State Tax Bureaus Reorganized Under Central Albany Direction
State tax administration reorganized to unify New York City bureaus under one head and empower district offices throughout the state. Aimed at tighter enforcement and easier taxpayer access, the plan expands field audits and delinquent collections while preserving assistance to compliant taxpayers. Spencer E. Bates becomes deputy tax commissioner and Manhattan district supervisor, directing the New York office and auditing bureaus. Emery W. Burton becomes corporation tax director. District offices will implement centralized coordination from Albany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
State Department of Taxation
Rollin Browne
New York City
Browne
York City
Spencer E. Bates
Hewlett Harbor, L.1
Corporation Tax Bureau
Manhattan
New York
Bates
Special Investigations Bureau
Emery W. Burton
Albany tax office reforms split state network
The principal field branch will be the origin of large revenues and other district offices in Brooklyn Buffalo Rochester Syracuse and Utica will become service units. Their aim is to connect the public with the central Albany office and ease tax payments by offering information assistance and rights guidance under the law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Buffalo
Rochester
Syracuse
Utica
Albany
Mr. Browne
War Prisoner Sends Photo To Father
Charles C. Freihofer, Rensselaer County rationing administrator, reports his son Lieut. Robert W. Freihofer, a co pilot in a plane shot down over Bremen on April 17, is a prisoner in a German interment camp. The photo shows Freihofer with fellow prisoners beside a one story building and a garden feature. He is well, uninjured, and attends a German language class and an English literature class. The camp lies about 85 miles southeast of Berlin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles C. Freihofer
Rensselaer County
Robert W. Freihofer
Freihofer
Troy
Bremen
Red Cross
Berlin
Grievance Board To Review Protests Over Real Estate Taxes
Troy's Board of Grievance will convene next Tuesday to review protests on real estate tax assessments. Hearings occurred last week with 166 people appearing, and changes may be made by August 25 before rolls are turned over to the Comptroller. Members include Comptroller Edward Rowan, City Treasurer John Shannon, Corporation Counsel Permenter, and Tax Commissioner Stanton Lee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy’s Board of Grievance
Corp
Frank 5. Parmenter
Comptroller
Edward A! Rowan
John JS Shannon
Parmenter and
Stanton P. Lee
Interns in Cleveland Health Museum Training
Miss Lucille Brownell of Valley Falls, a 1940 Russell Sage College graduate, is interning at the Cleveland Health Museum. The four weeks of field training are part of the Master of Science in Health Education degree requirements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Lucille Brownell
Valley Falls
Russell Sage College
Cleveland Health Museum
Six Trojans At Police Convention
Six Troy policemen and three Waterville officers attend the 18th annual New York Police Conference in Saratoga Springs yesterday today and tomorrow. Delegates include William I Ryan Edward J Maloney Harry Anstow and others with sessions at the Grand Union Hotel banquet at 7 30 pm and speeches by officials. Business sessions run 10 15 am and 2 pm today and 10 am tomorrow with a Spa visit for recreation and mineral baths by appointment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy
Troy Police Benevolent Association
New York Police Conference
Saratoga Springs
William i. Ryan
First Precinct
Edward J. Maloney
Harry Anstow
Central Station
William R. Conroy
James J. Ryan
Clarence W. Lennon
Fourth Precinct
Frank F. Meyer
James EF. McMahon
Charlies E. McAndrews
Watervliet
Grand Union Hotel
Addison Mallory
Nicholas Hayden
C.S.R
St. Clement’s Church
William E. Morris
Waterford
Saratoga Springs Police Benevolent Association
Sara~ Jtoga Springs Authority
David ‘Cunningham
Saratoga ‘Springs
Peter Keresman
Kingston
Sergt
Henry Maginn
Saratoga Department
George H. West
Walter F. O’'Hearn
Gordon L. Spaulding
Man Wanted for Nassau Burglary Under Arrest
Arno Herzog, indicted for burglary third degree and petit larceny in Nassau, is in custody and jailed awaiting November arraignment. He previously attended the State Correctional School at West Coxsackie, was paroled, then picked up on a bench warrant from Dist. Atty. Earle J. Wiley’s office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arno Herzog
Nassau
Herzog
States Correctional School
West Coxsackie
Dist. Atty. Earle J. Wiley
John Ames
Elmira Reformatory
Pittsfield Boy Joins Navy at 13
William Broderick, 13, of 62 Cherry Street, Pittsfield, enlisted using a friend’s birth certificate after an 11 year old lent his papers. He traveled to Springfield for final admission and was sent to Sampson for training. Patrick Broderick, his father, was asked to travel to Sampson to bring him back home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Broderick
Cherry Street
Pittsfield
Navy
Bill
Springfield
Sampson
Patrick Broderick
Bit
Watervliet Man Arraigned On Banking Charge
George McDonough of 506 Eighth Avenue Watervliet was arraigned before U S Commissioner Thomas M Quigley in Rutland Wisconsin on violating the Federal Banking Act connected to the Poultney Vermont National Bank closing He waived examination and bail was set at 2500 He is the seventh person taken in the case with others including former Granville mayor Hugh G Williams Harold Maynard of Hartford and Jane C Jones of Granville
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George McDonough
Eighth Avenue
Watervliet
Rutland
U. S
Thomas M. Quigley
Poultney
Granville
McDonough
Alfred Franzoni
Vermont
Hugh G. Williams
Harold Maynard
Hartford
Jane C. Jones
Operators Permits Being Issued Early Renewal Advised
County Clerk Lawrence J. Collins announced that holders of motor vehicle operators licenses and junior operators licenses expiring in September should renew now. The state commissioner of motor vehicles noted inquiries about renewals, with one year licenses now expiring in September. Clerks urged early renewal to ease a expected rush. The local Motor Vehicle Bureau office is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays and until noon Saturdays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence J. Collins
Clifford J. Fletcher
State Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
Motor Vehicle Bureau
Cerret House
The
Contingent Given Draft Tests for Northern Wards
The Selective Service Board 332 contingent for the northern wards was sent to Albany yesterday for Army physical examinations. Led by Robert R. Durivage with Daniel J. Hennessy as assistant, the group includes Francis E. Gamble Christopher Cleary Warren W. Fisher Raymond J. Tymeson and many others across the local community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selective Service Board
Albany
Robert R. Durivage
Daniel J. Hennessy
Francis E. Gamble
Christopher Aa Cleary
Warren W. Fisher
Raymond J. Tymeson
John F. Carroll
Willard T. Quinn
Frank I. Barrett
Jr. Thomas
Burtnick
Millard L. Osgood
Daniel E. Conwar
Robert M. Levine
James R. Bowen
Charles H. Auer, Jr
Francis L. Abbaie
Gilbert R. Cox
William J. Daley
John F. Connally
Frank J. Ward, Jr
Willliam A. O'Brien
Robert W. Reglin
Walter F. Carr
Alfred R. Palmer
George J. Julien
Eugene J. Grimmick
John B. Hunziker
William E. O'Connor
John R. Coughlin
William G. Daus
Thomas R. Kane
Carl 8. Corrigan
Donald W. Johnson
George H. Rafferty
Robert P. Ebenhoch
Kenneth R. Wood
John G. Kewley
Officials To Witness Sche nectady Bombing Practice
Troy officials including Mayor Frank J. Hogan plan to travel to Schenectady on Sunday to observe the Civil Air Patrol bombing drill. J Leslie Schoolcraft invites attendees as CAP conducts bombing practice across Schenectady Schoharie Warren and Saratoga counties starting at 3 45 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy
Schenectady
Civil Air Patrol
Frank J. Hogan
J. Leslie Schoolcraft
Civilian Protection Ln
CAP
Schoharie
Warren l
Saratoga
Lieut Styles Prisoner In Germany
Mr and Mrs Thomas A Styles of 507 Fourth Street were informed by the War Department that their son Lieut William J Styles is a prisoner of war of Germany. The telegram, via the International Red Cross, followed a prior report of him missing in action since July 25 over enemy territory. Styles, who entered the army in February 1941, trained at Moody Field Georgia and graduated with a commission then. He earlier attended La Salle Institute and worked in the family undertaking business. He has two brothers in service: Pvt Thomas F Styles at Muroc Field California and Corp Edward G Styles at Brooklyn Army Base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas A. Styles
Fourth Street
War Department
William J. Styles
Germany
International Red Cross
Styles
Basn
Jsted
Army
Moody Field
Army Air Corps Training School
LaSalle Institute
Thomas F. Styles
Murec Field
Cal
Corp
Edward G. Styles
Brooklyn Army Base
Dr Holmes Named To Medical Board
Albany Dr Thomas M Holmes of Delmar was appointed a member of the Medical Board of the State Employees Retirement System. A physician for over thirty years in Albany County he succeeds Dr Clarence E Mullens of Albany who has retired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Thomas M. Holmes
Delmar
State Employees’ “Retirement System
Holmes
Albany County
Clarence E. Mullens
Tax Reports Filed on Three Estates in Rensselaer County
Inheritance tax reports filed in Rensselaer County detail three estates: Anna Tremont died March 9 in Nassau with a gross estate of 26,194.56 and a net of 23,690.92, with 186.91 tax owed and entire estate to her mother Christina Tremont. Ralph M. Cooper is attorney. Frank Lennon died March 15, leaving a gross estate of 111,456.18 with no tax and the estate to widow Bertha Lennon, Abel Merchant attorney. Michele Casale died January 9, 1942, listing a net figure 1832. The reports note tax implications and distributions to heirs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rensselaer
Poland
Anna Tremont
Frank Lennon
Michele Casale
Anna Trmont
Christina Tremont
Nassau
Ralph M. Cooper
Lennon
Bertha Lennon
Abel Merchant
Casales
Estate Distribution Clarified After Gunsteadt Death
The gross estate stands at 37528.5 with no tax due. The estate passes to wife and two sons Ane gelina Anthony and Patrick Casale of 2268 Sixth Avenue. Attorney J Howard Melsaac handles the matter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anegelina
Anthony
Patrick Casale
Sixth Avenue
J. Howard Melsaac
Guardian Named To Bring Lawsuit For Minor
Alice Gilligan of Kast Green bush appointed general guardian for Robert G Feites minor. Guardian files action against K L W M Inc for 5000 dollars. Minor injured March 15 when struck by defendant bus at Third Avenue and Green Street in Rensselaer. papers filed by attorney Arthur B Lanphier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Gilligan
Kast Greenbush
Robert G. Feites
Arthur B. Lanphier
The
Guardian
Third Avenue
Green Street
Rensselaer
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Thomas R. Morse
Doris Monshaw
Modernella
SALON
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Password
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Commodore
Martin Sweeny
York
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