Coal Mines Back on Track Amid War Labor Board Talks
The War Labor Board and Stabilization Director James F. Byrnes met as coal production neared a restart. Officials expect full-scale output today with hundreds of thousands of idle miners returning. Ickes noted inventories show 33 days of coal on hand, and steel and rail supply remain precarious as the government eyes resuming private hearings once production resumes.
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James F. Byrnes
War Labor Board
Ickes
Lewis
John L. Lewis
Thea
Ohio
Harlan County
Illinois
U. F. of L
Masons To Be Told of Commandos Lecture
Bruce Thomas, war correspondent and author, will lecture at the Troy Masonic Temple tomorrow on Britain’s commandos and their role in the war. He will discuss raids, convoys, and the invasion threat, with questions on Russia, Dieppe, and North Africa. Also covered are wartime coal mining labor tensions and a proposed six day week, plus union issues and wage disputes.
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Britain
Bruce Thomas
Masonic Temple
Troy
England
Thomas
Russia
Dieppe
Irish Sea
Paul R. Hickok
Second Presbyterian Church
King Solomon's Primitive Lodge
Forest Mall Presbyterian Church
Newark
N. J
Ickes
Perkins
United Mine Workers
Ford Rouge plant strike prompts joint probe
Ford Motor Co and the United Auto Workers International Union announced a joint inquiry into the stoppage at the Rouge complex where about 4,764 workers in the production foundry and 340 to 581 in the magnesium foundry walked off in protest over a swing shift. The walkout disrupted tank and motor parts production and followed discharges of 141 alleged ringleaders from last week’s disturbances.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Ford Rouge
U. A
Rouge Aluminum and
New Steel
County Native and West Coast Power Magnate Dies
Allan Balch, 79, a Valley Falls native who moved west in the 1890s to help develop Pacific Coast power and industry, died Friday night in a Los Angeles hotel. A Cornell engineering graduate, Balch helped create the San Gabriel Light and Power Co and later organized Southern California Gas Co and San Joaquin Light and Power Co. He served as California Institute of Technology trustee from 1925 and led the Balch School of Geological Sciences and other campus projects.
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Allan €. Balch
Valley Falls
Ieaders
Pacific Coast Area
Los Angeles
Cal
Libbie Balch
Greenwich
Cornell University
Balch
Southern California
Portland
Ore
San Gabriel Light and Power Co
Southern California Gas Co
San Joaquin Light and Power Co
California Institute of Technology
Kerchoff Biological
Balch School of Geological Sciences
Athenaeum
Janet Jacks Balch
Corneil University
Family Week Observed at Salem Evangelical Church
Salem Evangelical Church of West Sand Lake observes family week with youth in charge tomorrow night. Friday features an illustrated lecture on South America. A special Mother's Day service will be held Sunday led by Pastor Rev. Oren A. Lorenzo.
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Salem Evangelical Church of
West Sand Lake
South America
Oren A. Lorenzo
Episcopal Diocese Conference Opens Today Albany Diocese
The 78th annual Episcopal Diocese of Albany conference opens today at 10 am in All Saints Cathedral with Rev. Arthur M. Sherman presenting the forward in service plan for 1943-44. Rev. Harold G. Kelleran of Buffalo will speak at 2 pm followed by a Q&A. Rural deaneries will nominate deans. Rt Rev. G. Ashton Oldham will preside.
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Forward In Service
Episcopal Diocese of
Albany
Arthur M. Sherman
D. D
Harold G. Kelleran
Buffalo
New York
Forth
German Sinking Claims Reduced in April Totals
The German high command on Berlin radio claimed Nazi air and naval forces sank about 423000 tons in April, less than half of March’s tonnage. There was no Allied confirmation.
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Associated Press
High Command
Berlin
Aic
Watervliet Widow Margarall Dies at 1028 Twenty-fifth Street
Anna Margarall of Watervliet aged longtime resident born in Italy died at home. Wife of Alexander Margarall she leaves son Dominick and daughters Eleanor and Anna. Funeral from residence with time to be announced. Also notes Armenag Galomian funeral held in Watervliet and Troy with requiem mass and burial at Albany Rural Cemetery.
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Anna
Margarail
Alexander Margarail
Twenty-fifth Street
Watervliet
Italy
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church
Dominick V. Margarall
Eleanor E
Margarall
Armenag Galomian
Fifth Avenue
St. Peter's
Armenian Apostolic Church
Troy
V. K. Guldalian
Sarkis Vartigian
Agajon Nazarian
Mardig Nazarian
Postoffice Clerks to Convene in Saratoga Springs
The New York State Federation of Postoffice Clerks will hold its convention in Saratoga Springs on May 15 and 16. Auxiliary meetings run parallel with 200 clerks and their families expected to attend. Convention headquarters are at the New Worden Hotel with business sessions at the Casino.
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Saratoga Springs
New York
Flynn commissioneds second lieutenant after flight training
Walter F. Flynn son of Mr and Mrs James Walter Flynn of East Greenbush has been commissioned a second lieutenant and has removed his silver wings of the Army Air Forces The new flying officer completed advanced flight training at the Army Air Forces Advanced Flying School Craig Army Air Field Selma Alabama
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Walter F. Flynn
James Walter Flynn
East Greenbush
Army Air Forces
Army Air Forces Advanced Flying School
Craig Army Air Field
Selma
Ala
Argyle Man Cleared of Theft in Fort Edward Court
Raymond Patten of Argyle was freed after a Fort Edward Police Court hearing found insufficient evidence to hold him on a car theft charge. He had been held on a $500 bond since his arrest for allegedly entering a Glens Falls car owned by James Wood and forcing the driver, Mrs Wood, to move aside outside a Fort Edward restaurant.
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Raymond Patten
Argyle
Fort Edward
Patten
James, Wood
Glens Falls
Axis Whodunnit Report From Bern and France
Bern dispatch to the Geneva Tribune reports two bombs exploded over the past weekend at the Nazi employment bureau and at Marshal Petain's Legion Combattants headquarters in Annemasse Haute Savoie France. The incidents mark escalating attacks near the Swiss frontier amid wartime tensions.
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Bern
Switzerland
Geneva Tribune
Marshal Petain
Legion Combattants
Annemasse
Haute Savoie
Troy Library Shows New Books on Exhibition
The Troy Public Library lists new titles on display for one week. Notable works include Pacific Charter by H. E. Abend, Our Destiny in Asia, Miracles of Military Medicine by A. Q. Maisel, Green Fire by P. W. Rainier, and It Came Out of the Eighteenth Century by J. A. Rice. Also featured are How to Improve Your Human Relations by Straight Thinking and Cripps, Extraordinary Advocate biography by Patricia Strauss, plus fiction selections Spice Box, Shudders, Faked Passports, Listeners.
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Troy Public Library
H. E. Abend
Asia
J. H. Jeans
Maurice Braitemk
A Q. Maisel
Middle East
H.C. V. Morton
Egypt
Palestine
Iraq
Turkey
Greece
P. W. Rainier
W. J. Reilly
J A. Rice
Curt Riess
W. H. Stead
Cripps
Patricia
O'Flynn) Strauss
Spice Box
Grace
Livingston
Hill Lutz
Fulton Oursler
Dennis Wheatley
Herbert Whiting
Cambridge Man's Will Probated
James Golden of Cambridge has his will probated by Surrogate John H Duell of Greenwich. His daughter Marguerite Jackson of Syracuse receives most household effects excluding the decedent’s library and some personal items and funds. the decedent’s Cambridge home also goes to her. The library is bequeathed to Westminster College in New Wilmington Pennsylvania for a place in the new McGill library. Elizabeth A Smart and Jerome E Wright of Cambridge witnessed, and the daughter is named executrix.
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James Golden
Cambridge
John H Duell
Greenwich
Marguerite Jackson
Syracuse
Westminster College
New Wilmington
McGill
Elizabeth A. Smart
Jerome E Wright
Norman T. Kirk Nominated Army Surgeon General
President Roosevelt nominated Norman T. Kirk, a surgeon from Percy Jones General Hospital Battle Creek Michigan, as the next surgeon general of the Army. Kirk is regarded as a leading bone surgery expert.
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Washington
Norman T. Kirk
Percy Jones General Hospital
Battle Creek
Mich
Roosevelt
Army
Cohoes Block Leaders Get Drive Forms
Cohoes block leaders received survey forms for the Share the Ride program and heard John E. Cuddeback and George H. Little outline the program. Local War Council chairman Frank S. Ablett praised the council’s work as Civilian Mobilization field director described divisions and the block leader plan to connect with hundreds of families.
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Cohoes
John E. Cuddeback
George H. Little
State War Council
Albany
War Council
Tattle
Frank S. Ablett
United States
State Council
Millon
Little
Cuddeback
Ablett
George A. Buchanan
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