Secret kept five months for son of Angelo village blacksmith
Ulysses Grant Anderson a 31 year old major and a Corregidor survivor was among the soldiers who slipped through Japanese lines in 1942. His parents in Angelo Wisconsin kept his secret for months to protect him. A wedding date is hinted but details are unclear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Angelo
Wis
Angelo Vilage
Ulysses - Grant Anderson
Cand Bis Wit
Lena
ELS
Ameroft
Maj Bernand L. Anderger
Amy Easts
Corregidor
Guersilies
Anderson
Bataan
Derion
Corresidor
Rie Tney
Lu Col Son Wind
Australia
Serge Piel
Tad
Andersons
Wartime family links and missing officers tied to Sparta Wis
The report outlines Betty Lou Gewald’s kinship to Policeman Harold Hoviand of Sparta Wisconsin and describes relatives of Major Anderson missing since the fall of Corregidor. It notes Anderson’s family hopes, wartime letters, and his ties to the CCC at Ettrick plus his brother James in military service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Lou Gewald
Coul
Miss Gewald
Harold Hoviand
Sparta
Wis
Angelo
Pacific Cemetercia) Co
Menila
Sa] Angineers
Philippines
Gerald
Corregidor
War Department
Blume Post Auxiliary Poppy Workers Named
Mrs. Julia Paskewich president announced Leo H. Blume Post VFW Auxiliary members named to assist Poppy Day sales. Names include Kay Martin Ann Maine Martin Catherine Robinson Margaret Keveny Mary Houser Annia Hardened Maude Castle Vinie Moore Helene Kehn Mary Mareiin Sophie Selucky Billzen Vaughn Nora Barty Mary Conroy and Mrs Paskewich. Also invited to dedicate Honor Roll of St Nicholas Ukrainian Church May 20 at 2 pm with a moment of silence for war heroes and V-E Day gratitude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julia Paskewich
Leo H. Blume
Bilzen Vaughn
Nora Barty
Mary Conroy
Paskewich
St. Nicholas
Europe
Moore
Firefighters Tackle Small Fire at 450 Congress Street
Firemen extinguished a slight blaze from a stairway at 450 Congress Street yesterday afternoon. Responding to Box 326 at Congress Street and Brunswick Road, they arrived after an alarm at 1 pm and reported the fire under control by 1:40 pm. Damage described as slight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy
Congress Street
Brunswick Road
Pam
Superfortresses Deliver Heaviest Raid of War on Japan
American B-29s struck Honshu from bases in the next wave of air attacks, blasting oil storage and fuel centers on Tokuyama Otake and Oshima Island while targeting inland sea facilities. Reports describe vast smoke columns and flames as the air strike over Kyushu and Chikoku islands pressed home against Japanese naval and industrial targets with no confirmed American losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Japan
Honish
Aight Japanese Island
Elsa
Gience
Chikoku
Kyushi
Isuilas
Okibawa
Chester W. Nimitz
Taay
Goristics
Iba
Tohuyana
Otake
Tokuyana
Yshand
Oshima
Kyushu
Josep E. Rogers
Whaton
S.J
Deta
Go Dows
Loran D. Briggs
Bonaititus
Uush
Tokuyama Uel‘ing
James Pratt
Westerville
Pratt
Warne Story
Agertey
Enenw
Purple Heart Awarded to Private Phillips
Mr and Mrs Harry A Phillips of 125232 Congress Street receive the Purple Heart awarded to their son Private Harry C Phillips for wounds suffered in Germany on November 20 1944 He was in the service since April 13 1943 trained at Camp Blanding Florida and overseas since July 1943 He recently left an English hospital where he convalesced and is a graduate of Waterville High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry A. Phillips
Congress Street
Pfe
Harry C. Phillips
Germany
Camp Blanding
Fla
Phillips
Waterviizt High School
Students Form Red Cross Unit at College
Students at Sussetl-Sage College formed a Red Cross unit under the Student Government Association to support war efforts. Patricia Driggs was named first chair in April with Dr Hilde M. Stering as advisor. The group distributed pamphlets and staged an exhibit in the college library to explain the work of the organization. The college has long supported war fund drives and met its quota for the year. The piece notes that the W-2 rocket bomb shares mechanics features with a U S rocket developed before Pearl Harbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fuassul. Sage
College J
Cfost Iby
Ita
Patricia Driggs
Hilde M. Stering
Sussetl- Sage. College
Public Institutions To Get State Apples
State agriculture department announced distribution of 84 carloads of apples to county and state institutions through the War Food Administration surplus program. Apples were allocated to the State Mental Hygiene Department and county welfare institutions. Earlier purchases from growers totaled 17 1/2 carloads on Feb 13 under the program. France's prewar industrial workers in Somme faced heavy losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Agriculture Department
Department
of Marketa
Betesen Growers
War Food Administration
Beverly Carkads
State Mental Hygiene Department
Jena
Cousty Welfare Institutoss
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Branagan
Mey Leno
Ee Sturrar
OCR
Arev
Agnes Webster
Douglas Macarthur
Son
Adother
Ain
Civilise Conservations Corps
CCC
Ettrick
Marshall Sr
Marshall
Manila
Selfridge Wield
Mich Ke Phe
Air Corps
James
Air Force
Camp Stewart
Georgia
Ith Community Chest
Allied Community War
Chestnut Cle
George
Y.C. A
C.I. O. War Relief
James F. Turner
Nathan Kiein
Buckley
Veterans’ Committee
ORB
C. C.D
Lees
F & Wovelty Works
Rew Tee
Adels of
Troy
Bulova
Adels
Opticians — Jewelers
Blume Post Auxiliary
Red Cross
United States
Peard Harbor
Somme
Tes Wition Industral
France
Dorothy Poesy
Paar
Rtas
Execuy
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