Letter from Laurence J. Larry Riggle to Jesse Dorsey, April 24, 1942.

Description:	Riggle thanks Dorsey for the booklet. He is working at a motor base with over 2,500 trucks and his job is to guard the trucks at night. The weather has been nice. He has been playing a lot of baseball. George Raft put on an exhibition for the soldiers and brought Buddy and Max Bear, Max Rosenbloom and Lou Nova with him. Riggle spends a lot of time at the local U.S.O.This letter is part of a large group of letter written to or by Jesse G. Dorsey during World War II. Dorsey ran the community house for the Louisville Cement Company in Speed, Indiana. Being a veteran of World War I, he knew the value of providing support to the troops. He wrote letters and sent the company newsletter (Speedometer) to several hundred service men and women during the war. The community house also hosted weekend parties for soldiers from Fort Knox, Kentucky during the war.
Origin:	1942-04-24
Created By:	Riggle, Laurence Jacob (Larry), 1918-1988
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p1819coll10/id/3768
Collection:	Jesse G. Dorsey WWII Correspondence
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Geography:	Pomona, Los Angeles County, California 34.0657901,-117.8050472
Subjects:	BaseballSpeedometer (Louisville Cement Company employee newsletter)CorrespondenceUSO clubsMilitary jobs--guardMilitary entertainmentRaft, George Soldiers--CorrespondenceUnited States. Army--Military lifeWorld War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives

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