Veterans Day Program Attracts Wide Delegations In Erie County
A large turnout is anticipated for the annual American Legion Day in Meadville with hundreds of members and families from Erie and Crawford counties. The program features remarks by L D Swift and William Sherman, emergency unit discussions, Red Cross relations, community mobilization needs, and demonstrations by Sea Scout Ship Tallabassee and local rescue squads.
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Erie
Grewford
Elmer G
Carrier Post
No. 5
L. D.swift
Crawford County
Service of the Legion
Wiliam
Sherman
Erle County
Andrew Prazier
American Red Cross
The
Red Cross
Neil Robinger
Erie County Legion
Warren P. Norton
Meadville
America
Floyd B. Owens
Walter W. Smith
Erie County
Neil Robinson
Floyd B.owens
Legion, Buglers
Department of Pennsylvania
Tallabasse
Meryl
Moron
Fred W. Koessling
B. Company
112Th Infantry
Fire Department
City of
Merciville
Henry D. Brown
Dept. of Penna
Home Shortage Becomes Acute Says Doyle in Harrisburg
United Pact reports Harrisburg with June 21 dispatch noting Pennsylvania faces an acute housing shortage unless slum clearance and housing programs are expedited. Charles W. Doyle warns of centralization of workers in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia steel and navy yard districts, urging swift action to prevent worsening conditions.
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United Pact
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
State Housing Board
Charles W. Doyle
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Doyle
Three Die in Auto Crash in Cumberland Md
A woman and two men were killed in an automobile accident in Cumberland Maryland late yesterday. The dead are Mrs Margaret Tour 35, Richard Tstenkoins 32, and an unnamed man. Two other men were seriously injured. The incident occurred near the Celanese Corporation in Amiories.
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United Prep
Cumberland
Tle
Margaret Tour
Richard Tstenkoins
Ohs
Knox Accepts to Assist Roosevelt in Navy Nomination
Col Frank Knox announced he accepted nomination as Secretary of the Navy. He said the president asked for his help and that national defense should have broad public support beyond party lines. Knox noted Congress has shown support for national defense proposals in recent weeks.
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Roosevelt
United Press
Chicago
Col
Frank Knox
Navy
Congress
Plans To Train Workers In Shop Schools Proposed
The Corey School District seeks state guidance to establish machine shop training for defense needs. Erie district aims to offer July August programs at Academy and Technical High Schools from 820 AM to 3 PM. Open to Erie residents over 18 who show promise for job placement after two months.
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Corey
Bite Department of Public Instruction
National Defense
Board of Education
Ralph
Dewey
Erie
Pennsylvania Department of Public
Onerflors
F Jeffery
Jeffery
Armed robbers seize $9,000 payroll in Newark heist
Newark police report two armed men held up a bank messenger on June 21 and escaped with a $9,000 payroll belonging to Pelafecchia Construction Corp. The money was taken from the carrier and the victim was forced from a car near the Columbus Trust Company. Pelafecchia employs 185 workers on a Dreamland Park housing project sponsored by the Newark Housing Authority.
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Newark
N. J
Ietr Putomible
Columbus Trust Company
Pelfecchia Construction Corp
Dreamland Park
Newark Housing Authority
New York State Considers Gas Line Across Pennsylvania
Harrisburg June 21 The Public Utility Commission weighed war impact as it debated authorizing a 117 mile natural gas pipeline crossing Pennsylvania from West Virginia fields Irving K Peck president of Home Natural Gas Company of Binghamton joined with three state gas firms seeking permission to build the line to obtain 2 billion cubic feet of gas for the next 15 years for wholesale distribution in New York State
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Py Unnen
Harrisburg
Iility Commission
New York
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Miners burned in gas explosion at Susquehanna No. 7
Wilkes-Barre Pa June 21 twelve miners were burned today in a gas explosion in entry No 7 of the Susquehanna Collieries Company. A preliminary check indicated two fatalities and none were entombed.
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Wilkes-Barre
Susquehanna Collieries Company
Isolationists in Senate Oppose Roosevelt Cabinet Nominees
President Roosevelt pushes Stimson and Knox to key posts amid mounting isolationist opposition in the Senate. Support from administration and New Deal ranks labels it a patriotic step to strengthen national defense, while critics decry it as a step toward war and partisan maneuvering.
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Ronald G. van Tine
United Press
Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
Henry L. Stimson
Frank Knox
Stimson
War Department
Knox
Navy
Philadelphia
Reading
New Deal
Hyde Park
National Solidarity
Col
Henry ZL. Stimson
United States
Hee
Alfred M. Lancon
Probing Bombing of Nazi Office in New York
City and state authorities joined in a thorough investigation of bombings targeting a Nazi office and a Communist office aimed at discouraging war incidents in New York City. Police questioned over 30 people overnight with no clues. DA investigators and FBI agents conducted secret inquiries without announced results.
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New York
Geaeral
Thomas E. Déwey
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Rockview convicts captured after break
Two Rockview penitentiary inmates Harold Prancil and Charles Richard Briner fled yesterday and were found sleeping in a barn haymow a mile from the prison. They walked to Harmon Bird’s farm at suppertime asking for food and were detained.
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Peppenne
Republicans Upset by F D R Cabinet Move
In Philadelphia Republicans protest Roosevelt cabinet defections and plan a non war platform. Former Gov Alf Landon leads the foreign relations subcommittee drafting a postal card plank while party leaders seek a presidential candidate before Monday's convention. They vow to win labor and farm votes by private jobs and farm subsidy guarantees as a path to end unemployment.
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United Press
Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Alf M. Landon
Deadiolk
Sleepwalking youth shoots self in Belle Vernon
United Press reports from Belle Vernon Pennsylvania that Chals Cadamancus twenty two probably sleep walked before leaping from a bed to seize a rifle and fatally shooting himself. His brother John eighteen witnessed the act and shares the belief that the youth was asleep at the time. The family says Charles was unemployed but they know of no reason for his suicide.
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Belle Vernon
Chals Cadamancus
John
North Belle Vernon
Charles
Bank Robbery Wounds Cashier in Harrisburg Area
The National Bank of nearby Hummels town was held up at noon by a lone bandit who escaped with 1500 to 3000 dollars after wounding cashier Castler Bay Gruber with four blasts from a sawed off shotgun as the official tried to sound the burglar alarm.
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Harrisburg
National Bank
Hummelstown
Castler Bay
Gruber
Germans seize Watteships Clemencena and Rich efiew
Berlin asserts France's 35 000 ton Watteships Clemencena and Rich efiew have fallen into German hands. A Berne dispatch claims British forces flew against King George and demand the Duke of Windsor’s return. Berlin radio says 400 planes and 2000 motors arrived from the United States were captured, per DNB via CBS.
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Berlin
Hor Angus Asserind
France
Rome
Messagra
Berne
Switzerland
George
Duke of Windsor
New York
United States
CBS
DNB
Big Economic Defense Plan Across Western Hemisphere
President Roosevelt disclosed a plan to marshal economic power of Western hemisphere nations as a defense measure against totalitarian pressures. The plan aims to control exports of staple products across 41 American nations and Canada, safeguarding economies amid troubled international conditions. It centers on managing $2 billion worth of foodstuffs and raw materials.
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Hyde Park
Roosevelt
Mullny
Canada
New York
Veteran comedians Charley Chase Ghase and Robert Wildhook die
Hollywood reports veteran film comedians Charley Ghase and Robert J. Wildhook died within hours of each other. Ghase, 47, famed for dual roles in the same picture, died of a heart attack. Wildhook, 58, known for his long film career, died of a pulmonary ailment. In Wheeling, Roy Lodge, 38, a local vacuum cleaner company manager, killed himself by exhaust tube in his garage.
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Hollywood
Charley Ghase
Robert J. Wildhook
Ghase
Wildhack
Wheeling
W. Va
Roy Lodge
Must Training Bill Before Senate Group
Washington June 21 The Senate military affairs committee prepared to consider a universal government service program to register about 40 000 000 men ages 18 to 69 for military or defense duty The bill by Senator Burke of Nebraska faces opposition from House Democrats Cox and Woodrum They oppose Hillman directing the plan and prefer the War Department to handle the program
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United Press
Washington
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Congress
Roosevelt
Senate
Edward &. Burke
Nevaska
Nebraska
House
Cox
Georgia
Curton A. Woodrum
Virginia
Plas
Sidney Hillman
Advisory Defense Commission
CIO
Hillman
X ray machine described at meeting in Pittsburgh
A new X ray machine, capable of capturing a photograph in about one ten thousandth of a second, was described at the 236th regular meeting of the American Physical Society in Pittsburgh. Built by Westinghouse engineers, it demonstrated bullets passing through wood, a football blocked by a wooden mast, and a golf ball driven off a tee in rapid sequences.
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Sears
Pittsburgh
America Physical Society
Westinehouse Electric & Manufacturing
James Opens Campaign HQ in Philadelphia for Nomination
Gov Arthur J James opened his campaign headquarters at the Bonjanto Frontlin hotel in Philadelphia declaring industrial Pennsylvania is behind me 100 percent in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Observers saw this as a shift to an active campaign.
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James Boom
United Pres
Philadelphia
Arthur J. James
Bonjanto Frontlin
Pennssylviia
James
Armistice Terms Read In Compiegne Dining Car
Adolf Hitler presented France with armistice terms in the Compiegne railway car where the 1918 agreement was signed. Keitel stated Germany seeks guarantees against resumption of fighting and aims for terms that compel France and Britain to cooperate, with a public emphasis on safeguarding German honor and future peace provisions.
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Germany
Hitler
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
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Keitel
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Mang Ind Compiegne
DNB
Charles Huntalger
Nealsiokeemen
Marshal Foch
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Uiil Line Tan Agency
Juan
Conbouit
Thotton
Magariniges
Wilson
Boideaux
Francs
Philippe Petal
Nis Cabinat
Sai Compiegne
Forest
Wagons-Lils Company
World War I Memorial Scene in Quiet Forests
The article portrays a tranquil 1918 landscape near Gomplegne with calm forests and distant echoes of war. A memorial to France’s 1918 victory stands as a solemn, enduring reminder amid tense references to Col. Gen. Wilhelm Keitel and Hitler’s era, linking past triumphs to present reckoning.
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Gomplegne
Wilhelm Keitel
Hitler
France
Geramzny
Gannett Claims 100 Votes Pledged at Convention
Frank E. Gannett, publisher, says he has stumped the nation for the Republican presidential nomination and claims about 100 votes are pledged for the first ballot. He predicts votes will rise and be scattered among about 40 voters as the convention approaches.
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Philadelphia
Jude
Frank E. Gannett
New York
Usher
Thas Hn Weild
Democrats Mourn Death of Tom Logue
Philadelphia obit reports the death of Thomas A Logue aged 47, a prominent lawyer and longtime Catholic leader, who served as secretary to former Governor George Barts. Funeral services planned for Monday morning with rites at Lady of Lourdes Church.
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Philadelphia
Thomas A. Logue
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George 4. Barts
Punerol
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