Kearney Sees Gas Situation Improving
Congressman B W Pat Kearney reports improving prospects for equitable gasoline distribution amid shortages in 12 eastern states. He cites cooperation with a special House unit and notes eastern drivers face stricter rationing than the Midwest, with employees from General Electric towns struggling to reach work.
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Record Newspapers Bureau
Washington
D. C
House of Congress
B. W.pat Kearney
2Th
General Kearney
Midwest
East
Seaboard
General Electric Co
Schenectady
Amsterdam
Scotia
Gloversville
Shaw Advocates Simple Spelling To Save War Costs
London AP George Bernard Shaw urged simplified spelling in The Times letter column saying it would save money to fund Allied offensives and the war. He proposed a 42 letter alphabet and claimed words like though could be spelled with two letters.
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London
George Bernard Shaw
The
Times
Plan to move 200000 barrels gas from Midwest to East Coast
The committee proposes directing the Petroleum Administrator for War to move at least 200000 barrels daily from the Midwest to the East Coast for 90 days. It urges use of inland waterways to ship gasoline from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Coast and full utilization of existing pipelines plus completion of a new Midwest to East Coast line as soon as practicable.
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War Icries
Midwest
East Cooast States
Great Lakes
Atlantic Coast
East Coast
Giraud Accepts Invitation to Visit Washington
A Reuters dispatch from Algiers reported Gen. Henri Giraud had accepted in principle an invitation to visit Washington. It noted he was unlikely to leave Algiers given current circumstances.
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Giraud
London
Reuters
Algiers
Henri Giraud
Washington
Two Job Change Pleas Granted by War Manpower Panel
The War Manpower Commission area committee sustained 16 of 18 USES decisions granting or denying certificates of availability to change jobs in essential industry. An Austin area Schodack Landing woman and a Schenectady man won appeals citing personal reasons and underuse of skills. Four employers from Amsterdam Fultonville Schenectady appealed. The panel found in most cases workers could use their highest skills elsewhere or shifting to a proffered job served the war effort. An agricultural worker seeking war work was among those upheld.
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War Manpower Commission
Area Committee
U. S. Employment Service Review
WMC
A. J. McGinty
Schodack Landing
Schenectady
Lele Georze
Neiddletown
Kingston
Toosick Falls
Charlotte
Judge Byron Hears Evidence In McCloskey Case
Michael M. McCloskey of 109 Jackson Street faced disorderly conduct charges in Troy Police Court as a South End woman testified before Police Justice James F. Byron. McCloskey, indicted by a Rensselaer County grand jury on a second degree assault charge, will be questioned on Thursday morning June 24 as the woman’s testimony from yesterday is prepared for submission.
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Troy
Michael M. McCloskey
Jackson Street
South End
James F. Byron
McCloskey
Rensselaer County Grand
Byron
Four New Fish Protection Orders Issued Across Counties
The New York Conservation Department approved four protection orders affecting fish in Alleghany Erie Schuyler and Westchester Counties following April hearings. A fifth request for Croton River fish was denied. Orders set limits and seasons for bullheads yellow perch brook trout rainbow trout and Kenisco Rye reservoirs and Byram Lake with varying effective dates through 1946 and indefinite for some.
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The
Conservation Department
Alleghany
Erie
Schuyler
Westchester
Croton River
John L. Halpin
Andover Ponds
Alleghany County
Andover Pond
Railroad Pond
Erie County
Catherine Creek
Schuyler County
High High
Seneca Lake
Schuyler and
Chemung
Kenisco-Rye
Byram Lake
Westchester County
Officers Elected By Vocal Society Directors
The annual meeting of the board of divers of the Vocal Society selected J. Garvin Cluett as president Isaac G. Fleck as first vice president William J. VanArnum as secretary Emerson Sect as treasurer William in reelected secretary J Harmon Wickendall as stage manager and Herman Rosenthal as chairman of the music committee Guest artists Shaw and Bragiatt duo pianists will open the 1944 fan with a concert December in Bond's Lake near here
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Board of Divers of the Vocal Society
J. Garvin Cluett
Isaac G. Fleck
William J. VanArnum
Secont
Emerson
William In
J. Harmon Wickendall
Herman Rosenthal
Shaw and Bragiatt
Pian
Dee. G
Single Stone To Mark Graves Of Shakers
All individual headstones in the Shakers Cemetery at Hancock Massachusetts are being removed and a central monument will be erected there. Workmen have been carrying stones from the burying grounds to Shaker property for several weeks while a decision on their disposition remains unsettled.
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Hancock
Mass
Fannie i
Community group plans central monument at old cemetery
Estabrook, a member of the community, said the group decided long ago to secure a central monument to replace the many old headstones. It will feature an appropriate inscription. Weather delays removal work. She declined to estimate how many people are buried in the cemetery.
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Estabrook
St Barnabas Day Observed by St Pauls Episcopal Church
St Pauls Episcopal Church will celebrate St Barnabas Day with a Holy Communion service at 10 30 a m today.
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St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
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Buffalo
Marion L. Kammerer
Alice Peterson
Fannie Murray
Sue B. Marean
Binghamton
Hendrick Hudson
Florence Predential
Charles J. Knowles
Carl K. San Juse
Tonawanda
Edward A. Sippel
Crepes
WEA
Bill
Roval Society
Ming
Bond's Lake
Hudson Beauty
Hudson Beauty Shop
Third ST
PepsiCola Company
Long Island City
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company
Menands
Tann
Fulton ST
New York
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