Chester County PA Archives News.....With Our Men and Women in Armed Forces of U.S. October 11, 1942
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Daily Local News October 11, 1942
Lieut. Col. James B. PATTON (photo), of Paoli, former commandant of the 
Aviation Detachment at Scott Field, Illinois, has been appointed post 
executive, replacing Lieut. Col. Charles F. CARTER, who has been transferred 
elsewhere.  Several other officers have been shifted to new duties at this 
parent radio school of the Air Forces’ Technical Training Command, Col. Wolcott 
P. HAYES, commanding officer, announced.  Col. Patton’s military career began 
in July 1918, when he enlisted as a private.  While at officer’s candidate 
school, at Camp Lee, Va., the armistice was signed, but in 1923 he was 
commissioned a second lieutenant in the reserves.  As a member of the 
Pennsylvania National guard, since 1927, he was advanced to first lieutenant, 
and then to captain.  He served as captain of Company I, here.  In September, 
1936, he resigned from the National Guard and returned to the Officer’s Reserve 
Corps.  He was called to active duty in 1941, and served as squadron commander 
and exchange officer at Jefferson Barracks, where he was promoted to major in 
June, 1941.  Promotion to lieutenant colonel was on February 1.
Charles S. TAYLOR, Jr., 232 Price street, has enlisted in the Coast Guard and 
will leave in a few days for training.
Captain John J. FORD, who was recently married and left last week by plane for 
his post at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, writes that he has arrived safely and 
finds the work most interesting.  He reports that the fort is approximately 
three times the size of West Chester and the hospital is finely equipped and 
efficiently operated.  In his depot there, the purpose of which is to establish 
the base hospitals, there are 350 men, two dentists, two veterinarians and five 
regular line officers besides himself.  “The food,” he says, “is excellent”.  
He also told in a letter to his mother, Mrs. Rose Ford, of 520 South Walnut 
street, of his first ride in a jeep, which he enjoyed immensely.  His address 
is:  Captain John J. Ford, 6th Medical Supply Depot, Fort Sam Houston, San 
Antonio, Texas.  At present Captain and Mrs. Ford are living at the Plaza 
Hotel, at San Antonio.
David James RIGGINS, son of William P. Riggins, of Frazer, leaves today from 
Phoenixville for New Cumberland, he having been inducted into the army.  He has 
been working with the Esco Cabinet Company, in West Chester.
Richard RHOADS, son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Rhoads, former residents of South 
Walnut Street, this borough, and more recently living on their own property, in 
East Bradford township, near Sconnelltown, about two weeks ago enlisted in the 
U.S. Navy, and yesterday left here for the Naval Base at Newport, Rhode Island, 
where he will receive his basic training.  The embryo sailor was tendered a 
merry send-off, in the nature of a farewell party, at the home of his parents 
the other night.  Delicious refreshments were served.  Rhoads, who is nineteen 
years of age, has for sometime past been in the employ of the Eachus Dairies, 
this borough.  Those present at the farewell party were:  Millie REYNOLDS, 
Janet TOUCHTON, Bonnie KING, Janice KING, Ruth DICKENS, Betty BALDWIN, Helen 
WALTON, Thresa CARR, Suzanne CLEVER, Jane RULON, Bud HERSHEY, Bill BALDWIN, 
James LOCKMAN, William BANNER, Robert GRUBB, Lawrence HARRY, Howard JONES, Paul 
TOUCHTON, Steve RULON, Bernard HUTCHINSON, Richard RHOADS, Mrs. Harold RULON, 
Wesley C. COX, and Mr. and Mrs. John W. RHOADS.

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