May Rule on Pleasure Ban Today
Washington reports gas rationing officials say no immediate rise in East A ration on September 1. Richard Harrison of the Office of Price Administration cites low East stocks and planned increases only as hope, with decisions possibly taking weeks or months. A five gallon furlough allowance for service members to be reinstated September 1. Expectation grows that the pleasure driving ban may be lifted soon, with formal orders possibly delayed to avoid weekend highway traffic.
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Washington
Richard C. Harrison
Office of Price Administration
Harrison
Middle West
Southwest
Forte
Chester Bowles
OPA
Mayor La Guardia to file complaint over Aurelio nomination claim
New York mayor F H La Guardia said a complaint would be lodged with the appellate division of the Bar Association after District Attorney Frank S Hogan alleged a "czar of the slot machine racket" helped secure Magistrate Thomas A Aurelio's supreme court nomination. Hogan named Frank Costello as the czar and said a transcript shows Aurelio thanking Costello and pledging undying loyalty.
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New York (P
F. H. LaGuardia
Appellate’ Division
The
Bar Association
Frank S. Hogan
Thomas A. Aurelio
Supreme Court
Hogan
Frank Costello
Aurelio
Costello
Nazi General May Quit Norway
A Moscow monitored Tass broadcast via UP dispatch says Gen Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, commander in Norway, has ceased duties due to ill health after clashes with Terboven over troops fighting capacity. Falkenhorst may resign soon.
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London
Tass
Moscow
Stockholm
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst
Norway
Terboven
Joseph Terboven
Adolf Hitler
Heaviest Nuernberg bombing by RAF troops claimed in Europe
London reports a colossal RAF bombing raid on Nuernberg with more than 1,000 bombers in close formation and a very heavy attack. Unofficial estimates suggest over 1,500 tons of explosives rained on Nuernberg, with Nazis admitting heavy damage and casualties. Naples area raids and Salerno rail yard strikes also noted as part of Allied operations across Southern Italy.
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Berlin
Germany
Air Ministry
Nuernberg
London
Britain
Bavaria
Naples
Europe
North Africa
Italy
Caserta
Benevento
U. S
Sulmona
Rome
Two Mile Strait
Messing
Sicily
Reggio Calabria
Messina
Salerno
Associated Press
Actress Elissa Landi Weds Curtiss Kennedy Thomas
Elissa Landi and Curtiss Kennedy Thomas were married at Christ Methodist Church at noon yesterday in New York. It is Landi's second marriage and Thomas's first. Landi is rehearsing with a Chicago company of Tomorrow the World.
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New York
Elissa Landi
Curtiss Kidney Thomas
Newburyport, Mass
Christ Methodist Church
Chicago
Churchill Due In Washington To Renew Laiks
Churchill heads to Washington this week after Canada talks with Roosevelt and Mountbatten. Aimed at coordinating Allied European push and war plans with Britain, the United States and Russia. Mountbatten’s Burma drive and meetings with MacArthur outline a major campaign against Japan.
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Churchill
Washington
Laiks
Europe
Soviet Union
Quebec
Britain
United States
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Roosevelt
Russia
Germany
Italy
Hoppens
U. S
Japan
Josef T Salin
Ince
Japs Seize British Ship at Macao in Neutrality Violation
Chinese Central News Agency reports 200 Japanese and Chinese puppet troops in plain clothes seized the British river steamer Sian at Macao on August 19 after killing more than twenty armed guards and policemen. The ship was taken after Portuguese authorities refused to sell it. Macao is a Portuguese colony at the mouth of the Canton River, dating back to 1557.
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Chungking
Sian
Macao
Canton
Parley With Soviets Likely
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden returned from Quebec by air triggering speculation of a near term war conference among Britain the United States and Soviet Russia. Ivan M Maisky the new Soviet foreign affairs vice commissar reportedly arrived in Britain with unconfirmed reasons suggesting possible goodwill exchanges.
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London
Anthony Eden
England
Quebec
Britain
United States
Soviet Russia
Ivan M. Maisky
Loot Found in Texas Junk Yard Restores Plane Jewels
The FBI said a cache in a Texas junk yard yielded the remaining jewels worth about $92,000 stolen from a grounded transport plane at Amarillo on November 22, 1942. The discovery completes the prior theft case and involves recovered gems and related items.
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Washington
Texas
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Amarillo
Tex
Tenth of Berlin Devastated in RAF Raid Report
Reports from reliable sources indicate about one tenth of Berlin was wrecked by a heavy RAF raid last Monday night. The Charlottenburg railroad yards and surrounding stations, along with Templehof airport and Siemensstadt, suffered major damage, threatening east west traffic and war production.
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Condon
Berlin
Charlottenburg
West End
Zoo i
Friedrichstrasse Station
Ruhr
Rhineland
Russia Front
Bar
Opening of Heatly School Sees Registrations and Programs
Green Island prepares for Heatly School opening on September 7 with early registration sessions for elementary and junior high on September 1 and 2. Students bring birth certificates if possible and may receive admission cards and schedule planning. An elementary orchestra forms next month under Ricard A. Tweedy, with instruments provided by the school and some private students joining. High school orchestra continues, replacing seven graduates with new musicians. Shop programs adapt for older students canceling work to support war efforts, with adjusted hours. The education department aims to graduate students to meet wartime and peacetime needs. A fall swimming pool opens early with certificates by Norman Lavender. New courses include radio, flight pre-aeronautics, practical math. ninth and tenth years gain a new course. Miss Edne Ryan assumes health teaching after Cornell for a master's degree. Faculty remains the same except art. servicemen on furlough entertained by the Vagabond Club at 42 George Street. War Bond and Stamp sales rise to 319.10 last week, with booths at Central Market and Picariillo’s. Red Cross to run booths this week led by Mrs. James Corr
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Heatly
Marcella Keating
Lis
Ricard A. Tweedy
Tweedy
Keating
Nortan Lavender
Edne Ryan
Cornell University
Living Cost Held Down In Canada
Canada’s anti inflation program has kept living cost increases to 7 percent over three and a half years since September 1929, far below Britain’s 28 percent and the United States’ 26 percent, per a Brookings Institution survey. Fiscal policy relies on current earnings, heavy taxation, and savings. wages are regulated to curb cost rises, with a price ceiling, subsidies, and rationing backing the system.
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Washington
Canada
Great Britain
United States
Brookings Institution
Hess Broods Pens Bad Verse After Flight To Britain
Rudolf Hess, once Hitler's deputy who flew to Britain with a peace plan, now writes poor verse. The Daily Express notes his mood shifted from aggression to quiet, moody reflection after learning of Axis defeats from fellow prisoners. He landed in Britain on May 10, 1941.
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London
Rudolf Hess
Britain
Daily Express
Hitler
Treasury Needs 21 Billion More
The Treasury plans to borrow 21 billion dollars in the last four months of the year. Under Secretary Daniel W. Bell said spending will total 35 billion, while revenue reaches 14 billion. The third war loan opens September 9 and may supply most funds via War Bond sales.
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Washington U
Treasury
Daniel W. Bell
Nazis Use New Steel Shields in Frontline Defense
Pravda reports portable armor plated shields used by German troops along the front. Measuring about 20 by 30 inches, they are placed roughly every 100 yards at key points to provide cover as German forces repulse the Red Army summer offensive.
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Moscow
Red Army
Pravda
Communist Party
Nazi troops sweep French mountains for resistance in Haute Savoie
Five thousand German troops arrived in the Haute Savoie department of France with orders to crush French patriots who have held out in the mountains for months, according to the Tribune de Geneve yesterday.
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Bern
Switzerland
Haute Savoie
France
Tribune de Geneve
Obituary notices for Belogi and Gendron names and services
Obituary notices detail Mrs Maria Belogi widow of Anthony Belogi who died at 107 Bridge Avenue after a long illness. Survived by three daughters and sister Rosa Petroni Cohoes. funeral at 9 am from the home and 2 30 pm at St Rita’s Church with a requiem mass, burial at St Agnes Cemetery Waterford. Eugene Gendron longtime resident dies suddenly in Chicago. survived by sister Malvina and brother Delphis Gendron of Latham. funeral at Dufresne Funeral Home then St Ambrose Church Latham with burial at St Joseph’s Cemetery. Health report notes no new communicable disease cases. births exceed deaths with ten births and four deaths citywide.
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Maria Belogi
Anthony Belogi
Bridge Avenue
Ida
Elda
Lena Belogi
Rosa Petroni
Cohoes
Belogi
St. Rita's Church
Rosary Sodalty
St. Agnes
Waterford
Eugene Gendron
Tormier
Chicago
Gendron
Malvina Gendron
Delphis Gendron
Latham
Dufresne
Main Avenue
Fequiem Mags
St. Ambrose Church
Latha
St. Joseph’s Cemetery
East Side Women’s Society Set Fair Meeting at Trinity Church
Mrs Paul Hemke president of the W B T of the W S C S at Trinity Methodist will address the first fair meeting Tuesday Sept 7 at 7 45 pm in the church hall A large attendance is requested Mrs J Wesley Wood to preside Plans for ways and means were discussed at an executive meeting last evening Mrs R P Neitzel handed out material for children dresses to be shown at the next meeting these will go to mission schools Clarence O partium 725 Pawling Avenue was surprised Wednesday evening at his home with a birthday party A spaghetti supper followed by a bowling party Women’s Guild meeting of Third Presbyterian Church held at the president Mrs William E Baylis home plans for fall and winter discussed first meeting set for the second Tuesday in October
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Washington
Louis Mountbatten
Rosevent
Churchill
Canada
Mountbatten
Asia
U. S
Burma
London
Chungking
Quebec
Roosevelt
Paul Hemke
Women’s Society of Christian Service
Trinity Methodist Church
J. Wesley Wood
R. P. Neitzel
Clarence O
Pawling Avenue
Women’s Guild
Women's Guild of
The
Third Presbyterian Church
William E. Baylis
McChesney Court
Cohoes Textile Workers Win Seven Cent Hourly Raise
The War Labor Board approved a seven cent per hour pay increase for all Cohoes Textile Printing Co employees. Wages range from sixty to ninety seven cents hourly with overtime and Saturday pay. The firm had pursued periodic raises with the Textile Workers Union. A celebration dinner will be held September 4 at Ukrainian Park.
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The
War Labor Board
Cohoes Textile Printing Co
John F. Walsh
District Joint Board ‘Textile Workers’ Union of America
CSO
Walsh
Francis T. Cutie
Irving Rubenstein
Dlam
Ukrainian Park
Miss Flynn Resigns From Cohoes High School
Miss Kathleen Flynn longtime Cohoes High School teacher resigned after seven years on leave of absence. Board president James V. Marra says the board will meet to fill the position and organize for the September 7 opening. Flynn resides in Troy and previously took a leave of absence. Also noted, Democrats plan a fall campaign meeting at City Hall with Michael T. Sith in charge. Firefighters extinguished hemp bales dumped in a vacant lot on Simmons Avenue. no damage reported.
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Kathleen Flynn
Cohoes High School
James V. Marra
Board of Education
Miss Flynn
Troy
Canoes
Democratic Organization
Michael T. Sith
Cohoes
Simmons Avenue
No Fathers In Cohoes Contingent Declared For September
Cohoes Selective Service Board No 345 announced that fathers of children born before Sept 15 192 will be excluded from the September draft contingent. Notices will go out this week and the men are due to depart around Sept 15. Nationally fathers may be drafted in October but the board cannot decide yet. August inductees are on 21 day leaves before training. some join Navy or Marines and depart Sept 9.
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Selective Service
Cohoes
Navy
Marines
Second Cohoes Tax Installments Due Wednesday
The second collection of city taxes and water rents in Cohoes this year will begin Wednesday with about 64 per cent of the total to be raised, $447,367.24, paid to the city treasurer in the first half collection last March. Total to be raised by taxation in 1943 is $743,823.60, according to the Municipal budget. Bills for the taxes and water rents were mailed to property owners Saturday. Summary proceedings for an alleged breach of a 21 year leases and failure to pay rent amounting to $3,000 have been instituted in Cohoes City Court by the Benson Realty Corp. against Churchill Amusement Enterprises, Inc., for former operators of the Empire Theater on Remsen Street in Cohoes. It was charged that the corporation obtained the lease providing a monthly rental of $500 and that $3,000 is due for rent between March 1 and August.
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Cohoes
Benson Realty Corp
Churchill Amusement Enterprises, Inc
Empire Theater
Remsen Street
Household Finance Salary Loan Offers to Pay Back Monthly
Quick cash loan ad details salary, car, or furniture loans from $20 to $300 with multiple repayment plans. Rates shown include small installments, weekly or monthly options, and examples for $25 and $50 loans. No endorsers required. open to anyone employed seeking to consolidate debts or cover medical and other bills.
Social notes and a wartime update from Fort Edward
Mrs E Brearton hosts visitors from Brooklyn and Yonkers while others travel to Hedges Lake Newport and New York. Miss Ruth Esser visits Newport for a week. Mrs Wheeler returns home from New York with daughter Barbara. Mrs Shoemaker and Elizabeth depart for New York after visiting Aunt Beck. Pfc John H Center of Fort Edward is reported wounded in action in the European Theater.
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3. E. Brearton
Hoosick Road
Mirs
Walter Grobe
Brooklyn
Thomas MacArthur
Donald
Mt. Pleasant Avenue
Hedges Lake
Frank Esser
Mr. Esser
Yonkers
Kenneth Tietsel
Putnam Street
Edwin Smith
South Glens Falls
Ruth Esser
South Lake Avenue
James Manx
Newport
R. 1
George Wheeler
Barbara
New York
Harry Shoemaker
Elizabeth
Alfred Beck
Broadview Terrace
John H. Center
Elia Center
Route 2
Fort. Edward
War Department
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Sigidus
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Beauty Salon
Douglas MacArthur
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Mountbaten
Green Island
Vagabond Club
George Street
John Cierk
Bond Sales Sport
Picarillo
Edward L. Keating
Red Cross
James Corr
BY Paul Ford
Florence Hall
Women's Land Army
Archduke Otto
Erir
Hess
Health Department
Joseph Langlier
Registrar of Vital Statistics
East Side
WLB
Eberl
Tnanescor
Burdett Building
River Street
Albany
6Th Ft
Nat's Savings Bank
State St
Syeaway
Bemer
Optometrist
Third Street
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