Ahern pushes study on reconversion and park house plans
Mayor Ahern, via Alderman Smith, urges the Council to form a committee for an architect's study of two proposals: reconversion of the Troy High School Building on Fifth Avenue and building a community center in Prospect Park. Democrats oppose reconversion and favor costlier new facilities, sparking calls for a detailed study.
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John J. Ahern
Henry E. Smith
Seventeenth Ward
Comsion Council
Troy
Fifth Avenue
Prospect Park
Central School
Seventh Avenue
St 19
Ahern
City
Death claims two more top U S officers in the Pacific
Washington reports Brig Gen Claudius M Easley and Rear Adm Royal have been killed or died in action and natural causes respectively. Easley, 53, a Texan and Silver Star recipient, fell on Okinawa after earlier being wounded on Leyte. Royal, 52, commanded an amphibious force at Hinunei Bay, Borneo, died of natural causes. No further details released.
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Washington
Pacific
Claudius M. Eastey
Forrast
Royal
Easley
S6th Infantry
Okinawa
War Department
Navy
Admiral Royal
Hinunei Bay
Borneo
Simon Bolivar Buckner
Tenth Army
Thorp Springs
Tex
Leyte
Philippines
New York City
Naval Academy
Pennsylvania
Atlantic
United Nations Conference to Adjourn Tuesday
Secretary of State Stettinius said the United Nations Conference will adjourn Tuesday after an address by President Truman. The message followed a session in San Francisco where officials discussed the conference’s remaining agenda and next steps.
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San Francisco
Stettinius
Truman
Hoover Sees Meat Control Plan Failure in Proposals
Herbert Hoover warned meat control has collapsed and urged sweeping changes. He proposed consolidating price and distribution powers under the Agriculture Secretary, creating ceilings and floors for meats, poultry, eggs, and dairy, and self policing by industry representatives. He called for transferring OPA powers to Agriculture and expanding control over animal product allocations for armed forces.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
Secretary of Agriculture
Rep
Jenkins
Ohio
Hoover
OPA
Allies Settle Slav Dispute Over Venezia Giulia
Trieste remains under British and American control as Anglo American and Yugoslav authorities sign a division of Venezia Giulia along a blue line. The line runs from the old Austrian border to near Trieste with Yugoslav troops east and Allied forces west. The area is held in trust pending a final peace conference settlement. About 2060 Yugoslav troops will be stationed east of the line and under Allied HQ, not participating in Trieste or Gorizia occupation.
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Trieste
Venezia Giulia
Haly
Homessi
Gotizia
Gorizia
Poles Found Guilty and Leaders Sentenced in Moscow
Twelve of sixteen Polish underground leaders accused of subversive activity behind Red Army lines in Poland were found guilty in Moscow and sentenced to terms from ten years to six months. Three acquitted and Anton Pajdek’s trial postponed due to illness. Heaviest sentence went to Maj. Gen. Bronisław Kowalkiewicz. Jan Jankowski received eight years. Adam Bien and Stanislaw Jasiukowicz five years each. Other sentences ranged from one year to eight months. Continued on Page Thirteen.
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London
Poland
Moscow
Anton Pajdek
L. Bronis- Taw Qokulicki
Jan Jankowski
Adam N Bien
Stanislaw Jasiukowicz
Wassily V. Ulrich
Ware
V. Pazhak
Kazimir S. Baginski
Alexander Zaceziwersky
Eugene Szatowski
Stanislaw Merzuya
Stupulow
Senate Grants Truman Power to Cut Tariffs for Three More Years
The Senate passed and sent to the White House legislation extending reciprocal trade agreements for three years with added authority for the President to cut tariffs. Final vote was 54 to 21. The bill allows reductions up to 30 percent below January 1, 1985 levels, potentially trimming Smoot-Hawley rates significantly. President Truman praised the broad powers as crucial to his administration.
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Washington
Senate
White House
Truman
Roosevelt
Hkewise
Cordell Hull
Finance Committee
Massachusetts House Rejects Bias Bill for Study
The Massachusetts House yesterday refused to adopt anti discrimination legislation, voting to seek a further study of racial prejudices during the coming recess. The move favors additional inquiry over immediate action on protections for minorities.
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Boston
Massachusetts House
Nazis Find Out Occupation by Yanks Won't Be Bed of Roses
In Niedermendig, Germany, Allied troops conducted a surprise raid aided by 200 American soldiers. The town, described as a Nazi hot bed, was divided into ten sectors with platoon leaders enforcing strict timing and German language notices. Residents dressed by dawn as authorities confiscated contraband while locals voiced mixed loyalties regarding Nazis, Russians, or American authority.
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Niedermendig
Germany
Rhiné
Nedermendig
Fecop
Eh Shnes
Germian
Gada
Okinawa Toll and Pockets as Japanese Defense Crumbles
Fleet Admiral Nimitz announced 634 Japanese killed and 885 captured over three days, bringing total Japanese losses to 7,769 in 23 days on Okinawa. Remnants split into three pockets, largest near Hill 51 north of Makabe, as heavy fighting shifted to close quarters with artillery ceased for safety. The First Marine and Seventh Infantry Divisions closed in on enemy positions around Makabe and Mabuni-Mura hills north of Cape Ara, while Makabe town fell to the First Marine Division.
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Guam
Gp-Americar
Okinawa
Fleet Adm
Chester Wo Nimite
Enty
Far Western Pacific
Golding
Nimitz
Hill 51
Makabe
Seventh Infantry Division
Komesu
Etn '§2
Mabuni-Mura Hills
Cape Ara
Chinewa
Makabe Town
Hill $1
Japan Admits Latest Raid Very Severe
Guam reports say fires burned for hours in Shizuoka Toyohashi and Fukuoka after a two group B-29 raid. Washington’s 20th Air Force called results range from “unserved” to excellent with two planes missing. Tokyo says fires near Shizuoka were generally under control after five hours.
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Cpi
Japan
Shizusha
Toyohashi
Honstu
Fukuoka
Kyushu
20Th Air Force Command
Washington
Shizuoka
Radio Tokyo
Tokyo
Domei
WPB Quotas Set For Nine Auto Makers
Washington UPI reports the War Production Board issued nine month output ceilings totaling 691,013 passenger cars from July onward. For July 1 to December 31 the nine firms must not exceed 95,085 for GM, 49,635 for Chrysler, 39,910 for Ford, and 9,215 for Studebaker with smaller ceilings of 2,800 for Hudson, Packard, Nash, Willys Overland, Graham Paige and Crestline.
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Washington
UPI
WPE
General Motors Corp
Cargsier
Ford
Chrysler Corp
Ford Motor Co
Studebaker Corp
Hudson Motor Car.Co. Pacierd. Motor Car Co
Nash Kelvinator Corp
Willys- Overland Motors, Inc
Granaue Paige Motor Corp
Crestey Corp
Fifty Post-free WACs Due Home Next Month
Paris GF)-Approximately 3,000 WACS are eligible for release with fifty post free WACs returning to the United States in July. Lt Col Anna SL Wilson says the first group has scores from seventy to 212 points, well above the 44 needed for release, with monthly returns from July to November and a planned quota increase. Some essential personnel will stay longer, likely a few months.
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Paris GF
Anna SL Wilson
WAC
Wilson
Yanks Capture Key Cagayan River Junction in Luzon Fight
Allied forces pursue retreating Japanese across Luzon as Buckeye Division seizes Hogan air strip and 440 foot Cagayan River crossing. 32 Japanese killed, 103 captured including Formosans. Sixth Division presses Hiangan base with 16 Nipponese killed. Other units mop up lower Cagayan Valley and Sierra Madre gains.
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Cagayan
Httie
U.S
Robert 3. Beighiler
Buckeyes
Hogan
Cagayran
Cagayan Valley
Caraballo Mountains
Hiangan
Baan Pass
Pingkian
Sierra Madre Range
Manila
Marikana
Congress Considers Buy-In to Civil Service Retirement
A House subcommittee reviewed a bill by Rep Norton proposing lawmakers may join the federal retirement plan by paying 5 percent of their salary. The measure would allow retroactive service credits and full benefits at 70 with 30 years of service, yielding about 6,033 dollars after 2 years with 300 dollars paid in.
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Washington
UPI
House
Congressional
Congress
Starr T. Norton
D-N.i
Quisling Forced to View Nazi Victim Mass Graves
Vid Kun Quisling, the Norwegian wartime puppet leader, was taken from his cell and compelled to view the mutilated bodies of ninety compatriots in mass graves at Trandum. He and followers accused of atrocities were shown more graves found by officials digging in dark woods twenty miles north of Oslo, under guard.
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Oxia
Norway
Vid Kun Quisling
Trandum
Quisling
Home Frost
Oslo
Eisenhower Returns To West Point Amid Warm Recall
General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower completes a tour at the United States Military Academy revisiting his old room in Worth Barracks and reviewing more than 2,000 enlisted staff. He marches past cadets, lauds past camaraderie, visits Camp Popolopen and the academy chapel before departing for Kansas City.
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West Point
Army
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States Military Academy
Stone Barracks
Worth Barracks
Eisenhower
United Nations
Supreme Allied Commander
Infantry
J Cavalry
Geld
Coast Artillery
Camp
Popolopen
Academy
Gea
Witby
Kansas City
Saratoga Bond Sales Lead in Regional Race
Saratoga County maintains lead in the E Bond sales race with 70.3 percent completion as districts in the area report percentages. Rensselaer and Schenectady show strong figures while Washington and others trail, reflecting varied progress across counties.
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Seratege County
E Hodd
Seratog
Rensselaer
Washington
Alvear Bie Schenectady
Frisco Snarls May Prolong Truman Trip
President Truman presses for rapid final drafting of the San Francisco security charter as delays in the Pacific meeting push possible appearances into next week. Gov. Wellgren will accompany him. a Tuesday San Francisco date is likely with broader travels back to Washington planned.
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Olympia
Wash
CPI
Truman
Pacific Northwest
San Francisco
Dewey
Jackson County
Kansas City
Washington
Senate
Berlin
Michigan
White House
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Bridge game interrupted by butcher shop fire alarm disruption
A woman left her car outside a local butcher shop and hosted a bridge game with three other women. The gathering continued until about 3 am when the game ended as the shop owner shut the door after a fire alarm sounded.
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Chatham
G. J
Allies Probe German Secret Weapons in Travemunde Bay
American and British technicians dredged Travemunde bay seeking hidden Nazi naval weapons. Germans dumped secret hardware in the harbor, including a water skimmer prototype with a V-1 like nose payload and a seaplane frame.
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Travermende
Germany
Travemuende
Luebeck
Paateig
Japan
Death Penalty Verdict in 1824 Murder Case
George W. Donaldson faces a mandatory death penalty after a Rensselaer County jury found him guilty of first degree murder in the killing of Edward J. Simpkins at the Pawling Sanitarium on October 27, 1824. Judge Harry E. Clinton announced the sentence would be carried out in the electric chair after deliberations and several procedural motions. The courtroom held Simpkins’s widow and sister as jurors were polled and the verdict delivered at 3:25 p.m. See continuation on Page Nine.
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George W. Dorsidsen
Ler Pareles
Ruly
Aurder
Edward J. Simpkins
Pawling Sanitarium
Renaselaer
Coun
Harry
Clinton
Tarrias
Considson
Wes
Fudge Clintom
Donaldson
Uonder
Simpkin
Harry E Clinton
Jery
Thuey
Philip J. Cirillo
Berle J. Wiley
Hemingway injured in Cuban auto crash near Mantille Road
Ernest Hemingway sustaining minor injuries when his car skidded and struck a tree on Mantille Road Cuba. Dr Marcos Fernandez treated Hemingway and two other occupants including Mary Welsh of New York City and chauffeur Pasioy Lopes.
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Favans
Cuba
Sinnest Hemingway
Mantille Road
Here
Marcos Fernandez
Mantua Gost
Hemingway
Mary Welsh
New York City
Pasioy Lopes
Hungary to Pay Soviet War Indemnities Reported
A Moscoe radio broadcast claimed Hungary signed an agreement to reimburse the Soviet Union for war costs amounting to 20 million dollars. The payments, covering losses from military actions and occupation, will be made in machine equipment, ships, grain, and cattle in equal installments through January 2, 1935.
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Hungary
Moscoe Radio
Soviet Union
Hongary
Russia
Eéict
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