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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1945
Page
4
A fragmented wartime account describes American born Japanese soldiers aiding in the Iwo Jima battle. It notes cave patrols, surrenders or silences, and a French note from a Japanese captain, as troops prepare for the final push and the war nears its end.
The Mohawks Valey Junior Drem Serps Association met at the PXA Club in Cohoes with Clarence Sage presiding. By laws and a set of competition rules were adopted and plans made for summer contests.
An American patrol encounters a Japanese captain who shouts in his native tongue that he will talk and that his men will kill any who approach. He wounds himself, is evacuated, and a Japanese lieutenant urges surrender. The cave is blown as six more Japs surrender. Nisei troops excel in the field while a captured soldier named Shorty creates tension with his brutal acts and friendly grin.
The Stillwater Red Cross room opens for sewing dresses for war refugees with Mrs Bart Collamer as production chairman urging women to spare time. Residents may donate clothes in the United Nations Clothing Drive today. James Hunon and Mary return to Newport after a week with family. The third degree was demonstrated at Mesr Members Lodge meeting presided by Tompkins. Scout Troop 354 plans a four week end camp at Saratoga.
In Sillwater the Boy Scouts held a ceremony Monday in the high school gymnasium chaired by Scoutmaster Harold Lane with assistants Robert Ciskk and Lloyd Parker. Kenneth Baldwin gave the Scout oath and Robert Coons read the Scout laws as colors were presented by Kenneth Baldwin Mickey Baldwin William Tet Medge and Thomas Binisks.
A prisoner in a France headquarters mutters unfair as a guard notes the captive shouted unfair in German. The Nazi prisoner accuses the Allied unit of unfair treatment while authorities interpret the outburst as a protest during capture.
A secretive arranger sends clerical scores to the 364th Army Service Forces Band at Fort Douglas. A postman returns envelopes of popular numbers about every six weeks with unsigned notes signed “Peary” and female handwriting. In other news two Weston Island residents died in a vehicle crash near Thousand Island Bridge.
President Truman insisted Byron Price remain as head of the censorship office after Price submitted his resignation yesterday. Price said he had briefed the President on censorship operations and would not discuss his personal status.
A dramatic rise in family dining out is reported by Paul Hesnel, president of the Society of Heptat rateurs. He cites New York’s 490 percent increase in public eating places, from three million meals daily before rationing to about seven million meals daily now.
Court grants Fay and James Bove permission to appeal their conspiracy and extortion convictions in the Delaware Aqueduct project case. They received temporary release from Biker's Island Penitentiary after a Supreme Court ruling set bail at 5000 dollars each. The two A F L officials were convicted in March and sentenced to eight and a half to sixteen years for conspiring to extort 102000 dollars from contractors.
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