Fire damages garage in Belle Valley blaze
Erie report details a $4000 fire at J. A. Holtz garage on Norcross road. Two Belle Valley Hose Company volunteers, William Adams and Howard Schrimper, were injured by glass and a fall. Two cars and a Holtz truck damaged. interior partially burned. Chief Clarence Schrimper called in help from Wesleyville, Kearsarge and West Lake departments.
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Erie
Belle Valley Hose Company
J. A. Holtz
Norcross Road
R. D
Clarence Schrimper
Belle Valley
William Adams
Howard Schrimper
Holtz
Schrimper
Jake Kinn
Kern Behlosser
Wesleyville
Kearsarge
West Lake Hose Company
Ralph Foster Jr Promoted to Sergeant in England
Ralph J. Foster Jr 21 of Corry has been promoted from corporal to sergeant at an Eighth Air Force B 17 station in England He serves as radio operator and gunner aboard a Fortress crew now undergoing advanced training in formation flying high altitude first aid gunnery and radio procedures He belongs to the 388th Bomber Group Third Air Division son of Ralph A Foster 2644 East Washington street He joined the RAF in June 1943 after studying at Temple University Philadelphia.
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8Th Air Force
England
Ralph J. Foster
Corry
Foster
el 388Th
Third Air Division
Africa
Messerschmitt
Regensburg
Ralph A. Foster
East Washington Street
RAF
Temple University
Philadelphia
New Measures May Increase Erie County Costs
Erie February 15 Four bills before the state legislature seek to raise county expenses. One would authorize the prothonotary to appoint a solicitor with salary set by the county salary board. Another allows funds for a county history project. A third would let original records be destroyed after photographic copies are made. The fourth bill would authorize payment of attorneys for pauper defendants in criminal cases, not just murder cases.
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Erie
Erie County
Funeral Services Held for Ella Mae Tanner
Funeral services for Ella Mae Tanner were conducted yesterday at 3 p.m. at Bracken-Keating Funeral Home with Rev. Charles Fuller of Centerville Baptist Church officiating. Interment followed in Centerville Cemetery. Twenty six bearers included George McMahon and William Speck. out of town attendees were Florence Tanner Theodore Tanner and Archie Tanner of Union City, Verna Mae Mallarz of Meadville, and Monroe Thomas of Centerville. Mr. Tanner was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
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Ella Mae Tanner
Bracken-Keating Funeral
Charles Fuller
Centerville
Union City
Verna ‘Mae Mallarz
Meadville
Monroe Thomas
Pennsylvania Railroad
Tanner
Navy Officer Found Dead After Crisis in Philadelphia
The body of Lt. (j.g.) Arthur Wassum, 22, of Northampton Pennsylvania, a Merchant Marine officer, was found on a Philadelphia street today. Detectives say his wife Rhoda Wassum, 21, a night club worker, told them she had advised him she intended to divorce him minutes earlier.
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NAVY
Philadelphia
Arthur Wassum
Northampton
Merchant Marine
Ims
Rhoda Wassum
Deferments in Capital Double in Federal Draft Pool
The Associated Press reports Congress was told that federal workers receiving draft deferments more than doubled since last year. As of December 1 1944, 265 900 government job holders were deferred out of men 18 to 38. Navy led with 185 898, followed by War Department 112 995, Post Office 23 076, with states showing broad variance. New Jersey reported 9 008 while Delaware had 403. China’s antimony production rose from 2 percent of world output in the last Great War to about 70 percent in later years.
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Associated Press
Washington
Tus
Congress
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Xampion
Hershey
Navy
War Department
Post Office Department
Pennsylvania
Delaware
New Jersey
Former Bear Lake Family Loses 2 Sons
Bear Lake mourns as Mr and Mrs D Tillotson of Falconer NY report two sons lost in service in World War II. Jol Zolack a paratrooper recovering from a leg wound in hospital. Donald Tillotson died in England hospital, Roland Tillotson killed in action last fall. Orval Mapson listed as in hospital with scarlet fever. Banjo origins note cites Joseph Sweeper as inventor.
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Bear Lake
Clarence Corr
Cari
California
Sovar Nord
Jol Zolack
Arthur Hamilton
Haly
D. Tillotson
Falconer
N.Y
Orval Mapsoh
Tillotson
Donald ‘Tillotson
England
Roland Tillotson
Moscow Paper Attacks Senator Wheeler Over Crimea Pact Critique
In Moscow on February 15 the local paper brands Senator Burton W. Wheeler a worshipper of the reactionary clique of Polish exiles and a leader of the pro Fascist element by the United States for his criticism of the Palla Agreement in the Crimea.
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Moscow
Sen
Wheeler
Burton W. ‘Whitler
Crimea
Montana Democrat
United States
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Ralph Foster, JR
Eighth Air Force
Fortress
Ommaney Bay
U. S. S. Ommaney Bay
Philippines
U. S. Navy
International Soundphoto
the National Bank OF Corry
Dapoaita
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Rita Naar
China
Lanston
South Center St
America
Joseph Sweeper
Becaime
Banjo
Loblaws
Aorae
Texas
Florida
Jake
Rome
Ee Bees
Libby
Spotted Meat
Tin
Mott's Apple Juice
Miller's
Vienna
Kirkman
Corfe
Wilson's B.V
Libroy
Iour
Heese
Boy-Ar-Dee
Mueller
K. A
Kellogg
Sbury
RED Cross
Kireman
Leed
Center Street
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