McCoy Sergeant Has Reason To Be Interested In Fighting In Italy
Sgt Patrick, a 24 year U S Army veteran born in Virginville West Virginia, grew up in Paganica Italy and served as an interpreter in World War I and later as an instructor with the 602nd Tank Destroyer battalion. He arrived at Camp McCoy with the Second Division and took part in winter maneuvers at Watersmeet Michigan.
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Tex
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San Antonio
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Watersmeet
Mich
Westby Ensign Arrives Home
Westby Wisconsin special report on Ensign Donald Mockrud returning home after Navy enlistment in September 1942 and completing pilot training at Madison Iowa City Ottumwa Pensacola Daytona Beach and carrier practice in Chicago on his way home. His wife looks forward to a visit from Ensign Lee Mockrud.
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Iowa City
Ottumwa
Pensacola
Fla
Mockrud
Daytona Beach
Chicago
San Diego
Calif
Duluth Superior Drops to Group 3 Labor Status
The war commission moved the Duluth Superior area from minus 2 to group 3, marking a balance of labor supply and demand after six months. Marinette Menominee and 34 other areas were dropped from listings due to persistent labor surplus and little war production activity.
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Engineer unit promotes three officers at Camp McCoy
Promotions announced for three officers of the 250th Engineer Combat Battalion at Camp McCoy Wisconsin by Colonel Andrew J. Nehf. The officers advanced to first lieutenant are Robert J. Kadala James M. Raley and Frederick W. Stobbart Jr.
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250Th Engineer Combat Battalion
Andrew J. Nehf
Robert J. Kadala
James M. Raley
Frederick W. Stobbart
Sparta Parents Have Two Sons Overseas
Sparta Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Jenkins of 605 North Street report two sons in overseas service. Francis, 20, is in Italy after training at Great Lakes and New Orleans, later assigned to a ship with England and North Africa crossings. Sgt Cleo, 22, an air corps engineer, entered service November 2 1942, trained at Hammer Field India. His wife Mildred Kirkeeng and their 12 year old son Larry are listed.
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Italy
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India
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Ill
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Gulfport
Miss
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Hammer Field
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Larry
Postwar car upholstery may switch to nylon fabric
Experts foresee nylon holstery in cars after the war, bonded to a synthetic molded frame with new thermal setting adhesives. This would replace laborious tacking and piecing of cloth upholstery, shortening production times.
Strike Curve Higher Than In Last Year
Washington reports the 1944 strike trend rising in the first four months, 42 percent above 1943 and 71 percent above 1942. Last year saw 3,752 strikes. idleness and workers involved climbed. Coal and iron and steel suffered major idleness, while wages and hours remained the main strike driver with growing grievance factors in 1944.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
Pearl Harbor
Iron and Steel Industry
No Alternative gas film shown in wartime drive
A 20th Century Fox short No Alternative advocates gas as vital to war effort alongside blood plasma. Campaigners urge viewing at Hollywood theater Thursday to Monday and at the Rivoli last week. Additional showings listed at 5th Avenue June 9 to 11 and Wisconsin June 26 and 27.
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Wisconsin Theater
One Sheet Of Paper To Write Home From New Guinea
In a letter from Sgt. Gerhard Reppe to his parents he explains he has only one sheet of paper left to write home about his involvement in the New Guinea invasion. Other local service members include Chester Fink returning from New York after training and his brother Lester headed to radio school in Boston. M Sgt Harry Kaufman, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Kaufman, is due home on furlough after years in service, with much of that time in the Pacific. Pic Thomas Bigelow has returned to Gulfport Mississippi and may be sent overseas soon after spending furlough with family in Lansing and Waukon. A note mentions the Liberty Bell’s wartime movement to a church in Allentown during the Revolutionary era.
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L. P. Reppe
Gerhard Reppe
New Guinea
Chester Fink
New York
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Boston
Harry Kaufman
George Kaufman
Pacific
Pic
Thomas Bigelow
Gulfport
Miss
Waukon
Co-Eds Sustain Traditions As La Crosse College Closes
Students at La Crosse State Teachers College end the year June 2 amid wartime shortages. Co-eds organized a women’s field hockey Homecoming, led an all-women orchestra, ran offices, raised funds for scholarships, mowed lawns, and performed janitorial work to support campus morale for servicemen.
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la Crosse College
Protests Over Horse Transport Linked to Slaughter
Scotland's Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals protests to the government against cruelty in moving work-worn horses long distances for slaughter for human consumption.
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Society For Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
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