One Marshall Island Still Paradise
William L. Worden reports from Kwajalein Atoll Marshall Islands contrasting Ennylabegan, spared destruction, with Roi Namur Kwajalein Ebeye Enubuj wrecked. He notes troops burying the dead and cleaning the mess from battle while Ennula was not heavily defended by the Japanese who had plans including a lookout tower and barracks for 200.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William L. Worden
Hal Boyle
Kwajalein Atoll
Marshall Islands
Ennylabegan
Roi
Namur
Kwajalein
Ebeye
Enubuj
Ennula
War Tells of Kwajalein War Time Scenes and People
A field report describes Kwajalein Atoll life after combat with signs of war, a cemetery of crosses, and wounded Marshallese. It notes American soldiers, natives, and officers like Robert Yarrington and Leonard A. Carter, living between tents, water points, and lookout towers amid a quiet, tense postwar routine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Yarrington
Marionville
Murray Kaplan
East 17Th Street
Brooklyn
Leonard A. Carter
Hastings
Okla
Kwajalein Atoll
Rado Omitted From Inductee List At Rensselaer Board
Joseph J. Rado of 560 Second Street was left off the Tuesday inductee list announced by Selective Service Board 330 at the Rensselaer County Court House. He departed Wednesday with the contingent for Navy training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph J. Rado
Second Street
Selective Service Board
Rensselaer County Court House
Mr. Rado
Ben-Gay Fast Relief Claim Ad
An advertisement touts Ben Gay as delivering rapid chest cold pain relief. It asserts the product contains up to 244 times more active ingredients than five rival rubs and cites laboratory tests to support the claim. The copy urges consumers to insist on genuine Ben Gay for fast relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter
Ben-Gay
Mechanicville West Virginias Lead City Bowling Standings
The West Virginias of the City Bowling League lead the pennant race by one game with two teams tied for second. The standings list all participating teams and their positions, reflecting a tight early-season stretch and the battle for top spot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginias
On the Air Radio Programs From Local Stations
Local radio listings note meetings and events at churches and lodges. Girl Scout troops gather at Memorial Baptist Church and First Presbyterian Church for sessions at 3 30 p m and 8 p m. Rebekahs meet at Odd Fellows Hall with a social hour and refreshments. The Westminster Club and Missionary Society plan a rummage sale in April with donations requested from several residents. The W C T U meets at Mrs Lighthall s home with devotion, study, and a flower mission briefing followed by refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memorial Baptist Church
First Methodist Church
Minnehaha Lodge Rebekahs
Odd Fellows’ Hall
King’s Daughters
First Presbyterian Church
James K. Stewart
South Third Avenue
Robert Tiel
Marion Wheelock
Westminster Club
The
Missionary Society of the
Budget Figures and Local Club Activities in Saratoga County
Budget figures for 1944 to 1945 are being prepared in the Arsenal district office by the city council. Dc Nash, weather forecaster, visits Atlanta on furlough. Local clubs host dances rummage sales and father and son dinners, with Scout fund drives, vesper club meeting highlights, a surprise party for Miss Sheehan, and 4-H activities with demonstrations on table setting sewing and costume jewelry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commissioner of Accounts
Arsenal
Earl G. Whitbeck
Saratoga County Council
Mr. Whitbeck
Josephine Sheehan
East Saratoga Avenue
Margaret Edington
Alex Marsh
Linwood Goulden
Earl Bellamy
Virginia Williams
Frank Gargano
Victoria Messer
Joan
Harold Goulden
Merry Maid
Richard D. Wright
Marcia Silverman
Phyllis Wixted
Jean Robens
Carol Groben
Ann Williams
Elsie Reiner
Local Notes Round Lake Roundup and Community Events
Round Lake updates include Mrs. Barbara MacLaughlin’s condition, Cornell student Edgar F. Winslow Jr visiting his father, and Swarthmore V-12 cadet John Lewis returning home. Malta Home Bureau plans an all day session at Mrs. Henry Van Veghten’s with noon dinner and leadership by Mrs. Robert Kopp and Mrs. J Rexford Knapp. A Malta Grange card party at Mrs. Emeline Brownell’s on Dunning Street features pinochle and Chinese checkers. committee members include Mrs. Stewart Martin and Mrs. Ray Weed. The first Lenten prayer book lecture was given by Rev. Haylor at All Saints’ Episcopal Church. sessions continue Fridays at 2:30 in the library reading room. Mrs. William H. Carr sustained a dislocated right shoulder after a fall. she received care at Benedict Memorial Hospital and is resting at home. The Malta Home Bureau card party at Frank Brownell’s in Mechanicville drew 35 members and guests with lix tables of pinochle in play.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar F. Winslow, Jr
Cornell
Edgar F. Winslow
John Lewis
Swarthmore College
Malta Home Bureau
Henry van Veghten
Robert Kopp
J. Rexford Knapp
Malta Grange
Emeline Brownell
Dunning Street
Stewart Martin
Earle Edmonds
Ray Weed
W.E. Fielding Haylor
All Saints’ Episcopal Church
William H. Carr
C. A. MacMinn
Benedict Memorial Hospital
Ballston Spa
Frank Brownell
Mechanicville
Mra
Charlotte
Soldier's Medal Awarded to Schenectady Corporal
Corporal Melvin A. Lisset of 10359 Glenwood Blvd Schenectady received the Soldier's Medal from the War Department for rescuing 11 dead and 21 injured civilians trapped in a gas filled air raid shelter in Naples Italy last October. He and fellow rescuers became gas casualties and were hospitalized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corp
Melvin A. Lisset
Glenwood Blvd
Schenectady
Naples
Italy
War Department
Hanks Leaves Ithaca Post for State Farm Labor Roll
Elton K. Hanks, Rensselaer County agricultural agent, is granted a leave of absence until Jan 1 1945 to become assistant state leader of the Farm Labor program at Ithaca. John C. Swan acts as county agent, with a temporary assistant to be named. L. R. Simons at Cornell urged the change as Extension Services oversees farm placement mobilization and POW labor. Hanks departs next week after serving since 1937 and prior work in Seneca County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elton K. Hanks
Rensselaer County
County Farm Bureau
Ithaca
John C. Swan
Farm Bureau Executive Committee
Swan
Congress
L. R. Simons
Cornell University
Hanks
Simons
Mr. Hanks
Farm Bureau
Seneca County
Lfe
78th Division to Hold Reunion at Union City
Veterans of the 78th The Lightning Division plan a reunion at the Top Hat Club Hudson Boulevard Union City New Jersey on Saturday April 22 National President Alfred Harpell of the 303 Signal Battalion and General Chairman Harry Delaney of the 309th Infantry anticipate more than 2000 former members The division drew members from New Jersey New York Rhode Island Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware and was the first combat unit formed at Fort Dix A reservation headquarters is in Albany led by Captain Edward N Scheiberling with others including John Feerick Samuel Aronowitz Edward Hendricks and James Wallace Advance reservations may be sent to national secretary Raymond W Taylor Box 1482 Closter NJ Haskell School Meeting Executors Board of Hamwell School PTA meet at 2 pm today at the school Mrs Ida Foster president presiding.
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Light of World
Syrans
Womean of America
Timekeer
FC Lane ET RY —Troy
West Virginias
Pepper Youn
Right To Happiness
Timekeeper
American Sons
Backstage Wife
Rise of Shine
Columbia Club
Stella Dallas
Lorenzo Jones
West Wacos
Fantauzzi
Young Widder Brown
Morning Melodies
Masonic Club
Portia
Faces Life
Gen. Electric
Bill
Breakfast Club
Farrell K of
Sweet River
Northern Auto
Rise ‘N’ Shine
Bob Hanes
Troy Chapel
Baby Institute
Camfield
the Navy
Red Cross
Lowell Thomas
Sardi’s
Sardi's
Fred Waring
John W. Vandercook
Gil Martyn
Judy
Sardi
Bob Hope
Texas Jim Lewis
Red Skelton
Bankhage
Melodie Monde P.M
Harkness
Christ'n Science Pgm
Charles Stevenson
Evelyn Johnson
WGY
Schenectady
WOKO
Albany
Pars
Eien Jannsen
Sacred Heart Pam
Publishers
Bio News
Wildwood
Newa
Otis
Eleanor
Ozark Ramblers
Hop Harrigan
Dick Tracy
Isabell Hewson
Jack Armstrong
Kitty Foyle
Terry
News
Aunt Jenny
Metropolitan Oper
Lora Lawton
Paul Neilson P. M
Robert St. John
Lum
Abner
Interlude
Duttys
Helen Trent
Beamsley Rumt
Mal Hallett
Gal
Ma Perkins
Bernadine Fiyan
David Harum
Duke Ellington
The
Goldbergs
o—Young
Dr. Malone
P.M
Joyce Jordan
Perry Mason
Mary Marlin
Farm
Faerm
Carey Longmire
Pgm
Guiding Light
Star Parade
WOROQ
Sacred Heart Pym
World Today
Mis and
Nation
Corwin
Forrest Willis
Congress Speaks
Amanda
Jean Brooks
Vic and Sade
Louise Benny
David Haram
WTRY
Wtry—Teoy—930 O—Helen Trent O—Farm Paper A. M
Our Gal
Life Beautiful
Me Perkins
R. Nash
Army Air Corps
Atlanta
Wiliam van Doren
Masonic Temple
George Thomas
Rhythm Makers
David Silverean
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Mechanicville Lodge of Elks
Collins
North Main Street
78Th
Lightning Division
Troys
Top Hat Club
Hudson Boulevard
Union City
N. J
Alfred Harpell
303 Signal Battalion
Harry A. Delaney
309Th Infantry
New Jersey
New York
Rhode Island
Penn
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Marshall Island
Bath
AWD Radio
Alfred Lewis
Mgr. Taft
New York Times Square
Radio City
Bing & Bing
Raymond Pregent
Everett Harriman
Archie Williams
Joseph Silverman
Erle Phelps
Philip Sage
Sunmount Hospital
George W. Burton
Mr. Burton
Merritt S. Roberts
William Thompson
Vesper Club
Melvin C. Livingston
Margareta Hinchey
Dwight Stamper
Taree
NEW York Power & Light
Niagara
Phudson
Round Lake
Barbara MacLaughlin
Aav
Am Oma
Paul
Haskell
Hamwell School Parent-Teacher Association
Ida Foster
Carstairs
Carstairs Bros. Distilling Co., Inc
Baltimore
Ons
Frances Denney
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