Troy Comptroller finds refunding not cure for fiscal woes
State Comptroller Frank C. Moore denounces Mayor Hogan's bid to refund 400000 of Troy bonds as worsening the city’s tax burden. He cites mismanaged finances, water revenue misapplication, and illegal fund diversions. He warns of a 1944 tax rate rise and pledges a full fiscal review in 1945.
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Albany
Troy
Frank C. Moore
Frank J. Hogan
Moore
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Water Department
County of Rensselaer
Rail Strike Threat Grows Amid Wage Dispute
Washington reports that one million nonoperating railroad workers may set a strike date today or tomorrow amid a nationwide rail strike by five operating brotherhoods. President Roosevelt seeks settlement as Eastman warns a strike would harm the war effort. House committees delay action on wage proposals and plan to convene chiefs of nonoperating unions.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Transportation
Joseph B. Eastman
Eastman
House Interstate Committee
Vinson
White House
James Byrnes
Bombers Strike Nazi Strongholds From New Mediterranean Bases
Allied heavy bombers led by American Fortresses and Liberators attacked Augsburg in Germany and Innsbruck in Austria, shooting down 59 German fighters amid heavy defensive action. The raids coincided with Allied advances by the Fifth Army in Italy and the Eighth Army near the Adriatic coast, as long-range missions tested fighter defenses and weathered through clouds to strike key targets.
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Algiers
Nazi Germany
Mediterranean
Hermann Goering
Luftwaffe
Augsburg
Germany
Innsbruck
Austria
Fifth Army
Italy
Eighth Army
90Th Panzer Grenadier Division
Adriatic
England
15Th Air Force
Munich
Naz
Nuernberg
Brenner Pass
Sinking of Gulf ship by U-boat described by armed guard crew
Navy armed guards aboard the medium merchant vessel survived more than fifty hours in lifeboats after a German submarine torpedoed the ship in the Gulf of Mexico. Ten of eighty aboard are missing. Gunner's Mate Jack Dodendorf recalled the first hit and the rough seas. Commander Frank Bray said the third torpedo finished the ship and most crew were unable to reach life rafts. A Navy patrol plane later sighted the flotilla and a Norwegian freighter rescued the survivors.
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New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf
Jack H Dodendorf
Columbus
Neb
Mlo
Ineut
Frank Bray
Martinez
Cal
Armed Guard
Bray
Ben W. Dyer
Memphis
Navy
Montreal City Workers Strike After Mass Meeting
White collar workers in Montreal voted 95040 to strike to back wage increases from the Quebec municipal commission. The action affects about 2300 city employees. officials offered to set up a conciliation board, but the walkout began this morning.
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Montreal
Arawe Air Strip Falls to Allied Forces in New Guinea
Researchers report Arawe air strip six miles east of Cape Merkus, New Britain, in American hands under Lieut Gen. Walter Krueger's Sixth Army. While U S troops push in Arawe to solidify foothold gained December 15, Australian forces on the Huon Peninsula drive Japanese across Masawang River with bayonets.
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Walter Krueger
Sixth Army
Arawe
Cape Merkus
New Britain
Huon Peninsula
New Guinea
Masawang River
Pre-Dawn Coup Puts Pro-Nazi Clique in Power
In Bolivia a pre-dawn coup overthrew Gen. Enrique Penaranda’s government after a four hour battle. Victor Paz Estenssoro led the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario to install himself in the presidential palace, while Major Gualberto Villarroel assumed leadership of the revolutionary junta. The movement, long accused of German alignment, seeks geographic reconstrucion and an outlet to the sea possibly at Chile or Peru.
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Bolivia
Enrique Penaranda
Left
Victor Paz Estensoro
le Paz
United States
Victor Paz Estenssoro
Gualberto Villarroel
South America
Chile
Peru
Paz Estenssoro
Santiago
Britain
Pas Estenssoro
United Nations
Allies Plan Slav Push With Tito
United States and British staff officers report full agreement with Marshal Josip Broz Tito on a campaign in Yugoslavia. Yugoslav Partisans push Germany along the Balkan front, with supplies ferried by Adriatic fleets and a large number of casualties reported by both sides in recent fighting.
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Cairo
United States
Josip Broz
Drug Tito
Yugoslavia
Adriatic
Marshal Broz
Germany
Balkan
Berlin
Bosnia
Marshal Brozs
Girl Says She Shot Brother in Nightmare
Burlington Kentucky Joan Kiger on trial for her life testified she fired into her brother Jerry’s room during the night of August 16. She said she believed she was shooting at a robber while under the impression her father Carl Kiger and her brother were attacked by an intruder and were wrestling with a man.
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Joan
Daddy
Treasury Denounces Congress in Tax Bill Row
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau blasted Congress for trimming the revenue bill and warned of a veto threat. He charged lawmakers with enabling extortionate profits by war contractors and urged a reversal during Christmas recess, amid questions on the $2.284 billion tax plan and renegotiation amendments.
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Treasury
Morgenthau
Congress
Morgenthaus
House
Senate Finance Committee
Morgesthau
Publications to Get Less Paper in 1944
Washington reports a War Production Board order forcing magazines and newspapers to print with fewer pages or smaller page sizes. H M Briefer, WPB director, says the curtailment will trim 1943 paper limits, with total graphic arts tonnage down about 70 percent from 1941. The measure aims to save roughly 1,250,000 tons annually.
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Washington
War Production Board
H. M. Brirer
WPB Printing and Publishing Division
Graphic Arte
WFE
Russian Baltic Army Advances Near Polish and Latvian Frontiers
Soviet reports claim the Baltic army pushed from south of Wevel, within 55 miles of Poland and Latvia, recapturing nearly 1,000 square miles and 570 localities as German forces withdraw. Kherson bridgehead evacuated and Pravda describes German fortifications around Nevel and Minsk as an iron wall.
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Moscow
Wevel
Poland
Latvia
Polotsk
Vitebsk
Dnieper
Kherson
Berlin
Pravda
Bagraman
Nevel
Aten
Minsk
Ballet Theater
Three Jurors Picked in Albany Inquiry
Three grand jurors, including a Watervliet man, were chosen as Governor Dewey’s investigation into Albany County opened at an extraordinary term in Albany. The jurors include Thomas J. Barry, Frank P. Cox, and Joseph M. Ahearn.
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Supreme Court
Albany
Thomas J. Barry
Madison Avenue
Williams Press
Menands
Frank P. Cox
Hudson Avenue
State Department of Audit and Control
Joseph M. Ahearn
Ball Place
New York Central Railroad
Jane Dolores Reed
Dudley Heights
Edward V. Carey
van Rensselaer Boulevard
John T. Delaney
Nathaniel Goldstein
Supreme Court Grand Jury
Frank C. Moore
Goldstein
Delaney
Moore
Troy
William H. Murray
Worst Ahead Warns ODT Chief On War Transport
Washington February 1944 Office of Defense Transportation director Joseph B Eastman warned the winter months would be the worst yet for rail, bus and truck transport as 350 000 railroad workers threaten a strike. He cited rising munitions movements and bad weather as causes and projected a 15 percent rise in passenger rail travel and a three percent rise in freight. He said petroleum transport difficulties, eased by pipelines and tanker deliveries, would recur. He hoped to avoid rationing of travel and freight space and warned that prioritizing handling could worsen morale.
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Washington
Joseph B. Eastman
Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
Eastman
Printers Lift Strike On Capital's Dailies
Washington printers end a one day stoppage that halted four Capitol newspapers. Columbia Typographical Union officials and War Labor Board members met. union chief Manbeck announced workers would resume without commitments. Workers sought a daily wage increase of 1.33 dollars and a minimum hourly rate of 1.50, publishers offering 1.74 for seven hours daily and 1.20 for nights.
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War Labor Board
Jesse B. Manbeck
WLE
Manbeck
Youd
Wageneg
Tris Occara Wine
George W Taylo
Wayne L. Morse
van A Bittner
Manbech
J. R. Manbeck
Presient
Iga
Allies Lose 33 Planes in Bremen Raid
Lorton reports Allied forces loss of 33 planes during a Bremen raid on the northwest German port, while American Liberators aided by Ved dehters shot down 42 German fighters. Bombing over Bremen battered the city with explosives and fire, as crews flew above minus fifty degree conditions and smoke shrouded the port.
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Plos Pising
Plac Tereg
Uonot
Bremen
Bualgazan
Soha
Surdas Amercian
Augsburg
Gewnany
Innsbruck
Brenner Pass
Austria
U So
Cnet
Arnold
Troy Tax Jump Delivers Hefty City Budget Milestone
The Troy Common Council adopted a municipal budget after the State Comptroller denied a refunding of bonds, raising the tax rate to 4.74 per thousand. Alderman Casey warned of future jumps as bond maturities hit in 1945 and 1948, with the June decision preserving a high levy for residents.
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Frank C. Moore
State Comptroller
Troy
Frederick C Casey
Eleventh Ward
Peremission
State Comptroller’s Office
Frank J Hogan
Council
Casey
Theitle Comptroller
Tsedar
Sus Wren
Albany
Aegis
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