ERIE OFFICER HELD PRISONER BY JAPANESE
Major Burton Brown son of Mr and Mrs Robert Brown of 225 Tast Gist Street was aboard Corregidor when it fell on May 6 and is now a Japanese prisoner. A May 7 letter from Brown, forwarded by a Red Cross officer, to his parents from General George Marshall says he is alive uninjured and hopes to join them on his next birthday. The letter notes Japanese kindness under the circumstances.
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Erie
Burton Brown
Robert Brown
Tast
Gist Street
United States Army
Corregidor
Brown
Major Brown
Erle
George Marshall
War Department
Red Cross
Far East
Buytoi
Marshall
Jamestown Praised by Governor Edison
Jamestown received high praise from Governor Kates Edison of New Jersey who called it a typical American community with civic pride, no slum districts, and numerous mid sized manufacturing plants fostering growth and true Americanism. The governor spoke during his departure with his mother from Mom W. C. A. hospital where she had been confined for over two months.
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Jamestown
Edison
Kates Edison
New Jersey
W. C. A. Hospital
Woman's range at county jail crowded beyond capacity
War den Matt Hess reported the county prison female housing is jammed far beyond capacity with 14 women in spaces for six. After conferring with District Attorney Burton R. Laub, it appeared likely that two women held on minor charges would be released.
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Matt Hess
Nen
Hess
Burton R. Laub
Blast wrecks Union City restaurant in early Sunday blast
A steam boiler explosion at the Red Horse restaurant on 68 North Main Street caused heavy damage to plumbing and heating, forcing a temporary business suspension for repairs. Proprietor Mrs Bessie Messenger and others escaped serious injury as basement and first floor windows shattered and a small fire was quickly put out by firemen.
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Union City
Red Horse
North Main Street
Bessie Messenger
Pa Supreme Court Hears Parole Law Arguments
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court in Pittsburgh heard arguments on the 1941 parole law's constitutionality. Attorney General Claude T. Reno argued the act shifts parole power from courts and officials to the parole board to curb indiscriminate paroles and ensure fines and costs are paid. Justices wrestled with whether parole is an administrative step or linked to sentencing, with concerns over governor, court, and parole board powers and potential financial implications.
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Associated
Frick
Pittsburgh
State Supreme Court
Claude T. Reno
High Court
Reno
Parole Board
Albert Dalton McDade
Delaware County
Chester
Fiellce
James B. Drew
Horace Stern
Marion D. Patterson
Love Finds A Way In Greenville Nuptials Amid Delays
Greenville September 29 Lt Wayne Titzel instructor at Randolph Field Pex faced weather grounded flights delaying his marriage to Frances Beck. A last minute waiver of the three day waiting period and a late night ceremony at Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church followed their arrival in Greenville. Both reside in Greenville.
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Greenville
Wayne Titzel
Frances Beck
Titel
Randolph Field
Pex
St. Louis
Cleveland
George H. Rowley
Hutchison
Fisad
Rowley
Arbitration appeal from state workers over 20 percent wage raise
Sept 2 Paterson. The CTO Comity and Municipal Workers of America urged Gov Arthur H. James to submit to arbitration their demand for a 20 percent wage increase for all state store workers. Duck Strobel, secretary treasurer of District 3 Executive Board, said the telegram called attention to a serious situation as members threaten strike action over insufficient wages.
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Pirissmen
CTO Comity
Municipal Workers of America
Arthir H. James
Equor
Duck Strobel
District 3
Negro Officer Quizzed in Erie Police Probe
James Hayes a colored Erie police officer testified before the grand jury investigating alleged corruption in the city police department. District Attorney Lab urged informants to come forward with any useful information as the jury continues its inquiry.
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Erim
James Hayes
Erie
Hayes
East 19Th Street
Burton R. Lab
Minelles
Jay
Sity
Automobile Burned Near Meadville Shrouded in Mystery
Pennsylvania motor police at Meadville barracks responded to three weekend incidents including a burned automobile found on a tilt road near McGuffintown. Officers described the gutted car as a Ford sedan from the 1930s or 1940s and could not identify its owner or the arsonist.
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Mepaurville
Sept
Pennsylvania Motor Police
McGuffintown
War credited for big gain in US population
Washington Sept 28 The war was credited by the Census Bureau today with a 1942 population rise of 1,827,000 to an estimated 394,985,000. Births in 1941 rose about 408,000 above the ten year average while deaths totaled 1,443,000. Immigration stoppage and armed forces movement may alter the trend, with the male female ratio and average age shifting as the nation girds for wartime production and conscription.
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Associated Press
Washington
Bureau
Burea
United States
Auto Crash Involves Interurban. Woman Severely Hurt
A light truck narrowly avoided a head on crash with an Interurban car of the J. W. & N. W. Railroad near Dunkirk early Sunday evening. The truck driver escaped injury while his wife was rushed to Dunkirk hospital with possible knee fracture and head lacerations. The incident occurred about 5 45 am according to the sheriff.
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Maxvilde
Cem Rasn
Escapes Prosecution on Sherman Charge
Burrauu, Sept. 24. James Murray, 27, of 476 Franken Street, Was sentenced to a year in the penitentiary after pleading guilty to third degree assault. He admitted slapping his wife, Katharine, Monday night in the Washington Station while intoxicated. Judge Clifford Chipman dismissed a grand larceny charge after William Nuttall of Sherman stated he did not want to prosecute. Murray had 18 prior arrests since 1933 in this state and Pennsylvania.
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Murray
Pennsylvania
Ross Would Sit As Judge In Charges Against Self
Harrisburg Sept 29 Auditor General F Clair Ross announced the general claims board will meet October 4 at 10 A M to hear back pay petitions of 90 tax employees dismissed by Dr Ed Ward B Logan secretary of revenue. Subpoenas would be served on Logan today. The workers were employed in mercantile and inheritance taxes in Philadelphia. The board includes Ross and G Harold Wagier state treasurer. The secretary of revenue called the claims board action a scheme to promote Ross for governor.
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ly _nasoerareneres
Harrisburg
Auiditor
F. Clair Ross
General Claims Board
Ed Ward B. Logan
Reveiue
Logan
Ci Mercantile
Inherit Nee Tas
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania United
Helmets for 400 air raid wardens at Erie
Erie Sept 29 Over 400 air raid wardens in the city have been issued helmets, announced Monday by Clifford J Welsh, secretary to Mayor Barber. Additions helmets and armbands later will be issued to garlinas units of Civilian Defense, with plans for a city hall office where armbands will be issued after completion of first aid and other training.
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Erie
Jem Wort
Clifford J Welsh
Chriec ‘Barber
Garlinas
Wits
Bulding
Wood furniture industry must change to war
Jamestown Sepil 29 The wood furniture industry faces curtailment of production as firms seek to shift to war needs Butler Hullquist president of the Jamestown Royal Upholstery and head of the National Association of Furniture Manufacturers said WPB officials indicated an order may be issued to funnel production to the war effort The annual Jamestown Pall Market is planned for October 96 with all speakers at the convention outlining market shifts
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Jamestown
Sepil
Mushc Preps
Tors
Butler
Hullquist
de Jamestown-Royal Upholstery Ca
Natiovist
Chicago
Hultquist
WPB
Von
Gypsy fortune teller given ten months in jail
Manville September 21 a gypsy and fortune teller tied to a fraud case was sentenced to ten months in Chautauqua County jail on a grand larceny charge. Judge Lee L Ottaway led the county court proceeding arraigning Cala mete Was for first degree grand larceny after held since April 13. credit for time already served.
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Manville
Washington
D. C
New York City
Ghautauqua
Lee L. Ottaway
Calamete
Scrap aims for old county water tanks in wartime plan
In Visin on September 29, county officials inspected two large old metal water tanks at the county home, each about 2,000 pounds, slated for scrap to aid war production. County Commissioners Thomas W. Flatley and Bell Darling reviewed the tanks and expected to issue orders to repurpose the metal for war needs. Officials from Lee Wood Furniture Section of the War Production Board warned of risks to the furniture industry and the potential curtailment of civilian furniture construction.
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Gurard
Thomas W. Flatley
Bell Darling
Lee Wood Furniture Section
War Production Board
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Blast Wrecks
Union City Restaurant
Supreme Court
Greenville Flier
Meadville
Sherman
Federal Deposnsurance Corporation
Sia
Ross
Ces
Wien
Etn
Pearl Harbor
Pennzoil Company
Union City, Pa
Pennzoil
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