Major Apartment Fire Displaces Eight Families in Townsend Street Blaze
A $50,000 Edwards Apartments fire at 611 617 South Townsend Street drove eight families from their homes and damaged nearby structures. Firemen fought the two hour blaze, saving adjoining buildings while police kept spectators back from a potential gasoline explosion at Hy's gasoline station. Janet Lunderman was rescued by her father William Lunderman as residents fled with belongings lost. The blaze started in Samuel Rothstein tire shop linked to Hyman Rothstein, owner of the Edwards Apartments and the adjacent gas station.
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Edwards Apartments
South Townsend Street
Janet Lunderman
William Lunderman
Samuel Rothstein
Hyman Rothstein
Hames
Tiestaire Querimente
Nan An Bay
Warship Captain Edward L. Robertson Jr in Hollandia Invasion
Com Edward L. Robertson Jr son of Mrs Robertson 320 Farmer Street captains a U S warship that took part in the Hollandia invasion in Dutch New Guinea An AP wirephoto shows Robertson and three crew members with a score board marking actions in Europe and the Pacific including French coast bombardment Felvelha two German planes shot down a German port bombardment and a Jap position in New Guinea He is Annapolis alumnus and son of the late Supreme Court Justice Robertson Promoted to commander in November after service in China and on the West Coast and studies at the Ecole Militaire Paris He also took part in Casablanca and Sicily campaigns and visited Syracuse last September
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Edward L. Robertson, Jr
Edward L. Robertson
Farmer Street
U. S
Hollandia
Dutch New Guinea
Associated Press
Com. Robertson
Felvelha
Man Port
New Guinea
Annapolis
Io Com
Robertson
Supreme Court
China
Ecole Militaire
Paris
France
Casablanca
Scilian
Syracuse
U.S
Don Riggins
Hampton, Jr
Com. E. J. Robertson
John Lindsay
Oyster Bay
Smith to Be Honored Tonight for Boys' Club Service
Lewis P. Smith president of the Syracuse Boys' Club board of directors will receive a meritorious service award at the final dinner of the Boys' Clubs of America 1944 Wartime Conference in New York City. J Edgar Hoover FBI director will be the principal speaker as former President Herbert Hoover chairs the event at the Hotel Commodore Grand Ballroom. Smith joined the Syracuse board in 1917 helped build the clubhouse in 1921 and aided in expansion of the Boys' Club. other board members and the executive director Sherwood Ernenwein will attend.
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Lewis P. “Smith
T For Boys
Lewis P. Smith
Syracuse Boys’ Club Board of
Boys’ Clubs of America
New York City
Herbert Hoover
Commodore
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Smith
Syracuse Boys’Club
Leonard P. Markert
Ossie Solem
Syracuse Boys’ Club
Sherwood ‘T’. Ernenwein
Missing 16-year-old Townsend Seeks Return From Home
Richard LeRoy Townsend, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Townsend of 105 Wellington Place, left home at 11 AM a week ago saying goodbye and promised to return shortly. The missing persons bureau and police cannot locate him. He had planned to go to the East Syracuse round house to collect his pay. His mother is under doctor’s care for a serious condition.
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FR. L. Townsend
Richard LeRoy Townsend
Andrew
Townsend
Wellington Place
Herald - Journal
Missing Persons Bureau
The
Police Department
East
Syracuse Roundhouse
Funeral Directors Discuss War Clinic Problems in Syracuse
More than 50 funeral directors from upstate New York attended a war service clinic in the Hotel Syracuse sponsored by the National Selected Morticians. B Abbott Meech represented Syracuse firm Fairchild & Meech. Principal speaker was Wilbur M. Kreiger of Chicago, executive director of the organization.
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National Selected
Syracuse
New York State
New York City
B. Abbott Meech
Fairchild & Meech
Wilbur M. Kreiger
Chicago
National
Morticians
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