Refunding Snag Delays Troy Budget Approval
The Troy Common Council faced a stormy two and a half hour hearing on Mayor Hogan’s last budget as it weighs a $400,000 bond refunding. State comptroller action could allow adoption before year end and avert a tax rate hike. delay risks adding the $400,000 to the general budget and a higher levy. Opponents warned of payless pay days for city workers and cutbacks, while administrators blamed bureaucratic delays in filing the refund request. The hearing, led by Alderman Frederek C. Casey, stalled pending state action and continued on to Page Nineteen.
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Troy
Common Council
Frank J. Hogan
Court House
Common Council Law Committee
Finance Committee
Frederek C. Casey
Eleventh Ward
Allies Drive Nazis Back In Italy Near Cassino
Allied forces smash the German winter line in Italy as Fifth Army under Lt Gen Mark W Clark and Montgomery’s Eighth Army press the retreating Nazis toward Rome. Cassino is being demolished as Allied air support harasses retreating troops and reinforcements pour in. The Sangro Ridge battlefield lies littered with dead and wreckage.
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Algiers
Rome
Adriatic
Cassino
Merk W. Clark
Fifth Army
Alles
Sangro Ridge
Bernard S.r Montgomery
Eighth Army
Albert Wesselring
Italy
Tito's Thrusts Beat Nazis In Slovenia
Yugoslav partisan forces under General Tito struck in southwestern Slovenia along the upper Adriatic, concentrating attacks above the Trieste to Fiume line and along the Adriatic coast in Bosnia. In 17 days of battle more than 3,200 Nazis were killed or wounded, 12 fortified points were retaken, and German munitions were destroyed. The offensive was described as the heaviest and most effective in weeks, with Tito stating the thrusts would continue.
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London
Adriatic
Balkan
Josip Broz (Tito
Slovenia
Trieste
Italy
Fiume
Bosnia
Tito
Nazis undecided about students deportation in Norway
Dispatches from Norway said the Germans were still weighing fate of 1,200 students and teachers after Sweden urged canceling deportation orders. Oslo reports indicate authorities have not decided on deporting arrested university students while Norwegian schools may be checked for disloyal students.
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Stockholm
Norway
Sweden
Germany
Baltic States
Oslo
Aftenposten
Rudy Vallee Weds Young Actress in Westwood Chapel
Coast Guard lieutenant Rudy Vallee 42 marries Betteyane Greer 19 in Westwood Village chapel with Navy chaplain Capt J E Johnson officiating. Ceremony crowded by close friends. it is Greer’s first marriage while Vallee was previously divorced from Fay Webb.
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Hollywood
Jap Convoy Ravaged by Allied Planes Off Kavieng
Allied reconnaissance planes spotted increased Japanese shipping off Kavieng New Ireland. On Tuesday night and Wednesday morning a convoy including a 10000 ton transport a tanker two destroyers a whaling ship and two unknown vessels was attacked by Fifth Airforce Liberators. The transport was hit twice and sank after its human cargo abandoned ship.
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Southwest Pacific
Allied Headquarters UP
Allied
Kavieng
New Ireland
Fifth Airforce Liberators
Kavien
Capt Jimmy Stewart Faces Stagefright Before Combat Debut
Hollywood star turned army captain Jimmy Stewart arrived in the European theatre as commander of a heavy bomber squadron. He has been away from cameras, causing a press conference to be retaken, as final training proceeds before combat against the Nazis.
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London
James Stewart
Hollywood
Stewart
Allied Bombers Raid Berlin Thirty Shot Down Say Nazis
London reports Nazis claim Allied bombers lost thirty aircraft in a raid on Berlin. The city had been raided heavily last week, with extensive bombing, casualties, and disrupted communications as Malcolmson Britain and its air force continued operations over the German capital.
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Berlin
London
R.A. KF
Jast
Cherbourg
Stockholm
BR. A. F
R. A F
Provincial Lady author Miss E M Dela field dies
London UP reports Miss E M Dela field 52 novelist of the Provincial Lady series died yesterday at Cullompton Devonshire. In private life she was Mrs Edmee Elizabeth Monica Dash wood wife of Ma Arthur Paul Dashwood
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London
E. M. Delafield
Cullompton
Devonshire
Edmee
Elizabeth Monica Dashwood
Arthur Paul Dashwood
Pearson Summoned by Senate Finance Panel Over Column Claim
Senate Finance Committee, led by Senator George of Georgia, summoned Drew Pearson to testify about a column claim that Eds worth Alvord of the United States Chamber of Commerce boasted he had George's vote on taxes in his pocket. Pearson agreed to attend. subpoena possible if he declines. The hearing targets the $2,140,090,000 revenue bill with other Chamber witnesses.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Drew Pearson
Washington Merry Go Round
Troy Record
Edsworth Alvord
United States Chamber of Commerce
George
Pearson
Alvord
Chamber of Commerce
Edwin Halsey
Senate
Georgia
Roosevelt
Barnesville
Soviet forces drive near Gomel and threaten Minsk route
Powerful Red Army units smashed northwest of Gomel and moved toward Zhlobin and beyond, claiming over eighty villages and 1500 German dead. Moscow reported fresh Soviet offensives along the Smolensk road toward Opsha and possible thrust toward Minsk, with German dispatches noting penetrations and renewed attacks west of Cherkasy. In the Znamenka-Kremenchug area, Russians said they captured Dmitrovka and Fedorkin and wrecked 27 German tanks as four hundred foes perished.
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London
Gomel
Zhlobin
Moscow
Smolensk
Opsha
Minsk
Cherkasy
Dnieper Bulge
Znamenka
Dnieper Bend Sack
Kiev
Dmitrovka
Fedorkin
Naz
Kremenchug
Chiangs Escape Death As Roof Falls
A U S Chinese base in Eastern India reports Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek Mrs Chiang and Mountbatten narrowly escaped injury when half a heavy tiled roof collapsed on the officers club. They were en route to Chungking and New Delhi respectively. No injuries reported. investigators opened an inquiry into possible saboteur activity.
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India
Chiang Kai-shek
Louis Mountbatten
Officers’ Club
Chiang
Chungking
Mountbatten
New Delhi
Frederick McCave
Portland
Ore
William Bergin
Carmel
Cal
Joseph W. Stilwell
De Marigny Hoists Sail for Havana
Alfred De Marigny, cleared by a jury in the Sir Harry Oakes murder case, plans to sail to Havana today with his wife Nancy. He takes a Lincoln, a sailing boat renamed Exhibit J, and has arranged Cuban and Haitian visas through Commandante Miranda who helped secure the Cuban visa.
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Nassau
Bahamas
Alfred de Marigny
Harry Oakes
Havana
Cuba
Nancy
Harry
Muiemi
de Margny
Lincoln
Bahamas Supreme Court
Commandante Miranda
de Marigny
de Mariigny
Promoter of English Channel Tunnel Dies
Jean Bertin secretary general of the Society of the Franco British Submarine Railroad died, reported in French papers. He advocated a pre war tunnel proposal under the English Channel to link France and Britain through the society.
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Barcelona
UPI
Jean Bertin
Society of the
Wnd
English Channel
France
Britain
British Fascist Nearly Lynched by Nazi Mob
British fascist nearly lynched by a Berlin mob amid a RooAF raid fires fight. The German radio said a broadcaster possibly Lord Haw Haw and an American-born firefighter were arrested as crowds risked violence in the streets.
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Londen i
Berlin
Bngush
Gerrmans
Yesterda
Lord Haw Haw
Wiliam Jorce
Mrs Tommy Dorsey Undergoes Tonsillotomy at Hopkins
Baltimore reports that Mrs. Tommy Dorsey, Pat Dene formerly, underwent removal of tonsils and adenoids at Johns Hopkins Hospital yesterday. Dr. Floyd Adams said she was getting along very well after a checkup. the Dorseys were married April 8, 1943.
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Baltimore
Tommy Dorsey
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Floyd Adama
Dorsey
Hollywood
Pat Dene
Hopkins
Dorseys
Conferees May Tell Nazis Yield Or Be Destroyed
Allied leaders draft an unconditional surrender ultimatum to Germany as talks under way in a major three nation meeting. Reports say the plan contemplates surrender of German forces and postwar government terms, with expectations of decisive action against Japan and Burma Road reopening to aid China.
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London
Germany
Roosevelt
Pome M.meter Churchill
Tabuzim Nortwest Ban
Tuckey
Ankara
Casablanca
Quebec
Cumhuriet
Chang Kai-shek
Chungking
Chiang
Stalin
Britain
United States
Burma
Japan
T 18
China Aid Seen Hard Problem
Washington reports from Cairo indicate a high strategy against Japan aiming to recapture the Philippines and open a sea route to China. The plan requires shipping more than 1,000,000 tons monthly to sustain a 100,000-strong force and air power of 200 bombers and 400 fighters, with larger forces needing even more tonnage. Final grand offensives depend on establishing the route and an aerial assault from China, and timing and cost balance are emphasized by U.S. military leaders.
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Cairo
Japan
Philippines
China
United States
Britain
Pacific
Asia
Germany
Roosevelt
Churchill
Marshall Stalin
United Nations
Russia
Manchuria
Chester W Nimitz
Gilbert Islands
Douglas MacArthur
William F. Halsey
South Pacific
Aleutians
Kuriles
German Destiny Debated in Allied Conference Tales
Reports from Axis and neutral sources claim Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin may meet in Iran or Teheran to decide postwar Germany. Proposals include not enslaving Germany, restoring boundaries, dismantling aggression, and allowing a democratic path with safeguards, while maintaining European sovereignty.
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London
Germany
Roosevelt
Minieter Churchill
Staln
Iran
Stalin
Generalissiimo
Chiang Kai-shek
North
Africa
Teheran
Reza Shah Pahlavi
Tabriz
Europe
Poland
Russia
Alles
United Nations
Japan
Changteh Fight Rages As Japs Keep Foothold
Chungking reports bitter hand to hand fighting at Changteh east gate where Chinese forces say they killed several hundred Japanese yesterday. The Japanese reportedly retain a foothold at the doorway to China s rice bowl amid a wider advance as Chinese troops push toward northern Hunan and seize seven towns in pursuit of the enemy.
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Chungking
Changteh
Hi Command
Hunan
Cairo Scoop Angers Allied Press Over Censorship Sparks Transatlantic Clash
London reports accuse British censorship of delaying and limiting North Africa conference news while Reuters and BBC pre announce abroad. Washington officials and OWI critique press handling as Elmer Davis objects to Reuters Lisbon dispatch and the Evening News hints at pre mature release.
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London
Angm
Atlantic
Washington
Brendan Bracken
Commons
Britain
Reuters
Bracken
Ministry of Information
Bb.c
Europe
Lisbon
Elmer Davis
Office of War Information
3St
Evening News
OWL
Moi
Owi
United States
Davis
Reutere
Hog Congestion Hits Chicago Stockyards as Hogs Pile Up
Demand for pork drivers floods U S stockyards with thousands of hogs, overwhelming Chicago plants once called the hog butcher to the world. Packers shift workers to pork lines and may extend operations through the weekend, risking unsold hogs and slumping prices as the belt-wide surplus hits Omaha Sioux City and Sioux Falls.
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Chicago U
America
Chicago
Chicago Hog Marketing Com
Jaime
Omaha
Sioux City
Sioux Falls
Airfield Focus in Marshall Islands Strike
Washington says Navy Liberators bombed Taroa airfield in the Marshall Islands on Tuesday and shot down seven Japanese fighters while damaging at least four with no Allied losses. Admiral Nimitz announced the action amid broader operations against Gilbert and Ellice area targets, including sea and air actions and a torpedo plane engagement.
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Washington
Taroa
Marshall Islands
Navy
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific
le Jay Air
Gilbert Anes
Morgenthau Opposes Paid Bond Advertising
Morgenthau denounced wasteful government spending and warned against paid advertising for war bonds. He urged limiting bond ads to nationwide campaigns rather than small local papers, arguing the effort could divert funds from essential wartime needs.
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