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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1945
Page
6
Community groups sponsor military subscriptions while readers report addresses changes. Alfred Grossenbacher returns from Camp Gordon with others stationed at Fort Meade and Camp Maxey as crews transfer between Army Navy posts. The column lists promotions deployments training at Great Lakes Norman and Hawthorne along with letters from service members in England France and Ireland mentioning family and cheer.
Harries Hornstein of 14235 Lincoln Ave Dolton made his ninth blood donation at the Red Cross Blood Center 5 N Wabash Ave Chicago. Pearl Schweikert of 14244 Lincoln Ave Dolton donated blood for the eighth time at the same center.
John H. Mooney was commissioned a second lieutenant on the battlefield in Italy on December 27 while serving in a Railway Operations battalion. At 39, he is among the older new officers and had previously earned a staff sergeant’s rating overseas. He formerly worked 17 years for the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad and lives in Riverdale, with his wife Fern and their 21 month old son John Jr. Their home state ties include Reno and Harvey addresses. Meanwhile a new policy allows induction of essential industry workers who leave such work for military service, waiving standard physicals for limited service.
Men under 38 who leave essential industry without draft-board permission face induction into special training units. Selective service physical standards are lowered for this category, and individuals in this group will be subject to service requirements.
The directive outlines processing for inductees with varying fitness levels. Those fit for general service are treated as usual, while those below standards but deemed acceptable receive special processing. A red stamp reading Work or Fight will mark their service record. Camp Ellis special training units will be reassigned to reception centers after training completion.
The South Suburban Next of Kin group met January 17 in Harvey with relatives of men missing in action or prisoners of war in attendance. Dr Rudolph Malek, WWII chaplain, spoke on European prison camps and conditions. Mrs Harriet Hester led Y M C A next of kin activities. meeting chaired by Mrs Harold F Miller. The next gathering is scheduled for February 21.
A theological sermon arguing that baptism with the Holy Spirit, not water baptism, unites believers into the Body of Christ. It cites I Corinthians 12 13 and compares across Romans 6 4 Galatians 3 27 Ephesians 4 5 Colossians 2 12 and other passages to argue believers enter Christ through the Spirit and are placed in the New Creation with Christ as Federal Head.
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