Moral leadership urged as MacArthur combats postwar immorality
The article notes General MacArthur's call for direct moral leadership in Japan's occupation, addressing prostitution concerns and promoting healthful recreation for troops. It cites widespread continental immorality, Hitler’s indoctrination of youth in Germany, and the hope shown by religious groups and German reformers like Pastor Meinel as occupation efforts progress amid slow but steady rehabilitation.
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Bur
MacArthur
Europe
Germany
Reich
Hitler
Memoecller
Quake swarm hits Aleutians. tidal waves feared
SEATTLE April 3 14% Between 40 and 50 earthquakes centered on the southeastern Aleutian region were reported after UW geologists examined the past 24 hours. A major early quake produced a tidal wave. Professor Coombs said most quakes were minor and rising, with hundreds felt in Alaska. He warned the backwash tide toward southeastern Alaska could cause minimal damage as it weakens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Aleutian Islands
University of Washington
Howard, Coombs
Alaska
Coombs
Anti-Sherman Violations Filed
The Department of Justice filed two suits in Federal Court charging three corporations with Sherman Act violations over price fixing and international cartel dealings in plastics. Named defendants are Catalin Corporation of America Ford, The Marblett Corporation and The Knudler Corporation. The suits allege conspiracy to fix prices and restrain trade in phenolic resins and claim Catalin licensed patents to the others and shared unpatented items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
N. J
Department of Justice
Catalin Corporation of America
Fords
Marblett Corporation
New York City
Kneudler Corporation
Lancaster
Catalin Corporation
Uge
Keitel Admits Orders Misused Under His Name at Nuremberg
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel testified at the International Military Tribunal that many orders issued in his name violated international law and he must accept responsibility. He described his role as chief of staff of the Wehrmacht Supreme Command and said Hitler wanted all powers centralized. He noted Von Blomberg’s 1938 resignation left him with sole leadership, and he stated there was no delegation of power.
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Neurnberg
Wilhelm Keitel
High Command
International Military Tribunal
Werner ‘van Blomberg
Utler
Keitel
von Blomberg
Nuernberg
Hitler
Army High Command
Nazi Party
Carpenter Ave
Gh Street
6Th Street
Plan To Widen Streets In Borough On Tap
Borough council hears plans to widen Water street between Carpenter Ave and 6th street with four trees to be removed. Parking lanes may be added after completion. March parking meter receipts reached 1910.99 plus 290 from parking fines. Police logged 41 motor violations and 7 curfew breaches. Sewer debate in White Township. joins Indiana system via tap fee. Maple Street paving urged. Gompers Alley to become no-parking one-way. New sewer project linked to Pop-Jay alley. potential Spring Alley extension. Ordinance codification bid awarded to Mitchell Co. of Charlottesville Va for 3500. 150 bound copies planned. Street paving authorized on Washington St. bids sought for I-beam ceiling support in Fire Rooms.
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Water Street
Carpenter Ave
6Th Street
Harvey A. Orr
Burgess J. Roy Maloney
Burgess
Legal Police Department
Burgess Maloney
White Township
Clark Street
North 5Th Street
Indiana
7Th Street
Wayne Ave
Arnee
Stampers Alley
Sth Street
Las
5Th Street
Ath Street
Blairton Avenue
Spring Alley
Mitche Co
Charlotteville
Elm Street
4Th Vorth
Washington St
13Th Street
Homer Koontz
Comittee
Council
Elim
Eagle election counts record fast in nine ballot race
In Eagle Wisconsin the nine wide election ended with only seven votes cast on a state Supreme Court faction and on focal cases. The board members, tired from supervising the balloting, counted results quickly on the balcony.
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Eagle
Wis
Supreme Court
V A Chief Speaks Here To Kiwanians
Ernest E. Brown chief of the vocational rehabilitation and education division of the Veterans Administration Pittsburgh office spoke to the Kiwanians under the Vocation Guidance Committee. He described how CI’s meet educational problems and noted potential for expanding education for ex soldiers. He was introduced by Joe Abjer. Dr Brown previously headed a state teacher’s college in Oklahoma and was once president of a local teachers college.
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Ernest E. Brown
Pittsburgh
Veterans Administration
Dr. Brown
C. I's
Kiwaniin
Joe Abjer
Brown
Oklahoma
Whien
James E. Ament
Teacher's College
Woman charged in Philadelphia kidnapping case
Detective Inspector George F. Richardson said Melia Regina Sobka, 23, a reformator y parolee, admitted taking three year old Mayer Trobman from his home steps because she wanted a child’s love. Sobka, arrested last week in Africa, N J, was ordered arraigned. she claimed she fed and rode with the boy before leaving him safe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
George F. Richardson
Mmelia Regina Sobka
Reformatory
Mayer Trobman
Clinton, N. J
Richardson
Charles Trobman
Miss Sobkn
Mayer
Africa
Purchase Line 4 H Club Elects Officers in Meeting
The Purchase Line 4 H Club elected Harry Berney president with Junier Green as vice president Pred Streams as secretary treasurer Marlene Green as clothing leader Jock McMillen as game leader and Duane Lydie as news reporter. About 20 members and parents attended the meeting. The club now has nine members with a dairy calves project and one member feeding a pen of pigs. The second Monday of each month is the regular meeting night. Vie ext peeling will be held May 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Purchase Line 4 Call Club
Harry Berney
Junier Green
Pred Streams
Marlene Green
Sting
Jock McMillen
Geme
Duane Lydie
Russia Says Moves Toward Settlement Emerge at UN
The United Nations Security Council heard a hopeful briefing as Trygve Lie announced a Russian message on hand. Iran’s reply with Ali's statement offered a possible solution and Ambassador Wussein Ala read that Iran is not hostile and hopes for a settlement. Gromyko announced Russian troops would withdraw in a month and a half, independent of negotiations, while reports from Azerbaijan's revolt provinces and oil issues were noted.
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Russia
Conneil
Tryxve Lie
Iran
Ali
Wussein Ala
Qavum
Jeter
Council
Andrei Gromyko
Counil
Qua Taie Chi Ofhina
Gromyko
Van
Ala
Ater
Moscow
Wen
Azerbaijan
Reconversion Threat Seen in Parity and Wage Bill
President Truman warned that adding labor costs to a new farm parity formula would disrupt reconversion. He spoke after the Senate attached the parity amendment to the minimum wage bill despite his veto threat. A compromise bill reportedly set the industrial wage floor from 46 to 60 cents an hour.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
Russell
Borough council actions on siren relocation and staff changes
Fire department requests louder siren and relocation in the west end to improve town coverage. Geraldine Hoffman resigns as borough stenographer. Thelma Edwards appointed. New tax collector Roy Stephens notes rent change to $25 monthly for office and utilities, aligning with last year’s resolution. Parking rules discussed. night parking ordinance postponed. Parking meters reviewed with two competing models. next meeting to decide. Additional meters planned for 6th Street corridors.
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Borogh
Geraldine Hoffman
Horqueth
Andi
Thelma Edwards
Ito
Roy Stephens
Butterbaugh
6Th
Church
Walter Streets
Quads' Born to Widow Lose One Infant in Incubator
Longview Washington April 3 I P The quadruplets born to Mrs Leo Fierce near Kelso saw one infant boy identified as C die before midnight The remaining three boys and one girl were expected to survive The hospital and Mrs Fierce were recovering though weak The grandmother said several twins exist in the family and joked about more children in the line of celebrity births
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Longview
Wash
Kelso
Lsted
St. John’s Hospital
Leo Fierce
Pieros
Orpha Schlarb
Continue Barnak Jury Selection
ALLENTOWN PA April 4 Thirty additional veniremen were summoned today as selection of a jury continued in the murder trial of John Barnak 30 year old steelworker charged with killing his wife Madeline 21 and former army officer Benjamin Bowman 22 in Allentown Pa Barnak pleaded innocent and will be tried first for Bowman's slaying according to District Attorney Theodore R Gardner Ten of the 12 jurors and no alternates had been chosen yesterday with many prospective jurors dismissed over capital punishment and circumstantial evidence concerns.
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Allentown
John Barnak
Barnak
Madeline
Benjamin Clifford Bowman
Williamsport
Ford To Shut Temporarily
Ford Motor Co. will close part of its operations from tomorrow night to April 10 due to steel shortages. About 18,500 Detroit area production workers and 16,500 workers in branch plants nationwide will be laid off. Production had resumed a month earlier after a prior shutdown over parts supply labor issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
API
Ford Motor Co
Ihhat
Ford Company
Soldier Saint L. Peter aids Buckley Field chapel
In a Buckley Field scene a soldier answers the chaplain’s line with the line Saint Pet et speaking, identifying Pvt. Saint L. Peter of Omak Washington as a chaplain’s assistant. The April 3 AP note captures a quirky greeting from the military post.
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Denver
Buckley Field
Saint Petet
Pvt
Saint L. Peter of
Wounded GI Bandits In Gun Fight Near Manila
In Manila area a jeep ambush by bandits left Sgt. George J. Cosmides wounded in the leg and hand, along with Sgt. Robert Winckler and Flight Officer Julian D. Kirutza injured. Cosmides repelled attackers with two clips as military police arrived.
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Pennsylvania
Manila
George J. Cas
Mides
Pittsburgh
Pacific Air Service Command
Cosmides
Okinawa
Taguty Bridge
Will
Robert Winckler
Los Angeles
Calif
Julian D. Kirutza
Chicago
Kirutza
Winckler
Wineckler
Manila Hospital
War Scarcity Drives Narcotic Substitutes. PA Tightens Sale Rules
Arm strong notes rising deaths from misused remedies as wartime narcotics shortages push addicts to dynotics and analgesics. In Pennsylvania sleeping pills pep tab lets and similar blends have been illegal since 1935, sale allowed only with written prescriptions by licensed professionals. An intensive campaign seeks civic group help to enforce the law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
State Division of Narcotic Rug Control
Frank D. Armstrong
State Earth Department
Nisson
Armstrong
Pennsylvania
Hamilton to buy back 768 watches for railroad workers
War Assets Administration returns 768 Hamilton Railroad watches to Hamilton Watch Company Lancaster Pa for immediate even distribution to authorized railroad time inspection services and veterans at $21.22 per unit total 16207 with a ceiling price of 49.25 per unit, under WPB L-175 rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Assets Ratolateatin
Hamilton Railroad
Hamilton Watch Company
Lancaster
War Assets Administration
Army Ordnance Department
WPB
Hamilton Company
OPA
Truman Hit At Walkout
Negotiations on safety continue after a walkout, with UMW chief Lewis signaling that talks without an agreement on safety are futile. He promised union representation at today’s session while seeking to adjourn the negotiating committee and report disagreement to the wage conference. Both sides offered safety resolutions and voted down the other's proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis
Producers
UMW
Russians Aid Kurd Drive Across Three Nations
A Kurdish drive aided by Russian Kurds and Iranian officers trains a thousand-strong force at Saujbulagh. A Kurdistan leader, Mullah Mustafa Barzani, is named head of a proposed greater Kurdish state with deputies Ghazi Mohammed and Mohammed Rachid Khan. Delegates mapped borders to cover tribes across Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran, includes eastern regions.
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Kurdistan
Ghazi
Mohammed
Mohammed Rachid ‘Khan
Mosul
Fionness
Iraq
Tigris
Nineveh
Baghdad
Syria
Turkey
Organization
Iran
Idle Miners Walkout Sweeps Indiana Johns Town District
About 28 000 workers in Indiana and Johns town areas go on strike as 5000 idle, with 2570 idle at Rochester and Pittsburgh Cue Company mines in Lucerne Waterman Arc Intyre Coal Run and Ernest. Central divisions report 700 idle at Clymer Dixonville Commodore Arcadia Alberta. Some independents shut down. Ellsworth Campbell notes 22 idle at Two Lick, Streams mine ~50 idle. Government urged neutral stance and worker cooperation. Harold E Stassen quote.
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Rochester
Pittsburgh Cue | Company
Lucerne
Waterman
Arc-Intyre
Coal Run
Ernest
New York Central Coal Mining Division
Clymer
Dixonville
Commodore
Arcadia
Alberta
Black Diamond Coal Company
Willett
Silas Streams
Indiana
Ellsworth Campbell
Two Lick
Streams
Johnstown
State Police Say Mihailovich Get Raw Deal
Two Pennsylvania State Police veterans, pilot Paul Mato and waist gunner Carl Walpush, say General Draja Mihailovich faces a travesty of justice at his treason trial. They describe Mihailovich as a foe of Germany and communism yet a staunch friend of America, having hidden and aided them after bailing out over Yugoslavia in 1944.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Yugoslavia
Draja Mihailovicha
Paul F. Mato
Connellsville
Fayette County
Carl J. Walpush
Jenners
Somerset County
Mihailovich
NATO
Walpush
Ane
Mihakovich
Germany
America
Adriatic Sea
Italy
Postwar 1-2 ton utility trailer debut in Indiana
One of the first postwar products for sale in Indiana is the 1-2 ton utility trailer by American Bantam Car Company of Butler Pa. The first unit is on display at East End Garage 103 Philadelphia Street. The trailer, a peace time counterpart of the All Steel Trainer used by Allied Armies, is touted for a thousand uses from family trips to business and industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
American Bantam Car Company
Butler
East End
Philadephia Street
Bantam
U. S
Obituary of Wendell Weamer Warner in Upper Darby
Wendell Weamer Warner died suddenly of a heart attack on Thursday March 28 at his home in Upper Darby Pennsylvania. He was the son of J Judson and Belle Lyter Warner both deceased and former Parkwood residents. He is survived by his wife and one daughter Mary Louise and sisters Pearl Garrison of Tifton Georgia Mary Ransom of Collingswood New Jersey and Virginia Nicholas of LeJeune North Carolina plus many relatives and friends in Indiana County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wendell Weamer Warner
Upper Darby
J. Judson
Belle Lyter Warner
Parkwood
Mary Louise
Pearl Garrison
Tifton
Mary Ransom
Collingswood
N. J
Virginia Nicholas
LeJeune
N. C
Indiana County
Westinghouse Chief to Face Senate Hearing on Strike
Gwilym A. Price, president of Westinghouse Electric Corp., says he will willingly appear before a Senate Education and Labor Committee to discuss the 78 day strike. The CIO-United Electrical Workers Union backed a Senate inquiry after a plant shutdown that affected 75,000 workers, while Westinghouse negotiators seek a contract and an injunction against mass picketing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Gwilym A. Price
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Senate Education and Labor Committee
Westinghouse
Price
Senate
Murray
D-Mont
Washington
Guffey and Myers
Pennsylvania
Cio-United Electrical Workers Union
Guffey
Senator Tunnel Ddel
Russ Nixon
Philadelphia
30Th Street
Francis Shunk Brown
Common Pleas Court
General Strike Bill Voted Down in House of Commons
London reports a 15 hour debate as the labor majority defeats conservative amend- ments to repeal the 1927 Trades Disputes Act. The bill passed its second reading 249 to 99 and moves to the Lords after a brief third reading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
iHouse of Commons
Commons
Westminster
House of Commons
House of Lords
Indiana Rural Talent Festival at Indiana State Teachers College
Indiana County hosts a Rural Talent Festival on Friday April 12 at 8 p m in the Indiana State Teacher’s College auditorium. Eleven organizations will perform including instrumental numbers short plays vocal items and readings. Organizations span Penn Run Grange Indiana Grange Marion Center Grange Armstrong Grange Marion Counter Senior Extension Brush Valley Grange Crawford 4 H Club Brush Valley PTA Ault e er PTA William Penn Grange and Thaddeus Stevens PTA MC Stewart represents Rural Sociology of the Indiana County Agricultural Extension Association. No admission charge. President Uhler's college provides the venue. Oyster shells noted as Colonial iron blast furnace flux.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana County
Indiana State Teacher's College
Penn Run ‘Grange
Indiana Grange
Marion ‘Center Grange
Armstrong Grange
Marion Counter Senior Extension
Brush Valley Grange
Crawford 4- H Club
Brush Valley P.T. A
Aulteer P. T. A
William Penn Grange
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