Truman creates new Defense Production Administration
President Truman announced the formation of a Defense Production Administration to link scattered emergency agencies and oversee military procurement. William S. Harrison, head of the National Production Authority, will oversee industrial output, transportation, fuel, minerals, and power, with Senate confirmation pending. The plan keeps agencies in their departments but under Harrison's bidding, and could include control of armed forces procurement and the munitions board.
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Associated Press
Washington
Truman
Defense Production Administration
DPA
William S. Harrison
National Production Authority
Mr.Truman
Harrison
William H. Harrison
Commerce Department
Natonal Production Authority
Senate
Charles B. Wilson
Armed Forces
Munitions Board
Wilson
John D. Small
White House
NEA
Commerce
Interior Department
Defense Transport Administration
Interstate Commerce Commission
Three youths held in $1215 robbery
Erie police report three youths aged 15, 17, and 22 were held after a $1215 gas station burglary. Arthur Hanna Jr., William Girseh, and an Erie boy confessed to the December 29 break in at Matz Service Station Route 99 and Grubroad McKean, with tires, batteries, TVs and radios taken. Authorities recovered the loot in an Erie garage.
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Erie
Yous
Laura Foster Dies in Spartansburg at 63
Laura Webber Foster, a Spartansburg resident, died at Titusville Hospital at 9:30 last night after a long heart illness. Born August 1, 1883 in Troy Vanewshi, she was the daughter of George and Susan Vanderhoff. Survived by husband William Foster and six children: Edward Webber Clayton Webber Dorothy Staub Pauline Bryant Edna Schumacher seven grandchildren. Funeral Friday at 2 p.m. at Torrey Funeral Home Spartansburg with burial Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Laura Foster
Spartansburg
Laura Webber Foster
Dent
Titusville Hospital
Troy Feawnshi
George
Susan Vanderhoff
William Foster
Mibwire
Edward Webber
Clayton Webber
Dorothy Staub
Pauline Bryant
Cambridge Springs
Edna Schumacher
San Antonio
Texas
Torrey
Ittend
Rose Hill Cemetery
Harold E. OConnor buried after St. Ahenbeths Mass
Harold E OConnor was buried this morning after a short prayer service at Branken Keating Funeral Home. The requiem mass at St Ahenbeths Church was celebrated by Rev Carl B Heidt at 9 o'clock with bearers Kenneth Young Francis Slattery Thomas P Clark Walter Sweet Robert Price Alfred Morrison Sr Walter Blair and F B Sullivan. Interment followed in St Elizabeths Cemetery family lot. Out of town mourners included Mrs Kel Wellemns Jamestown Robert McGraw New Kensington and John Van Dyke Buller.
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Harold E. O'Connor
Branken-Keating
Harold
E O'Connor
St. Ahenbeth's
Carl B. Heidt
Friends
Kenneth Young
Francis Slattery
Thomas P. Clark
Walter Sweet
Robert Price
Alfred Morrison, Sr
Walter Blair
F. B. Sullivan
VF. W
Herman Burlingame
Wilma Lowe
St. Elizabeth's Cemetery
Kel Wellemns
Jamestown
Robert McGraw
New Kensington
John van Dyke
Buller
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