Geneva1943Geneva Jan 11 New York City mobster Carmine Galante, under contract to Vito Genovese, a friend of Benito Mussolini's, kills Carlo Tresca, editor of the anti-Communist newspaper Il Martello. Apr 8 Stage musicals director Michael Bennett is born in Buffalo. May 8 Syrian-born Brooklyn physician-poet-lecturer Rizq (George) Haddad dies, at the age of 69. Aug 1 A riot in West Harlem, sparked by the arrest of a black woman in the Hotel Braddock and fanned by rumors, leaves five blacks dead and 500 arrested. Nov 14 New York Philharmonic conductor Bruno Walter is taken ill. His assistant Leonard Bernstein fills in for him. City Mayor Guardia asks Roosevelt to commission him a brigadier general. ** The demolition of the Sixth Avenue elevated line is completed. ** Frank Lloyd Wright is commissioned to design the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum ** Kurt Weill and Ogden Nash's One Touch of Venus opens on Broadway. Baltimore-based Nash visits the city. ** New Yorker cartoonist Charles Addams marries Barbara Day. ** Author Pietro di Donato marries Helen Dean. The ceremony is performed by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. ** New York Times military analyst Hanson Baldwin wins the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from the war in the Pacific. ** The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) sells its Blue Network to Edward J. Noble, to avoid antitrust problems. Noble changes the name of the flagship station WJZ to ABC, which will become the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). State The Randall Mansion in Cortland is demolished. ** The Caledonia State Fair skips the season because of gasoline rationing. ** Civil engineer Henry Druding is assigned to Sampson Naval Training Center as a lieutenant commander, serving as public works officer. 1944 January Batavia restaurant owners Mr. and Mrs. Harry Neumeister move The Dagwoodfrom 48 Main Street to 112 Main. Feb 1 Dutch painter Pieter Mondrian, 71, dies in New York City. Feb 17 Get-A-Way Gertie, a B-24 on a training mission out of Westover Army Base in Massachusetts, crashes into Lake Ontario at Mexico Bay. All eight crew members aboard drown. The wreck is not recovered. Feb 23 A wing of Get-A-Way Gerty washes ashore. Apr 7 Jazz tenor saxophone player Pat Pascel LaBarbera is born in Warsaw, New York. Apr 29 The U. S. Socialist Labor Party meets for two days in New York City, nominates Edward A. Teichert of Pennsylvania and Ohio's Alva A. Albaugh. May 8 The first eye bank is established, in New York City. May 19 The U. S. Communist Party, meeting in New York City for two days, endorses Franklin D. Roosevelt's candidacy. May 28 New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is born in Brooklyn. Jun 27 The Republicans meet for three days in Chicago, Illinois, nominate New York governor Thomas E. Dewey and Ohio governor John Bricker. Jul 20 Katherine Hepburn opens on Broadway in Dragon Seed. Aug 1 Exiled Filipino president Manuel Quezon, 65, die in Saranac Lake. Sergio Osmena is sworn in, the new president-in-exile. September Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis enrolls in the Julliard School of Music. Oct 4 Politician Alfred E. Smith, 70, dies in New York City. Oct 19 Actor Marlon Brando makes his Broadway debut in John Van Druten's I Remember Mama, with Peggy Wood. December The city of Rochester uses imported German prisoners of war to shovel snow. Dec 16 Composer, guitarist and bass player John Abercrombie is born in Port Chester. Dec 17 The Green Bay Packers defeat the New York Giants for the football championship. Dec 27 Composer Amy Marcy Cheyney Beach (Mrs. H. H. A. Beach) dies in New York City at the age of 77. City Frieda Schiff Warburg donates her family mansion on Fifth Avenue to the Jewish Theological Seminary to house their art collection - the beginning of the Jewish Museum. ** Writer producer Cy Howard appears in Maxwell Anderson's Storm Operation. ** Aaron Copland's ballet Appalachian Spring, choreographed by Martha Graham, debuts. ** 18-year-old trumpeter Miles Davis sits in with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker when they appear in St. Louis. When they've gone he comes here and seeks them out. ** Pearl Bailey begins an eight-month booking at the Blue Angel supper club. ** Composer-troubador Richard Dyer-Bennet becomes the first folk performer to give a major solo concert, selling out Town Hall. Impresario Sol Hurok hears him perform at Carnegie Hall and signs him on as a client. ** Columbia University physics professor Isidor Isaacs Rabi wins the Nobel Prize for his work on atomic magnetic measurement. ** Black Broadway composer Will Marion Cook dies. ** Jerome Robbins expands his ballet Fancy Free into On the Town. State Herrick's Castle (Ericstan) in Tarrytown is demolished. ** The Pickle Boat, having made twice-daily voyages between Old Forge and Inlet for 44 years, is retired. ** Samuel Hopkins Adams' Canal Town. is published. ** Rosie Carnemolla is born in Poughkeepsie. She will attain a peak weight of 840 pounds. Batavia Joseph Fratterigo buys a lunceonette on Jackson Street from co-worker William Rippey. He will move the restaurant across the street. ** A one-story cement block addition is built onto the back of the Holland Land Office building. ** Robert McBride buys horse sheds on the west side of State Street and replaces them with the McBride Boiler Works. Rochester Jean Walrath becomes the city's first female political candidate. ** The Italian Culture Club helps establish the Il Scolo Italian language summer school. 1945 January Batavia's Holland Land Office Museum is turned over to the Red Cross. The collections are stored in two upstairs rooms. Mar 12 The state legislature enacts a anti-discrimination law. Mar 17 Japanese-American physician Toyohiko Campbell Takami dies in Brooklyn. Apr 12 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies in Warm Springs, Georgia. Apr 15 Roosevelt is buried at the family home in Hyde Park. May 7 German Chief of Staff General Alfred Jodl, representing the Germans, signs the surrender at Reims. May 24 Actress Priscilla Ann Beaulieu (Presley) is born in Brooklyn. Jul 1 The state forms the first state anti-discrimination agency. Jul 9 Architect Frank Lloyd Wright displays his plans for the Guggenheim Museum. Jul 28 A B-25 crashes into the Empire State Building, at the 79th floor. Sep 2 The Japanese surrender is signed on the decks of the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay - Truman proclaims the day VJ (Victory over Japan) Day. Sep 26 Hungarian-born composer Bela Bartok dies in New York City at the age of 64. Oct 3 35,000 memebers of the International Longshoreman's Association (ILA) walk off the job. Oct 19 The longshoremen return to work, having gained wage increases and improved working onditions. Oct 27 Truman announces twelve fundamentals of U. S. foreign policy, during a New York City address. November Miles Davis participates in his first be-bop session, recording Now's the Time and Koko with the Charlie Parker quintet. He has just dropped out of Julliard. Nov 10 Jazz trumpet player and arranger John LaBarbera is born in Mount Morris. Nov 25 Elie Siegmeister's Western Suite is premiered by Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Orchestra. Dec 6 Art treasures rescued from the Germans arrive in New York City. City Mayor La Guardia declines to run for a forth term. Brooklyn Districy Attorney and Democrat American Labor candidiate William O' Dwyer defeats Republican-Liberal-Fusion candidate Jonah J. Goldstein and No Deal candidate Newbold Morris, to become mayor, serving through 1950. ** Historian Dumas Malone becomes a professor of history at Columbia University. ** Actors Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall marry, settle here. ** The Herald Tribune begins publishing the Matter of Fact column by Joseph and Stewart Alsop. ** The Army-Navy football game is transmitted from Philadelphia to New York City - the first commercial intercity event to be televised. State Chili's Chesbrough Seminary becomes a juinor college and changes its name to Roberts Junior College, honoring founder Bishop Benjamin Titus Roberts. ** C. Arthur Niver is named chairman of the Hammondsport Village Youth Committee. ** P and C Markets opens a store in Batavia. ** Governor George E. Pataki is born in Peekskill. ** Westchester County Airport opens. Rochester The federal government assumes control of the Port of Rochester's ferry harbor dredging and the payment of west pier repairs. GenevaNYNY files through the year 1724 are now posted on my home page: http://home.eznet.net/~dminor David Minor Eagles Byte Historical Research Rochester, New York 716 264-0423 http://home.eznet.net/~dminor