Medals for Ground Crew Proposed at Italian Bomber Base
An American heavy bomber base in Italy marks its 200th mission as ground crews press for medals recognizing their crucial work. Lt Col notes pilots earn glory while ground crews keep planes ready, often at night by flashlight. Maintenance men like Staff Sgt. May say nine in the states, five or six here, keep the fortress in shape for dawn departures.
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Italy
England
North Africa
William May
Joe Curtin
Brockton
Mass
Corp
Sy Alouis
Bronx
Yea
Edwin Haugen
Kremlin
Mont
Louis Nadeau
Mixed crew of bombers crewmen speak of long overseas service
The Twenty first mission scene features six airmen from different nations including Oneonta New York sailors May England Germany Ireland Russia Norway and France describing eighteen months overseas as too long The tale blends war duty with personal reflections as crews service a bomber at sunset before another mission. Also reported are last rites for Akron financier William Franklin Laubach at Billow Chapel Akron Ohio with burial at Glendale Cemetery and notes on his civic ties and family.
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Oneonta
Sergt Frank Duncan
Jacksonville
Fla
Curtin
Duncan
Haugen
Nadeau
May
Willam Franklin Laubaca
Akron
Billow’s Chapel
Noble
Elderkin
Knights Templar
Glendale Cemetery
Allentown
Woman Defies Tax Policy In Postwar Protest In Kansas City
Miss Vivier Kellems, Westport business owner and wartime tool maker, announced she had not paid her December 15, 1943, federal income tax. She urged businesses to withhold postwar reserves from taxes to fund expansion and continued wartime output, arguing government rules force profits on work not yet completed.
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Kansas City
Vivier Kellems
Westport
Conn
Tax Dilemma Threatens Tools and Jobs
The speaker refuses to pay a tax citing lack of funds and risk to operations. Options include mortgaging home cashing bonds using capital and bankruptcy. They warn paying would halt production of essential tools, cost 150 jobs, and harm armed forces efforts.
High School Faculty Member Shows Movies at Rotary Luncheon
H B Cassavant of Troy High School screened a wartime work titled To Each Other depicting steel industry efforts during war at a Rotary Club luncheon in The Hendrick Hudson. Attendee Light Officer Arthur McArthur was introduced by Henry W Hudson.
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United States Steel Corp
H.b.cassavant
Troy High School
Rotary Club
Hendrick Hudson
Rplight
Arthur McArthur
Enry W Hudson
Nurse Slayer Put In Matteawan Hospital
Bernard J. Butler a 22-year-old parolee from Poughkeepsie confessed to slaying Lucille E. Lawrence a Vassar Hospital nurse. He was committed to Matteawan State Hospital for the criminal insane by Supreme Court Justice Frank I. Coyne after a state sanity commission’s findings. Dist. Atty. Schwarz plans to present the case to the Dutchess County grand jury next week for possible first degree murder indictment, though this would be held in abeyance if Butler were later found sane.
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Poughkeepsie
Bernard J. Butler
Poughkeepsie Mental Hospital
Lucille E. Lawrence
Vassar Hospital
Matteawan State Hospital
Supreme Court
Frank I. Coyne
Dist
John R. Schwarz
Dutchess County
War Department Promotions List Names Rudd and Taglione
War Department yesterday released promotions including Raymond C. Rudd of Grafton and Paul Frank Taglione of 52 Saratoga Avenue Mechanicville. Rudd serves with the infantry and is promoted from second lieutenant to first lieutenant. Taglione also advances in rank within the infantry branch.
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War Department
Raymond C. Rudd
Grafton
Paul Frank Taglione
Saratoga Avenue
Mechanicville
Infantry
First Lieutenant Promotion for Agnes Mary O Connell
Agnes Mary O Connell of Glens Falls rises to first lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps. Her promotion highlights continued service by nurses within the World War II era forces.
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Aso
Agnes Mary O'Connell
Glens Falls
Army Nurse Corps
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Ohio Bell Telegraph Co
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Carleton Smith
Brooklyn
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Mary McClellan Hospital
Is Brothern Law
William D. Robertson
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