Anything Can Happen And Does Anything Can Happen
A wartime miscellany from Anchorage to Richmond covers odds and ends. Henry McKinnon in Alaska plans retirement homestead and vegetables. A Wichita truck crash injures driver but he survives. A carrier pigeon named Bullet Proof wins a 45 mile race from Hammond to New Orleans despite bullets. John Marshall at Times Dispatch reports three mail items including draft reclassification and induction orders.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Henry McKinnon
McKinnon
Happy Landeng
Wichita
Kas
R. S. Wright
New Orleans
Hammond
Richmond
John Marshall
Times-Dispatch
North Carolina
Hua Raleigh
Stabbing Case Defendant Waives Hearing
Mrs Margaret Presutti 39 is charged with stabbing her husband Salvatore Presutti 54 at their home 71 Adams Street and waived examination. She was committed to the Rensselaer County Jail to await grand jury action on a first degree assault charge after arraignment before Judge James F Byton in Troy Police Court. The couple’s daughter Gabriel Readyhough 18, a material witness, is held as well. Presutti is reported in serious condition at Samaritan Hospital since Saturday. Movie actor Walter Siezah wed Johanna van Hijn in a Sunday ceremony. she was formerly married to Joseph Benton.
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Margaret Presutt
Salvatore Presutti
Adams Street
Rensselaer County
James F Byton
Troy
Gabriel
Readyhough
Presutti
Hart
EB Clinton
Atty Bailey Wiley
Byston
Shynth
Samaritan Hospital
Saws Soldiers Can Be Taught to See At 400 Miles Hour
Dr A M Sheffington of the Graduate Chime Foundation for Research in Optometry says eyesight can be trained to recognize objects at high speed. Through mental and optometric training, youths with dove vision can develop eagle vision, potentially turning failing visual qualifications into full competence for war pilots in weeks.
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Buffalo
Lan Alhed
Avis
A M Sheffington
Graduate Chime Foundation For Research In
Sheffington
Stalk
Six Troy Boys Named Academy Cadet Officers
Six Troy boys were chosen as cadet battalion officers at Albany Academy. Lieut Col John J Connors announced the selections for their meritorious military records. The officers are John Thomas Duffy captain Wade Allen Morehouse junior first lieutenant Bechard Goodman second lieutenant Oncy Percy Smith second lieutenant Ray Donald Wooster sergeant and Richard Cobden sergeant.
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Troy
Albany
John J Connors
Colonel Connors
John Thomas Duffy
Francis T Duffy
119
Second Street
Wade Allen Morehouse, Jr
Wade A Morehouse
Hudson River Road
Waterford
Bechard Goodman
Julius Goodman
Upper Tibbits Avenue
Oncy Percy Smith
Oney Smith
Pawling Avenue
Ray Donald Wooster
Ray D Wooster
Brunswick Hills
Richard Cobden
Alan Cobden
Second Avenue
Election ordered at Auburn Burton Works for union vote
The National Labor Relations Board directed a bargaining election within thirty days at Auburn Burton Works Inc in Auburn to determine if employees will be represented by the AF of L Federal Labor Union Local 26538.
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Buffalo
National Labor Relations Board
Auburn Burton Works Inc
Auburn
AF of L
Federal Labor Union
Fall Injury Case Settled in Albany Court
Legal action by Mrs Anna Clifford against Uned Traction Co over a January fall on an Albia bus at Collins and Pawling Avenues was settled as the Supreme Court for Rensselaer County reconvened. Justice Pierce H Russell reported the settlement, with settlement details undisclosed. A jury was then selected to hear evidence and appoint a guardian for Anna M Wachtel, found incompetent, with Joseph Swanley representing the guardian petitioner. Court recessed to 10 am tomorrow. county calendar lists cases 196 156 197 198 199 112 229 230 231 232.
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Anna Clifford
Uned Traction Co
Collins and Pawling Avenues
Supreme Court For Rensselaer
Justice Pierce
H Russell
John F
Robert T Murray
Anna M Wachtel
Joseph Swanley
West Coxsackie Man Tries to Bag German Planes
West Coxsackie NY born Master Sergeant Edmund Rea, 30, an airplane armament inspector with the U S Army Air Forces in Italy, vows to shoot down a German plane singlehandedly. He mounted a 30 caliber gun on a improvised base, fired at a Luftwaffe squadron, claims hits, but was ordered to stop to avoid attracting more enemy fire. He continues to rely on rifle and pistol to retaliate and hopes to achieve a victory before the war ends.
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Hal Boyle
Italy
Seigt
Edmund Rea
Iem Hs
West Coxsackie
Foche Wulf
Warhawk J
Thelepte Teld
Rea Sad
Tunisian Pantelleria
Troy Council Knights To Note Columbus Day
Troy Council No 176 Knights of Columbus will honor Columbus this evening with a full program at 8 30 p m The district deputy Edward A Heffern of the 39th District and staff will install Troy and Lansingburg Councils officers in a joint ceremony Rex Edmund J Burns chaplain
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Troy
Knights of Columbus
Columbus
Edward A. Heffern
Lansingburg
Rex Edmund J Burns
Will speak on Columbus event by notable Knights
Prominent Knights will deliver short addresses at a Columbus gathering. Entertainment and a buffet lunch will be provided by lecturer Bernard J. Dunn.
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Columbus
Bernard J. Dunn
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Finschhafen
OLD Age Security
General Ailine Co
Winthrop Chemical Co
Rensselaer
State Department of Health
Rensselaer County Tuberculosis and Public Health Association
Amiline Co
Arthur Sprague
Alvin Florin
Thomas W. Phelan
Bruce Murphy
Bevel Halls
Walter Siezah
Johanna van Hijn
Joseph Benton
Siezahs
Esso
Emily
Your
Staten Vgy
Colonial Beacon Oil Company
Academy
Gover
Haren
Troy Council Knights
Dr Scholl
Coats
London
Rayon Crepes
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