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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1944
Page
1
Firemen battled a two alarm blaze at 364 River Street last night pouring pumper streams into the interior. The brick structure housed the Ideal restaurant Troy Post American Legion and Armenian Social Club. Adjacent 366 River Street and 4 Franklin Square suffered smoke and water damage.
A two alarm blaze damaged a three story brick building at 364 River Street Franklin Square and spread to two neighboring structures. The Ideal Restaurant on the first floor housed by George Venus, with Troy Post American Legion on the second and Armenian Social Club on the third, suffered extensive wrecking and smoke damage. A second four story building at 4 River Street endured heavy fire and water damage to the first floor shop and upstairs rooms while 66 River Street had unoccupied lower floors and a residence on the top. Fire Chief Carl A. Smith said losses run to thousands and the cause remains undetermined. The third floor of the bank owned building sustained smoke damage. Continues on Page Fifteen.
Two Norfolk men John R King 23 and David Keith 24 were indicted by a Kings County grand jury on robbery kidnaping assault and grand larceny in a case involving a 37 year old Brooklyn cabbie Paul Caulford and an embassy employee Mercedes Platt 25 along with taxi driver Herman Corman 22. The victims said they were abducted and forced to drive to Brooklyn before being released.
A flood of chain letters to Chairman Hobbs of the House judiciary committee disrupted yesterday's routine as clerks counted about 100000 notes on the Bryson Bill to outlaw liquor. Hobbs dismissed national chain letters as self defeating while many were addressed to Boggs and Wrobb with misread names.
Washington AP says Attorney General Biddle ordered an immediate investigation into charges that the CIO political action committee violated the Anti-Strike law by aiming to influence the 1944 elections. Rep. Smith named CIO President Philip Murray and alleged a $700,000 union political contribution. He urged federal grand jury action.
Allied forces press the Arawe peninsula of New Britain and push beyond with artillery support while Tokyo claims Arawe was recaptured. Air missions drop 36 tons on Canhe St George and 38 tons on Rabaul, with 104 tons on Alexishafen as Japanese defenders resist Hed drive toward Madang. Nimitz reports a damaged destroyer and other ships sunk in Marshall Island raids.
Albany attorney general Nathaniel L Goldstein announced a 17 count indictment in Utica against Charles Braveman of Utica for bribing former state police sergeant David J Soule who oversaw truck weighing from 1934 to 1943 and is serving a five to ten year Sing Sing sentence after a separate bribery conviction.
Washington reports the influenza death rate declined for the week ending January 8, marking the first downward shift in six weeks. The provisional figure is 17.9 deaths per 1,000, down from 19.2 a week earlier, based on 86 major cities. The West Coast remained the sole region with a rise, up 12 percent.
A Copenhagen dispatch reports Danish patriots killed a Gestapo agent during a raid to round up saboteurs. German troops allegedly arrested five saboteurs in the operation carried out yesterday in the Danish capital.
Aviation Cadet R. D. Seale, 23, temporarily blinded midflight, guided by Col. C. W. Thaxton from the control tower. After circling for ten minutes and obeying instructions, Seale landed safely at the Army airfield. doctors attributed the blindness to extreme tension. He resides in Taft, California.
A Senate judiciary subcommittee pressed witnesses on whisky interests driving up claret prices. A San Francisco laborer cited prices rising from 1.90 to 3.25 a gallon under big distillers. Edward W. Wootton of the Wine Institute argued grape costs, and names tied to the industry drew questions about ownership by Schenley and National Distillers.
The FCC voted unanimously to reject a general rule barring newspapers from acquiring radio stations. It said it would not permit concentration of control in a few, but will consider newspaper ownership if two applicants are equally qualified. Previously, the commission sometimes favored non-newspaper applicants when other factors were substantially equal.
In Rio de Janeiro, housewives lined up to buy a half-pound coffee allowance as grocers struggled to keep shelves stocked. Roasters seek a price ceiling raise from four cruzeiros per kilogram, arguing green coffee costs have doubled in six years while roasted prices stayed flat.
A woman aboard a Green Bay bus warned driver Elmer Kendall about a fire started by a man warming his feet with crumpled newspapers in the aisle. Kendall halted the bus, extinguished the flames, and removed the offender, who had his shoes off near the fire.
London reports a record sky battle where Pi-American airmen shot down at least 152 German fighters at high loss, with sixty bombers and five fighters destroyed. The Eighth Air Force tallies fighter losses rising to 152 and notes another heavy bomber missing from the raid near Berlin. Fresh American crews rolled new bombers out on runways yesterday.
Transocean disclosed that Hitler’s anti invasion reserves were used in a vain effort to block U S air raiders from five German targets on Tuesday. The German propaganda agency quoted by the Ministry of Information said Germany had to deploy virtually all available air units.
The text notes readiness to strike again at enemy air production plants, aiming to paralyze Luftwaffe operations. Reconnaissance photos show significant damage in Ger LUFIWAFFE facilities, signaling intensified anti invasion efforts.
President Roosevelt sent back 31,956 of his 75,000 annual salary in 1942 under a salary limit after taxes of 25,000. The amount appeared in the budget bureau's 1943 receipts table sent with the Budget Message. The order, issued in 1943, was later struck down by Congress.
A rear-end passenger train crash at the Santa Fe station in Temple Texas yesterday killed at least 12 people and injured 40 to 45, many in a chair car. Westbound trains involved. two soldiers among the dead. J L Bothwell and wife in a rear special car demolished.
New York Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine amended department rules to bar officers from knowingly associating with subversive persons and forbids membership in groups that promote racial or religious discrimination. The order came after a department trial where Patrolman James Leroy Drew was cleared of charges of anti-Semitic activities.
Representative Marcantonio asked Attorney General Biddle yesterday to order an inquiry into the distribution of anti Semitic literature to soldiers at Fort Benning Ga by a pro Nazi group in Boston.
President Roosevelt sent Congress a 1945 budget of 99.769 billion dollars, forecasting a fall in wartime outlays and a rise in postwar costs. It lowers current war spending from 392 billion to 90.0 billion and expands veterans pensions to 1.252 billion and debt interest to 3.75 billion. Congress leaders stress war victory first, then peace, while Roosevelt calls for higher taxes.
President Roosevelt indicated that victory over Germany will allow large numbers of American troops to return home and shift industry to civilian production even as the war against Japan continues. He said demobilization adjustments will be possible while fighting a major war and that a front-by-front end is expected.
President Roosevelt urged Congress to expand social security to shield war workers and servicemen from hardship. He backed using existing government agencies to handle peacetime job placement for veterans and urged early action on his six point plan including mustering-out pay unemployment insurance free education and expanded veterans benefits. He also pressed reinforcement of social security provisions during service.
President Roosevelt urged Congress to add about 10.5 billion dollars in revenue to the wartime tax plan, while Senate leaders balk at raising rates. Republicans warned the measure is unlikely to pass in full and discussed adding provisions to require unions and similar organizations to file income reports. The discussion intensified as reconversion and ongoing war finance shape the tax agenda.
Red forces repelled German counterattacks on the road to a Russian breakthrough for a second day. The fighting, described as extremely fierce, killed about 3,000 Germans as Soviet troops extended a salient into Poland to an eighty mile front. In White Russia Soviet units pushed toward Kalinkoviczki rail hub and Mozyr, now nearly surrounded.
Red Army forces intensified pressure east of Vinnitsa driving Germans from positions near Nemirov and the Bug while destroying tanks and guns. Soviet reports claim over 2,090 German officers killed or wounded, 59 tanks and self propelled guns burned, and substantial enemy casualties with many taken prisoner as the front pushes toward the Romanian border and the Odessa Lwow line.
Milton Loewe, attorney for Martin A. Nichol assistant manager of the Hotel Knickerbocker, said Nichol would appeal the verdict after paying a fine to avoid a harsher sentence for refusing a Negro room. The decision was handed down yesterday by civil authorities in New York.
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