High School Victory Corps A Wartime Education Plan
The US Office of Education Wartime Commission proposes High School Victory Corps to involve every pupil in war work. It emphasizes broad physical fitness and five service divisions including Tand Service Air Service Sea Service Production Service and Community Service. Eligibility targets students near graduation with required physicals tests and coursework. Girls expected in Production and Community Service in line with wartime needs.
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Office of Education
Army
Air
Air Service
Sea Serve
Navy
Victory Corps
Air Service Division
Local Scouts and community notices mark October events
The column lists upcoming Scout meetings in the Scout House and Trinity Chapel Harvest Festival. It notes military enlists including Philip Greene entry into the U S Army and Lawrence Horton heading to the British West Indies, plus several weddings births and engagements within area families. It also mentions cookie sales, club meetings at YMCA St Marys and St Michaels parish activities and a new second lieutenant commission for Raymond Namara.
Victory War Bond Rally Urges Conservation and Sacrifice
A wartime appeal warns that Allied defeat would end the right to happiness and urges citizens to fight produce and conserve. It emphasizes saving water to preserve fuel and chemical stocks for the war effort and promotes buying U S War Bonds to secure the future.
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U. S
Bristol students and servicemen in the news
Wael r Howard of Bristol High lands is now stationed at Fort Bowie Texas. Arthur H. Ryone of Bristol High ands earned 96 percent in aircraft mechanics at the Ohio Institution of Aeronautics. Alfred Mello is promoted to Technical Corporal and stationed in Hawaii. Countryside Garden Club meets Thursday at Mrs Catherine Bertrand’s Bay View avenue.
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Wael R Howard 'E Ryone
Bristol Highlands
Fort ‘Bowie
Texas
Ohio Institution of Aeronautics
Arthur H. Ryone
Bristol Highands
Phe
S Countryside Garden Club
Catherine Bertrand
Bay View Avenue
Alfred Mello
Antone Mello
Harker Avenue
Hawaii
Novel and memoirs review of mid-20th century war fiction
A literary note praises Anna Seghers The Seventh Cross and Howard K. Smith Last Train from Berlin as powerful depictions of Nazi Germany. The Seventh Cross follows seven escapees from a concentration camp and the Gestapo's reach through family and friends. Last Train from Berlin offers an on the ground view of German morale and wartime propaganda.
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Anna Seghers
George Heisler
Odus
Gestapo
George
New Germany
Fritz
Fuehrer
Marie
Berlin
Howard K. Smith
CBS
Germany
Pearl Harbor
Moscow
Otto Dietrich
Red Army
Dietrich
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George R. McCarthy
James F. Duffy
Easterbrooks
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Cor. Wood & State Sts
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High School Victory Corps
Victors Corps
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Red Cross
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Bristol Housing Guild Adquarters
Wardwell Lumber’ Company
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Philip N. Greene
Summer Street
U. S. Army
Camp Devens
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Davie C. Jencks
Moses “Brown School
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Charles D. Jencks
Sunset Road
Ruth Walton Hazledine
Claude Hazledine
Gibson Road
First Congregational Church
John Remington Watson
Harold E. Watson
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Herbert D. Graetz
Thomas J Goff
Thomas J., Jr
Robert Walter Dion
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Francis Joseph Allaire
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US Navy
Jean Marie
Manuel Sousa
Gooding Lane
Truesdale Hospital
Fall River
Joseph T Teixeira
Constitution Street
Joseph T Jr
Trinity Chapel
John Beauchamp
Set Lawrence Horton
Reynolds Norton
British West Indies
Joseph Marshall
Fox Hill Avenue
Marton
Joseph Salvaggio
Jack Salvaggio
Roma Street
YMCA
Charles Otten
St Mary's Social Club
St Mary's Auditorium
At & A
Gremial Daughters of
Portugal
Helen Brown
Washinngton Street
Alice Laurence
Mino
Edward Lawrence
Rock Street
Linda Ann
Hospital
Lawrence
Loretta Botelha
St Michael's Church
St Andrews Club
Alter Society of Our Lady of
Raymond I VieNamara
Wire
Fimer Ste Namara
High Street
Cavalry Replacement Center
Fort Riley
Kansas
Committee
Levy's Store
Hope Circle
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Employment Office
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Bradford
French Coal Company
Tel. Williams
Box O
Beach Terrace
Penne Street
Frank
Waveneyook
Seences
Westminster Street
Providence
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