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Joliet Navy Day Plans Highlight Friday Events
Navy Day activities in Joliet include a 2 P M high school address by Commander William C. Eddy head of six Chicago navy radio technician schools. Eddy, famed radar and television expert, will speak at Joliet Catholic High School for a broadcast to rural schools and will appear at a 11 10 A M assembly and 12 10 P M luncheon at the Louis Joliet hotel with $1 10 tickets. Evening program at Joliet Township High School 8 P M features Captain E C Bain USN and film showings of The Retaking of Guam and the D Day invasion. Tickets available at local firms and through the Navy League. final rally follows at the auditorium with band and chorus under A H Zimm erman.
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William C. Eddy
Navy
Chicago
Eddy
Pearl Harbor
Annapolis
Washington
Navy Department
Saturday Evening Post
Esquire
Gale Hufford
Commander Eddy
Walgreen
Stillman’s
Louis Joliet
Frank Fitzgerald
Action Motion
Guam
Normandy
Joliet Township High School
Joliet Township
Alex H. Zimmerman
France
E. C. Bain
USN
Lexington
Saratoga
Bain
Japan
Ninth Naval District
Great Lakes
Joliet
Navy League
Public Service Company
FE. F. Meyer Fur Company
Boston
al Baskin’s
Black & Kuhl
John J. McCarthy
G. A. Ducker Company
Western United Gas