Navy to Take Plattsburg Barracks as Training Site
Plattsburg Barracks will shift from Army to Navy control on Feb 20 to host a V-12 apprentice program for 2 000 enrollees starting March 6. Apprentices become midshipmen after month, then ensigns on graduation, with July 1 to start a 60 day student officer indoctrination course and a total of about 2 000 in training. Commander C M Louttit named prospective school commander. Madison Barracks at Sackers Harbor to become inactive.
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Plattsburg Barracks
Troy
Army
Navy
Samen
Army Second Service Command
Third Naval District
New York
Associated Press
Plattsburg
Naval Training School
C. M. Louttit
U.S. M. BR
Indianan University
Third
Naval District
Fort Schuyler
Princeton
N. J
Second Army Service Command
Madison Barracks
Sackers Harbor
Hitler's Nephew Joins U.S. Navy
William Patrick Hitler, 32, nephew of Adolf Hitler, passed his Navy physical in New York and was inducted for naval service. He is expected to be called for duty within three months. Born in Germany to Alois Hitler, he was raised in England and remains a British subject. His earlier attempts to enlist in British, Canadian, and U.S. forces are noted.
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New York
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
United States Navy
William Patrick Hitler
Third Naval District
Hitler
Alois Hitler
Jeader
William
Germany
Elizabeth Dowling Hitler
William Patrick
England
William Hitler
United States Army
Thomas J. Dowling
Royal Air Force
Postwar Plans Move Forward by Washington Committee
The Postwar Committee proposed immediate creation of an Office of War Demobilization to direct peacetime conversion. It urged government purchase of raw materials and partly processed goods when a war contract is canceled, with contractors filing a simple certificate of what is due and government payment based on that. A 1 percent per month penalty would apply for overstated claims.
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Washington (P
Office of War
Golden Wedding Celebrated by Sheldon Couple in Hospital
Mr and Mrs G Frank Sheldon of Hudson Falls marked their golden wedding anniversary at Mary McClellan Hospital Cambridge where Mrs Sheldon is confined They wed fifty years ago in West Rupert Vermont and raised a family nearby Daughters in law Mrs Ruel Sheldon and Mrs Richard Sheldon helped host visiting relatives and friends.
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G. Frank Sheldon
Hudson Falls
Mary McClellan Hospital
Cambridge
Saratoga Officer William F P Kelly Declared Dead
Mr and Mrs James A Kelly of Saratoga Springs report word from the War Department that their son Captain William F P Kelly, listed missing in action since February 5 1943 over the Belgian Dutch coast, is officially dead.
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James A. Kelly
Saratoga Springs
War Department
William FP. Kelly
Billy
Belgium
Holland
Notice of Discontinuance Filed in Waters Suit
Notice filed in the County Clerk's office of discontinuance of legal action brought by Sarah T. Waters as administratrix of the estate of Charles E. Waters against the New York Central Rail road. Arthur B. Lanphier represented the plaintiff. Whalen McNamee Creble and Nichols represented the railroad.
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Sarah T. Waters
Charles E. Waters
New York Central Railroad
Arthur B. Lanphier
Whalen, McNamee, Creble & Nichols
Maybe Hospital Was Bombed By Mistake
Allied forces report a beachhead evacuation hospital south of Rome was struck by German bombs. Twenty seven killed including three nurses and sixty eight wounded. operations resumed as nurses and doctors treated casualties amid torn tents and shattered equipment. Eyewitnesses spoke of Spitfires pursuing the bomber and a possible shot down.
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Reynolds Packard
U. S
Rome
Spitfres
Daniel DeLnce
Combined Press
Hubert L. Binkiey
Japs Struck as 10,000 on Marshalls Cornered by Bombers
American bombers from Gilbert Islands and carrier forces strafed waterless Marshall Islands targets. About 10,000 Japanese and laborers were trapped on Watje Mili Maloelap and Jaluit atolls, with airfields still usable though planes gone. Navy withheld details to avoid aiding the enemy.
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Marshall Islands
Gilbert Islands
Watje
Mili
Maloelap
Jaluit
Paul Beam
Associated Press
Taroa
Malolap Atoll
Warden Resigns Over Brady Execution In Kansas
Warden M. Amine of Kansas State Prison quit Tuesday rather than supervise an execution he calls an evasive action. Gov. Schoeppel denied clemency for Fred L. Brady, set for April 15 by hanging, first Kansas capital punishment in over seventy years since 1872.
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Yopeka
Kans
M. ©. Amine
Kansas State Prison
Andrew Schoeppel
Fred L. Brady
Brady
Kansas
Yugoslavs Forbid King Peter to Return
Free Yugoslav radio reported that partisans at Cer, melj approved a resolution forbidding King Peter II to return to Yugoslavia. The session urged recognition of the Yugoslav National Committee as the sole government and sent telegrams to Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin. Dr. Ivan Rihar spoke for the liberated territories.
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London
FBI Warned of Plot To Blow Up Bridges
New York reports guards stepped up on metropolitan bridges after the FBI received a warning of a conspiracy to damage bridges. Port Authority police and city and New Jersey officers were placed on alert with no source disclosed. Also noted, Second Lieutenant Arthur Wiswall Wellington, son of Mr and Mrs Arthur H Wellington, graduated from the Quantico Reserve Officers' class and was commissioned last October.
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New York
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Port of New York Authority
New York City
New Jersey
Ihs
Arthur Wiswall Wellington
Arthur H. Wellington
Tidbits Avenue
Quantico
Wellington
Discontinued Supreme Court Actions In Rensselaer County
Two pending Supreme Court cases in Rensselaer County were discontinued as filed in the county clerk. Minnie J. Griffith versus Walter King and Theodore Mo. William Harrington versus New York Central Railroad Co.
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Supreme Court
Rensselaer County
Minnie J. Griffith
Walter King
Theodore Mo
William Harrington
New Yo Central Railroad Co
Churchmen Decry Raids on Germany
Lord Lang of Lambeth and the Bishop of Chichester condemned Allied bombings of Hamburg Frankfurt and Berlin in the House of Lords. Lang, formerly Archbishop of Canterbury, warned the attacks go beyond official policy and lamented exultation over destruction. The Bishop of Chichester called obliteration a unjustifiable act of war.
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London
Chichester
Man and Wife Drawn Into Poland Boundary Fallout
Washington flags a Russia Poland border dispute link as Alexander Korniechuk resigns as vice in Moscow to become Ukrainian foreign minister. His wife Wanda Wasilewska leads the Union of Polish Patriots in Moscow and seeks Western Ukraine and parts of eastern Poland to join the Soviet Union.
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Washington
INS
Russia
Poland
Moscow
Alexander P. Korneicchuk
Korniechuk
Wanda Wasilewska
Union of Polish Patriots
Ukraine
Wanda
Soviet Union
House Fights Over 1943 Appropriations Slashed
Washington reports a sharply split House debated and cut only 272,692 from a 1.32 billion Treasury and Post Office budget for 1943. Democratic opposition defeated several bids to further trim by margins of one vote or tie.
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Washington
Treasury
F Post Office
Ascal
Princess Maria Alexandra of Hesse Reported Killed
London reports Princess Maria Alexandra of Hesse may have died in an Allied air raid on Frankfurt. A Stockholm dispatch cites she served as an air raid worker when killed, per the Daily Express.
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London
Maria
Alexandria
Hesse
Frankfort
The
Daily Express
Stockholm
Merchant seamen in Army despite service status ruling
Columbus Ohio federal court held military courts have jurisdiction over merchant seamen aboard vessels on Army supply routes. C I O National Maritime Union vows appeal to the Sixth Circuit. Judge Mel Underwood called the ruling a precedent and denied a habeas writ for Philadelphia seaman Jacob M Berue, sentenced to Chillicothe reformatory for provoking an incident at sea.
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Columbus
Federal District Court
C. I O
National Maritime Union
Court of Appeals
William L. Standard
Maritime Union
New York
Mel G. Underwood
Habeas Corps
Jacob M. Berue
Phildelphia
Chillicothe, D
High Seas
Ex-Soldiers Seek Muster-Out Pay by Mail In NY Office
Swarms of former soldiers flooded the Army finance office in New York to apply for muster-out pay. By sundown the in person and mail applicants surpassed 3,000 since the operation began Monday. Col. C. K. McAlister urged future applicants to use mail for transactions.
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New York
Army Finance Office
Col. C. K. McAlister
Connecticut
Dewey Proclaims February 11 Edison Day
Governor Dewey designated February 11 as Edison Day praising Thomas Alva Edison for his life and career. He stated the inventor’s achievements benefited the civilized world and advanced progress toward better living.
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Albany
Dewey
Thomas Alva Edison
Tau Beta Pi Initiates Four At Wartime Institute Ceremony
Four new initiates join Tau Beta Pi at the Wartime ceremony held at the institute. Fausto Hidalgo and Robert Fischer are Cuban and Central American scholars and Phi Iota Alpha members. Frank Turpin and Richard Robinson serve in V-12 units and hold engineering and fraternity positions. The group excels academically and extracurricularly with military and campus leadership roles.
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Tau Béta Pi
Fausto Hidairo
Robert Fischer
Central America
Frank Turpin
Navy
VW. Pol
Richard Robinson
Hidalgo
Fischer
Phi Iota Alpha
Cuban Alumni Association
Phi Lambda’ Upsilon
R Club
Newman Club
Turpin
VPL 1
Phi Lambda Upsilon
Phi Theta Nappa
Robinson
Delta Upsilon Fraternity
Tavern Owner Slain By Brooklyn Gunman
Joseph Stabilli 43 proprietor of a Bath Beach Brooklyn bar and grill was killed by a shotgun blast as he climbed to his rear porch. Police found the firearm in the neighboring yard. His wife knew of no enemies.
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New York
INS
Brooklyn
Joseph Stabilli
Bath Beach
Stabilli
Plan to Simplify Income Tax Gains Headway
Washington action on tax simplification began on both sides of the Capitol as lawmakers push to ease the 1943 filing burden. Senate Finance Chairman George and House Ways and Means members backed moving toward quicker simplification.
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Washington
George
D.-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
House
South Dakota Gets Electric Chair Material
Sioux Falls reports that South Dakota will soon have its own electric chair, after five years since capital punishment was reinstated. The 1939 legislature approved the death penalty but lacked funds for the chair until 1943, with construction delayed by priorities. Warden G Norton Jameson said equipment for the chair was received yesterday.
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Sioux Falls
D. GP
South Dakota
G. Norton Jameson
Fragmentary note on murder case and drugstore claim
An incomplete item references Jacob F. Heinzmann aged 54 facing execution for a murder. It also mentions medicine as a sideline in a fountain drug store and a statement attributed to the United States Census Bureau.
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Fountain
U. S
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