Gallia County Soldier Death Shocks Family in Kansas
Corporal Williams, a Gallia County native, died unexpectedly in Kansas. His wife and young son, recently moved to Gallipolis to live with Curry kin, learned of the death after he had been hospitalized for testing headaches and dizziness. Body to be brought for burial arrangements remain incomplete as of Wednesday night.
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Pratt
Kans
Ebay Curry
Corporal Williams
Gallia County
Wade’ Williams
Lower River Road
iKansas
Gallia County to receive home blind instruction
Gallia County will get home teaching for the blind under the Ohio Commission for the Blind. Thomas, head of Gallia Aid for the Blind, says sixty four blind residents may be served, with Mary Hugo as home teacher for two months. Home instruction covers reading, braille, typing, household arts, handcrafts, and recreation.
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Gallipolis
Acter
Als
Thomas
Galmty
Mary Hugo
Western Reserve
Gallia County
Ohio Commission For Blind
Aaa
Ithem
Eloise Church Taken To Holzer Hospital
Eloise Church daughter of Mr and Mrs Wayne Church of Upper Second Ave was brought from Washington D C Wednesday evening in the ambulance of George J Wetherholt Sons to Holzer Hospital She and her sister Janice had visited their grandmother Church in Washington D C last week She fell ill there on her fifteenth birthday with mastoiditis as diagnosed by the attending physician in Washington D C
Mrs O O McIntyre Visits Cousin in Hospital
Mrs O O McIntyre traveled to Gallipolis on Wednesday and Thursday to be with her cousin in Williamson West Virginia Mrs Orland Booton who underwent surgery at Holzer Hospital on Wednesday She is guest of her brother in law and sister Dr and Mrs EB Martindill of Chesapeake and plans to reside at Gatewood in Gallipolis during the summer months
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Gallipolis
O. O
McIntyre
Orland Booton
Williamson
W. Va
Holzer, Hospital
New York
EB. H. Martindill
Chesapeake
Gallioplia
Gatewood
Gallipolis Social Notes Highlights Relatives Reports
Gallipolis social column notes Lt Robert Wetherholt has won his first battle star at Luzon after overseas service. He visited Manila General McArthur’s HQ and discussed Col Albert D Miller’s capture and death at Corregidor. The piece covers a club meeting, a Red Cross member’s return, a wedding cake celebration, bridge games, and visiting parents with Army and Axis holdings policy in the U.S. not to be returned.
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Gallipolis
Robert Wetherholt
Luzon
Manila
Bilibid
Wetherholt
Kenneth Frazier
Emanon Club
Elizabeth Carnes Barrett
American Red Cross
W. H. Walker
R. D
Thomas
Harold Hagkins
Hobart Batdort
Bridges
Axis
U.S
Washington — Wy
State Department
the Treasury
Hitch-Hikers Caught By Gallia Sheriff
Gallia County sheriff EF Hatfield and Deputy Sheriff Morton Dickey picked up two hitch-hikers on State Route 35 en route to Akron for a new car. The two colored youths, escaped from the Lakin penal institution in West Virginia, were jailed in Jackson County. State Patrol Sgt. George Thomas returned them to Lakin and the pair admitted stealing Merriman Johnson's car on Pine Street a few nights earlier and eluding authorities on Vin ton Avenue.
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Gallipolis
EF. E. Hatfield
Morton Dickey
Akron
Sheriff's Office
Jackson
Lakin
W. Va
Jackson County
West Virginia
George Thomas
Point Pleasant
Merriman Johnson
Pine Street
Vinton Avenue
Record Mission Safely Made To Batavia by Yank Fliers
Headquarters 13th Air Force Philippines reports a long solo bomber raid to Batavia Java. Maj Bayless Harris led Liberators on a 3000 mile mission, unescorted, with precision navigation and fuel calculations keeping all planes returning safely.
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Batavia
Richard C. Bergholz
13Th Air Force
Philippines
Maj
Bayless E. Harris
Clovis
N.mex
Soerabaja
Java
Harris
Discharge Score Cut Sought by Veterans Groups
Washington reports veterans push to reduce the discharge score from five points to 80 or 78, with final decision pending War Department feedback from field commanders. House Military Committee members say the change will not alter the overall point weighting in the tentative reform.
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Washington
Capitol
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Tadies
Aklnon
Brandwene
Eckford Hodgson
Washington, D.C
G. A. Tabit
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Germany
Central Council, Air Division
Bobbie Brooks Originals
Logan
SFO
Te. Batevia
Post
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Peanut
Woodbury
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