Democrats Count On Soldier Vote In 1944 Election
Democratic officials expect service votes to swing the 1944 presidential race with a target of about 70 percent. Congress faces proposed federal supervision of absentee ballots as a clash over election machinery persists between federal overreach and state control. The House consideration follows Senate rejection of a federal commission, with Southern Democrats favoring state control and several compromise plans circulating.
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Washington
Congress
New York
Illinois
California
Federal Commission
Senate
House
O'Mahoney
D-Wyo
Woli
Lucas ‘D-H
Commandery Marks Day in Apollo Knights Templar Ceremony
Troy area Masons and friends joined Apollo Commandery 15 Knights Templar for Christmas observances at noon on Christmas Day. The event included worship, a ceremonial, and holiday toasts led by Commander John W. Egleston. Rev. David J. Livingstone delivered a principal address on Christmas spirit.
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Troy
Apollo Commandery
Knights Templar
John W. Egleston
David J. Livingstone
Memorial Methodist Church
Edwin Brown Allen
Gilbert c. Brndewald
Egleston
Charles Noah Orr
St. Paul
Minn
Mr. Egleston
Thomas W. Hislop
Joseph Cameron Dunn
New York
Joseph Pullan
Apollo
William A. Mabin, Sr
Frederick L. Ross
Worman F. Coons
Hadley C. Mamuson
Aithn E. Mander
Clark Leads Fifth Army Front Christmas Tour in Italy
General Mark W. Clark conducted a dawn-to-dusk visit along the Fifth Army front in Italy acting as a military Santa Claus. He handed out decorations and battlefield promotions, riding a jeep through mud to visit frontline areas and troops including two US soldiers of Japanese descent, Werle A Fukuda and H Kawano, promoted to captains. He also toured hospitals meeting wounded, with troops from American and French units receiving greetings.
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Fifth Army
Italy
CPI
Mark W. Clark
Clark
Werle
A. Fukuda
Honolulu
H. Kawano
Pearl City
Oahu
U.S. Army
Funeral for Edward B. Batt Jr. Held Today
Funeral services for Edward B Batt Jr 9 son of Edward B Hartsi family were held after a fatal Friday accident at a coast ing academy near West Sand Lake Road. Mass at Sacred Heart Church followed by burial at St Jean's Cemetery.
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Edward B. Batt, Jr
Edward B. Hartsi
Hone
Sand Lake Road
Sacred Heart Church
St Jean's Cemetery
Slavs Bypass German Railway Defenses in Balkans
An Army of Liberation communique says Slavs smashed through German tanks guarding the Zagreb Belgrade line, destroying four tanks and severing the railway at Jorjane and between Osijek and Khakovo. The note places action 100 miles east in Serbia where Tito reports fresh divisions arriving to bolster the German invaders amid heavy fighting.
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London
PY Yaroslav
Zagreb-Belgrade
Germany
Balkan
Army of Liberation
Josip Broz
Jorjane
Osijek
Khakovo
Serbia
Tito
Rensselaer 4-H Club membership tops 3000
Report by Samuel B Dor Dorrance shows Rensselaer County 4-H Club Association membership reaching about 3000 with 56 clubs and individual members. About 2000 achievement pins will be mailed after January 1 for year's work in crops and livestock. Pins, plastic due to wartime metal conservation, are distributed by the New York State Bankers Association across over 50 counties.
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Rensselaer County
Samuel B Dor
Dorrance
Vanderheyden Hall
New York State Bankers’ Association
Walter Wightman
Association
Dorrence
Wightman
Pearl Harbor
Saratoga County
Rensselaer
Bedaux Held Incommunicado In Miami
Military intelligence reported that Charles E Bedaux is being held incommunicado with no reason given. Bedaux, famed for industrial work systems, was flown to Miami to North Africa last week with Army officers, lacking passport according to immigration officials. He was connected to European figures and noted for industrial production. labor groups previously denounced his methods as the old speedup system.
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Fila
Charles G. Mettle
Miitary Intelligence
Charles E. Bedaux
North Africa
Bedeaux
Duke of Windsor
Wains Warfle
D Simpson
Nix Abaraton
England
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Scharnhorst
Gneisenau
Admiralty
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RAF
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Suetzow
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Ely
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Nesenau
Atantic
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Dover
North Sea
Iiman
Woman Injured in Collision on Whitehall Highway
Mrs. Claude Perry of Whitehall sustained injuries after a head on collision on the Whitehall Fair Haven highway. The truck driven by Edward Edner of Buffalo skidded into the path of a sedan as Leslie A White of Whitehall rode with the vehicle, Edner was uninjured. Police report by Chief Edgar C. Wren details the westbound skid and resulting injuries to Perry’s knee and hip.
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Whiteh
New Whiteh
Fair Haven
Whitehall
Edward Edner
Fairfield Avenue
Buffalo
Edgar C. Wren
Whiteha Edner
Colmans Expecting Child Next Summer Says Studio
Colman rumors say Mrs Ronald Colman, wife of the film star, is expecting their last child next summer. The studio disclosed the news yesterday. Mia Colman, who retired from acting when she and Colman wed on September 30, 1988, was known professionally as Renita Hum.
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Ronald Colman
Fim
Colman
Mia Colman
Colmen
Renita Hum
Jap Transport Sunk in Pacific Action, Navy Says
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced yesterday that U S forces likely sank a small Japanese transport in the mid Pacific while continuing air strikes on Marshall Islands. Liberator bombers engaged enemy targets in steady operations.
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Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Marshall Islands
Chester W. Numitz
Knights Begin Holiday Visits to Institutions in Troy
Knights of Columbus Troy council starts its annual charity visits to homes and institutions delivering gifts and entertainment. Delegations visited the Little Sisters of the Poor and Guardian Angel home with gifts and a cash donation, led by Rev. Edward To Rely and other officials. Future stops include St Josephs Infant Home and St Vincen School on Sunday.
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Angel Tome
Edward
Sacred Heart Church
John J. Ahern
J Farrell
James J. Fox
Towether
C. Frohes
Burglary Reports and Police Promote Officers
Whitehall burglaries target the W Whaler home at 31 West Street with two entries over a weekend, Christmas night. A unidentified boy seen near cellar windows. $4 in cash and a wrist watch missing. Whitehall Sgt. Felix Ashe led the investigation. War Department promotes Alfred L. Gordon and Thomas N. Greening from second lieutenant to first lieutenant.
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Whalen
West Street
Felix Asherne
Alfred Lawrence Gordon
Morris Street
Albany
Thomas Nixon Greening, Inc
Galway
War Department
Leap Year 1944 Calendar Brings One Friday the 13th
The 1944 calendar adds an extra day for Leap Year with 53 Sundays and only one Friday the 13th. Easter falls April 9, and holidays shift modestly with tax changes and earlier Memorial Day and Thanksgiving dates. Christmas lands on Monday December 25 despite the leap day.
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Red Cross
Trains Overrun by Holiday Travelers at Troy Station
Heavy rail traffic as sleet disrupts buses and roads across 40 area cities. Troy station adds cars but no extra trains while travelers crowd onto popular routes to New England and upstate New York. Officials forecast further strain as the holiday rush continues.
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Union
New England
Albany Schenectady
New York
Poughkeepsie
Albany
Virginia
Utica
Russo Japanese tensions and Soviet radio broadcasts described
The article notes potential Siberian mobilization risk as a trigger for attack, while Japan maintains peace tactics. In Shanghai the Soviet radio broadcasts Moscow's war coverage, drawing little interference from Japanese authorities. Russians are praised by locals over Germans, and signs of Russian presence rise in Tokyo.
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Manchuria
Japan
Shanghai
Moscow
Germany
United States
Great Britain
Tokyo
Russia
Washington County Court Terms Listed
Washington County Supreme Court schedule lists trial terms at Hudson Falls and Glens Falls with Justice Imrio and Justice John Alexander, plus special terms at Hudson Falls presided by Justice Imrie. Plattsburg and Salem entries show Sept. and Sept. dates. admission petitions for citizenship heard on first day of designated trial terms with restrictions around election periods.
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Hudson Falls
Daniel W. Imrio
Glens Falls
John Alexander
Schenectad Salem
Andrew W. Ryan
Plattsburg
Hudson
Imrie
Mail Volume Near Normal at Troy Post Office
Holiday mail pile up at the Troy Post Office was the smallest in years. Postmaster Frank M. Calling said the on hand mail, mostly from other communities, is only slightly above normal and could be cleared today.
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Troy
Frank M. Calling
Parcel Post Department
Washington County Tax Totals Announced
The report from the Washington County Board of Supervisors chaired by Charles Perry shows total taxes to be collected in the county at 905,828.54 with real estate valuation of 21,651,792. For the Hudson River Regulating District the county owes 263,873.46 in taxes. Town taxes in Kingsbury including Hudson Falls amount to 3,349.65, county general and welfare taxes 368,924.52, county highway tax 10,679.30, Workmen’s Compensation for the town health district 1,221.45. Total valuation taxes 106,922.05 and real estate valuation 35,478,480. Overall county total taxes sum to 158,826.91 and the combined taxes for all 17 towns reach 3,775,348.71.
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Committee On Equalization and Finance
Washington County
Lansingburg Boys Club Canteen Dance Planned
The Lansingburg Boys' Club announced a first canteen dance series to be held Thursday at the clubhouse on Second Avenue. George Winkler Alfred Cunningham Donal Rouse Robert Hayward David Lennek and Richard Fung will lead arrangements for dancing games refreshments and music. Proceeds will fund new records and donations of modern records are requested.
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Lansingburg Boys’ Club
George Winkler
Alfred Cunningham
Donal Rouse
Robert Hayward
David Lennek
Richard Fung
Twe Boys
Second Avenue
Modern Dance
Americans Stake Huge Claim Against Nazis
Americans have staked out a vast unofficial claim against Hitler and Co with an estimated total investment in Axis countries surpassing 1.07 billion dollars. The Treasury’s latest tabulation places United States investments abroad at about 1.070 billion, with Germany accounting for roughly 770 million. Census data do not create formal claims. the study aims to gauge wartime and postwar financial stake across the Axis.
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Washington
Hitler & Co
Treasury
Itz Ce
United States
Asis
Germany
the Grove
Erty Abroad
Divorce Granted in Waterford Case Phillips v Phillips
Rita M. Phillips wins an interlocutory decree of divorce from George W. Phillips in Supreme Court Justice Pierce H. Russell's court. The couple, married August 19, 1922, have one child, custody given to the mother. Attorney David Rosenfeld represented Mrs. Phillips.
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Third Street
Waterford
George W. Phillips
Grand Street
Supreme Court
Pierce H. Russell
David Rosenfeld
Allied Planes Sink Japanese Destroyer At Kavieng
Gen Douglas MacArthur announced Allied carrier based planes sank a Japanese destroyer and two cargo ships at Kavieng New Ireland and captured Wandakai on the Huon Peninsula New Guinea. RaBaul raids cost Allies 15 planes. Japanese losses include 11 fighters likely 19 more. Australian troops seized Wandakai with light casualties.
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Kavieng
New Ireland
Wondakai
Huon Peninsula
Douglas MacArthur
Rabaul
New Britain
Wandakai
Finschhafen
Adm
William F. Halsey
Kavieng Harbor
Sergt Fogarty Hit By Auto During Midnight Mass Traffic Duty
Sergt Andrew Fogarty of Central Police Station was struck by a hit and run car on Hutton Street and Fifth Avenue while directing traffic for a midnight mass at St Peter's Church. He suffered a scalp cut and a right arm abrasion, was taken to Troy Hospital by a police radio car, and later returned home. Capt. Joseph P. Shields investigated, the vehicle allegedly traveled south on Festh Avenue.
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Andrew Fogarty
Central Police Station
Hutton Street
Fifth Avenue
Troy Hospital
Joseph Buchanan
Fogarty
St Peter's Church
Festh Avenue
Joseph P. Shields
Central Station
Holiday Death Toll Rises With 269 Fatalities Reported
The two day Christmas observance saw at least 265 violent deaths by last night, with 173 traffic fatalities, 34 fires, and 58 from other violent causes. Illinois led states with 29 deaths, California 28, New York 25, Virginia 17, Ohio 13, and Pennsylvania and Texas 12 each.
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Dents
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California
New York
Virginia
Ohio
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Texas
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Union to vote on AFL to CIO switch in January
A company spokesman said workers will elect on January 12 to decide possible move from AFL to CIO. Republic Steel Corp. would sign the current contract expired Christmas Eve but rejects a supplementary stipulation granting retroactive pay plus a 17 cent hourly raise and other increases, noting wage gains must be balanced by other factors.
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Vpage One
F. of L
Republic Steal Corp
Troy
Steel industry faces walkouts as War Labor Board to meet
The War Labor Board plans an urgent meeting over the steel dispute after a rule denying retroactive pay sparked walkouts. About 350,000 workers at 214 firms face potential idleness as contracts lapsed. President Roosevelt urged settlement under the national no strike pact via bargaining, conciliation, and board determination. Executed wage adjustments could retroactively apply only under Economic Stabilization Act orders. Industry executives opposed retroactive raises, warning they could trigger inflation. No immediate comment from the Steel Workers union.
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War Labor Board
Murray
Roosevelt
Youngstown
Frank Parnell
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co
Purnell
Charles M. White
Republic
White
Steel Workers Union
Strike at Troy plant halts pig jiryn production
An overnight work stoppage at the Troy pig jiryn plant continues, with five union workers on duty during the day and two nightly, as the huge blast furnaces are banked and tended by supervisory staff. The Buffalo plant remains active, employees reported at 6 p.m. yesterday. The Troy operation also makes lend-lease equipment whose details were not disclosed.
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Troy
Buffalo
Green Island Knights plan New Year Eve party meeting
The Green Island Knights of Columbus activities committee will meet in the council rooms tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. to discuss a tentative New Year's Eve party. James McCallen is chairman of the committee.
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Green Island Knights of Columbus
James McCallen
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