Budapest Watch as War Rages in Balkans and Danube Ports
The article notes American bombers striking Budapest signaling Allied pressure on Hungary amid Hitler’s Balkan push. It recalls Hungary’s 1919 communist past under Bela Kun, its anti Communist stance, and Hungary’s 1939 aggression toward Czechoslovakia. It cites Soviet assurances of no territorial aims on Romania to reassure Hungary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hull
Hungary
Hitler
Budapest
Balkans
Bela Kut
Fuehrer
Munich
Russia
Moscow
Balkan
Soviet Union
Romania
Russa
Big Stick Policy For U S To Maintain Peace
New York April 4 Navy Undersecretary V Forrestal urged a big stick policy to keep peace. He proposed a larger navy after Pearl Harbor, compulsory military training, and full exploration of iron and petroleum, plus building 28 000 planes and 581 combat vessels this year. He warned domestic deposits are finite and urged domestic production while expanding oil control in the Middle East as a peace asset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Navy
Forrestal
United States
Pearl Harbor
Bond Club
Hfe
Chile
Brazil
Cuba
Soudii Arabia
Service Men Honored For Courage On Bougainville Front
Christ C. Kromer, private in a tank battalion, earned a commendation for evacuating casualties and delivering ammunition under enemy fire on Bougainville. The Sagamore, Pa. native previously worked at B. and S. Coal Mines and attended Sagamore Public School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Kromer
Sagamore
Privale Kromer
Sagamore Public School
Agencies to Return Much Public Land to Tax Rolls
Representative Peterson says ninety agencies control about 800 million acres of public lands including roughly one fifth of the continental U.S. Congress will be asked to adopt a policy to return surplus lands to tax rolls. The House Public Lands Committee has a nine month study. Localities would be reimbursed for tax losses, excluding strictly governmental lands. Agencies retaining title would pay taxes or in lieu charges to encourage disposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Peterson
Congress
House Public Lands Committee
Hy Peterson
Republicans Seek Farm Price Supports to Stabilize Markets
A Republican advisory committee outlines a plan to keep basic farm commodity reserves high and adjust production to market demand. It calls for government price supports and mandatory commodity loans to stabilize prices within industrial wages. Governor Hickenlooper opens the conference decrying control over farming and urges policies that reward producers and stimulate plentiful output.
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Federation
Republican Agricultural Advisory
Congress
Jung
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Iowa
Republican Party
Unclear World War II Front Details From Romanian Theater
Reported German losses last month reached about 208 260 dead or captured with Russian booty totaling thousands of tanks self propelled guns mortars trucks and ammunition. Spearheads of Kaney forces advanced northeast toward Ploesti while Malinovsky army moved on Odessa taking Shovten Berezovka Tsezarevka and approaching Tiraspol Godessa rail area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yads
Zhulo
Kaney
Ploesti Oi
Bucharest
Malinovsky
Ukiine
Odessa
Shovten
Berezovka
Tsezarevka
Tirasypol
Godessa
Clyde Pangborn's Wife Divorces Him in Nevada
Runu Nev April 4 Clyde Pangborn famed aviator and first nonstop Pacific crossing was divorced from Miss Beaucaire a 29 year old former French screen star. the action cited a three year separation. They wed in England in 1939. Beaucaire hopes to join the Women’s Auxiliary of the Fighting French.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Runu
Nev
Clyde Pangborn
Isinig Pacific Mier
R. A. KB
Swatna Beaucaire
England
AP Reaches New Heights of Accomplishments 1943
Kent Cooper reports in AP annual release that staff accomplishments rose to new highs in quality and efficiency despite losing over a quarter of pre war personnel to service. War censorship and restrictions increased difficulties in reporting but overall performance improved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Kent Cooper
Associated Press
Wisconsin Primaries Test of Willkie Presidential Strength
Wisconsin voters pick 24 Republican delegates and 24 Democratic delegates in a hot primary. Willkie campaigns actively while Dewey and Stassen backers vie for influence. MacArthur listed but less active. Roosevelt is the only Democratic option. Observers gauge Willkie's national strength ahead of the June convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
Willkies
Milwaukee
Wendell Willkie
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Willkie
Thomas B. Dewey
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Cooper
Edward H. Crockett
Wes Gallagher
George Tuecker
William F. Boni
Rembert James
Lynn Heinzerling
London
Aunuel
North Africa
Australia
Gover
Walter S. Goodland
Stassen
Dewey
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Philadelphia
Obituary notices from Blairsville area deaths and services
Obituaries list multiple local deaths including Mrs. Mary Antoniak died in Indiana Hospital with services at St Johns Russian Orthodox Church and Oakland Cemetery. Hugh Dunn Ray died at home with services from Robinson Funeral Home and Greenwood Cemetery. Mrs Sara Jane Palmer died at 161 Water Street Blairsville with funeral at her daughter's home and Blairs ville Cemetery. Tessie M McCracken died in Burrety Township with services at the Pilgrim Holiness Church and Blairsville Cemetery. Doyle Rex Spencer infant died at home in Banks Township with Hillsdale Church services and Rowley Cemetery. Hugh Smith died at his daughter's home Blawnon with SS Simon Jude Church services and interment. Further details list survivors, relatives, and funeral arrangements.
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Mary Antoniak
McIntyre
Indiana Hospital
St. Johns Russian Orthodox Church
Blacklick
Oakland Cemetery
Indiana
Hugh Dunn Ray
Robinson Funeral Home
Armstrong Township
Greenwood Cemetery
Sara Jane Palmer
John R. Campbell
Water Street
Blairsville
Lemuel
Mary (Wilkeman) Rhine
Blairsvile
J. R. Campbell
Mary Stitt
Blair
John Campbell
D. W. Harris
Blairsville Cemetery
Tessie M. McCracken
Robert H. McCracken
Burrety ‘Township
Scotland
Edward
Jennie (McCallum) Donnelly
Pilgrim Holiness Church
Jessie Lyden
New York
Janet
Robert H
William D
John D
Clymer
Donald E
Bereau
Ohio
Elizabeth Simpson
James
Donald Donnelly
John Donnelly
Burrell ‘Towneship
Rey
A. Patmore
Buster
Pilgrim Holiness Church of
Doyle Rex Spencer
Jack
Ethel
Stumpf) Spencer
Banks Township
Glen Campbell
Banks ‘Township
Jackie
Lee Spencer
Oden Stumpf
Hillsdale
Hillsdale Methodist Church
Rex Brickell
Imerment
Rowley Cemetery
John L. Smith
SS. Simon & Jude Catholic Church
Alice Turda
Blawnox
Lillian O'Conner
Jennie Richardson
Blairsville and Sons
H. I
A. D
Pittsburgh
C. J
Briar Hil
W. BD
Coraopolis
Laura Buckley
Margaret Loeffler
James Smith
Hunter Funeral Home
SS. Simon & Jude Church
PB. J. Muller
S. Simon & Jude Cemetery
Man Admit the Slaying of a 14 Year Old Girl
Detroit sheriff says Richard Vincent 23 confessed the March 27 murder of 14 year old Jaycee Raulston whose body was found at a municipal dump. Vincent, a Baseline station attendant, described the attack after meeting the girl near Warren Avenue West and Telegraph Road. He claimed the girl provoked him and that he beat and stabbed her after she tried to run, then returned home. Also listed are church notices and a few brief regional items including pay raises for guards and sergeants at Federal Laboratories and a slate of women candidates in Lawrence County.
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Detroit
Andrew C. Baird
Richard Vincent
Jaycee Raulston
Baird
Russell Gregory
Vincent
Joyce
Warren Avenue West
Telegraph Road
Green Bory
Amery Ovilh
Tyan
Navy reports further Japanese reverses in Pacific
Secretary Knox disclosed that U S submarines destroyed 14 more Japanese vessels bringing total sunk or damaged to 667. The latest bay included two medium tankers 11 medium cargo ships and one small cargo vessel. He noted Manila air alert during Palau raid and said 4316 Japanese planes have been shot down since the war began, with total American planes down at 921.
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Navy Department
Wolesi
Navy
Palau
Manila
New Bay
Ito
Ameri ‘Ican
Whch
Yap
Caroline Island
Woleai
Knox
Philippine Islands
Police Chief Bribe Trial Opens in Norristown Case
Norristown Police Chief George Bausewine, 75, faces a bribery trial after witness Vincent McCafferty testified he paid $50 monthly for protection against Lodge slot raids from November 1942 to last month. Prosecutors rest, defense seeks dismissal of other charges, judge defers ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norristown
George Bausewine
Vincent McCafferty
Nocristown Orioles Lodge
Bausewine
Commonwealth
George C. Carson
Robert Forsyth
Orioles Lodge
Philadelphia
National Baseball League
Bombers Hit Budapest Rail Yards In Balkan Raid
Allied air forces pounded Budapest and rail yards at Brod Knin and Drnis in a large Balkan campaign. Fortresses and Liberators joined heavy bomb runs on the capital with multiple waves targeting the refinery and gasworks. German fighters attacked, destroying several bombers. Allied losses tally around 19 craft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. 15Th Airforce
Tokol Aircraft Components
Balkan
Budapest
Yugoslavia
Brod
Knin
Drnis
Italy
Garelu F
Vienna
Hungary
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Moorhead
U.S
Lydia
Clifford W. Lydle
Home
Continental
Europe
Lydie
Ludwigshafen
Kiel
Bremen
Germany
Las Vegas
Nevada
Airphine Mechanics School
Tulsa
Okahoma
Lowry Field
Denver
Colorado
Mwritz
Solomons
Walter Hintz
Quartermmaster Corps
Bougainville
Heitz
Mary Heitz
Arcadia
Liggett
Seymour Johnson Field
N. C
Irwin C. Liggett
Army Air Forces Training Command
Paul Liggett
Hamer City
Army
Pvt
Brushvalley High School
Fairman
Herbert O. Fairman
Taleave
Main Sq
Apo 469
Donald B. Patrinian
Overseas
Carl At
Creekside
Bokash
Clune
Teated
Piliet
Weapser & Tesulittar
Huby
Ad- Sant
Mayset
Naz Mately
Rumania
United States Navy
Camp Bradford
No. B
Norfolk
George
Blocut
Wm Lst
Aetionn Tis
Notgha
Naples
Anzio
Hugh &, Smith
Dave Furda
Freeport Road
Blawnon
Or Weks
Bardstown
First Evangelical Church
Evangelical
Fourth
Church Streets
Harold
Loveless
T. F. Sexton
Robinson Evangelical Church
Sexton
George Bernard
Old Rugged Cross
Regional War Labor Board
Federal Laboratories, Inc
Tunnelton
Indiana County
Bedford
Ind
Lawrence County
Alles
Hiter
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