County Road Work Gets Approval
The Postwar Public Works Planning Commission of New York State approves a tentative county road improvement schedule drafted by John W. Hansen, county highway superintendent, and adopted by the Rensselaer County Board of Supervisors. No work starts before the end of the war. Total project cost is about $222,000 with $2,790 allocated by the state so far. Fourteen county roads are listed.
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Public Works Planning Commission
New York State
John W. Hansen
Rensgelaer County Board of Supervisors
Crash Landing and Desert Ground Hug By Navy Pilot
Lieut. oN BE Jacobse crash landed his Navy bomber safely in the desert northeast of here. He spent two hours hugging the ground as more than 10,000 rounds dug up the dirt around him during a practice firing at a dummy tank. Separate county road plans are listed with route numbers and destinations, tied to state and county funding, to be taken up after the war per the State Postwar Planning Commission.
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San di Sal
BE. Jacobse
Here
Noted embraces global roles in postwar mandates era
The text notes involvement from many nations including China Britain the Netherlands France Portugal Korea and the United States in League of Nations mandates reflecting international governance after the war.
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China
Britain
The
Netherlands
France
Portugal
Korea
United States
League
Old Lake Ship Docked Here
The Vermont, a former passenger steamer on Lake Champlain, tied up at the foot of Ferry Street for two days while scrap was removed to lower its draft for tow to Troy. Trojan Scrap Iron Corp. with magnetic crane equipment removed ballast, and Kingston will refit the hull and its colorful superstructure.
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Lake Champlain
Vermont
Kingston
Ferry Street
Lake Camplain
Mexico
South America
Champlains
Barge Canal
Troy
Trojan Scrap Iron Corp
Former Trojan Captaincy in Army
Lieut. Paul Mailloux of Albany, a former Trojan and Pershing medalist, has been promoted to captain. In service nearly two years, stationed in the continental United States, he is the son of Mrs. Charlies Mailloux and the late Mr. Mailloux. Born in Troy, he attended Lansingburgh schools, Vincentian Institute, and Princeton University before joining the R. O. T. C. At Plattsburg Citizens Military Training Camp he won the Freshing medal as top trainee among 5,040, awarded by Gen. George C. Marshall in Washington.
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Paul Mailloux
Albany
Continental
United States
Charlies Mailloux
Bessie Gaynor
Troy
Mr. Mailloux
Lansingburg
Vincentian Institute
Princeton Univeristy
Citizens
Plattsburg
Mailloux
George C. Marshall
Washington
President's Thanksgiving Menu in North Africa
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill dined on November 25 during World War II. The menu featured shrimp cocktail vegetable soup olives roast turkey wild rice dressing cranberry sauce candied sweet potatoes buttered asparagus peas fruit salad crackers and cheese orange sherbet pumpkin pie and cookies.
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Cairo
Roosevelt
North Africa
Japan
Winston Churchill
Rail traffic in US to level off as war demand peaks
The Association of American Railroads reported in Chicago that total car loadings fell 2.7 percent in the first eight months of 1943 while ten miles hauled rose by 73 million. They anticipate flat rail freight later in the war as new bases and industries drive movement. box cars lag, open top gondolas strained, and oil transport to the East Coast peaks at 70 to 75 percent of movement with a surplus of facilities noted.
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Chicago Wpi
Association of American Railroads
Car Service Division
Retaliation Promised If Germany Uses Gas on York
The Free Germany National Committee in Moscow warns the German people that any Nazi use of poison gas will draw swift Allied retaliation. It notes Nazi talk of secret weapons fuels fear, but asserts Allied superiority in artillery and bombers as the means gas would be deployed.
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York
Free Germany National Committee
Moscow
U.S
Latham Unit Stages Show at Siena College Auditorium
A revue and minstrel show by 70 plus Latham residents opened at Siena College auditorium under the Latham Community Committee to raise funds for a new Latham honor roll. The two-part program features Floradora Girls, Miss Liberty, and local novelty numbers with Samuel Hinsdale as interlocutor and Eugene Theroux presiding. Proceeds benefit the honor roll with Walter Ruhtz as ticket-chair and Miss Rundtz directing.
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Siena College
Latham Community Committee
Latham
Walter Ruhtz
Eugene Theroux
Floradora Girls
Gypsy Rose Lee
Jean Ruhtz
Mary Harris
Chhorus
Samuel Hinsdale
Frank Roberts
Charvies Luke
Walter Rhutz
Fred LaRose
Donald Hastings
Charles Luke
Mary Scully
Merte Hinsdale
Edmund MacDonald
Misa Phyllis Weed
Marion Baker
Ethel Cathout
Army Casualties at 94918 and Navy totals 32051 in war toll
Secretary of War Stimson said US Army casualties from war start through November 15 reached 94918, pushing overall armed forces casualties to 129969. Navy Marine Corps and Coast Guard totals stood at 32051 with 13160 killed, 5740 wounded, 8926 missing and 4225 prisoners of war.
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Washington
Stimson
Navy Department
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Gilbert Islands
Mark W. Clark
Fifth
Fifth Army
Coast Guards
Postwar Japan Isolation Visualized in World Tensions
A prewar frame of a diminished Japan emerged as Roosevelt Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek outlined a greater East Asia in a shocking prognosis. The map centers on Honshu and its major cities with Hokkaido Kyushu and Shikoku framing the archipelago. Ryukyu and Kurile chains link to Kamchatka while Sakhalin’s fate looms, with possible retention of the Bonin Islands.
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Washington
Japan
Matthew Perry
East Asia
Roosevelt
Churchill
Chiang Kai- Shek
Hokkaido
Kyushu
Shikoku
Ryukyu Archipelago
Kuriles
Russian Kamchatka Peninsula
Sakhalin
Russia
Islands North of Marshalls She Acquired in Mid 19th Century
A fragment notes that she held islands north of the mandated Marshalls and faced pressure to disgorge all the territory she had acquired in the mid 1800s.
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Islands
Mandated
Marshalls
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