Fifteen year old pleads guilty in hitchhike murder life term
Augusta Maine Fifteen year old Charles Richard Farrand admitted guilt yesterday in the hitchhike murder of Barnard W Jordan a 26 year old Maine aviator and Colby College graduate He was sentenced to life imprisonment Farrand was captured in Concord Massachusetts on Friday the 13th of August and confessed that he shot Jordan to death and robbed him of his automobile near the Waterville airport two days earlier Jordan a bridegroom of less than a year was educated at Colby College and hailed from Maine's Waterville area.
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Augusta
Charles Richard Farrand
Barnard W. Jordan
Maine
Farrand
Concord
Mass
Jordan
Waterville
Colby College
Corp Joseph Myers Missing in Action in North Africa
Northside resident Mrs Anna Myers reports Corporal Joseph Myers has been missing in the North African theater since September 11. He joined the Army February 19, 1942, went overseas in June, and is a Keveny Memorial Academy alumnus formerly of Albany Paper Works. His two brothers serve in the Navy.
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Joseph Myers
Northside
Anna Myers
Fulton Street
War Department
Corporal Myers
Keveny Memorial Academy
Cohoes
Albany Paper Works
Navy
Edward Myers
David Myers
Glider cadets fly to Camp Mackall for Chapel Hill game
Navy cadet JIMMY DUFFY, son of Coroner and Mrs Thomas J Duffy of 52 Second Street, led 150 men as company commander at Chapel Hill Pre flight School. He and 33 cadets toured Camp Mackall in gliders, towed by transports, then attended a Duke Chapel Hill football game played at Mackall for soldiers. The trip featured jeep rides, a recreation hall, and a lively officers club with bands, ending with a 7 to 6 loss.
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Jimmy Duffy
Chapel Hill
N. C
Thomas J. Duffy
Second Street
Jim
LaSalle
Camp Mackall
Chapel Hall
Duke
Camp Mackail
Mackall
Rota
Wea
James Thomas Duffy
Rohrer Boy Injured In Farm Binder Incident
Edgar John Rohrer age two was pulled into a corn binder and emerged bound by twine with fodder. Doctors say he will live though he grins from his hospital bed.
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Edgar John Rohrer
Service Promotions and Assignments From Home Front Updates
Charley Eck of Brunswick promoted to sergeant in the European Theater. Hugh B. XY of the Marine Corps promoted to corporal at Memphis base. Earl Hall enrolled in Army Specialized Training at Alfred University. Bob Krause promoted to corporal and previously noted skating champ. Kurt Adler completed Signal Corps course at Camp Murphy. Bob Wiltsey arrived in England. Howard Wiltsey serving in South Pacific. Bob Robinson promoted to sergeant at Patterson Field. Ed Wager returns to Camp Stewart with new stripes. Mike Lasky arrived in England after Aberdeen proving grounds service. Joe Cottrell promoted to corporal at La Junta Army Air Field.
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Charley Koberger
Fourth Street
England
Charney
Eighth Bomber Command
Bill Peak
Camp McCain
Miss
Jack Peak
Norfolk
F. 5
Peak
Central Avenue
Cohoes
Francis Doring
Marine Corps
Lipcoln Avenue
Charles Moore
Wynantskill
Sergt
Bob Moore
Scott Field
Alfred Haag
Augus Haag
Coolidge Avenue
Army Air Base
Harvard
Neb
Jimmy Haggerty
First Street
Aberdeen
Proving Grounds
Jim
Warren Hutchinson
Watervliet
Basil O'Shea
Twenty-fifth Street
Infantry School
Fort Benning
Camp Swift
Tex
Charley Eck
Brunswick
Hugh B. XY
Memphis
Tenn
Bernadette
Third Avenue
Earl Hall
Florence L. Hall
Hoag's Corners
Alfred University
Earl's Averill Park
Camp Hale
Col
Bob Krause
Otto Krause
Thirteenth Street
Bob
Belden’s
Kurt Adler
Bob Robinson
Patterson Field
Air Force Training Command
Sayles
Robinson
Maple Avenue
ED Wager
Camp Stewart
Hudson Avenue
Stripes
Rose Lasky
Tech. Corp
Mike Lasky
Aberdeen, Md., Proving Grounds
Arsenal
la Junta
Colo, Army Air Field
Ordnance Office
Joee Cottreel
Joseph W. Cottrell
Highland Avenue
Joe
Troy High
Hastings
Tahoma A
M. College
Stillwater
Okla
Africa
Corp
Holdridge Wells
George C. Wells
354
Seventh Avenue
Fort Blas
Harold Wiley
Johnsonville
Army Air Corps
Spokane
Wash
Warren Roberts
Ernest C. Roberts
T71
Second Avenue
Fort Worth
Army Air Field
Warren
Frederick
Sikeston
Enid
Sampson
John Gaffney
John J. Gaffney
Bill Gallagher
John Gallagher
Green Island
Barsam Tamanian
Harrison Place
Pleasantdale
R. D
Camp Peary
Williamsburg
Ralph Beebe
Ethel
Bud
Watervliet High
Peary
Students Enrolled in Army STP at University of Georgia
TIM FAGARTY of Lansingburg and TONY DELUCA of Hoosick Falls have entered the University of Georgia in Athens to study basic engineering under the Army Specialized Training Program. JUNE EATON of Salem has completed basic training and is now stationed at the WAVES yeomen school at a naval training facility.
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Tim Fagarty
Lansingburg
Tony Deluca
Hoosick Falls
University of Georgia
Athens
June Eaton
Byron H. Eaton
Salem
WAVES
Sugar Stamp 29 Set for Five Pounds Starting Nov 1
Stamp 29 for Sugar Becomes Valid Nov 1. The next allotment of sugar may be purchased with Stamp 29 in War Ration Book 4 beginning Nov 1. Stamp 14 in Book 1 expires Nov 1, Stamps 15 and 16 expire Oct 3. New Stamp 29 good for five pounds of sugar through Jan 15. Sugar stamps in Book 4 are numbered 29 through 40 with each marked sugar. Albany District OFA officials announced yesterday.
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Albany
OFA
Surprise 25th Wedding Anniversary Dinner
Mr and Mrs Lea Suchocki of Halfmoon were honored with a surprise party for their twenty fifth anniversary. Dinner featured a wedding cake centerpiece and live candles. Miss Josephine Sokoleaki sang as out of town guests from Saratoga Springs Mechanicville Cohoes Albany and Watervliet attended. The couple received many gifts.
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Lea Suchocki
Halfmoon
A Wed
Josephine Sokoleaki
Saratoga
Springs
Mechanicville
Cohoes
Albany
Watervliet
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Second St
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Rwan
Eeee
Roy Shudt
Bernard Madsen
James Madsen
Congress Street
Walt Hawtin
Naval Air Station
Pears Harbor
Walt
Elinor J. Richardson
Broadway
Jim Olney
William H Olney
Westover Field
Utah
Waterviiet Arsenal
Wateruiet High
Florence Allen
Charles A. Lloyd
WAC
Fort Oglethorpe
San Francisco
Cala . Corp
Bernard Israel
Stockton Field
Cal
A. A
Allen Russell
Margaret
Eighth Avenue
Cluett’s
R.C. Reynolds CO
Monument Square
Ipa
Avot | OF
Gren
River ST
Wisburas
Terre Eareat
Pillsbury
Sens
General Tire Factory
Mojave Desert
American Chemical Research
General Tire
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Williams
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