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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1942
Page
4
A power press operator Mrs Abel W buys 18 percent of her wages in War Bonds via the Payroll Savings Plan to aid her husband Jim serving in Australia. Despite supporting two children she urges others to save 10 percent through payroll deductions for War Bonds.
Republic Pictures brings the Flying Tigers story to the Pastime Theatre with John Wayne and John Carroll leading a wartime drama of air combat over Burma. Woody Jason clashes with the squadron amid danger, duty and a $500 bonus as the cast includes Bill Shirley and Paul Kelly. The piece also notes an engagement announcement for Antoinette Phyllis Grimo to Corporal William Santos of the Army Aviation Corps.
The article recalls Wendell Willkie’s Middle East visit as Egypt’s Rommel defeat shifts momentum. It notes stock gains in Cairo, Willkie’s bold diplomacy, clashes with censorship, and his unorthodox appearance while meeting King Farouk and US forces in North Africa.
Walter E. Fields son of Albert Fields and the late Edna S. Fields has graduated from the RAF Flexible Gunnery School at Fort Myers Florida and been promoted to sergeant. He completed a five week course covering aircraft recognition gun mechanisms estimation of speed and distance, ground range rifle and machine gun practice, operation of power turret guns, and in flight target practice.
A twelve year old girl named Janey writes to Mr Morgenthau to donate her war bond stamps earned from part time work. She imagines world peace, signs as Miss Janey, and seals the letter while a plane flies overhead. The note, from Treasury files, urges families to budget for War Bonds and join payroll savings plans.
A requiem mass for Harold Bleasé at 108 Union Street was led by Rev. John Beauchamp in Trinity Chapel at 8 o clock Saturday morning. The afternoon service was conducted at his home by Father Beauchamps at 2 o'clock. Town officials Civilian Defense St Albans Lodge members and many friends attended. Burial followed in North Cemetery with bearers Herbert Burnham Fred Garvin Carl Witherell William Gablinske George Bernard and Arthur Lepper. He is survived by his sister Miss Marian Blease.
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