Thunderbolts Down Seventeen German Planes in Quick Battle
USAAF Thunderbolts report a massive air clash over the Zuider Zee and Emden area. A single squadron claimed seventeen German fighters in under nine minutes during a Saturday raid, with another group downing four planes and bombers accounting for 117 more, totaling 138 destroyed. Pilot Lieut. Joe H Powers Jr of Tulsa aided the chase, recalling multiple tracers converging on his craft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
USAAF
England
Emden
Holland
Zuider Zee
Thunderbolts
Joe H. Powers, Jr
Tulsa
Oklo
Patton slapping incident discussed by Stimson Sicilian visit cited
General Patton slapping Pvt Charles Kuhl during a visit to the 15th Evacuation Hospital in Sicily on August 3 is examined by Stimson. The denial from Eisenhower's headquarters is viewed as an error in public relations, while military reasons keep the Mediterranean theater operations secret.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles L. Kuhl
15Th
Sicily
Stimson
Kuhl
Patton
Charles Kuh
Mishawaka
Ind
Algiers
Carolinas
Eisenhower
Hisenhower
Seventh Army
Drew Pearson
Pearson
Washington
Troy Record
Mediterranean
Former Pastor Salvatore Musso Dies Suddenly in Troy
Former St. Titus Italian Methodist Church pastor Rev Salvatore Musso died suddenly Sunday night at Samaritana Hospital after falling ill at the Trojan Hotel Coroner ruled natural causes Dr Gustav Klinch Jr attended him Musso born July entered the ministry in 1898 and served multiple conferences He is survived by two sons Lieutenant Victor E Musso and Private Alfred S Musso and two daughters Mrs Walter Goodwin Richmond Mass and Mrs George Clahane Lincoln Mass Funeral from Bryce Funeral Home 1820 Fifth Avenue tomorrow at 10 a.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salvatore Musso
St. Titus
State Street Fifth Avenue Methodist Church
Samaritana Hospital
Musso
Trojan Hotel
Charles J. Cote
Gustav H. Klinch, Jr
Alfred S. Musso
Camp Kilmer
N. J
Walter Goodwin
Richmond
Mass
George Clahane
Lincoln
Bryce Funeral Home
Fifth Avenue
Treasury bonds of 1944 46 redemption notice and exchange offer
Public notice announces redemption of outstanding 244 percent Treasury Bonds of 1944 46 dated April 16 1934 on April 15 1944 and states that interest ceases on that date. It also offers holders the option to exchange into other US government securities before redemption, with guidelines in Department Circular No 606. Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. signs for the Treasury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury
United States
Department
Henry Morgenthau
Treasury Department
Washington
Stock Leaders Stumble in Brisk Upturn
Brisk December upturn prompts profit taking as leaders stumble and market shows irregularity. Turnover reaches 731 016 shares with reinvestment demand and year end tax liquidation as principal prop. Major names like American Distilling and J I Case move. others resist including American Telephone Chrysler and General Motors. Wheat and cotton markets show modest moves at Chicago.
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New York
J. I. Case
American Telephone
Chrysler
Standard Oil
WN. J
Douglas Aircraft
Oliver Farm
Bethlehem
Youngstown Sheet
Market Prices and Quotations for Grains Butter Eggs and Poultry
New York December prices show steady ranges for flour rye cornmeal and buckwheat with specific per 100 pounds and per ton figures. Dairy items butter and cheese held firm with defined grade notes, while eggs poultry and fowl prices reflect two day receipts and first receiver selling prices with regional adjustments and delivery costs.
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New York
Ancy
Basis Buffalo Ae
Ob's
Sara
U. & Specials
Mother and Daughter Held for Murder in Kentucky Shooting
Boone County grand jury indicted Mrs. Jennie Kiger and her daughter Joan on a charge of willful murder in the August 17 fatal shooting of Carl Kiger Covington city commissioner and vice mayor. The case ties a public figure to the alleged crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foster and Adams High
Low
Close Alumi Co
Amer Dynam
Amer Gas & el
EW Bliss
Brewster Aeroplus
Doz
Servcom
Savoy Elec
Kale Bas
Glen Alden
Humble Oil
Imperial Oil
Acorn
Hubbard
Louisiana
Niaga & Hudsoo
Pennroad Corp
St Regis
Republic Aircng
United Gas
United S&p
Idaho
Kiger
Burlington, Ky
CPI
Boone County Grand Jury
Jennie Kiger
Joan
Covington
Jerry
Lath Mana Indintad Am Tne
Clark Receives Distinguished Service Cross in Sicily Dispatch
The White House released a Sicily visit dispatch noting General Clark received the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism at Salerno. It confirms Patton remains commander of the Seventh Army and lists five other officers decorated by the President during the ceremony with Eisenhower and Spaatz present.
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Ttalian
Clark
Patton
Dwight D. Eisenhower
General Clark
Seventh Army
Sicily
Fifth Army
Salerno
Col
Reuben H. Tucker
Ansonia
Conn
Cal
Joseph B. Crawford
Humboldt
Kany
William W. Kellogg
Highlands
Tex
Thomas F. Berteau
Chicago
Edwin F. Gould Orange
White House
Cairo
Teheran
Roosevelt
Eisenhower
Carl Touhy- Spaatz
George £. Durno
Washington
North Africa
Carl
Touky
Spaatz
Northwest African Air Force
Mediterranean
Castel Vetrano
Mark W. Clark
Italy
George & Patton
Dr James Sweetman Dies at Ballston Spa Home
Dr James 8 Sweetman long time tuberculosis prevention leader dies at his Ballston Spa home 67 McMaster Street. Practicing physician there from 1891 to 1923, he chaired Ballston Spa Red Cross chapter for two decades and served Saratoga County Medical Society, Sanitarium board, and Ballston Spa National Bank as a director. Funeral Thursday at 2 p.m. from his home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James 8. Sweetman
McMaster Street
Ballston Spa
Red Cross
Saratoga County Medical Society
Saratoga County Tuberculosis Sanitarium
Ballston Spa National Bank
Pacific Air Unit Downs 65 Planes in Wake Island Raid
Comdr Ernest M Snowden praised his air group of Navy carriers for shooting down 65 Japanese planes since the Wake Island raid of Oct 3. The unit reports only two pilots and three planes lost, with 107 pilots in the group and nine having seen action before Wake. Details from Dec 4 Kwajalein attack describe hits on cruisers and a cargo ship, intense anti aircraft fire, and multiple dogfights in which Hellcats, dive bombers, and Zeros traded blows. several pilots are named for their roles and claims.
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William Hipple
Pearl Harbor
Ernest M. Snowden
Wake Island
Wake
Beaufort, N. C
Hyers
Marshall Islands
Shuwuen Sala Wat Wen
Roi
Snowden
Kwajalein Island
Admr
Chester W. Nimitz
Paul BD
Buie
Nashville
Roi Island
Kwajalein Atoll
Ralph Weymouth
Santa Barbara
Cal
Weymouth
Mitsubishi
Cooke Cleland
Cleveland
Cleland
W. J. Hisler
Tie Vote Fails To Strike Tax Bill Provisions
Washington Senate Finance Committee tied yesterday blocking a bid to strike from the House bill a clause requiring labor unions and brotherhoods to file annual financial statements with the government. A deciding vote is expected today as committee aims to finish work on the $2.12 billion measure, with the report criticized by unions as an overreach into financial records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Santa Aul
McKellar Defends Good Neighbor Policy Spending
Senator McKellar rebutted Senator Butler’s charge that the United States spent over 6 billion dollars in Latin America and was a “sucker.” He testified that actual expenditures and loans in the last three years totaled 2.91 billion, with direct spending at about 1.43 billion and loans at about 1.48 billion, the vast majority for strategic materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Butler
R. Neb
United States
Latin America
McKellar
D.-Tenn
Senate
Girl Acquitted Of Killing Love Rival in Chicago
Rosalie Walsh twenty one, accused of murdering her love rival Alberta Morrow, was acquitted by a criminal court jury after three hours of deliberation. Walsh, San Bruno native, burst into tears and celebrated with her fiance Anthony Yen Arkel as verdict read. Morrow, twenty eight, was fatally shot September seven after arriving with Arkel at his home. Walsh testified the pistol discharged accidentally in darkness to prevent Arkel from leaving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Rosalie Walsh
Miss Walsh
Alberta
Morrow
San Bruno
Cal
Anthony Yen Arkel
Miss Morrow
VanArkel
van Arkel
Clergyman Rev Gage led faith through decades in Mohawk era
The obituary remembers Rev. Gage a longtime priest who served at St Mark's Ogdensburg Grace Mohawk Colton and St Pauls Greenwich from 1918 to 1939. He organized a noted vested choir and was active as a Four Minute Man during World War I. He married Helen L. Holbrook in 1921 and leaves a large family and siblings.
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Seph's College
Annandale-on- Hudson
General Theological Seminary of
New York
St. John's Episcopal Church
Ogdensburg
Christ Church
Morristown
St. Augustine's Church
Hermon
St. Pauls Church
Greenwich
Grace Church
Mohawk
Colton
Gage
St. Mark's Church
Oldham
Ogdensburg Lodge
Liberty Loan
Mr. Gage
Helen L. Holbrook
William C. Toast
Newbury
Elizabeth Bernice
Octavia Jane
Priscilla Faith Gage
Green Island
Pvt
William L
Army Air Corps
Richard Ashton Gage
Octavie Marie Sheffer
Newburg
Walker M. Gage
Red Bluff
Cal
Snyder J. Gage
Army Bombers Hit Imeiji Island In Marshalls Action
United States heavy bombers of the Seventh Army Air Forces blasted Imeiji Island on the Jaluit atoll with fifty tons of bombs in a Saturday strike on the Marshall Islands. The attack targeted shore installations and a cargo transport in the lagoon while AA fire inflicted negligible damage and caused no American casualties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Central Pacific
Imeiji
Jaluit Atoll
Navy
Marshal Islands
Seventh Army
Tax Installment May Provide Another Billion
The Bureau of Internal Revenue expects about one billion dollars to flow into the federal Treasury by December 15 from income tax payments as the pay-as-you-go system continues. This compares to roughly 1.7 billion paid on September 15, reflecting taxpayers who paid in one installment rather than two and including farmers and amended returns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Federal Treasury
Treasury
Housewives Win Points Break as OPA Cuts Pork Values
Housewives gained relief as pork cuts except variety and canned meats saw point reductions. Pork steaks roasts smoked ham bacon and ready to eat meat dropped one point per pound, fresh hams two points, and sausages down one point. Liver hearts and jowls unaffected. Beginning yesterday salvaged kitchen grease earns both monetary return and two ration points per pound with a half pound minimum trade.
Guard and convict killed in Oklahoma prison fracas
In McAlester Oklahoma two convicts attacked and killed state penitentiary guard Sergeant Pat Riley and inmate L C Smalley during an altercation at the electric plant. Warden Dick Conner said Riley and Smalley confronted Stanley Steen and Mose Johnson about a prior robbery. Johnson used a knife and Steen a hammer in the deadly assault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McAlester
Okla
Pat Riley
Oklahoma State Penitentiary Guards
L. C. Smalley
Dick Conner
Riley
Smalley
Stanley Steen
Mose Johnson
Conner
Johnson
Steen
Jurist Invalidates Nevada Tourist Divorce
Justice Morris Eder ruled yesterday that a Nevada divorce decree obtained by establishing residence solely for the decree lacks validity. He said full faith and credit need not honor such Nevada orders if a state proves lack of jurisdiction or a simulated domicile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neo Yen
De Molay Degrees Conferred on Five Candidates
The Innitiatory and De Molay degrees were conferred last night on five candidates at a Troy Chapter De Molay meeting in the Masonic Temple. Arthur Mander of King Solomon Lodge assisted. Richard S. Best, Ernest K. LeVan, William Mills, Walter Bachteler and Earl A. Best received degrees. two armed forces members and two home veterans attended, Sergis Donald Bull and John B. Whitehouse of the Army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Molay
Tve
Troy
Masonic Temple
Arthur Mander
King Solomon Lodge
A. M
Richard S. Best
Ernest K. LeVan
William Mills
Walter Bachteler
Earl A. Best
Home En Jeave
Sergis
Donald Bull
John B. Whitehouse
Army
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Gen. Patton
Troy Church
Arpa
Joo Pha
Foster and
Adams High
Alleghany Ludlum
Allied Chem
Alliz Chalmers
Am Can
Car & Fdy
Laco
Am Smelt
Am Steel Fdy
T&t
Armour Aih
Path Crucible
Curtis
del & Hudson
Douglas
Dupont
Eastman Kodak
Elec Auto Lita
Electric Boat
Elec Eyer
Mae
Minois Central
Inspiration
Inter Nickel
Q Kennecott Cop
Kresge
Libby, Mc & Libby OH L
Ligg & Myers B
NY Central
N Y Chi St Lord
North Amer
Otis Elevator
Ohio Oil
Packard Motors
Pan-Amer Corp
Pennsylvania
Pepsi-Cola
Phillips Petrol
Public Service
Pullman Ca
Radio Corp
Bs Rem Rand
Repab Steel
Reynolds Tob
J&j. Jo
Schenley
Sears-Roebuck
Socony Vacuum
Southern Pacific
Southern Ry
Sperry Corp. B
Stan. Brands
Cal. Bou
So. Cal. Ed
Stand Oil
BAK
Studebaker
T Texas Co
Union Carbide
Union Pacific
Unit Air Corp
United Fruit
U. S. Steel
Warner Bros
A Western Union
West
Air Brake
Associated Press
Indus
Ralls
Farmers’. Market
Dr. Sweetman
Pacific Air Unit
St. Mark’s
Marshall Island
Office of Price Administration
Riswold
Sonia
Henie Ino Muncal Os
Herman and His Orchestra
George Sanders
Marguerite Chapman
Berlin
Bob Hope
Betty Hutton
Iraq
Hitler
Somat
Stefs
Robert Oo Ae A Hobson
Donald G
Connor
Plonia
Pege Jean Ryan Edde Male
Bobcats
Nevada
Guy Kisbee
Tommy Borley
William Bendis
Richard Conte
Billie Burke
Jan Garber
Warner Theater
Richard Quise Ane Gyynee
Noah Beery, Ir
Martha O'Driscoll
William Frawtey
Bill Stern
Rick Valling
Veda Ann
Sylvia Sidney
Oscar Homolka
Walter Huston
Helen Winson
Wun
Eee
CMTE
Cary Grant
Laraine Day
Charles Bickford
Mir
Lucky
Aalso
Lupe Velez
Leon Errol
Mexican Spitfire
Leer
ARM Din
Fane Weate
Kansan
Errol
Hornet Hillard “Gals Inc
Faward G Redbinson
Glen Ford
Rivoud , Senna Morgan and
Ida Lepine In
the Hard Way
Atso
Buddy
Dick Foran
Harriet Ailliard
Empire Today
Dean Arthur
Joel Metrea
Smart Aleck
The
East Side
Waterford
Johan Downs
Warner Baxte
Wargarer
Lindsay Aleit Lomea
Up Lave
Rachve
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