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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1944
Page
2
A wartime editorial urges voters to support candidates who back international cooperation and a peace dictated by nations themselves. It warns against appeasement and calls mothers to study candidates’ positions on lasting peace and postwar order to avoid another generation bearing arms.
April 1 features a Saturday Food Sale by Hope Circle No 70 Daughters of Isabella in the K of C Hall May 12 hosts a Friday Girl Scout rummage sale at the same venue.
Lost or destroyed pass book number 13864 issued by Industrial Trust Co Bristol Branch in its Participation Department. Please return to bank. Payment stopped and application made for issue of duplicate book as provided by law.
Pvt Peter Pacheco spends an eight day furlough with family at Fort McClellan Alabama. Mrs Kirby a Diocesan Educational Secretary speaks to the Ladies Benevolent Society Monday at 2 30 pm. The Hope Circle No 70 Daughters of Isabella meets Monday at 8 pm in the K of C hall. Manuel Cruz son of Mr and Mrs Marion Cruz of West street is home for a ten day furlough from Fort Devens Massachusetts. William Meiggs son of Mr and Mrs Ernest Meiggs of Wood street returns from Truesdale Hospital after meningitis treatment. Pvt Richard Moren son of Mr and Mrs Anthony A Moren reports to Camp Campbell as a member of the Army Signal Corps. He was home on furlough recently. Edward L McCallum returns to Yucca Army Air Base in Arizona after a two week furlough with his family on Wood street.
At 86 o clock tomorrow the children s mission at Our Lady of Mt Carmel Church will close. Arthur Barboza, son of Mrs Angelina Barboza, left March 28 for U S Navy training. Antonio Morra, son of Mr and Mrs Sebastian Morra, is on a seven day furlough from Camp Campbell Ky with an ordnance unit. James H Lynch of Providence, a Providence College graduate, will speak at the Palm Sunday Communion breakfast of the Bristol Council Knights of Columbus after the 8 o clock mass. Sgt and Mrs Virgin Sousa announce the birth of a son Vincent on March 11. Dr D Angelo was the attending physician. Mrs Sousa is the former Virginia Proto. Sgt Sousa is stationed at Camp Forest Tenn. Local B 1240 IBEW dance at Independent Hall. Committee members include Salvatore Giglio, Joseph Pereira, Manuel Viera, Catherine Puya, Charles Gaudet, Winston Fetherston, and James Sylvia ex officio.
Multiple classified items list a 3 family house for sale at 8 Goulart Avenue and a Model Grand kitchen range. Also solicits day old and started chicks Teghorns New Hampshires RI Reds Rock-Red crosses from Broad Common Poultry Farm. Additional notices invite rug buyers summer cock Bristol Fall River phone and a five or six room house with modern conveniences via Box C Phoenix Office.
Karl P. Rounds of 91 Constitution Street has finished a course as chaplain's assistant at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg Virginia and will report to the Naval Station at Pensacola Florida. He is spending a short leave with his parents Mr and Mrs Frank A Rouns.
Cpl. James F. McCarthy son of Mrs. Charles Brownell of 30 Valley street graduates from Harlingen Army Air Field Texas aerial gunner school of the AAF Training Command with diploma aerial gunner wings and a promotion He trained six weeks learning weapon types turret manipulation aircraft identification and gun assembly then fired on towed targets to complete the course He will join an aerial combat team or remain at Harlingen as a gunnery instructor McCarthy a St Andrews School Barrington graduate left Hood Island State College in May 1943 and was active in sports
Classified notice seeking a furnished or unfurnished two or three room apartment with bath and kitchenette and a mechanical stove and refrigerator. For a single adult. Telephone 930-M after 5 PM.
Advertisement for custom posture abdominal surgical and breast supports. Free figure study available. For appointment contact Mrs. Wm. LeClair at 875 Hope St. Telephone 165 ME.
Mr and Mrs John B Rohrman of 38 Collins street host a reunion with daughter Anne and family recently back from Cookeville Tennessee where MacDougall worked for the U S Forest Service and a Timber Production War Project. Their son Henry Rohman just finished an electrical engineering course with U S Army Engineers in New York City and was on furlough from Camp Randolph Shenango Pennsylvania. William an Electricians Mate in the U S Navy returned from Seattle after battles at Tarawa Makin Island and Paramushiro with wife and six week old Evelyn Ann. This marks the first large gathering since Father Johns ordination in May 1940.
Service Inductions Albert S Pompei of 9 Magnolia Street was inducted into the U S Marines on March 28 Edwin A McClure of 73 Burton Street was sworn into the U S Navy on March 2 both local residents participate in the military enlistment program and begin service.
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