Seven Men Held In Sabotage Bail Hearing Set
Seven men linked to sabotage charges over faulty loading of incendiary bombs and grenades for the U S Army face a bail hearing after federal agents arrest and a judge set bonds. Amerigo Antonelli heads the company and faces the highest bail with others linked as relatives and foremen at the Spencerport plant.
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Rochester
U. S. Army
Harold P. Burke
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Amerigo Antonelli
Antonelli Fireworks Company, Inc
Spencerport
John
Joseph Derius
Antonelli
Dominick Barbello
Bennie Pitea
Angelo Costanza
Frank Bianchi
FBI
John B. Little
Deritis
United States
R. Norman Kirchgraber
Burke
J. Edgar Hoover
Washington
U. S
D. D. Ventura
Tailless Eight-Engined Aircraft Foreseen After War
Akron experts predict tailless aircraft with eight engines delivering 3,000 horsepower will emerge in the postwar era. IC Hunsaker, chair of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, spoke at Goodyear’s $1.325 million research lab opening, saying aviation isolation will be technologically impossible as air power extends beyond bases and borders.
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Akron
Ohio
IC. Hunsaker
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
Hunsaker
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
State gasoline tax receipts fall 36 percent year over year
State Tax Department reports May motor fuel tax receipts at 3,378,342 down from 5,001,437 a year earlier. For the year to date 1943 collections total 12,229,830 a decrease of 6,936,832 from 1942. Rationing blamed. Cigaret tax up to 1,083,729. alcohol tax 3,203,666 vs 3,289,526 last year. Beer and wine sales higher than last year.
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State
New Waac Branch Trains Girls for Signal Corps Work
The War Department announces a Waac branch to train women for six months in code and radio mechanics, followed by four weeks basic training before duty with the Signal Corps. Applicants aged 17 to 45 with high school education and algebra, plus a 110 general classification score, earn 110 dollars monthly during training and 146 dollars in the latter half.
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Waac
Signal Corps
New York
INS
Waacs
War Department
Army Signal Corps
Davies Foresees Three Great Nations as Postwar Hub
Joseph E. Davies predicts postwar world power centers around the United States Canada and Russia. He says allied unity and mutual confidence are essential for lasting peace and notes faster travel will tie Moscow to New York by air, placing all three nations at the world hub.
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Davies
U.S
Canada
Russia
Toronto
Joseph E. Davies
Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin
U. S
Soviet Union
United States
America
Moscow
New York
New York Soldier Awarded Alaska Air Medal
Staff Sgt. Frederick N. Byrd of Lebanon New York is among four air personnel honored by Lt. Gen. Simon Buckner Jr for more than 106 hours of combat and operations flights in adverse weather with the Alaska Defense Command.
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Alaska Defense Command
Frederick N. Byrd
Lebanon
N. Y
Simon B. Buckner, Jr
Compromise Offers War Food Authority Run Farm Security
Washington reports a House compromise would place Farm Security Administration loan and tenant programs under War Food Administration control with reduced funding. The plan proposes 60 million for rehabilitation loans and 20 million for admin costs, directing funds to the Agriculture Secretary for WFA use. The House also kept a ban on incentive payments from Agriculture funds and accepted a Senate soil conservation boost.
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Washington
War Food Administrator
Farm Security Administration
House
Representative Tarver
D-Ga
Appropriations
Senate
Secretary of Agriculture
War ‘Food Administration
Chester Davis
Congress
Agriculture Department
Pace
Circus Baboon Escape Ends in Delta After 15 Hours
A circus side show baboons escape from a cage in Delta Colorado triggering a 15 hour vigil. A total of 29 baboons were rounded up by circus workers sheriff deputies and townspeople with several tied by lassos and one roaming along the Gunnison River before capture.
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Delta
Colo
Colorado
Gunnison
Farm Labor Up Ten Percent in New York State
Albany reports full time hired farm workers rose about 10 percent in the last year and harvesting labor should be sufficient. The Farm Manpower Service notes ongoing farm labor problems but cites steps such as U S Employment Service placements, deferment handling, interstate recruitment, use of volunteers and inmates, conscientious objector programs, and school releases for farm work as measures to meet shortages.
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Albany
Thomas N. Hurd
New York
Farm Manpower Service
War Council
U. S
Dewey
Manpower Service
Pony Laughs As OPA Permits Pony Car Ride Transfer
A Southington boy rode 30 miles to buy his pony and asked the OPA if the pony could travel home by car. The agency said yes if it was the same pony, and a car arrived with the pony in the back seat, the driver grinning and the pony wedged inside, laughing as it rode home.
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Middletown
Conn
Office of Price Administration
Southington
OPA
Local Herald-Journal Offers Overseas News to Troops
The paper notes a high turnout at harvest time and mentions that students aged 14 and older may be released for farm work for up to 30 days each term. It explains that servicemen can receive the Herald-Journal and Herald-American overseas upon request, with subscription rates listed on Editorial Page.
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Ilar
Herald-Journal
Herald-American
Firemen Affected by Smoke at Table Art Plant Fire
In New York on June 23 twenty five firemen inhaled lacquer fumes while battling a large blaze at the Table Art Manufacturing Company plant. The fire burned for about an hour, its origin undetermined, with no serious injuries reported.
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Alaska
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Humphreys
Dr. F. Humphreys
Davis
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York
Croly
Lancaster
Fayette St
Witherill’s
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Euclid Lancaster Midland
E. Colvin
Park Oak
E. Genesee
Westcott Kensington
Ostrander
Harriette
Dodge
DeSoto
Chrysler
Opaimisse
Wiel
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Enline
Deslet
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Cheyer
Pask & Tilford
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