Allies Agree On Military Rule For Postwar Germany
The United States Great Britain and the Soviet Union have agreed on a postwar military government for Germany and its satellites. Eisenhower would be supreme in American and British zones while the Red Army governs its areas. The European Advisory Commission will finalize joint plans.
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London
Russia
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Red Army
Europe
Berlin
Badoglio
European Advisory Commission
Eisenhower
Red Cross Rally Day Set Across Rensselaer County
Red Cross Rally Day will be observed next Saturday in Rensselaer County including Troy Watervliet Green Island Cohoes and Waterford to push the War Fund drive toward its $258 000 quota. A Friday mass meeting in Music Hall at 7 30 p m features Mrs Peter L Harvie overseeing civilian volunteer services as main speaker. The goal is to raise $38 000 remaining and lapel tags will be given to all contributors contacted in any location.
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Red Cross
Rensselaer County
Troy
Watervliet
Green Island
Cohoes
Waterford
American Red Cross
Music Hall
Peter L. Harvie
Civilan Volunteer Services
Pan
Dewey Rejects a Second Call for Special Legislature Session
Governor Dewey again vetoes Democratic requests for a special session to revise New York soldier vote law. He argues proposed amendments would destroy the law and repeats he will not call extraordinary sessions to undermine its effectiveness. Amendments sought would allow relatives to apply for war ballots.
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Albany
Dewey
New York
United States
John J. Dunnigan
Irwin Steingut
Dunnigan
Steingut
Restaurateur Jailed for Serving Garbaged Soup
New York pi found guilty of using garbaged vegetables for soup in his restaurant. George Knieriemen, 53, Jersey City, N. J., was fined 500 dollars or 150 days and sentenced to sixty days in jail. Magistrate Charles E. Hirismaki handed down the terms after Emieriemen was accused of taking carrots, tomatoes, onions and lettuce from street-cleaner refuse to make soup. He was jailed immediately for nonpayment.
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New York
George Knieriemen
Jersey City
N. J
Charles E. Hirismaki
Army widens infantry transfer option for enlisted men
The War Department announced that enlisted men under 32 in all Army branches may request transfer to the Infantry if they are on duty in the continental United States. Disapproval authority rests solely with the War Department, not field commanders.
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Washington
Infantry
War Department
Continental United States
Three Hurt In Hit Run Car Crash In Watervliet
Three Cohoes women injured in a hit and run near Twenty fifth Street and Second Avenue in Watervliet are in Troy Hospital with suspected skull and shoulder injuries. All are reported in good condition. Police seek the fleeing driver as a prior similar crash had left William Ashton with fractured legs days earlier.
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Cohoes
Troy Hospital
Watervliet
Twenty-fifth Street
Second Avenue
Green Island
Josephine Bruneau
Garner Street
Irene C. Mousseau
Viet Boulevard
Ethel H. Posniewski
Edward Street
Watervliet Arsenal
William Ashton
Colonie
Broadway
First Street
Albany
Ashton
William Connors
Laurence Donnelly
Top Ace May Be Relieved Of Combat Duty
Capt Don Gentile, America’s leading European fighter ace, may end combat missions after a crash landing and hospital treatment. He reportedly told friends before takeoff that his next flight would be his last, having long surpassed his mission quota.
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U.S
England
Don
Gentile
America
Europe
Kin of James Stillman Share Trust Funds
Four grandchildren of James Stillman will receive $11,385,256 in trust funds from his estate of $29,323,967, as listed in a court inventory filed in New York. Beneficiaries are Anne Stillman Davison, James Stillman, Guy Stillman, and Alexander Stillman.
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New York
James Stillman
The
National City Bank
Anne Stillman Davison
Guy Stillman
Alexander Stillman
Communists in Italy lauded by Allied official
Lieut Gen. Frank N Mason MacFarlane, deputy president of the Allied Control Commission, praised the Italian Communist Party for leadership in a move toward a stronger war government under Premier Badoglio. He cited the party’s welcome, as Communist Palmiro Fogliatti proposed participation in the Badoglio government, amid the King's promise to cede powers to Crown Prince Umberto after Rome is occupied.
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Naples
Frank N
Mason MacFarlane
Allied Control Commission
Italian Communist Party
Badoglio
AMG
Communist Party
Vittorio Emmanuele
Umberto
Rome
Palmiro ‘Fogliatti
Democrats May Merge With Farm Laborites Fusion bid in Minnesota moves forward
The Minnesota Farmer Labor convention voted to accept a Democratic invitation to name a fusion candidate. A nine member committee from each party will draft final details and report back to both conventions soon. Groundwork by state committees has progressed over several months.
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Minneapolis
Farmer- Labor
Minnesota
Farmer Labor
Americans Will Save Billions in 1944 Forecast
The Federal Reserve Board estimated in its monthly bulletin that Americans may save about 154 billion dollars in 1944 if income rates hold. They would add roughly 42 billion to the 70 billion saved in the prior three years, with tax payments and spending consuming about 73 cents per dollar of income.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Giraud Dropped From Active French Command In North Africa
The French Committee of National Liberation moved Henri Giraud to the reserve list effectively removing him as an active commander. The action follows his refusal to accept the honorary inspector-general post and places all armed forces under Gen Charles DeGaulle. Giraud may depart for England to write memoirs, with a final order promised.
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Algiers
Henri Honore Giraud
Committee of National Liberation
Giraud
Charles DeGaulle
North Africa
England
Aussies Take Jap Base on New Guinea
Australian troops captured the Japanese outpost of Bogadjim after a gruelling six month campaign through New Guinea. The Japanese garrison fled as the Aussies entered Bogadjim, with a new twenty mile highway linking to Madang. Allied air forces bombed Wewak and Truk, while strikes on Rabaul continued.
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Associated Press
Bogadjim
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Madang
Wewak
South Pacific
Rabaul
New Britain
Marshall Islands
Truk
Central Pacific
Philippines
China Coast
Truk Islands
Seamstress Secreted Fortune Within Cloth After Death
Relatives in Cedar Rapids report an elderly woman aged over ninety kept her savings of 20321 dollars in two canvas sewn into the folds of her bed. The sewing project concealed 292 squares containing a ten dollar gold piece and little packets of bills, found by grand nephew L T Caldwell. Mrs Drummond once worked as a seamstress for a Chicago department store.
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Cedar Rapids
Mary Jane Drummond
Midnight Tonight Is New Tax Deadline
For the second time in a month an estimated 15 00,000 Americans face a tax deadline. Tonight at midnight is the expiration date applying to single filers earning over 2700 dollars and married filers earning over 3500 dollars. Those with non withholding income must file declarations or pay as earned.
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Washington LP
WPB Names Civilian Committee for Postwar Conversion
War Production Board Chairman Don ald M Nelson announced a civilian cross section panel to review industry proposals for returning to consumer goods production. Robert M Gaylord of NAM declined, citing past ineffectiveness of similar committees. the panel will include labor management public opinion agriculture consumers banking and finance and distribution trades. Auto industry reps will meet WPB on Monday.
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Washington GP
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
Robert M. Gaylord
National Association of Manufacturers
Gaylord
Welson
WPB
Coal shortages suspend Irish rail services
Eire rail runs cut with passenger trains only two days weekly on main lines and freight trains four days with eleven branch lines suspended due to coal shortages. An announcement was made yesterday.
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Dublin
Eire
Japs Sever Allied Rail Supply Line Near Imphal
Allied reports say Japanese troops reached near the Bishenpore Siichar trail southwest and west of Imphal as patrols continue around the plain. Kohima counterattacks advance, while Berlin broadcasts claim Mountbatten’s command faces annihilation and the rail line to Burma remains a critical supply route.
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Allied Rail
New Delhi
Bishenpore-Siichar
Imphal
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Kohima
Dimapur
Bengal-Assam
Burma
Berlin
Tokyo
Mountbatten
Lewis and Miners Blast Delay in Pay
Washington dispatch reports United Mine Workers president John L Lewis demanding $18 million in retroactive portal to portal pay for soft coal miners. He alleges a conspiracy to defraud and warns miners are increasingly angry at the government’s failure to redeem its promise. The issue hinges on a $40 per miner write off of underground travel time for last spring and summer, under a contract awaiting War Labor Board action.
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Washington
John L Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
War Labor Board
Secretary of the Interior
Ickes
Alabama
General Vatutin Dies After Operation in Kiev
Soviet defense leaders announced that General Nikolai Vatutin died in Kiev after surgery. The famed commander of the First Ukraine Front helped repel German advances, led the Kiev recapture, and earned praise as a talented young officer. A monument will be erected in Kiev in his honor.
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London
Nikolai F
Vatutin
Ukraine
Kiev
Moscow
Russia
Vyazma
Stalingrad
Gregory H. Zhukov
Council of People’s Commissars
Plant seizures ordered after owners defy WLB
The War Labor Board ordered seizures of three plants after owners refused wartime wage decisions. Jenkins Brothers Inc of Bridgeport Connecticut was taken over by the Navy while Ken-Rad Tube and Lamp Corp and Ken-Rad Transmitting Tube Corp of Owensboro Kentucky were taken over by the Army. President Roosevelt authorized executive orders and letters to Stimson and Knox supporting the action.
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Washington LP
War Labor Board
Army
Navy
Roosevelt
WLB
Jenkins Brothers, Inc
Bridgeport
Stimson and
Knox
War and
Wavy
Dewey Emerges As Maine GOP Favor Amid Delegation Split
Maine Republicans name a 13 member delegation to Chicago with three unofficially backing Thomas E. Dewey. Nebraska's 15 delegates split between Stassen Griswold and unpledged. South Carolina moves to expunge primaries from law while aiming to keep white supremacy in its process. Baldwin of Connecticut gains attention as a possible nominee.
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Associated Press
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Maine
Chicago
Nebraska
Republcan
Harold Stassen
Dwight Griswold
South Carolina
T Assembly
State
Democratic Executive Committee
Olin D. Johnston
United States Supreme Court
Texas
Palmetto
Griswold
Stassen
Raymond E. Baldwin
Neticut
Connecticut
Baldwin
Wendell L. Willke
Mackinac Island
Red Army crushes Axis in Crimea near Sevastopol
Two Soviet armies trapped and annihilated large German and Romanian forces around Sevastopol. They captured Bakhchisarai and 30 other localities and severed the Feodosiya Yalta retreat road. Soviet sea and air actions sank a 3,000 ton transport and three barges.
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London
Crimea
Sevastopol
Black Sea
Moscow
Feodor Tolbukhin
Andrei Yeremenko
Bakhchisarai
Feodosiya
Yalta
Alushta
Red Fleet
Allied Air Offensive Peaks With Berlin Raid And Pedmont Clash
Allied Mosquito bombers and American Thunderbolt fighters struck Berlin Thursday night and an airfield in northern France yesterday in a high profile finale to a weeklong air assault. Budapest radio hinted battles over Hungary, while the strikes marked a tapering of the week of heavy blows to German factories, airfields and rail centers.
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London
Britain
Turkey Signals Compromise on Nazi Trade Policy
Turkish Foreign Minister Numan Menementoğlu said Turkey would aid the Allies within its material limits in the general direction of foreign policy. The remarks followed meetings with American and British ambassadors delivering Hull notes urging neutrals to cease trading with Germany.
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Turkey
Alles
Numan Menemenologlu
Hull
Germany
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