USO celebrates third anniversary with 2808 units
Ralph B Weeks reports from Chester I Barnard USO president that USO marks three years with about 2808 operating units in the Western Hemisphere and bases worldwide. He notes donations via War Fund drives totaling 14 million in the first year 24 million in the second year and 61 million in the third year.
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USO
United States
Hemisphere
Ralph B. Weeks
Pennsylvania War Fund, Inc
Chester I. Barnard
National War Fund
Weeks
Barnard
TSO
Share
Iso War Fund
Pennsylvania
Family Problems Tax Reform Proposed Amid War Spend
Editorial notes March 15 deadline as wartime taxes loom. It advocates a constitutional amendment to cap income inheritance and gift taxes at 25 percent, two thirds state support, and a peacetime tax regime to sustain industry. Fifteen states have already backed the proposal.
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Congress
Freedom Without Trimmings A Wartime Plea for Unshaken Liberty
The piece argues returning soldiers seek the same liberty they left, not a regimented society. It decries perceived threats to freedom, praises American industry and competitiveness, and notes the nation’s wartime strength built on free enterprise and voluntary choice, including religious liberty.
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United States
Aya How
Ben Franklin’s Medical Ventures and Inventions
A garbled historical note highlights Benjamin Franklin’s medical influence and inventions. It mentions his bi focal glasses and claims about medical vigilance and public health, though the text is fragmented and contains many transcription errors.
Twenty Years Ago in Belfinsey Journal Highlights
A 12 year old boy on First Avenue suffered a broken rib and sprained ankle in a coast ing accident at First Avenue and Pleasant Street. The Dairymen's League held its annual meeting at the Municipal building electing officers including C Jay Folette as president of the Corry ranch. Scarlet fever officials urged all residents to cooperate as the outbreak shows signs of improvement. News arrived that William G. Murray is in very critical condition in Rochester, Minnesota. Two West End residents sought a warrant for a youth accused of shooting with intent to kill. A Standard Automatic Products worker escaped death or serious injury when trapped in a revolving machine Friday night.
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Evening Journal
Dally
Corry Pa
Fredeed
First Avenue
First Everyé
Pleasant Street
Tate
Miliby
West End
Quiz questions prompt on various knowledge topics
A list of ten questions covers US Navy history spelling grammar a question on Swift Arthurian legend Britannica era and general knowledge. Topics include the loss of a destroyer captain a corrected sentence about Germany Japan the phrase Morte d Arthur author names the Arabian Nights bird the Smithsonian vs Smithsonian and a postwar debate the Postmaster General under Hoover and whether foot and mouth disease affects humans.
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U. S
Patfiris
Lilliput
Germany
Japan
King Arthur
Arthur
Thomas Babington Ma
Vailley
Alfred Gord Termyson
Thomas Malory
Stithsonian Institution
Smithonian Institute
Herbert Hoover
Demands For Open Primary Split Democrats At State Meeting
At Harrisburg a three way Philadelphia split over senatorial endorsements and a looming open primary challenge dominated the Democratic state committee meeting. Leaders planned to endorse a four term Roosevelt ticket while open primary rules and a rival slate threatened to complicate the convention agenda.
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Wick Temple
Harrisburg
U. S.senate
Democratic State Committee
Boom
J. Roosevelt
Philadelphia
Senatu-standert
David L. Lawrence
Quaker City
James 0. Stark
Iip
Clark
Francis J. Myers
James B. McGranery
U. S
Michael J. Bradley
Lawrence
Joseph F. Guffey
Washington
Lon
Charles Alvin Jones
Allegheny County
Supreme Court
Thowmbent
Eet H. Rhodes
Monroe County
F. Clair Ross
Butler County
Ramsey H. Black
Dauphin County
G. Harold Wagner
Luzerne County
John P. Bresch
Ross
Carbon County
John H. Dent
James B. Lovett
Common Pleas
George H. McWhorter
Westmorelnd
Dent
McWhorter
Philadelphia Record
First Aid Classes Formed by Cory Red Cross Chapter
Announcement says the Cory chapter of American Red Cross sponsors new First Aid classes. The first meeting is Monday evening at 8 o clock in the Junior High library to organize. The course runs ten two hour sessions, Monday nights at the Junior High. Instructors are H G Wolfe and Robert E Brown, with Dr N T Gillette as medical advisor. The latest Red Cross First Aid textbook is used, available for purchase at school if needed. Upon completion and passing a final exam, students receive the Red Cross certificate.
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Cory Chapter
American Red Cross
H. G. Wolfe
Robert E. Brown
N. T. Gillette
Two year old Union City girl dies of burns
Meredith May Kerr aged two of Union City died Thursday at St Vincent's hospital Erie from burns after hot water spilled on her. She was burned at home on December 1 and transferred to the Erie hospital. Coroner Warren W. Wood opened an investigation as physicians attempted skin grafts. Funeral arrangements were to be announced.
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Erie
St. Vincent's Hospital
Meredith May Kerr
Jody Kerr
Pleasant Street
Union City
Erie Hospital
Warren W. Wood
Lumber Now Chief War Material Says WB Official
Don Campbell deputy chief of the War Production Board Lumber and Plastic Products division told the 27th annual meeting of the Lumber Dealers Association of Western Pennsylvania that timber has become America s most needed war material. He noted more than half of national lumber production is used for boxing crating and damage on arms and other war materiel and that home building hopes will be deferred until the war ends.
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Pittsburgh
America
Don Campbell
Lumber and Anca Products
War Production Board
Ayers
Lumber Dealers Association of Western Pennsylvania
Five in Ease Home Overcome by Coal Gas
Five people, including Mrs. Sally Hatfield and her children Jack 14 Shirley 9 Patricia 7, were overcome by coal gas from a defective chimney at 1017 Weschler Avenue at 3 a m. Patricia alerted others, Patrolman Charles Tribble nearby summoned firemen and Dr J Ebner O'Brien, all survived.
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Sua CD
Sally Hatfield
Weschler Avenue
Charles Tribble
J. Ebner O'Brien
County bond sales near ten million mark
The Erie Fourth War Loan drive neared ten million dollars in recorded sales as the weekly campaign continued. Bond sales on Wednesday dropped to 367,710 as the total since January 18 reached 9,793,748.
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Erie
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Dairymen’s Aieagte
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Corry
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J. Moore Campbell
Morrisburg
R. O. Miller
Rochester
Minn
William GC. Murraye
I. Q
Pennzoil
Sranon van Cise
Smith Si
Dini
Senate
John F. Breslin
Foley’s Food Mills
Bernstein Bros
North Center ST
Torry
H. E. Beal’s
RED & White
Spartansburg, PA
Chas. Gibeaut
Coffen
Spring Valley
Swift
Dae
Neale
Montgomery Ward
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