Good Samaritan Lands in Count Good Samaritan Lands in Count
A Brooklyn case involves Wilbur Langdon a 28 year old machinist who took a five week old puppy into a Brooklyn lunch wagon to buy food. He was arrested for causing a disturbance but the magistrate suspended the sentence after Langdon pledged to donate $4 to the Red Cross.
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Ernational News Service
New York
INS
Brooklyn
Gome
Wilbur Langdon
Langdon
Red Cross
Layoffs Rise Over War Cutbacks Hit Small Arms Plants
Fuss Nixon, Washington representative of UE, CA, cites 50 000 workers to be laid off before April 1 due to war contract cancellations and cutbacks. War Department and Manpower officials acknowledge the figures but dispute claims of preferential treatment and misallocation. The piece details plant counts at U S Cartridge, Western Cartridge, Twin City Ordnance, Evansville Ordnance, Des Moines Ordnance, Denver Ordnance, and Remington Arms with types of ammunition and changing demand across campaigns.
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Fuss Nixon
Washington
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
War and Navy Department
War Production Board
War Manpower Cpinion
Nixon
Baruch
East
Middle West
U. S. Cartridge Co
St. Lows
Western Cartridge Co
East Alton
Twin City Ordnance
Minneapolis, Minn
Evansville Ordnance
Evansville
Ind
Des Moines Ordnance
Des Moines
Denver Ordnance
Denver
Col
Remington Arms
Bridgeport
Conn
War Department
Remington
Winchester
New Haven
Midwest
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
Minneapolis
Brothers, 86 and 84, Work Daily in War Jobs
Edward Radford at 86 and his brother Paul at 84 remain active in war production. Edward has worked 68 years with American Tool and Machine Co while Paul toils as a lathe operator at Sturtevant Blower Works. Their dedication highlights how older workers contribute amid layoffs and readjustments in munitions plants.
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Boston WP
Edward Radford
Paul
Edward
American Tool and Machine Co
Boston
Sturtevant Blower Works
All Saints Guild Food Sale Earns Eight Dollars Sixty Cents
Community notices report a food sale fundraiser by All Saints Guild raising eight dollars and sixty gents. Several residents and servicemen are mentioned visiting family or preparing moves, with church events and meetings scheduled including Thursday tenten services and Friday Ladies Aid gathering.
Community Updates and Local Moves Prompt Busy Week
The W. 8. C. S. will meet next Wednesday at Mrs. Percy Carpenter's home. Midweek services are at Mr. and Mrs. Frank Humphrey's home tonight. Mrs. Clara Whittle of North Hoosick is visiting Edgar Dearstyne and family. St. George's Church Mass is at 9 15 Sunday morning. Vivian Weeden home from Oneonta for a few days with her mother. Mr. and Mrs. William Phillips move to the Jim Farrell place. The Sheffers relocate from Boyntonville to the Phillips house. Head entertained for dinner with guests from Hoosick Falls Nortonville and the Navy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
All Saints’ Guild
Pfc
George Rifenburg
Camp Campbell
Rifenburgy
G. Edward Prince
Classic
Hoosick Falls
Julia Kenney
Madisson
N. J
Harold Ward
Clifford Brown
Greenfield
Mass
Charles A. Brown
Saints’ Parish
William Garner
Ladies’ Aid Union
The
Baptist Church
John A. Cox
Hoosick Baptist Church
J. J. Gould
James Perry
Morrison Field
West Palms Beach
Fla
Breese Hollow
Guy Philpott
Bernard Porter
New York City
Lieutenant Porter
Africa
All Saints’ Parish Guild
Harvey C. Bratt
Mary A. Bovie
All Saints’ Episcopal Church
Noy Kes
Harry C. Bratt l
Joseph Strever
Percy Carpenter
Frank Humphrey
Clara Whittle
North Hoosick
Edgar Dearstyne
St. George's Church
Vivian Weeden
Oneonta
Fragmentary wartime line hints at command and command authority
A clipped wartime snippet shows a soldier stressing that the commanding officer de ton should know how and that everyone from Washington knows how, implying shared knowledge of orders or method.
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Tree
de Ton
Nurses Aids Capped at Troy Hospital
Several nurses aides at Troy Hospital received capping by Mrs. John Amstuz with pins from Mrs. Elmer C. Schacht and superintendent Sister Angela praising the group. A regular Red Cross unit meeting followed with Doris Flannigan presiding and awards for long service minutes and moving pictures shown by Virginia H. Bray.
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Troy Hospital
Anne Broderick
Rosiva Oliver
Mary Beenenants
Ellen Sturges
Miriam Flannery
Rosamond Flannery
Rosa Cushman
John Amstuz
Elmer C. Schacht
William H. Oliver
Amstuz
Angela
Grace Nickles
Marion Fitzgerald
Doris Flannigan
Mary Rapines
Hazel Bliss
Mary Kehn
Bertha Malescensky
Elizabeth Monahan
Alice Paley
Kathryn Quinn
Lilian Ruley
Mary Shaughnessy
June Frumousky
Virginia HE. Bray
Rensselae County
The
American Red Cross
James W. Fitzgerald
R. N
Grace Mickle
Lillian Ruley
Furlough Arrives for Navy Petty Officer at Home
Center Cambridge Martin J. Conway, petty officer third class, arrived Saturday from Portsmouth New Hampshire to spend a five day furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs Eugene Conway in Kelso Washington. Serat Bill Gilbuly, a soldier from Washington, trained in Panama where his first assignment was to cut tree tops for jungle construction but protested that he had never topped a tree.
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Martin J. Conway
Portsmouth
N. H
Eugene Conway
Kelso
Wash
INS
Serat
Bill Gilbuly
State of
Washington
Panama
Gilbuly
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Alvina O’brien
Joseph Liss
Alvina O'Brien
Troy
Samuel Smith
Sara Turner
Francis Kilmartin
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