Pitch In rally supports Training School Service Men center
Southeast side communities mobilize to support the Training School Service Men's center at 8276 South Chicago. Local groups including Windsor Park Lutheran church Hyde Park Travel club Red Cross units Immaculate Conception parish and others assist in weekly efforts alongside church and civic groups across the area.
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Southeast Side
Service Men’s Center
South Chicago
Windsor Park Lutheran Church
76Th St
Harvey Behind the Lines Committee
Harvey
Hyde Park Travel Club
Red Cross Unit
Immaculate Conception
Commercial Ave
W.S.C.S
Southfield Methodist Church
South Shore
W.D.C.A
Church of the Messiah
Dante Ave
St. George Episcopal Church
St. Dorothy’s Circle
D. of L. Aquinas Mothers’ Club
Southtown Co-operettes International
Square
American Legion Auxiliary
St. Margaret's Red Cross
Rhodes Auxiliary
Chesterfield Community Council
Red Cross collection by costumed youngsters on Drexel Avenue
Seven children in varied costumes visit the Red Cross office at 6208 Drexel to give 2.86 dollars from a backyard lemonade sale. The Drexel Avenue group includes Beverly Ann Rose and others, with prior 2.57 dollars contributed by five girls from nearby, while local newsboy Theo Malott sends a humorous Indian story.
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South Sea Island
Red Cross
Drexel Ave
Back Yard
Beverly Ann Rose
Ann
Jackie Macko
Susie
Nickie Kallas
Judy
Eva Jean Haworth
Drexel
South Side
Mercy Organization
Jeaneene Rank
Rochelle
Gloria Stein
Mary Jo Rose
Annette Kimball
E. 61St Pl
Theo Malott
Kimbark Ave
63Rd St
Oklahoma
Theo
Shoes Hide-and-Seek Ends With Forty Dollar Find
Mrs. Robert Lawson hid thirty dollars in her husband’s No. 9 oxford shoes. The pair was taken to a shoemaker for repair, and the money was found in the shop’s cash register when the shoes were returned. The puzzler answer is nine and one.
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Diogenes
Robert Lawson
Mr. Lawson
Flier Killed and Four Soldiers Wounded in Two Battle Areas
Staff Sgt. Jeremiah Connolly of 6618 Greenwood Ave was killed in action in New Guinea. Four other Southeast Side men were wounded—three on Russell Island in the Pacific and one in North Africa. The wounded are Pfc. Edward Kafka, Pfc. Edward Kaminski, Pfc. Arthur Graczyk, and Pfc. Charles J. Gasick. Connolly and the four wounded had recent overseas service. families report letters and furloughs amid the war news.
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Jeremiah Connolly
Greenwood Ave
New Guinea
Russell Island
Pacific
North Africa
Edward Kafka
Walter Kafka
Burley Ave
Edward Kaminski
Margaret Kaminski
Manistee Ave
Arthur Graczyk
Frank Graczyk
Escanaba Ave
Charles J. Gasick
John Gasick
E. 93Rd St
Gasick
Sergeant Connolly
Thomas Connolly
Jerry
Kaminski
Helen Slotwinski
Burnham Ave
Barney Kaminski
Mississippi
Graczyk
War Department
Pearl Harbor
Chester
Texas
Flags to Fly Sunday at 3 Dedications
Community flag ceremonies honor 80 young servicemen and a fallen flyer with dedications in Avalon Park and Woodlawn. Block 1 Zone 1 bears a gold star for Foster Anderson killed in Visalia, California. A second dedication at 2:30 p.m. honors 49 in Block 7 Zone 10 with two flags and rose for mothers.
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Woodlawn Block
Avalon Park
Foster Anderson
P. N. Anderson
Avalon Ave
Visalia
Cal
Avereas
William Anderson
John Anderson
79Th St
Woodlawn Ave
Gerald Getty
Blackstone Ave
Ald. Rey Glin
Maryland Ave
Eaton-Priddy
Walter Meyers
South Park Ave
E. D. Frick
Woodlawn
Getty
Mr. Olin
Kenwood Ave
John T. Ryan
Eaton-Priddy Post
Fred Ross
Eugene Miller
Kimbark Ave
67Th St
Drexel Ave
86Th St
American Legion
Bruno Zingrone
Price Allem
Woodlawn Bible Church
Otto Essig
W. G. Wilson
Funeral Rites Held for Mrs Frieda Geringer
Funeral services for Mrs. Frieda Geringer 68 died at her home 7601 South Chicago Ave were held Saturday at St Pauls Lutheran church. Burial was in Fairmount cemetery. She was the wife of Adam Geringer a former 8th ward political activist and alderman candidate. Survivors include three daughters Margaret Krueger Eva Moeller Adeline Smith and a son Adam.
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Frieda Geringer
South
Chicago Ave
St Paul's Lutheran Church
76Th St
Dorchester Ave
Fairmount Cemetery
Adam Geringer
Geringer
Adeline Smith
Adam
Beach theft strips man on Lake Michigan shore
John Rossania of 6745 Wood Street was swimming at the 76th Street beach when thieves aboard the lakefront stole his shoes shirt wristwatch wallet and pants.
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John Rossania
Wood St
Lake Michigan
76Th St
Pocket Guide to IRAN for U S Army Families
Excerpt from a War Department pocket guide for soldiers arriving in Iran. It warns about sanitation gaps in Teheran and villages, advises boiling water, warns against unsafe water and ice, notes malaria and mosquitoes, scorpions, and urges personal cleanliness and avoidance of venereal disease.
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Teheran
Tea Is Safest Drink
Health officers urge safe beverage guidance and proper sanitary practices while noting currency values. The text explains the rial as the principal Iranian unit, worth about three cents in U.S. money and equal to 100 dinars, with comparisons to the American dollar.
Currency notes and coins described in Tarais exchange
The article explains coin values from five to fifty dinars and rial silver coins of one, two, and five rial. It notes aluminum or bronze five dinar pieces as the smallest lami coin and warns exchange rates vary constantly. It mentions money changers and banks as options for currency exchange and hints at continued discussion on page 2.
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Tarais
Two Republican 6th Ward Groups Plan State Meetings
Two factions in the 6th Ward organize separate Republican groups, the Regular Republican organization and the newly formed Republican Club. They name committeeman L Weist, discuss Labor Day events in Tiverview Park, and plan membership drives as campaigns begin.
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6Th Ward
G.O.P
Republican Club
Ward L. Weist
Ingleside Ave
John T. Dempsey
Cook Country Central Committee
Patrick Sheridan Smith
Ellis Ave
Oliver Baovik
Anthony Ave
George Johnson
Ells Ave
Cook County Central Committee
Tiverview Park
John Norris
Kimbaikave
Area youths enter military service in varied roles
Edward F. Dykstra earns second lieutenant after infantry school at Fort Benning and served with the 81st cavalry reconnaissance troop. Ensign Alvin W. Schuman graduates Coast Guard Academy and serves in San Francisco, while seven area men report to Great Lakes for boot training. Ethel Leyerle enrolls in the marine corps at Indiana University Bloomington. Five aviation cadets from the community join the Army Air Forces, including Richard Ogden and Frederick Hansen, both 17, with others from South Shore and Hirsch High School. Cadet Branecki Johansson Wagner and their backgrounds tie to local high schools and family ties.
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Edward F. Dykstra
E. J. Dykstra
Yates Ave
Infantry School
Fort Benning
Army
81St Cavalry
Camp Rucker
Ala
Calumet High School
University of
Army Air Forces
Richard Ogden
Arthur Heisman
Dobson Ave
Frederick Hansen
Arnold Hansen
Blackstone
Willam Branecki
Helen Branecki
Oglesby Ave
Harold Johnsen
Herbert Wagner
Anion Wagner
Woodlawn
Ogden
Hansen
South Shore High School
Navy
Pearl Harbor
South Shore
Branecki
Johnson
Wagner
Hirsch High School
Thieves Rob Loan Office and Home in South City
Burglars struck the Damuay Loan Company at 91138 Commercial Ave on Friday night and Sunday afternoon, stealing 967 pounds sterling from a safe, plus 74 War stamps. They also looted John J. Dwyer at 7640 Essex Ave, taking 175 jewelry, 55 cash, seven War stamps and three war ration books. Entry was by pass key. gloves used to avoid fingerprints. The robbery occurred Friday night.
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Southeatt Side
Damuay Loan Company
Commercial Ave
John J. Dwyer
Essex Ave
Loan Company
South Side leaders push petition for immediate lake water diversion
A five member South Side committee fast tracked a draft petition demanding immediate increased diversion of lake water to curb sewage contamination of Chicago’s drinking water. The plan, overseen by Raymond Keegan, target city and WPB actions while a City Council sub committee seeks urgent delivery of materials for the 79th Street lakefront filtration plant and an engineer to test water through the summer.
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Albert Chapman
South Shore
South Side
Teaders
Chicago
Raymond Keegan
Oglesby Ave
Finance Committee
Donald M. Nelson
WPB
79Th St
Lake Michigan
Anthony Rich
Anthony L Rich
Kee- Ban
Exchange Ave
Ald
Nicholas J. Bohling
Bennett Ave
Walker Butler
Lewis C. Coyner
Kingston Ave
Albert, Chapman
Frank B. Kelly
Constance Ave
Howard J. Moses
Ruched Ave
Committee On Action
George A. Rooney
E. 78Th
Lewis Coyner
Senator Butler
M. Bohrling
Harry Lawrence
Arthur G. Lindell
Donald Nelson
John J. Duffy
Hoyne
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Towa
R. C. Eaton
Crandon Ave
Stony Island Ave
Louise
Economist
Washington
Willam Row
Kas Mquiyee
Ako
Loren Gayton
U.S
Iran
Southeast Economist
Special Services Division
India
New Zealand
Syria
Great Britain
U.S. Army's Pocket Guide
Ensign Alvin W. Schuman
Silas Schuman
Phillips Ave
Coast Guard Academy
New London
U.S. Navy
Naval Training Station
Great Lakes
Ethel M. Leyerle
Hugh L. Leyerle
Marine Corps
Indiana University
Bloomington
Jimmy Safe
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