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Show Minersville Boys With MacArthur For a small community Minersville Miners-ville has an unusual distinction at the present time in having four of that town's boys serving with the forces of General Douglas MacArthur, under constant siege in the Philippines. Corporal Royal Wood, Maurice Clothier, George Erickson and Fred Potter are the Minersville young men who are helping to make United States! history either on Bataan peninsula j or on Corregidor island. -Since none of the four boys has j been heard from since before the tragedy at Pearl Harbor, the ex-' ex-' act location of the boys is unknown. un-known. Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Jameson of Minersville, who visited The News office Friday of last week and entered their subscription to the paper, gave us the above information in-formation and also told us something some-thing of the two boys they have in Uncle Sam's service. Corporal George Vic Jameson, 19, who has been in the air corps a year and a half, is now serving as an instructor in-structor at Lowry field, near Denver; Den-ver; while an older brother, Lewis, 24, who has been in the army only a short time, is located at Wilmington, Wil-mington, California. 'Mrs. Jameson, Jame-son, incidentally, is a brother to Corporal Wood, both of whose parents are dead. |