Sightless workers boost production at Brooklyn broom plant
The Industrial Home for the Blind in Brooklyn shows wartime progress with 12 000 brooms and 30 000 mops weekly for the Army and Navy, plus new cloth bags for shipments. A automatic bag-spreading machine increases output, and blind workers handle precision tasks in mica and broom departments. The facility funds blood drives and Red Cross support while pursuing higher distinctions beyond the Army-Navy E.
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New York
INS
United States
Brooklyn
H. Walter Gilbert
Peter J. Saloon
Win Brothers
Broom Department
Broom
Red Cross
Record Demand For Cars Seen In Postwar Period
Detroit UP Automobile manufacturers expect a postwar car boom with a market of prodigious size. William Holler of GM Chevrolet forecasts restoration of Pearl Harbor stock by 1949 or 1950, plus high employment, increased production, and consumer savings driving demand beyond prewar levels.
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Detroit
America
Pearl Harbor
Wiliam Holler
Holler
Chevrolet
General Motors
Heller
Hollet
Uniforms Dazzled Civil War Girls in Dallas Memoriam
A Dallas grandmother Mrs B R Sheaffer recalls Civil War memories while noting how uniforms dazzled young girls as in the past. She spoke of living in Columbia Mississippi, her Confederate veteran husband a doctor, and their wagon train settlement near Paris Texas after the war. Her oldest child is 70 and eight children survive.
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Dallas
Texas
INS
B. R Sheaffer
Columbia
Miss
Paris
Tex
Pastor Quits Pulpit Over Service Flag Dispute
Rev Emerson F Schwenk resigns as pastor of the First Universalist Church in Bridgeport Connecticut after trustees vote to display a service flag honoring armed forces members in the main auditorium. Schwenk says he cannot lead services if the flag is hung there.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Emerson
Schwenk
First Universalist
Mr. Schwenk
Mount Vesuvius Lava Flow Halted After Ten Day Eruption
Mount Vesuvius spouted smoke and ash while the lava flow stood still. Allied authorities began rehabilitation work after the ten day eruption that killed 26 people mostly from roofs collapsing under ash and rock. Water service resumed in evacuated towns and candles were supplied for villages with power outages as experts studied ash covered fields for crop planting.
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Vesuvius
Mediterranean
State Bankers to Elect Officers by Mail in May
New York based bankers plan to elect officers by mail during the last two weeks of May as the association cancels its annual convention for 1944 to avoid wartime travel. President E. Chester Gersten noted the canceled event would have marked the group’s fiftieth anniversary and typically draws 1,000 to 1,500 delegates.
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New York (P
New York State Bankers’ Association
E. Chester Gersten
Association
Morris Daffner Named to Office at Albany Meeting
Morris Daffner of Temple Beth El was elected secretary of the Eastern New York Regional Conference of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America at its first annual meeting in Albany. A. D. Lurie of Amsterdam was named president. A three representative governing board will be chosen from participating congregations. Speakers included Chaplain Morris Adler Rabbi Geffen Ira Sud and Rabbi Aaron M. Wise.
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Morris Daffner
Temple Beth el
New York
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Albany
A. D. Lurie
Amsterdam
Morris Adler
5. Geffen
Jewish Theological Seminary and
Ira Sud
Rabbit Geffen
America
Adler
Israel
Europe
Jewish Theological Seminary
American Israel
Aaron M. Wise
Schenectady
Herman Kowalsky
Uusa
Benjamin Levine
Troy
Information Centers To Aid Service Men
Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines announced a nationwide system of information centers to advise returning service men on their rights and how to obtain them as part of demobilization. The effort draws on Baruch recommendations and will involve federal, state, local governments, the American Legion, civil groups, and community involvement.
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Washington
Frank T. Hines
Baruch
Hines
American Legion
U. S. Employment Service
Warmanpower Commission
Whitehall Businesses and Residents Noted in Briefs
Whitehall purchaser Charles E. Cooke buys the Main Street property of Lou E. ONeill housing the Cooke clothing store. Harry A. Hughes of Bradley Field Conn. is promoted to corporal and is the son of J. E. Hughes. Clayton Toben attends Eastern New York Gladiolus Society in Albany and heads the group. Joyce Elinor Bouchard engages to Kenneth Reinhardt, son of Henry Reinhardt. Knights of Columbus hold a Sunday communion at Notre Dame des Victoires with Judge Frank Hurley as speaker at the New Arlington Hotel breakfast.
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Pittsburg
William Bouchard
Richmond Hill
Joyce Elinor Bouchard
Kenneth W. Reinhardt
Henry Reinhardt
Woodhaven
Queens
Bouchard
Whitehall
Knights of Columbus
Notre Dame Des Victoires
Arlington Hotel
Frank Hurley
Glens Falls
John ©. Hoffman
Local social notes from Brunswick Allen E. Sheffer trip
Center Brunswick Allen E. Sheffer and Irving Hayner returned from New York after several days away. Mr and Mrs Nelson Littlefield hosted a family party for their 36th wedding anniversary. Mr and Mrs Myron Lockrow hosted a dinner party celebrating Freeman Bonessteel's birthday.
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Allen E. Sheffer
Irving Hayner
New York
Nelson Littlefield
Myron Lockrow
Freeman Bonesteel
Dutch Jokes About Allied Bombs Stir Dutch Humor
A London based Dutch paper reports Dutch civilians share jokes about Allied bombs. The tale contrasts a British bomb entering a house and looping through rooms with an American “speaking block buster” that announces a five minute burst, highlighting wartime humor.
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London
INL
Holland
Vrnj Nederland
Americans Said to Wipe Out German Commandos
Berlin announced that an American command force landed northwest of La Spezia on the Gulf of Genoa and was wiped out. The force reportedly consisted of two officers and 13 men. There was no Allied confirmation of the report.
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London
la Spezia
Gulf of Genoa
Rome
Berlin
Nathan Langdon Dies in Greenwich at 91
Nathan Langdon longtime Justice of the Peace in Greenwich died at his home aged 91. Born July 28 1852 in Glens Falls he moved to Greenwich about seventy years ago and served as JP for 34 years and school board clerk for 43 years. Survivors include two sons two daughters ten grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Funeral private for 3 pm with Rev Edgington officiating at Greenwich Cemetery.
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Nathan
Langdon
Greenwich
Mr. Langdon
Glens Falls
C. F Langdon
Albany
P S. Langdon
C B. Roberson
Lucille Ferris
Co. R Edgington
Methodist Church
Greenwich Cemetery
Powder Mill Hit by Lightning Explodes in Uniontown
A Du Pont glaze mill near Uniontown Pennsylvania measuring 1 600 feet square was struck by lightning during a heavy storm and exploded with a roar heard miles away. Hundreds of windows were shattered and residents were alarmed by the blast, but company officials reported no injuries.
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Uniontown
INS
du Pont de Nemours Co
Company of Fiscals
James Kennedy longtime Sixth Ward alderman dies
James H. Kennedy former alderman of the Sixth Ward died at his home 22 Campbell Avenue after a short illness. He was 9 am funeral at J. J. O'Neil funeral home and 9:30 am at St. Michael's Church with a requiem high mass. Interment in St. Joseph's Cemetery. Survived by sister Helen Kennedy of Joy. brothers John and Jeremiah are noted as deceased. Lifelong city resident active in civic affairs.
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James H. Kennedy
Campbell Avenue
John
Jeremiah
Margaret
Kennedy
St. Michael's Church
Helen Kennedy
Joy
J. J. O'Neil
Stow Avenue
St. Joseph's Cemetery
Navy Cross Awarded To Dead Marine Hero
The Navy Cross was awarded posthumously to Marine Pvt. John J Wantuck 20 son of Mr and Mrs Lawrence Wantuck 511 Magee Street El Mura New York announced by Marine Corps headquarters Also awarded were the Purple Heart and Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal after Wantuck died defending a Marine beachhead on New Georgia Island July 17 1943 Local papers note his sacrifice in World War II.
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Washington
John J Wantuck
Lawrence Wantuck
Magee Street
el Mura
N. Y.Y
Marine Corps
Wantuck
New Georgia Island
Ten Killed As Bomber Crashes on Tracks
Ten flyers were killed and one injured when a four engined bomber crashed onto the Florida East Coast Railroad tracks near Eau Galle. The impact cut telephone and telegraph lines for over an hour and delayed trains for hours while repairs were made. The plane, from Chatham Field Savannah, hit the embankment after bouncing on the tracks and exploded.
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Ean Galle
Fla
Hugh DeWitt
Florida East Coast
Melbourne Naval Air Station
Chatham Field
Savannah
George Mason
Melbourne Naval Air Base
Eau Galle
Palm Beach
Board Reports Slight Drop in Living Cost
New York The cost of living declined in February in 51 of 63 industrial cities surveyed by the National Industrial Conference Board. Costs rose in ten cities and held steady in two. The national cost of living fell 0.5 percent with Newark leading declines at 23 percent and Memphis Philadelphia and Wilmington seeing notable drops.
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New York
National Industrial Conference Board
United States
Newark
Memphis
Tenn
Philadelpha
Willing- Ss
Iton
Del
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Edward A. Kane
Troy Boys’ Club
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