Oust Defiant Ward Officials in Eleven Cities
Army seizes Montgomery Ward properties across seven cities tightening control over the mail order house network. Eleven Ward officials were ousted for non cooperation as federal actions expand to 16 facilities and possible SS reclassification for those involved.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Montgomery Ward and Company
Army
Army Ten
Litary
Govert
Ward
Detroit
War Labor Board
Mainte
Forest County Leads E Bond Drive in Sixth War Loan
Forest County and the Fort Pitt area topped the Sixth War Loan drive with 103.9 percent of a $61,280,000 quota, reporting $69,050,800 in E Bond sales led by Forest County at 125.7 percent. Other counties oversubscribed, with Mercer Allegheny Lawrence Butler and others contributing to the regional total.
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Pittsbangh
Uttle Forest County
Fort Pitt
Avard Finance Committee
Forest
Iai
Mercer
Allegheny
Lawrence
Butler
Escape of Prisoners Highlights Geneva Convention Rules
Report on the December 24 escape of 15 of 25 German POWs from Papago Park Prison near Phoenix and how Geneva Convention provisions limit disciplinary punishment. Also notes widespread captures on the Western Front and Japan's partial adherence to the treaty.
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Papago Park
Phoenix
Arizona
Normandy
Berlin
United States
Germany
Red Cross
Soviet Union
Russia
Japan
Pearl J Harbor
Tokyo
Compressor Plant Burns Near Hampton Station
An explosion at a Hillcrest compressor plant owned by the Selgworth brothers near Hampton Station destroyed the facility and damaged two homes and a store. Four sleepers in a nearby house were knocked from their beds but suffered no serious injuries. The blast was felt in Venus and Fryburg with windows ripped out and extensive interior damage to nearby buildings.
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Oil City
Jan
Selgworth Brothers
Hillcrest
Hampton Station
Venus
Fryburg
Statewide scholarship plan urged in Pennsylvania budget
Governor Martin urges a state-wide competitive scholarship program for PA colleges with a four-year grant appropriation of 1.675 million as part of a 148.949 million education budget. He says many capable youth cannot afford tuition and calls for periodic school child physical examinations.
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Associatea
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Martin
General Assembly
National Bearing Plant Merges With Brake Shoe Company
Meadville unit of National Bearing Metals, once near 100 percent war work, merges into American Brake Shoe Company. The deal, recorded Saturday, makes the local plant the National Bearing Division of the New York based company. Merger involves no personnel changes.
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Brake Shoe Company
Meadville
National Bearing Metals Corporation
American Brake Shoe Company
Register and Recorder
New York City
National Bearing
American Brake Shoe
Patton’s Forces Press On Toward St Vith
Allied advance under General Patton continues toward St Vith in the Ardennes. German resistance shows surprising artillery shortfalls and no clear breakthrough, as Von Rundstedt begins a cautious withdrawal amid heavy Allied air and ground attacks.
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Patton
ST. Vith
Iage Uner
Ardennes
von Rundstedt
Ardennes Salient
Associated Press
Robert C. Wilson
Seventh Army Front
Dunkirk Ends Year With Large Surplus
City treasurer Frank J. Janice says Dunkirk will close 1944 with about 100000 in surplus. He attributes the gain to unspent paving funds and higher than budgeted revenues from the state franchise tax, with plans to move the surplus to the capital reserve for postwar improvements.
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Dunkirk
Jan
Frank J. Janice
Tfis
Capital Reserve
NEW ORDER CANCELS FARM DEFERMENTS
The article explains the Selective Service advisory plan for farm deferments. A farm work unit standard defined required work amounts and deferment eligibility. It notes agriculture has the smallest workforce in 34 years while 1945 production goals require maintaining last year’s output to meet military and civilian needs.
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Page Oney
Selective Service System
Selective Service
Aldesto Jones
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Wards Defends Citizens Rights Against Unlawful Commands
Wards rejects obedience to authorities lacking legal power and seeks to safeguard the constitutional rights and liberties of every U S citizen in court.
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Wards
United States
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Forest County
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