0: THE UNION. SPRINGFIELD. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER $7, 1943 CITY NEWS HIGH SCHOOL ENROLLMENTS TO BE WATCHED Officials Anxious to Note if Boys and Girls Give Up :1 GENE Summer Jobs High school and Trade School en'rollment will be watched closely tomorrow on the first, day of school 10 sep how many boys and girls have decided to remain upon wartime jobs which they have held during the summer months. It is the hope of Public School System officials, that almost all will. return to the classrooms but they have no way of.
knowing until the frat- day figures are See Some Decrease Undoubtedly there will be some drop from the 21.000 total enrollment in the public schools which was recorded last March, not only because of older boys and gir.g working but because. the birth trend was headed downward until a few years ago, A year ago an enroliment decrease of something like 2000. was recorded in the public schools. Provision hay been made for full teaching staffs in the high schools and at Trade School but revisions may be necessary it the matriculation is not what is hoped for. Although the sysstem has teachers lose to a the considerable military number.
forces, ranks have been closed up and re placements made where necessary. It is considered possible that nowhere pour the full story will be given in the first-day enrollment because of the high school pupils who are working will wish to finish. out this week before going back to their studies. School authorities do not faror such straggling back, however. Many of those pupils returning to school plan to work part time through the fall and winter in some instances.
continuing at the jobs they have held during the vacation period. The school children will have no respite from their classes until Columbus Day, Oct. 11, which is celebrated as a school holiday. City News Reports Theft From Room Hector Roy of 517 State Street told police that his yellow gold wrist watch and a blue pair of pants were stolen, from his, sometime Saturday. He valued the missing articles at $10.
Townsend No. 1. Townsend Club No. 1 will meet Tuesday evening at 7:30 in their hall In 941 Main Street. It will be a program of entertainment, and a social hour will follow.
Wesley Women to Meet The Arst fall meeting of the Women's Society Wesley Methodist Church: will be held Wednesday bel ginning with a business 11:30 a.m. Tea and coffee will be served but members: are asked bring their own lunches. At 1:30 p. m. there will be music and a book review by Mrs.
Frank Y. Hess. WHERE to EAT? Most convenient places hotels, restaurants, cafes, barbecues. FIND IN THE EASY TO YELLOW TELEPHONE -PAGES ADVANTAGE HOTEL TAFT You have an advantage here: the best accomodations at rates that save you money! 2000 ROOMS, BATH AND RADIO FROM $2.50 HOTEL. ALFRED' LEWIS, MGR.
TAFT AT 7th 50th AVE. ST. NEW YORK TIMES SQUARE AT RADIO CITY BING BING MANAGEMENT Armenians Back United Nations A telegram pledging the support the Armenian Social Democratic Hunchagian Party: of America to: the cause of the United Nations was sent to President Roosevelt yesterday at of the organization which has been the close three convention held in the Polish Home, 91 Charles Street. of the "splendid work" of the Red telegram a expressing admiration Springfield Union Photo: offArmy Russian was sent to to. Andrei the Gromyko, United States.
The convention was the 60th annual one of the organization and It was attended by about 60 Above are new, members the central committee: seated. left to right, E. K. Siwart; Shahen and 1. Chustanding.
S. Simoman, A. P'hilian, 1. D. Hovanesian and G.
Artoruni. War Puts Damper on Holiday Spirit of Labor Day Week End 01 Absence of Crowds in Parks Reflects Fact Most War Plants Worked Full-Tilt Labor. Day was just another day tor thousands of war workers in Springfield and their absence from the city's parks was noticeable yesterday. Indeed, the police were prepared to, put up the one way signs throughout Forest Park but the crowds on Saturday, Sunday: ands yesterday were so small that it not necessary. Picnic Groves Filled We yesterday Forest Park with put large on its numbers old-time of auto- air mobiles to be seen, and with the picnic groves well filled.
The park fleet did a thriving business, with lines waiting to take their places in the heats. The animals which have suffered from the ban on pleasure driving made ujr lost time yesterday ate everything handed to them, and it was plenty. Blunt Park was practically deserted, although two or three picnic parties were noted. Watershops had a fair. ly busy day with sailboats skimming over the lake and canoes booked for the evening.
The little beach, always deserted. frequented by the children, was, also In the broiling sun, a group of the cadets at Springfield Collese was gOing through a session calisthenics 50 actively that caused motorist.to declare: the was, fort once, happy "to be old. From. the comparative comfort of their cars, a dozen or more persons watched the youngsters. It appears that the ration boards and Office of Defense.
Transportation have done their work well over long period, Traffic. in the city was far below that of a normal Labor Day. Thousands of coupon, holders were working as usual, and the A coupon doesn't gO very far and is being used sparingly. A trip through the Berkshires on Saturday and Sunday revealed very little increase in traffic on the outlying roads, but a considerable increase in traffic in the towns, and cities, where it was evident the lifting of the pleasure driving ban was having its effect. Notable also was the conservative speed of the drivers, with the majority of them keeping close to: the 35 miles per hour mark, yet in spite of this, State Police were on the iob and taking their toll.
Hotels and inns in Lenox. Pittsfield and Williamstown were doing a thriving week-end business, but when people once arrived they stayed at the hotels and did little driving around. As was the case last year, one noted a serious note throughout the Labor Day week end. There was less spontaneity than of old. as though it were difficult to enjoy a carefree existence knowing that on the home front thousands were working as the world men were fighting.
Usual and in the far-flung corners. of looked for as a goodly source of revenue at smaller airports in the postwar period. State Rep. Thomas T. Gray of this city, a member' of the Ways and Meana Committee of the Legislature, has been urging that the cost of operating the new.
Commonwealth Airport in Boston be defrayed by a levy upon gasoline sales there. 'The income available from such sales is certain to grow. as civilian aviation booms after the war, according to Gray, and a even in the instance a municipal: airport for Springfield might be expected to go a goodly, way toward meeting expenses. One of the principal questions, to be answered in any discussion of an airport for Springfield is that of mainbeteuance cost. the Tokyo raid.
He has been spend-! ing a few days leave with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. August I. Wildner. Levy on Aviation Gas Seen as Way To Pay for Commonwealth Airport New York City, now engaged in constructing the largest airport in the world in the Idlewild section of Queens and which has been named the Maj.
Gen. Alexander Anderson Airport. will finance much of the operating cost through the lease of the gasoline concession. A major oil company has agreed to pay $2.100,000 for the concession and: cents on every gallon. of gasoline sold.
It is estimated by Mayor LaGuardia that the latter income will reach $1,000.000 a year. While traffic at the Anderson Airport vrill be. tremendous once it is opened. completely dwarfing that of LaGuardia Field, fact still remains that revenue from similar gas-! oline concession contracts may Amherst College LT. EUGENE ASSUMES COMMAND AMHERST, Sept.
6--It. Eugene Sweeney, USNR, has come to Amherst to replace Lt. Kennard W. Woodworth as resident officer in charge of the Naval Training Station at the college. Lt.
Woodworth has been recalled to the Boston office of the Naval Avia9: tion. cadet selection board. Assigned also to the staff as resiGent flight officer is Lt. (jg) Francis H. Fehr, a graduate.
of Syracuse who received his wings Corpus Christi, and who has been flight instructor at the Navy Air Base at Squantum. It Fehr will live in Amherst but will spend a large part of his time at the airport. OAK LEAF CLUSTER FOR LT. WILDNER AMHERST. Sent.
6 Lt. Carl It. Wildner of Belchertown Road was one of four New Englanders who reOak Leaf. Cluster, presented to men c*ntly the award with the 10th Air Force in by Maj. Gen.
Ch Clayton Bissell. Lt. received the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal of China and the United States, for participation in can If walk: I'll teach you to dance in 6 hours Arthur Murray's experts declare that they "have yet to find a person who doesn't prove to be a "natural dancer" when they take him in hand few lessons. The Murray. method males it so easy to learn.
Haven't you dreamed of dancing beautifully when the orchestra plays the Fox Trot, Rumba or Waltz? Of having your. partners beg for encores? Make it all come true enroll for lessons before your resolution weakens. Visit the studio today and ask for a free dance analysis. Studios M. ARTHUR MURRAY HOTEL KIMBALL 2-1121 4 Anthony 0.
Adams Becomes Colonel Veteran of World War I Is Promoted in Field BASE. South Pacific. Sept. 6-Anthony O. Adams of Columbus, and acting chief-ofstaff at this base, has been promoted to.
the rank of colonel from that of lieutenant colonel. the War Deparment has announced. Col. Adams, inducted as 'adjutant general of the 37th Ohio Division Oct. 15.1940.
hag been overseas more than 15 months and is a veteran of World War I. He is A native of Springfield, Mass. During World -War I Col. Adams was commissioned: a second lieutenant June 41, 1917, and the same day was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. He was promoted to the grado of captain Nov.
5. of the same year. Col. Adams served. as a company commander and regimental adjutaint in the First Division and particibated in the following campaigns: Aisne- Marne, St.
Mihicl and Meuse. Argonne, and was decorated with the Silver Star with an Oak Leaf Cluster and the French Croix de Guerre with I'alm. March 20. 1020. he resigned, from the Army to become Eastern reprosentative of the Fisk Tire and Rubber Company with offices in Springfield.
He is a member of the Scottish Rite: Mrs. Adams, the former Maude Rouse of Cleveland, is making her home at. 1020. Northwest Boulevard, Columbus, with the couple's nine. years old son, Anthony Jr.
3 mi brother. of Col. Adams, Lionel Adams, and a sister, Mrs. Aline Deraleau, are living in Springfield. St.
Joseph's Drive Is Officially at End Goal of $60,000 Exceeded by $100,000 Approximately $100.000 over its goal, the St. Joseph Parish group of the New England, Liberty Ship war bond: drive ended its drive officially yesterday. The original quota of 000 was subscribed more than a month Between 800 and 900 families in parish bought bonds, making AF the splendid parish slowing possible. The group operated its drive very, simply. The pastor, Rev.
A. A. Aubertin, announced the drive and asked people. to purchase as many honds as they' could afford. The drive committee met.
in the church Sunday and Monday, nights and the to them to purchase. their bonds. There wag nO, house-to-house canvassing and little telephone work done. N. Methe said last night that the committee WAS very much pleased with the response and noted that the Franco-American Liberv Ship drive in the six New England States has a quota of $6,000,000, but last Friday it was known that already $7,000,000 had been raised.
Working with Mr. Methe were Dr. J. E. C.
V. Potvin, treasurer, and Airs. Laliberte, secretary. Stuart J. Kidd Of Amherst Dies Former Springfield Resident Succumbs at 24 Stuart James Kidd, 24, of 275 Last Pleasant Street died today after a long Born in Springfield May: 23, 1919, he was the son of William and Marion (Armstrong) Kidd.
He attended the public schools in Springfiela and was graduated from -Technical High School in 1938. Before h's iliness he was employed by the Greenfield Tap and Die Corp. Ile married Miss Rita A. Joy of Amherst Aug. 13, 1911, in Springfield a and made his home in Greenfield for' a short time.
Besides his wife he leaves His parents and a sister, Vera Kidd of Springfield. The funeral will' 'be held Thursday fat 2 from the Douglass funeral home. Rev. Harold H. Crainer of Wesley Me.
thodist Church will officiate. Burial will be in Wildwood Cemetery, Amherst. Trains Pigeons For War Roles BLANDFORD, 6 Air. and Mrs. Bester Weed and children of Worcester are guests of Mr.
Weed's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Weed. Weed, who is a teacher of biology in Classical High School, Worcester, has been. in Greenfield: for some time where he has been "instructing instructors how to.
instruct," fir" the Government. But this instructing is not 41. only work Weed has been doing. fort the Government and the war, effort. Au ardent pigeon fancier, ho is head of the Pigeon Service of the Civilian, Detense Courier and Messenger Service f.
Worcester, which can up. wards of 3000 pigeons owned by menberg of the four Worcester clubs. "The problems confronting such men ns Weed and his associates are many. Persons must be trained who can handie pigeons. Birds must be distributed 10 points where they are needed most.
must. be taught how to remove then Persons trained: to, handle pigeons from their. baskets, how to properly attach the message capsule, and how to launch the pigeons, all without injuring them. The routing of messages after they have been received at the pigeon loft falls to the lot of Boy Scouts, and Weed. who is Scout commissioner of the West Side district: in Worcester, las done much of this ingructing.
lageons, ordinarily, are used for when ordinary methods fail. This, naturally, can be in. times peace as well as war. jn' evidence of which is the town of Gin-rtville. To that town, isolated by flood waters in the hurricane of 138, were brought medical supplies, food and after messages had been carried.
by homing pigeons. But it is more often in war, when other means of communication are cut off, that? the pigeon is of ines. timable value. Pigeon fanciers can rattle off the names of famous pigeons cf the first World War as easily. as common foll: can rattle off the names of: Foch, Wilson and others.
For instance there the bird Cher Ami which saved the life of the Lost Battalion under Maj. Charles S. Whittlesley. AMHERST Amherst Theater today: "AERIAL GUNNEW with Chester Morris and Richard Arlen; Effective Monday, Sept. 6, John P.
Trainor announces there will be no further delivery by Jack's Delivery Service, t.o, his induction into the armed forces. cent. 4-room apartment, centrally located. Tel. 513-M.
Nonagenarian and Her Flowers Springfield Union. Photo Mrs. Sarah Clay, will observe her 92d birthday Friday, has many interests, but none so close as tending her flowers. Nearing 92, Mrs. Sarah Clay Still Active, Loves Political Arguments Recalls Seeing Lincoln on Train at Union Station and Watching Soldiers Drill for Civil War Never has the term 92 years young, been more applicable than it is in referring to Drs.
Sarah Clay 'of 162 Quincy: Street. who observes her 92d birthday on Friday. A tiny bundle of energy, scarcely A five feet tall, Mrs. Clay is alone in the world but surrounded by the loving of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Warner, with whom she lives. Has Seen ('ity Grow Mrs. Clay has lived practically all her 92: years in this city. She ived for three years in Northampton and for: a couple of years in Meriden, but, as she says, "I haven't been away from Springfield more than 10 vears in my life." She was born in the vicinity of what is now the crossing of Carew and Liberty Streets. and has seen that area grow from four.
houses. north of St. Benedict's Cemetery, to its present: populous area. Unlike many agel persons, Airs. Clay does not dwell entirely in the past.
Indeed. her great source of amusem*nt is to get a couple of men together and hear "them argue about politics. She never has too much bother." After working hard all her life, she: now is enjoying what she calls being, lazy, She has, however, her memories. one of which is seeing Lincoln standing on the platform of his train in the old Union Station. The memory is dim to details, for she was only a little girl.
Of early Springfeld, she remembers principally its wooded areas, which were many. where houses now stand. She used to come down. to Bridge Street to school from and everv. day would make the trip her home to Chestnut Street, and then walk the rails to: the Union Station to get the daily "paper.
Walking the rails is forbidden children of today. The advent of the horse cars, "with their beautiful horses." was a milestone in the city's history but was entirely eclipsed by the entry of the trolly cars, "My, we thought we were something when the trolly cars arrived." she said, "and people almost killed themselves trying to get a seat on them." Advice to Young Men Her advice to young men fearing to get married. because of Anancial difficulties is to marry an old maid. "They will take care of anything, Just to get a hushand," she During the Civil War, Mrs. Clay usel to run away from home to watch the soldiery drill in Hampden, Park.
She remembers the wife of a captain who attended drill each day with her small child. "Sometimes soldiers gave us supper," she said, "but it dian't matter to us, we wanted to see soidiers." MIA. Clay's husband, Henry: Clay, died in 1919, and her only child is also dead. She has no desire to reach the century mark, for she fears being a nuisance; but now, approaching her 92d birthday, she is a wonderful companion, her ready laugh and' witticisms spreading cheer. wherever she may be.
Trips downtown, preferably by herself, she still enjoys and. indulges in as much as 3 Roller Coaster Operator Returns $150, Receives Three Nickel Cigars Lyman. Field of Main Street, Agawam, operator of the roller coaster at Riverside l'ark, learned yesterday that "honesty. is its own reward" when he found $150 in a billfold, returned the money to its rightful owner and received three five-cent cigars as a reward. The woman to whom the" money belonged thanked Field for returning the money and said that it WAS the first time since she and her husband "Twas a Fair Day But Not Fair Day Blandford Grounds Vacant First Time in Years BLANDFORD, Sept.
6 A note of nostalgia fills the air in Blandfora this morning. Other years on Labor Day, fair officials have returred their cres skyward on the first moment of arising, but though this promises to be a "good fair day, it appears, to arouse little interest in anyone. Yesterday saw DO action the Blandford Fair Grounds when, in years, concessiors have moved in on Sunday, and the promptness' of. the now regal hot (ig. and hamburger have been getting their stands ready.
For the necond time In almost hundred years. no vehicles have: been hurrying ur Hills on Labor Day to the fair. The one other time was when an infantile paralysis epidemic kept the fair gates closed. The release of the pleasure driving ban gave many a moment when they thought there might have been a fair after all, but it vas then too late. Dog Officer Hurt By Savage Pack HUNTINGTON, Sept.
6-Dog Officer William Barnes warns all dog owners that the situation. in regard to and unlicensed dogs requires their immediate attention. For sometime now dogs have been running in packs causing annoyance and (had been married that she had let him carry the family money. "It is the lasti time!" emphasized as she tucked the money, into the safety of her purse. It was learned that the money had been saved by the wife for an operation on one of the children in the family.
Field is A member of the Navy's Seabees and expects to leave for active service within a month. age to property owners and even constituting a danger to persons. Officer Barnes had an unpleasant experience. one. night last week.
When he attempted unarmed to disperse a pack. several of the dogs turned on him a and although he carries some scars on his heavy' clothing protected hint Front further injury. He was able to step into his car before he WAS seriously injured. The time. for licensing dogs is past and any unlicensed will be taken into.
custody and disposed of according to law. Any owner wishing to claim his dog, will have to appear. in court to do so. Abernethy in Italy WESTFIELD. Sept.
6-Word has been received here by friends of It. Thomas Abernethy, that. he is active as A member of an Army Air Force bombing squadron now engaged in leveling Italian targets. Abernethy is the son of Lt. Col.
Thomas J. Abernethy, on military leave of absence as principal of Westfield High. School. and Mrs. Abernethy.
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to 11 P. M. CENTURY CAFE AND RESTAURANT 100 STATE ST. fir, Specializing in Sea Foods Steaks. Chops WE HAVE MONEY TO LOAN ON MORTGAGES ON RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY IN SPRINGFIELD AND VICINITY.
6 Our monthly, payment plan appeals to home owners. .11: CHICOPEE FALLS SAVINGS 1 Chicopee Falls, Mass. Rush Potato Harvest Pest Forces Farmers to Get Start NORTHAMPTON, Sent. 6 cause the grubwornt is inflicting con. siderable damage late potatoes farmers in this section have been forced to start.
an early harvest of their crops, was reported today. Examination of the crops by farmers revealed that the grubworm had started to work and before it gained too much headway many of the farm crs decided to start their harvesting activities about a month earlier. (Chinese Beat Off Two Attacks by Japanese GREENFIELD, Sept. the Federal Street cat whose selfdeclared area runs from the Growers Outlet to the Mansion House, is still the king or queen. whichever may be, of the walk.
The cat met its largest competitor today, a massive St. Bernard. and Biackie's string of successive victories is stin continuing. Blackie was to lean high in the air to. land its' punch, A combination naymaker plus extended claws to drive off the interloper.
The bout was witnessed by the usual large gathering which the cat's battles attract. Ex. rerienced dogs now Invariably pass on the opposite side of the The Union office provides an Excellent grandstand scat for the fights. "Blackie" Posts Another Victory $15,000 SUBSCRIBED IN WAR BOND DRIVE EAST LONGMEADOW, Sept. 6- The war sales campaign went over the top to a smashing victory this evening when Mrs.
Marjorie Wood, chairman of the War Service Committee, announced in a community mass meeting. In Town Hall that over $15.000 had been sulscribed in- town since August 16 in addition tc the town's 'original quota of $2400. It is possible that a landing barge of the U. S. Navy may.
he named after the town on account of the success of the campaign. WILL PICK APLES NEW YORK. Sept. 6 (AP)-More than 100 persons, must of whom will be free only on two-week vacations from. regular joha, applied today for work as apple-pickers in.
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