Legislature Ends After Long Night Session
The New York Legislature adjourned after a 20 hour session with hundreds of bills acted or sent to Governor Dewey. Highlights included pension loan interest cuts, education funding boosts, and a fight over the soldier ballot law amid district realignments and looming primary elections.
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Rensslaer County
Upper Hudson
Sen
Clifford
Hastings
Rensselaer
Internal Affairs Committee
Harry A. Reoux
Warren County
Judiciary Committee
Reoux
Heck
New York City
Oswald D. Heck
Democratic Assembly
Irwin Steingut
Senate Finance Committee
Assembly
Grant F. Daniels
Ogdensburg
Rules Committee
Daniels
Senate
Major Villa
Orlo M. Brees
Binghamton
New York
Gilbert T. Seelye
Saratoga
Schenectady-Saratoga
Rensselaer County
J. Eugene Zimmer
Troy
American Laborite
John S. Finch
Schodack
Finch
Dewey
Cornell
State School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Labor
Social Welfare
Roosevelt
Washington
Allied Air Armada Roars Across Europe in Daylight Attacks
In a vast air operation, American heavy bombers with escorts attacked Southern Germany and other targets while German defenses engaged in fierce battles. British bases delivered a major blow with allied aircraft splashing across Pas de Calais, Vienna, and Western Germany as Mosquitoes struck undisclosed targets. The day’s raid buildup included an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 planes in the attack and highlighted ongoing air war over France, Germany, and neighboring regions.
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Pas de Calais
Holland
Vienna
Italy
Germany
al- Hed
Berlin
France
Basle
Switzerland
Britain
Schweinfurt
Europe
Alps
Austria
Vichy Radio
U. S
Naples
Mediterranean
Paris
Pats
Oise
Creil
Beliberg
Austra
Yugovzlavy
Sibenik
Rapido
Cassino
Anzio
Cisterna
Liberstors
Bleisburg
Yugoslav
Cecina
Leghorn
Piombino
Monte Pescali
Ferentino
Frosinone
Terni
History Repeats In Tragic Fashion
New York dispatch reports Mrs. Theodore Davey learns her husband Lieut Otis Webb Davey was killed in action at Anzio a few days earlier without meeting their infant son born last December. Davey’s father died in World War I without meeting his grandchild. Otis served three and a half years and went overseas last March.
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New York
INS
Theodore Davey
Otis Webb Davey
Anzio
Deavey
Otis Davey
Davey
Edward Preston Andrews
Hempstead
L. L
Bombing Raid Hits Schweinfurt Ball Bearing Complex
Allied air forces targeted Schweinfurt punching through German defenses. Key factories Kugel Fischer V F Werke 1 and 2 suffered heavy damage. Star Kugelhelter and Fichtel Sachs plants also hit. Power and dispatch centers damaged, reinforcing Germany's wartime ball bearing output. Vienna and Creil raids followed, with reported losses and rail hubs hit in Northern Italy and France.
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Boulogne
Germany
Schweinfurt
Air Ministry
Kugel Fischer
V. F. K. Werke
Hard-fought clashes around Cassino and Anzio fronts
Allied forces battled German positions around Cassino with housing shelters and hill fortifications. New Zealand and Indian troops retook a hill after a German counterattack while engineers built a river bridge to move troops and armor. Air offensives targeted rail hubs and fortresses as fighters clashed over the Cassino area and Anzio beachhead.
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Monastery Hill
Cassino
New Zealand
Anzio
Eighth Army
Madeline Carroll Serves With Red Cross In Italy
Former film star Madeline Carroll returns to Italy in Red Cross uniform to work in Army hospitals. She hopes to serve as staff aide to evacuation hospitals and notes she is treated normally by others. Her war work includes aiding merchant seamen and supporting French orphans.
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Naples
Madeline Carrol
Italy
American Red Cross
Red Cross
France
Miss Carroll
Lake Como
Cohoes Tax Schedule Announced
Delays in starting tax collections shift penalty periods for Cohoes city state and county taxes with a March 27 start. If paid in full by April 16, a 1 percent deduction. if half paid by April 16 and the other half by October 1, no deduction and no interest. unpaid city taxes after April 16 accrue 12 percent interest from March 1. any remaining after October 1 go to the Common Council for enforcement.
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Cohoes
Common Council
Rites Held in Cohoes For Auto Victim
Funeral services were held for Anne Marie Murray 10 daughter of Mr and Mrs Frederick J Murray of Roosevelt Boulevard Cohoes who died Thursday from injuries after being struck on Columbia Street A requiem mass at St Bernard s Church followed by burial at St Agnes Cemetery Delegations of teachers and classmates attended the service Also noted promotion of Gaspard Omer Picard to first lieutenant and Howard McCulloch completing basic training at Sampson Naval Station with furlough granted
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Anne Marie Murray
Frederick J. Murray
Roosevelt Boulevard
Cohoes Hospital
Columbia Street
St .Bernard’s Church
William P. Brennan
Mary A. Coyle
M. Loretta Heyden
Gaspard Omer Picard
Sargent Street
Infantry
War Department
Howard McCulloch
R. Dd. 4
Cohoes
U. S. Naval Training Station
Sampson
St. Agnes
Cohoes Assembly
Fourth Degree
Knights of Columbus
Troy
Schenectady
Green Island
Waterford
Wetervliet
John J. Kelly
New York
Walter Wagner
Cohoese Assembly
LaSalle Institute
Trvy
Vincentian Institute
Christian Brothers’ Academy
Albany
Rev
D. H
Julia A. Dunn
Younglove Avenue
St. Agnes’ Church
Paul J. Keeshan
James Cox
Bernard J. Brown
Thomas A. Melvin
John W. Murtha
John H. Covey
Order of St. Joseph
Order of Mercy
St. Agnes’ Cemetery
Joseph A. Franklin
Germans Flee as Soviet Offensives Advance Across Ukraine
Soviet forces under Zhukov and Konev cracked German defenses on the First Ukrainian front and across the Dniester, taking Dubno and Sidava while capturing towns along the Lwow and Rovno lines. Malinovsky's Third Ukrainian Army closed on Nikolaev, Kopany, and Novo Petrovskoye as German casualties surpassed 2,000 with many more captured.
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Fritz Erich von Mannstein
Ukraine
Gregory K. Zhukov
Ivka
Dubno
Lwow
Rovno-Lwow
Torgovitsa
Dniester
Konev
Bug River
Sidava
Zhmerinka
Odessa-Warsaw
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Third
Black Sea
Nikolaev
Kopany
Novo Petrovskoye
Passengers to Plan Postwar Rail Cars
New York Central Railroad announced passengers will help shape postwar train cars. General passenger traffic manager F. J. Baird said booklets with sixty questions will collect opinions on seat design meals porter service lighting air conditioning luggage smoking sleeping washrooms fares radio reservations and interior and exterior appearance.
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New York
New York Central Railroad
F. J. Baird
Father and Son Die in Suspected Double Tragedy in New York
Felix Lesh, 92, found his son Charles, 58, an attorney, dead by hanging in a hotel suite bathroom. Hours later, Felix was found dead face down in a water-filled bathtub. Police describe a likely personal crisis linked to the deaths.
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New York
Felix Lesh
Charles
Loeb
Cohoes Plans Canal Filling Ahead of Bridge Removal
Cohoes will fill a 900 foot section of the Champlain Canal near Dyke Avenue before removing the bridge. The canal segment from Dyke Avenue north is dry as water is diverted to the Mohawk Paper Plant raceway. State requests funding to complete the canal filling as part of postwar abandonment plans.
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Cohoes
Dyke Avenue
Lby
Mohawk Papermakers, Inc
Tha
Three Cohoes Bridges to be Improved This Year
City budget allocates 10000 for bridge work on Vhet Street School Street and Dyke Avenue plus 3000 for storm sewer construction to serve about forty new homes in Manor Heights. Additional funds 5000 for Vliet Street 1500 for School Street and 3500 for Duke Avenue bridge fixes.
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Cohoes
Manor Heights
Rudolph Roulier
Vhet Street
School Street
Dyke Avenue
Roulier
Vliet Street
Duke Avenue
Mohawk Stret
Loans to workers cost of quick cash from Household Finance
Loans to workers offers 2 to 12 monthly instalments with high interest. A 100 loan repaid in six payments costs 8.90, four payments 6.32, and a 300 loan in three payments 13.59. Payments cover principal and charges with no extra fees. Household Finance advertises cash for debts taxes medical bills and emergencies.
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Esser Loprasiosay
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