Canadian Artists Tour U S Camps
Vancouver entertainers form Service Shows, a 360-artist, volunteer group supplying morale boosting acts to Army Navy and Air Force centers across the U S with USO coordination. Led by Mrs Yvonne Firkins the group operates on small pay with stages built by government and hosts camps at remote fortifications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vancouver
B. C
49Th Parallel
Alaska
Rotary International
Army
Navy
Air Force
USO
Yvonne Firkins
Service Shows morale booster for troops with shows and kits
Troops in remote locations receive material for skits and simple productions along with complete make-up kits. Commanders report daily that Service Shows serve as a strong morale builder.
Local Notes on Hess Injury and Brooks Marriage
Earl Hess of Albany is recovering from a broken leg after a fall in Albany. Jane Wolfe Brooks, daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry Wolfe of Whitehall, married Sgt Foster Brooks of Camp Stewart in Hinesville Georgia on February 7. Brooks served over six years in the Army with time in Panama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Hess
Albany
Hegs
Whitehall
Howard J. Gordon
Land
Joseph Gordon
Williams Street
Company L
New York Guard
Camp Blanding
Fla
Harry L. Wolfe
Bellamy Street
Jane
Foster J. Brooks
Angela Brooks
Queen Street
Hinesville
Reed Smith
Hinesville Baptist Church
Savannah
Non-Commissioned Officers Club
Camp Stewart
Brooks
Whitehall High School
The
Champlain Spinners, Inc
Army
Panama
Shangri La Carrier Launched At Norfolk Navy Yard
The 27 000 ton aircraft carrier Shangri La was launched at Norfolk with Mrs. Doolittle christening and Hilton in attendance. It joins 14 other first line carriers and will carry over 2 000 crew and more than eighty planes. The ship honors the April 18 1942 raid and builds on the Shangri La name from Roosevelt's joke. Separately, John W Cassels cited Britain’s wartime crackdown on black market activity at a Pittsburg Rotary Club meeting highlighting limited illicit trade to second hand furniture after the London blitz.
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Norfolk Navy Yard
Portsmouth
Shangri-La
Tokyo
Jam
Doolittle
United States
Roosevelt
Lost Horizon
James Hilton
Hornet
Pittsburg
INS
Great Britain
London
John W. Cassels
Food Control Board
British Agricultural Ministry
Cassels
Soldiers Turn to Lumberjacks on South Sea Isle
American soldiers on a Seventh AAF base in the Pacific convert to forest life to fortify a sandy atoll. Logs roof bomb shelters while palm fronds and sand shield against shrapnel and parachute bombs. They camouflage shelters with netting and palm mats to endure air raids.
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South Sea Isle
AAF
Pacific
United States
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U.S
Humphreys
Met
Life Ins
Russia
Reet
Ana
FEA
Japan
Germany
Ature
Raph
Alan
Giant Aircraft Carrier
Iphive
Cal
Union
Pacha Pek
River St
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