Mechanicville Soldier Wounded in Action in France
Word from the War Department says Mechanicville Private Victor Piccirilli son of Mrs Taouise Piccirilli Willis Street was seriously wounded in France on August 21 He is in a base hospital in Italy and has participated in the invasions of Africa Italy and France serving as a paratroop. He trained at Fort Leavenworth Georgia and was with the McCeil division. Council To Meet and Board Named for three year terms in the Zoning Board. Bowling notes list Masonic Club and Women’s Bowling League schedules. Local residents, including Iraonal and Miss Louise Collins, are mentioned among visitors and military assignments amid wartime notices.
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Victor Piccirili
Taouise Piocirilli
Willis Street
France
War Department
Italy
Piccirilli
Africa
Fort Leaning
Emp McCeil
Homer Eckerson
Leonard BR Laker
Gui Bostwick
Andrew FL Amann
Daniel 5S
Carr
Eugene Sictland
Masonic Club
Community clubs and Masons plan fundraisers and visits
The Oteseg Star of Liberty Chapter opened its season at the Masonic Temple with Mrs. Elsie Wooddell and Arthur Herrick presiding. Plans include a Dec 6 7 bazaar, while the Community Club in Knights of Columbus Hall draws large attendance. A Sept 29 benefit social will aid the Mechanicville War Memorial Recreation Center drive, and the Junior Dante Club plans a food sale for the Memorial Field at Pruyn Hill. A delegation from Ondawa Lodge will visit Rising Sun Lodge in Saratoga Springs to present an apron to Charles P. Reeves as district deputy grand master.
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Schaghticoke
Oteseg
Star of Liberty
Order of Eastern Star
Masonic ‘Temple
Elsie Wooddel
Arthur €. Herrick
Wooddell
A. C. Herrick
Knights of Colubus Hall
William P. George
Aharee
Joseph P. Githeany
Edward P. Holland
Mark J. Fuscos
Mechanicville, War Memorial
Junior Dante Club
Pruyn’s Hill
Ondawa Lodge
Rising Sun Lodge
Saratoga Springs
Charles P. Reeves
Saratoga- Werren
Pope Plans Visit to United States and Eucharistic Congress
Vatican sources report Pope Pius XII plans a postwar visit to the United States. The International Eucharistic Congress committee may hold a second postwar Congress in a major American city, with the Pope hoping to attend. If approved, the first postwar Congress would be in Vatican City, with the next two years later in New York or Philadelphia.
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Vatican
Pius XII
United States
Committee For
Vatican City
LG Bee Lee Ee
New York
Philadelphia
Nazi Women Staff at Majdanek Camp Reported
London dispatch says Majdanek near Lublin housed 45 000 prisoners. Commission from Polish Soviet Extraordinary Investigation of German Crimes cites mass executions, cremations, and torture by German women guards. Report claims 1 380 000 bodies burned, with furnaces, bonfires, and forest cremations across the site.
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London
Majdanek
Lublin
Moscow
Berlin
Two German Villages Burned by Yanks Near Trier
First Army reports the village of Wallendorf and a nearby settlement in the Trier sector were set ablaze by American forces after persistent sniper fire. Smoke rose from ruins as villagers emerged from the hills toward their former homes, faces gaunt and silent.
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Third Army
Wallendorf
First Army
Trier
John W. Wallace
Pardoe
France
One Thousand ODT Clerical Workers to Be Discharged
Washington reports that about 1,000 clerical staff in the Office of Defense Transportation field offices nationwide will be discharged around October 15. The move, part of a broader transfer of the commercial truck and bus gasoline rationing program to the Office of Price Administration, aims to save roughly $2,000,000 and reduce ODT employment. Local OPA rationing boards will assume duties from ODT highway transport personnel in district offices.
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Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
Office of Price Administration
OPA
ODT Highway Transport Department
ODT
Hoosick Falls Women's Bowling League Opens Season
Hoosick Falls readies eight teams for the new season to begin tomorrow at 7 80 p m at Bar By Recreation with signups open through Tuesday night. Officers include president Miss Mary McCann vice president Mrs Alice Cuddiley secretary Mrs Bive Ficke treasurer Mrs Bett Hay dem and arms officer Mrs Ann Hasselmas. Supper at Hoosick by All Saints Parish Guild raised over 16. The Ladies Society of the Fire Baptist Church plans a fund sale with New York Power Eishe Corp office. Class meetings held at Hoosick Falls High School as four classes organized. Mrs Mary Noyes learns her son Serat Douglas Noyes wounded in France is better and back to duty. Court S Mary Catholic Daughters plan a food sale for Immaculate Conception parish. Van Rensselaer Chapter GES starts new season with a covered dish supper and first business meeting.
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Mary McCann
Lenge
Tre
Mire
Alice Cuddiley
Bive Ficke
Bett
Hay Dem
Ann Hasselmas
Hoosick
All Saints Parisa Guild
Sare
Women's Society of the Fire Baptist Church
Fond Saisoon Pri Starling
New York
Court S. Mary
Catholic ‘Daughters of America
Private Lives card party planned for members and friends
Plans for a card party were made for Thursday September 21 at 3 PM at Mrs Forrest's home. Bridge and other games will be played with awards and refreshments. The Ladies Auxiliary of the Ancient Order of Hiternians met at Immaculate Conception Parish Hall with Miss Kathryn Miller presiding. The new pastor Father John B. Martin was introduced and stressed the value of patience in parish life. The business meeting was chaired by Mrs Edward Bouston. next meeting October 12 with Mrs Margaret Gorman as social hour chair.
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Sirs. Forrest
Ancient
Order of Hiternians
Immaculate Conception
Kathryn Miller
Patiece
Pallontan
Hayden
Edward Bouston Wrehairman
Margaret Gorman
Elkhart Man Joins Railroad Brakeman Ranks
Nations Bank of Elkhart notes Saturday start as a railroad brake man. Hoak volunteered for the New York Central Railroad to ease manpower strain and was accepted. He begins as a freight brakeman on the Elkhart to Chicago run, working weekends.
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Hoak
New York. Central Railroad
Elkhart
Chicago
Life Insurance Aid Promotes Public Economic Knowledge
America's life insurance sector sponsors an educational program as a public service for 68,000,000 owners of life insurance and all American citizens, stressing individual financial health as key to national prosperity.
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