Ben Bernie Dies After Long Illness in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills California reports the death of orchestra leader and comedian Ben Bernie at age 52 from a lingering heart ailment. His son Pvt Jason Bernie 22 and brother Herman Bernie were at his bedside with his wife present. Bernie known as the old maestro and Benjamin Anzelvitz had radio fame and film appearances beginning in 1929. He studied engineering at Columbia but quit to become a violin salesman and later married Dorothy Wesley after divorcing his first wife Rose Bernie. He suffered a pleurisy attack in Chicago and an extended illness after performing for war plants on the Pacific coast.
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Benjamin Anzelvitz
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Columbia University School of Engineering
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Dorothy Wesley
Miami Beach
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Pacific Coast
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West Coast
Anything Can Happen In War Time News
A Swed ish paper quotes that razor blade men rip up Nazi overcoats in Trondheim Norway during autumn nights. Three German officers found hammer and sickle cut in back of cloak. A prank in Minneapolis ad claims war worker Petersen has shotgun shells for sale. 4000 hunters jam streets near his home. Bucknell upperclass co eds face new dating limits till Sunday. Ebenezer Thresher notes a Kansas City streetcar misidentified as a relic. Los Angeles council discusses cement floors for chicken coops.
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Brippees
New York
Office of War Information
Aftontidningen
Trondheim
Norway
Minneapolis
Alfred T. Petersen
Petersen
Local social notes and wartime notices from Newtonville and nearby
Newtonville residents attend visits in Washington and Maryland while others host guests from Schenectady Syracuse and Bennington Evening rationing and gasoline book distribution occurs at district 12 schoolhouse Fiddlers Lane Music and church events fill a Methodist gathering with the Rev B C Lyman away for evangelistic services Parade of social calls and plans for a November 11 bazaar and turkey supper in the church parlor feature the Pleasant Word and Mizpah Classes handling arrangements
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Ernest Christie
Washington, D. C
Addie Schnell
Oscar Kraker
Mt. Rainier
E. ©. Trainor
McClair
Bennington, VI
Methodist Parsonage
Joseph Brown
Bchenectady
Emma Grants
Syracuse
C. A. Rothdau
Margaret Abrams
Andrew Forner
George Forner
Petersburg
Fla
Fiddlers Lane
Don Glossner
Methodist Church
B.C. Lyman
Middleburg
Lyman
Garnseys Celebrate 50th Wedding Anniversary
Round Lake Mr and Mrs Willard N Garnsey marked their fiftieth wedding anniversary at home Monday. They wed Oct 18 1898 at the Methodist Church with Rev Dr Griffin officiating. Attending guests included bridesmaid Mrs Lillian Garnsey Lavery and hosts Mrs George W Knights and Mrs Fred G Selch.
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Lillian Garnsey Lavery
George W. Knights
Fred G. Selch
Marjorie Lou Lavery
Rodent Control Scheme Sparks Backlash in Kansas City
A proposed bounty for rat tails as a rodent control plan provokes industry fears that small chicken raisers may fail. The Kansas City parade or “war chest” drive showcased horse-drawn vehicles with no gasoline used.
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Kansas City
Grafton Notices Bring Hospital Return and Church Events
Grafton residents report Mrs Haskell Coonradt returning from Samaritan Hospital. An oyster supper and donation event is planned Oct 30 at the Baptist Church hall. Mrs Alice Hidley hymnals dedication at the Methodist Church Sunday evening with class promotions and choir practice. Six District No 4 pupils spent Columbus Day at Violet Hose’s Petersburg farm harvesting apples. Pvt Ansley Klaus on 14 day furlough visiting family in Coxsackie and Poughkeepsie. Ration Book 4 and basic A book distribution in Grafton schools with return of old books next week.
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Grafton
Haskell Coonradt
Samaritan Hospital
Charles Hayner
New York
S. S. Barnhart
Alice Hidley
Methodist Church
Ansley Klaus
Clarence Klaus
Coxsackie
John Becker
Poughkeepsie
Hairless Spiders and Hair Bristles Clarified
A spider lacks hair. only mammals have true hair. What appears as hair on spiders are setae, a Latin term for bristles.
Spirit of Enterprise by Edgar Queeny Examines Postwar America
St Louis businessman Edgar M. Queeny argues in The Spirit of Enterprise that postwar America will not mature into complacency but surge ahead with limitless possibilities as industry embraces science. He rejects the view that riches mean stagnation, saying Americans drive progress through consumer demand and free enterprise toward both material and spiritual goals.
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St. Louis
Edgar M. Queeny
Monsanto Chemical Co
Scribner’s Sons
Queeny
Industrialist’s plan favors free market with reforms
Queeny argues a state planned, state controlled production system is unnecessary for America. He criticizes some New Deal critics while urging free competition, higher anti-trust enforcement, and reduced tariffs with nations of similar living standards. He supports a regional balance led by US Britain and Russia after the war.
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Queeny
Canterbury
United States
Great Britain
Russia
Canadian Ship Saves Ten American Airmen
Ten American airmen grateful to the Royal Canadian Navy for rescue after drifting on rubber floats for over eighteen hours in sleet fog and icebergs in the North Atlantic. HMCS Georgian found them at 5 am during a chilling, perilous relief. among the rescued were Holgate J. Dean of Fall River Massachusetts and James B. Crary of Canton New York.
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Holgate J. Dean
Fall River
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James B. Crary
Canton
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Quoting Queeny on Antitrust and Freedoms
Queeny proposes a council to guarantee uniform property rights and apply Sherman and Clayton antitrust principles globally. He argues unity is needed to realize four freedoms, claiming only one freedom is required to achieve them.
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