Postwar Era Changes Stir Washington and Public Life
Washington desk notes recount postwar shifts with surplus property stories, fashion gear, and price controls. The Office of Surplus Property readies stocks of navy uniforms. girdles fate flips. window screens and rainproof gowns enter daily life conversations. Public figures discuss salaries, housing priorities, and medical insurance amid shortages and strikes.
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Frederich
Othman
Washington
Hashelingers
OPA
Robert A. Seidel
Congress
Sheridan Downey
California
Trunton
Wright Patman
Texas
Truman
American Medical Association
Postwar Feels and Local Car Crash in Bellefonte
Two thousand war labor board workers received thirty day notices for Christmas. Atom expert J R Oppenheimer urged occasional atomic tests. In Bellefonte Pennsylvania a pair brought home two 1940 automobiles, the town’s only ones, and collided. The postwar outlook seems similar.
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War Labor Board
J. R. Oppenhaimer
Atom
Senate
Bellefonte
Stillwater Community Notes Include Christmas Plans
Stillwater news lists church and lodge activities led by Mrs. Gertrude Farrington and Mrs. Leonard Kellogg. Dec 2 Christmas supper at Second Baptist School, Montgomy Lodge 501 to hold annual meeting with spaghetti supper at 6:30. Bemis Heights Grange Christmas party Dec 17 with gift exchange. Bridge club entertained. next meeting at Mrs. John Whalen’s. Local residents Dorward Brith Coast Guard, Rev Talman visiting. Fortnightly Literary Society Christmas social planned at Mrs. W. P. Stanford’s home with a bring a room gift exchange.
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W. P. Stanford
Second Baptist Church
Gertrude Farrington
Leonard Kellogg
Fred Hayner
Carlton Abel
Ellen Dean
Henry van Vrunken
Montgomery Lodge
No. 501
Masonic Temple
Bemis Heights
Erwin Brewster
Bridge Club
Palmer Street
Frank H. Joyce
John Whalen
Taymond Brith
Coast Guard
New York
Lyman A. Talman
Albert Talman
Spring Valley
Put
William Fordham
Fort Hancock
MN. J
Christams Sovial
Literary Society
Mildred Hayner
George Martin
Alice Lawrence
Sitney Hewitt
James Brooking
Mary Smith
Cordella Pitney
Rooin
Local Notes From Whitehall and River Towns
Rev Edward Souter bay returned to Forest Bills after visiting his parents on Wheeler Avenue. Frank Douglass of Williams Street leaves for Schenectady to spend winter with son Burleigh Douglass. Mrs Louis Burke remains homebound with arthritis on Broadway. Lt Col and Mrs Robert Guay and son visit his parents J Edward and family. St Martha's Guild elects Mrs George Rock president at Trinity Church home on William Street. other officers named.
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Burke
Robert. Guay
Robert Allen Guay
J. Edward Guay
Guay
Air Corps
St Martha's Guild
Trinity Episcopal Church
Mabel Jackson
William Street
George Rock
Jackson
Fred Alhye
Lorane Wolfe
Hyde Park bids for UN HQ site in Roosevelt home grounds
Hyde Park in Dutchess County seeks permanent UN headquarters at the Roosevelt estate. Benson Frost presents documentation in London to the UN Preparatory Commission detailing the five square mile site, ample access, and historic settings including the late President's home.
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Poughkwepalo
Dutchess County
United Nations
Hyde Park
Franklin D. Roosevelt
U.N. O
London
Benson BR. Frost
Rhinebeck
England
United Nations Organization
Roosevelt
Rogers
Soviet British Troops To Occupy Japan Reported
An Allied headquarters indicated a division of Russian troops would arrive in the Japanese home islands early in 1946. No numbers or dates were disclosed. General Douglas MacArthur’s planning and operations section said it had no information on reports of 20,000 Russian troops being sent to Japan.
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Philadelphia Pi
Frank Lynch
Anna May Landon
Philadelphia General Hospital
Lynch
Hannah London
Tokyo
Rusajsnevopa
Douglas
Postwar Food Plans and Allied Commands Discussed
Diplomatic quarrels delay rationing plans as Russians demand sandwiches and adequate supplies. Allies consider keeping token occupations under General MacArthur with integration into the Eighth Army. Milberry leaves remain exclusive in the silkwarmy. No diversion of British troops expected after year’s start. China says it cannot send a token participation force due to home unrest.
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MacArthur
Eighth Army
Japan
Greenwich Grange Officers to Be Installed by Harry Booth
Greenwich Bottskir Grange officers will be installed by Harry Booth of Easton at a meeting Thursday evening at Grange Hall in North Greenwich. A short program will be held.
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Bottskir
Harry Booth
Easton
Grange Hall
Greenwich
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