Spreading Coal Strikes Push 40000 Miners Off Work
War Labor Board faced a back to work deadline as coal strikes spread across states led by Alabama with 19000 idle. nation sees 40000 miners out of work while UMW leadership pursues a contract and potential government action looms.
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Associated Press
War Labor Board
Alabama
United Mine Workers
Dlinois
International Union
Kentucky
Indiana
Pennsylvania
White House
Solid Fuels Administration
Albany Court Blocks Dewey Probe On Real Estate Tax Methods
A New York Albany court ordered the State Tax Commission to show cause why a subpoena against Augustine Hoffman should not be quashed, halting part of the inquiry into city and county real estate assessment methods. The action, seen as a test case, returns Friday with arguments set for then. Meanwhile, investigators probe municipal finances and an election fraud bureau studies signature books seized in several cities.
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Albany
Democratic
Dewey Administration
John J. Scully
August Hoffman
Second Ward
Supreme Court
Harry Schirick
State Tax Commission
Hoffman
Ernest Morris
Schirick
Morris
Frank C. Moore
Erastus Corning
Moore
Election Frauds Bureau
Cohoes
Watervliet
Pierce H. Russell
Rollin Browne
Browne
Ulysses H. Boyden
Assembly
Albany County Grand Jury
Morgenthau Visits Egypt As Strike Vote Looms On Railways
Secretary Morgenthau arrives in Cairo during a Mediterranean tour as wartime production strains and railway transport issues surface. In Chicago the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and four other rail unions plan strike votes within thirty days opposing a 4 cent wage increase from an emergency board and seeking changes in working conditions.
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Chicago
Brotherhood of
Suspended Trooper on Special Duty in Gambling Raid
Matthew V. Haskins, suspended state trooper, was on special duty during a Liberty gambling establishment raid on April 24, an affidavit from former Captain Daniel B. Fox states. Fox said Haskins helped investigate alleged slot machine conditions in Sullivan County, while Haskins seeks reinstatement with back pay.
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Binghamton
Matthew V. Haskins
Daniel B. Fox
Fox
State Supreme Court
Martin W. Deyo
Haskins
Joseph P. Leary
Sullivan County
Leary
Oneonta
Deyo
Salvaged Normandie Returns to Navy
The U S L A Fayette formerly the Normandie will be returned to the Navy by Merritt Chapman and Scott Corp tomorrow at pier 88. Ceremonies will begin at 10 30 am with Captain Bernard E Manseau presenting to Captain H V McKittrick on behalf of Rear Admiral Monroe Kelly. Salvage work began in March 1942.
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New York
Monroe Kelly
New York Navy Yard
Latham News Highlights Civic Drives and Community Events
Pfc A Robert Butz messages from the Pacific islands reach the Latham community as War Chest pledges are collected. A Red Cross nursing and first aid course can be registered at 730 at Latham School with registration by phone via Waterville 45 1. Epworth League holds a hayride at Calvary Hall with games, refreshments, and a social. A large community minstrel and review is planned for December 2 3 at Siena College to raise funds for an honor roll, with over sixty cast members. 4 H Club hosts a Halloween party at Miss Carol Bonville's home with twenty participants and a committee of local girls assisting.
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Latham
Pfc
Robert Butz
Karl Butz
Pacific Islands
Robert Beveridge
Red Cross
Epworth League Fellowship
Calvary Church
Calvary Hall
Kay Harrington
Marion Gott
Jean Dupree
Siena College
Jean Ruhtz
St. Pitts Hose House
Carol Bonville
Latham Heights
Smiling
Carolyn Anderson
Jane MacDonald
Dianne Pittard
Anna Sicker
Shirley Smith
Joan Bullock
Frances Psotulka
Carol Peters
Helen Hathaway
Martyn Meehan
Miss Bonville
Teress Bonville
Round Lake Library Benefit Game Party Planned
Round Lake The Hbrary committee of the Woman's Round Lake Improvement Society led by Mrs. C EB Raymond Haight has arranged a benefit game party in Library Hall Friday at 8 pm. Cake and coffee will be served.
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Hbrary
Woman's Round Lake Improvement Society
Waterford Derby Awards Aid War Bond Drive and Local Events
Waterford Richard Gillespie won the first $25 War Bond in Saturday's Soap Box Derby sponsored by the Waterford Lions Club. RegClass awards went to Ronald Gillespie and Don ald Deschamps for $10 in War Stamps and $5 in War Stamps, with other prizes to Neil Whitehurst Ward Chamberlin and Raymond Walters. Non regular class saw Robert Gillespie take first with $5 War Stamps and Ronald Daigneault second with $3 War Stamps. An exhibition race featured Alfred Schuttenheim and Richard Gillespie, a close finish with Gillespie prevailing. Local notices cite tax collection week at Bank of Waterford, Halloween event plans, Grace Church services, St Agnes Guild activities, and a Halloween masquerade hosted by the Knickerbocker Steamship Ladies Auxiliary with prizes for best dressed and funniest costumes.
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Richard Gillespie
Waterford Lions Club
Ronald Gillespie
Donald Deschamps
Neil Whitehurst
Ward Chamberlin
Raymond Walters
Clase
Robert Gillespie
Ronald Daigneault
Alfred Schuttenheim
Waterford
Division Street Hill
C. Wilson Chamberlin
The
Liong Club
Knickerbocker Steamer Company
Pearl Street
Harold Vrooman
Edna Rasmussen
Richard Tracy
Mary Hane
Officer Promoted in Army Quartermaster Corps in New York
The War Department announced yesterday the promotion of James Parr Shirikian from second to first lieutenant in the Army Quartermaster Corps as part of statewide officer promotions in New York.
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James Parr Shirikian
Army Quartermaster Corps
War Department
New York State
Community updates from Eagle Mills and Troy
Moved to Troy are Mr and Mrs Joseph Rebhun Jr and family. Loyal Women's Class meets at Mrs Forrest Patries home tomorrow at 2 pm. Mrs Reckner travels to Orlando Fla for several months with husband Corp George L Reckner in Army Air Corps. No Red Cross sewing this week due to lack of materials. Prayer service at Methodist Church tomorrow at 745 pm with Rev George H Pettingell. Church board of education meets at 830 pm. Staff Sgt Robert Lilly of Rochester visits. War Ration Book 4 registration at Garfield School tomorrow Thursday and Friday 2 5 30 pm and 7 9 pm. Bring War Ration Book No 3 for each family member car registration tire inspection and back cover of present gasoline A ration book. Book A applications blanks available at the schoolhouse.
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Joseph Rebhun, Jr
Troy
Forrest’ Patrie
Forrest Patrie
Methodist Church
George H. Pettingell
Church Board of Education
Robert Lilly
Rochester
Arthur A. Lilly
Garfield School
Trojan Tent Elect Ebbe C Nielsen at VFW event
The Trojan Pup Tent of the Military Order of Gooties held a Sunday night election at the VFW rooms in Glen Avenue. Ebbe C Nielsen was chosen as seam squirrel and a slate of officers including Henry Tetreault, John Delap, Kenneth Martin and others was elected. Grand officers Charles Hansen and Raymond Buck were announced as guests for installation and a grand event in New York was noted.
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V.F.W
Glen Avenue
Ebbe C. Nielsen
Henry Tetreault
John Delap
Kenneth Martin
Raymond Fisher
Jess Robinson
Provo
William Dugan
Henry Fleming
Fred Douglas
Lawrence Ramod
Jimmy
David Rosen
Sky Pilot
George McCune
Charles Hansen
McCune
Hansen Borns
New York
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Raymond Buck
Department of New York
George Amilo
Solid Fuel Truckers Propose Program
A three man subcommittee of the Leid Fuel Motor Transportation Industry Committee will push a plan to ensure regular coal deliveries this winter. Residents should order from local coal dealers and avoid random buying to aid dealers who received a portion of last year’s supply. The plan also bans call backs the same day, enabling truck restocking, with regular truck inspections and priority for small parts to allow rapid repairs during cold weather.
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Leid Fuel Motor Truck Transportation Industry Committee
Office of Defense Transportation
John Taylor
McEwan Coal Co
Mahlon Farringer
Howell Coal Co
Wiliam Garrett
Hoosick Coal Co
Troy
De Gaulist Urges New Government in Algiers
Francois du Menthon, a De Gaulist justice commissioner, proposed a four point policy to make the French committee of National Liberation a provisional government not an administrative body as it was recognized by Britain and the United States. He predicted General de Gaulle would be the future leader. With an 84 member consultative assembly to open November 3 he said its political role could be considerable.
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Algiers
Francois du Menthon
Troy Man Guilty of Illegal Gun Charge
Robert J. Banks 33 of Harrison Place pleaded guilty before Albany County Judge Earl H. Gallup to illegal possession of a gun after police found him asleep in a Limited Traction Co bus. Sentence deferred to November 5. Dorothy Meuller 20 of St Louis also pled guilty to abandoning her 25 day old baby in Albany Union Station last month and will be sentenced November 5. She is the wife of a sailor who said he does not know the husband’s whereabouts.
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Robert J. Banks
Harrison Place
Albany
Earl H. Gallup
Banks
Limited Traction Co
Dorothy Meuller
St Louis
Gallup
Albany Union Station
Soldier from Rensselaer Dies of Wounds
Official word from the War Department lists Pfc. Michael A. Scambelluri of Rensselaer among 255 U.S. soldiers killed in action in five theaters. He was wounded by enemy grenades and died after a losing battle with his injuries.
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Pfc
Michael A. Scambelluri
Rensselaer
War Department
United States
Scampelluri
Hem
Hear Drug Union Claims At NLRB Hearing In Albany
Sterling Drug Inc and Bayer face a National Labor Relations Board hearing at 10 am in Albany on charges of unfair labor practices. The union alleges domination of three independent local unions, discharge of Hazel Taylor, and coercion to restrict union activity at the Rensselaer plant. Witnesses include Dr. Sherndal, Dr. Hansen, Walter Eeson, and L. A. Moorehead.
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Rensselaer
Sterling Drug, Inc
Bayer Company
Chemical and Pharmaceutical Workers’ Union
National Labor Relations Board
John H. Eadie
Albany
Hazel Taylor
Old Chatham
American Federation of Labor
Bayer Workers Association
Bayer Women Workers Association
Frst
Taylor
A. EB. Shern Dai
Oki Chatham
Sherndal
Harold Hansen
Walter Eleson
Rensselaer County Bank and Trust Company
Land L. A
Rev. C. P. Hall Dies in Foxboro Mass Native of Troy
The Rev Charles P Hall a Tufts graduate and longtime Universalist minister died at his Foxboro Massachusetts home He served churches from Oneonta to Danbury and Brewton He organized charities in Pensacola headed Associated Charities in Pawtucket and led Rhode Island Universalist activities He is survived by a daughter three sons and 13 grandchildren
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Charles P Hall
Nature of
Troy
F. H. Wager
East Greenbush
Foxboro
Mass
Hall
Tufts College
Oneonta
Huntington
Baltmore
Danbury
Rhode Island
Red Cross
American Association For Social Workers
National Conference For Social Work
Fourth Infantry
Connecticut National Guard
National Organization of the Sons of Union Veterans
Crusader Commandery
R. T
Conn
Grand Commandery
Charles A. Broomhead
Barrington, R
Frank
North Providence
R L. Gordon
East Providence
R. I
Charles P., Jr
Blythe Air Base
Cal
First Baptist Church Men See Moving Picture
The men of the First Baptist Church were entertained with a motion picture Red Paddle and Pack about a Maine woods trip. Rev Richard Cummings showed lantern slides from a 1937 trip. William F Haase led the program with community singing and a harmonica duet by Ray Filkins and Herbert Hunt.
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First Baptist Church
Red Paddle
Pack
Woods
Maine
Richard Cummings
William F. Haase
Ray Filkins
Herbert Hunt
Howard Dill
Arthur Coonley
Edward Court
William Nelson
Carl Holzhaur
George Gordon
Russell Duffy
Harry Larkin
Captain Clark Gable Returns to U. S
Captain Clark Gable, motion picture star in the United States Army Air Force, arrived yesterday by airplane from Great Britain. Army officials would not comment. Gable flew five bombing missions and supervised making motion pictures while in Great Britain.
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New York
Clark Gable
United States Army Air Force
Great Brittain
Army Transport Command
LaGuardia Field
Army
Washington
Gable
Great Britain
Drill Staged by Guard Units at Armory
Company A and Headquarters and Service Company of the Second Regiment New York State Guard held their weekly Armory drill. Lieut. Charles Burkhardt led basic training and the soldier school. New enlistees George A. Quackenbush and William T. Keen entered the company. Former member Chief Petty Officer Ambrose Nash of the Seabees visited.
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Second Regiment
New York State Guard
Charles Burkhardt
William Dippo
William Myers
John McClure
Saratoga
George A. Quackenbush
William T. Keenan
Ambrose Nash
The
Seabees
Jewish War Veterans Plan Armistice Day Service
The David Chodikoff Post of Jewish War Veterans met at the Jewish Community Center to plan an Armistice Day service for 3 30 pm on Sunday November 7. Rev Robert Campbell D D First Presbyterian Church will be guest speaker. Members include Benjamin Chuckrow Sol Brafman Harry Goodman Benjamin C Jerske and Jacob Patten. The meeting adjourned in memory of Samuel Gingold who died yesterday.
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David Chodikoff
Robert Campbell
First Presbyterian Church
Ranoits
Benjamin Chuckrow
Sol Brafman
Harry Goodman
Benjamin C. Jerske
Jacob Patten
Samuel Gingold
Ynor Oz Saent Malone
Troy
Outwno
Washington County registration decline noted in districts
Total registrations in Washington County’s 51 districts reached 27,471 this year. Personal registration in Kingsbury shows a decline of 578 compared with last year’s 28,683, though the overall drop may not reflect full declines in registration.
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Washington County
Kingsbury
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Basa
Albany Probe
Morgenthau In
Egypt
Cairo
U. S
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Mediterranean
Hudson Beauty
Third ST
Henry Giraud
Katherine Phillips
Harvey Provost
Walter Macie
Navy
Round Lake
Bank of Waterford
Waterford Halfmoon District No. 2
Parent and Teacher Association
Percy Willetts
Charles Morse
Hollis Briggs
Grace Church
St. Agnes
Eagle Mills
Trojan Tent
Solid Fuel Truckers
de Gaulist
C. P. Hall
Foxboro, Mass
Jewish Post
Bausch & Lomb
T. Brandon
Narone
Lawn Seed Fertilizer
Troy File Works
River Street
Congress
Whitey
Carstairs
Carstars Bros. DistiLling Co., Inc
Baltimore
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