Legislators Churn Bills On Bingo Legalization And Tax Reform
Albany reports two bills to legalize bingo run by non profits with state licenses tax proceeds to welfare. one would amend the constitution for a statewide vote, the other revise penal law. Lawmakers seek $25 licenses, $10 million surplus allocations, and social welfare uses while clergy veterans and fraternal groups back the measures.
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Herald-Journal Bureau
Albany
New York
Dewey
James J. Crawford
Kings Democrat
George Archinal
Queens
Bona Fide
Crawford
Archinal
Louis 5. Heller
Kings
Social Welfare Department
State Tax Commission
Rollin Brown
Tax Commission
Arthur Wachtel
Bronx
Lewis W. Cliffe
Carmine J. Marasco
John V. Downey
William E. Glancy
Julius J. Gans
Richard H
Knauf
Broome
Fred Young
Lewis
Luce Cancels Talk After Crash Kills Daughter
Rep Clare Boothe Luce cancels her speaking engagements after her daughter Ann Clare Brokaw dies in a Stanford area auto crash. Husband Henry Luce travels from New York as funeral plans proceed. Virginia Blood and Virginia Hobbs are noted in the incident.
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Luce
San Francisco
Clare Boothe Luce
R-Conn
Ann Clare Brokaw
Stanford University
Virginia Blood
Connecticut
George TI
Brokaw
Miss Brokaw
Virginia Hobbs
Stanford
Kurt Bergel
Bergel
Salo Alto
Calif
Pierce and Austin Propose Bill On Fee-Splitting in Workers’ Comp
A bill offered by Senator George H. Pierce of Olean and Assemblyman Bernard Austin of Kings County aims to prohibit fee-splitting by physicians in workers’ compensation cases, signaling a move to curb physician referral practices.
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George H. Pierce
Olean
Bernard Austin
Kings County
Soviets Press Across Wilno Rowne Line Near Sarny
Soviet front reports describe Vatutin's army driving on toward Sarny and Shepetovka with heavy German losses. They claim 800 German soldiers killed and 30 towns captured as units push to threaten the Odessa Lwow railway and reach toward Bessarabia while jeeps, tanks, and guns are seized in large numbers.
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Wilno-Rowne Line
Sarny
Vatutin
Novograd Volynski
Snepetovarda
Rovno
Shepetovka
Novograd Volynski-Shepetovka
Ukraine
Ivan 3. Konev
Kirovograd
Dnieper
Baby crop grows million in two years
The Census Bureau reports a bumper birth increase in the United States over the last two years, about 1,000,000 more births than in peacetime. The peak in new births came roughly one year after Pearl Harbor.
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Washington
Jan
United States
Census Bureau
Pearl Harbor
Mud slows Fifth Army push on Rome in fierce pockets
Front reports say German troops fought in Cerraro and the hills as Americans cleared pockets at bayonet point. On the Adriatic front the Eighth Army saw patrol skirmishes while Allied planes bombed German supply and communications targets around Cervaro St Elia and Sola. Night bombers hit Piombino iron and steel works.
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Cerraro
Cassino
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Pescara
Cervaro
St. Elia
Sola
Fifth Army
Palena
Fabriano
Piombino
Rome
Air battle over Germany as Yanks clash with Nazi defenses
The large air raid by U S bombers met fierce counterattack from German fighters in a three hour running battle. Brig Gen Robert F Travis noted only three minutes between first contact and the end, while Germany claimed 136 Allied planes down. The report mentions a new Mustang P 51 variant escorting bombers to Berlin, with Rolls Royce Merlin engines improving performance.
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U.S
Robert F. Travis
U. S
Schweinfurt
Eighth Air Force
Germany
Ludwigshafen
Mannheim
Kiel
Muenster
France
Berlin
Dieppe
R.A.P
Continent
Mediterranean
Pacific
Explosion of Experimental Plane Sinks Hope for Speed Record
Investigators searched wreckage of an experimental P-51 model in Los Angeles hoping to determine why it exploded at high altitude. Test pilot Gustav Pitcairn, 33, died in the crash as Army and North American Aviation officials released limited information about the aircraft. The ship was the same basic type as the fighter involved in recent Army raids over Germany.
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Los Angeles
Army
Liberator crew dumps body to save ship over English Channel
A Liberator returning from France with one engine lightened its load by throwing the dead navigator into the English Channel. Pilot Lt. Glenn E. Jorgensen said the act, along with jettisoning weapons and gear, saved nine crew members as eight German fighters attacked after bombing northwest Germany.
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Fort
Newemgeen
England
France
English Channel
Glenn E. Jorgensen
Freewater
Ore
Germany
Argentine dissolves nationalist groups to calm politics
The government ordered the dissolution of nationalist organizations to secure a truce in political activities. The decree, linked to a prior move dissolving political parties, targets seven major groups including the Alianza de la Juventud Nacionalista, a militant pro Nazi youth movement.
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Buenos Aires
Alianza de la Juventud Nacionalista
Vatican City shuts down heating amid wartime sacrifices
The Vatican radio said Pope Pius XII ordered the central heating systems in Vatican City shut down due to serious times requiring sacrifices. The order has been kept since the start of winter in official rooms and the Holy Father's private suite, as reported by the FCC.
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Vatican City
New York
Vatican Radio
Pius XII
Federal Communications Commission
Holy Father
Oklahoma Aims For Low State Debt For Returning Troops
Gov. Kerr announced Oklahoma may have the lowest per capita debt of any state by July 1 1945. He cited a current per capita debt of 34.50 dollars advised by the state tax commission, contrasting with Nebraska's higher level.
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Robert S. Kerr
State Tax Commission
Nebraska
Doris Duke Faces New Charges in Reno Divorce Battle
Elizabeth New Jersey January 12 United Press James H R Cromwell accuses his wife Doris Duke the wealthiest girl in the world of occupying his bedroom at their Raritan estate while he runs a senatorial campaign in 1940 He details as cruelty that a valet waited four hours for belongings and says she deserted him during his campaign while she cavorted in Honolulu with a new lover and interests He seeks to have the Reno divorce voided and Herr orders Mrs Cromwell to answer nine allegations
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Elizabeth
N. J
James H. R. Cromwell
Doris Duke
Raritan
Cromwell
Reno
New Jersey
John E. Tolan
Chancery Court
Dougal Herr
Herr
Honolulu
New Yorker to Head W Coast Sea School
Com. Malcolm E. Crossman U S N R former head of the Seaman's School at Hoffman's Island New York will become superintendent of the United States Maritime Service Officer's School at Alameda on January 29. He succeeds Com. Alfred G. Ford who is transferred to command the officer's school at Fort Trumbull New London Conn.
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San Francisco
INS
Malcolm E. Crossman
U.S.N.R
Hoffman's Island
N. Y
United States Maritime Service Officer's
Alameda
Crossman
Alfred G. Ford
Fort Trumbull
New London
Conn
German-Born Count Arrested in Brooklyn on Espionage Charge
New York January report states William Albrecht von Pressentin Gernant von Rautter, a German-born naturalized American, held on $25,000 bail for conspiracy to violate wartime espionage laws. FBI ties him to secret writing methods and alleged transmissions of American military data to Germany. A further hearing is scheduled for January 25.
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Brooklyn
New York
FBI
William Albrecht von Pressentin Gernant von Rautter
U. S
Jacob A. Wisel
von Rautter
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Germany
J. Edgar Hoover
Washington
Sharp Reduction In Use of Potatoes Made in Germany
Berlin radio reports a German domestic broadcast warns of a potato shortage forcing sharp conservation to ensure seed stock for spring planting. The drought of 1943 is blamed and those feeding human edible potatoes to stock are criticized. Bread and other foods will be increased to offset the shortage.
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Germany
New York
Ber‘tin Radio
U. S
Governor's Mercy Sought for Slayer Awaiting Execution
Albany January 1247 Gov Dewey was asked to grant clemency to Louis Valle who faces execution January 20 for the fatal stabbing of his daughter Fiorentina and wounding others at North Hempstead. Valle convicted April 27 1943 on two murder counts. his counsel urged temper and drink caused the killings. District Attorney Neary Nassau County said uncertainty prevented him from seeking clemency.
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Albany
Dewey
Louis Valle
Vaile
Fiorentina
Olivia Selig
North Hempstead
Selig
Edward J.neary
Nassau County
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