VFW and Legion Back Postwar Training Plans
Washington veterans groups push differing postwar training ideas at House hearings. VFW supports home-based instruction with two weeks annual reserve camp, while the American Legion backs a year of continuous service for all men, reflecting debate at the Postwar Military Policy Committee hearings led by Gar B Ketchum and Jake T Taylor.
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Washington
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Sryila
Ecbool
American Legion
Atl
V_ FW
Legion
Gar B Ketehusi
Jake T. Taylor
Guard
Ketchum
Ava
Jocel
Vo Flw
Hfe
Thrill Seeker Gets Ten Day Jail Sentence
Edward Patman an 18 year old from Ballston Spa was jailed for ten days after pleading guilty to a penal law violation. He had claimed a pistol wielding robbery by two armed bandits but later admitted he faked the tale for a thrill. He paid a $10 fine and began serving his sentence.
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Besking
Edward Patman
Ballston
Baxatoga County
Silen
Ballston Spa
Scotia
Henk
Justice of the Peace
Alexander Strart
Named Chaplain James W Shaughnessy of Schenectady KC
Rev James W Shaughnessy a Watervliet native and former Troy Hospital chaplain is named chaplain of the Schenectady Council Knights of Columbus succeeding the late Monsignor Joan L Reilly List chaplain The appointment was made by Rev Edmund F Gibbons Bishop of the Albany Diocese at the council's request.
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Chaplais
Watervliet
Troy Hospital
Schenectady
Wounded in Action Private Campbell Wounded in Battle of the Bulge
North Lake Avenue resident Mrs Helen Campbell learns her husband Private Pie Howard Campbell was seriously wounded Christmas Day in the Battle of the Bulge. He was blown from a truck, wounded in left hand and leg, serving with the First Army in Crechoslovakia and awarded the Purple Heart after entering service two years ago.
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Helen Lewis Campbell
North Lake Avenue
Pie
Howard G. Campbell
Campbell
First Army
Crechoslovakia
Arsenal
Army Plans Bigger Raids Upon Japan
Army plans project up to 29 raids spilling as much as 10000 tons of bombs on Japan before year end. General Orval Cook said Superforts production will double and 1000 tons per raid could be dropped from B-29 bases nearing Japan. The plan targets four main plants and subcontracts across Seattle Omaha Philadelphia Atlanta and other sites to speed engines propellers instruments and equipment.
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Japan
Merk
Tois
Orval & Cooz
Air Technical & Command
Dis
Cook
Berlin
Europe
Coos
Seattle
Wash
Wie
Kass
Onaha
Xeb
Atlants
Far
Pacific
L&& Planes
Tokyo
Mary
Chi Cesters Pills and Aircraft Production Report
A damaged excerpt discusses Chi Chest ers Pills for menstrual relief and ties to military topics. It notes aircraft plant production, referencing B23 activity, radar and Pacific theater plans, with claims of increased strength and new production rates. The text mixes medical ad copy with wartime manufacturing claims and dated figures.
Samuel G. Simmons Dies at Wynantskill
Samuel G. Simmons dies at Wynantskill age unknown. Son of the late Charles and Mar Horton Simmons, he lived most of his life in Trey and was a member of the Wynantskill Fire Department. Survived by wife Mary D. Negson, two sons Samuel W. Simmons and H. Atte Edmund Leo Simmons, and one sister Harriet Simmons. Funeral details noted with dates and service locations.
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Treast Frask
Wheeler Cox
Main Avenue
Wryaantsxi
Lnte
Charles
Mar Horton Simmons
T Eagle Milla
Trey
Wynantskill
Mary D. Negson
Cpl
Samuel W. Simmons
Caribbens
H. Atte
Edmund Leo Simmons
South Pacific
Harriet Simmons
Local Social News From Schaghticoke And Nearby
Names and visits abound as residents from Schaghticoke Troy and Cambridge host relatives and travel. Cpl William Moon stationed in Germany and Pvt John Beecroft visiting family mark military postings. Miss Stacia Butler and Miss Nellie Leydeld appear in local scenes.
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Mire
Freda Goodfellow
Raymertown
William Moon
Ernest Micon
Germany
Lula Herrington
Johnsonville
Olin Brownell
Mamion Wood
Syracuse
George Desler
Kenneth l Winerts
Troy
Stacia Butler O- Troy
Aire
Frank O'Connor
Nellie B. Leydeld
Merton I
Roy
Andrew Swift
Albert Film
Gerald Haver
Albany
Rose Viell
Albert
John Beecroft
Alarmo Corps
Arthur Beecroft
Harry Lesson
Jona Lesson
San
Stella Miller
Cambridge
Arts
Charles J. Connorl
Pic
James McGowan
School Street
San Francisco
Pacific
Margaret Film
Bridge Club
Francis*Van Buren
Jane Millimax
First Presbyterian Church
James Bevis
Albert Viail
Tor
James Pecor
Air force notes on planes and replacements in combat missions
Air force officers discuss mission staffing with planes starting at zero and replacements in reserve or within sight. With B 21s and B 2Es deployed from Europe, raids by three ship types may precede choices by 5993 alone.
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Europe
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Ven Keuren
State Emergency Food Commission
Samuel G. Simmons
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Ryiligre
Anna Asse
Tray
Women's United Society of the First Presbyterian Church
Charles J
Senjamin Hill
York State
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Chile
Ras
Wayside Day’ Nursery
New York
Francis WW
Mar
Cobleshirre
Hohor
Lunca
Catherine Baltson
James Hoty
Daniel He
E. N. War Buren
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Catherine Langler
Schaghticoke
Kenseth Smith
Ave
Zexo
Seine
Reeve
Astieve
Zema
Permanent Naturale
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Mer Id Dair
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