Eisenhower Visits Sicilian Beachhead Amid Beachhead Actions
General Dwight D. Eisenhower toured the Sicilian landing zones aboard an amphibious craft and a jeep, meeting beach commanders, Canadian officers, and Allied sailors. He reviewed the assault, heard reports of enemy air activity, and praised troops who hit almost every beach on the button while ships and land forces coordinated a steady advance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eisenhower
Eijsenhower
Royal Navy
Patton
Sean
Bilandly
Rensselaer Lad Returns Home From Navy
Frederick Harrigan, 15, of Rensselaer, came home from Sampson Naval Training Station after a two week hitch. He enlisted under his 11 year old brother’s birth certificate and said he joined to serve his country and would return to the Navy if the war continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Frederick Harrigan
Rensselaer
Sampson Naval Training Station
Frederick
Allies Take Syracuse and 9 Other Towns in Sicily Invasion
Berlin press reports claim 1000 Allied casualties and ongoing Axis counterattacks at Sicily while German commentators in Stockholm say major Axis forces yet hold central positions. Rome correspondents note Italians remain calm with mixed fear over a wider battlefield in Italy.
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Paris
Sicily
Berlin
Stockholm
Tidningen
Rome
Europe
Goebbels
Italy
Nazis Fear Bastille Day Demonstrations In Occupied France
The Vichy regime posted special police to Haute Savoie as July 14 Bastille Day approached. Dozens of Communist and Socialist leaders were arrested in Annemasse Annecy Gaillard and surrounding border areas. Detainees were moved to a concentration camp in Haute Vienne. Swiss dispatches note rising nervousness in Laval government amid Nazi press attacks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
Bastille
Haute Savoie
Annemasse
Annecy
Gaillard
Sicily
Journal de Geneve
Watervliet Delegates Named for State American Legion Auxiliaries
Mrs Lillian Dean of Watervliet and Mrs Cora B Edwards of Castletown have been named delegates representing the Albany County Eight and Forty Society making branch of American Legion auxiliaries at the state convention in New York next month. Mrs Catherine Kelley of Watervliet and Mrs Catherine Somerville of Albany are alternates. The September meeting of the county group will be held at Mrs Kelley s home 706 Third Avenue Watervliet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian Dean
Watervhet
Cora B. Edwards
Castleton
Albany County
American Legion Auxiliaries
New York
Catherine Kelley
Watervliet
Catherine Somerville
Albany
Kelley
Third Avenue
Anti-Fascist Front Formed in Italy
The UGPI A united anti fascist front has been formed in Italy and agreed on a policy for a constitutional democratic republic. The BBC reported the group includes Partito Dazione liberal democratic elements, Italia Libera underground paper, the Italian Social Party liberals and communists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
UGPI
Italy
British Broadcasting Co
Partito Dazione
Liberal-Democratic
Italia Libera
Italian Social Party
Nazis Claim Allied Battleship Sunk Off Sicily Coast
German radio cited by Reuters said an Allied battleship forming part of the Sicily invasion fleet was damaged by bombs off the Sicilian coast. The claim had no Allied verification.
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Tendon
Reuters
Sicily
Sicilian
Fathers Draft Date Uncertain Despite Manpower Push
Peter Edson details the War Manpower Commission and Selective Service stance on not setting a first fathers draft date. He notes lowered physical standards may delay inductions, broader age limits could shift timing, and occupational deferments are being reviewed. Rumors abound, with no firm date in sight. officials stress no father will be drafted until all non-fathers are exhausted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Edson
War Manpower Commission
Selective Service Headquarters
WMC
Army
Manpower Commission
U.S
Congress
Hitler
Injured Youth Taken To Hospital After Altercation
Police took 19 year old James Ritrovato of Hillcrest Wynantskill to Troy Hospital in a police radio car after an incident at Pawling and Hawthorne Avenues. Patrolmen Joseph Kelly and John Moran from Central Police Station reported a cut under his right shoulder and bruises to the shoulder. State Police were notified. injuries described as not serious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Aitrovato
Hillcrest
Wynantskill
Troy Hospital
Joseph ‘Kelly
John Moran
Central Police Station
Ritrovato
Pawling
Hawthorne Avenues
Civilians to Get Less Butter Under War Food Plan
The War Foods Administration says civilian shares of butter cheese and processed milk will be reduced for twelve months based on urgency of military Allied Red Cross needs and expected production. For every ten pounds produced civilians receive 1.32 pounds of butter and the Russian Army 0.5 pounds. Total supply drops from 2.074 to 1.67 billion pounds with 404 million pounds cut from last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Foods Administration
WFA
Red Cross
Services Held For J. E. Meeson
Officers and King Solomon Lodge conducted a Masonic funeral for James E. Meeson who died Saturday at Samaritan Hospital. The service was at his Wynaniskill home with Hudson Valley Fuel Corp. delegation among attendees. A dated draft policy note remains unsettled as the Manpower Commission has offered no fixed date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King Golomon Primitive Lodge
James E. Meeson
Samaritan Hospital
Wynaniskill
Hudson Valiey Fuel Corp
Meeson
Plumes and Sabers at Allied Sicily Drop
Allied parachute troops in North Africa and Sicily faced an odd clash when Italian cavalry charged their objective with sabers and plumes. The surprised troopers broke up the attack as dawn mist revealed the unexpected horsemen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allied
North Africa
Sicily
Judge Conway Takes Civil Service Post
Former Ulster County Judge J Edward Conway of Kingston was sworn in as a member of the State Civil Service Commission, succeeding Miss Grace A Reavy of Cohoes. Governor Dewey appointed John M Cashin Kingston Republican as county judge and judge of the children's court to fill Conway’s term, expiring December 31, with a combined salary of 6200. Cashin, 51, a Cornell Law School alumnus, has served as Kingston city treasurer, assistant United States attorney and Kingston corporation counsel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Edward Conway
Kingston
State Civil Service Commission
Grace A. Reavy
Cohoes
Thomas’ J Curran
Conway
Tomas & Dewey
Dewey
John M Cashin
Children’s Court of
Ulster County
Cashin
Cornell University Law School
New York Bath
Kingston City
United States
Kingston Corporation
President Approves Funds Bill and Deficiency Measure
The president signed a funds bill covering agencies including the Board of Economic Warfare the Office of Censorship the OSS and the National War Labor Board plus a deficiency appropriation of 59 million dollars with 143,439,491 for other agencies. A rider mandates dismissal of three federal workers if not Senate approved by November 15.
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Big War Agency
Dill
Board of Economic Warfare
Office of Censorship
Office of Strategic Services
Office of Civilian Defense
National War Labor Board
Senate
Goodwin Watson
Wiliam E. Dodd, Jr
Federal Communications Commission
Robert Moris Lovett
The
Virgin Islands
Dies
D-Tex
House Committee On un-American Activities
District of Columbia
Axis Losses Heavy in Sicily
Allied air activity over Sicily destroyed or damaged about four hundred Axis convoy vehicles and shot down 44 enemy planes. Nine Allied planes were missing. Malta Spitfires claimed 24 enemy aircraft in patrols over the beaches while American Flying Fortresses destroyed seven and bombed Catania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sicily
Catania
Green Island Meeting and Demonstration Announced
A Green Island special meeting of the Camp Fire Girls Pitkin group is set for 7 30 p m at Mrs James Cumpings 108 Hudson Avenue The Green Island Home Bureau will hold a food demonstration tomorrow at 1 30 p m in the Methodist Church rooms led by Mrs B J Whitley of Cornell University showing pressure cooking and hot water canning Also trustees of the Presbyterian Church meeting postponed due to a storm and quorum absence The funeral of Mrs Ida Teson was held yesterday at 9 am from her residence 161 Paine Street and St Josephs Church with Rev Peter A Smith presiding Burial followed at St Marys Cemetery Bearers named
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Camp Fire Girls Pitkin Group
James Cumpings
Hudson Avenue
Green Island
Ida ‘Teson
Paine Steel
St. Joseph's Church
Peter A. Smith
Leo DuFord
Schuylerville
Alicia A. Leonard
Peter A. Heffern
Jesus
St. Mary's Cemetery
Father Smith
Father DuFord
Chester Manney
George Faye
Maurice van Buskirk
Dauris Roule
Douglas Feigerson
William Stebbins
Fewer Merchant Seamen Lost
The western Atlantic Ocean safer for United Nations merchant seamen, with recent AP figures showing 182 dead and 1183 missing from sinkings since April 12. The prior three months recorded at least 1,162 dead, 462 missing, and ten prisoners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Atlantic Ocean
United Nations
Associated Press
Rome Radio Sees Rotten Feeling Over Sicily War Plan
A Rome radio commentator declared General Eisenhower would need a million men to clean up Sicily within a year and added there is something rotten going on, not in the state of Denmark. The remark reflects wartime tensions and skepticism about Allied plans in Sicily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pearl Harbor
London
INS
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sicily
Rome
Denmark
Truck and Auto Are Stolen in Ballston Spa
Ballston Spa police hunt a thief believed to have stolen a truck from LeRoy DeLong at 66 Tompson Street, found abandoned at North Land Center Streets, then stole Leland Ballou’s 1933 Chevrolet Tudor sedan from in front of Ballou’s house. State troopers joined the search.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ballston Spa
Albert J. DeCora
LeRoy DeLong
Tompson Street
Northland Center Streets
DeCora
Leland Ballou
Community Notes From Watervliet And Albany Areas
Alpine Hustlers 4 H group meets at 10 30 am with Eva Palmer on July 20. Mrs Gile of Albany visits her son and daughter in law Lewis and Gile. Edward Gundrum stays with grandparents Walter and Mrs Teal. Victor Lindberg and his daughter from New York visit sister Mrs Otto Hanson. Mrs Robert Nelson of New York summering with George and Mrs Boughton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Schanz
Watervliet
Fred Guis
Eva Palmer
Gile
Albany
Lewis Gile
Edward Gundrum
Walter Teal
Victor Lindberg
New York
Otto Hanson
Robert Nelson
George Boughton
Pete Hippo Pete Turns Forty at Bronx Zoo
The New York Zoological Society notes Pete the hippo is the second oldest in captivity worldwide and turns forty today at the Bronx Zoo. Only one hippo on record lived longer in captivity, a Paris acquisition from 1855. No birthday celebration will be held as Pete rejects birthday cakes from admirers.
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New York UP
Pete
New York Zoological Society
Paris
Bronix Zoo
Waterford Man Stunned By Lightning On Porch
William Kress a 62 year old Waterford farmer is hospitalized after being struck by lightning while sitting on his front porch reading the newspaper. He showed no burns and was listed in fairly good condition at Leonard Hospital officials said.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Kress
Waterford
Leonard Hospital
Kress
Legal Notice on Alcohol License Renewals in Greenbush and Wynantskill
The Board of Education of the district and theundersigned publish notices that licenses for on and off premises beer sales have been issued or renewed under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law. License Nos B-350, B-10455 and 1 GB 14itt cover establishments in Greenbush and Wynantskill, Rensselaer County, New York. Licensees include a restaurant at RFC Town and grocery store operations. Periods and details listed with the undersigned officials.
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Ftesaurant
Rfc
Greenbush
Rens
New York
Sotice St
T St
Troy
Rensselaer County
Main St. Wynantskill
Rensaener County
Frank P Jones
Dsbs
Greenbush Supply Co - Tat
Main St. Wyeantekin
N. Y
Trojan Named Girls State Police Chief at Empire event
Officials elected at the Empire Girls State session in Skidmore include Miss Lillian Willis of Troy as Chief of Police. Miss Gladys Parsons of Ballston Spa serves as counselor in charge of ten girls. The 205 quota marks growing importance with only three unable to attend. Activities include house parties, musicales, community songs, movies and stunt night.
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Skidmore
Lillian Willis
Troy
Harold S Burdett
Brooklyn
Gustav K
Battle Begun Says Berlin on Sicily Front
Berlin radio declared last night that heavy armored units are moving to the front as the battle of Sicily begins and will continue. The speech framed the engagement as a renewed offensive reaching toward victory.
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London
Berlin
Sicily
Xaw
Foreclosure Sale Notice in Rensselaer County NY
Referee will sell at public auction in Troy NY on the 17th day of 1943 at 10:00 AM to satisfy a judgment of foreclosure in favor of the Federal Land Bank of Springfield against David A. Coleman. Parcels describe two tracts in the towns of Brunswick and Troy with detailed metes and bounds, easements, and referenced deeds, subject to prior conveyances and a city right of way. Auction conducted under the supervision of the referee and the office of the clerk of Rensselaer County Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court—Courty of
Rensselaer
Troy
Samuel Siowal
Alvin Willams
Rensselaer County
John T. Thompson
Jon L
John ©. Greene
Trey
Millville
Shubeal G. Rogers
Catharine Cook
Gon Cook
William Ie Laushlin
Rensselaer County Clerk's Office
Cathanne Coot
Ilinerva Chichester
Rensselaer Cou
Thomas
Rowhwest
James Sloan
Paesteriall
Catharne D Ford
Cathar
Cook
Vng
Jsg
Catharina Cook
Swedek
Mawes
Wilants
Garenes Howe
Rensselaer Coun
Zeven
Aintra Neuron
Millvile
Saul
San Catharine
Williams
John B Ford
Wiliams
Gardner Howe
Gerimde MM Fraser
Alfred Coleman
Renaselaer County
Mareh
Wilam
Colemans Ny
Janna Trigft
Bank of Deeds
City of
Alvin Williams
Gardner Howland
Chain
T& Es Ahd
Mnice
HOMAY
Irving Chase Arcamey
River Street
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Vancouver
Moore
America
Bausch & Lomb
S. Brandon Timpane
D.D
Optometrist
Remsen St. Cohoes
Rensselaer Lad
Syracuse
Watervhetians
Owen Boyd
John Palka
Edward Dabrucki
Albert Blair
J. E. Meeson
Camp Fire Girls
Ruth Gardner
Roger
Paine Street
Saranac Lake
Gardner
William C. Gardner
California
Alps
iLife
Tt Board of Eaucatun
Iy Sehow
Celie
Lew Yorh
Hugh Seheal
Hduce
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William Snead
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