Letters From Soldiers Tell Of Their Christmas In Africa
In 1943 soldiers in the Middle East describe a modest yet joyful Christmas. A cedar from Jerusalem, homegrown oil-waste ornaments, homemade cards, fruit cake, and a church service mark their holiday. Letters from Sgt. John Rogerville of Frederick and Pfc. Harvey Estery Dunn share life far from home, local news, and hope for return. The notes reveal cultural notes, local boyhood connections, and tokens from home like postcards and Christmas boxes.
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Middle East
Jerusalem
Lebanon
C. O
Sergt
John Rogerville
Amos John Traver
Frederick
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Travers
Turkey Pfc
Harvey Estery Dunn
Africa
USC
Sgt. Rogerville
Tye
Pyramids
Luxor
Thebes
Tut-Ankh- Amen
Taerd
Moin
Ecountey
U.S A
Lutheral Women of the Church
Katharine R. Bussard
Ess
Ecters
Cpl
Douglas Green
London
Red Cross Mansion House
Twin Towers of Hope
North Africa
Det Tayen
Put
John Powel Do Tre
Pictore
Earl Ramsburg
Miners Seek $2 Day Raise Amid Wage Debate
United Mine Workers demand a $2 daily increase for bituminous miners effective April 1, challenging wage controls and the War Labor Board formula. The issue affects over 400,000 workers as the contract nears expiry April 30 while anthracite workers may be drafted for later talks. Deeds filed note property transfers in Frederick Properties transactions totaling thousands.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
International Policy Committee
Getulio Vargas Jr dies in Sao Paulo at 128
Getulio Vargas Jr son of Brazil's president and Johns Hopkins chemical engineering graduate class of 1940 died Tuesday in Sao Paulo infantile paralysis at age 128 He spoke in Frederick in Spring 1940 on Pan American cooperation urging US Latin American collaboration and a neighbor policy. GAPLANG MAN GUILTY Found guilty before Magistrate Howard Marvin Jones at Brunswick Wednesday afternoon of a charge of being drunk and dis orderly. John Vernon Hagan Gapland was sentenced to the county jail for sixty days.
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Getulio Vargas, Jr
Brazil
Johns Hopkins University
Sao Paulo
Young Vargas
Frederick
Gaplang
Howard Marvin Jones
Brunswick
John Vernon Hagan
Gapland
AFL and CIO chiefs urge universal price ceilings to aid workers
Washington February 3 1943 The presiding leaders of the CIO and AFL urged President Roosevelt to apply universal price ceilings and rationing to all civilian goods to curb rising living costs and stagnant wages They criticized the War Labor Board policy as too rigid and called for more flexible action to offset cost of living increases They said the President showed interest but gave no commitments Meanwhile Navy announced survivors landed in Miami from a British merchant vessel torpedoed in mid November off the north coast of South America
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Washington
presMjehia
CIO
AFL Today
Roosevelt
Willan Green
American Federation of Labor
Philip Murray
Congress of Industrial Organizations
White House
War Labor Board
Green
Murray
Labor Department
Africa
AFL
Navy
Miami
Fla
Atlantic
South America
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M. Murray
D. Kennedy
M. Puncke
Middletown
B. Remsberg
J. Hauver
A. Bussard
M McKee
N. Stroup
P. Huffer
Coblentz
Hoffenberger
Horine
Stine
Audrey Bussard
Thomas
Frederick High School
Knickerbocker Boat Club
New York City
Albert ¢. Palmer
Feo 3
RAF Ventura
Abbeville
St. Omer
Frederick Properties, Inc
West Fourth Street
John W. Rice
Lewis A. Rice
Ernest D. Michael
West Third Street
Getuho Vargas
Howes
Willard
Ralio
Taly
Hal
Wikterd
Williamson's Drug Store
Sears
Ieee
Old Battery
Sears, Roebuck
Patrick Street
Hercules
Melton
Sears Goedworth Work Shoes
Sda
Frederick, MD
Tim
Saymy
Aden
Sears Easy
Seyi Pestle
Patrick Fhone
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