Solomons Air Hero Shumway promoted to commander
Lt. Com. Shumway of the U S Navy, stationed in Washington with the Bureau of Aeronautics, has been promoted to commander. A Syracuse native and Annapolis graduate, he has earned the Navy Cross and two Distinguished Flying Crosses, with the latest Gold Star awarded last month. His wife and son reside in Washington with him.
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Shumway
Solomons
DeWitt W. Shumway
U. S. Navy
Washington
Bureau of Aeronautics
Peart Shumway
Ackerwan Aver
South Pacific
Potsdam High School
Steel truck rolls back crushes man at Hoffman plant
Alfred Russell, 54, of 106 Dudley Street, was killed instantly when the steel laden truck he was guiding rolled back at the U S Hoffman Machinery plant. He was crushed against a door as he tapped for attention. Detective Cornelius Cooke and Coroner H Ernest Gak described a spinal fracture and crushed chest as the cause. Charles Speich and Carl Prehn witnessed and intervened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Russell
U.S. Hoffman Plant
U.S. Hoffman Machinery Company
Dudley Street
Erica Lowe
Russell
Crouse-Irving Hospital
Cornelius Cooke
Lt B R Smith Ace in Raid on Frankfurt
Lt B R Smith is credited as an ace in a raid on Frankfurt, part of a deep overland push by the Eighth Air Force Thunderbolts. Capt Walker Mahurin and Lt Frank F MacCauley also scored on ME110s, with several pilots downing multiple enemy planes. Smith, 21, from Syracuse, a North High School graduate, joined cadet training in 1942 and sailed for England last March.
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U. S
Britain
Eighth Air Force
Frankfurt
Germany
Walker Mahurin
Fort Wayne
Ind
Frank F. MacCauley
Hicksville
Bernard R. Smith
Durston Avenue
Syracuse
N.Y
John W. Vogt, Jr
Cleveland Avenue
Elizabeth
N. J
William Marrenrello
East Fifth Street
Plainfield
North High School
Mabel Smith
Spence Field
National Aviation School
England
U S Bureau Agents Exceed Bond Purchases Amid War Drive
Internal Revenue Bureau employees surpassed a quota of 89 400 by purchasing War Bonds totaling 15 975 dollars in the recent campaign. Collector Frank J. Shaughnessy announced today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Bureau
Internal Revenue Bureau
Frank J. Shaughnessy
Pall
Minoan Soldier Tailby Returns to Seabees After WWI Service
John Tailby, 49, once Churchill’s orderly and an explosives expert, reenlists with the Navy Seabees at the Peary training center near Williamsburg. A former Onondaga County deputy sheriff, Tailby saw 47 trench charges and twice wounded in World War I, later scoring well at the rifle range. He joined in July after a Scotland college stint, first volunteering in 1914, then serving with Royal Scots Fusiliers in France. Churchill aided his unit in 1915 as orderly for over two months.
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J. & Navy
John ‘Ailby
Camp Peary
Winston Churchill
W Wiavushire
Churchill
France
Williamsburg
Peary
Navy
Wiliamsburg
John ‘Tailby
Minoa
Tailby
Onondaga County
Iwice
Egypt
Postwar Planning Council Intensifies Week Schedule
The Syracuse Onondaga Postwar Planning Council tightens this week's agenda with a full council meeting set for Thursday at 4:30 PM in the Syracuse University College of Law library. Executive director Sergei N. Grimm announced the staff met with Guy Greer, an economy consultant from Fortune. Educational committees meet Friday at 2 PM at 301 East Washington Street with D Mickel of the National Automotive Safety Foundation.
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Postwar Planning Council
Syracuse-Onondaga
General Council
Syracuse University College of Law Library
Sergei N. Grimm
Law Library
Guy Greer
Fortune Magazine
Council
East Washington Street
Grant Mickel
National Automotive Safety Foundation
NOME BUREAU MEETINGS IN SYRACUSE FOUR UNITS
Four Syracuse Home Bureau units schedule meetings for tomorrow. Downtown unit meets at 2 P.M. in the Home Bureau Lounge at Burnet Park. Coldbrook unit hosts at 1 P.M. at 227 Tennyson Avenue, Mrs J J Ryan. Salem Hyde unit gathers 1 P.M. at 115 Sedgewich Road, Mrs H J Engelhardt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Syracuse
Carrier Institute Lecture on Financing an Enterprise
Fred F. Hoyt vice president and comptroller of Carrier Corporation spoke at Central High School on financing methods for business and the firm’s postwar prospects. He discussed Carrier’s financial structure, rapid growth, wartime production, and plant consolidation in Syracuse, expressing optimism for future development and mass production advances.
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Carrier Institute
Carrier Institute of ‘Business
Fred F. Hoyt
Carrier Corporation
Central High School
Hoyt
Syracuse
World at War film shown at Optimist Club luncheon
A feature length motion picture by the U S Government titled The World at War will be shown at the Optimist Club luncheon at Hotel Syracuse on Wednesday noon. Material for the film comes from newsreels and enemy films in Government custody.
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U.S
Optimist Club
Syracuse
Fire record at 339 Bryant Avenue extinguished on arrival
A telephone alarm at 339 Bryant Avenue triggered a fire response on Tuesday S8118 AM. Fire crews arrived and found the fire under control with no damage reported. Units cleared shortly after.
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Bryant Avenue
Graduates From Brothers School Enter Armed Forces
Twenty two of the 45 graduates from Christian Brothers Academy last June joined the armed services. In the Army are Burns Callahan DeCirce Lally Larkin Leahy Markett McNamara Schneidler. In the Navy are Barry Collins Colucci Hopkins Kinney Nortz Racciatti Reith Richer Roe Scheibel Simmons Welch Hennigan Dawson awaiting Cornell University and Sweaence University attendance. Postgraduate study includes Diligent Murphy and Schneider. William Dwyer at Notre Dame.
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Brothers School
Armed Services
Christian Brothers Academy
Army
Robert J. Burns
George W Callahan
Michael N. DeCirce
John A. Lally
Thomas A. Larkin
George F. Leahy
Thomas W. Markett
Richard E. McNamara
Richard F. Schneider
Navy
James T. Barry
Lawrence V. Collins
Joseph W. Colucci
Christopher J. Hopkins
John P. Kinney
William H. Nortz
Thomas J. Racciatti
Francis B. Reith
Walter C. Richer
Raymond B. Roe
Richard L. Scheibel
Joseph J. Simmons
Donald C. Welch
Robert D. Hennigan
Joseph W. Dawson
Cornell University
Sweaence University
Ares ‘Willian J. Holbrook
Donald ‘Moore
John ‘T. Murphy
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Crown Corset CO
B.r.smith
Messerschmidt
Benson’s
Grand Collection of
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Seabees
Nome Bureau
South Salina
Jefferson Street
Auburn
Fulton, Oswego
Utica
Ithaca
Lee
Currantlud
Ewe Matti
Maven
Corr
John Allen Smith
Fleischmann
Hitler
Fleischmann’s
Fleischman
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