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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1944
Page
6
London report says British MPs weigh a government bill making playing hockey at school a breach of law. If passed, parents could face fines or imprisonment for truancy as lawmakers push widespread educational penalties to curb parental neglect.
An old advertisement urges readers to stock Penetro salve as annual cold season approaches. It claims warming comfort for nose and throat and improved circulation where applied, selling 25 cents with a double supply for 35 cents.
MPs plan a sweeping education bill to raise the compulsory leaving age to 16 and require continuation college attendance to 18. It targets truancy with fines up to ten pounds and jail for persistent offende rs, while urging parental accountability for first offenders.
The passage recalls John L. Lewis style impressions as labor party members and older students praise Groton schools. MPs commend the institutions while hoping a miner’s son might someday attend, and the schoolboys regard the MPs as decent chaps.
A 22 year old Springfield man James W Stephanon was stopped outside St Louis while hitchhiking west with a loaded holster and a Colt revolver. He hoped to become a cowboy and work on a ranch but was detained by state troopers who pursued a serial number check as they considered his 4 F draft status and plans.
Governor Dewey proclaimed the week starting February 20 as Brotherhood Week urging observance to foster better understanding between Jews and Christians. A Philadelphia item notes a man refused to identify a woman found in a police station, saying he is a gentleman in love, amid a Pennsylvaniarailroad incident.
Acting Secretary of War Robert Patterson said Allied troops remain firmly established at Anzio while the Germans mount counter-attacks from reserves and the Rome area. He noted German heavy assaults, hampered Allied shipping by bad weather, and reported Fifth Army casualties since Salerno totaling 25 665 with 3 707 killed and 16 510 wounded and 5 448 missing.
Ruth Simons 38 of Ancram and farmhand Arthur Decker are charged with the axe murder of Beulah Simons last November. Schirick denied a motion to dismiss and Monell Herzberg argued equal protection due to women allegedly being excluded from the Columbia County grand jury. Trial likely at March term with Justice Bergan presiding.
Mrs. Howard Wolfe of Wynantskill steadied a baby carriage on her front porch steps. The carriage tipped, her leg jammed between the brake and carriage frame, a heavy steel piece cutting into her leg. She required 22 stitches.
Scouts Troop 18 will participate in Temple Beth El Sabbath service led by Rabbi Joel Geffen at 8 15 PM. Crinton E. Rose, scout executive of the Troy Area Council, will be guest of honor. Tomorrow morning a Bar Mitzvah confirmation for Larry Jacobs will be held at the temple.
A grand rally of all branches of the Odd Fellows in the Rensselaer and Washington and Rensselaer and Albany districts IOOF will be held in the lodge rooms of White Lily Lodge IOOF at Cropseyville Tuesday evening February 28. Unite of the subordinate lodges the encampments Rebekahs and cantonments together with grand lodge grand encampment Rebekah assembly and patriarch militant department officers will be present.
Samuel H. Norwood chief of the Menands Volunteer Fire Department for 19 years resigns due to ill health. Walter E. Taylor will serve as acting chief until a new chief is appointed March 1 by the Board of Trustees. Norwood, 61, previously served seven years with Albany Fire Protectives.
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