Memorial Day Services in Troy and Lansingburg 1943
Memorial Day events in Downtown Troy begin at 8:45 am with a service at the Hiker Monument Sage Park for Spanish-American War veterans. A 9:30 am parade follows through the business district, with a 9:43 am memorial for Civil War veterans at Mo wed. At 11 am a solemn military Mass occurs at Washington Park Lansingburg. A parade from 117th Street and Second Avenue ends with services at Trinity Churchyard St Johns Cemetery and banks of the Hudson River Square for
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Troy
Sage Park
Washington Park
Lansingburg
117Th Street
Second Avenue
Trinity Churchyard
St. John’s Cemetery
Hudson River
Troy Girl Stabbing Leaves Clerk Critical in Troy
Miss Catherine A. Farley, 21, a junior clerk at Manufacturer's National Bank, is in critical condition with about 28 stab wounds after a man attacked her near her home in Troy Sunday night. Police search for the unidentified assailant who fled after the assault on 109th Street as Farley walked from a bus. She remains conscious, received blood transfusions, and was aided by two night nurses at Leonard Hospital.
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Catherine A. Farley
Broadway
Manufacturer's National Bank
Leonard Hospital
Sth Street
Second
Third Avenues
Miss Farley
Second Avenue
Third Avenue
Evelyn Spohn
Dorothy Fitzgersij
East Side
Troy-Cohoes
Fulton and
River Streets
Ferry Street
Fourth Street
River Street
Sunset Court
Cohoes
109Th Street
No Victory Pay-Go Tax Assured Washington
The pay-as-you-go tax bill faces final House and Senate votes in compromise form. Roosevelt is expected to sign, ending a four month fight. Republicans win partial credit with a 75 percent abatement for most holdovers, while Democrats push forgiveness for the lower tax bracket.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Senate
George
D.-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Germans Draft French Youths Prompted by Berlin Radio
The Berlin radio last night announced that all Frenchmen born in 1922 have been drafted for work in Germany with no exceptions. The Associated Press report notes teens assigned to farms and other essential trades as part of the program.
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Associated Press
Germany
Berlin
New York
St Marys Celebrates Centennial in Troy
Solemn ceremonies opened the four day centennial at St Marys Church Troy with Rt Rev Edmund F Gibbons presiding. Nuns and priests from across the diocese attended as the Bishop praised the parish and announced a surprise parishwide honor.
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Edmund F. Gibbons
D.D
Albany
St. Mary’s Church
Troy
Gibbons
Ruhr Arsenal Blasted In Heaviest RAF Bombing Night
Allied air forces poured more than 1,500 tons of bombs on Wuppertal, a major Ruhr armament center between Essen and Duesseldorf. Observers reported smoke rising nearly three miles after the raid, as bombers fought through dense smoke and glare during one of the war’s heaviest assaults.
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London
Wuppertal
Hitler
Ruhr
Essen
Duesseldorf
Children Killed as Bombing Hits English Church
In a southwestern English coastal district last night, 21 children were killed when German Focke-Wulf planes bombed a church, a hotel, and other buildings. Parents dug through rubble seeking 15 other children and three Sunday school teachers missing, while emergency crews continued searches.
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London
Focke-Wulf
Bombers Hit Ruhr in Heavy Raid as Wuppertal Burns
Air Ministry reports 23 planes lost in a heavy raid over the Ruhr division with Dortmund and Düsseldorf struck earlier. German searchlights lit the valley as anti aircraft fire and fighters swarmed. Wuppertal appeared largely undefended while chemical plants burned before the fleet departed. A pilot described vast explosions and a sky filled with bombers as the attack unfolded.
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Air Ministry
Germany
Dortmund
Duesseldorf
Ruhr
Wuppertall
Taget
Washington pivots on Mission to Moscow film clash
Republican strategists move to suppress the film Mission to Moscow as Roosevelt nears a potential Russia policy breakthrough. The outcome could shape Axis war duration and future Churchill Roosevelt Stalin talks. Washington Moscow events hint at closer Allied coordination against Hitler, with political repercussions for Berlin Rome Tokyo.
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Washington
Republican National Committee
Joseph E. Davies
Moscow
Roosevelt
Russia
Davies Hore
Stalin
Hitler
United Nations Fellowship
London
Berlin
Rome
Tokyo
Reds Boost Plane Toll In New Report from Front
Moscow disclosed that Red air forces and gunners destroyed 456 German planes last week, totaling 2 069 for the month. Reports from Kuban and Leningrad indicate sharp air and land engagements as German forces defend near Krymsk and Novorossiysk while a Soviet push toward the Kerch Strait continues. The Berlin radio claimed German troops repelled Russian crossing attempts on the Kuban River, with heavy fighting on the Caucasus front.
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London
Moscow
Kuban
Leningrad
Kerch Strait
Berlin
Krymskays
Novoroesisk
De Gaulle Arrives in Algiers to Push Unity Talks
General Charles De Gaulle arrived in Algiers to press unity talks with General Henri Giraud. He announced a new executive committee to govern France would meet at 9 30 am today and would head ministries similar to those of government. About 5000 local residents greeted him with a two hour sun drenched demonstration as wreaths were placed on the war dead monument by De Gaulle and U S and American Legion representatives.
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Algiers
Charles de Gaulle
Henri Giraud
de Gaulle
Giraud
London
North Africa
Robert Murphy
Roosevelt
James McCann
American Legion
Vive de Gaulle
Churchill in Africa after secret Gibraltar trip
Prime Minister Churchill reportedly spent around 24 hours in Gibraltar with a bomber escort before continuing to an unannounced African destination. Reports place him inspecting Tunisian battlefields Saturday and still in Africa yesterday, amid talks between Eisenhower and Allied generals at Gibraltar.
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Madrid
Churchill
Africa
Gibraltar
la Linea
Dwight D. Eisenhower
North Africa
Baseball Scoreboard National and American League results
Baseball scoreboard lists scattered results across leagues with Brooklyn crushing Cincinnati 6 0 and 10 6, New York defeating Cleveland 4 3 and 3 2, Chicago sweeping Washington 5 2 and 5 1, Boston 8 0 and 5 1 over Detroit, and Pittsburg 4 2 and 2 1 in 10 innings. Albany and Utica games show 7 6 and 4 2 with Springfield Hartford and Elmira matches plus Scranton Wilkes-Barre 1 0.
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Brooklyn
Cincinnati
Chicago
Boston
New York
St. Louis
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Washington
Detroit
Utica
Albany
Springfield
Hartford
Binghamton
Elmira
Scranton
Wilkes-Barre
Man Shot Sabotage Suspected at Fort William
Andrew Kosluk a 50 year old railway sectionman was shot while replacing spikes on the Canadian Pacific line near Pawtek ten miles west of Fort William. Police believe the attack was an attempted wreck of the Montreal Vancouver Flyer. He was wounded in the left shoulder and taken to hospital after the train was halted. Investigations by provincial and railway police began immediately as fifty feet of outer rail showed missing spikes on a sharp curve beside a 71 foot embankment along the Kaministiquia River.
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Fort William
Pawtek
Here
Kosliuk
French Atlantic Fleet at Alexandria Joins Allies
Allied banners rise over the Alexandria fleet as Paris radios claim French ships join the Allies after immobilization since France fell. The force includes Lorraine battleship, Duquesne Tourville Suffren cruisers, Duguay Trouin, Fortune Basque Forbin destroyers, Protee submarine. Ships headed to New York for refit with Richelieu. Berlin later questioned pay issues and Vichy approval. Admiral Godfroy urged legality under Marshal Petain, avoiding direct allegiance.
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Alexandria
Lorraine
Duquesne
Tourville
Suffern
Duguay Trouin
Fortune
Basque
Forbin
Paris
New York
Richelieu
Dakar
Berlin
Vichy
Adm
Rene Emil Godfroy
Godfroy
Marshal Fear Petain
France
Gen
Gen Georges Joins Giraud Claims Escaped France Leader
Gen Alphonse Joseph Georges, 67, long a commander of western front forces under Gen Gustave Gamelin, has fled Nazi-occupied France and offered his services to Gen Henri Giraud. He arrived in Algiers direct from France, with details of his escape not disclosed.
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Algiers
Alphonse Joseph Georges
Gustave Gamelin
Henri Giraud
France
Five Subs Sunk By Giant Planes
The Air Ministry stated that in ten days giant Coastal Command aircraft operating on dawn patrols in the Atlantic destroyed at least five U boats. The U boat losses reflect rising success for the United Nations in the anti submarine war.
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London
United Nations
Air Ministry
Costal Command
Atlantic
Chinese Push Japs Back Near Chungking Armies Recapture Yuyangkwan
Chinese headquarters say Chinese troops smashed a Japanese base network along the Canton Hankow line. Yuyangkwan, a key gate to Chungking, was recaptured with about 2000 Japanese casualties. Other units pushed a Japanese thrust from the Yangtze toward Ichang while fighting remains heavy on the river’s right bank.
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Chungking
Yuyangkwan
Yangtze
Ichang
Itu
Yangtze Town
Iehang
Changyang
Chan
Imperial Division
China’s Lin Sen Shows Slight Recovery After Meds
Special medicines flown from India by the American Red Cross to Chungking brought a slight improvement in Lin Sen’s condition. The 64 year old president had been near death after a May 12 stroke and had been in a coma before treatment. Fred G. Reed of Pittsburgh delivered the remedies at the national government’s urgent request. After therapy he could take milk and facial paralysis began to ease.
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Chungking
India
American Red Cross
Lin Sen
China
Fred G. Reed
Pittsburg
Red Cross
Battle For Attu Is Won On Memorial Day
Washington UP reports American troops seized Attu Island after twenty days of bitter fighting on snowbound ridges and foggy valleys. The island becomes the first American soil retaken in this war, as Japanese surrender was announced by Tokyo. The Navy later said the last large enemy force in the Aleutians was annihilated, with no detailed confirmation of Tokyo’s communique.
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Washington
Attu Island
Navy
Jap Invasion Likely on Pacific Coast Warned by Magnuson
Congressman Waren Magnuson warns a Japanese air raid or invasion could strike the Pacific Northwest this summer or fall. He cites key defense sites including Bremerton Navy Yard Todd Shipyards and Boeing as primary targets.
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Seattle
Pacific Coast
Tokyo
Hep
Waren G. Magnuson
D.wash
Pacific Northwest
Bremerton Navy Yard
Todd Ship Yards
Boeing
Attu Battle Declared Won In Final Assault
Navy reports a counter-attack in the Chicago Valley at dawn Saturday was annihilated apart from snipers, with the last large enemy force on Attu presumably destroyed. Col. Ernest Dupuy called the battle won on his weekly broadcast, noting the terse Navy communiqué. Details remain sparse on enemy force size and exact casualties, though preliminary reports indicate Japanese losses were high.
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Attu
Ernest Dupuy
War Department
Battle of
Dupuy
Tokyo
Imperial Palace
Navy
Chichagof Valley
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