induce men to join.
The orders from Provost Marshal Enoch H. Crowder were for the clos- ing of the two county and the city exemption boards in Fresno March 31, 1919, after having been in the service of the government since July 3, 1917. These orders were for the discharge of the clerical help, the members to con- tinue until later in the year. In round figures the county boards examined and classified 20,500 and the city board approximately 12,500 men under the various calls. The last job was the assortment of the registration cards in dictionary alphabetical order and the filing of all duplicate cards returned to the boards by the district board at Bakersfield as to age classification from eighteen to forty-five, also in the order as the other. All cards were sent to Washington, there to be re-classified according to the same system for the state to become a permanent government record of men under the draft regulations.
Mrs. Carrie S. E. Thompson of 141 Fresno Avenue was regarded as one of Fresno's greatest knitters. She was eighty-three years of age and besides doing the housework for herself and son knitted 175 pairs of socks, also making pneumonia jackets during the influenza epidemic. She was a member of the First Christian Church auxiliary of the Red Cross but also knitted for St. John's and the Masonic auxiliaries. She knitted for the boys in the World War and had also knitted for those in gray in the Civil War.
The "daylight schedule" was revived by government request in 1919 on Sunday, March 30, and clocks were set one hour ahead as during the year before.
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Miss Edith Evans, daughter of Mrs. G. B. Evans, was in March, 1919, the first woman from Fresno to return from France as one of a detachment of nurses attached to the American base hospital at Royat and after nine months work abroad. Her turn at work at the front trenches had not come Novem- ber 11, when the armistice was signed. The Hospital at Royat was closed January 19. Royat was a popular summer resort with mineral springs in the hills, several large hotels having been assigned as quarters. The work there was continuous, with as many as 3,000 wounded at a time. It received the men from Chateau Thierry and Belleau Wood and those burned with chlorine fumes and mustard gas.
Lieut. William Ross, aged thirty-four years, of the tank corps died in France February 27, the day before his organization left for home. He was a former chief clerk for the California Peach Growers, Inc. He was buried at Marseilles with military honors and had served with the first American tank corps of the British forces in several of the big battles of the last year of the war.
The Fresno committee for the Belgian Relief fund announced that official collections for the fund ceased March 31, 1919, and the monthly $700 con- tribution ended. Fresno, it was published, had been the fifth city in the state for the amount of money contributed for Belgian relief, having sent on $10,906 since relief work began in November, 1917. At first the committee set its mark at $500 a month but responses to appeals made a monthly remittance of $700 possible. A total of $13,625 was taken in but a portion went for expenses. The relief ended because "the Belgian government, al- though sadly handicapped by the ruin left by the Hun invasion, takes the brave attitude that it can now work out its future without the further need of charity." The directors of the Belgian relief were: Mesdames L. L. Cory, G. H. Aiken, Frances E. Dean, Louis Einstein, W. B. Isaacs, Edna R. James, W. B. Holland, W. J. McNulty, Anna Newman, H. E. Patterson, Chester Rowell, W. R. Shoemaker, Milo F. Rowell, W. A. Fitzgerald and the Misses Sarah E. McCardle, Blanche Schaeffer and Adeline Thornton.
CASUALTY LIST
(Because of the government's restrictions on the publication of the casual- ties in the war, the following list cannot be offered as an officially complete one of Fresno County. It is a fairly accurate one up to January 1, 1919, based on department returns and private advices. Where not otherwise designated the casualties are of those claiming Fresno as home town.)
IN MEMORIAM
THOMAS A. O'DONNELL-Obit December 7, 1917, at Camp Lewis, Wash .; Fresno funeral December 15, 1917, with burial at Calvary Cemetery, the first military funeral in the city of a Fresno soldier in the war.
W. LESTER CARTWRIGHT-Obit December 19, 1917, in San Pedro, Cal., harbor in the sinking of the submarine F-1; body never recovered; he was of the Cartwright family of Malaga.
RAYMOND L. DENNIS-Killed in action January 12, 1918; enlisted April 23, 1917, in U. S. M. C .; marker to be placed in Liberty Cemetery.
CLYDE JENKINS-Obit February 5, 1918; of Coalinga; a victim in the submarining of the Tuscania; buried with 164 other Americans on the southwest coast of Scotland.
CARL A. ANDERSON-Obit March 7, 1918, at Fort Sill, Okla .; from injuries received February 6 in explosion of a field gun ; funeral March 16 with butrial in Washington Colony Cemetery.
PETER BARSAGLINI-Obit at Camp Merritt, N. J., February 13, 1918; Fresno funeral February 22 with later burial in Liberty Cemetery ; was to have been the first buried there.
JULIAN VARGAS-Obit March 4, 1918, at home on Maple Avenue on sick leave ; funeral March 8, burial in Catholic Cemetery.
LESTER M. RAY KUCKENBAKER-Obit March 7, 1918, at Rock- well Field, San Diego, Cal .; buried at Laton.
HOMER L. TROWER-Obit March 19, 1918, at Fort Vancouver, Wash., funeral April 20, body having been vaulted awaiting later burial on completion of the Liberty Cemetery. He was the first city draft man to die in the service.
HARRY W. MURDOCK-Obit Camp McArthur, March 23, 1918; fun- eral March 30, burial in St. James' Episcopal Cemetery.
NEIL MANDEVILLE-Obit April 5. 1918, at Camp Funston, Wasco, Texas ; funeral April 13, first body laid in Liberty Cemetery.
TIMOTHY HURLEY-Obit at U. S. A. General Hospital No. 1 at Williamsbridge, N. Y., April 21, 1918; funeral April 29 with burial at Cal- vary Cemetery; five brothers were in the service.
CHESTER D. MALOTTE-Obit May 1, 1918, at Camp Lewis, Wash .; funeral with burial at Selma in family plot. He was a member of the I. O. R. M., of the Stags and of the Sheet Metal Workers' Union.
IRVING BULLOCK-Took his life at Camp Lewis, January 20, 1918; buried in family plot in Mountain View Cemetery.
JOHN C. COX-Of Clovis; killed in action in France, June 7, 1918, as a member of Company B, Second Engineer Corps; son of John M. Cox of the Clovis high school faculty; enlisted April 1, 1917, with Idaho uni- versity class of 133 out of 140; would have been twenty-one July 21, 1918.
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Telegraphic notification of death crossed mailed letter of parents with birth- day money gift for a pleasure visit to Paris.
CLAUDE BERNSDORFFER-Resident of Selma since 1910, died about June 22 from wounds received in action in France, June 16, 1918, as a mem- ber of Ninety-sixth Company, Second Battalion, Sixth Regiment, U. S. M. C. He was from Oklahoma City and enlisted in Fresno.
HOMER H. BLEVINS-Killed in action in France May 27, 1918, and the first Fresno city man to make the great sacrifice; born August 27, 1900. He was a private in Company E of the Twenty-eighth U. S. Infantry. He enlisted at Dallas, Texas, where he was on a visit, having served four months under Pershing on the Mexican border and was on French soil just one year lacking a day. From early youth he craved for the life of a soldier and his ambition was to live and die in the military service.
ELWOOD MILLER-Died in training service at the naval camp at San Diego, Thursday, July 4, and his body was sent home to Reedley for burial. He had enlisted several months before in the navy. He was the son of Rev. M. Miller of the Church of the Brethren. The funeral was July 8.
HENRY J. ALLMAN-Reported in casualty list of July 10, 1918, killed in direct action in France as a member of Company E, Second U. S. En- gineers. He enlisted in October, 1917, through the Sacramento recruiting office, was given intensive training at Camp Lewis and arrived in France before Christmas. He was twenty-four years old, the son of A. H. Allman of Lanare, in this county and is survived by father and sister in that town and by a brother in service somewhere in France. Young Allman was en- gaged at Lanare in reclamation dredging after removal thither from Healds- burg. Cal.
FRED E. PROSSER-Reported in casualty list of July 13 as killed in action. He enlisted here July 30, 1917, in marine corps and was a carpenter by occupation, resident of Fowler and before coming here of Seaside, Ore. He was thirty years of age, a single man and at enlistment passed a perfect examination. His nearest relative was William Bynard, Route D, Box 232, Fresno, on Peach Avenue two miles west of Fowler.
JOHN S. PARKES-Killed accidentally in explosion on U. S. S. Brook- lyn in port of Yokohama, Japan. His death, December 11, 1918, marks the first golden star on the city of Fresno's service flag. He was a member of the Fresno city fire department and the remains were buried in the Fresno Liberty Cemetery.
KILLED IN ACTION-Henry H. Allman, Lanare. Harry Adelsbach, Alfred E. L. Anderson, Homer H. Blevins (first Fresno boy killed). Voltaire Baker, signal corps, Selma. Jesse L. Bachant, Sanger. Carol C. Carter, John C. Cox, Clovis. Clarence Chevoy, Charles Clayton, Tranquillity. Emmett M. Combs, engineer, Oleander. George W. Camp and Ralph G. Creighton. Erwin E. Davis, Coalinga. Dikran Davidian, Reedley. Morten E. Foster, Dunlap. Loman O. Elias, Aloysius S. Feeley and John Gorehoit. Ezra Gray, Lanare. Robert S. Gray and Robert Godwin, Canadians. Paul J. Gutierrez. George H. Hathaway, Canadian, Coalinga. Corp. Clark W. Hinrich, Charles E. Ir- win and Arthur C. Jacobsen. Fred C. C. Johnson, Coalinga. George Lam- bert and Elmer G. Larson. Frank Lamoreux, Kerman. Stanley Lilburn and John Mortensen. Johannes S. Mikelsen, Del Rey. A. G. McKewen. Alonzo Miller, Sanger. Harry A. Miller. Fred Nelly (British), Coalinga. Fred E. Proesser (marine), Fowler. Edwin P. Pielop, Tranquillity. John H. and Wil- liam Pierce, Clovis. Charles H. Parke, Harry C. Roberts (marine), John Radojevich. C. A. Rasmussen (engineer), Monmouth. H. P. Robinson (Brit- ish), George Stephenson (Canadian) and David Schledewitz. Harry Snyder, Coalinga. Maurice Thrupp (British), Clovis. Lloyd E. Thrush and Floyd T. Wenks. Samuel L. Catlin, Kingsburg.
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DIED FROM WOUNDS-Claude Bernsdorffer, infantry, Selma. John J. Cress, infantry, Reedley. Leonard Elliott, infantry, Selma. Manuel J. Hauff, infantry. Alfred S. Haynes, infantry, Sanger. Bud L. Huston, infan- try. Edmund A. Johnson, infantry. Otto Kintz, infantry, Reedley. Albert W. Long. William B. Minck, infantry, Tranquillity. Capt. Herbert Moore (British navy). William L. Netzer, infantry, Sanger. Joseph B. Pelphrey, infantry, Oilfields. Vernon A. Peterson, infantry, Selma. William B. Wood- house, infantry, Fowler.
DIED OF ACCIDENT-Harry Albright, navy. John Allen, infantry (drowned). Carl Anderson, artillery (gun explosion), Lieut. Harold Blakely, aviator (airplane fall). Irving Bullock, infantry. Simon Campas, infantry (hit by train). William L. Cartwright, navy (lost on Submarine F-1). Lieut. Louis E. Davis, aviator (airplane fall). Charles Fisher, navy (drowned on the Ticonderoga). Edward L. Griffin, navy, Fowler (lost on the Westover). Clyde G. Jenkins, aviation, Coalinga (lost on the Tuscania). Frank Lynn, navy (fall). Lieut. Roy McGiffin, aviator (airplane fall). Howard B. Mills, medical (poison). Peddy D. Register and Joe Rodgers, infantry, Selma. Ben Woodworth, aviation (airplane fall). William G. Wright, Calwa.
DIED OF DISEASE-James E. Allen, Friant. Oliver Bear, Auberry, Peter Barsaglini. Angelo Barti, Firebaugh. Charles A. Boling, Coalinga. Joseph C. Conn, Coalinga. Virgil E. Clark. Eugene F. Carmichael, Selma. Henry Clark, Kingsburg. S. W. Cunningham (Y. M.). John Cullen, navy. James A. Cowan, medical corps, Coalinga. Russell C. Doyle. Alfred A. Drew, aviation. Arthur A. Duus, Q. M.D. Sergt. Otto E. Dahlgren, Kings- burg. Raymond P. Gavin, Coalinga. Peter Giesbrecht. Timothy Hurley, Auberry. Victor Hurlburt, Selma. H. B. Hockett, marine. Nathaniel Hud- son, medical corps, Wheatville. Homer Hatfield and George W. Harkness, aviators. John M. Harris, C. C. Jenkins, Coalinga. Lester Kuckenbaker, aviator, Laton. Addie S. Kaster. Howard Kavanaugh, Calwa. Emery L. Kafader, Selma. Harry Cole. Neil Manderville and Harry Murdock, aviators. Elwood Miller, navy, Reedley. Chester D. Malotte. Walter H. Martin, Kingsburg. Claude McCamish. Darrell C. Mitchell, aviator. Virl McFar- land (nurse). Morrell C. Mckenzie, navy, and James P. Miller. Samuel Martin, Sanger. Wallace H. Miner. Louis Nebes, Reedley. Fred Newell, Coalinga. Niels J. Nielsen and Thomas A. O'Donnell. Lawrence Pozzi. John Quantrim, Kingsburg. Theodore E. Royer, Q. M. D., Auberry. Maurice A. Reed, signal corps. Sparton W. Rhea, West Park. Lieut. Walter D. Rheno, aviator. Otto J. Runge Jr. Jonas Stohnan, navy, Caruthers. Charles M. Smith, Laton. Isaac Shahbazian aviator. Aaron B. Suderman, Parlier. Homer L. Trower. Holly Turner, Canadian (died in prison camp). Julian Vargas. Jesse D. Van Fossen, Laton, and James York, Tranquillity. Charles F. Warnock. Raymond L. Dennis.
OTHER CASUALTIES
REPORTED MISSING-William J. Bent. Jesse L. Blank, Kingsburg. John M. Dill, Selma. Fred G. Estep. George Hurst, Kingsburg. Simon R. Kludjian. Roco Marfio. Alfred McKewan, Canadian. Alfred Nunes, Cen- terville. Martin G. Peterson, Kingsburg. Hans H. Poulson, Selma. Robert A. Rogers, Coalinga. A. H. Sanderson, Sanger. Leon Setrakian, Arthur W. Ulrich and Louis Valente.
WOUNDED-Leonard Anderson, Selma. Dan J. Allen, Raisin. James S. Anderson and Louis Arieta. John Anthony, Canadian, Clovis. Harvey U. Abrahamson, Kingsburg. Percy D. Alspach, Kerman. Harrold C. Brodine. William H. Brown, Selma. Jesse L. Blank. John M. Benson. Frank Bell, Clovis. Louis Brockett, Clovis. Sidney Bell, Phillip R. Boyce, Coalinga. Harry and George Brumbach, marines, Clovis, James Bonnar (gassed). T. J. Brown (Canadian). John B. Bingham. William J. Brazill, medical. George E. Bonner. Harold G. Brown. Milo R. Brown, Fowler. Otto Bier. George
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D. Bruns. Louis A. Boyer. Creed H. Clark. R. S. Coleman. C. T. Coyle. Herbert Carpenter, Reedley. Anthony Catlin, Coalinga. Levi Church, navy. Jerre A. Coleman. Fred Cann, Riverdale. Corporal W. Colby. Neil G. Coker, Selma. Raymond S. Coleman. Hilge Christensen, Clovis. Lloyd E. Crosby, Del Rey. Lisle L. Case. Charles P. Cole, Kerman. Cecil Dunham, Clovis. Alex Damichalis, Centerville. A. M. Donabedian. Fred B. DeSoto, Joseph Dunton, John Donato, Otto E. Dahlgren and Joe E. Davis. Samuel J. Eng- holm, Oleander. Setrek Eshkamian. Frank Field, Oleander. Sergt. Andrew Folmer. Leroy Freer, marine, Fowler. Forest L. Farr and Antonio Goeta. Gordon Gouldy, Reedley. Mallin Glud and Ralph E. Grote. Sidney R. Gould, Clovis. Arthur G. Gunnerson. Sydney Gardner, Clovis. Harry George. John E. Graves, Selma. Lient. W. H. Hammond. Lient. Geo. B. Hodgkin (air- plane accident). Stanley V. Hopkins. Finlay R. Hoffman, Calwa. William Hansen, Oleander. Corp. C. W. Hinsh. J. Henschel, Canadian, Kerman. A. R. Hopkins, Canadian. Earl Higdon, Riverdale. G. W. Hurst. Jens P. Hansen, Oleander. John E. Hohn, Kerman. Berney Joslyn. James B. Ive- son. Cecil R. Johnson. Carl S. Johnson. Emil Kohnan. Lieut. Edward L. Kellas. Adam Kerber. Magos S. Kooyumjian and Harry Kulkjian. Will King, Selma. Carl E. Larsen, Kingsburg. Edward C. Lander. Rodney D. Murdock, Corp. John W. Murdock. Walter T. Moore and John Minini. Roy L. McMahaffey, Calwa. John M. Miller, Academy. Lawrence McGowan, aviator (accident). J. I. Metrovich. Mikoli Miklovich (Servian). Frank Martinez. C. Mills, Canadian, Reedley. Rand McCabe, signal corps. Rev. H. N. McKee (Y. M.), Fowler. Bruce McCubbin. Donald McPherson, Canadian. Lient. Louis B. McWhirter (airplane accident). Melik M. Mer- zoian. Olaf C. Nielsen, marine. Roy E. Newington. Ben B. Nordstrom, Kingsburg. Ohannes S. Nalpantian. Arthur Olsen and Karikin Ohannesian. Fred C. Phillips. Coalinga. Lieut. J. L. Paiva. John S. Parkes, navy (acci- dent). John C. Palmquist. William C. Patterson. Charles Petrott, Reedley. Kenneth Paterson. Charles D. Printz, Caruthers. Charles N. Parlier, marine, Parlier. Conrad Price. Hans Rasmussen. Virgil Roullard, Clovis. Clarence A. Rice, El Prado. O. H. Rasmussen. C. D. Rowe, Calwa. Albert K. Rog- ers. Henry T. Stokes, Tranquillity. Ralph W. Shearer, Clovis. Amos L. Salisbury, Laton. Angelo J. Sophia, Roy Stewart, Russell J Sullivan and Bert M. Smith. Leo Sweeney, Selma. Guy C. Scheeline, Kingsburg. Clarence O. Strange. Selma. Aram Shahbazian. James Stevenson (British). S. J. Sorensen. Roger S. Smith. Clarence W. Simons, Oleander. Harry Stark, Caruthers. Russell E. Troutner. Ruben Tufenkjian, aviator. Warren Ten Eyck. Grover F. Thomas, Laton. Wilbur Taylor, Clovis. Peter Valla. Rev. J. G. Van Zandt (Y. M.), Fowler. Ed Vander Dusen and Lawrence Viau. Ray Wunderlich, Riverdale. C. H. Walker, Coalinga. Edward J. Woods (accident). George Wolfe. Fred A. Wehe, Coalinga. Wood J. Welliver. Alexander Bell, Merrill Day, Clark W. Hinton, J. B. De Jarnett, Henry D. Nunez, Coalinga. Manuel Mathias and Alfred C. Fish, Oleander. Orville Johnson, John Hughes, Sergt. Gerald James, M. D., Henry S. Williams, Ray Bolton, Coalinga. Rufus O. Hoover, Roger Steele, Selma. Alvin C. Davis and Maurice E. Jones, the latter two accidental.
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