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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1944
Page
1
Allied forces withdraw from Hangman’s Hill and Hill 202 on the Monastery Hill complex near Cassino. Indian Gurkhas and New Zealand troops pull back after securing a perilous flank, while German forces regain control of the eastern Monastery Hill posts.
Allied bombers hit the Brunswick area in central Germany yesterday as Nazi fighters rose to contest the raid. Eighth Air Force escort fighters drove them off, shooting down 39. American Liberators attacked Pas-de-Calais with anti-aircraft fire as opposition. Nine bombers and nine fighters failed to return. It was the third straight day of missions against the German air force, and the fifteenth on Germany this March.
President Philip Murray of the United Steel Workers told a War Labor Board panel that the union’s no strike pledge is a sacred commitment and that recent interruptions stem from management provocations and a few irrascible locals. He said the pledge is being maintained in the eyes of the American people.
Fifty Washington correspondents polled by a national magazine believe Roosevelt-Wallace would beat Dewey-Warren next November. The group cites war and unwillingness to change horses in the maistream as the main reason, with 28 agreeing. The new seven favored Roosevelt and Dewey for the nominations, but the predicted Democratic win was 26 to 22 with two uncertain.
Yeni Sabah reports two Swedish Red Cross ships carrying relief food to Greece were torpedoed near Istanbul. The incident raises concerns over humanitarian aid routes as wartime tensions intensify.
The War Production Administration and War Food Administration moved to make most frozen fruits and vegetables point free effective Sunday to free storage for meat. April ration tables keep butter at 16 points while reducing some ready to eat meats and processed foods. Canned peas become zero points, carrots in number two cans drop from five to three, and tomato juice sizes through 14 ounces lose one point. Shortening and oils drop to four points, jams drop to zero, cottage cheese rises to twelve points, margarine stays at six and lard remains point free.
Reports from Stockholm indicate Finnish diplomat Juhan Paasikivi again engages Soviet officials possibly in Moscow. A Reuters dispatch notes revived armistice contact with hope of interpreting Soviet terms differently. Disclosure mentions discussions on internment versus isolation of German troops and oil barter considerations.
Berlin dispatch from D NB reports Premier Stalin ill and feared to have another collapse. It says Stalin fainted while late work hours in February and doctors ordered rest while urging faster Russian army advances. No confirmation from Moscow or other Allied quarters.
Allied air forces spearheaded a morning raid on Hollandia New Guinea dodging squalls as big Liberators of the Fifth Army Air force flew hundreds of miles to strike the Japanese base. Other units hit six additional targets while heavy cloud cover prevented observable results and limited anti aircraft response.
The War Labor Board approved pay hikes for New York theater dancers and circus staff. Rockettes and ballet girls at Radio City Music Hall gain weekly increases, with Rockettes rising to 45 and ballet girls to 42, top dancer pay at 355 after 18 months. Ringling Brothers show girls and trapeze performers also receive raises to 60 and 40 respectively.
In a pair of manpower actions the Selective Service dropped its farm deferment unit system and left cases to local draft boards. A House military subcommittee backed legislation for Army labor battalions of 45 men and civilian pay work in essential industry. The plan would also direct some 45s to Army labor battalion service without veterans benefits.
Sidney Hillman, head of the CIO Political Action Committee, denounced the Dies Committee as undermining Congress, calling their charges warped and shop worn. The Labor leader, in New York, accused Dies of stirring national discord as he promotes labor's influence in the 1940 election and a possible Roosevelt third term.
Reid Robinson president of the International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers called Representative Martin Dies a pro fascist and defeatist and accused him of libel over claims about union sabotage and Communist leaders. He threatened a libel suit if Dies did not back down.
The latest eruption of Vesuvius has subsided and residents near Naples are clearing volcanic ash from streets. Slates of ash three to four feet deep blanket areas nine miles east of the crater, with drifts reaching rooftops. peasants begin turning soil in buried spring gardens as cleanup continues.
Four babies three girls and a boy arrived yesterday at Sloan Hospital for Women, marking New York's first quadruplets in years. The children weighed 4 12, 4 13, and two at 5 pounds, were born a month premature but in good condition. Their father, Harry Zarief, reported the mother Eleanor a 27 year old former dancer, and doctor Benjamin P. Watson led the delivery.
In a Los Angeles federal court, defense attorneys for Joan Berry presented chapters of her private life and associations with other men as evidence during the Mann Act case. The jury heard testimonies aimed at shaping the defendant’s character and situating past relationships within the trial.
Reporters watched a county jail inmate climb to the tenth floor ledge across from the federal court as the crowd cried jail break. A second prisoner appeared and buckets were used to wash the windows under the glare of Chaplin trial photographers.
Hans Ruesche a 30 year old New York writer testified after a failed motion for acquittal directed verdict. He described taking Miss Berry to a Hollywood night club and her later visit to his apartment staying until about 8 a.m. He said she was not sober and there was blood about her.
Wendell L. Willkie told Eau Claire Wisconsin voters that choosing between hate and negation or the Roosevelt administration would leave them choosing the lesser of two evils. He accused Chicago Tribune and Milwaukee Sentinel aligned editors and state leaders of aiding retention of power and warned against nominating such elements to lead the Republican Party.
German newspapers urge Germans to stop speaking to Allied prisoners and French and Italian workers in the Reich. The Hamhuiser Fremdenblatt reiterates that contact with war prisoners is forbidden and warns German women and girls in particular.
The Free Yugoslav radio said partisans attacked in eastern Bosnia and that German efforts to go on the offensive bogged down after earlier successes. The broadcast also described heavy fighting with puppet Premier Field Marshal Milan Nedic forces and Chetniks under Gen. Draja Mihailovic in southern Serbia.
Churchill faces a confidence vote after the House of Commons rebuked the government 117 to 116 on equal pay for teachers. He warns rebellion will not be tolerated as a three line whip compels MPs to attend the wartime debate. London papers mock the crisis as a manufactured move to a rubber stamped parliament.
The Polish government in London asks the United States to aid Poland as Russian forces move across the border. Ambassador Jan Ciechanowski delivered the note to Secretary Hull for Roosevelt, while Moscow contemplates provisional rule via a Peoples National Council or direct military governance using Polish units.
Madrid reports a mass exodus of tens of thousands of German civilians and officials from occupied territories fleeing the Red Army. German transport snarled as refugees cross the Carpathians, undermining defense efforts in the northeast Balkans.
Democratic leader Barkley said Congress would delay Easter recess to allow the service vote bill a chance to become law without a signature if Roosevelt decides. Barkley noted the pocket veto risk and said the President’s plans were not yet clear as press secretary Early described possible actions.
Billy Charles Meers a four year old from Seymour Texas died after a long battle with uremia and chronic nephritis despite nationwide plasma donations. His father A B Meers thanked donors saying the blood and plasma given was not in vain and granted precious time for his son.
Moscow said Soviet troops crossed the Prut River at two points near Czernowitz and seized Kolomea as German forces suffered heavy losses. Additional gains were noted in Bessarabia and southern Ukraine with hundreds of Nazi troops killed or captured. The Red Army advanced toward the Czechoslovak frontier as Czechoslovak patriots were urged to rise.
Right wing faction of the American Labor Party withdrew from party affairs after the left wing seized control in Tuesday's primary. They will not participate in the upcoming state convention called by the left wing. The Dies Committee criticized Hillman's committee as Hillman defended the ALP decision, arguing voters rejected communism hysteria.
Waterbury Connecticut police report a Keene worker Sydney Davis 67 killed himself in a hotel room after writing letters that led to the discovery of his body and his wife’s murder the previous Sunday. His nude body was found tied to a chair, shot with a .38 caliber pistol, with a “Do not disturb” note on the door.
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