Hoosick Falls Briefs and Notices Clash Over Loss and Local Events
A saddle horse was killed Friday near Hoosick Falls when struck by a car driven by Leslie Fleming of Hoosick. The vehicle suffered damage but Fleming escaped injury. Community updates include Scout open house at the new Durfee Block center, Kiwanis Club talk by Richard Wheeler on Smaller War Plants, and Salvage Committee pickups beginning today with paper products from stores and offices. Also reported are officer elections in local auxiliaries and the Van Rensselaer Chapter Eastern Star installation plans, along with obituaries for Raine with services today at Our Lady of Angels Church.
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Leslie Fleming
Hoosick
Mr. Smith
Mr. Fleming
Bennington
Troy-Bennington
Ared
Gheidon
Kiwanis Club
Richard Wheeler
Manas
Albany
War Plants Corp
Spea
Salvage Group
St. Stanislaws
St Sre Bey
Helen Albowicz
Helen Cink
Regina
Kalinowski
Borage
Stella Bro
Benkoski
Laba
Genavieve Mewierence Dorr
Ciuk
Margaret Saboski
Helen Brode
Ma Albowiez
Allison Reed
van Rensselaer
Order of the Eastern Star
Masonic Temple
Gordon Nesbitt
Marion Nesbitt
Freelove Neuschwander
Amity Quackenbush
Wilma Casey
S. Margaret Whitter
Helen Chamberlain
Helen Bullock
Mary Rudd
Ethel van Wert
Santa Claus
Thomas McBride
Our Lady of Angels’ Cemetery
Local News Briefs From Whitehall And Surrounding Areas
Whitehall residents update on illness and convalescence including Mrs. Willard Toben and Harold Hartnoll. Hospital mentions include Mrs. Murice Murphy in Albany and Mrs. Leo Longtin after surgery in Plattsburg. Notables report hospital returns, a joint auxiliary and railroad brotherhood installation in Sons of Italy Hall, and visiting relatives from Pawtucket and Amity. A Good Conduct Medal is awarded to Sergt Major Alanson Bartholomew, with South Pacific service noted.
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Corp
Ola Madsen
Madisen
Pawtucket
R. K
Rudy Oravone
Bernice Adams
Moravia High School
William Adams
Milton Gildersleeve
Amity L. L
William Kivelin
Alanson H. Bartholomew
Hemnantolomew
Benson, Vic
A. B. Bartholomew
Ben
South Pacific
Frank Ryerson
Foster Ae Woodcock
Norfolk
Riation
Frans Martucci
Walter Ayers
M Edson Ayers
Francis Foote
Charles
Theodore Ayers
Francis Ayers
Belle Kana
Fenton Kana
New Ship Named For Jack Singer
The Liberty cargo vessel named for Jack Singer, a wartime reporter killed aboard the Wasp in the South Pacific, was launched by California Shipbuilding Corp. Mark Heilinger christened the 10,500 ton ship, honoring Singer as a model of the reporter’s code amid 12 American war correspondents lost.
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Wilmington
Cal
Liberty
Jack Singer
California Shipbuilding Corp
Mark Heilinger
Singer
International News Service
South Pacific
America
Itl
Italians May Join Labor Unions Reportedly
General Eisenhower told the War Department that fascist labor syndicates in liberated Italy have been abolished under Naples directives. The new policy allows free organization of workers into unions of their choosing, with representatives welcoming cooperation with American and British workers to hasten the Axis defeat. The freeing of Italian workers accompanied a general wage increase after near starvation under fascist rule.
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Washington
Italy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
War Department
Naples
Amer
Ican
Woman Dies of Burns in Cottage Bathrobe Accident
Funeral services were arranged yesterday for Mrs. Antoinette Lukawski 52 who died from burns suffered when her bathrobe sleeve caught fire while she was adding coal to a stove last Wednesday.
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Buffalo W
Antoinette Lukawski
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