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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1944
Page
6
At a Washington state naval facility a blimp hover sparked panic near a Northside home as a white cockerel defended its chicken house. The bird crowed in defiance but collapsed and died after the unsettling incident.
In a wide engagement north of Aachen the German towns Befgendorf Gitte and Beggendorf faced heavy Allied assaults as tanks infantry and artillery pressed the breach at Siegfried line. British American forces reportedly mass for a large offensive while Patton's Third Army holds Fort Driant and Dunkirk siege resumes with Allied advances around Antwerp.
Industrial insurance agents of Metropolitan Insurance Co offices in Troy Albany and Schenectady voted on Tuesday in Buffalo to decide whether to be represented by the C S United Office and Professional Workers. Elections ordered by the National Labor Relations Board were conducted yesterday with additional local ballots held outside New York City.
4 H Club committees will plan the new year starting November 1 with an executive luncheon at Claremont Restaurant. Mrs Mildred Halt Craib will preside. A nominating committee will be named for the annual meeting and delegates will be sent to the State Federation in Syracuse November 12 to 15.
Buffalo Pr-Jack Howard Estelie 38 and wife Maud 43 were found dead yesterday after neighbors summoned police. Detective Sergi and detective Fitzgibbons noted indications of food poisoning. Medical examiner Welch planned an autopsy and said custard pie remnants would be tested.
Members of Division 2 A 0 72 Auxiliary will meet Monday at Spanish War Hall to complete plans for a turkey dinner and a dance on October 23. Sir. Ana Lebeniritt will preside.
The account portrays Fauntleroy inflaming crowds with self glorification and harsh lines while a dutiful coachman endures humiliation. A confrontation erupts when Fauntleroy lashes out at the coachman, who retaliates by striking Fauntleroy, then flees to Hyde Park seeking safety.
Nazi leadership pursues a final aerial effort with a new air arm. Goebbels declares a German force is being built to challenge Allied air supremacy as reports cite top priority on innovative Luftwaffe formations in operation over the western front.
The Longview unit of West Salt Lake led by Mrs Charles Subives reports strong interest in mitten making and sewing lessons. Mrs Myra Weaneau led prep for patterns while Mrs Harold Britton organized refreshments. A Trojan uth meeting at 32 Centerview Drive studied samples by Mrs George W Helser. Mrs Carr discussed furniture refinishing techniques learned at the Cornell course. Plans for future lessons and a Consumer Conference lecture by Miss Latelle Wittiesen were noted along with rheumatic fever talks. New members Mrs John B McCarthy and Mrs Harold M Labrum were introduced. glove making meeting will be hosted by Mrs Stephen E L Comiskey on October 2 and the next monthly meeting will be at Mrs George H Corr’s home.
Health officer Dr James Boland will address parents at a School 18 PTA supper on October 19 at the school. The event aims to stress public health importance and will include mothers of seventh and eighth graders serving on committees.
The OPA set milk at 14 cents a quart for most of Washington County and Plattsburg area with a half cent increase, under an order by Daniel P. B. Wooley regional administrator. Other regions including Rockland Ulster Greene Sullivan and Columbia counties saw a half cent reduction. Wooley said a milk price study is underway in eight Western New York counties.
Earl Browder, American Communist leader, declined comment on President Roosevelt’s rejection of the Communist Party. Anna Berlak, president of the Communist Political Association of Massachusetts, said Roosevelt’s disclaimer would not affect her members. She believed Browder would share the same view.
The W S C S of Pawl Avenue Methodist Church holds its regular meeting Tuesday at the church with Rev Mary Vining of Averill Park Baptist as guest. Dime card returns requested and items for the church bazaar to be collected. Members urged to attend both morning and evening sessions of the Albany District W S C S annual meeting.
The Parent Teacher Association of School 25 holds its regular monthly meeting Tuesday at 3 pm in the school with president Kenneth Lowe presiding and a guest speaker from Edgewood Arsenal. The Partners’ Club of Mount Ian Memorial Presbyterian Church elects Mr. and Mrs. A. J. McCracken as presidents and plans a harvest supper for Thursday November 2 at 6 pm in the church dining hall.
Letters from Troy readers discuss the Russell Sage Park mess with benches at Second and Congress Streets, criticizing liquor disorder and beauty neglect. Editor notices Dewey Roosevelt clash with calls for better pensions and unemployment aid, with Stance for Dewey Bricker. A citizen urges registration and voting as essential to democracy amid wartime.
Flore E Woel of Troy gains an interlocutory divorce from Solomon H Noel of Albany in Supreme Court Justice Gilbert V Schenck's court. Decree becomes final in three months, allows maiden name, and grants custody of a minor daughter. The couple wed in North Bankington June 19, 1922, producing two children. W Joseph Shanley represents the plaintiff. Arthur Rosen thal for the defendant.
The Gel C L MacArthur Circle Ladies of the G A 2 will hold its monthly meeting Tuesday evening at the Spanish War Hall with Miss Coretta A Mahoney presiding. London reports Bimmler home guard units have moved to the western front per Frankfurt radio.
A Boston AP message from Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman editor recounts a girl in Slocomb who toppled a dish tray. The proprietor settled a charge of malicious destruction of property, and gifts from Oklahomans totaling 2744 funded her legal costs.
Mooseheart Women of the Moose held a Jest night in Young's Hall with Miss Virginia Bertrand presiding. Guests included Mrs. Marion Cunningham and Mrs. Ciera Plue, both from Schenectady, as well as an Auxiliary presentation of an American Flag by Lieut. Joseph P. English Garrison unit. A social at 463 Ninta Street with refreshments followed the business meeting.
The Air Transport Command inaugurated a regular transatlantic service from New York to Paris. Two planes arrived in Paris, carrying General George C. Marshall and James F. Byrnes among passengers, with urgent mail and supplies including medical material, map making gear and engine parts.
Two groups from Corinth Draft Board 364 departed Wednesday for training and preinduction. Names include William H. Robarge Charles L Bunzey Francis W LeVoy LeRoy E Gilman Edward Bellemy Jr Gerald W Heath Alfred Simione Claude A Clothier Andrew Kubica Julius Jeremias Chauncey Lyng John W Gallett Maurice Hayt Fred Lesselman Charles V Phelps and Leverdale farmer Joseph Ofby burned to death in a house fire destroying his home and farm buildings.
A deadlock among Rochester Gannett staff interns and union officials ends in halted publication of both Rochester daily papers. Trade union members from local 15 idle with printers leaving the Democrat and Chronicle composing room and Times Union printers not reporting, suspending publication.
The Barclay Hotel at 18th Street and Rittenhouse Square was sold by The Pennsylvania Co. for bondholders to contractor and builder Joh McShain for 1,680,000 dollars. The sale was announced as part of lives and annuities insurance proceedings.
Detroit plant suspension halts Packard Motor Car Company aircraft engine output. About 7,009 workers were recalled to work. roughly half of Packard’s 33,080 production employees were sent home. Production resumes were uncertain as management cited a continuance of the strike.
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