Our Boys in the Armed Forces in Dalton Notes
A community column collects letters and notices from local service members abroad and at home. It records updates on addresses, reassignments, furloughs, and welcomes letters from readers, while urging servicemen to register on return and share battlefield experiences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Community Patriotic Council
Dalton and
Riverdale
Minnie Pohlers
Jefferson Street
Dalton
Col
Pointer
Harold Heinke
France
Big
Don Ferguson
Hondo
Texas
Chicago
San Antonio
O.K
Ferguson
Pfe
Arthur V. Nimtz
Air Corps
Nimtz
Fort Sam Houston
Pvt
Bennett Varco
Camp Stewart
Military assignments move three officers to new posts
Busch heads to Fort Bragg in North Carolina while A Harold W Wagner is reassigned to Courtland Alabama and Lt William H Stanley departs for overseas duty in the latest military postings announced this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd E. Hamman
Tuke Field
Phoenix
Ariz
Paul E. Bureh
Army Air Field
Kingman
Donald Lorenzen
Great Bend
Ind
Robert D. Henderson
Madden, Vo
Alfred J. Dieite
North Oamo Hood
Texas
Raymond Neander
Sheppard Field
William
County Dog Bite Cases Under State Law In June
Sheriff Michael F. Mulcahy reports sixteen dog bite cases in June. highway police follow state law and Chicago Health Department rules. Bites lead to 15 day dog observation to check rabies. if rabies develops, vaccine is given in 21 doses over 14 days. Immediate vaccine and dog euthanasia occur for bites to nose or mouth. Chicago reports no human rabies in 1944 but thirteen rabies heads found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheriff’s
Michael F. Mulcahy
Cook County
Chicago Health Department
Chicago
Private with engineers granted one year deferment on D-Day
A private who landed with the engineers on D-Day learned his Detroit draft board had approved an occupational deferment for one year. The note confirms one year of relief from military service due to his civilian essential role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Engineers
Detroit
Individual Heating Control Reaches Apartment Houses
After the war apartment house dwellers can choose hot or cold at will as industry perfects a new heating control system allowing each tenant to regulate his own temperature.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Thomas F. Kinney
Kinney-Hood Printing CO
138Th Street
136Th St
Thos. M. Kinney
Dolton, I
Congress
Dolton
Illinois
Leo Brehm
India
Clarence G. Pfotenhauer
The
Marines
Saipan
Marianas
Frank Schaefer
Bernard
Armed Forces
Fort Sheridan
Armored Division
Fort Knox
Joseph
Fort Jackson
James
England
Robert Vorphal
Italy
Frank Lund, Jr
States
North
Africa
Henry Barfield
Edward Ehlers
Cpl
Russell Wirtz
William Guild
S-1
Coast Guards
Cape Elizabeth
South Portland
Jean Kay
AIR Service Command
Robert E. Propper
Fred W. Propper
144Th Place
United Kingdom
Propper
Pullman Standard Aircraft Company
inChicago
Thornton Township High School
Henrietta B. Propper
Pvt. Propper
Robert
106Th Street
Robert Miller
Frederick Army Air Field
Oklahoma
John FE. Miller
Herman Baumgartner
Camp Swift
Fort Benning
Edward Fike
Fort McClellan
Ala
Fr. McClellan
Alan
McClellan
Army Ground Forces
Peter Kurz, Jr
Kennedy General Hospital
Memphis, Tenn
A. J. Smith
Federal Savings and Loan Association
Pullman
Halsted St
Cello N Products
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
Acme Coal Company
Clark St
Ilinois
Riverdale Park
Lc.r.r
Anthony Basile
Chicago Street
August C. Reich Agency
Interocean
Indiana Avenue
S.r
Riverdale Inn
Fred Keyl
Carl Dieck
Park Avenue
Acme Coal CO
Commodore
Acme
Malloy Coal Co
Lincoln Ave
Central Garage
Pohlers & Stahnkee
Props
Washington Ave
J.F. Chandler Roofing Co
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!