News of Our Men and Women in Uniform
Soldiers and relatives from Washington area receive updates on combat service in France Italy and the Pacific. S/Sgt Charles Whetstine earns infantry medal and Purple Heart. many others report new addresses promotions wounds and missing in action status. families relay letters and travel plans as the war continues.
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Charles Whetstine
Wellman
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Whetstine
Fie
Kalona High School
Harold
Clifford
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Austin
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Falls Off Porch to Break Collar Bone
Two year old Chrissie Reschly broke a collar bone and dislocated a shoulder after falling from a porch while playing at home in Wayland. Relatives and neighbors traveled and visited, with several local residents noted for travel, visits, and hospital stays.
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Chrissie Reschly
Ezra Wittmer
Wayland
Clyde Troutman
Joan
Jimmie
Ottumwa
Mary Jarrard
Jarrard
Roth
Melvin G. Roth
Wayland State Bank
New York City
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Gary
Ind
C. K. Schantz
J. R. McKirahan
Clinton
Fat salvage goal tied to 1944 production targets
The 1944 fat salvage objective of 230 million pounds equates to oil from 1,082,353 acres of peanuts or soybeans grown on 1,503,267 acres. It also parallels lard from 7 million hogs or tallow from 3 million cattle slaughtered.
Eleven Die in Gasoline Tank Explosion at Shawneetown
In Shawneetown Illinois on August 12 UP reports 11 people killed including seven children when a gasoline storage tank exploded last night at the Wabash Valley Co farm cooperative storage plant. The blast ripped through the home of Joseph Ryder, a night watchman for the facility.
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Ill
W. C. Moye
Old Shawneetown
Joseph Ryder
Wabash Valley Co. Farm Cooperative
Ghost of Guam Survives War on Guam Island
The only American to spend most of the Pacific war on Guam, George Ray Tweed, 42, lived in hiding after the Dec 8 attack and escaped a returning American vessel a month ago after Saipan invasion. He is in the United States with his wife and two sons, Richard Eugene, 9, and Robert Bernad, 3, who was born on Guam, staying with Mrs. Twin's mother in Santa Paula California.
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Guam
George Ray Tweed
Naval Radio Statin
Saipan Islet
Ricard Eugene
Robert Benard
Guan
Color Inheritance and Ancestral Color Appreciation
Experts say color appreciation may link to austere ancestors irritated by constraints. The piece theorizes that people who favor colors and tees might share ancestry with similarly color-appreciative lineages.
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