Probate notices from Middlesex and Worcester counties
Probate and public notice items list estate actions in Massachusetts courts. Readers are urged to file appearances by specified return days for Annie Livingston Lyons McCarthy Harms Maynard and Annie Koski estates, with dates in May June 1944, and to attend Sudbury road relocation remedies under County Commissioners.
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T Annie Livingston
Max ‘Poston
John C. Leggat
King P. Jordan
Register
Massachusetts
Annie F. Lyons McCarthy
Maynard
Said County
Harns
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex
Annie Koski
Cambridge
Seal
Sudbury
Dutton Road
Herbert J. Atkinson
Sudoury
Sudbury Enterprise
Marlborough
Mary EB. MacDonald
Ef Maynard
Deceas
John E. Manchester
Allies Hammer at Gustav Line and Japs Advance in China
The report notes 80,000 Japanese forces pushing beyond the Peiping Hanko w railroad as Chinese defenses retreat. Stilwell’s U. S. and Chinese units push in north Burma to open the Ledo road for supply trucks into China, while U.S. air and naval forces strike at Japanese positions across the Pacific. In Heidelberg Mississippi oil boom eyes a new East Texas scale with two wells producing up to 15,000 barrels daily and royalties rising for local farmers. A West Virginia boy finds the nation’s largest alluvial diamond, discovered on a Peterstown farm and confirmed by Virginia Tech geologist R. J. Holden.
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China
Peiping-Hankow
Joseph Stilwell
U. S
Burma
Stilwell
Ledo Road
Mississippi
Heidelberg
East Texas
Gulf Refining Company
William Jones
Peterstown
W. Va
R. J. Holden
Virginia Polytechnical Institute
United States
First Blow in Europe Opens Allied Offensives
Allied forces in Italy begin a major push against the Gustav line below Anzio under Gen. Harold Alexander. In the west Allied bombers strike France Belgium and Germany while Rommel shifts troops to meet the invasion. Russia moves troops for a broad coordinated push. Draft officials grant extended civilian life deferrals for ages 30 to 37 in essential occupations with six month deferments for 29 year olds. Local boards may extend War Manpower Commission lists and make independent determinations.
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Hitler
Europe
Sant Ene
Thest
U. S
Italy
Gustav Line
Anzio
France
Belgium
Germany
Erwin Rommel
Russia
Britain
Harold Alexander
Rome
War Manpower Commission
Eye Bank Established for Cornea Donations at New York Hospital
A new eye bank at the New York hospital stores corneas from living donors or donors who have arranged removal after death. Corneas must be harvested within four hours of death, offerings aim to restore sight with transplants reported effective in about twenty percent of blindness cases.
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New York Hospital
Tree-top resident wins vote in Montclair bungalow
Coffing M. Arsianian, living in a 50 foot Montclair tree home since 1936, is recognized as a legal resident entitling him to vote. Meanwhile, U S Agriculture Laboratory at Peoria aids penicillin advances with spoiled can teloupe mold. Heavily detailed wartime production and new uses for tung oil feature in this era report.
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Coffing M. Arsianian
Montclair
N. J
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Peoria
Heatley
Florey
London
Iatory
New Navy Secretary James Forrestal Named at 52
James Forrestal of New York an investment banker is named secretary of the navy age 52 he previously served as undersecretary to the late secretary Frank Knox. Forrestal is a World War I veteran and brings financial and defense service background to the post.
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James Forrestal
New York
Department
Frank Knox
Big Wheat Crop Forecast From USDA
The USDA predicts a 1944 winter wheat crop of 662 million bushels from 40.94 million acres at 16.2 bushels per acre, up from 602 million earlier and 529.6 million in 1943. Spring rains boosted germination and soil moisture after recent droughts and floods affected stands in the Plains and river basins.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
Great Plains
Plains States
Mississippi
Missouri River
Overseers Conclude Job Instruction Training Course
A class of Overseers of the Assabet Mills completed the Job Instruction Training course sponsored by the War Manpower Commission. Cards certify satisfactory completion and pledge to apply the training, with leaders led by Joseph E. Derosier and participants including Tierney Hatch Farnell Grieve Doherty Wilson MacDonald Kaler Brayden Donahie Byrne. Buy War Bonds and Stamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maynard
Assabet Mills
War Manpower Commission of
Washington, D. C
Joseph E. Derosier
Thomas H. Tierney
Robert R. Hatch
Frank Farnell
Frank S. Grieve
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Dlesex Institution For Sav
J. W. Ballou
Asst
Treas
Mass
Middlesex Institution For Savings
Middlesex Institut
Helen H. Moore
Clerk Mass
John. C. Leggat
Loring P. Jordan
Frederic L. Putnam
Harry C. Cole
Ievers
Kreschen
Stralaiag
Minine Giene
Pinkham
Kham
Lennani
Jevera
B. OB
Western Newspaper Union
Datos
Asia
Philippines
Indies
Hollandia
New Guinea
Caroline Islands
Truk
Potpley Heathen
U.S. VS
Montgomery Ward & Company
Chicago
CIO United
Ward’s
Ward
EYE Bank
R. 8. McKinney
McKinney
War Production Board
WPB
Sign of the Times
New York City
Com Muters
New Jersey
Connecticut
Long Island
Overseers
Post
Ele Ct Victory Garden
Cose As
Ersowa
Humphreys
Humphreys Fanny Wenemies Ponte
Katese
A. Howard Street
Port Huron
Michigan
Seatad
Mopar Ae
Silver Creek
Bayon Hose
Ala
Cedric
Foster
the Employers’ Group
Yankee Network
New England
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