Yonkers resident Charles Steinmetz, the greatest electrical engineer of his timeBy Mary Hoar, President Emerita, Yonkers Historical Society, recipient of the 2004 Key to History, Member, Yonkers Landmarks Preservation BoardJanuary 25, 1937: Although strikers were warned they would be forcibly ejected, one lone striker resumed his post in the Federal Music Project office in the Sears, Roebuck building. While patrolling with American Forces in North Africa, the Yonkers man was caught in crossfire. He was sent home mid-1944; he wanted to run American newspaper article about the Presidential campaign, something army command “forbade.”January 27, 1956: Yonkers resident Joe Lapchick resigned as coach of the NY Knickerbockers. Sponsored by the Alexander Smith Memorial Foundation, it was a digest of what happened in Yonkers and mailed free to every Yonkers resident in the Armed Forces, no matter where in the world he or she was serving. Saturday, January 30thJanuary 30, 1932: New Yonkers resident Jerry Elario of Halstead Avenue, owner of a Second Avenue speakeasy, was shot early in the morning at McLean Avenue and McCollum Place.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 22, 2021 19:07 UTC