Wartime Labour Day Fest at Watervliet Arsenal Draws Thousands
Thousands jammed the Watervliet Arsenal ward yesterday for a wartime Labor Day festival with field events parade and a musical comedy. Despite rain, workers distinguished themselves in events while a band parade led by Brig. Gen. Gillespie and Troy and Watervliet mayors featured veterans and discharged service members.
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Watervliet Arsenal
Arsenal
A. G. Gillespie
Frank J. Rogan
Troy
James F. Donlon
Watervliet
General Gillespie
John M. Coleton
WCAD
Arsenal Dramatic Club
Tanner
Callahan
Wilson
Cohen
Pasanella
Lee
Liner
Teleste Christa
Edith Baker
Martha Elder
Aist
Endres
Mooney
O'Hare
Grasso
Ballston Girl, 7, Injured by Auto
Ruth Ann Vickery of Greenfield Avenue Ballston Spa was hospitalized in Saratoga Springs with severe bruises after a motorist Joseph Corcoran also of Greenfield Avenue Ballston Spa said he gave her a lift and struck her when she ran in front of the car as she stepped out. Her condition was listed as good last night.
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Ruth Ann Vickery
Greenfield Avenue
Ballston Spa
Saratoga Springs Hospital
Joseph Corcoran
Whitehall Man Receives Purple Heart Medal
Whitehall veteran James Cleary of 84 South William Street is awarded the Order of the Purple Heart at a base hospital after being wounded in the Sicily invasion. He served four years, overseas since July 1942, and his mother Mrs. Edward Lynch has been advised by the War Department.
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Sicily
Pic
James Cleary
South William Street
Whitehall
Edward Lynch
War Department
In Memoriam Murray Patrick Emmett Muray
In memory of Patrick Emmett Mur ray who died September 6 1942. The midnight stars are shining upon your silent grave. Beneath sleeps the one we love and the one we could not save. SISTER AND BROTHER IN LAW zay. In loving memory of my husband Patrick Emmett Muray died Sept 6 1942. I watched him suffer day by day and could not give relief. His weary hours and days of pain and troubled nights are past. In my aching heart I anew he has found sweet rest at last. WIFE MARY.
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Murray
Patrick Emmett Murray
Zay
Patrik Emmett Muray
Mary
DIED Bellerose Sud only son of Bellerose family in Cohoes
Died in Los Angeles on September 1 1943 Albert Bellerose son of Mr and Mrs Hadras Bellerose brother of Eugene Roland Robert and Francis Bellerose all of Cohoes funeral notice to follow.
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Bellerose
Los Angeles
Calif
Albert BE
Hadras Bellerose
Eugene
Roland
Robert
Francis Bellerose
Cohoes
Bode
Stowe Avenue
Trude Luce
William Bodfother
Lawrence Cramer
Wiliam Lawrence Cramer
Snyder's Lake
Forrest Hill Cemetery
Fletcher
Leonard Hospital
Kathryn Roberts
Arthur Fletcher
Robert H. Collier
Carrle
Barbara Andichard Collier
Westbury
Albany Rural Cemetery
Grogan
Scnaghticoke
Eltis H. Grogan
Thomas Edgar
Nest
Sterrs Ziba
Harriet Gro- Fan
Valley Falls
Millertown
Johnsonville
Gardner Earl Memorial Chapel Services at Oakwood Cemetery
Over the past week services were held at Gardner Earl Memorial Chapel and Crematorium within Oakwood Cemetery. The schedule and participants include Hanna Johanna C Bormen among others in this regional observance.
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Gardner Earl
Oakwood Cemetery
Hanna Johanna C
Bormen
New Food Ceiling Prices Set By Albany OPA Amid Shortage
The Albany District Office of Price Administration announced ceilings on about 375 food items effective Friday. New top prices cover the 1942 canned goods pack and staples such as bread butter eggs coffee and bananas with October 1943 ceilings to follow. Posters listing the full ceilings will be displayed in Troy and Rensselaer County retailers.
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Albany District Office of Price Administration
OPA
Troy
Rensselaer County
Troy City County
Albany
Schenectady
Fulton
Montgom Greene
Columbia
Ulster
Schoharie
Saratoga
Washington Counties
City Vacationers Will Pick Apples
New York reports more than 100 applicants for apple-picking jobs in upstate orchards. Mayor LaGuardia and War Manpower official Anna Rosenberg urged 1 500 workers to help harvest in Columbia Dutchess Orange and Ulster counties. Applicants are mostly men 30 to 40, with ten high school boys and several women among them.
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New York (P
Upstate
F. H LaGuardia
Anna M. Rosenberg
War Manpower Commission
Columbia
Dutchess
Orange
Ulster
United States Employment Service Farm Placement Office
Ter
Americans Held In Argentina
The State Department said Argentina was asked for full information about the arrest of several employees of the American and Foreign Power Company subsidiary in Buenos Aires last Saturday. Police seized the main office, arrested several officers including an American, then released them all that night.
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Washington
UPI
State Department
United States
Buenos Aires
American and Foreign Power Company
Two Boys Ill Blame Food Poisoning
Troy boys John Hane 14 and James 11, brothers of Patrick J. Kane’s family, are in Leonard Hospital after eating home prepared clam chowder. Police say illness likely from clams or pork. both boys listed as fair. Doctor A W Benson and Dr Stolz attended. detective bureau investigated. food samples will be analyzed.
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Troy
Leonard Hospital
John Hane
James
Patrick J. Kane
River Street
John Stallmer
Dominic Campana
Central Police Station
Kane
Stolz
A. W Benson
William McGrane
Deitective Bureau
Campana
Stailmer
John Kane
Gen Ross Troops Train For Jungle War In Hawaii
A Honolulu dispatch says the National Guard division under Maj. Gen. Ralph Smith and Brig. Gen. Ogden J. Ross is finishing jungle training in Oahu for combat against Japan. The unit, with Revolutionary War lineage and prior Hawaii service, will depart for active duty soon as Pacific warfare begins.
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Honolulu
New York
Ralph Smith
Denver
Ogden J. Ross
Troy
Hawaii
Oahu
Japan
Heawai
Oat Crop Failure Hits Rensselaer County Harvest Efforts
Elton J. Hanks, county agricultural agent, says the Rensselaer County fall oat crop is practically a failure but there is no wide labor shortage for harvest. He notes other crops are generally good though late, with apples not large, and emphasizes the need for strong men to harvest land and pack silo corn while women and younger workers are less suitable for heavy field labor.
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Elton K. Hanks
Rensselaer County
Mr. Hanks
Columbia
Anna M. Rosenberg
War Manpower Commission
New York
Dutchess
Ulster
Orange Counties
Ma Hanks
Starge
Elton J. Hakes
Weather Bureau
Victory
T. N. Hurd
Hurd
Dewey
Albany County
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Cornell University
Cortland County
Former Student To Get Wings In Army Air Field
Aviation Cadet Richard M Van Galder 22 former R P 1 student who trained at East St. Louis and Garden City is eligible to receive silver pilot's wings and officer's bars at Pampa Army Air Field Pampa Tex Van Galder son of Mr and Mrs M L Van Galder of Chicago will be assigned to a combat unit or become an instructor
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Richard M van Galder
R. P.1
East St. Louis
Garden City
Has
Pampa Army Air Field
Pampa
Tex
van Galder
M. L. van Galder
Chicago
Hope of Increase In A Gas Coupon Values Killed By OPA
The OPA announced no raise in A gasoline coupons and urged motorists to plan for A-6 coupons lasting through November 22. Renewal applications will be distributed by local boards as soon as possible while new A books are already in use in other regions.
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OPA
District of Columbia
Wounded Son's Parents Urged Not to Fear Says Vets View
Pvt. Stanley D. Covell, a 809 First Avenue native and recipient of the Silver Star and Purple Heart, urges parents not to panic if the War Department reports their son wounded. He credits Army care and recalls his Tunisia campaign with an African medal tally and service in a combat engineers’ “Hell squad” that patrolled and laid minefields ahead of Allied troops.
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Donald W. Haskins
Stanley D. Covell
First Avenue
War Department
Wvei
le Ley
Covell
Tunisia
Gulf of Gabes
Combat Engineers
Sergt Heaver Wins Legion of Merit
Master Sergeant Sylvester Heaver, son of James Heaver, R. D. Troy, received the Legion of Merit from the US Army Forces in the South Pacific. The citation praises his meritorious conduct at Guadalcanal from January 10 to 25, 1943, for organizing the command post under heavy fire and inspiring his men. He enlisted in 1914, served in World War II, was promoted to first sergeant in 1918, and master sergeant in 1941. he will mark 30 years of service next February. His wife Sadie M. Heaver resides in Freedom, California.
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Sylvester Heaver
James Heaver
R. D. Troy
United States Army
South Pacific
Guadalcanal Island
Heaver
Sadie M. Heaver
Freedom
Cai
Germans Clear Invasion Areas Along European Coasts
Reports say German forces evacuated civilians from a fifty mile coastal strip in southern France ten miles inland amid alarms of Allied invasion plans. The danger warnings come as Berlin intensifies defense preparations along the Mediterranean and broadcasts caution French listeners to beware provocations.
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London
France
Europe
Mediterranean
Adolf Hitler
British Broadcasting Corporation
Italy
United Nations
Broun Christened Liberty Ship Heywood Broun at Bethlehem Fairfield
The 10,500-ton Liberty ship Heywood Broun was christened at Bethlehem Fairfield shipyards on Labor Day with a kiss from Broun's widow and a champagne bottle shattered to launch the vessel into Chesapeake Bay. The ship honors the late columnist and presidents of the American Newspaper Guild.
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Baltimore
Heywood Broun
American Newspaper Guild
Bethlehem Fairfield
Broun
Connie
Chesapeake Bay
Hitler Demands Po River Stand Hitlers Demand on Po line debated by generals
A Stockholm based observer reports Adolf Hitler favors a major defensive stand along Italy's Po river despite generals advising withdrawal behind the Alps. The informant notes behind the scenes controversy over this strategy amid German Italy operations.
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Stockholm
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Italy
Alps
Catholic Central Verein Elects Two Trojans
Rev Francis J Buechter pastor of St Lawrence s Church named spiritual advisor Francis E Popp fourth vice president of the Catholic Central Verein at the closing session of the joint Verein and Catholic Women s Union state convention in Elmira Archbishop Francis J Spellman of New York was elected protector A Schenectady man Peter J M Clute was elected general secretary
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Francis J. Buechter
St. Lawrence's Church
Francs E. Popp
Catholic Central Verein
Verein
Catholic Women's Iunion
Elmira
Francis J. Spellman
New York
Schenectady
Peter J. M. Clute
Pupils Return To School Desks Today In Troy Area
Pupil start today across Troy and Rensselaer County with shortened sessions or half days. Troy High School holds a faculty meeting at 8 pm and elementary pupils begin at 8 45 am. Registration times are listed for freshmen sophomores and transfers in various rooms. School 3 at Jay Street and Fifth Avenue will not open. pupils move to School 5 near Broadway and Fifth Avenue saving about 310000 yearly.
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Pepare
Troy
Rensselaer County
Troy High School
Lansingburg
Jay Street
Fifth Avenue
Broadway
Board of Education
Juniour High School
Knickerbacke
Aud Tanum
Thomas O' Tieharne
High Schoo
Portland man elected president of Danish Brotherhood Lodges
Bertel Luja of Portland Maine was elected president of the Eastern Lodges of the Danish Brotherhood at the Schenectady conference closing. He succeeds Ole C Beck of Waterford Pennsylvania. Officers include Christian Jansen Portchester Connecticut vice president Henry Bikke Schenectady reelected secretary A M Mose Hartford Connecticut treasurer and Chris Madsen Newark New Jersey. Newark was chosen as the site of the 1644 convention.
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Bertel Luja
Portland
Schenectady
Ole C. Beck
Waterford
Christian Jansen
Portchester
Conn
Henry Bikke
A. M. Mose
Hartford Conn
Chris Madsen
Newark
Turus Fee
Private Covell Earns Silver Star in North Africa
Army Stars and Stripes profiles Private Covell who earned the Silver Star for reporting German artillery near Hasserine Pass during the Arzew area actions. He observed misaligned German fire, alerted his division and Army Intelligence, and aided subsequent operations amid heavy fighting. The article notes his casual meals with Arabs and references a Purple Heart and continuation on Page Nine.
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Stars and Stripes
Landin
Arzew
Algeria
Covell
Here
Febiues
Hasserine Pass
Army Intelligence
Soldier Vote Law Will Be Revised
Congress to revise soldier voting rules to aid service members voting in 1944 elections. Hearings in September on the Green Lucas Dill bill aim to simplify the 1912 act and enable postcard and V-main ballot methods for those at home and abroad. Kansas and New York elections loom. Army and Navy to issue new postcard forms early 1944. Temple Shrine No a Lodge meeting announced with refreshments afterward.
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Green-Lucas
Hatch
Kilgore
West Virginia
Bridges
New Hampshire
Moore
Oklahoma
New York
Kansas
Army and Navy
Guyer
Dewes
Nasy
Congress
Temple Shrine
Order of the White Star of Jerusalem
Eastern Star
Albana
Eleanor C Seabridge
Willam Small
Inquiry Into Auto Death Continued In Schaghticoke
An ongoing inquiry into the death of Ellis H Grogan 33 of Valley Falls after a car struck him on Louth Main Street Schaghticoke shows a fatal injury pattern. Autopsy found fractured ribs puncturing the left lung and head and hip lacerations. Grogan died at the scene as officials from the state police and local coroner continue investigation with Dr Packard and Dr Sproat. Funeral arrangements set for Valley Falls pending interment at Maillertown Cemetery Johnsonville. Grogan survived by parents and four brothers and a sister with ties to Albany Johnsonville Valley Falls Eagle Bridge and Pitts Town.
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C B. Packard
Bercoroner
Ellis H Grogan
Valley Falls
Louth Main Street
Schaghtcoke
Grogan
C. B. Spivat
Wall Fal
Charles McWhiley
Johnsonville
Troy
Sam Wil Tald
McClure Funeal
Sproat
D. Harold M Kenyon
Schaghticoke
Kenyon
Serzt
F. J. Schoonmaker
Harry A. Scoville
B.C
W. A. Nemstiel
Cambridge
Packard
Valley Falls Methodist Church
Maillertown
Pittstown
Thomas Edgar Grogan
Mary Banker
Jesse A. Albany
Ernest Ee Valley
Ziba H
Eagle Bridge
Harriett E
Watervliet Soldier Dies In Wreck
Corporal Owock, a Watervliet youth stationed near Camp Chico, Cal, died from injuries after a railroad wreck near Oroville. His body was to be returned to Troy for funeral services from the Merola home, with arrangements pending his arrival. He had recently served three weeks at Atlantic City before heading to California. Survived by his father and two sisters, Victoria Merola and Ann Golesby.
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Anthony Merola
Fourth Street
Troy
Camp Chico
Cal
Merola
Corporal Owock
Atlantic City
N. J
California
Curran Hospital
Oroville
Wee
Victoria Merola
Ann Golesby
South Poultney Soldier Wounded in South Pacific
Mr and Mrs Hugh H Hughes of South Poultney formerly of Granville report their son David Hughes a 76 year old former Granville and Poultney baseball player was wounded in the South Pacific zone in August as he serves in the armed forces.
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Hugh H Hughes
South Poultnes Yt
Granville
War Department
Cerin
David Hughes
South Pacida
Poultney
Police Remove Maun to Hospital
George Callahan, 22, a roomer at the Lincoln Hotel, was removed to Troy Hospital last night in a police radio call from Central Police Station by Patrolman Dominick Campana and John Stalimer. He underwent an operation and attendants described his condition as good. Callahan’s home is in St Rose Street Jamacia Plans Mass.
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George Callahan
Lincoln Hotel
Troy Hospital
Central Police Station
Dominick Campana
John Stalimer
Callahans
St Rose Street
Jamacia Plans
Mass
Air Raid Wardens to Meet at Frostone Social Club
Air raid wardens from the June 2 district will gather at the Frostone Social Club on Federal Street today at 8 pm. The meeting will cover district arrangements with refreshments served after the business portion.
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Thomas
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