F Harge Boss With Huge Waste Of Pennsylvania Tax Funds
Editorials, AP report outline disputes over Auditor General P G Ross payroll and use of state funds. Logan alleges inflated payroll costs and political influence, citing inheritance tax staff growth from 25 to 433 since 1941. Governor endorses investigation, notes 1949 payroll rise and disputed deductions.
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Fharge
Pennsylvania
Lower
Don
P. Glnjr Ross
Tt Ross
Re~ Publicans Ae
Ross
Auditor General
Associated Press
Harrisburg
F. Clair Ross
Autor General
Edward Logan
James
Logan
Democratc
Dr. Logan
Tere
East
Democratic State Committee
Local Service Flag Honors Five Star Watt Family
The Watt family at 100 East Main Street displays a five star service flag for members in the U S Navy. Father WH Kim Wail 44 serves in the Panama Canal Zone. Son William Thomas 29 in Bermuda. Joseph 21 in a naval hospital Pensacola after an accident in the Cabal Zone. Kenneth 19 Wisey and James Harry Skelton 18, step-son, last reported in Allisic Joelson 16, hopes to follow into service when eligible. The community salutes the Watt family as a distinguished military family.
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Katherine Watt
Jackson
East Main Street
U. S. Navy
Kiim Wail
Panama Canal Zone
Wiliam ‘Thomas Wail
Bermuda
Joseph
Pensacola
Kenneth
Wisey
James Harry Skelton
Allisic
Joelson
Wat
Onr
Union City Youth Dies After High Speed Crash Near Lowville
Harold W Brooks 19 Union City youth and Aero Supply Mfg employee died at 2 10 am after a car wreck on Route 10 north of Lowville. Investigators say speed over 70 mph caused the vehicle to leave the road, roll at least five times, and the driver to be ejected. Brooks suffered internal injuries and lacerations. he died at 11 10 pm. He is survived by his parents and a brother Ronald. Funeral plans are incomplete. The article also notes a separate political brief: Mrs Ernest Londeen seeks Farmer-Labor Senate nomination with Secretary Holm.
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Harold W. Brooks
Lowville
Brooks
Aero Supply Mfg. Company,Inc
Young Brooks
North East
State Motor Police
Lawville
Union City
Crowe
Glenn
Taquity
Walon City
John
Harold Estes
Earl Brooks
Parade Street
Ronald
Eugene Harris
Union City High School
The
Aero Supply
Federal funds sought for 100 more homes in Fairhaven
An application to federal housing authorities seeks 100 additional homes in Fairhaven to ease a rising shortage as defense work expands locally. The National Housing Administration met with a regional committee, manufacturers, and others to discuss a response. Proposals include demountable housing to be reused after the war, with sites chosen for utilities and school access. A report to Washington is planned and quick action anticipated.
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National Housing Administration
Comny
Fairhaven
Avai
Washington
Registration of Landlords Extended in County
Registration drives under federal rent control are extended. Non registrants have another chance next week at Senior High School from 8:30 to 4. Landlords in Union City register Monday to Wednesday. Rooming-house registrations to follow later. Local Rent Control officers assist with questions at the high school today.
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Tanlords of
Corry
Union City
Howard J. Sheen
Harold G. Wolfe
Helen J. Johnson
Wegister
Henry C. Trask
Eric Rent Control Office
Setlor High School
Child Crushed In Hay Fields Near Wattsburg
Four year old Httie Ales Metenkanich son of Mrs Mary Fleck of near Wattsburg is hospitalized in Union City in critical condition with fractures after a hay-rake accident. He was brought to Union City hospital around six oclock last night.
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Httie Ales Metenkanich
Mary Fleck
Wattsburg
Union City Hospital
August Quota Of 1-B Registrants Will Come Largely From Volunteers
Janet Harris reports from Harrisburg that Pennsylvania will meet the August 1-B registrant quota largely with volunteers seeking immediate induction. StateSelective Service headquaters say many 1-8 registrants have minor nonremedial defects or are ineligible for full service. Inductees classified as 1-B will be assigned to limited service roles and may be upgraded to 1-A if conditions improve.
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Janet Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Selective Service
BF. Eysam
Selective Service System
U. S. Army
State Headquarters
Japs Abuse of Americans Reported In War Transfer
The first diplomatic exchange since the Pacific war began moved 1,100 Americans and others from U S and Japanese territories onto the Gripsholm. They were replaced by Japanese diplomats and families on two ships in East Africa. The transfer followed from an East Africa port with crews from the Queen Verde and Asama Mari. Continued on page two.
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Associated Press
Lourenco Marques
East Africa
United States
Japan
Gripsholm
America
Tokyo
East Africian
Ieritories
Orient
Toy Associated Press
Aluminum Plant Siting Sparks Erie and Canonsburg Contest
The War Production Board weighs three locations for a government owned aluminum drop forging plant valued near 20 million dollars. Erie Pennsylvania and Canonsburg are named contenders with possible site borings to test ground firmness for heavy forging operations.
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Associated Prep
Washington
Pennsylvania
Erie
Canonsburg
Upstate
New York
War Production Board Aluminum Branch
Exid
Aluminum
Company of America
ALCOA
Woman pleads not guilty and hearing is set
A Wednesday blackout in Cony led to fines for Curtis Jewelry Store owner Rob Curtis and Roy Ladd of North Center street for leaving lights on. A third violator, named as Jane Doe, faced a $500 bail after pleading not guilty to blackout violations. Mrs Ethel File of West Wayne street was charged with violating the blackout ordinance and held for a Monday hearing. Air wardens reported suspicions of evasive cooperation and abuse in the case.
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Cony
Elenos
George Wi
Gordon
Delock
Rob
Rh Cuttis
Curtis Jewelry Store
Roy Ladd
North Center Street
Curtis
Ladd
Joneh Clymer
Columbus
Board of Review
Ethel
West
Wayne Street
George E.gordon
Photographs and maps seized from enemy aliens
New York bulletin reports 100 photography maps showing vital spots in New York and New Jersey found with one enemy alien seized in a roundup. Berlin claims pilots returning from Rome to Tokyo. Italy’s Mussolini welcomed home the Savoia Maru. Dutch Jews moved from Holland to Poland and Russia, according to Aneta. Alaska’s bishop warns rapid U S action is needed to defend the Aleutians and secure bases at Dutch Harbor and Kodiak.
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Associated Press
New York
New Jersey
P. E. Poxworth
FBI
Berlin
Rome
Tokyo
Iis
Italy
Muscolini
Seattle
Alaska
Joseph Fr. Crimont
United States
Qulckiy
Aleutians
Dutch Harbor
Koda Altea
Naval Bezes
Allied air strikes halt Japanese at Buna in New Guinea
Associated Press report from Australia's MacArthur HQ says steady blue bombing disrupted Japanese supply lines near Buna Gona on the Papua New Guinea coast. Allied dive bombers hit ships and stores while escort fighters repelled Japanese bombing, with several vessels forced to withdraw under naval protection and Port Moresby air defense holding.
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Associated Press
McArthur
Australia
Bone-Gona
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Papwin Peninsula
Buna
Port Moresby
Addem
le Uyshese
Brisbane Courier Mail
Uhe
Roosevelt unlikely to seek inflation curb action
Washington July 25. House members prepared for informal vacations as President Roosevelt reportedly decided he could curb rising costs without new legislation. It was said he might send a message to Congress asking for authority to control living costs, relying on war powers and prize control acts.
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Associated Press
Washington
Ag House
Roosevelt
Stone
Home
Congress
Benes predicts Nazi peace offer by October if drive stalls
London dispatch quotes President Edward Benes of the Czechoslovak exile government asserting Germany will try to offer peace to Britain the United States and Russia by October 15 if a decisive military success is not achieved. He says Polish terms are being prepared and that Hitler’s offer would likely be rejected. Benes predicts Germany will be exhausted by spring if the Russians delay decisive action.
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Sy Associmten
Eres
London
Eduard Benes
Czechoslovakia
Europe
Britain
United States
Russia
Benes
Hitler
Germany
Warn of more Nazis due here
Washington July 26 J Ed Hoover FBI director urged the public to watch for three men believed to be German saboteurs. He said the suspects trained in a sabotage school near Berlin and ordered to disrupt U S war industry, naming Welter Kappe Joseph Schmidt Paul Schudt and Rheinhold Barth as figures linked to the eight saboteurs on trial before a military commission.
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Associated Press
Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
FHI
German Sabolewre
United Birtes
Hoover
Justice Department
PRY
FBI
Welter Kappe
Sling Kappel
Arrmy
Berlin
Joseph Schmidt
Paul Schudt
Derry Swenson
Rheinhold Rudolph Barth
Germany
U Boat Toll Near 400 Mark
The toll of U boats in the western Atlantic neared 400 as the Navy announced the sinking of a medium sized U.S. merchant ship about 800 miles off the coast. Of 128 aboard, 66 passengers and 57 crewmen were rescued, with 5 others reported lost. The unofficial AP tally places Allied and neutral ship losses at 998 since Pearl Harbor.
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Atlantic
Navy
U.S
Associated Press
Allied One
Pearl Harbor
Bethlehem Steel tops steel executive salaries in 1941
Philadelphia report shows sharply increased steel production and top salaries in 1941. Bethlehem Steel president Eugene S Grace earned 547724 with 957724 bonus, highest in industry excluding Louis B Mayer of Loews. J Girdler of Republic Steel rose to 275000, U S Steel head Benjamin Pairless 156010, Wayne Jones and Laughlin’s H E Lewis 195000, with directors Mackell and Bent each at 19737.
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say_mammayne
Philadelphia
Eugene S. Grace
Bethlehem Steel Company
United States
Louis Mayer
Loew's Inc
Grace
Bethlehem
Girdier
Republic Steel Corporation
Securities and Exchange Commission
Benjamin P.pairless
United States Steel Corporaton
Wane Jones
Laughlin Steel Corporation
H. E. Lewis
Paul Mackell Lnd
Quincy Bent
Rostov Holds Amid Four Weeks of 1942 Offensive
German forces report a foothold on the southern Caucasus side of the Lower Don as battles rage in Rostov. Allied contacts persist as Soviet defenses bend under air power and continued strafing. The El Alamelix front scene remains stubborn, with ongoing air combat and bombardment reported near the river.
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Caucasus
Don River
Wivielt Raissiy
Sfield
Southelm
Dis Bast
Aods
el Alamelix
Stavie
Bombers Aid Russian Defense In Don River Campaign
Russian and German forces clash as Luftwaffe and Soviet units battle over the Don basin. Reports say German troops crossed portions of the Don and claimed Rostov, while Soviet dispatches assert heavy fighting along the south bank and near Novocherkassk with German objectives focused on oil fields and rail connections.
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Rostov
Stile
Stalingrad
Don
Red Star
Font Lnes
Te den
Ther Tsinljaisk
Caucasus
Nnhurt
Novocherkassk
Nort— Jenst
Axai
Mak
Stelinerad
Russia
Volem
Cape Mans
Alresd
Ercan
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Harold Brooks
Gurve
Aero Sup
St, Paul
Ernest Londeen
Farms
Minnesota
Mike Holm Boday
Farmer-Labor
United States Senate
U. S
Africa
Evie
Vhstalian High Command
Aneta
Toflay
Holland
Poland
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