Roosevelt Veto Sustained In Battle Over Subsidies
President Roosevelt won his veto battle as the House failed to override, 226 to 151, against the subsidy repealer rider attached to a CCC extension bill. He warned the measure would raise living costs, food prices, and war munitions costs, urging continuation of subsidies to stabilize prices and support farming.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
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Senate
Commodity Credit Corporation
Rayburn
D.tex
CCC
Army
Navy
Bothhouses
Bingham Named Interim Public Works Foreman
Lloyd E. Bingham of the 17th ward, a mason by trade, was appointed temporarily as a foreman in the Department of Public Works with a salary of 2400 a year. He will fill in for Thomas McDonnel on sick leave in the Bureau of Sewers and Cesspools. Elizabeth Farrell of Lavin Court was also named a clerk in the Department of Welfare, succeeding the late Joseph T. Foxell, with future clerical appointments held provisionally due to exhausted civil service eligibility.
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Lloyd E. Bingham
Department of Public Works
Bingham
Thomas McDonnel
Bureau of Sewers
Elizabeth Farrell
Lavin Court
Department of Welfare
Joseph T. Foxell
Civil Service
Area Hi-Y Council Will Selid Score To Elmira Event
A delegation of twenty Troy Area Hi-Y Council boys will attend the central and northeastern state conference at Elmira March 24 25 and 26. The Troy quota is twenty with six already signed. State Y M C A has issued discussion sheets for pre conference study. Rev Charles Noble of Syracuse will be principal speaker. Delegates will be quartered at Elmira homes.
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Troy Area
Elmira
Lansingburg
Cohoes
Watervliet
Merrill W. Paine
Troy Y
Christ
Charles Noble
Syracuse
Saratoga Water Bills Authorized After Comptroller Ruling
The Saratoga Springs water department can pay current bills and payrolls on schedule following a ruling by the State comptroller’s office. It allows credit of 30,100 from the hydrant fund on property tax collections, to be transferred at the start of the fiscal year.
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Saratoga Springs Water Department
State Comptroller
Francis B. Dorsey
Comptroller's Office
Saratoga Springs Common Council
Mary A. Mulqueen
Water Department
Tre Hydrant Fund
Judge Regrets Life Term Imposed on Man
Leo E. Rice, 42, of Schenectady, a fourth offender, received a mandatory 15 years to life in Albany County Court after pleading guilty to bigamy and escape. Judge Gallup noted the sentence is required by law and expressed regret over its severity despite lack of discretion.
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Leo E. Rice
Schenectady
Albany
Baltimore
Earl H. Gallup
Fire call ends in taxi mix up at station curb
A frantic female caller urges emergency fire aid, the crew arrives to find a man and woman at the curb. The mix up leads to comic relief as the caller reveals she intended a taxi to the railroad station, not the fire department. Philadelphia notice mentions Eugene Ormandy leading the orchestra.
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Greenville
8. C
Vandals Strike Catholic Cathedrals in New York
Three major New York Catholic churches including St Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue were daubed with red enamel paint in a wave of desecrations. The pattern resembled question marks and the hammer and sickle. Police offered a $500 reward for information leading to convictions and assigned detectives to midtown churches.
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St. Patrick’s
Fifth Avenue
New York City
Broadway
First Avenue
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Midtown
Communist Party
Gilbert Green
United Nations
Hitler
Fiftieth Street
Bayside All Saints’ Episcopal Church
J. Francis A. McIntyre
Maer
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Yugoslav Partisans Cross Into Northern Italy Battling Germans
Yugoslav partisan forces reportedly crossed the Slovene border into northern Italy and fought German troops south of Caporetto. The Free Yugoslav radio said units of the 30th Patriot Division crossed the Piave River between Gorizia and Tolomina and held the river bank. Heavy fighting continued with reports of German losses near Skoplje and rail disruptions on the Belgrade-Salonika line.
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Italy
Caporetto
Josip Broz
Tito
Free Yugoslav Radio
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Gorizia
Tolomina
Zagorje
Ludberg
Koprivilica
Skoplje
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Salonika
Sergeants Shouldnt Talk to Majors
Knoxville dispatch reports a mix up as Sergeant Gloria Krauter tried to reach Major Krauter on the West Coast. An answering officer told a lieutenant that the sergeant was calling from Knoxville then relayed the message properly. Also noted, Marshall Lawrence Kennedy, 19, of Schuylerville, was killed in Italy on January 21. Federal Shipbuilding delivered 80 ships valued at 300 million to the government in 1943, a 30 percent rise from 1942.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Gloria Krauter
Marines
Harold Krauter
West Coast
Gloria
Krauter
Major Krauter
Llieutenant
Mrs. Krauter
Marshall Lawrence Kennedy
William F. Kennedy
Schuylerville
Italy
War Department
Glass Bakery
Kearny, N. J
Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co
Kearny
Port Jervis
N. J
Bill of Rights Day Celebration at School 12
Eighth Grade of School 12 presented two plays at a special assembly led by Principal Edward W. O'Brien. Music numbers included You're a Grand Old Flag by Frank Purificato and America For Me by Frank Finn, with the choral group, plus the play Trial of Peter Zenger directed by Mrs Eulalie Heffron.
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Edward W. O'Brien
Frank Purificato
America
Frank Finn
Frances G. McMahon
Peter Zenger
Eulalie Heffron
Theresa LeClare
Jerry Driscoll
Belle Reed
Cato
Albert Kosgerian
Robert Connor
Stephen Sturges
Elizabeth Bailey
Tom
John Ranney
William Wilcox
Helen Clouthier
Marilyn Hamilton
Janet Doyle
Otto Strassberger
Harold Machaw
Mary Lewis
Doris Kasarjian
Dorothy Wood
Ann Engel
Beachhead at Anzio under heavy German pressure
Allied forces held the Anzio beachhead as German attacks pressed along the Via Anziate toward Anzio. Heavy Allied air support, including Flying Fortresses and Liberators, and numerous sorties limited German progress while ground fighting and artillery exchanges continued coastal and Cisterna sectors.
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Aprilia
Anzio
Cisterna
Carroceto
Adolf Hitler
Mediterranean
Via Anziate
Mauritius
Formia
Fifth Army
Eighth Army
Miglianico
New Deal Killed In Name Signals Rise Of The New Peace
The piece argues the New Deal is fading in name while a postwar New Peace program emerges. It cites FDR hints about Win the War evolving into a broader peace plan with a Second Bill of Rights including jobs, food, housing, education, medical care, and security. It notes budget hints to expand the U S Employment Service, old age and unemployment insurance, public works, currency stabilization, and global trade coordination. Henry is credited with predicting the shift.
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Roosevelt
Dilworth Lupton
Cleveland Press
Wallace
Henry
Cally
Doctor New Deal
Congress
U. S. Employment Service
Man in Hospital With Neck Wounds
Chester Moore, 49, of West Coxsackie, is in serious condition at Samaritan Hospital after neck wounds from a paring knife at the home of Elliott Mac Roberts R. D. 3 Troy where he had been visiting One wound severed the windpipe and five other injuries were reported Trooper L J Abbott Trooper Stephen Hogan and Corp Harry Scovitle investigated the case
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Chester Moore
West Coxsackie
Samaritan
Elliott MacRoberts
R. D
Troy
Moore
Samaristan Hospital
L. J. Abbott
Averill Park
Stephen Hogan
Troop G
Harry A. Scovitle
Bombers Hit Italian and Greek Coastal Targets in World War II Action
Strength allowed continued assaults in multiple sectors as medium bombers hit ships off western Italy at San Stefano Maria Di Pisa and Porto Ercole. Fighter bombers attacked Igoumenitsa in Greece. Heavy, medium and light bombers swept Carroceto Frascati Albano Campoleone areas and adjacent rear German lines last night.
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Maria di Pisa
Porto Ercole
Igou
Menitsa
Greece
Carroceto
Frascati
Albano
Campoleone
Offenders Fled as German Officers Deserted Trapped in Dnieper
Izvestia quoted captured German officers admitting mass desertions amid the Dnieper pocket. Nazi commanders urged men to endure as triage vodka rations and nightly airstrikes followed. About 3,000 fled by transport. nearly 80 percent were shot down or killed.
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Dnieper Bend
Izvestia
Germany
Junkers
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