Radio Notes Highlight Tonight Publicized Musical Mix
Rose Ingram joins Allan in a Broadway musical comedy on WTOP at 8 pm. Six GIs from the invasion front cut in during the Allan Jones Frankie Carle show. Alexander Smallens conducts Sunset Symphony with Mengelssohn and Bruch works featuring Isaac Stern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose Ingram
Yelen
Troy
Allan
Invasion
Allan Jones
Frankie Carle
WTOP
Alexander Smallens
Mengelssohn
Ruy Bilas
Idinck
Hansel and Gretel
and Bruch
Violin Concerto
Isaac Stern
WMAL
St Grand Easy Aces
Herson
Easy Aces
North
Lum
N’ Abner
North Frankie Carle
Sunset
Doctor
Symphony
Christian
Dunninger
Alan Youne
Jack Carson
Mildred Bailey
Ed Calmer
Weather jokes and mud in Normandy war diary notes
The correspondent recalls days of rain and mud in Normandy, describing constant weather shifts from boggy roads to dusty trails. He notes French farms as troop laundries, locals trading rations for favors, and warns of German-occupied areas when khaki clotheslines appear. A jeep driver from East Syracuse nicknames himself Libera lc, calling himself B 24.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Channel
England
Normandy
Pfc
Luigi Liberatore
West Second Street
Syracuse
N. Y
Liberalc
White Hall notes and church picnic set for July 20
White Hall community round up lists visits among Winchester and Kernstown residents. The White Hall Church plans a Sunday School Picnic on Thursday at the West Virginia State Park with a truck transport for those unable to travel. Hospital patient Edgar Smoke Sr. is reported in Charlottesville Hospital with well wishes from friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Hall
Willuna Barr
Harry Boyles
West Virginia State Park
Marvin Shaffer
Winchester
Eva Luttrell
Sunny Side
Carter Luttrell
Walter Anderson
Ada Jutton
John Adams
Jack Milburn
Floyd Luttrell
Curtis Wilson
Walter Wiler Anderson
Gladys Taylor
Richard
Clearbrook
Edgar Smoke
Charlottesville Hospital
Annie Randall
Libylle
Martinsburg
Local Social Notes From Capon Bridge Area
Capon Bridge West Virginia residents share family visits and arrivals. Audrey Lee Williamson of Martinsburg visited her parents the Williamsons. Maynard Homer and wife and children from Baltimore visited the Homers. Ann Webster of Cumberland visits grandmother Sarah Webster. Oates couple welcomed a son in Winchester Memorial Hospital. Edith Haines of Parkersburg visits L C Haines family. Connie Giffen and Joyce visit grandparents B A Giffen in Romney. Loren Riley family visiting Knoxville while B B McDonald celebrates birth of a son. Ruth Eaton improves after illness. Forrest Jones and daughter Terry visit A C Lovett family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capon Bridge
W. Va
Audrey Lee Williamson
Martinsburg
Oma Williamson
Maynard Homer
Baltimore
M. O. Homer
Ann Webster
Cumberland
Sarah Webster
Kenzel Oates
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Edith Haines
Parkersburg
L. C. Haines
Connie Giffen
Joyce
Romney
B. A. Giffen
Loren Riley
Knoxville
Tenn
B. B. McDonald
U. S. Navy
Ruth Eaton
Forrest Jones
Terry
Philadelphia
Land Mines Debris on Normandy Beaches Still Threaten Forces
A veteran port engineer captain killed by a land mine near the shore recalls the danger. A military policeman says mines remain widespread, with roped off zones but cleanup constrained by frontline duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Army
France
Normandy
Rainfall Statistics Show Monthly Averages from 1913 to 1943
Present and past rainfall data report 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. none. July to date 1.32 inches. Year to date 20.91 inches. Average annual rainfall over 31 years is 35.95 inches. Monthly averages are listed, sourced from the Winchester Research Laboratory.
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Oklahoma
E. Hannegan
Roberts
Charles W. Tillett
North Carolina
WOL
WRC
Leif Eid
Godwin
Spris Musicade
Aer
Sky
the Lone
Ranger
Coffin-Costello Lyn Murray
Harsch
Evans
Ephano Brothers
Phila
Ake
Fredy
Vidar
Peders
Opp. County Courthouse
Baker’s Drug Store
Clarke County
George Washington Garage
Bell
Bell Clothes Stores
Front Royal
Fancy
California
Viorel
Cammer Tire CO
Handley School
Chapman Motor CO
W. Boscawen St
Grove Furniture Co
S. Loudoun St
Pine Motor Co
Blondie
U. S
Patent Office
Chic Young
the Grocers
MR. Bumstead
Simss & Zaboly
Thimble Theatre
Popeye
Oscar
Ala
G-Man
Secret Agent X-9
Big Sister
Madame
Byles Forgrave
BY Robert Sturm
F.B.I
Bluejaw
Elmer
Etta Kett
BY Paul Robinson
Fuilough
Muggs and
Skeeter
Winchester Research Laboratory
Leesburg
Harpers Ferry
Potomac By-Products Co
Mister
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