War Bills Passed By Congress In Recent Week
The Record reports House and Senate military committee actions on training State Guards, waiving pay forfeiture for venereal disease related absences, delegating voucher actions on government property, and extending requisition periods for defense needs. It notes posthumous and appointment actions for Army officers and a road name change, with pension increases for Indian wars veterans dated 1817 to 1898.
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Record Newspapers Bureau
Washington, DC
Congress
House Military Committee
Senate Military Committee
United States
Senate
Col
William Mitchell
U. S. Army
Frank T. Hines
Maryland
Conduit Road
MacArthur Boulevard
Law changes and veterans aid proposals pass Senate actions
The record notes awards of penmans or compensation for Army or Navy personnel, Senate reporting dual pay to eight postal workers reactivated after military induction, a right of way for an oil pipeline over Ogden Depot, and an extension of the Philippine insurrection period to 1913 to grant veterans benefits. It also mentions preferential federal employment for veterans’ spouses and widows, and a broad omnibus bill for World War II veterans readjustment aid.
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Army
Navy
House Military Committee
Senate Committee On Claims
Senate
Ogden Ordnance Depot Military Reservation
Mora
Mindanao
Samar
Leyte
House
Scrughamn
Nevada
Hill
Alabama
Nurses Aides Hear Talk on Technique at Leonard Hospital
The Leonard Hospital Nurses Aide Group met in McKean Staff House to view an operating room technique film titled Asceptic Operating Room. Miss Marion Ryan, supervising nurse, spoke on Asceptic Technique and surgical procedure before Lister, describing a nurse’s daily routine from duty start to completion. Velma Bosley announced a schedule change to the third Monday each month. Eleanor Downing presided, a luncheon followed, and a social hour was held.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Hospital
McKean
Marion Ryan
Lister
Velma Bosley
Eleanor Downing
OPA Penalizes Hoosick Falls Grill Owner
In Albany Court House hearings in four OPA cases, Alfred Kyer, owner of the Classic Grill in Hoosick Falls, was charged with buying 1 100 pounds of sugar without coupons or a certificate. He received a two week suspension beginning April 15 for dealing in sugar.
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OPA
Albany Court House
Alfred Kyer
Classic Grill
Hoosick Falls
Rensselaer County Troy Board details R to E coupon switch
The Rensselaer County Troy City Rationing Board announced plans to invalidate R coupons after April 1 for gasoline purchases at filling stations. Non high way users will use one gallon B coupons, while bulk plant buyers and those with storage tanks may continue with R to E exchanges. Dealers holding R coupons must surrender them by April 10. distributors must deposit all R coupons by April 20 and obtain written authority for bulk transfers.
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Rensselaer County-Troy City
OPA
Disstrict
Disc Harrows No Longer Rationed in New York
Washington lifts ban on purchase of disc harrows allowing New York farmers to buy on the open market. Rep. Dean P. Taylor reports no county quotas. 80 percent of production distributed by quotas, 20 percent allocated by the War Food Administration. State allocation previously increased to a substantial basis.
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Record
Washington
War Food Administration
New York
Dean P. Taylor
Marvin Jones
Troy Waste Paper Situation Desperate
The scrap paper shortage in Troy worsens after rain and snow slow collections. Residents are urged to gather scrap paper old newspapers and magazines and deliver them to junk dealers or collection points immediately. Nationwide war industries suffer from paper shortages as mills close. Albia Box and Paper Co. struggles, demanding more scrap be collected now.
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Troy
Albia Box and Paper Co
Cleanliness Linked to High Morale
Mrs. Mary L. Grady of the American Laundry Institute addressed the Seventh annual consumer conference of the Rensselaer County Extension Service at Second Presbyterian Church. She cited the linen service industry’s scale, its job creation, and its role in keeping the armed forces and households healthy, noting Joliet factory work and a nationwide plant network.
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Rensselaer County Extension Service
Second Presbyterian Church
Florence Titcomb
Pearson Stanley
Mary L. Grady
American Laundry Institute
Lucille Williamson
State College of Home Economics
Loretta Madigan
Troy
America
Grady
Rensselaer County Extension Serviice
County Home Bureau
Washington
Joliet, Ill
New York State College of Home Economics
Harold Rowe
Tits City
E. Haldemann
Tokens Supplant Stamps in New Food Coupon System
The ration token system takes full effect with ten point tokens replacing old stamps. Last of the green and brown stamps expire Monday midnight, while red and blue tokens begin validity with various series, expiring dates through June.
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H&s
Meter-cheater Payl Byron $10 Fine
Russell Streeter, 44, of 425 Third Street, was fined $10 by Judge James F. Byron in Troy Police Court after pleading guilty to violating the parking meter law. Officers Burke and McKeon testified that Streeter used an auto ignition key at a State Street meter, damaging it, prompting officials to note the cost and labor required to repair tampered meters.
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Russell Streeter
Third Street
James F. Byron
Troy
Martin L. Burke
Harold J. McKeon
Streeter
State Street
Frederick H. Ilbott
Traffic Bureau
Moscow Shops Offer Profuse U S Goods
Moscow with spring rains shows the aid the United States sends the Soviet Union. Americans fill shelves with galoshes cheese and canned goods while Russian customers use ration cards. A Red Cross gift from Montgomery Alabama signals friendship as an American day ends with a mud splashed suit. Brazil burns surplus coffee to regulate prices costing 26 million dollars annually and kerosene imports cost about 1 million.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
UPI
United States
Soviet Union
America
Wisconsin
Chicago
Red Cross
American Red Cross
Montgomery
Alabama
Red Army
Brazil
Green Island War Stamp Sales Reported in St Jo Week
War bond sales in Green Island are summarized for the week ending in St Jo with totals and notes on ongoing drives. Local volunteers and post office staff coordinated displays and promotions to boost purchases of war bonds during the period.
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St. Jo
East Poestenkill Man Unaware of War
Forty four year old James Denne of East Poestenkill held in Rensselaer County jail on an assault charge and set for a hearing before Justice Carl Bly. He told jailer Warren Horton he never heard of the Selective Service law or the war. Denne said he lives between Hast Poestenkill and Berlin and does not read papers much. The FBI was notified and he was registered with Selective Service Board 330.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Denne
East Poestenkill
Rensselaer County
Justice of the Peace
Carl A. Bly
Poestenkill
Warren D. Horton
Denue
Hast Poestenkill
Berlin
Dente
Selective Service Board 330
Bond Selling Waiter Becomes Male WAC in War Bond Drive
Louis G Schwartz, a Sixth Avenue deli waiter, has sold nearly 3 million dollars in war bonds in a solo AWVS led effort sparked by customers after Pearl Harbor. He set a new quota of 2.5 million to fund 33 Thunderbolts for his son-in-law Lieut. Thomas Berschig, a prisoner in Germany after 40 missions. Schwartz's waiter jacket bears insignia from many military groups and he recently earned the only male AWVS membership badge and became a WAC.
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New York
Louis G Schwartz
Sixth Avenue
AWVS
Schwartz
Thomas Berschig
Germany
Farmingdale
Pea Garden Guide Covers Inoculation and Varieties
Garden peas are a cool weather staple for canning second only to corn. Choose light or well amending soils, sow inch apart in furrows, inoculate seeds, and provide support for tall varieties. Manage diseases with Bordeaux spray, avoid root rot by rotation, and control pea aphids with nicotine spray or dust.
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Egypt
Warm winter hailed as one of the warmest on record
The Weather Bureau announced that the past winter was among the warmest on record for the United States with a warm wave spanning recent years. Chief J B Kiuncer noted nationwide temperatures ran about two and a half degrees above the 335 degree normal, while forecasts may allow weather predictions from thirty days to a year ahead after the war. Camp Reynolds reports a library semi annual resume showing 4,090 books and nearly 100 magazines circulated, with tens of thousands of library visits and fiction leading in demand.
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Washington
Iups
Weather ‘Bureau
United States
J B Kiuncer
Bureau
Greenville
INS
Camp Reynolds
Home Bureau Teaches Patch Work Mending Skills
Mrs. James Cassin of the Brunswick Home Bureau demonstrates mending techniques at a Y W C A meeting. She shows basting larger patches with grain alignment and using crochet to draw in ends. Members bring old dresses for upgrading. next session covers glovemaking under Mrs Clarence Heatly.
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James Cassin
Brunswick Home Bureau
Walter Dock
Merton Timmerman
Clarence Heatly
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