Senate backs uniform absentee voting for armed forces
The Senate elections committee approved by 12 to 2 a bill to create a bi partisan war ballot commission to supervise absentee voting for President, Senate and House. Soldiers abroad and civilians with service abroad could vote by absentee ballot with mail returns and state certification. Poll taxes would be abolished for the war period for federal races.
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Washington LLP
Merchant Marine
Senate, Elections Committee
Green
D. ER
Lucas
Ill
Bevercomb
West Virginia
Moore
Oklahoma
Army
Senate
House of Representatives
Lucag
War Ballot Commission
United States
Germans Fear Allied Invasion of Jutland
A state of the highest emergency was declared in Jutland by General Hermann Von Hanneken of German occupiers amid fears of an Allied invasion. Stockholm reports travelers attributed the action to mounting invasion fears.
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Stockholm
INS
Jutland
Hermann von Hanneken
Henry VIII and Ulcer Pain Nostalgia Ad Parody
The fragment links Henry VIII with stomach ulcers and indigestion in a mock historical ad. It promotes a dubious product Udga Tabita claiming to cure ulcer pains and heartburn with a money back guarantee, urging readers to buy from a druggist.
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Gould Henry VIII
Henry VIII
Bricker enters race for Republican presidential nomination
Ohio Governor John W. Bricker formally announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. He renounced any bid for a fourth term as governor and said he would seek Ohio delegate support and advance his bid in the national convention. He urged a one term presidency and critiqued New Deal policies while calling for broader government restraint and individual liberty.
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Columbus
U. Gi
John W. Bricker
United States
Ohio
Republic
Mackinac
Republican Party
Bricker
Flyer Downs Planes Without Firing Shot
Flight Sgt. T. W. Larlee of Aroostook New Brunswick on a Spitfire patrol sighted two ME109s. He chased them as they dived toward the ground both aircraft plunging to a crash within 200 yards of the first. He survived by pulling up after the incident.
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Allied
Algiers
Sergt
T. W. Larlee
Aroostock
New Brunswick
Larlee
Gripsholm Sighted Off Rio de Janeiro Harbor
The repatriation ship Gripsholm returning 1,560 Americans and other Western Hemisphere nationals from Japanese internment camps was sighted off Rio de Janeiro Harbor early yesterday after sailing from Mormugao Portuguese India and Port Elizabeth South Africa.
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Braz
Gripsholm
Western Hemisphere
Mormugao
Portuguese India
Port Elizabeth
South Africa
OPA Accused of Mock Courts in Wartime Price Control
The Smith committee report charges the OPA with setting up mock courts for enforcing rationing orders, conducting unlawful searches and seizures, and expanding powers beyond law. It notes 3198 regulations and urges Congress to amend the price control laws to curb abuses while preserving wartime inflation control.
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OPA
Smith Committee
Washington
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House
Howard Smith
Congress
Washington DP
Congressional
Office of Price Administration
CPA
Army Air Corps Used Pigeons in African Campaign
In North Africa the Army Air Forces adopted trained pigeons for communications. At Salem Oregon Detachment No 1 of Portland Army Air Base maintains a signal pigeon company with 1500 birds, training 168 officers and men to handle 4500 birds at full strength. Pigeons carried in bombers provide silent, reliable links when radio silence is required, with crates of four birds and message capsules for frontline units.
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Ore
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Army Air Forces
Air Forces
Signal Corps
Portland Army Air Base
Pacific
Pigeon Hospital
Mooria
Oregon
Priest Returns From Trek Into Wilds of Canada
Father Arth eme A. Dutilly a Catholic University researcher returns to Washington from a 2 500 mile Hudson Bay expedition with 3 000 plant rock and insect specimens. He traveled with Father Ernest LePage via train motorboat canoe and airplane to James Bay Rupert's House and Lake Mistassini collecting scarce specimens and noting potential future exploitation of peat moss timber limestone and granite resources.
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Artheme A. Dutilly
Catholic University
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Hudson Bay Territory
Ottawa
Ont
Ernest LePage
College of Agriculture
Rimouski
Quebec
James Bay
Rupert's House
Rupert
Lake Mistassini
French Patriots Kill 24 Collaborationists in Toulouse Area
Limoges dispatch to La Suisse in Geneva reports 24 collaborationists killed by French partisans in ten days near Toulouse. About 3,500 French youths have fled to the bush in six weeks, armed with hunting guns 1,200 machine guns and grenades. A Lyon dispatch notes a Nov 10 bomb killed seven German soldiers and Lyon under martial law. Civilian pigeon breeders donate 1,000 birds to Salem base.
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Switzerland
Toulouse
France
Limoges
la Suisse
Geneva
Lyon
Quezon vows Filipino Day of Freedom on return with MacArthur
President Quezon, ill in a sick bed, marks eight years of the Commonwealth with a radio message urging guerrilla resistance against Japanese invaders and faith in a MacArthur-led return. Roosevelt to address Filipinos via a broadcast read by Justice Murphy. Quezon pledges to come back with MacArthur as America rebuilds strength in the Pacific.
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Philippines
Manuel Quezon
Douglas MacArthur
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Frank Murphy
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Murphy
U. S
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Quezon
General MacArthur
Australia
Bataan
The
Congress
Senate
Supreme Court to Review Portal Pay Case for Iron Ore Miners
The court agreed to review a Fifth Circuit ruling that underground miners time, excluding lunch, counts as work under the Wage Hour Act. Affects Tennessee Coal Iron & Railroad Co. Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Co. Republic Steel Corp. operating 13 Jefferson County mines Alabama. Also reviews OPA rent control program legality.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Portal
Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co
Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Co
Republic Steel Corp
Jefferson County
Ala
Fifth Federal Circuit
OPA
William Wade
Sing Sing
Wade
Westchester County Court
John Hartye
Riordan
Waters
McGale
Moscow Parley Up to Hull Report On Moscow Talk
Washington reports congressional leaders prefer to leave Moscow conference details to Secretary Cordell Hull. Both parties want Hull to provide a detailed account in Congress, but hope he chooses to speak voluntarily rather than through an official invitation or a pending resolution.
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Moscow
Hull
Washington
Cordell Hull
Cohoes Men Reclassified Across Selective Service Groups
Cohoes Selective Service Board 345 reclassified 39 registrants with 12 in 1-4 ready for service. Named in 1-4 include Provost Snay Frank Picard Martin Choiniere Frament Dudek Jordan Paskow Arsenault Lamora. Ward Wright Trahan in 1-C already serving. Thirteen placed in 2-B: Diotte Lanthier Baker Goodness Mendel Catzenberger Holmes Ziegler Marsolais Dombrowski Burt Coleman Bellerose. 2-A: Crandall Mitchell VanBramer Ryan Wrobel Senez. 8-D: Sturgeon Burton. 1 Bureau: McGrail Anderson. Boght Corners Home Bureau meets at 8 p.m. London Road. mend ing lesson by Therrien. bring food sample and recipe. Red Cross First Aid Class meets tonight. Home Nursing class at City Hall crime rooms tomorrow.
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Wohoes Selective Service Board
George A Provost
Eugene A. Snay
Michael Frank
Edward B. Picard
Joseph A. Martin
Joseph F. Choiniere
Robert W. Frament
Edward J. Dudek
Robert J. Jordan
Michael §. Paskow
Aldege H. Arsenault
Lawrence W. Lamora
George J. Ward
Jordan Wright
Paul Trahan
Albert J Diotte
John J. Lanthier
Maren Baker
Leo G. Goodness
John Mendel
Joseph Catzenberger
Joseph Holmes
James J. Ziegler
Francis L. Marsolais
John J. Dombrowski
Wilbur R. Burt
William F. Coleman
Robert J. Bellerose
James Crandall
Earl J. Mitchell
Robert VanBramer
William J Ryan, Jr
John J. Wrobel
Paul V. Senez
James N. Bisnett
John Sturgeon
Joseph G. Burton
Thomas N. McGrail
Frederick W. Anderson
Cohoes Baby Dies From Suffocation In Carriage
Six month old Richard J. LaFond of Cohoes was found dead in his carriage at the family home on 36 Central Avenue. Coroner Philip Morrissey ordered an autopsy by Dr. A. M. Breault which found suffocation as the cause with a gland defect listed as a contributing factor. Survived by parents, two sisters, a brother, paternal and maternal grandparents, the infant’s funeral was set for this afternoon from an aunt’s residence in Troy with burial at St. Joseph's Cemetery Waterford.
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Richard J. LaFond
Leo LaFond
LaFond
Central Avenue
Cohoes
Pohce
Philip Morrissey
A. G . Boivin
Congress Street
A. M. Breault
Death of Northside Bay Accident
Coroner Philip Morrissey rules death of Richard Hoyt a accidental death after he was struck by a car on the Cohoes Northside bridge. The vehicle was driven by Edward M. Deusle of 118 Van Schaick Avenue. Hoyt died the next day at Cohoes Hospital after the incident.
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Philip Morrissey
Richard Hoyt
Sveer
Wilson R. Hoyt
Clifton Street
Northside
Maiduay
Cohoes-Northside Bridge
Rulng
Jroint
Care Ohot
Police Department
Edward M. Deusle
van Schaick Avenue
Cohoes Hospital
Balloon finds in Vischer Ferry trip by Cohoes and Troy hunters
Cohoes hunter Ted R. Russell and Troyer Donald Coons recovered a radio transmitter with a parachute and a weather balloon attachment near Vischer Ferry during a hunting trip. Edward Kennedy, son of Mr and Mrs William Kennedy of 1 Richmond Street, has been called for Army Air Corps aviation cadet training and will report to Albany tomorrow. Veterans of Foreign Wars Cohoes Post plan a meeting Thursday at 8 pm with Commander David Maryeroff. A social will follow at Cohoes Elks Lodge on Oneida Street. The Pioneer-ship: Prime time tourney by Fellowcraft Club of Cohoes Lodge 116 continues Thursday night at the Masonic Temple. Troop 48 Boy Scouts meet today at 7 15 pm in the Methodist Church parlors.
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Ted R. Russell
Columbia Street
Cohoes
Donald Coons
Second Avenue
Troy
Vischer Ferry
Weather Bureau
Edward Kennedy
Wiliam Kennedy
Richmond Street
Army Air Corps
Albany
Cohoes Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Remsen Street
David Maryeroff
Cohoes Lodge of Elks
Oneida Street
Fellowcraft Club
Cohoes Lodge
Masonic Temple
Boy Scouts
Methodist Church
Wartime News and Photo Contest Winners Listed
Bonn and Sliter led discussions on news and photo services with Mylander on wartime regulation of news. A photo contest with 107 entries awarded $350 in War Bonds across spots and features with first prizes going to John Reids York Mirror, Anthony G. Marturano Rome Sentinel, Hi Peskin New York Mirror, Stanley A Olson Jamestown Post Journal, and Henry Olen New York News.
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Bonn
Rochester Times-Union
Alton T. Sliter
Troy Record
William Mylander
Office of Censorship
Washington
John
New York News
Anthony G. Marturano
Rome
Henry Olen
New
Housewives Appeal Butcher's Jury Duty
Two housewives appealed to Judge Thomas Day in Queens County court to excuse their butcher from jury duty. The judge noted the summons was not returnable until next Monday and warned the butcher would be busy in Thanksgiving week. He ordered the butcher to appear in person next Monday and return to his store in time to sell Thanksgiving turkeys.
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New York
Thomas Day
Queens County Court
Fourth Term Debater Acquitted in Montana Killing
Shirley Haley, 34, was acquitted of killing his uncle after a dispute over President Roosevelt seeking a fourth term. Haley testified he supported the negative while Dan Haley, a rancher, was shot following the argument.
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Forsyth, Mont. UP
Shirley Haley
Roosevelt
Haley
Dan Haley
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