Twenty Years Ago in Journal Files April 25 1930
Chief of Police Rappersburg hunted sneak thieves who ransacked Miss Lois Patterson home on Elk Street taking about $9. P T A Council plans visit of State Traveling Health and Dental Car to Corry in June with Miss Anna E Miller arranging details. Mercyhurst graduates include Margaret Burkhardt. Erie Conference Spring meeting of Pittsburgh Synod to be held at St Pauls Lutheran Church April 22 and 23. Corry High baseball opener weather permitting vs Alumni at High Field. Cherokees, largest group of Indians living in the Mississippi, number 3500 on Qualla Reservation, Cherokee, North Carolina.
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Rappersburg
Lois Patterson
P. T. A. Council
Corry
Anna E. Miller
State Department of Health
Erie Conference
Pittsburgh
Mississippi
Qualla Indian Reservation
N. C
East Germany Church Fight Deepens Struggle With Communists
East Germany faces a church crisis as Protestant leaders accuse Communist authorities of forcing clergy into the National Front and using FDJ to sway youth. Some 14 million of 18 million East Germans are Evangelical, prompting mass denouncements in over 4,000 churches last Sunday and a warning from Prime Minister Grotewohl that the move threatens the constitution. The next steps hinge on Moscow’s orders.
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Berlin
East Germany
Wall
National Front
Free German Youth
FDJ
Soviet Zone
Otto Grotewohl
Tomey
Russia
I Q Test and Current Supreme Court Justice
A quiz style item asks readers to rate memory and turn to Classified Page for answers. It notes an Associate Justice recently returned to the U S Supreme Court after a five month absence due to a riding accident and asks readers to name the Justice.
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I. Q
U. S. Supreme Court
Portugal
San Francisco Conference Opens to Shape United Nations Charter
The 1945 San Francisco Conference began April 25 with 46 nations, aiming to avoid postwar errors by separating the peace charter from peace treaties. It closed June 26 with 50 member states, amid momentous days following President Roosevelt's death and Germany's surrender. Alger Hiss played a leading role, serving as executive secretary at Dumbarton Oaks and an adviser at Yalta. About 10,000 participated, with extensive delegation staff, secretariat, press, and support workers involved in the historic gathering.
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San Francisco
United Nations
Roosevelt
Germany
Japa
New World
Pacific Area
Dumbarton Oaks
Yalla
Hiss
San Francisco Conference seals UN Charter and veto rules
After the San Francisco Conference the charter draft moved to Washington for ratification by signatories. Great powers' foreign ministers attended with Stettinius Eden Molotov Bidault and Soong. The Big Five veto privilege was agreed, Russia was defeated on three proposals, and by October 24 the required states had ratified, creating the United Nations.
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San Francisco
Washington
U. 5
Stettinius
Britain
Anthony Eden
Russia
Molotov
France
Bidault
Chinn
T. V. Soong
U. S
Connally
Sen. Vandenberg
Senate
Bloom
Rep. Eaton
House
Harold J. Stasen
U. S.N
Virginia Gildersleeve
Barnard College
Yalta
Ukraiian
UN General Assembly
Poland
United Nations
Judge Gunther sworn in at Pittsburgh ceremony
Blair F. Gunther today was sworn in as a judge of the State Superior Court in Pittsburgh. Judge W Heber Ditherthly administered the oath as about 200 spectators looked on.
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Gunther
Pittsburgh
Jdee Blair F. Gunther
State Superior Court
W. Heber
Baptist Church Missionary Conference Opens in City
The First Baptist Church will hold its first annual missionary conference from Thursday night through Sunday night with evening services at 7 45. Missionaries include Stephen Green to Venezuela Alfred Gerhardt to the Sioux Indians Donald Hare to Brazil and Charles Boniface to Venezuela. Colored slides from Venezuela and 1500 feet of Brazilian motion pictures will be shown. Boniface leads songs and trumpet solos each evening. choir and orchestra provide music. conference aims to energize missionary interest. Public invited.
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Baptist Church
First Baptist Church of
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Thomas Motors OF Corry, Inc
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Sigan Peimaty
Edwin
Paris
Erie
Elmer L. Evans
Lester Williams
Eric
State Street
Joseph Sanfratello
Irma Toran
Sanfratello
Toran
Peter Bagby, Jr
Hoover
DODGE
FORD
Martin Motor Sales
West South St
Topp’s
Carry’s Smart Women's Shop
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Dana
Colonie
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