Canon Parshley forecasts long path to world federation at Rotary meeting
Canon Parshley told Rotary Club observers that world relations will unfold like the American path to a federal union ending in a Civil War era consolidation. He warned of a long, stormy process possibly spanning centuries before a peaceful global federation is achieved. Jerome Donovan attended as a guest of Arthur McCaw and future meetings were slated for St Michael's Parish House.
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Canon Parshley
Rotary Club
Rhode Island
Boston
New York
South
New England
Annapolis
Philadelphia
Fach
Jerome Donovan
Arthur McCaw
St. Michael's
Parisvh House
Catholic Girls Club CGO Forms at Mt Carmel Parish
The Catholic Girls Organization named CGO was chosen for the new girls club formed on the 17th of last month at Our Lady of Mt Carmel Church Anne Bruno proposed the name and won a prize. By laws are approved and members are selling Christmas cards for the club treasury. The group is running a rifle contest with a crucifix and holy items as prizes and plans a December 22 parish hall Christmas party with games and volleyball afterward.
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Catholic Girls’ Organization
CGO
Girls of Our Lady of Mt Carmel
Anne Bruno
Chaplain Lawrence E Deery Receives Silver Star
Chaplain Lawrence E Deery of Woonsocket and former curate of St Marys Church is awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart, placing him among twenty one Army chaplains to earn the Silver Star and seventeen to wear the Purple Heart.
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Lawrence E. Deery
US Army
Woonsocket
St Mary's Church
Sewer Commission Grants 1800 for Chlorinator Purchase
The Town Council approved using 1800 from the Sewer Reserve for a new chlorinator at the sewage disposal plant, contingent on Budget Committee approval. The net town cost is stated as 1771 after a 300 allowance on the old unit. The meeting also covered flag-raising policy, public nuisance on Thames Street, Shaw's Lane traffic restrictions, and rain water disconnection drives for beach cleanliness.
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Sewer Commision Authority
Donald Gladue
John P Marshall
Highwa
Richard Conners
Alphonse Bello
Thames Street
State Street
Gladue
Heme
Twin Siblings Share Illness and Fate in Local Family
Twin sisters Mary Sousa and Julia Medeiros of this town are both confined to home treatment for pleurisy while under the care of the same doctor. The pair previously shared an appendectomy in 1934 at St Joseph's Hospital, the hospital noting it as a historic first. Both work for Collins and Aikman Corporation, in the same job, on identical shifts, under the same foreman.
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Mary Sousa
Gooding Lane
Julia Medeiros
Wardwell Farm
Srs
Antonis Almeida
Mt Hope Avenue
St Joseph's Hospital
Mary
Julia
Collins and Aikman Corporation
U S Rubber Honors Bristol Plant Veterans In War Effort
A Bristol plant ceremony honors 300 former employees now in service as Major Alex Smith and Lt. Stanley Stedt praise factory output and wartime sacrifice. Pvt Henry Jobinville shares resolve to aid returning troops. Plant manager Armstong notes production four times 1941 levels while communities rally behind the war effort. The program opens with America and closes with The Star Spangled Banner.
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Pvt
Henry Jobinville
Bristol
United States Rubber Company
Wood Street
Jobinville
Lowell
Mass
Africa
John Chionchio
New England
Alex Smith
Chionchio
Wesley A . Armstrong
Major Smith
War Departmen Industrial Division
Ted Archer
Royal Australian Engineers
Stanley Stedt
8Th American Air Force
Norway
Cpl
John Mello
South Pacific
Armstrong
Navy
America
Hoover Jr. Co-Chair of Brown Pembroke Concert
Gilbert C Hoover Jr son of Captain and Mrs Gilbert C Hoover of Metacom Avenue helped lead a Brown Pembroke Christian Associations sponsored concert featuring the Hampton Quartette of Hampton Institute Virginia at Pembroke College Brown University. He is a Brown graduate active in BCA and former varsity tennis squad member and NRTO TC member.
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Gilbert C Hoover, Jr
Gilbert C Hoover
Metacom Avenue
Hampton Quartette
Hampton Institute
Pembroke College
Brown University
Brown
Pembroke Christian Associations
Hoover
Tandon School
BCA
N.R.O TC
Army and Marine inductees listed from local board
Twenty names appear as Tuesday inductees into the US Army at the Providence Bristol County Board and into the Marine Corps. Inductees include Frank Mendoza and Eoil F Klein for the Army and Martin P Brooks among others, with Antonio M Andreozzi Ferdinand L Alves and Anthony A Del Toro noted for service in the Marine Corps.
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Bristol County Board
Frank Mendoza
Eoil F Klein
Luiborio DiPietroa
William S. Medeiros
Anthony M. Aguiar
Raymond F. Sullivan
Antonio M. Andreozzi
Ferdinand Ll. Alves
Albert Vitullo
Louis S. Costa
Gerald W Hickey
Howard I Martin, Jr
Allen R Haskins
Benjamin W Smusz
George Beausoleil
Ronald C Roy
Manuel M. Carreiro
Anthony A del Toro
Ira A. Ball
Martin P Brooks
Charles F. West
Marine Corps
United Brothers Lodge Reelects Officers for New Term
United Brothers Lodge I O O F members elected to another term Wednesday evening. Walter O Talbot was re elected noble grand with George W Goggeshall PG as vice grand, John G Stewart recording secretary, Ernest E Alder PG financial secretary, John W Card PG treasurer. Installation set for January 18 to fill appointive posts.
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United Brothers Lodge
I.O.O.F
Lodge
Walter O Talbot
Noble
George W Goggeshall
John G. Stewart
Ernest E. Alder
John W. Card
Telephone Operators Plan Christmas Party in Bristol
Plans completed for Bristol telephone operators annual Christmas party supported by town subscribers. Santa Claus will arrive at the Telephone Company building Thursday Dec 16 to distribute gifts to the girls, with no interruption to telephone service. Committee includes Miss Helen E Wells chair and assistants Mrs Mabel Lee Virginia Brightman and Dorothy M Foster.
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Bristol
Santa Claus
Telephone Company
Helen E. Wells
Mabel Lee
Virginia Brightman
Dorothy M. Foster
Girl Scout Troop Elects Robinair Leader and Officers
Hortense Carrira was chosen president of the Robinair Troop. Carmela Giordano becomes vice president, Nancy Ferrara secretary, Viola Syl treasurer, and Mary Pacheco assistant treasurer. Mrs George H. Springer serves as troop leader.
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Hortense Carrira
Robinair
Carmela Giordano
Nancy Ferrara
Viola Sylvia
Mary Pacheco
George H. Springer
Sailors On Leave From Sampson Navy Training Station
Antonio Fernandes Jr. and James R. Martin on leave from the U S Navy training station at Sampson New York after completing basic recruit training. Upon return they will be eligible for further assignment possibly qualifying them for petty officer ratings.
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Antonio Fernandes, Jr
Rockstreet
James R. Martin
Coggeshall Avenue
U. S. Naval Training Station
Sampson
New York
Lonely Iron Ship Michigan Ends Nameless In Erie Misery Bay
The century old iron warship Michigan imprinted a dramatic arc from 1843 launch amid blizzard to its current fate abandoned in Misery Bay Erie Pennsylvania. Once renamed several times and stripped of armament it now rests in dispute over ownership and future salvage.
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Misery Bay
Erie
WPB
Navy
Misery
Compress
Michigan
Lake Erie
Pittsburgh
Washington
Packenham
Calhoun
Britain
United States
Regord
Great Lakes
Wolverine
Navy, Department
Ana Utter
Allud
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L. E. Deery
U. S. Army
Park Avenue
Cary Grant
MR. Lucky
Cartoon
Secret Service
Chester Morris
Jeanne Bates
George’e. Stone
John Loder
Warren Douglas
Ruth Ford
Margo
Tom Neal
J. Carrol Naish
March of Time
Sewer Commission
Unon
Anthony I Ferrara
Shaw's Lane
NP Transportation Co
Tupelo Road
Hope Street
U. S. Rubber CO
G. C. Hoover, Jr
Army and Marine
Providence
United Brothers
Girl Scout
Robinair Troop
Hugh J. Murphy
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