Gorman Appointed State Motor Vehicle Safety Adjudicator
Syracuse lawyer Daniel Gorman, named to oversee safety post at the State Motor Vehicle Bureau, will require operators involved in accidents causing more than property damage to post notices. Gorman, a former local candidate and current Onondaga Alcoholic Beverage Control Board member, hails from Pompey and studied at Niagara University and Syracuse University College of Law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chaniel
Syracuse
Stewart Hubbard
Reuben Brodsky
Rochester
Edwin I. Kantowski
Puffato
Mathias &. Falls
Gloversvile
Joseph Vv. Yobin
Forest Tilis
Heen
Daniel Gon
New Safetye Responsibility
Gorman
Council Democratic and
American Labor
National Foundation For
Onondaga County Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
Pompey
Soldiers Stranded by Central Greyhound Strike at Pine Camp
Christmas leave disruptions hit Pine Camp as Central Greyhound Lines strike halts bus service. Soldiers on leave crowd into private cars and hitchhike back to camp, while Syracuse terminal bus arrangements are suspended awaiting Washington talks among Greyhound executives union officials and conciliation service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pine Camp
Central Greyhound Lines
Bates
Raney
Post Headquarters
Greyhound
Syracuse
Franklin P. Wadley
Wadley
Greyhound Enes
Washington
United States Conciliation Service
Mother's Helper Fatally Burned in Cleaning Fluid Accident
Six year old Dorothy Joan Nixon, alone at home while her parents were away, picked up a bucket of cleaning fluid thinking it was water. The liquid ignited near a kitchen stove and flames engulfed her. She fled to an aunt's home, became trapped in a fence while fleeing, and neighbors smothered the flames with a blanket. Dorothy died hours later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dains
Dorothy Joan Nixon
Dorothy
Bird Census In Cortland Set Sunday
Annual census conducted as part of a nationwide effort during the Christmas holiday. Harold TL Atel of Ss James Street leads local organizers with Pin and Mrs. Harry C. York among authorities. Survey covers areas around Shaneateles Lake Little York Lake Gracie Swamp Marl Ponds and parts of the Tioughnioga River. Water works closed due to wartime conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold TL Atel
James Street
Talame
Pin
Harry C. York
Elmira
Harald Tall
Merton Bean
James
Robert
McGraw Road
Shaneateles Lake
Little York Lake
Gracie Swamp
Marl Ponds
Tloughnioga River
Wartime blackout tests sweep Buffalo and Niagara area
The Niagara frontier conducts its first wartime blackout test affecting over 1,000,000 people in Erie and Niagara Counties. Downtown Buffalo appears deserted except for one jewelry store, while exemptions and rural signals expose imperfect coverage. A seven pound baby girl arrives under blue hospital lighting and a garage fire is tackled during the blackout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
Niagara Frontier
Main
Erie
Niagara
Erie County
Lackawanna
Yonawanda
Larkoart
Niagara Falls
Niagara County
Wiliam L. Collins
Buffalo Defense Council
Vincent Conners
Lafayette General Hospital
Mail Pouches No Longer Are Thrown From Trains
In Herkimer on December 27 officials announced mail pouches will no longer be thrown from trains after two serious incidents earlier. Westbound express mail will go through to Utica and return by local, while eastbound will be dropped at Utica station and brought back. The change aims to improve safety and reliability, with earlier delays blamed on pre holiday volume and scattered mail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herkimer
Post Office
Spencer W. Edwards
Utica
Civil Service Test Ruling Is Due Today
The morning session featured an hour of arguments among Corporation Counsel James Tormey assistant WIALLAME Shasta and Daniel S. Mathews over a restraining order against the Municipal Service Commission regarding the police and fire department candidate list. Justice Creeg indicated possible action to reopen hearings, while the commission upheld examiners’ decision on Joseph Mathews, a patrolman candidate with impaired sight, as papers near final marking for the two departments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James ‘Tormey
Allame Shasta
Sede
Daniel S. Mathews
Municipal Service Commission
Police and Fire Department
Candi- Wms
Clee
Toda
Joseph
Th. Mathews
Mathews Agsdam
Justice Cregg
Oiil Service Commission
Mathews
Roach
Tues
Atenae Es Arate Ss
Justice Creeg
Joseph ‘Tl Mathews
Civil Service Commission
Carl PL Wright
Willis E. Pelow
Sendell Brown
H. C. Keckel
Justice Crege
D. Page Morehouse, Jr
Oswego
Mr. Wright
P. Frank Durkin
Clarence Foertc
Fire and Police Department
FHA Foreclosures Drop Repair Rule Amid Bomb Damage
Washington December 2747 FHA will not require repair of damage from enemy bombs before accepting foreclosed property for insured mortgages. Mortgage insurance will be collected. FHA Administrator Abner H Ferguson said homes must be undamaged by fire, earthquake, flood, tornado, or waste, but bomb caused fire does not count as waste.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ierenera
Wien
FHA
Abner H. Ferguson
Cigar Thief Returns From Prison faces more time
Ray ad Kempton, 31, with no home, received 30 days more for petty larceny in a theft from a tobacco truck. He had served 15 days in county jail for public intoxication and was arrested after leaving the penitentiary. Patrolman Michael Garvey and Peace Justice John Kolb oversaw the case in East Syracuse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Ad Kempton
Kempton
East Syracuse
Michael Garvey
Michael Wren
Garvey
Edwin Auer
Wren
John Kolb
Macedonian Queen to be elected at holiday dance
Members of the Macedonian Educational Mutual Aid Society will elect a Macedonian Queen at a holiday dance at the Cooperative Institute on Sunday December 28. Candidates include Miss Eleanor Georgevich Sophia Nickaloff Metra Kolaris Vera Georgevich Eleanor Evans Victoria Naum and Virginia Evans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eleanor Georgevich Menmoers
Macedonian Educational Mutual Aid Society
Cooperative Institute
Eleanor Georgevich
Sophia Nickaloff
Metra Kolaris
Vera Georgevich
Eleanor Evans
Victoria Naum
Virginia Evans
Jenney to Go To Georgia on Camp Service
The Rev. Dr. Ray Freeman Jenney of Park Central Presbyterian Church is appointed by the Presbyterian Emergency Service Commission to serve during January in a Southern camp area. His headquarters will be in Macon Georgia where he will work with Rev. Dr. Al.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Freeman Jenney
Park Central Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian Emergency Service Commission
Macon
Ministers invited to serve in Southern area by Presbyterians
Bert Grady Harris of First Presbyterian Church is named for service in cities and camps in the South. The Presbyterian Church U S Southern invites Presbyterian Church U S ASC Northern to select ministers to assist in morale and spiritual care for servicemen. Dr Jenney's movements include a trip south and return to Syracuse, with plans to preach and attend United World Emergency Fund meetings as co chairman. Park Central Church reports $1 049 64 raised toward a $1 250 goal as the war support fund grows to 1 000 000 from 750 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bert Grady Harris
First Presbyterian Church
The
Presbyterian Church U
Syracuse
Park Central Church
Jenney
Chicago
United World Emergency Fund
Presbyterian Church
Overheated Pipe Sparks House Fire in Dewitt
East Syracuse volunteers answer 8 am alarm at 579 Snyder Avenue Town of Dewitt as an overheated furnace pipe ignites a partition. Booster lines suppress flames with slight damage reported by Fire Chief Fred Ray.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Syracuse
Vincent DiFlorio
Snyder Avenue
Dewitt
Fred Ray
Friedman named chairman of upstate steel drive committee
Albany December 27 UP The Office of Production Management appointed Max Friedman of Albany Schenectady Road as chairman of a committee to collect steel and scrap iron. The drive covers 14 upstate counties. FE RECORD Saturday No alarms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Office of Production Management Today
Max Friedman
Albany-Schenectady Road
Upstate
Co-eds to Act as Ushers At Teachers' Conference
Syracuse University co-eds will usher at the New York State Conference on Health Physical Education and Recreation to be held in Hotel Syracuse. Selected by Mrs Phelma Curley, committee chair, the ushers include Delta Delta Delta members Marion Stowell Marie F Clark Vivian Stephens and other sorority and Greek Netter sisters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Krimmel
Barbara Glenn
Carolyn Cowan
New York State
Syracuse University
Marion Stowell
Marie F. Clark
Vivian Stephens
Syracuse
Janise Chem
Virginia Couck
Carolyn ‘Cowan
Marion Higgins
Margaret ‘Krimmel
Phoebe Jane Myles
Margaret Schaefer
Mary Shepard
Doris Perry
Eleanor Weeden
Edith Mason
Delta Delta Delta Sorority
Carol Freiberger
Annette Freiberger
Betty Goettel
Margaret Grabosky
Suit Seeks to Cancel Ithaca Airport Lease
John Lo Pinto a local attorney filed a taxpayer suit against Ithaca officials led by Mayor Joseph Campbell and airport manager Herbert M. Peters seeking cancellation of the current lease and return of the 128 acre municipal airport to the city. The complaint argues a public use land cannot be leased to a private party and accuses the Common Council of violating Article 14. Peters holds a June 20, 1940 lease for five years with a $150 monthly rent but alleged to be paying $200. Peters runs a civilian pilot training program at the airport assessed at $53,000 but tax-exempt. summons and complaint have been served.
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Peters
Lo Pinto
State Street
Four Buddies Reunited During Christmas furlough in Syracuse
Four long separated friends from the Wolves Athletic Club met in Syracuse over the Christmas holidays while on furlough from the military. Albert Barry, Joseph DeRose, Dominick Candolera, and Albert Mastriano, stationed at Fort Knox Claiborne Fort Benning and Portsmouth, NH, will soon return to their camps.
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Syracuse
Carp
Albert Barry
South Avenue
Joseph DeRose
Gebhardt Avenue
Torpedoman
Dominick Candolera
Laurel Street
Pfc
Albert Mastriano
Peter Street
Old Wolves Athletic Club
Soldiers
Louisiana
Barry
Fort Knox
DeRose
Camp Claibourne
Mastriano
Fort Benning
Condolora
U. S. Navy
Portsmouth
N. H
Condolera
Pearl Harbor
Hawaiian
U.S
Albert Mastriang
Dominick Condolora
North Area Appeals for Drought Aid
Northern New York farmers, facing hay water and labor shortages, seek federal relief as droughts cripple fodder crops pastures and milk production. Hauling water for cattle and rising feed prices strain operations while labor shortages drive stock sales. Rep Kilburn reports slow Department of Agriculture progress and opposition.
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Nt Malone
New York
Gairy
Clarence E. Kilburn
Air Base Alert Fails To Halt This Wedding
Riverside California December 27 Army alert at air base could not stop the church wedding of Robert Joyce and Beryl Braun. Braun brought her parents and guests to camp and persuaded authorities to lift the civilian visitor ban. Joyce was married by an Army chaplain in an Army chapel and kept overnight due to the alert.
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Riverside
Calif
Robert Joyce
Beryl Braun
Miss Braun
Joyce
Utah Troops Will Eat Park Venison
Utah soldiers will receive venison from Zion National Park under an arrangement with the National Park Service. About 125 deer will be sent to one Army camp and 75 to another if the animals are in good condition, according to Mark Anderson Utah fish and game director.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Utah
Mark Anderson
Utah Fish and Game Director
National Park Service
Zion National Park
Gentile Enlists With Marines For Federal Building Swearing-in
James Gentile, 20, of 402 Lodi Street, will be sworn into the Marine Corps at 9 A M Monday at the Marine Recruiting Station in the Federal Building. A Vocational High School graduate and former Syracuse Herald Journal carrier, he previously managed the Century All-Star football team and played in local softball, basketball and baseball leagues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gentile
James Gentile
Lodi Street
Uncle Sam
Federal Building
Syracuse Herald-Journal
Syracuse
Salt Springs Bank Ruling on Receiver Appointment
Justice J Herbert Gilroy weighs whether a receiver should be appointed for assets allegedly moved by John W Gates former Salt Springs National Bank president to his family. Haight seeks relief arguing assets were moved to dodge a bank stock assessment now near 400000 with interest. The Gates family deny the charges and say they will stay within the court's jurisdiction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Herbert Gilroy
John W. Gates
Salt Springs National Bank
Membate
Sentamite
George M. Haight
Gates
Haight
Edward C. Gates
Francis E. Gates
Grace Gates Brown
Joseph B. Murphy
Murphy, Mawhinney & Young
Lawrence Sovik
Costello, Cooney & Fearon
Rome to blackout two minutes for Second Test
Mayor E H Ethridge told the defense council Rome will enact a two minute blackout next Monday to preserve production time. Mills will keep operating while factory whistles join alarm sirens. deputies will patrol with blue cellophane lights to warn then clear. The first test on December 9 lasted 15 minutes and was deemed successful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
E. H. Ethridge
Defense Council
State Defense
U. S. Army
Ethridge
Sabotage Suspected at Milwaukee Defense Plant
Fire Chief Peter Steinkeller said definite sabotage attempts were made at least at one Milwaukee defense plant and that an arson effort was made to start a fire. He noted the company intensified security and requested $15,000 to equip fire and police vehicles with two way radios for better readiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Peter Steinkeller
Canada Prepares Impressive Greeting For Churchill
Ottawa plans a grand welcome for Prime Minister Churchill next week comparable to the 1939 King's visit. Members of both houses are summoned to hear him and meet him. Parliament adjourns until Jan 21 with restricted gallery access for officials and a broadcast of the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
U.P
Churchill
House of Commons
Senate
Diplomatic Corps
Supreme Court of Canada
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Ae Vandhas
ABC Board
J. Daniel Gorman
Fur- Taverho
Alinnavlley
Cortland
Harold HH. Axtell
Ted Blackarnt
Cregg
Georgia
Vrancehra
DR. Ray F, Jenney
Ithaca
North Area
Wratas
Park
Salt Springs Bank
Dawen Wia
Frullet Lylalid
Canada
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