Watervliet Red Cross Drive Mapped
Red Cross workers in Watervliet met at City Hall last night to map plans for the War Fund drive starting March 1. Miss Virginia Smith explained the Red Cross role in troop morale and aid for families, with a goal of a $50,000 Watervliet drive, $15,000 above last year, and described national and local committee assignments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Watervliet
Virginia Smith
National Red Cross
Miss Smith
Red Cross Daily
James D. McNary
Thomas F. Cavanaugh
Thomas Dowling
Harold M. J. Lewis
Rensselaer
Sermon Topics At Watervliet and Area Church Services
Watervliet churches list Sunday schedules with Raymond Smith leading Sunday school at 10 a.m. and Rev Charles A Dayton preaching at 11 a.m. Other events include class meetings, Young Peoples, evangelistic song service, and missions talks led by various pastors and lay leaders. A wartime note covers Pvt Eleanor M Service of the WAC posting details of basic training and duties at Presque Isle and thoughts on women in service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond Smith
Wesleyan Methodist Church
Charles A. Dayton
Chester Fiet
Young Peoples
Bertha Root
Fred Boel J
Dayton
William J. Clark
First Presbyterian Church
Christian Endeavor Society
Christian Endeavor Group
Walter Rosenberger
Mannsville Mission Chapel
Martha J. Gifford
Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society
First Baptist Church
Arnaldo Na|tine
Ivan M. Ball
Trinity Episcopal Church
Alfred J. Liljestrand
Savedish Congregational Church
Ziv
Louis E. Barker
Third Avenue
Methodist Church
Frank Gunsalus
Methodist Youth Fellowship
State Street
Fifth Avenue Metheast
Eugene Chatfield
Troy
Barker
First Avenue Methodist Church
Mechanicville Methodist Fellowship
Daniel H. Prior
Albany
Watervliet Lodge
Elks’ Club
Joseph W. Reis
George J. Halpin
Charles L. Roberts
Edward J. Bulger
James Gilmore
Christianson
John H. Looby
WAC
Eleanor M. Service
Chester A. Service
Broadway
Presque J
WACS
Maine Post
Post Exchange
Women's Army Corps
William C. Service
Naval Air Station
John A. Patten Post
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Rooms
Kay Somerville
Fred C. Bennett
Watervliet Council Receives Dual Annual Reports
The Watervliet City Council heard annual reports from the Water and Fire Departments. Fire Chief James J. Corbett urged postwar planning changes, including replacing the aging fire alarm box system and adding new alarms while noting manpower shortages. Police Chief Maurice J. Kennan highlighted juvenile-driven crime, detailing felonies, arrests, and property losses, amid broader city crime trends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watervliet
James J. Corbett
Corbett
McIntyre Hose Company
Maurice J. Kennan
Charles G. Cavanaugh
Broadway
Maplewood Pupils Stage Observance
Maplewood School presented a George Washington program directed by Mrs Margaret Dardis with Sixth Seventh and Eighth Grade pupils. Scenes traced Washington's life from boyhood drill to a return after Braddock's defeat, with dances and songs by the student body. The school will close for Washington's birthday and Layman's Sunday services follow at local churches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maplewood
Dorothy Rentz
Zeena Dennis
Thoma
Nancy Feather
Emily Volke
Joan Tetrault
Catherine Usckys Kulzer
Basil Wasilenko
Frank Jewett
William McCormick
Frank Purstell
Michael Maciasco
Orlando DiBacco
George Washington
Margaret Dardis
Maplewood School
Washington
John Robideau
Mammy Lou
Catherine Uscky
Burton Robinson
John Pawluk
Peter Fedorchak
Ernest Forgette
Orlando BiBacco
John Probeck
Joseph Wasula
John McBain
Mt. Vernon
Edward Robideau
Lawrence Washington
Thomas Kulzer
Lillian Sturgeon
Anna Toma
Catherine Useky
Catherine Mckey
Anna Kapitula
Lord Fairfax
Colonel Washington
Braddock
Edith Gordimer
Mary Klynko
Report 130 000 Jews Wiped Out in Holland
A smuggled document from Nazi occupied Holland indicates nearly the entire Jewish community of 160 000 has been wiped out by German actions including killings sterilization and deportation. The Dutch government in exile is compiling a record of these atrocities and lists possible underground survivors in the low hundreds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Holland
Also Mentioned on This Page
Watervliet Red Cross
Ivan H. Ball
Trinity Episcopal Church of
Assembly
Watervliet High School
Joseph Fowler
Orson Welles
Edward J. Sanders
Dorothy Dinatzian
Carl Sandburg
James Russell Lowell
Martin Donovan
Fifth Avenue
Ernest Gloechner
Schuyler Home Bureau Unit
Barclay Jermain
Leo R. Walsh
Jeanne Gorman
Sixth Avenue
Barclay Termain Gymnasium
Mise Vera Canlum
County Home Bureau
R. J. Ericson
Mildred Brown
Lester L. Ross
Jermain Memorial Presbyterian Church
Walter D. Strangeway
D.D
Our Lady of
St. Bridget’s
James P. Hanrahan
Mary Immaculate Sodality
Church of the Immacwate Conception
Boleslaus M. Watroba
St. Nicholas
Andrew P. Chrystum
Holy Angels’ Sodality
Sacred Heart of Mary
Fev
Nap la Palme
St. Ambrose
Latham
Daniel F. Cronin
William Richmond
Save the Children
America
John C. Lorne
Detroit
Mary L. Durr
Center
Washington, D. C
Lorne
Army
Col
Oveta Culp Hobby
Watervliet Council
American Legion Hall
Hugh Lansing
Henry Hughes
Trinity Episcopal
William Dodson
William Donovan
Henry Krage
First Baptist
Charles H. Wagner
Leon Walrath
Arnaldo Natino
First Presbyterian
Irwin Johnston
D. A. Tomlinson
Lloyd Oathout
William Mabin
Third Avenue Methodist
Harry Bettie
Valentine Gray
Raymond Parker
Chris Jensen
Robert Hayner
Jay McClurg
William Glynn
Donald Granger
John Pickering
Earl van Antwerp
William Bainbridge
North Reformed
Frank W. ,Drake
T. Keiser
Paul Clickner
Henry T. Hamlin
Nettie Chubb
Elmer Dellehant
Victor Wachter
Isabel Calhoun
Nellie Lape
St. Patrick's Church
Thomas McMahon
William A. Pateman
Joan Berry
Thomas P. Dowling
D. McLaughlin
James Kelly
Edward Saunders
Elizabeth Moore
Altar Society of
Minnie Razzano
Cora Zaccarino
Frances Julien
Lena Dinino
Annette Tedesco
Theresa Chouffi
Mary Consuelo
Mary Grillo
Louis A. Gardner
Imperial
Maury , Hoffman and
James T.connors
J. Gregory Nealon
Fourth Avenue
St. Bridget'’s Church
Edmund F. Gibbons
Bishop Gibbons
Joseph
Thomas Flynn Post
American Legion
Mr. Connors
Thomas B. Lyons
Joseph Diamond
Vincent G. Lamb
Francis Conroy
Charles C. Sedgewick
Joseph Neary
Taps
Roy Beaudhn
Holy Name Society of
St. Bridget’s Church
John F. Bourke
The
Adam Hopson
David Greelis
Benjamin Comstock
Elmer Hydorn
C. Malden Wells
Greelis
Troy Red Cross
R.C. Reynolds CO
Monument Square
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