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Highland Park Press, 10 Dec 1942, p. 4

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Rabbi Charles E. Shulman will speak ‘on "The Challenge of Tomorrow" at the regular Sunday morning services of North Shore Congregation Isracl on Sunday, Dec. 13. He will discuss America‘s destiny in the postwar world and consider plans to avoid the pitfalls bf the last: armistice. Services at the temple, Lincoln and Nernon avenues, Glencoe, are conducâ€" ted regularly on Saturday and Sunday mornings at 11 o‘clock. Visitors are always welcome. Sermon Subject Of Rabbi Shulman Mrs. Mary Supple, Loeal Resident, Is Going to W ar Mrs. Supple and other women trainces reviewed general chemistry and mathematics and studied quantiâ€" tative analysis and organic chemistry, They were trained to perform routine l;?usluthe laboratories of war lants. A The 17 women in her class studied eight hours a day, five days arweek, for the tenâ€"week duration of the course. Only requirements for the course are that the trainces be high sehool graduates with acceptable work in high school chemistry or with some college chemistry. > Mrs. Mary G. Supple, 2181 Lakeside place, is going to war. She will fight not with guns and bullets but with test tubes and beakers. She completâ€" ed a fullâ€"time warâ€"training course in chemistry at lilinois â€" Institute of Technology Nov. 13, and will go to work st once in 2 war industry. Mrs. Supple‘s course was tuitionâ€" free, for costs of the chemistry trainâ€" ing were underwritten by the United States Office of Education, under the enginecring, science and manageâ€" ment war training program. 511 ‘t‘! % Danie! Green "Indorables" and "Outdorables" New Sheer { Gordon Rayon Hosiery & SHOES MAKE PRACTICAL CHRISTMAS GIFTS e VVay to a VV omans SFF â€"â€"« §M INDIVIDUALLY PROPORTIONED FELL SHOES Gift Slippers for the Entire Family Forty thousand doctors and twenty thousand nurses will have. answered the call to the colors by the first of the year. ‘The gaps that they leave in hosâ€" pital and other services to the sick and injuged in civilian life must be bridged by voluntary restriction of demands, volunteer aid, and an aggressive proâ€" gram of disease and accident prevenâ€" tion. Otherwise there will be tragedies of preventable deaths and needless sufâ€" ferng. War services that will continue to pay dividends after the are keeping your health and helpnryour hospital. Semeone in the family aiways needs a pair of bedroom slippers and you‘ll find them in a wide variety. Smallpox has been virtually climinâ€" ated. Typhoid fever is also almost nonâ€"existent. Scarlet fever is rare. Only one in twenty cases of meningiâ€" tis ends in death, whereas in the first World War one in three was fatal The reasons for the lowered death rate are prompt diagnosis and newer treatment.. Medical service to the army is in quantity and quality something about which we have reason to be proud and enthusiastic. In order to make this superior servâ€" ice possible, our people are making sacrifices. Just as they are giving up transportation service as usual, in orâ€" der to keep army supplies rolling, and are curtailing use of meat and canned goods so that the soldiers will get genâ€" erous amounts, so they are accepting without complaint the shortage of docâ€" tors and nurses that keeps them waitâ€" ing in physicians‘ offices and makes answers to hospital buzzer signals anyâ€" thing but prompt Army in lgtcr War Time Health Than Ever Before Tel. 456 George P. Plant, who is based at Staten Island, N. Y., has been adâ€" vanced to Storekeeper, Second class. Ensign Creigh attended Eim Place, Country. Day school and. graduated from Williams College in Williamsâ€" town, Mass., in 1939. Before entering the service, he was employed by the Phillips Petroleum Company, and graduated from Abbott Hall in January where he received his commission. Upon graduation he went to Washington,. D. C., to bomb disposal school for four months. Since Two other : brothers, L. John Creigh, and Ensign Creigh are also in the Navy Picture shows, lef to right:â€" Governor Kasteel, Captain S. A. Clement, Chief of staff of the Caribâ€" bean Sea Frontier; Captain Thomas Moran, chief of staff of the Tenth Naval District; Commander B. S. Custer, aide to the Commander, Caribâ€" bean Sea Frontier ; and Ensign Creigh, then he has Puerto Rico. Kasteel fled to England from Holâ€" land a day before the German invaâ€" sion, but not before planes had been shot down in his front yard. In Lonâ€" don he was private secretary to the prime minister of the Nethelands Government in Exile before being apâ€" pointed to his present post. When Kasteel was proposed for his present post, objection was made to his age, 40 years. The matter was submitted to Queen Wilthelmina, who is quoted as saying : "I‘ll appoint him. He is not too young. I was Queen at Ensign F. C. Creigh, USNR, (exâ€" treme right), son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Creigh, 200 Prospect Ave., Highland Park, I!I, in command of the Navy honor guard on the occasion of the recent visit at a Caribbean port of Peter Kasteel, governor of the Netherlands West Indies, to confer with Vice Admiral John H. Hoover, commander of the Caribbean Sea Frontier. 18." Ensign F. C. Creigh Heads Honor Guard For West Indies Gov In The Nations Service * But they are fighting at busy switchboards here at home. Fighting just as faithfully in their appointed places as their brothers in roaring tanks and screaming planes and rushing ships. * They wear no uniforms, handle no weapons of war, pilot no fighting planesâ€" these unseen aides behind the battle lines in America‘s War for Freedom. * Under their fAying fingers, the vital messages of war speed on to bring the day of final Victory! Ale U been in Panama .and brothers, Lieut. (.g.) and Ensign . Fredrick The PRESS Messages moving our armed property in emer, «++ raising‘ war production . . . delivâ€" ing public services, public health, Speeding the urgent messages that help our fighting men and hurt our enemy, messages by hundreds and thousands and millions, aiding the c nation‘s war bb and serving the Word comes from Great Lakes Naâ€" val Training Station that the "At Homes," customarily held the first Wednesday of each month by Admiral and Mrs. John Downes, will be disâ€" continued until further notice. Second class seaman Billy Riddle surprised his mother, Mrs. Joseph Riddle of Vine Ave. December 3 by calling from Norfolk, Va., upon his return from Africa where he saw acâ€" tion Lieut Harry E. Eaton, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Eaton of North Green Bay road has been advanced to the rank of captain. Capt. Eaton, who received his commission at the Uniâ€" versity of Alabama in 1938, was forâ€" merly stationed at Fort\Sheridan unâ€" til the outbreak of war a year ago, and has been serving overseas for ten months. Ensign and Mrs. Francis Grosse dre home visiting her parents, the John Larsons of North St. Johns Ave. for a few days before leaving for Seattle. Mrs. Grosse is the former Dorothy Larson, ILLINOIS BELL TELEPNHNONE compauty SERVING 24 HOuURS tVIRY daAY tions plants, busy railroad lines -4-.-.-.3..:-â€"-‘ ::-: m-â€":‘ war mateâ€" ‘rially aided in their united aim by these women im war work. and local officials in the complex business of winning this war and saving our Way of Life. Right now, in the Illinois Bell area, there are more than a dozen dition to plane, tamk and muniâ€" Lieut. and Mrs. Benton Cooper Burns are now stationed at . Camp Gruber, Okila. Mrs. Burns was the forâ€" mer Georgialou Fleager before her marriage on November 14. Floyd Peterson, former superinâ€" tendent of the Highwood water works, returned to his home Nov. 30, on a 30â€"day leave to visit his wife and two daughters of 246 Sheridan Ave., Highâ€" wood. Peterson, who served in the first World War, was Chief boatâ€" swain‘s mate on the U. S. S. Hugh L. Scott, one of the three transports sunk returning from an African exâ€" pedition and was rescued from the water. Jack Dayton, who enlisted the day after Pearl Harbor, recently comâ€" m&-znhl--d was given a of aviation maâ€" chinist‘s mate, third class. In order to take his recent training, he gave up his former rating of Storekeeper, third class. Because both army and civilian perâ€" sonnel of Fort Sheridan are operating on schedules prohibitive to Christmas shopping in Chicago, at least one Chicago department store (Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co.) has decided to bring Christmas shopping to Fort Sheridan. Representative items will be displayed for outright sale or for gift mailing next week. The son of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Dayton of Central Avenue. Highwood, he is taking a six weeks course in acrial gunnery. week visiting his parents and has reâ€" turned to Camp Polk, La., where he is a postal clerk of the armored diviâ€" off Dec. 10. If she does it will be one d'hhiw:km the job. Her, vacation in 12 years was a two day pass taken this year and she has more than four months time off coming to her. â€" Mrs. Woodgate recalls a flu epiâ€" demic of a few years ago that put +‘l the operators on the sick list. She ram the board herself for three days and nights, George Berube an& Edward Rogan are stationed at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. Pvt. Raymond Grossman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Grossman of 1346 West Street, is serving with the United States army in England. Mrs. Alice Woodgate, chief opeartor at the Fort Sheridan Signal Office, who lives at 5124 Bloomingdale Ave., at Fort Sheridan by taking the day Mrs. B. Frank Reach left November 27 to join her husband at Midland, Texas. He is stationed as an aviation mechanic at Midland Field. Corp. Francis O‘Connor of Fast Park avenue is an instructor attached to the 800th Signal Service Regiment at Camp Crowder, Mo. Aviation Cadet Vincent J. Peddic recently reported for further flight training to the Greenville Army Flying school at Greenville, Miss. After completing his training at the army school, Cadet Peddile will be sent to another field in the Southeast Army Air Forces Training Center for the final phaze of training. Upon successfully completing his course, he will receive his "wings" and a comâ€" cission as a second lieutenant in the Army Air Force® The training will include an intenâ€" sive course in seamanship, naval fundâ€" ementals and military drills plus a physical hardening program. Upon completion of recruit training, he will be cither selected for further trainâ€" ing, or will beâ€"asigned to sea duty or to a shore station. John R. Carter of 2092 S. Sheridan road who enlisted recently as a Quartermaster, third class in the Naâ€" val Reserve, has begun his recruit training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. Howard Copp, former playground and recreation director at the Ravinia school is now with the office of the American Red Cross field director at Camp Roberts, Calif. Lawrence M. O‘Neill, fireman first class, USNR, of Roger Williams ave., Ravinia, surprised his wife and family by coming home December 2. He had seven days leave and returned to his base Dec. 9 â€"He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J Peddle of 619 Homewood Ave. He is aboard an aircraft carrier and was on a recent convoy to Africa. He is the nephew of Mr. and Mrs. John Schwin~le of. North Green Bav road. Cadet kverett Anderson, 19 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Anâ€" dersoin of 997 Berkeley road, has enâ€" tered the Classification Center at Nashville Army Air Center in Tenn. At the center, Cadet Anderson will take physical and psyChological examâ€" inations to determine for which branch of the aircrew service, bombardieBing, ravigating or piloting, he is best fitted Physical training, academic study, and military drill are also a part of cadet training at the center. This is the first stop in training program that will graduate Cadet Anderson as a commissioned officer, with wings, . in the Army Air Force. He is a graduâ€" ate of Highland aPrk high school. A recruit inducted at the Recruit Reception Center at Fort Sheridan brought a 12â€"inch bolo knife with him. stating that he wanted to use it on some Japs. He was informed, however, that Uncle Sam would provide him enough lethal instruments to accomplish his desires. land Purk BBB O s 0 o L es .. "AsuBut or chicagco sUbURSAR ceanta per g’-’-’i TE s vier e condalones. cards of thanks, o--ni-'e'h-m-’.-.“ ao oo m mare es it cin arn d&m.fh“l-n-* by Wednesday noon fo insure appenrance Highland Park Press, $14 Leare! Avenue, Thursday 1911, at the PRESS December 10; 1942

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