Allied Push Advances on Both Flanks in Italy and Greece
Allied forces push along the German winter line near Mignano and Cassino, seizing key mountain positions west of the Garigliano and repelling German counterattacks while weather and flooding hinder supply lines. In Greece, air raids target Eleusis and Kalamaki as US bombers hit airfields. overall heavy fighting coincides with the second Pearl Harbor anniversary.
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Algiers
Mignano
Garigliano
Fifth Army
Rome
Monte Maggiore
Monte Camino
Adriatic
Tenth Army
Hne
Bernard L. Montgomery
Moro
Sangry
U. S
1Sth
Eleusis
Kalamaki
Athens
Pearl Harbor
Kesselring
Cassino
Filignano
Mount Maggiore
Eighth Army
Moro River
Italy
San Leonardo
San Vito
Orsogna
Caholi
Gariglane
Finns Warned on Renewed Shelling of Leningrad
The Soviet Information Bureau accused German and Finnish forces of escalating shelling of Leningrad's residential areas with no military objective. It claimed Finnish officers instigated attacks to force surrender and warned Finland must share responsibility with Germany for the war crime.
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Leningrad
London
Finland
Germany
Risto Ryti
Red Army
Turkey Talks with Allies at Cairo Meet With Roosevelt and Churchill
Turkish President Inonu met with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the Mena House in Cairo for a high level conference on future war relations. The talks included British and American staff chiefs while discussing Turkish neutrality and possible Allied bases.
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Cairo
Turkey
Stockholm
Portugal
Azores
Inonu
Roosevelt-Churchill
Chiang Kai-shek
Mena House
Roosevelt
Churchill
Inofu
Syria
Palestine
Villa No. 1
Wedding and church supper outline at Reformed Church
Eglant s is reported to attend the Syracuse wedding of her grandson serving in the U S armed forces. The Senior C E Society holds its Christmas supper at 6 30 pm at the Reformed Church. The Parent Teacher Association meets tomorrow evening along with a Christmas party. Pupils party preparations are complete. An executive meeting precedes the 7 30 pm regular meeting. A roast pork supper and church bazaar supper are planned at the Reformed Church with supper at 11 pm.
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C. E. Society
The
Reformed Church
Byrnes Defends Broad Tax Policy Amid Cost of Living Pressures
Senate debate centers on a White House tax program and proposed subsidies cut. Byrnes insists on general policy rather than special treatment for coal, oil, or railroad workers, warning against raising bread and milk prices while wage boosts target broad relief. He notes food costs surged 22 percent in two years and argues for uniform policy over targeted raises.
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Senate Finance Committee
Byrnes
Congress
Ickes
Roosevelt
Fred M. Vinson
Green Island votes on flying jeep name for local graduate
Green Island school balloting closed selecting a name for a flying jeep memorial from Heatly High alumni finalists Bodhan Banit Thomas Carter Richard Cunningham Arthur Johnson and George Yakel. Ballots counted today with winner announced tomorrow. Meanwhile defense workers meet at Legion Hall for a program with refreshments. Shirley Wattendorf suffered third degree burns from scalding water. she was hospitalized in fair condition. Green Island Methodist Church bazaar opens this afternoon with turkey supper and cafeteria meals Thursday evening. Obituaries note funeral services for Thomas J Connors at St Josephs Church with organist Alicia Leonard and tenor Peter J Heffern. interment at St Patrick's Cemetery Watervliet. Memorial services for Edith Daughn Marble held at 1 Paine Street with rector James J Whitcomb officiating.
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Heatly High School
Bodhan Banit
Thomas Carter
Richard Cunningham
Arthur Johnson
George Yakel
Shirley Wattendorf
Thomas Wattendorf
West Street
Green Island
Samaritan Hospital
Women's Society For Christian Service
Green’ Island Methodist Church
Thomas J. Conners
High Street
St. Joseph's Church
John J. Ryan
Alicia A.leonard
Peter J. Heffern
Paris
Albert J. Green
Maurice J
Earl W. van Buskirk
Thomas J. Carter
Ryan
St. Patrick's Cemetery
Watervliet
Edith Daughn Marble
Charles Marble
Paine Street
James J. Whitcomb
St. Barnabas’ Episcopal Church
Walk
Edward Miller
Albert Mason
Thomas Beat
William Miller
John Becker
Elmwood Hill Cemetery
Troy
Postwar Use Of Galapagos Proposed as Defense Outpost
A House committee urges continued U S use of the Galapagos after the war as a defense outpost for the Panama Canal and calls for postwar commercial use talks on Latin American bases. Rep Merritt leads the panel after a tour of bases, praising Good Neighbor policy yet faulting planning and amateur goodwill emissaries. Senator Butler, returning from South America, accuses the administration of wasting billions and says Latin Americans view the U S as a sucker.
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Washington
United States
Ecuador
Galapagos Islands
Panama, Canal
Houses
Latin America
Merritt
Butler
R.-Neb
South America
R P I Class Boosts Loan Fund With 800 Addition
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute reports the class has added 800 to its student loan fund, bringing total since 1933 to 3,500 for needy students. The 1913 to 1913 year end notice notes 626 previously given by alumni to the first annual fund.
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Nation Will Honor Wright Brothers
Congress completed action on a resolution recognizing the Wright brothers historic flights at Kitty Hawk North Carolina. The measure, marking December 17 as the fortieth anniversary, expresses national gratitude for the outstanding contribution to world progress and directs an engrossed copy to Orville Wright in Darton Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wright Brothers
Kitty Hawk
N. C
Clark
Orville Wright
Darton
Young 13-Year-Old Murderer Enters Sing Sing
Edwin Codarre, aged 13, began a life term at Sing Sing for the 11-year-old Elizabeth Voigt’s August assault murder. He was sentenced in Dutchess County and will be eligible for parole in twenty years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin Codarre
Sing Sing
Elizabeth Voigt
Earthquake Toll Reported in Central Turkey
A British radio broadcast recorded by US monitors said 560 people died and 12 villages were destroyed in a new Central Turkey quake. Earlier, the November 27 quake in north central Turkey killed 2,919 and destroyed 3,321 buildings.
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New York
Cohoes Y W C A Plans Hanging of Greens
The Cohoes YWCA board met to finalize plans for the annual Hanging of the Greens Christmas ceremony Sunday at 4 p.m. in the Mohawk Street building. The pageant Christmastide will be presented by four Girl Reserve Clubs, with tea and a tree from the Business and Professional Women's Club. Seventy youths attended Saturday open house. nominations for January board elections were set. A Triduum observance began at St Agnes Church for the Immaculate Conception with multiple masses scheduled. Alfred D. Toma of Cohoes, serving with the Army at Camp Davis, N C, was promoted to technician fourth grade.
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Cohoes
Soldier Held for Death of Child
A Denver Army mess sergeant was charged with the slaying of three year old Kathryn Ann Geist whose battered body was found beneath a kitchen sink in his suburban Engiewood apartment. Staff Sergeant Frank Martz, 83, stationed at Fort Logan, allegedly enticed the child to the apartment, struck her on the head, strangled her with a cord and then assaulted her.
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Denver
Aetgeant
Kathleen Ann Geist
Richard H. Simon
Frank Martz
Fort Logan
Martz
Engiewood
WPB Orders Steel Plate Speed-up for Invasion Craft
The War Production Board issued a hurry-up call for large quantities of steel plates and sheets to accelerate invasion craft production for further attacks on German and Japanese areas. Record-breaking output is vitally needed for troop carriers landing craft and other equipment, with December and January guidance urging larger quads of these products.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Former High Wheel Bicycle Champ Dead
Corning reports the death of John Brooks, once famed as America's high wheel cycling champion in the 1880s. He competed in Springfield 1885 and raced horses in Madison Square Garden New York. Brooks toured England with William H. Woodside. Cobb recovering. Irving S. Connor ill with pneumonia and dropsy but recovering per wife.
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Corning
John Brooks
America
Springfield
Mass
New York
Madison Square Garden
England
William H. Woodside
Ireland
Cobb
Irving S. Connor
Conch
Cohoes Event Announces Full Program at Testimonial
Announcement details a testimonial gathering at Cohoes High School auditorium under the American Red Cross to honor seven local mothers with five or more sons or daughters serving in the armed forces. Notables include Brig. Gen. Gillespie and Lieut. Col. Meneety, with performances by Amelia Katchmar and the Cohoes High School Orchestra.
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Pam
Cohoes High School
Ines? Heaard
American Red Cross
F. Herrick Conners
Victor J. Blekkink
D.D
The
Reformed Church
Amelia Katehmar
M Ted KR. Russell
Fed Cross
Mary Farnum
Ger
Alexander G. Gillespie
Watervliet Arsenal
B. Southworth
R. M. Holston
U. S&s. Marine Corps
America
Amelia Katchmar
Grace Mary Farnum
Arthur Murphy
James TD. McNary
Maurice R. Starkey
John K. Meneety
Arsenal
McNary
Ralph M. Bacon
Southworth
Adam Anderson
Philip Comtois
Delphis Duchesne
Joseph Majewski
Frank Novak
Laula O'Donovan
Stephen Smi
Caissons
Easton Girl Weds Cohoes Soldier in Ukrainian Rite
Miss Ann Ropitzky daughter of Mr and Mrs Joseph Ropitzky Easton marries Pfe Miron Wy Lesnick of the U S Army Air Forces son of Mr and Mrs Wilfred Lesnick Cohoes in St Peter s and Paul s Church Nov 21 Rev Michael Martinuk officiates. The reception follows at Ukrainian Hall with about 300 guests from Utica Stamford Conn Albany Oneonta Greenwich. The couple plan a trip after a wedding trip to an unannounced destination.
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Ann Ropizky
Joseph Ropitzky
Easton
Pfe Miron Wy, Lesnick
U.S. Army Air Forces
Wilfred Lesnick
Ontario Street
Cohoes
St. Peter's and Paul's Church
Michael Martinuk
Gloria Lesnick
Emelie Drapalskhi
Kather Buve
Stephen Halenar
Army
D:tdle
Camp Kilmer
XNI
Dg. Corp
A. J. Barna
Fort Tilden
L. J
Corp
William Zmud
Fort Monmouth
N. J
Maid of
Siena College
Mitchell Field, L. 1
Master Masons Night At Eastern Star Observance
Imperial Chapter Order of the Eastern Star held Master Masons Night in Cohoes Masonic Temple with a large delegation from Cohoes Lodge 116 FA & AM. Wrause presided. Mrs Alice Miller and Charles Ellet led officers. drill team presented. Christmas party followed with Mrs Bes Bennett and Mrs Eleasar Scotland overseeing committees.
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Imperial Chapter
Order of the Eastern Star
Cohoes
Cohoes Lodge
William A. RB. Wrause
Alice Miller
Charles J. Ellet
Actiongz
Mildred van Zandt
Albany- Schenectady
Rensselaer
Mallory
Troy
Len Robinson
Jetta
O. BE. S
Wateryet
A. Donscotland
Imperial Chap
Bes. Bennett
Eleas Nor
Scotland
Cohoes Community Club to Install New Officers
Newly elected Cas cade Hose Community Club officers will be installed Sunday afternoon December 19 at the clubhouse on Heartt Avenue Cohoes. Dinner will be served and reservations close Sunday. William B R Higgins will be inducted as president to succeed George F Butler. Officers include Mario Marcucci vice president Edmund Ryan recording secretary James Hanley treasurer and Nelson Thomson financial secretary. Another social in the series is scheduled December 14. Mrs Edgar VanBuskirk of Trusl Street has left for Tampa Florida to join her husband Pfc Edgar VanBuskirk.
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Cascade Hose Community Club
Heartt Avenue
Cohoes
William BR. Higgins
George F. Butler
Mario Marcucci
Edmund Ryan
James Hanley
Nelson Thomson
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Nashville
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Cohoes Y. W. C. A
Alfred D. Toma
Camp Davis, N. C
High Wheel Bicycle
Fellowcraft Club
A. M
Masonic Temple
Ralph B.austin
Morton T. Valley
William A . R. Krause
Busine
Chris Beck
gTo
Ladies’ Auxiliary of
Cohoeg Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Remenen Street
Christine Dewar
Air Corps
Hinchman
U. S. Army Air Base
Jackson
Miss
Maj
R. J. Townsend
Albany
Rotary
Seymour Smith
Chaptainengselaerv Polytechnic Ins
E Cohoes Rotary Cf
van Schaick Island Country Club
James M. Obrien
Christias
Parent-Teacher Association
Lincoln Avenue
M. C. Clifford
Selective Service Board
John BR. Relvea
Joan H. Ishakaman
William D. Dufresne
Fred Deanoyers
Crenorge Pelton
Stephen J. Vascano
James H. Markle
Edward M. Foley
Harvey EB. Pavetts
Walter J. Wrobet
Herbert E. Dame
Rudolph I. Roulier
John J. Conway
Eastern Star
Master Masons
Edgar VanBuskirk
3& Trusl Street
Tampa
Fla
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