Our Men In The Service Highlights Local Servicemen
Several Berryville area men are listed as serving in World War II. Pvt Edward Bolton is stationed at New Cumberland Pennsylvania and hopes to hear from friends at 33883434 Co D STA 338480 Building 463. Cpl Kenneth Strother is in the Pacific after three years in service, formerly of Berryville. Pvt Roy Griffith is at Camp Swift Texas after enlisting November 19 1943 and is seeking letters at ASN 33 658 686 Co A 1st Chem Bn Camp Swift Texas. Harold Doss is in the Navy at San Francisco California since October, formerly employed by General Motors in Baltimore. Irvin P Zucker man has been promoted to technician fifth grade at Camp Crowder Missouri and is now with the Central Signal Corps Unit Training Center. He is the son of Mr and Mrs L Zucker man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Bolton
Mary Bolton
Southwerk Street
New Cumberland
Kenneth Strother
Snowden Strother
Berryville
Pacific Area
Berryville Basket Company
Roy C. Griffith
Roy Griffith
Ernest Griffith
Penn Avenue
Carlotta Griffith
Camp Swift
Texas
ASN
Co. A
1St Chem. Bn
Mtg
Roy
Harold Doss
W. H. Doss
Lynchburg
Hilda Doss
Navy
San Francisco
Calif
General Motors
Baltimore
Irvin P. Zuckerman
No. 1707
Valley Avenue
Central Signal Corps Unit Training Center
Camp Crowder
Armed Forces
Corporal Zuckerman
Salween River offensive aims to reopen Burma road link
Allied plans push across the Salween in southwest China to sever Japanese lines and join the old Burma road with the Ledo route. The 20 000 man operation seeks to relieve China’s lifeline to India before the monsoon floods, with Stilwell and British contingents converging on Myitkyina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
India
Burma
Chiang Kai-Shek
Celestials
Great Salween River
United Nations
Japan
Salween
Tibet
Wanted Ford Model A and housework help
Classified ads list a Model A Ford wanted by phone 4001 and a girl for general housework with no laundry. Also poultry bids and farm supplies offer blood tested chicks and paints from local suppliers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford
E. Piccadilly Sr
Trail’s End
Gordonsville
Senate to Hear Corrigan War Navy Business Ties
The Truman Committee will hold public hearings next week into Commander John D. Corrigan's navy duties and his New York firm Osborne and Wells. Corrigan, an Annapolis graduate now in ordnance, will be the first witness as the committee probes possible overlapping contracts and influence with navy work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Truman Committee
John D. Corrigan
Navy
Busines
Corrigan
Osborne and
Wells
Truman
D-Mo
New York Corporation
Annapolis
Ordnance Department
Ferguson
R-Mich
Robert H. Wells
New York University
Osborne
Osborne and Wells, Inc
New York
Trapshooting Expected to Grow After War
New York May 17. Leaders of skeet and trapshooting predict war-time changes will boost participation as ammunition shortages shorten events. The Grand American Handicap at Vandalia, Ohio runs August 23 to 25 this year on a Bring your own shells basis, reduced to three days from eight, with competitors from the United States Canada Cuba the Canal Zone and Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Henry E. Ahlin
Boston
National Skeet Shooting Asociation, Inc
Ray E. Loring
Vandalia
Ohio
Amateur
Canada
Cuba
Canal Zone
Mexico
Also Mentioned on This Page
Warner Bros. Capitol
FBI
WAC
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc
Mts
Women’s Army Corp
Panama
Jantzen
Pth HC. Sheetz. & ‘Son
Gray & Sheetz
Hansbrough & Carter
North
Loudoun Street
Winchester
Virginia Dial
Mutual Automobile and Fire Insurance
J. A. Hotinger
N. Loudoun
S. Loudoun St
Dial
Lupton Orchard Service CO
America
Lone Tree Monument
Central City
Nebraska
United States
Seas
Farmers & Merchants
Winchester, Virginia
DR. L. M. Allen
Ray Robinson
Paul M. Haldeman
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Edward M. Bolton
Myitkyina
Michin-in-auer
Joseph Stilwell
Law
Mandalay
Golden Glow Coffee Shop
Stephens City
Winchester Lunch
Sbarr
Gainesboro Pike
Fordson
Albert DeHaven
Nain
Phone Boyce
Brumback Farm
Star Office
Call
Bickers Motor Co
Miles Music Co
J. B. Daniel
Woodland Ave
Bath and Furnace
Valley Pike
Kernstown
W. J. Lupton
Fairmont Ave
Sunshine Feed
Wardensville
California
Wonder Pepper Giants
R. V. Lancaster
Covenant Farm
Grimes, Va
MO. S. Solenberger
Loudoun St
Baking Co
Hanover Dressed Poultry Co
Leicester
Majestic Radio
Lovett Brothers Shoe Store
Comdr. Corrigan
THE
Europe
Pine Motor Co
Berryville Ave
Ashby Station
Roy P. Duvall
North Main Street
Cammer Tire CO
Handley School
George W. Kurtz
Olga Stoker
B. Snider & Son
Canyone
Gray & Eddy
Haldeman
Earl L. Mason
N. LouDoun Dial
General Insurance
J. W. Arthur
Rouss Ave
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