Armistice Day Speaker to Highlight Kearney Legion Event
Lieutenant Alfred A. Snowball USNR will speak at the Armistice Day ceremony by Kearney Post American Legion at Coke High School. Snowball, a former PT boat commander awarded the Silver Star and Presidential Citation, will be introduced by LeRoy L Doan. The program includes the high school band, vocal solos, roll call of deceased veterans, and remarks by guest speaker Snowball with Rev Fr James Gilsenan as chaplain. The Armistice Day committee, led by Dean, meets tonight before the post’s regular monthly gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred A. Snowball
USNR
Kearney, Post
Legion Arpistice Day
Coke High School
LeRoy Ae
Argustice Day
Esqamittee
Tolay
Snowbal
Stice
Southwest Pacific
Hejkae
Bolomops
Pts
Solomons
Guadalcanal
Melville
James Gilsenan
Doane
Donat J Gladue
Veterans of
Kearney
Margaret C. O’brie
Vernon Gray
Leroy L Doan
Memorial Committee
Margaret Conley
O'Brien
Jarges Gilsenan
Dean
Charles E. Burns
A A .Edmonds
Joseph M. Edmonds
Fred M. Straight
James Sylvester
Woun Marine Speaks At War Fund Rally In Town
Pfc. Pickering a Guadalcanal veteran spoke at a War Fund rally at the U S Rubber Company. Rev. Mortimer-Maddox and workers heard how he survived combat including loss of a hand and bayonet wounds. He urged support for USO and related war services as union stewards promote payroll deductions.
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Pfe
Kenneth Pickering
U. S Rubber Company
Richard Mortimer - Maddox
St. John’s Church
Barrington
Crgwyn Fastener
Warren
Pic Pickering
Guadalcanal
Australia
Coral Sea
Pfc. Pickering
USO
War Prisoners’ Aid
United Seaman's Service
United War Fund Campaign
U.S. Rubber Company
Schedule Announced For Observation Post Hours
Chief Observer George R. Fish of the Ground Observers Corps announces watch hours for the QPOA post activation. Credit will be given for hours on watch on November 10 from 1 to 5 p m with a list of observers. November 17 from 1 to 5 a m with another roster. November 24 from 1 to 5 p m with a further roster.
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George R. Fish
Ground Observers Corps
Air Warning Service
QPOA
Mrs Henry C Card to Speak at D A R Meeting Bristol Chapter
Mrs Henry C Card state chairman of National Defense through Patriotic Education will be the speaker at the Bristol Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution monthly meeting, Monday afternoon at the chapter house. Hostesses include Mesdames Earl P Mathewson Samuel C Wardwell Albert H Flint Jr John Palmer 2d James Collamore Herman Gablinshe and Miss Sarah Tones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry C Card
National Defense
Bristol
the Daughters of the American Revolution
Chapter House
Earl P. Mathewson
Samuel C Wardwell
Albert H. Flint, Jr
John Palmer
James Collamore
Herman Gablinshe
Sarah Tones
Practice Bomb Lands at High Street Residence
A nine inch practice bomb fell from a Navy plane over Bristol causing a slight fire at 331 High Street. Two high school students saw the incident and dodged as the bomb struck telephones and the roof. Firemen quickly extinguished the blaze and service was temporarily disrupted. Police await military retrieval and clarify identification markings used on training ordnance.
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Quopset Naval Station
Bristol
Joseph Peters
Anthony Arruda
Anthony Mazza
High Street
Dreadnaudt Company
Wm. T Cashin
Ferrara
War Fund Workers Hear Supt James L Hanley
Bristol community workers in the Bristol Community Fund drive addressed by James I Hanley Providence schools superintendent at Rockwell Hall Bristol YMCA. He praised the noble cause and used illustrations to stress the impact on social welfare and agency funding from the United War Fund campaign running November 4 to 17.
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War Fund
James L. Hanley
Bristol Community Fund
R. I. United War Fund
Providence
Rockwell Hall
Bristol
Hanley
Albert T Fusonie
Industria Division
Supt of Schools
Elmer S Mapes
Camaign
United War Fund Campaign Combines Many Drives in One
Bristol Mapes announces a three fold united effort uniting agencies USO War Relief and local groups. The plan blends 14 or more relief societies and local Chest partners into a single drive with a 1944 budget of 10 535 guaranteed for Bristol agencies.
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Roswell
Posworth
United War Fund
FE. S. Mapes
Bristol
Mr. Mapes
Bristol Community Fund
USO
Mapess
Friends of Luxenbourg
United China Relief
United Czechoslovakia
U. S
Narragansett Council
United Campaign
Community Chest
R. I. United War Fund, Inc
Bristol Chest
Appropriation Sought to Update Town Ordinances
Town Council discussed funding for a yearlong project to codify and update all town ordinances. Councilor Serbst pushed for data on time and cost while Town Solicitor Capone will report figures for the next financial town meeting. Police repairs estimated at 300 dollars led to budget transfer authorization. Liquor license applications were received and ordered for public hearing on November 23.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry F Serbst
Lucien Capone
Council
J Ferrara
Marriage Licenses Issued for Two Local Couples
Martin Lee Aaron of 192 Hart Street Atlanta Georgia and Gladys May Earle of 60 Thames Street were issued a marriage license. Constantine Carvalho Souza of 8 and 4 Stewart Street Fall River and Susie Sylvia Proto of 34 Usher Avenue were issued a marriage license.
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Martin Lee Aaron
Hart Street
Atlanta, Ga
Melville
Gladys May Earle
Thames Street
Constantine Carvalho Souza
Stewart Street
Fall River
Susie Sylvia Proto
Usher Avenue
Predicts Helicopter Service for This Town
J. Burleigh Cheney of Skyway Corp predicts Bristol will receive helicopter service after the war. He told the Rotary Club helicopters suit short flights and are not hard to handle, with routes planned for New England and Bristol possibly on the schedule. William Streit was introduced as a new Bristol County Water Co. member.
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J. Burleigh Cheney
Skyway Corp
Rhode Island
Bristol
Rotary Club
New England
William Streit
Bristol County Water Company
Tamburro Engagement Announced for Teresa Tamburro
Mr and Mrs Vincent Tamburro of 33 Cook Street announce the engagement of their daughter Teresa to Kenneth Morris son of Mr and Mrs Louis Morris of Swansea Massachusetts Miss Tamburro is employed at Bristol Mfg Corp
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Vincent Tamburro
Cook Street
Teresa
Kenneth Morris
Louis Morris
Swansea
Mass
Miss Tamburro
Bristol Mfg. Corp
Quinto Bastanzi Elected as Aviation Cadet Candidate
Quinto A Bastanzi formerly a corporal in the Army Air Corps Ground Crew has been elected to try his hand at aviation cadet training. His selection signals yet another step in his military career and implies potential further service opportunities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quinto A. Bastanzi
Army Air Corps
Army Engineers Camouflage and Rail Feats in WWII
The Fort Belvoir camouflage lab tests materials with ultraviolet and sun glare to cloak Allied positions. Engineers rebuilt Naples rail lines in five days, earning praise for the “General Gruenther Express” and other salvage feats. They also led landing ops at Salerno and built airfields, roads, and hospitals across North Africa and the Pacific theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Belvoir
Virginia
Army Engineers
Fhig
U. S. Army
Guadalcanal
North Africa
Aleutians
Naples
General Gruenther
Fifth Army
Mark Clark
Mediterranean
Salerno
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Vernon Huestis
Jean Millard
Filla Millard
John Balzano
Thomas Vaccaro
Edward Silvia
Millie Squatrita
Josephine Guisto
Charles Caklan
Joseph Pinheiro
John Marine
Anthony Maciel
Joseph Arruda
James Flynn
Manuel Janario
Joseph Sousa
Benjamin Carnes
Daniel Almeida
Albert Makowsky
Henry Lawson
James Bernard
Clarence
Henry C. Card
D. A. R. Meeting
Betty Grable
George Montgomery
Cesar Romero
Coney Island
Technicilor
Miss Pinkerton
Rial
Secret Service
Darkest Africa
Chester Morris
Jean Parker
Barry Sullivan
Don Barry
James Cagney
George M. Cohan
Joan Leslie
Walter Huston
March OF Time
Airways
Tom Smith
Stregses
United Sea War Prisoners
Belgian War Re- Relief Society
Chiropractic
Hugh J. Murphy
Main Street
Wood Street
San Angelo
Bombardier School
Texas
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Shere
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