Batavia News Briefs include Legion Wreck festival plans and Texas motorcycle trip
Kane County Volture of the Forty and Eight hosts its 1944 summer Wreck at Dorian's Woods near Big Rock with ham sandwiches and a roast beef dinner. Legion festival committees, dates July 26–29, and the Goodyear engineer Merrill Benson’s Texas motorcycle trip are noted, along with a Combat Infantryman's Badge award and Chicago area home building gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kane County
Volture
The
Forty and Eight Society
American Legion
Dorian’s Woods
Big Rock
P. G
Aurora Roosevelt Legion Post
Desperate Call for Gasoline Conservation in WW II Home Front
Ralph K. Davies warns that commanding generals demand increased aviation gasoline shipments and that civilians must cut unessential use. The message ties home front conservation to Allied success and urges immediate action this two to three month period. Batavia conducts its first World War II military funeral for John Raymond Wiesbrock, bomber crewman, aged 23, a Batavia High School graduate. Faith Nelson earns scholastic honors at Lawrence College Conservatory with a 2.25 average as a junior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph K. Davies
Batavia
American Legion Color Guard
John Raymond Wiesbrock
Fred Wiesbrock
California
Young Flyer
Batavia High School
Lawrence College
Avuletor
Wis
Faith Nelson
South Jackson Street
Faith
Conservatory of Music
J. B. Nelson
OUR RIVER BASS IN BATAVIA FOX RIVER
Alfred Peine displayed a three pound small mouth bass taken from the Fox river south of the power house by a silver spoon and artificial frog on the second cast. William C Spencer Batavia police magistrate landed a five pound bass with a fly last week. They’re in there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Batavia
Fox River
Alfred Peine
William C
Spencer
War News Briefs From Home and Abroad
Staff Sgt Milton Peine reports transporting wounded from France with the air evacuation squadron. Norman Ekstrom M M 3c of the Sea Bees receives a blood transfusion in New York for ulcers. Margot McNamer Johnson spoke on religion over WMRO with a new talk on Revelation next week. Carl K Oleson completes training at Courtland Alabama and is stationed at Maxwell Field Montgomery Alabama. William Tuck enjoys furlough at home in Texas. Robert Tuck attends gunnery school in Harlingen Texas and Gilbert Tuck trains at Camp Reynolds Pennsylvania. Staff Sgt John Michelson returns from Camp Wood New Jersey Fort Monmouth. Marvin Michelson’s brother leaves for Camp Haan California after visit with Debora Miller in Spooner Wisconsin. Pfc Walter Oxe arrives in England. John Willcutt, Batavian now living with grandparents in Michigan, visits Pahnke home. he survived a fatal auto accident years ago with his sister Arleene. John, aged 15, has undergone 24 operations and aims for military school next year. Arleene Willcutt plans college this fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milton Peine
Julia Peine
England
France
Norman Ekstrom
The
Sea Bees
New York
Margot McNamer Johnson
WMRO
Carl K. Oleson
Carl Oleson
South Jefferson Street
Courtland
Ala
Maxwell Field
Montgomery
William Tuck
Camp Swift
Texas
L. J. Tuck
Ac Robert Tuck
Harlingen
Tex
Pvt
Gilbert Tuck
Camp Reynolds
John Michelson
Camp Wood
Fort Monmouth
N. J
Corp
Marvin Michelson
Camp Haan
Calif
Debora Miller
Spooner
Wis
Walter Oxe
Walter R. Oxe
N. Y
John Willcutt
Batavia
Michigan
Paul Pahnke
Elm Street
John
Arleene
Willcutt
Pahnke
Mrs Hauman Returns Home After Camp Transfers
Mrs David Hauman travels from Mississippi to rejoin her husband now stationed at Camp Van Dorn. He is later moved to Camp Meade for overseas duty. She is joined by a friend whose husband also moves to Maryland. In Chicago she visits a college friend, Mrs Donald Duvall, who accompanies her part of the trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Hauman
Mississippi
Camp van Dorn
Miss
Camp Meade
Hauman
Maryland
Donald Duvall
Chicago
Also Mentioned on This Page
Merrill P. Benson
Akron
Ohio
Allen M. Benson
Navy School
Corpus Christi
Benson
Allen
Mr. Benson
Royston Roberts
Marilyn
Goodyear
George A. Hunt
North
van Buren Street
Cook, DuPage, Kane and
Lake
la Salle St
Aurora, Illinois
Geneva
River Road
St. Charles
John Geiss
Georgia
Freestone Elberta
Washington State
A&p
Idaho
Sultana
Wisconsin
AEG
Red Circle
IONA
Jane Parker
A&p Bakers
Pillsbury Flour
Woodbury
Sunnyfield
M. C. P. Pectin
Long Island
Isiac
White House
Parag
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