Court Clears Way for Vote Investigation
Albany sample: Governor Dewey's probe into crime in Democratic Albany County resumes Monday with unchanged grand juror selection. The Court of Appeals 5-2 upheld the Appellate Division, and special prosecutor Monaghan claims the jury lists are biased toward Democrats. Six jurors named for the separate legislative committee inquiry as it restarts.
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Albany
Dewey
Albany County
Court of Appeals
Appellate Division
Fey Nashc
Supreme Court
Parton Swift
George P. Monaghan
Daniel H. Prior
Reuben H. Kohn
Cohoes School
Prior
Ernest B. Morris
Monahan
Morris
Monaghan
Legislative Committee
New York City Set to Open Central Veterans Service Bureau
A central service bureau for war veterans will open in New York City before April 1. Directed by Mrs. Anna M. Rosenberg, it consolidates private and government agencies to streamline veteran aid. The midtown bureau will employ physicians psychiatrists social workers and employment counselors to assess veterans needs.
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Erans
New York City
War Manpowers
Commission
Anna M. Rosenberg
WPB Sets Safe Limits on Stockpiles for Postwar Metals
The War Production Board approves a stockpiling policy to limit critical war materials. The plan seeks three months to one year of wartime needs, sterilized under government control, with joint chiefs of staff approval pending. It covers metals like tin, copper, and manganese and possibly non metals managing future supply risks.
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Washington
War Production Board
Joint Chiefs of Staff
North America
WPB
Tax Makers Will Tackle War Profits Tax
Washington January 28 House conferees on the 2 billion plus tax bill moved into the most contested area approving sizable increases in excise taxes and postal rates. Highlights include 30 percent cabaret and night club tax and 25 percent on cosmetics and toilet articles. Welfare topics like liquor taxes and postal duties also rose, with air mail postage up and mail rates adjusted.
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Washington
Senate House
Bredhart
House
Senate
Shipyard Worker Found Guilty of Slaying Wife
Wendell P. Arrington a 29 year old Miami shipyard worker was found guilty of second degree murder in the death of his wife 23 year old Mildred S Arrington. The jury fixed his penalty at 12 years in prison after he testified he choked and slashed her with a razor in October in a passion episode claiming she was pregnant by another man. An autopsy contradicted the pregnancy claim.
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Richmond
Wendell P. Arrington
Miami
Wac
Mildred S. Arrington
Arrington
Ulster County Youth Held in Stove Shaker Murder
A 16 year old farm youth is jailed in Ulster County after arraignment on a first degree murder charge in the stove shaker slaying and stabbing of his 52 year old mother, Hazel Branch, at Mount Marion. The youth, a Saugerities High School attendee, waived exam and awaits Grand Jury action.
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Ulster County
Stove Shaker
Kingston
Hazel Branch
Mount Marion
Edna Short
Saugerties
David
Saugerties High School
Justice of the Peace
Percy Bush
Ulster
Missing Roulette Wheel Case Ends In Two Acquittals
Chicago January 28 The case of vanished roulette wheels linked to a Cook County Grand Jury gambling inquiry ended with acquittals for Myles McDonough and Philip Schwartz both charged with conspiracy to permit gambling. Seven wheels seized in a Dome Roadhouse raid vanished after being held as evidence.
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Chicago
Cook County
Myles McDonough
Philip Schwartz
Swanky
Two Bundist Suspects Show Nazi Flags Witness Says
Albert Cezh testified that Hugo K Schuster and Fritz H K Spindler displayed Nazi flags in Spindler s home and Schuster s room in 1938. The two Buffalo Bundists face denaturalization proceedings and are tried jointly by Judge John Knight.
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Buffalo Bundist
Buffalo
Hugo K. Schuster
Fritz H. K. Spindler
Schuster
Spindler
Cech
William
B. Mahoney
Yugoslav Partisans sever Belgrade Zagreb rail line in six sectors
Tito reports simultaneous partisan strikes cut the Belgrade Zagreb railway in six sectors. Cairo dispatches note Yugoslav spearheads near Belgrade as German relief forces move to Bosnia. Fighting continues around Tuzla and Zvornik with Partisans pushing along the Drina and Bosna valleys.
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London
Belgrade-Zagreb
Josip Broz
Tito
Cairo
Belgrade
Free Yugoslav Radio
Associated Press
Tuzla
Zvornik
Bosnia
Danube
Drina
Bosna
Sarajevo
Senj
Novi Vinodol
Zagreb
Stockholm
Fiume
Air Forces Training Graduates 100000 Pilots Since 1939
Fort Worth Texas reports United States Army Air Forces Training Command has trained over 100,000 pilots since 1939. From Jan 1 1939 to Nov 30 1943 the command also produced 240360 airplane mechanics 100052 clerks 98974 other specialists and 555891 ground and air combat crew technicians.
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Fort Worth
Texas
U.S. Army Air Forces Training Command
U S Eighth Air Force Marks Two Years Of Growth
The United States Eighth Air Force, two years old today, began with 155 personnel and has since dropped 46 840 tons of bombs. The unit in London reflects a rapid expansion and increasing reach in the war effort.
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U.S. 8Th Air Force
London
United
Hague
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Wiliam F. Halsey, Jr
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Bougainville
Ralph Mitchell
Marine Aviation
Pacife
Col
Caleb T. Bailey
Marine Forward Echelon
Roy S. Geiger
Marine Ground Forces
Adm
Field Harris
Marine Air Forces
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Air Forces
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Buckley
U.S.A
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Canada
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