Syracuse Business Upbeat Despite Auto Slump and Labor Shifts
The Chamber of Commerce bulletin notes Syracuse Onondaga County economy rising with record industrial payrolls and electric current use. Auto sales cooled in September, but nine month totals show strong gains, used car sales up slightly, and payrolls up 53 percent year over year. Employment placements rose, relief cases shrank, and August retail trade outpaced 1910 levels though September cooled.
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Syracuse
Chamber of Commerce
Onondaga County
New York State Employment Service
Scout Receives Bishop Blessing at Diocesan Ceremony
In the past days a diocesan ceremony saw a Scout receive a bishop's blessing as local business and civic activity show broad gains. Syracuse Credit Bureau reports 68,215 credit reports in the first nine months, up 9.21 percent from last year, the highest in bureau history. Post office gross receipts rose in September and telephone company peak airtime exceeded 60 000 stations. Freight car loadings surpass 1940 with about 20 percent growth. Railway Express Agency notes continued express shipment gains. Commercial banks report rising deposits and debits likely to top one billion dollars this month.
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Syracuse Credit Bureau
Post Office
Railway Express Agency
Bishop Urges Boy Scouts To Be True to Themselves
The Most Rev. Walter A. Foery urged 700 plus Boy Scouts in the Syracuse diocese to uphold high moral principles using Shakespeare’s quote about being true. The first annual assembly opened with a Columbus monument wreath, parade into the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, and included Ad Altare Del awards, benediction, choir hymns, and the national anthem.
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Thomas Moynihan
West
Colvin Street
Walter A. Foery
Syracuse
Edward G. Quaid
Foery
Robert Reddy
M Shields Dwyer
Christopher Columbus
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Parking Rule Change Proposals For Common Council
City Clerk George K Hancock filed drafts for parking regulation changes including 45 minute limits on the east side of Pearl Street 500 block and banning parking in the 300 block of Ontario Street The holiday canceled today may push a session to Tuesday at 2 PM The Board of Education seeks approval to buy groceries and bus tokens without bids The council may waive competitive bidding The rocket in cludes a cement sidewalk project on Bellevue Avenue north side between Velasko and Merrell Roads
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Common Council
George K. Hancock
Pearl Street
Ontario Street
Board of Education
Bellevue Avenue
Velasko Road
iMerrell Road
Speed boat Missing From Camp on Oneida Lake
State police from North Syracuse and Sylvan Beach search for a 16-foot Thompson speed boat owned by Kenneth Given of 517 Rowney Road at Snug Harbor camp on Oneida Lake. Officials theorize the craft drifted away after a canvass of nearby residents yielded no clues. The boat is black with red trim and a mahogany deck.
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Given
Kenneth Given
Rowlneay Road
Oneida Lake
Syracuse
Sylvan Beach
Camp Fire Girls Leaders Plan Training Course
The first meeting of the training course for new Guardians of the Camp Fire Girls will be held Tuesday at 7 30 P M at the Y W C A Mrs Robert S Malgruder chair of the Education Committee of the Onondaga Council of Camp Fire Girls is in charge with Miss Mildred Faust Miss Marjory Fisher Mrs Charles Howe and Mrs C Thomas Patterson as leaders The six week program runs weekly at 7 30 P M Topics include Indian symbolism history and purpose of the Camp Fire program music folk dancing fist aid diet and nutrition and instruction in the seven Camp Fire crafts: Home craft hand craft health craft camp craft citizenship business craft and nature lore
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Camp Fire Girls
Robert S. Malgruder
Onondaga Counsel
Mildred Faust
Marjory Fisher
Charles Howe
C. Thomas Patterson
Y. W. CA
Gregory to Speak On World Conditions and Baha i Faith
Louis Gregory of Washington D C lawyer and world traveler will lecture on World Conditions and the Baha i Faith at the Belcher home 909 Ackerman Avenue at 8 15 P M today. The public is invited. He will meet friends at the Scott home 815 Almond Street this afternoon with tea served from 3 to 5 P M.
Grade Crossing Commission Marks 30th Anniversary and Columbus Day
John T. O'Brien, Syracuse Grade Crossing Commission chair since 1933, notes Columbus Day as a dual anniversary the 449th of America’s discovery and the 30th of the commission's creation begun Oct 12 1911. Founding members included Alan C. Forbes and others. celebration coincides with opening of the new Lackawanna station on Oct 21.
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John T. O'Brien
Syracuse
Albert Win
O'Brien
Mr. Forbes
Irving
Lackawanna Station
Dinner marks Friends of Reading season kickoff at Crumlins
Oscar F. Soule starts his presidency at the first Friends of Reading meeting of the season held this evening at Crumlins at 6 15 P M. About 175 reservations have been made for the dinner. Special guest Col Washington Platt returns from Louisiana on furlough. Louis Blake Duff of Welland Ont will speak on Makers of Books and Dr Paul M Paine of Syracuse Public Library will review Sir Richard Burton's Wife.
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Friends of Reading
Oscar F. Soule
Crumlins
Col
Washington Platt
Louisiana
Louis Blake Duff
Welland
Ont
Paul M. Paine
Syracuse Public Library
Richard Burton
Wle
Three Syracuse men fined for petty larceny in junkyard theft
Three Syracuse men pleaded to petty larceny charges and were fined five dollars each by Justice C. W. Jones at Marcellus last night. Frank Russell 36 of 704 South West Street Mofford Brown 48 of 1028 Montgomery Street and Lockwood 26 of 214 Tully Street were involved in tin theft from a junk yard.
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Syracuse
Justice of the Peace
C. W. Jones
Marcellus
Frank Russell
South West Street
Mofford Brown
Montgomery Street
Lockwood
Tully Treet
Seasonal Rise in Diseases Reported in Syracuse
The weekly Bureau of Communicable Diseases tabulation shows 44 total cases for the period with whooping cough at 22 new cases, pneumonia 15, poliomyelitis three, scarlet fever three, and one case reported earlier in the month disappeared from the list.
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Syracuse
Bureau of
Army Buys $300000 Canned Goods From Upstate Firms
Washington dispatch reports over $300000 in Army contracts for canned vegetables fruit kraut and jam awarded in upstate New York. Empire State Pickling and Seneca Kraut and Pickling in Phelps received $115154 and $17325 respectively while Snider Packing Rochester and Tugwell Wiseman split $52500 for canned pens. Beds and tomato juice orders went to F B Hussey Son Curther Brothers Rochester and Welch Grape Juice Company.
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Army
Upstate
Special Dispatch
Washington
Upistate New York
Division of
Public Contracts
Labor Department
Biggost
Sauerkraut
Empire State Pickling Company
Seneca Kraut and Picking Company
Phelps
Snider Packing Corporation
Rochester
Tugwell& Wiseman, Inc
Modeltown
F. B. Hussey & Son
Ontario
Curther Brothers Company
Fruit Belt Preserving Company
East Williamson
Webster Canning & Preserviing Company
Webster
Welch Grape Juice Company
Westfield
Manlius Plans New Boy Scout Troop Dinner
The Manlius village Chamber of Commerce will start a new Boy Scout troop at a dinner in the municipal building Wednesday. Guests include eligible boys and Syracuse Troop 30, honored as best troop in the October 4 dedication parade. Raymond H. Jackman presides. Troop 30 will demonstrate Scout activities for two hours. Kenneth Painter chairs the Manlius Scout committee with James P. Ventura, John Webber, George Hale and C Arthur assisting.
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Manlius
Village Chamber of Commerce
Syracuse
Raymond H. Jackman
Kenneth Painter
James PR. Ventura
John Webber
George Hale
C Arthur
Dairy and Poultry Groups Plan Production Rise Conference
Dairy and poultry interests in New York State prepared for a statewide series of five meetings to map production increases under the national defense food expansion program. The Onondaga Hotel event tomorrow will draw leaders from the Metropolitan Cooperative Milk Producers Burpane Agency the Dairymen’s League Farm Bureaus and other agricultural organizations.
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New York State
Onondaga Hotel
Rochester
Albany
Binghamton
New York City
Earl Flannsburg
Fox Appointed Special Labor Agent for Defense Safety
Walter L. Fox manager of the Safety Division Syracuse Chamber of Commerce is named special agent for the U S Department of Labor and the National Committee for the Conservation of Manpower. Robert F. Petrasek an electrical engineer with Carrier Corp is also noted in the formation of the national committee. The Labor Department assigns Mr Fox to contact industries handling defense orders and aid them in establishing safety programs and manpower conservation.
Legion Head Again Blasts Miss Perkins
Seattle Oct 1349 The American Legion National Commander Lynn A Stambaugh declares the Legion lacks faith in Frances Perkins as Secretary of Labor. He urges resignation and warns of Communist influence in labor and calls for deportation of longshoremen leader Harry Bridges. He stresses labor’s role in defense and warns against communism in the United States.
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Seattle
American Legion
Lynn A. Stambaugh
Frances Perkins
Stambaugh
Milwaukee
Labor
Legion
Harry Bridges
C. I. QC
Russia
United States
Representative Fish Ordered to Two Weeks Active Duty
Representative Fish of New York was ordered by the War Department to two weeks of active duty in the Carolina war games as a specialist reserve colonel. He must report to First Army headquarters in Monroe, Iowa, for the assignment after earlier field service at Fort Bragg.
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Washington
Fish
R-N.y
War Department
First Army
Monroe
I. C
Nav
Fort Bragg
Nac
Red Cross Seeks Comfort Kits for U S Men in Uniform
Miss Abby Grace Cornell announces that the local Red Cross chapter will join a nationwide program to supply sweaters and "comfort" kits to service members. Chapter volunteers will assemble writing materials, toilet articles, sewing kits and playing cards for hospitalized men and those at island defense bases, with Pine Camp as a major recipient.
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Abby Grace Cornell
Red Cross
Norman H. Davis
American Red Cross
Cornell
Rial
Pine Camp
ROTC Appointments at Syracuse University by Col Kaempfer
Col Albert B Kaempfer announces cadet appointments for the Syracuse University ROTC program. Commanding officers named include cadet colonel Robert Chesbro and cadet lieutenant colonels Robert Pascall Lawrence Leney. Captains named for companies A through L and Band with staff captains Edward Bernard Robert Burrell Gilbert Dibble. Major Andrews Allen named as regimental adjutant.
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ROTC
Hill
Kaempfer
Syracuse University
R.O.T.C
Albert B. Kaempfer
Robert Chesbro
Robert Pascall
Leutenant
Lawrence Leney
Michael Skalko
George Stanton
Paul Cabot
Glenn Vopel
Joseph Reddy
Stuart Faron
Cleveland Dickman
John Rich
Loyal Bowgart
George Krause
Edward Bernard
Robert Burerill
Gilbert Dibble
Maj
Andrews Allen
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Wilsons
Pe Ee Ey Oe
Salina Street
Bishop
Miss Perkins
U.S
Flahs
Cologne
Tlah S
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