New Bomber Faster Than Fighter Plane
Florence South Carolina report says the Army unveiled the Douglas Invader a twin engined bomber claimed to outrun most fighters. Observers watched 275 mph runs at 10 000 feet over the coast and a high capacity bomb load. The Invader features remote controlled turrets and a reduced crew of two, improving wartime efficiency.
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Aemay
Wawest
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South Carolina
Florence Airfeld
Jour -Sta- Hons
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Séth
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56Th Wing
England
Army
Crescent Navy Man Freed at Corregidor
Harold Bornt of Crescent, son of Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Bornt, was freed from a Japanese prison camp at Corregidor. He had served in the Navy since 1939 and was captured when his carrier was sunk. Interned from May 1932, his family credits Red Cross aid with keeping his spirits up.
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Merritt Bornt
Crescent
Bornt
Corregidor
Aimost
Young Burnt
Red Cross
Yalta Parley Described As Glitzy War Summit
A colorful Yalta conference report portrays the Big Three meetings aboard a South Mediterranean cruiser. Roosevelt held talks with Stalin and Churchill in a grand palace setting amid wartime ruins while security details and lavish hospitality highlighted the contrast between luxury and destruction.
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Mediterranean
Foosever
Newport
Hatton
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Syviet
Stalin
Churchil
Moscow
Busia
Metropole
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Aviar
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Eolt
California
Yalta
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Villa
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Churchill
Inch
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Germany
Odd Fellows Lodge to Confer Initiatory Degree Tuesday
White Lily Lodge 1 CO GOF will confer the initiatory degree on the class of candidates Tuesday night at Cropseyville Odd Fellows Hall. Degree Master Arthur Shaver in charge with Noble Grand Harrison Bonesteel presiding. a social hour will follow.
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White Lily Lodge
GOF
Cropseyville
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Arthur Shaver
Nobie Grand
Harrison Bonesteel
Decorated airman reports for reassignment after furlough
Staff Sergeant Alfred A. Perrotta, Air Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters and a Presidential citation plus three battle stars, reports to Atlantic City New Jersey for reassignment after a 21 day furlough with his parents at 619 Chestnut Street Mechanicville. He completed fifty missions over Germany Austria Bulgaria Yugoslavia and Italy as a ball turret gunner in a B 17 with the 15th Air Force. His brother Sergeant Frank Perrotta is serving in Italy as a battalion carpenter.
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Atlantic City
Nicholas
Perrotta
Chestnut Street
Mechanicville
Germany
Austria
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Italy
15Th Air Force
Sergt
Frank” Perrotta
Thaly
President Roosevelt to report on Yalta and war aims
Roosevelt returns from Yalta with plans for a postwar world including armament reduction, future UN participation, and timing for disarming Germany and Japan. He will address Congress from Capitol Hill with details on the Big Three talks and ongoing European strategy.
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Joseph Stalin
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Czar Nicolas II
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Yalta
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Russia
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France
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Egypt
Europe
Pacific
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Tong
Constitution
Samuel J.rosencan
Wiliam D. Leahy
Ross T. Mc« Yntire
Wilson Brown
Cohoes Aldermen Approve Budget and Tax Cut
Cohoes Aldermen adopt a municipal budget of 1885 to fund operations at 007,775.90 and set the tax rate at 70.99 per 1000, a reduction from 45.03. Mayor Rudolph Rowkier notes debt reduction since 1921 and unpaid taxes from 1942 to 1944. A city tax sale is planned at 10 am today in the City Hall. bids will be sought for garbage collection contracts. An ordinance fixes a water rent correction for 1943 and 1944 on 42-435 Oneida Street.
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Rudolph IL Rowkier
Hugh Ist
Ural
Sir Cohoeg
Board of Contract and Supply
Board of Estimate
Western Front Advances Drive Deep Into Reich
Allied air raids press on German rail and industrial targets as operations widen. U S losses remain light after six days of heavy fighting. 60,28 prisoners captured since February. Hodges' First Army seizes over 100 towns in six days, advances near Cologne. Modrath bridge falls. Erft crossing secured. German resistance stiffens in parts. Civil affairs net widens as Eighth Division reports 5,060 civilians rounded up around Biataheim and Kerpen. Task Force Church drives ten miles in rapid thrust toward Muerchen Gladbach.
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Muenchen- Gladbach
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Normandy
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Carogne
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Tnfantie
Latham Soldier Killed in Action Over Austria
Serzt., Wallace R. Simpkin son of Mr and Mrs George R Simpkin of Latham was killed in action on April 25 over Austria after being reported missing. An engineer and gunner with the Army Air Forces he graduated from Watervliet High School and worked at Watervliet Arsenal before enlisting. Survived by his parents and one brother Pte Richard BR Simpkin serving with the Fourth Marine Division on Iwo Jima Navy Fifth Division also in action.
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Wallace R. Simpkin
George R. Simpkin
Latham
Austria
Army Air Forces
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Watervliet Arsenal
Pte
Richard BR. Simpkin
Fourth Marine Division
Iwo Jima
Fifth Division
Allied Drive Pushes Toward Cologne as German Resistance Fades
Allied forces report a major thrust toward the Rhine with Maj. Gen. Cates' Fourth Division pushing enemy lines while Nimitz notes continuing air and sea pressure. German counterattacks are repulsed as First Army crossings across the Erft firm up bridgeheads and prisoners surge, marking a rout unseen since Normandy.
U. S. Turns Out Fastest Jet Plane in War
The United States unveils the Lockheed F-90 Shooting Star as the fastest jet fighter with a GE engine, single-engine pursuit design, pressurized cockpit, and substantial range. General Arnold confirms the warplane will permit rapid production without photo releases. The British Meteor and Gloster jet fighters are noted as contemporary jet rivals in action and development.
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United States
Geis
General Electric
OH Arnold
Army Air Forces
Arnold Sale
British Air Ministry
Gloster
War Risk Insurance Extended Without Fee
The War Damage Corps announced the automatic extension of all in force war damage insurance for another year without extra premiums. The extension excludes policies for money and securities and certain registered mail or express insurance. As of January 1 premiums collected totaled about 223 thousand dollars, with negligible claim disbursements.
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Washington
CPI
War Damage Corps
Rev Samuel Shoemaker to Speak at St John’s Lenten Service
Rev Samuel M Shoemaker rector of Calvary Church New York and author will address the St John’s Episcopal Lenten service at 5 p.m. tonight The Princeton and General Theological Seminary graduate is a noted world traveler who studied church education in China He was named secretary of the Philadelphia Society and the YMCA at Princeton in 1922 and became rector of Calvary Church in 1925.
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Calvary Church
New York
St John’s
Episcopal Church
Shoemaker
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General Theological Seminary
China
Philadelphia Society
M.C. A
Letters Granted on Delia Smith Estate
Letters testamentary were issued to William E. Phillips on the estate of Delia Smith in Surrogate Court yesterday by Judge Edward J. Donohue. The decedent died January 24 in this city leaving an estate under $5,000 of personal property. The will divides the estate equally among three nephews and two nieces. Willam Philips of Troy serves as executor, George W. Phillips of New Rochelle, Henry T. Fox of Troy, with John P. McNamee as attorney handling the estate.
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Delia Smith
Edward J. Donohue
Willam Philips
Troy
George W. Phillips
New Richelle
Henry T. Fox
John P. McNamee
Dogs Stay Couriers On Appointed Rounds
After fifty mailmen were bitten by dogs in the past year, Salt Lake City postal official W. L. Butte forth orders residents to tether dogs or mail carriers will be halted. The ultimatum was issued to households yesterday.
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W. L. Butteforth
Iails
Cohoes Officer Reported Prisoner of War Wounded
A Cohoes officer and soldier in Germany are reported by families and the War Department telegrams. Lieut William Gleason, 23, was wounded in action and held as a prisoner of war. Private William E Sicker, 27, seriously wounded in combat. Both men enlisted in 1939 and served overseas nine months. Sicker received the Purple Heart and Combat Infantry Badge. Gleason served as a bombardier before capture and hospitalization in France.
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Gem” Vicentén
Willian
Gleason
Spa
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Shamens Avenue
Minging
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War Department
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Edward Sicker
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France
Troop 15 Scouts Pass Board of Review Tests
Troop 15 Scouts pass first and second class tests at boards of review held at Oakwood Avenue Presbyterian Church. Richard French Donald Curtis Arthur Koshgarien and John Kalazsian advance. Keneth Rogers and Albert Bibb earn merit badges. Frederick MacGregor surmounts tenderfoot. Awards pending at next meeting. Board members include Charles Brown Albert Bibb George B and troop leaders Clarence Butler Eugene Rogers.
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Richard French
Donald Curtis
Arthur Koshgarien
Board of Seview
John Kalazsiar
Ken F Néth Rogers
Albert Bibb
Frederick MacGregor
Board of Review
Charles Brown
George Bi
Clarence A. Butler
Eugene Rogers
Police Aid Two Stricken Children Then Kill Report
Police rushed Jennie Elder and Harry Herring to their homes and hospital after they were stricken yesterday afternoon. Jennie was carried from 44 Eighth Street by Patrolmen Hickey and Moren from Federal Street and Sixth Avenue to her home. Harry Herring was moved from 586 River Street to Leonard Hospital by Patrolmen Hickey Moren and DeCelje. A separate report notes Peter Paulsen, age 3, was killed when he ran into a bus in front of his home on Tuesday.
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Jennie Elder
Eighth Street
Edmund Hickey
James Moren
Federal Street
Sixth Avenue
Harry Herring
River Sirdet
Leonard Hospital
Ayres
Buffalo
Peter Paulsen
International Railway Co
Cohoes Club Plans Talk by Rev Norman Peale
The Cohoes Club invites members and guests to a 8 p m gathering at Bliman Memorial Presbyterian Church to hear Rev Norman Vincent Peale speak on the art of living He is pastor of the Marble Collegiate Church New York and author of several books with wide club participation and committee work in New York and national Protestant circles
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Marble Collegiate Church
Bliman Memorial Presbyterian Chtren of
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Whch
Cluth Wil le Grivitege
Dr. Peale
Evatgelinal Church
America
New York
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Cohoes Board Warns Against Job Changes in Registration
Local Board 245 issued a warning to registrants in classes 24, 28, 2A-P, and 25-F that changing place of employment without a board determination will automatically place them in Class LA. Registrants must submit a written request to change employment and will receive a written determination.
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