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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1944
Page
13
Wisconsin campaign speech by Wendell L. Willkie criticizes U S war aims and leadership. He laments lost direction abroad and at home while praising war workers and labor, and singles out labor leaders including John L. Lewis for arrogance as he addresses Milwaukee crowds.
Prime Minister Churchill used a Sunday speech to defend his administration and outline plans for Britain after victory. At age 69, he signaled he would guide both wartime effort and the reconstruction, backing the current coalition lineup to coordinate peace and war.
The Office of Price Administration announced that beer may cost eleven cents and glass after Saturday, with 12-ounce bottles possibly up a penny once new federal excise taxes take effect next month. Some producers wholesalers or retailers may absorb the levy.
A colonel walked into the USO Lounge at Troy Union Depot and said he had been in Africa twenty hours earlier. The quick return stunned workers who heard him explain that a glass of cold milk is what the troops crave after overseas service.
Albany reports Governor Dewey appointed 49 year old Utica resident Myron Lewis to the New York Labor Relations Board succeeding Paul Herzog. Lewis will earn 7500 dollars annually and will serve with Rev. William J. Kelley as chairman. Cassidy remains on military leave.
Isaac Smith, Patroon Club Victory Garden chair, says a meeting will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday at Pumper 6 Mull Street to plot land for the project and discuss cultivation. A few plots remain. applicants must present to the committee. The committee includes John M. Smith James J. Dalton George OConnor Charles Meehan Thomas Casey William Edwards Joseph Strang Jr and Daniel McCormick. John F Shea president notes a banquet is planned and names committee members Martin J Burke James Smith John B Conroy Michael Kenna William Hayes James F Miggins Arthur Clodge Matthew Kelly and Martin Dwyer.
Misa Mabel Mil han, a home demonstrator, presented lessons to the Bureau of Home Demonstrations. Mrs Chester Jessup led a lesson for the Lansingburg unit. Miss Lucy Kehn hosted at 893 River Street. Tomorrow at 10:30 am the Brunswick Home Bureau meets for an all day session with Mrs Walter F Dock at 15 Bleecker Avenue to be instructed by Mrs John O Miller.
Louise Snyder, 70, of 60 State Street, was taken home by Patrol Driver John McGraw after becoming ill at State Street and Sixth Avenue. She sustained a cut on the back of the head in the fall, police said.
timid buyers took on a few rails liquors and specialties in yesterday s stock market but showed little liking for most lenders. There were earnings boosts for some issues and scattered gains near the close yet many declined. notable risers included Park Tilford Distillers Delaware Hudson Kansas City Southern Glenn Martin Twentieth Century Fox. Major leaders included Santa Fe Union Pacific Great Northern DuPont Eastman Kodak.
The W C A begins Learn to Swim Month with an 11 am session on Tuesday April 4. Hundreds have joined in past years for supervised instruction in a healthy outdoor sport. Registration is limited and two lessons plus practice plunges occur weekly with flexible morning afternoon or evening classes.
A fire damaged all three floors of a three story frame house at 736 River Street owned by Mary Brennan. Firemen were summoned by a 6 p.m. alarm from Box 514 and the outtap at 6.13 p.m. The first floor housed Mary Jordan, the second Bertha Donovan, and the third Thomas Cantwell. Smoke damage occurred on all levels and the cause was not determined.
The War Department named area residents wounded in action in the Mediterranean. Reported wounded are Pvt. Richard A. Clark of Saratoga, Pvt. Edgar J. Blair of Albany, Pfc. Joseph J. Serverino of Albany, and Pfc. Robert P. Anderson of Schenectady, with their listed family contact addresses.
Nine year old Francis P Byrne of Utica UK drowned in Starch Factory Creek on Saturday while hiking with two companions. He slipped while attempting to wade the stream.
Robert T. Johnson 19 radioman third class is confined to a hospital somewhere in the South Pacific with illness, per a Red Cross note to his mother Mrs. Gladys T. Johnson of Hudson Falls. She had not heard from him in six weeks.
The article discusses expectations for ending the Pacific war close to Europe’s end, the need for intensified campaigns against Japan in China and Malaya, and the amphibious invasion risks highlighted by Churchill. It recounts a Teheran era anecdote about Marshall and Stalin on river crossings and the potential for a dramatic invasion.
Actress Joan Fontaine says she will file for divorce from Brian Aherne in Hollywood citing cruelty as a probable ground. Fontaine, sister of Olivia De Havilland, noted the suit would be filed in California and involves older and younger numerical references not clearly linked to the case.
Secretary Hull labeled Gov. Dewey's assertion that the State Department urged British censors to suppress political news as 100 percent wrong. Hull said he has long fought for a free press and denied any censorship involving dispatches to American papers. He spoke after Dewey's NY speech to the Press Photographers Association.
Henry Kyer of 79 High Street Hoosick Falls sought permission to run a freight trucking service across New York Massachusetts and Vermont. The decision was reserved yesterday in Albany before examiner A S Parker of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
In a heated session Representative Hoffman renewed strikes against radio critic Walter Winchell as Dies Rankin and others clashed in the House. Members shouted amid gavel pounding and gallery demonstrations during the row over the long running feud. Winchell quipped he was enjoying the disruption and claimed the pace revived public interest.
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