Italian Monarchy Question Stirred By King’s Retirement Promise
The Italian crisis centers on King Emanuele III May abdicate as Allied troops advance. Crown Prince Umberto poised to assume rule while Mussolini era leftist pressures grow. Communists back a united wartime cabinet with potential posts, and London reports Soviet recognition aiding Badoglio. Allies show cautious approval of Emanuele’s move toward a democratic, stable government.
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RY Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Rome
Vittorio Ematinoe
Mary
Umberte
Emanuele
Ualian
Italy
Mussolini
Palmiro Togliatti
Badoglio
Moscow
London Daily Mail Today
Marshal Badoglio
Allied Advisory Commission For
America
Robert Murphy
Britain
Imancele
New Draft Law Affects Coal Mining Recruiting in Pa
Harrisburg April 13 Richard Maize state mines secretary says new Selective Service rules may slow coal production after May 1 as inductees under 22 are released for processing. He notes 200,000 Pennsylvanian miners represent 30 percent of U S output. 13,000 under 22 in eight regions affected. Camp Reynolds Civilian Recruiting Party to Indiana starts Monday April 17 with jobs from 1440 a year to 1 05 an hour. Shenango Housing Project will provide civilian housing. interviews 6 30 to 5 p m.
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Ye Ne
Harrisburg
Richard Maize
Selective Service
Food Boards
Richard K. Mellon
Solid Fuels Administration
Pennsylvania
Washington
Arbor
Indiana Territory
Camp Reynolds
Wiliam W. Hague
Indiana, U. S
Civil Service
Shenango
Army Cam
Civic Club Dance Tomorrow Night at Country Club
A large crowd is expected for the Junior Women’s Civic Club dance tomorrow at the Country Club. Tickets are available from members or at the door. chairman Mrs. R. F. P. Woods notes the event supports the club’s activities and democracy.
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R. F P. Woods
O No Coor
Fifty Years of Banking Service Marked by Lewis Honor
The Savings & Trust Company of Indiana celebrated Enzer E. Lewis completing fifty years in banking. A dinner at Cherry Run Dam honored his career from The Third National Bank to Indiana Savings and Trust, with remarks from notable bankers and a commemorative scroll praising his leadership and growth of the bank. Horses are more liable to catch pneumonia in the wintertime than jogs.
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Enzer E. Lewis
Third National Bank
Allegheny
Savings & Trist Company
Lewis
Cherry Run Dam
W. 8. van Dyke
Real Estate Trust Company of
Pittsburgh
J. Edgar Morris
Guaranty Trust Company of
New York
Marry P. Rhoads
Blairsville National Bank
Harry T. Rankin
The
Savings and Trust Company
David N. Lewis
Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company
Robert EB. Lewis
S. M. Jack
D. F F. Rinn
A. J Musser
Pennsylvania
Blairsville Bank
Harry Rhoads
Morris
Anchor Savings Bank of Pittsburgh
Real Estate Trust Co. of Pittsburgh
Peoples-Pittsburgh Trust Company
van Dyke
Indiana
Robert M. Wilson
Indiana Savings and Trust Company
Robert Fisher
Heath Clark
Rhoads
C. Gilbert Wolfenden
Savings & Trust Company of
Naptha-Tume Explosion Claims Three Lives in Fire
A naptha-fume explosion at Atlantic Refining Company Point Breeze plant in Philadelphia killed three workers Edward Hasson 57 Jesse Green 60 and Patrick Toner 58 and left three others critically injured. The blast at 31st Street and Passyunk Avenue started a two hour fire as naptha transfer ignited with vapors unknown to have ignited. The Office of Civilian Defense used two way radio gear to aid responders.
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Philadelphia
Atlantic Refining Company
Point Breeze
Edward Hasson
Jesse Green
Patrick Toner
Joseph Nolan
Edwin Weiser
Daniel Quinn
31St St
Passyunk Ave
Office of Civilian Defense War Emergency Service
Soviet Troops Press Crimea Break Toward Sevastopol
Moscow reports Tolbukhin forces push in northern Crimea with a frontal and flank assault on Ishum, driving toward Simferopol as Voinka fort falls and rail lines are cut toward Kunracha Kangil. Constanta bombed. Sevastopol looms as 100,000 Axis troops may make a final stand. War bonds pitched as American Preferred shares.
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Fo Osiva
Constanta
Black Sea
Moscow
Sevastopol
Crimea
Tolbukhin
Ishum
Sivash
Voinka
Crimean
Kunracha-Kangil
Simferopol
Allied RAF raids on Budapest and Osnabruck in heavy night attacks
RAF Wellington bombers struck Budapest for the first time with large 4000 pounders as part of a Balkan rail hub blitz aimed at crippling Hitler's supply routes. Osnabruck endured a major night assault with many 4000 pounders, while Moscow reported Red Army airstrikes on Constanta. US communiques said 26 Nazi planes were downed in western Europe by bombers and escorts. Drownings in ordinary pursuits in 1942 cost 7000 lives in the United States.
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Budapest
Hitler
Red Army
Balkans
Moscow
Constanta
Germany
Crimea
RAF Mosaules
Osnabruck
Hannover
Rohe
RAF Wellingtons
Balkan
Vienna
Boulogne
Calais
U. S
Europe
Ers
Jnboard Liberators
Allied Troops Slow Japanese Offensive In India And Burma
Allied counter attacks slow the Japanese push on the Bengal Assam railroad near Kohima while Stilwell’s men strike Japanese communications in Burma. British Indian forces push counterattacks within 35 miles of the railroad as a Kohima Imphal area siege tightens. American infantry rout a village east of the Mogaung River and Chinese forces seize strong positions south of Pumgin. Hansa Bay in New Guinea targeted for air destruction with increased bomb loads. Central Pacific raids extend to Matsuwa to Namoi and other bases in the Kuriles and Carolines. Stimson reports Imphal Kohima road cut and reserves available. total Japanese casualties in the Pacific over months exceed 26,000 with losses across Bougainville New Britain Saidor and Admiralty Islands.
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Associated Press
Bengal-Assam
India
Joseph Stilwell
Burma
Louis Mounntbatten
Kohima
Imphal
Mogaung River
Pumgin
Hansa Bay
Japan
New Guinea
Southwest Pacific
Central Pacific
Matsuwa
Omekotan
Paramushira
Shimushu
Kurile Islands
Truk
Ponape
Ululul
Oroluk
Namoi
Carolines
Marshall Islands
Washington
Stimson
Imphat
Koh‘ma
Southwest
Bougainville
New Britain
Admiralty
Minstrel Show at Avonmore High School
Avonmore High School presents an old fashioned minstrel with an all male cast from the student body. The show opens Friday April 14 at 8 p m in the school auditorium. Cast includes Donald de Simmons Dan Satchel Yockey Stanley Berry Carl Razor Jack Sontag Jesse James Thaylor Frank Sinatra II plus 20 voices and six men instrumentalists. Highlights feature patriotic selections comic solos ballads spirituals choral numbers and instrumental duets with dancing including Dance of the Stumble Bums. Proceeds go to aatheretic fund. Public invited.
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Avonmore High School
Donald de Simmons
Dan “Satchel' Foot" Yockey
Stanley Berry
Carl Razor
Jack Sontag
Jesse James Thaylor
Frank Sinatra
Easter Visits and Church Notes in Blairsville
Miss Pennie McIntire and Mrs Bebe Lowman spent Easter with Martha Graham in Blairsville. Communion services will be held at the Presbyterian Church on April 16 at 8 45. Sunday School at 9 45. The annual congregational meeting was held Monday evening. Rev W B Nicholson has trained a class in catechism. Several additions were made to the church on Sunday. Kathryn Prymak Helen Irene and Grace Akal were calling with friends near Pittsburgh on Easter. Mr and Mrs Lisle McKee were guests of the latter's parents near Livermore on Easter.
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Kent
Pennie McIntire
Bebe Lowman
Martha Graham
Blairsville
Presbyterian Church
Nicholson
Kathryn Prymak
Helen
Irene
Grace Akal
Pittsburgh
Lisle McKee
S. E. Waddle
Livermore
Clawson
Kaiser credits growing harmony in management and labor
Henry J. Kaiser told a dinner that American management and labor have learned to get along, fostering a humane industrialism based on fair play. He noted past hatred but said both sides are maturing and even enjoying cooperation, after receiving the De La Salle Medal for industrial peace.
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Philadelphia
Henry J. Kaiser
Kaiser
de la Salle
The
la Salle College Civic and Social Congress
America
Political currents shift as war nudge fuels candidate moves
Letters reveal Miller urging more war supplies for the Pacific while Dewey rising in delegate strength stirs Bricker Stassen and MacArthur camps. Despite MacArthur’s early gains, divisions emerge as Willkie withdrawal lingers and Ball expands Stassen efforts. Meanwhile U S aircraft engine production soars 364 percent from 1942 to 1944.
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Miller
Pacific
MacArthur
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Harold E. Stassen
Douglas MacArthur
Stassen
Nebraska
Southwest Pacific
Wendell L. Willkie
Dewey
Joe Savage
Chicago
Senator Ball
R-Minn
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Ball
Bricker
United States
Plane Hero Murray Averts Bomb Bay Disaster On Mission
Lieutenant James W. Murray a 22 year old B–52? bomber crewman from Brooklyn risked his life on first mission to restrain six loose bombs in a damaged bomb bay. With gunner Guy A. Bowman he pried safety discs free and kept bombs from exploding as the aircraft descended to avoid oxygen exhaustion. The crew of 10 faced possible annihilation if the bombs detonated.
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Wenry B. Jameson AU
Bohber Base
England
James W. Murray
Eighth St
Brooklyn
Murray
Guy A. Bowman
Lehighton
William Brinkmeir
38Th Ave
St. Petersburg
Fla
Kingdom Cone
Post Office Auction Nets Nylon Hosiery Sale
O Sehmidt of St Louis paid 68 for a dozen pairs of nylon hose at a Chicago post office auction of unclaimed articles. Sehmidt, a jeweler, traveled to Chicago solely to purchase the stockings and has previously gone to Atlanta for another dozen nylons for his wife, the recipient.
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Chicago
O. Sehmidt
St. Louis
Sehmidt
Atlanta
Weather Outlook Fair and Cool Through Friday
Partly sunny conditions with a steady rise in temperature today. Tonight remains fair and cool with no notable wind. Friday forecasts show continued fair conditions and mild temperatures overall.
Obituary notices honor young Plouse and others
Obituary details for six year old Robert Plouse of Arcadia Indiana with pneumonia death at Miners Hospital Spangler. Born June 2 1937 in Montgomery son of Claude and Marion Kerr Plouse survives parents and brother Richard. Grandparents Grant and Kerr Arcadia. Funeral plans at Pine Grove Wesleyan Methodist Church and Bowser Funeral Home Plumville with military honors for Corpl Jerry Burt Little and notices for James Calvin Edmiston with Greenwood Cemetery Indiana. Additional line notes steel spring elimination in furniture saves 30000 tons yearly.
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Robert Plouse
Clauce Blouse
Arcadhe
Indianas County
Miners Hospital
Spangler
Montgomery
Claude
Marion Lucille
Kerr) Plouse
Richard
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