No Members of Troy Group Slated for Physical Tests On Good Friday
The sole Selective Service board in the area reports no registrants requested postponement for Good Friday. State rules allow Christian registrants to be excused from examinations or induction on Good Friday, with some cases to Saturday. Draft boards must include all men under 26 for examinations this month, with possible deferments for essential war industry workers. Jewish registrants may also be excused on Passover dates April 15 and adjacent days.
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Selective Service Board
Albany
Board 331
State Director of Selective Service
Former Barge Canal Engineer Dies at 78
Arkadelphia Ark GP William Gerig, 78, renowned civil engineer who built railroads and dams from Alaska to Panama, died at his home. He retired in 1938 after long service with the U S Engineers and as head civilian engineer of the Office of Chief of Army Engineers in Washington. He oversaw projects including the Gatum Dam in the Panama Canal the New York Barge Canal and several major dams in Alaska and the Lower 48.
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Arkadelphia
Ark
William Gerig
Alaska
Panama
South
Gerig
U. S. Engineers
Office
Chief of Army Engineers
Washington
Geiig
Gatum
Panama Canal
New York Barge Canal
Anchorage
The
Alaskan Railroad
Fort Peck, Muskingum, Tygert
Cinmehos
Young Farmhand Freed Of Murder Charges
Rochester reports Justice Fred D Cribb dismissed the indictment against Joseph Cuozzo age 19 charged with first degree murder in the death of Lois Tryon 18 of Town York The 1939 case stemmed from her body found April 6 along railroad tracks near her home Cuozzo had been convicted last July but an January Court of Appeals ruling reversed the conviction citing lack of evidence
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Rochester
UPI
State Supreme Court
Fred D. Cribb
Joseph Cuozzo
Lois Tryon
York
Cuozzo
Wadsworth
Court of Appeals
Miss Tryon
Local Social Notes From Eagle Mills Area
Eagle Mills residents attend hospital treatment for asthma at Samaritan Hospital. Week end visits include Mr and Mrs William J Tamm to Miss Frieda Tamm in Stephentown and Air Cadet Leon E Pratt at his aunt Mrs Charles Patrie. Holy Communion at Methodist Church and Easter program planning at Church of Christ. Red Cross fund drive proceeds with 72 dollar offering toward 850 goal. Sewing meetings seek volunteers. Loyal Women’s Class meets with covered dish luncheon and devotional. 15th wedding anniversary celebrated by Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Tamm with guests including Clum and Kienle families.
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Leslie A. Clum
Samaritan Hospital
William J. Tamm
Tamm
Frieda Tamm
Stephentown
Leon E. Pratt
Charles Patrie
Methodist Church
George H. Pettingell
Arnold W. Sliter
Church of Christ Bible School
Church of Christ
Red Cross War Fund
Red Cross
Martha Patrie
Forrest Patrie
Loyal Women's Class
Audna Coonrad
Brunswick Road
Frank Ferguson
Ernest Tamm
Carl Clum
Troy
Henry Kienle
Larry Leonard
Italians Aid Nazi Troops At Anzio Beachhead
Allied reports say Italian Fascist paratroops wearing German uniforms moved into the Anzio area to reinforce the German 14th Army. Heavy artillery exchanges continued with planes bombing targets and ships in the port area. Cassino remains stalled with sporadic fighting while Allied and German forces clash along the front.
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Allied
Naples
Anzio
14Th Army
Fifth Army
Cassino
Hotel Des Roses
Mount Cassino
New Zealand
Rome
Orvieto
Budapest
Stanley Motkowicz Wounded in Action
Mrs. Helen J Motkowicz of 51 Railroad Avenue has received word that her husband Sergeant Stanley J Motkowicz was wounded while serving with a tank unit in the South Pacific. He is a lifelong local resident, a Catholic Central High School graduate, and formerly worked at Harry's Grill on Secovered Avenue before enlisting about two years ago.
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Helen J. Motwowicz
Railroad Avenue
Sergt
Stanley J. Motkowicz
South Pacific
Catholic Central High School
Harry’s Grill
Secovered Avenue
Tito asks seat on Allied relief agency council
Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito urged the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration to grant Yugoslavia a seat. He reported 50,159 square miles freed from Axis control with about 5 million people in urgent need and criticized lack of opportunity for their voices before inter Allied committees. Lehman of UNRRA traveled to Cairo for talks with the Yugoslav refugee government, causing national concern.
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Tito
London
Josip (Tito) Broz
Council of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Free Yugoslav
Min
Istry
United Nations
Army of National Headquarters
Tate
Lehman
U.N.A.R.A
Herbert H. Lehman
New York
Cairo
South May Drop Primaries After Court Ruling
The Supreme Court decision allowing Negroes to vote in state primaries spurs fears in the South that primaries may end and conventions return. Sen. John H. Overton of Louisiana warns of white supremacist resistance, predicting adverse effect on Roosevelt's fourth term and urging white-preference tactics to deny Black voters access.
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Washington
Supreme Court
South
John H. Overton
D. la
Roosevelt
Overton
High
Texas
Southern States
Grieving Dog Follows Boy Master in Death
Conshohocken Pennsylvania report about Woodsie a mixed breed dog who had been the constant companion of 6 year old Lee Scott Campbell of Marble Hall near Conshohocken. After Lee was hospitalized Woodsie mourned refusing to eat then died two weeks after the boy’s death two hours later.
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Conshohocken, Pa
Ins
Woodsie
Lee Scott Campbell
Marble Hall
Conshohockeen
Lee
Chestnut Hill Hospital
T. Woodsie
Southerners Forecast Barriers to Ne Negroes in Primaries
In the general election aftermath Southern members of Congress expect states to bar Black candidates from primaries by methods like conventions or educational tests. They believe such devices would prevent Ne gos from participating and influencing the race.
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Congress
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Mle
Paul , Proctor Bldg
4Th ST
Eagle Mills
U.S
Hendrick Hudson Hotel
Acousticon
iyFe
Stanley Motkowicz
Slim
Streel
Borless
Humphreys
Perness
Istro
Peres
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