Dunkirk sirens test and local notices flood city news
Butter and produce prices across City and Vicinity with tomatoes cucumbers and lake erie blue pike noted. Dunkirk sirens used for air raid drill. Pittsburg Allegheny Ludlum announces management changes. Brado rd fire and lightning strikes prompt emergency responses. Corry Wing for Norway drive planned. NYA headquarters at Johnsonburg closed. various local meetings and sales notices listed.
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Lake Erie
Wilcox Grocery
Dunkirk
Pittsburgh
Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation
W. Spittal
W. R. Breeler
Howard Avenue
Brigham Road
Dunfeirls
All-Way, Electric Co
Tha Tf
Smethport
Charles Hubbard
David Kibble
Bradford
Staley Bruner
Eldred
Rumford Baking Powder Ad Promotes Victory Savings
A wartime Rumford advertisement urges conserve supplies for victory. It touts Rumford Baking Powder as reliable and effective for cakes and cookies and mentions the brand’s Rhode Island origin and patriotic messaging.
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Kate
Iges
Box ES
Rumford
Rhode Island
DuPont Firm Indicted in Sherman Act Conspiracy
A federal grand jury indicted DuPont de Nemours and five other explosive manufacturers and several officials for conspiring to fix prices in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. Also named were Hercules Powder, Atlas Powder of Wilmington Delaware, Austin Powder of Cleveland, Illinois Powder Manufacturing, and King Powder of Cincinnati.
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Philadelphia
Dune
duPont, de Nemours and Company
Amet
Hercules Powder Company
Atlas Powder Company
Wilmington
Del
Austin Powder Company
Cleveland
Ilinois Powder Manufacturing Co
Louis
King Powder Co
Cincinnati
West Coast Alert After Alaska Raid
Japanese planners allegedly sought a Aleutian strike to threaten the American line as Dutch Harbor defenses and weather conditions were noted. Navy officials in Seattle said the attack was anticipated and the station defended the area despite war weariness and shifting Pacific pressures.
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Gommics
Ambing
Tokyo
Pacific
Batte
Burma
Northern Pacific
Alaska
Aleutians
United Nations
North Pacific
Dutch Harbor
Freeman
Anid
Seattle
Medical Officer Recruiting Board Seeks Physicians in Pittsburgh
Major Floyd W. Oliphant and Major Samuel J. Woodhouse Jr. led a Medical Officer Recruiting Board at 510-H New Federal Building Pittsburgh seeking doctors and dentists for the Army Medical Corps. Applicants under 45 may be appointed as first lieutenant or captain. ages 44 to 54 go to the Surgeon General for field grade posts. dental corps limited to first lieutenant and under 31. Further info available at the board.
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Floyd W. Oliphant
QMO
Phyalolang Anid
Federal Building
Pittsburgh
Oliphant
Samuel J. Woodhouse, Jr
Oliphnt
Witl
Army of the
New Federal Building
Columbus High Commencement List of Seventeen Graduates
Columbus High will graduate seventeen members at the commencement exercises this evening in the Community Building. The class includes Anna Hamilton Anna Bach a Margaret Motus Helen Savko Alma Swanson Marjorie Casler Virginia Jones John Kuzma Jackson Bonney Josephine Romanosky Mary Molnar Helene Kudlick Anna Sadowa Sean Ross David Curtily and Grace Mattice. Six members will deliver speeches on the theme Defense. The main address will be given by Franklin B. Hoshneh, prominent Gil e attorney.
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Columbus High School
Sre
Anna
Mse Hamilton
Aan Bacha
Margaret Motus
Helen Savko
Alma Swanson
Marjorie Casler
Virginia Jones
John Kuzma
Jackson Bonney
Albert
Macko
Josephine Romanosky
Mary Molnar
Helene Kudlick
Anna, Sadowa
Sean Ross
David Curtis
Woman critically hurt as rifle discharges at home
Vernon township mother of three, Mrs Anna Free, 26, was critically wounded in her Dutch Hill home when a Winchester rifle dislodged from a wardrobe and discharged as her husband Joseph Free arrived home. The incident occurred late yesterday afternoon near Mercer Pike.
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Degadvinnil
Vernon Township
Grific
Anna Free
Joseph Free
James Attacks OPA On Rationing Policy
A speech attacks the OPA rationing system and criticizes Senator Joseph B. Guffey for patronage links. The speaker urges Pennsylvanians to appeal to their congressmen and warns of consequences next September. Ashenfelter starts a $1.5 million year job in Philadelphia. The governor supports retaining T. Siner Transemu as head of the State Rationing Administration.
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Rom Rage Wuey
U. S
Joseph B. Guffey
James
Ashenfelter
Philadelphia
Ashenfeller
T. Siner Transemu
Lee Mumford services set for Saturday at Pine Grove
Pine services for Lee Mumford who died yesterday in Erie will be held Saturday at 2:30 PM at Davison Funeral Home with interment in Pine Grove cemetery. Born near Cochranton Crawford County October 4 1879 he had brothers Wing Ernest and John Mumford. Rev Steven R Bennett Nazarene Church Erie will officiate.
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Lee Mumford
Erie
Davison
O'Losk
Pine Grove
Mumford
Cochranton
Crawford County
Ernest
John Mumford
Hev
Steven R. Bennett
The
Nazarene Church
Three Men Killed When Car Struck By Train At Crossing
Three young men Nick Osthe Joseph Urich and Robert Bastian were killed when their automobile collided with a Baltimore & Ohio passenger train at Cemetery Crossing near Buller county town of Mars Pennsylvania. The driver reportedly tried to cross as the train gathered speed and witnesses struggled to free the victims.
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Mars
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Cemetery Crossing
Buller
Nick Osthe
Joseph Urich
Robert Bastian
Matt
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