Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1944 — Page 8

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Soldier Who Planned Sor $s Chtistmas, Killed i in Action

By GEORGIA CLARK A little boy's ‘Christmas tree

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shines in the window at 1135 St.

Paul st. § Under the tree are presents from . his soldier dad, ‘They are wrapped § and waiting to be opened on Christmas morning. Those presents were planned four days before the father, Cpl, Anthel Rigney Sr., was killed in action. Cpl. Rigney was killed in France on Nov. 23. On Nov. 19 he wrote a letter to his wife Elizabeth asking her to buy his son's Christmas presents, As he hadn't seen his 19-month-old son for more than a year the vorporal asked his wife to buy the boy what he wanted. 80 now a kiddie car “and a xylophone ‘lic under: the tree. Little Anthel will open them on Chriitmas and his eves: will sparkle with Joy. There will be no tears because

he is too young to understand |

When this picture was taken, |

Cpl. Anthel Rigney, his wife, Elizabeth, and their son, Anthel Jr, were a happy family - at Ft Benning, Ga. Now Mrs. Rigney and the baby are planning a Christmas saddened by the arrival of a war department telegram,

Cpl. Rigney entered the army NAZIS USE U. S. TANK

Feb, 13, 1942, He was gent to Ft.| Harrison and then an assignment came to go to Camp Swift, Tex. His wife acquired a trailer and accompanied her husband.

TO SURPRISE. YANKS

AMERICAN 1ST ARMY FRONT, |

From Camp Dec. 20 (Delayed) (U. P.) .—Some |

Swift they went to Shreverort, La.; Germans riding in a captured |

Ft. Behning, Ga.; Wood, Mo.; San Luis, Cal, then to Ft. Meade, Md.

Pt. Leonard| American tank early today pulled | and | lose toa group of G. Is.

“Come on over,” one of the Ger-|

Cpl. Rigney ®as sent overseas!mans yelled in good English.

from Ft. Meade, He landed In Eng- | land. Then ¢ame France and his|, death. The corporal was 28 and for mely | | was employed by the Chrysler Corp. | at New Castle, He was the son of Tom Lundy Rigney, 1629 Linden gt, and the brother of Pvt. Max Rigney, who is preparing to carry on for him at an| infantry training camp in Cali- | fornia.

BUTLER TO STAGE CHRISTMAS PLAY

One of the old York nativity plays will be staged by the Butler university theater for the annual Christmas party of the P. R. Mallary, Co., Inc, at 8 p. m. tomorrow | in Cadle tabernacle. | The play, which employs space- | stage technique, is being produced | by Lucile Calvert, director of the theater. She will be assisted by Fred Forney, a student of dramatic presentation. Music for the play, arranged by, John Baird, will bé played by the Butler-Jordan Philharmonic choir under the direction of Joseph Laut ner. Jane Klepfer is cast as the Virgin Mary, Harold Lilly as Joseph and Robert Mitchener, an English teacher at Indiana university, ‘Is cast as King Herod. Other members of the cast are Mf. Forney, Peggy’ Million, Barbara Patterson, Elizabeth Stucky, Mary Hall, Earl Star-| key, Robert Bond, William Griffin, [#4 William Thompson and Denver Bisemore,

The G. 1's started to go toward

he tank and were mowed down |

with machine guns,

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