Missing Jamestown Major Post in German action
Jamestown reports Major Robert Frederick Post U S Air Corps commandant is missing in action over Kassel Germany July 30. He had been overseas since May 23 and served since 1940. His wife Mrs Catherine Partridge received the War Department telegram announcing the loss.
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Jamestown
U. S. War Department
Robert Frederick Post
Catherine Shearman
Partridge
Louis M. Partridge
Major Post
U. S. Air Corps
Alio
Kassel
Germany
High Army Air Force
Maxwell Field
Alabama
Pos
Jack Smith
Helen Piblblad
Oakes Widow Returns to Fall to Reside
Lady Eunice Oakes widow of Sir Harry Oakes arrives in Victoria Place with three sons and a daughter to reside overlooking Queen Victoria Park. It is unclear if the family will move to Oak Hall or elsewhere on the estate near Horseshoe Falls. The Oakes estate includes Victoria Place and Oak Hall.
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Atagara
Oak Hall
Victoria Place
Hay
Oakes
Slaying of Pottsville Farmer Tied to Local Teen
A 41 year old Pottsville farmer and a 16 year old high school athlete confessed to beating timber cutter Harvey Bressler to death on July 26 near the Romberger farm. Authorities say no occult motive was substantiated and the body was found in an abandoned ravine after a search by police and volunteers.
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Tea
Kress
Pottsville
Harvey Bressler
Blue Mountains
Schuylkill County
Lewis D. Bruno
Joh Romberger
Jerome Brockaway
Romberger
Bressler
Lonely Road
Romberger Farm
Bruno
Romberg
Brockway
Mahlon Bressler
Wetmore Child Dies in Jamestown Hospital
Little Nancy Ann Wetmore age 14 born in Warren in March died at 4 55 AM Wednesday at Jamestown hospital after two months there. She is survived by parents Charles C. Wetmore in Africa and Mrs Wetmore of Warren plus grandparents and a great grandmother. Removal to Lutz funeral home. Services Friday at 1 30 PM at Church of the Nazarene officiated by Rev 0 C Mingle Dorff with interment at Oakland Cemetery.
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Warren
Marvin Wetmore
Prewsburgy
Cora Tiliger
Luts
0. C. Mingledorff
Church of the Nazarene
Oakland Cemetery
Accident Victim In North Africa
Mr and Mrs Merl Dawson report their grandson Private William G McCafferty a paratrooper in North Africa has sustained a fractured right ankle and was removed to the area for treatment.
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North Africa
Merl Dawson
Eas Main Street
Pyt
William G McCafferty
Oil City Captain Killed In-Action In South Pacific
Oil City Captain Watson 26, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Watson of 27 Howe Ave, and husband of Mrs. Mary Shipp Watson of Dirham NC, was killed in action in the South Pacific on July 18, according to War Department word received by his parents.
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OTL Vis
Ang
Capitan Archur
Prancis Watson
Watson
Howe Avenue
Mary Shipp Watson
Dirham
N. C
Setlow
War Department
Opposition to subsidies splits cabinet over price plan
Washington reports the administration shows a split in opposition to its subsidy rollback and the 1948 agricultural price support plan. Rep Wolcott calls the idea subsidy by subterfuge while Sen Aiken says Congress may accept a workable price guarantee to spur production. Marvin Jones may seek over one billion dollars more for the Commodity Credit Corporation to finance crop price guarantees.
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Washington
Wolcott
R-Mich
Aiken
R-Vi
Congress
Pood
Marvin Jones
Commodity Credit Corporation
Goodrich Leads Chautauqua Race by Narrow Margin
JamestownAug 13 The official count shows incumbent Clark E Goodrich Mayville leading by 11 votes in a three way Republican primary over Agnes Ahlstrom Jamestown and Mildred E Kling Mayville Kling trails by 11. votes with 952 ballots blank or void. Kling weighs a recount and Ahlstrom considers legal options.
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Jamestown
Clark E Goodrich
Mayville
Mildred E. Klin
Coury
Agnes Ahlstrom
Goodrich
Office Agures
Kling
Ahlswom
Ahlstrem
Miss Kling
Young Women's
Republican Lab
State Mine Chief Sees Coal Rationing Likely This Fall
Harrisburg, Pa. January 13. Acting Mines Secretary Richard Maize warned that coal rationing for households this fall is possible as furnaces heat homes. He cautioned households to use coal sparingly to avoid shortages, while noting inspectors rush to remove unsafe stoves.
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Rress
Harrisburg
Anw
Pennsylvania
Richard Maize
Tim
Maize
Boutleplote
Washington
Harold Tekes
Wesleyville Man Is New Girard Principal
The Girard Board names R Todd Lloyd as new supervising principal of Rice Avenue Union High replacing Charles L While who resigned recently Lloyd comes from Wesleyville where he led schools for five years He is a Geneva College graduate with a masters from Pitt prior to teaching He also worked as a church camp supervisor and has two children and is married
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Girard
R. Todd Lloyd
Rice Avenue Union High
Charles L. While
Lloyd
Wesleyville
Gaieva College
Pitt
Auhteric Ranch
Zellenople
Ellwood City
Mary
Westeyville
New PRR Agent Named at Ridgway
G B Cauley appointed agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad station at Ridgway succeeding R T Clowes who was supervisor at motor service of BR R with Pittsburgh HQ. Cauley, from Port Allegany, has served in the Panama Division and worked at Sharpsburg Aspinwall and Millvale.
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PRR
Ridgway Ridgway
G. B. Cauley
Pennsylvania Railroad
Ridgway
RT. Clowes
Motor Service
BR. R
Pittsburgh
Mr. Cauley
Port Allegaia
Pahama
Sharpsburg
Aspinwall
Millvale
Rideway
Youth Sought for Erie Home Burglary
Police seek a youth about 20 wearing a blue shirt and gray trousers who entered a home on 418 Euston Street through an open window shortly after 4 p.m. Thursday. He robbed Mrs. P. J. Kellelmater of 11 and stole an old type 1 bill from Gertrude and 11 from Helen, while the family slept.
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Mes
Riehtmeier
Checkliie
Kiehilmeier
Gertrude
Helen
Man Sentenced to Two to Ten Years for Assault
Erie report says Leo O Keefe a former railroad section hand drew a two to ten year sentence on a charge of assault involving a 13 year old girl. He pleaded guilty before Judge Miles on Thursday after being brought to trial from North Girard. He confessed to a constable that he assaulted the girl at her home months earlier.
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Erie
Leo O'Keefe
North Girard Gill
Miles
Kitur
Severa
J. O. Badders
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Polles
Association of American Railroads
Polina
Meadville
Butler and
Goudersport
Lafayette Hotel
Bradford
John
David Haskins
Morrisville
East Smethport
Hoskins
University of Pittsburgh
Business Research Bureau
Bureau
Journal
National Ski Patrol
Army and Navy Board
Opey
W. A. Albert
Elgin Avenue
Pennsylvania Department
American Legion
Wilkes-Barre
T. ©. Krabell
Krabel
Philadelphia
Veterans' Administration
James Feeney
West Wayne Street
Rex Theatre
Union City
John Flanigan
Columbus Township
Liquor Control Board
Causihe
Akles
Champion Department Tool Company
Total 1909
CIO
United Steel Workers of America
R. F. Post
Eighth Army Force
Pottsville Farmer
Wetmore
Oil City
Mildred Kling
Lumbermens
Theo P. Williams
Corry, PA
Mont
Omery Ward
Montgomery Ward
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