Mrs. Jane Phillips, Red Cross Worker to go overseas

Creator

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Identifier

20031452

Description

Mrs. Jane Phillips, Red Cross Worker to go overseas. Woman standing against wall, wearing American Red Cross uniform and garrison hat with a cross on the front. Her uniform jacket has "A.R.C." pins on each collar. She wears a light dress shirt and dark tie under the jacket that is a woman's double-breasted jacket with really big buttons and is worn with a belt. There are four applique pockets on the jacket. Clipping: "Mrs. Jane Phillips to Be City's First Contribution to Overseas Red Cross. By Anne Lee. Mrs. Jane Phillips, trim in her neat uniform, is Fort Worth's first contribution to duty with the American Red Cross overseas. Seizing the opportunity to use her experience with the local Red Cross chapter and four years of welfare work with the local Junior League, Jane soon will see service in faraway lands. She will report to Washington, D. C., Nov. 15 for a brief technical course. Mrs. Phillips, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Weir, 2739 Sixth Avenue, will join her husband, Lt. Edwin T. Phillips Jr. of the Signal Corps, and two brothers, Lt. (jg) - Arthur Weir Jr., stationed at Oakland, California, with the Naval Air Transport, and Capt. John T. Weir, stationed at Brookville, Florida., as pilot of a B-17 Flying Fortress, in service. Jane does not anticipate seeing "Ed" at her new base of operation, as such hopes were immediately stifled in quite definite orders that the couple will be placed in opposite theaters of war. Three divisions of work are open to the women in foreign fields –hospital and recreational work, clubmobile driving and work as staff assistant. Jane would prefer clubmobile driving, as she has long been a hard working member of her local chapter of the Red Cross Motor Corps.Mrs. Phillips was graduated from Paschal High School and attended TCU, later being presented by the Steeplechase Club at her formal bow to society—two years before sister Betty, now Mrs. Dan Greenwood, had come out. Jane's escort at the ball was, incidentally, none other than her future husband with whom she exchanged vows in 1938. Mrs. Phillips has given up her place in the bond booth, and her wheel in the station wagon for bigger duties abroad where she will generally "mother" those lads—be it 3,000 or 30,000 miles from home—in the capable hands of the American Red Cross. —Star-Telegram Photo. "Stamped: Star-Telegram Morn. Oct. 31, 1943

Archival Date

1943-10-28

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-294

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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Subjects

Uniforms; Phillips, Jane; Overseas service; Weir, Arthur L. (Mr.); Weir, Arthur L. (Mrs.); Phillips, Edwin T., Jr. (Lt.); Weir, Arthur, Jr.