Green Island Officer Wins Commendation for Airfield Work
Green Island man Second Lieut. Anthony W. Walter, with the Seventh Army Air Force aviation engineer battalion, earned commendations from Admiral Raymond A. Spruance for rapid air base construction during the Saipan campaign. Engineers built a coral runway from a cane field infested with snipers in three weeks, enabling service planes to operate amid ongoing battles.
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Anthony W. Walter
George Shrees
Green Island
Seventh Army Air Force Aviation Engineer Battalion
Raymond A. Spruance
CSS
Fifth Fleet
Saipan
Val Fetto
Spruarce
Siso
Valletto
Mary Valetto
John A. Manning Paper Co
Gratral Pacific
Hudson Falls Soldier Dies in Action Reported Missing Earlier
War Department confirms Corp. Leon LaPoint of Hudson Falls was killed in action in Frante. Earlier government release said he was missing as of June 9. Survived by wife Mrs. Leon LaPoint and son David, parents Mr. and Mrs. Augustus LaPoint, five brothers, four sisters, all of Hudson Falls. First Lieut. R. Douglas Falkenburg Jr. wounded in France, recovering in a field hospital with parents notified. Funeral service with full military honors for Corp. Raymond H. Connor will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Christ Episcopal Church. body to arrive 3:26 p.m. tomorrow, accompanied by Corp. William J. Brownell.
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Sergi
Ross LaPoint
Saipan
Eugene LaPoint
Raymond LaPoint
Lake. George
Paul LaPoint
Donald LaPoint
Hudson Falls
Elizabeth Brown
Denvers Sherman
Norma LaPoint
Ann LaPoint
Douglas Falkenburg, Jr
Air
R. Douglas Falkenburg
van Dam Street
Saratoga Springs
Fallinburg
Corp
Raymond H. Connor
Tonopah
New
Hyde Street
Bairsten Spa
William J. Brownell
Christ Episcopal Church
Romania Armistice Terms With Soviet Demand Broad and Harsh
Romania agrees to fight for independence under Soviet command with 12 infantry divisions and naval and air forces under similar control. Soviet directs transport, food, and industry needs. Romania must return Soviet and UN property, repatriate prisoners at its expense, and free those interned for supporting the Allies. A reparations package valued at 300 million dollars in goods and food over six years, plus future payments for other nations, is outlined. Domestically a clean sweep of fascist groups is promised. Allied supervision via a control commission oversees terms as Bulgaria's terms are reportedly stiffer.
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Russia
Britain
United States
Romania
Red Army
Soviet Union
United Nations
Bomania
Germany
Hungary
Gust
European Advisory Commission
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Bulzana
Bricklayers Union to Stage Clamsteam at Ladfeate Field
The Bricklayers Mazons 404 Plasterers Union No 10 will hold its annual clamsteam at Ladfeate Field on Saturday September 28. A planning meeting tomorrow evening will appoint committees led by cochairmen Edward A. Pierce and Edward Sheedy. Former members are expected to attend with active members.
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Mazons 404
Plasterers” Union
Ladfeate
Edward A. Pierce
Edward
Sheedy
Cochairmen
Proved He's 36 in New Bedford Draft Records
A New Bedford registrant contends his draft board listed his age as 26 and insists he is 29, citing school records employment files and other corroborating details such as birthday lists and perceived fatigue, all aligning with a 36 year old’s claimed identity.
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New Bedford
Mass
Allied armies press toward Siegfried Line from multiple fronts
First Army guards Belfort and pushes toward western Germany through Luxembourg and Clervaux. Third Army under Patton drives toward Nancy and Metz as Britain and Canada strike toward the Netherlands and Maastricht. Supplies of German prisoners surge. air forces pound Siegfried Line forts while defenses collapse along the Moselle.
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Brest
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Calais
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Aachen
France
S. Ninth Air Force
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Saarbrucken
Srasbourg
Hodges
Limbourg
Liege
Empen
Gorny
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Rhine
Ruhr
Gothic Line Passes Under Allied Attack Near Florence
Allied forces press toward major passes on the Gothic Line in the Apennines as British Eighth Army and U S Fifth Army advance north of Florence. British armor nears key passes near Rimini and northeast of Florence, while heavy fighting and German reinforcements slow progress. RAF bombers strike railway yards at Bologna to disrupt German supply lines.
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Ken Po
Aetian
Mark W. Clere
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Poggia Della Dogess
Rimisi
Estern
Herce
Po Val
Albert Kesselring
Eighth Army
U.S. Fifth Army
Florence
Largnaso
Poggio Della Dogana
San ‘Ippolito
Gowhie
Fifth Army
Une
Herihi
Sieve
Adriatic
Fuia
Bologna
Cassine
RAF
Po Vailer
Bodies of 35 Miners Taken From Ohio Mine
Rescue crews recovered 35 bodies at the Powhatan mine in Bellaire after 66 perished July 3. Fifteen more are believed buried under tons of coal in No 7 right entry. Marcus Kerr of the Ohio division of mines said some limbs seen suggest 15 more remains may be found, most likely after the men were asleep when the disaster struck.
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Bellaire. O
Powhatan
Marcus Kerr
Ohio Division of Mines
Ina
Kerr
Waterford High School class organizing in 20th century notes
Waterford senior class held its organization, with Marjorie Swarye as vice president and Doris Barreaw as secretary. Other officers include Wertan Dwyer and Miss Hotton. The Waterford Methodist Church groups met for various committee work and plans, including surgical dressing with the Red Cross, a Legion meeting, and church session discussions. The Girls Division elected officers, changed meeting days, and planned to attend the Youth Division retreat at Crooked Lake.
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Marjorie Swarye
Doris Barreaw
Wertan’ Dwyer
Miss Hotton
M. Charles Cleuga
Marvin Adwer
Mery Ase Eyer
Isenh Usewicz
Woman’s Society of Christian Service
Waterford
E Youth Division
Methodist
Crooked Lake
Slavs Claim Merger With Russian Forces
Yugoslav partisan troops contacted Red Army near Negotin as a public communique announced. The message reported an offensive to the north with left wing in contact with Red Army forces. Negotin lies near the Romanian border, amid Balkan front lines. US Army air crews in the theater now wear the new heavyweight gas mask with a nose cup, enhanced carrier, and eye shield pockets for protection.
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London
Marshal Tito
Red Acmr
Free
Negetin
Red Army
Negotin
Burgarian
Air Service Command
England
INS
Army
Missing Mr Doctor Dies Of Meningitis
Philadelphia doctor Walter Hughson aged 33, expert on deafness, was found dazed and soaked in a pit near Abisgion Memorial Hospital after disappearing Monday night. He died last night from spinal meningitis. doctors offered no firm view on contraction timing or cause of disappearance. The nursery area near the hospital showed brambles beaten down as if he wrestled in pain.
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Philadelphia
Walter Hughson
Abisgion Memorial Hospital
Truug
Pilal
Dlostors
Farm Milk Price Of 3.83 Sets August Record
New York record return of 3.83 per hundredweight for August milk to dairy farmers in the New York milk shed. Dr. C. J. Blanford announced the metropolitan pool yielded 257,638,234 pounds last month at 3.38, plus 0.45 war feed payments, totaling 134,406,513.25 in August income, a gain over last year.
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New York
Pt—A
C. J. Blanford
Blanford
Jap Held Prisoners May Send Cable Home
Washington reports Japanese government will allow American POWs in Japanese custody to send a ten word cablegram to their next of kin at U S expense. Red Cross said the agreement likely not to become operative for at least two months.
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Washington
Red Cross
Weather Grounds Planes Over La Guardia Amid Bad Weather
Weather conditions grounded air traffic at La Guardia Field with flights canceled Tuesday and yesterday. The weather bureau warned normal operations would not resume soon due to ongoing unfavorable conditions.
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New York
la Guardia Field
Weather Bureau
Adjournment in Primary Day Case Taken at Cohoes
Police Judge Frank Le Brandt reserved decision in Cohoes Police Court on motions to dismiss charges against three men arrested for selling alcohol during prohibited hours. Kupiec and Pulaski sought dismissal. Hearty represented himself. Case adjourned as prosecution must appear.
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le Brandt
Cohoes
Michael Rincgnes
Investige Liquor Aurheseph Kupiec
Ontario Street
Michael Pulaski
Edward Hearty
Mohawk Street
John A. Brady
Kupiec
Pulaski
Heatly
Ontario
Saratoga Streets
Hearty
Hemnen Street
Brady
Two Cahoes Wills Filed For Probate
Two Cahoes wills were admitted to probate. The proceedings name Sarrogete Bdeard G. Rogan as wit and give details of real estate, family bequests, and executors. real estate and $15 each to two daughters Hazel Ruoto and Alice Cham pagne, with life use of estate to a daughter and eventual transfer to another. Several bequests of personal property are noted.
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G. Rogan
Destoert A Riezer
Cahoes Dentiss
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