Seven Workers Perish in Cincinnati Pencil Plant Blaze
A major fire at the Ciselanati Pencil Co. plant in downtown Cincinnati on Monday night killed seven workers and injured 11, three critically. The blaze began on the first floor, fed by volatile lacquers, and climbed an elevator shaft to the four story building. Twenty eight employees would have left a half hour earlier. several were trapped briefly in the rooms as emergency crews battled the flames.
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Cincinnati
Persess Bledin
Ciselanati Pencil’ Co
Gremen
Sret
Foumstory
Orde Sacy
Barney Houstos
New York School Lunch Program Urges Wider Adoption
New York State education officials urged expansion of the federally funded school lunch program. Assistant State Education Commissioner Van Kleeck warned that many children remain inadequately nourished and urged school boards to enroll more schools. He argued meals aid character and warned against poverty as a barrier to learning while stressing safeguarding against pauperizing families.
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New York
Edwin Rosen Mleeck
Syracuse
Docter van Kleeck
She Boul
Tim Apting
van Rigesk
New York State
Dewey
Agein
War Council
Education Department
von Kleeck
Palestine Chapter To Meet Tomorrow At Masonic Temple
Palestine Chapter Order of the Eastern Star will meet at pm tomorrow at the Masonic Temple in Tansingburg. Miss Elsie Christiansen, delegate to the front lodge session in New York, will give a reprint on the conven tion. A full class of candidates will be initiated with Miss Christiansen, worthy matron, and Willina Groesbeck, worthy patron, presiding.
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Palestine
Order of the Eastern Star
Masonic
Tansingburg
Elsie Christiensen
New York
Iiz
Christiansen
Willina
Groesbeck
Hoosick Falls Budget Adopted For 1945 With levy noted
The Hoosick Falls town board met in adjourned session to hold a public hearing on the 1945 town budget. The approved budget sets a town tax levy of 46,514.34 dollars, which is 3,538.91 less than the prior year, excluding civil county and special franchise taxes not yet announced.
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Ade
Monthly meeting of culture Teachers at Bullock home
Agriculture teachers from Hoosick Falls High School Green which Fells High School and other area schools gathered with their wives for a social and business session. A year plan for the group was set and leadership training for FPA officers scheduled. Refreshments were served by Mrs Bullock and Mrs Tillotson.
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Ralph S. Bullock
Agriculture Department of
Hoosick ‘Fells
W. A. Ames
Cambridge
B. F. Tillotson
Greenwich
Ronald Babcosk
Salem
Pans
FPA
Bullock
Tillotson
Man Arrested After Escape From Albay Vegetables Stand
A man fled authorities on September 20 and was captured two days later in an abandoned vegetable stand near Albay, ending a brief evasion.
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Albay
Report Claims Roosevelt Withheld Nazi Airpower Info
Rep Albert Ea get accuses President Roosevelt of withholding vital information on German air power from Congress before Pearl Harbor. He cites an intelligence attache report received in 1935 to 1941 and alleges suppression of dangerous war data for political gain.
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Washington
Albert Eaget
R-Mite
Franklin
Roosevelt
Congress
Pearl Harbor
Engel
House Appropriations Committees
America
Mr. Roosevelt
War Department Chief Executive public funds criticism
Fragmented OCR notes mention the War Department and President Roosevelt facing requests for funds and blamed Congress for failing to equip the Army. A stray reference to a German strength assessment and an anecdote about a man named Leyte living undercover and rejoining duty after an American return appears amid garbled lines.
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War Department
Roosevelt
Congress
Filipino Scout Returns to Duty with First Cavalry
Filipino scout I. P. Marringo reported for duty yesterday at division headquarters with the First Cavalry on Leyte, after nearly three years away. He was not AWOL and had been captured by the Jay forces during duty in the Philippines.
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Leyte
Antonio Marringo
Army
Jay
Brakeless Bus Careens Through Albany Park
A Brakeless bus from United Traction Co. rolled through Lincoln Park Albany yesterday with failed brakes and uncontrolled speed. Samuel Debose, the operator, steered into the park to avoid children, narrowly missed two cars, and halted near Morton Street. Preston Vandergrift and Luka Damarell suffered minor injuries. others unharmed.
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Or & Gnited Traction Co
Lincoln Park
Albany
Samuel Debose
Morton Street
Delaware Avenue
Morton
Hagis Streets
Sirs
Preston Vandergrift
West Berne
Luka Damarell
Man Who Fled Jail Indicted on Two Counts
Wallace Barber of Peru New York was indicted by a federal grand jury in Syracuse on interstate transportation of a stolen automobile and escaping from Albany County Jail. Barber allegedly took a stolen car from East Syracuse to Springfield Massachusetts and then to Philadelphia between May 29 and June 19. His escape from jail is cited as part of the charges.
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Wallace Barber
Peru
N.Y
Syracuse
Albany County
Barber
Springfield
Maia
Philadelphia
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Frank J. Kendall
Blonday
F.B.I
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Edward P. Morgan
Albany F.B.I
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Albany Police Department
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George B. Durkee
John Burkes
Johnson Hill
France
Frank Been
Church Street
Sor
Joseph Behan
Italy
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W. Briggs Shaw
William Carpenter
John R. Smith
San Diego
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Jack Norton
Shiprmates Ip
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Rome
Paul Rivard
William Reinfort
John Duthee
Durkee
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Seventh Ave
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