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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1945
Page
10
Russel College students and faculty enjoyed a silent film program titled The Olde Back in the Linke Theater. The 1920s era tribute featured scenes with William S Hart Charlie Chaplin and Love vs. War alongside musical interludes and vaudeville style antics by Miss Virginia Stafford and Miss Jean LaPointe.
Troy city to cease civil defense siren and whistle tests after May 15 as the equipping protection system winds down. Mayor Abern and civil protection supervisor Larkin announce abandonment of blackopt regulations freeing lines and phones. The city has long relied on sirens, with several private sites linked to the Municipal Warning System and many local buildings housing signals.
Troy Eagles and friends from Schenectady Albany Gloversville Oneonta and Johnstown attended the Amsterdam lodge yesterday afternoon for a class initiation honoring Leo Martin district director. About one hundred candidates were initiated by the Amsterdam degree team led by Marshall B Teal president of the Troy lodge.
GP-Lt. Amon G. Carter, prisoner since Tunisia, was reunited today at the 88th Division Command Post in Germany with his father, Fort Worth Star-Telegram publisher. Carter had left the front after visiting atrocity scenes, marking a poignant family reunion amid wartime duty.
Word from the War Department states Mechanicville Pfc Alden Fi Noble 22 previously reported missing in action was killed in action in Germany April 25. Noble served three years and over nine months, graduated Mechanicville High School, and worked for A and P before enlistment. City Council to meet Friday March 13 at 7 pm in Municipal Building with Mayor presiding. Funeral details for Rupert Amann announced with services at home and St Pauls Church. Rogation Monday observance noted at St Luke's Church with Holy Communions and prayers for agriculture. Plans for memorial service in city for war dead underway with invitations sent to fraternal groups. ministers listed.
Miss Dorothy Noyes of Park Avenue is under supervision at Baptist Hospital Boston. Miss Lilian Collins spent weekend with parents in Ballston Spa visiting her husband’s parents. Army Sgt Anthony Zurlo transferred from Paris hospital to England per wife’s cable. Seaman Donald W Neubauer returned to Sampson Navy Training Station after visiting parents. E Germain, district grand lecturer, visited Star of Liberty Chapter. initiatory degree conferred. rummage sale praised. Upcoming memorial service and class initiation planned for May. rehearsals scheduled. junior Dante Club to host Mother daughter banquet May 13. deputy grandmatron Mation Chepeaux to visit Ionic Chapter May date.
Seven candidates were accepted for membership Friday night at a Troy Chapter Women of the Moose meeting at Young's Hall. They will be initiated at a May meeting. The unit plans its 12th anniversary program at Hoffman's in Menands on May 19.
The Troy Chapter Order of De Molay plans its final two meetings. Guest speaker Sgt Donald Bul, a former council member who returned from India, will speak May 11. Rev Seymour A Smith of RPI will address the final meeting May 25. The group is one of the nation s largest fraternals. Local participants included Freihofer, Schubert, Nander, Milhouse, Montgomery, Haight and Dandrew.
Pupils at School 16 Friday celebrated Arbor Day with ceremonies and a special assembly under Miss Mary Frances Fitzgerald. The program opened with patriotic music and a salute to the Flag. Songs and recitations were performed by several grades with Beverly Barnes Betty Dickson Susan Millard Richard Sick and Ruth Baldwin presenting songs and recitations and Joan St Pierre serving as announcer.
The Northern New York Club of the Sons of Union Veterans and auxiliaries marked Gen. A. 8. Grant's birthday with a gathering yesterday afternoon. Rev J M Montgomery of Glens Falls, Mrs Mabel Miller of Schenectady, and Mrs Mary E Stapleton of Albany attended. A Flag was presented to the club by Corinne Alliance, patriotic instructor of the Philip Sheridan Auxiliary of Albany. Willem McCaffrey of Cohoes serves as club president.
Melrose firemen met at the Fire House Thursday evening for officer elections. Bivyn Strope was elected president, Walter Love vice president, Irving Chase secretary, Raymond Bren ensinh treasurer, and Howard Malm captain. They scheduled meetings for the third Wednesday each month. Fettig and Love named to the refreshment committee for the May 16 gathering.
Corporal Elias A. Whitman reports walking paths lined with dead bodies to a Nazi crematory exhibit in a concentration camp. He describes stacked corpses, pig-stall barracks, and prisoners kept starving with almost no medical care as the camp faced daily deaths even after capture.
Preston W. Hoffman of Continental Avenue Cohoes pleaded guilty in Troy Police Court to reckless driving and passing a red traffic signal. He received a two year suspended sentence after the plea. Police arrested him on the cited charges.
Police stated that patrolmen Edward 3 Kirkpatrick and Frank Maselti were involved in a night incident in Fifthburg, with officers noting a lesser keeper or minder tied to the event.
Charles Edward Snyder was born in a Getty Ctady hospital on the same day that his father Pr i Edward Snyder was killed in action in Italy. The mother Gladys Sane ford Snyder reports the War Department confirmation of the death in the 10th Division Mountain Infantry. The text also notes a Massachusetts law granting free dog licenses to veterans.
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