Roosevelt Signs Postwar Benefits Bill for Veterans
President Roosevelt signed a postwar benefits bill granting federally guaranteed loans, hospitalization, unemployment compensation, and education for World War II veterans. Officials estimate costs around 6.5 billion dollars, with the act applying to all veterans of the present war, including those already discharged.
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Wethington
Roosevelt
Veterans” Aid
C.L
Congress
Merichant Marine Mme
G. E
Veterans” Administration
Unemployment bill details and veterans aid debated
The measure blends unemployment compensation, education grants, and loan guarantees. It sets benefits up to 22 weeks, requires offset if other income exists, and guarantees up to 50 percent of loans to 2000 dollars. Education support ranges to 500 a year plus 23 monthly for dependents, with four years of training possible. A Veterans Placement Service would coordinate through the US Employment Service. extra funds for hospital projects are authorized amid House concerns. German general Hellmich reported killed near Cherbourg Peninsula.
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House
Senate
Bil
United States Employment Service
Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs
Etsiso
Troy Officials Make Good Will Visits
Troy municipal officials on a goodwill tour visited Schenectady to study departmental methods and policies. The delegation included Cislef, Kendal, Captain Frederick H. Ibbott of the Traffic Bureau, Phantas J. Larkin superintendent of the police and fire alarm Signal station, and Walter P. Moroney Jr. assistant to Martin & Stack, city purchasing agent. The officials discussed cooperation between departments in both cities.
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Troy
Atbany Ity
Schenectady
Cislef
Po- Hee Frask
Kendal
Frederick H. Ibbott
Trafic Bureau
Phantas J. Larkin
Walter P. Moroney
Martin & ‘Stack
Social and weather notes from Bacon Hill area
Friday night visits and weekend gatherings across Bacon Hill include Miss Joan Pett and Miss Carolyn Platner with Mrs Hoyt VanDerwerker, extended family in Alphlaur and Mechanicville. A large birthday party for John Peroha III featured a red white blue theme and prizes. The Ladies' Aid Society reported fundraisers and forthcoming events while a heavy Tuesday storm caused damage to homes, farms, and utilities from Grangerville to Glens Falls.
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Joan Pett
Misa
Carolyn Platner
Hoyt VanDerwerker
Jobs
B. VanDerwerker
Michael State
Alphlaurin
John Peroha, Jr
Lewis Peroha
Mechanicville
John O'Mennen
Laure
Lou Chadwick
Dalton
Mass
Charles Platner
Fred H. Platner
Henry Henderickson
Livingston
Charies Piatner
Karl Chadwick
Lake George
Alton Chadwick
Glens Falls
Charies Pistner
John Ferobe
Bacon Hill
Big Home
Anba Biss
Betty Koval
Dick Cotfinger
Emo Fitzgerald
Ladies’ Aid Society of Bacon
Hill
Mra
Nellie McClaren
Helen Bean
Schuylerville
Sirs
Marion Rugg
Mra Carl Pett
Mation Rugg
Donia
Pater
Mary
Peck
Hostes
Grangarcilla
Wall Street
Frederick Pack
John Peroha
Gerard Coff Ard
Saratoge
Beaver Street
Grangerville - Bean's
Cerlain
Ba~son Hill
Paige
South Cambridge Social Notes Report Visitors and News
East Greenwich resident Mrs. William Irwin visited her slater Mrs. Edward Styles this week. Mrs. Perry Kipp hosted a gathering for Agr pupils on Monday indoors due to rain. Lula Harrington, who passed theister with the Cornells, has returned home to Johnsonville. Kenneth Aldred and children and the Potter BIN family were guests of the Galloways this week.
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William Irwin
East Greenwich
Slater
Edward R. Styles
Perry Kipp
Agr
Lula Harrington
Cornell
Johnsonville
Kenneth Aldred
Kenneth , Allen
Nazis Executing French Patriots in Dex and Dax regions
Reports from Belgian German HQ sources and French refugees claim German and Vichy forces set up a guillotine in the Dex area north of the French Spanish border to execute captured patriots in southwestern France. Informants say many French were executed though exact numbers are unknown amid ongoing sabotage and Allied bombing. Paris and Lyons areas report active partisan activity with Vichy forces fighting back.
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Vichy
Dex
Dax
Dwight D. Eiseshowers
Tone Conuailles
Algiers
French Presa
Parti
Sane
Paris Ared
Collaborationizt Mator
Ainsille
Lyons
Ain Department
Alps
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Grumman
London
Hellmich
Cherbourge Peninsul
River ST
Wells & Coverly’s
Triangle ‘Shoe Store
Lord & Tans
Fulton ST
South Cambridge
Chicago
Palimas-Standard Car Manufacturing Co
Paul Brand
Safe
Anid
WTRY
Rexall
U.D. Department OF Research and Control
Liggett
Rexall Drug Stores
Westmores
Joseph Biederman
Polaroid
Eeeymons
Liggett’s
Gngvertine
Burne
Uggett
Third ST. Cor
River ST. Cor, Fourth
Scholl
Doan
Absorbine JR
Santon Rexell
Molle
Lyow’s
Similac
Gillette Blades
Pete
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