Letter From Son Captured By Japs Reaches Troy Mother's Doorstep
A seven month journey from a Tokyo prison camp brings Corp. Frederick Sloan's message to his mother Mrs Louise A Sloan of 145 Sixth Avenue Troy New York. The letter dated May 1942 expresses hope for reunion and asks kin to stay strong. Sloan notes two brothers in service Frank Sloan in New Guinea and Charles Sloan in Panama.
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Troy
Tokyo
Louise A. Sloan
Sixth Ave
Nue
Corp
Frederick Sloan
Corporal Sloan
Fred
Sloan
Frank Sloan
New Guinea
Pfc
Charles Sloan
Panama
British Spy Oswald Job Executed in Pentonville Prison
Oswald John Job a 59 year old London born British subject of German parentage was executed yesterday at Pentonville Prison for espionage. He planned to contact British subjects held by Nazis using invisible ink and was the fourteenth spy executed in the war. His path to Britain included Paris and a refugee ruse via Spain and Portugal.
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London
Pentonville
Oswald John Job
Watee Dutele
Paris
Britain
Spain
Portugal
German Secret Service
Portable Machine Links Cartridges Into Belts
Springfield Mass portable machines link S caliber machine gun cartridges into belts at 160 per minute. Weighing 300 pounds, the unit is carried by four men and powered by a quarter horsepower motor or hand operated. Two operators feed cartridges and links, cartridges and links shipped separately to save space. Assigned Army Ordnance designation Ma.
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Springfield
Mass
Uncle Sam
Package Machinery Co
Army Ordnance
Newark approves price control ordinance against war profiteers
A new Newark city ordinance empowers police courts to prosecute violators of price ceilings and OPA rules. Maximum penalties reach 200 dollar fines and ninety days in jail, or both. Over forty consumer civic and labor representatives supported the measure at the City Commission session with no opposition.
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Newark
N. J
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Nurses in Action talk at Rotary Club in Memorial Baptist Church
Mrs. Milton J. Neubauer chaired the Red Cross program, detailing the symbol of the Red Cross, the dual sources of nurses for the armed forces, and the aim to increase home nursing. Six local chapter nurses are serving in the armed forces, with 400,000 last year taking home nursing training. Guests Raymond Heindorf and Edward Bennett attended. Melvin Livingston led the group singing. Draft Board 362 to meet at draft headquarters, School.
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Milton J. Neubauer
Red Cross
Rotary Club
Memorial Baptist Church
Recital, High School Play, and Westminster Club Notes
Today at 10 am Sidney W Hewitt presides at a present recital at home of Mrs Joseph Silverman on South Main Street featuring pupils of Mrs Mitton Tabor. Also Halfmoon Hysterics at 8 pm in the high school with a large cast and Rockettes chorus. Westminster Club annual meeting discussed weekday religion education and planned charity events.
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Sidney W. Hewitt
Mitton Tabor
Joseph Silverman
South Main Street
Ralph
Priscilla Tabor
Jeanne Robens
Marilyn King
Althea Quinn
Rosemary Smith
Marcia Silverman
David Silverman
Patricia Tate
Arthur Severance
Marion Dickson
Catherine Parente
Angeline Parente
Donn Purdy
Earl Risher
Robert Howland
Charles Leyland
Rockettes
Gloria DeCasperis
Carmela Mastropetro
Arlene Folmsbee
Marie Anatiello
Alma Connors
Irene Salkus
Kathleen Hebert
Joan Holland
Mary Mellon
Angela DeMatteo
Regina Holmes
Rose Robens
Angeline Carthim
Catherine Capobianco
Mary Wixted
Rose @ary Bone
Cynthia Coons
Ruth Izzo
Carmella Vignone
Mary Sylvester
Florence Hayner
Westminster Meeting
Westminster Club
First Presbyterian Church
Clinton P. Monty
Judith French
Robert W. Fisher
Louise Stedman
The
Missionary Society
Poultney
H. B Harvey
Florence E. Wilson
Robert Tiel
J. William Thomson
J. Porter Leland
Maud M. Hinckel
Harry C. Cisler
Anna Speiser
Anna B. Snell
D. H. Oakes
Mechanicville Draft Groups Go to Camp
The Mechanicville Selective Service Board sent a contingent of men to Army and Navy service. The Army group, led by Girwood H. Ford and assisted by William E. Holohan, will train at Fort Dix. The Navy contingent is headed by James E. Phinney Jr. with Robert W. Kalbaugh as assistant, to train after sworn in at Albany. Names from Mechanicville and surrounding towns are listed among those boarding for training and service.
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Mechanicville
Luncheon at Masonic Temple March 23 at noon
Luncheon in the assembly hall of the Masonic Temple on Wednesday March 23 at 12 noon. Mrs. Fannie Smith and Mrs. Eva MacKinlay will be in charge. The public is invited. The St Patrick's social will be presented by the Community Club in the Knights of Columbus Hall this evening at 8 15 pm to permit extra features of entertainment directed by Con F Green. Mrs Elsie Wooddell accompanied by 21 members visited Star of the Hudson Chapter in Schuylerville to unite in the reception for Mrs Margaret Tallmadge deputy grand matron of the Saratoga District and Arthur Burdick grand lecturer.
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Assembly
Masonic Temple
Fannie Smith
Eva MacKinlay
St. Patrick's Social
Knights of Columbus Hall
Con F. Green
Elsie Wooddell
Star of Liberty
Order of Eastern Star
Star of the Hudson
Schuylerville
Margaret Tallmadge
Saratoga
Arthur Burdick
Detroit Spy Ring Chief Sentenced to 16 Years
Dr. Fred W. Thomas, a Detroit obstetrician and alleged ringleader of a spy ring, was sentenced to 16 years in federal prison by Judge Edward J. Malliet. The case involved Grace Buchanan-Dineen posing as a countess and Nazi agents. six members pleaded guilty and await sentences.
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Detroit
INS
Fred W. Thomas
Edward J. Maillet
Thomas
Grace Buchanan-Dineen
Germany
Dr. Thomas
Spy ring trial ends with conviction after Detroit plant tale
The case centered on a Nazi sympathizer who volunteered sabotage details to a woman agent. Dr. Thomas testified but was unable to sway the jury about providing information on Detroit war plants and troop movements.
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Dr. Thomas
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Aera Victory
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Albany, NY
Nehi Bottling Co
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Beverwyck Breweries, Inc
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Myrtle Ave
Swan St
Frank Cinella
Philomenia Cinella
Madeline Richardson Cinella
Camp Blanding
Fla
Cinella
Stillwater High School
Martin L. Garmsey
California
Riverside
Edgar W. Munger
Fort Knox
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Stanley Fisher
Navy
Minnie Rivenburg
Flossie LaPrade
Schenectady
Jerome Slater
Hattie J Zim
Charles Dolloran
Crescent Temple
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Alfred H. Collins
Vincent James Forino
Rocco L. Peluso
Anthony D. DiVirgilio
John H. Thomas
James H. Niland
Waterford
Gerard E. Lessard
Herbert W. Sickles
Edward R. Clifton
Harold Bently Perkins
Bert H. Jesmain
Thomas R. Holston
Charles M. Kwnazeski
Bernard G. Maron
John F. Reddow
William Henry Roy
Glenn B. Sawyer
Robert E. Overacker
Stillwater
Marion J. Rodriguez
Elnora
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Joseph M. Kenny
Robert J. Hauke
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Harold C. Tatro
Willis B. McEchron
Leandar D. Butler
Joseph A. Desnoyers
Raymond P. Moore
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