Laval Foretells Civil War In France As Invasion Looms
The British press war analyst cites Pierre Laval warning French collaborators to resist Allied forces. He warns of civil war and reprisals, noting loyalist underground networks and large lists of pro-Vichy figures to be prosecuted. The piece portrays Laval as cautious yet dangerous amid looming invasion and internal French strife.
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Y Dewitt MacKenzie
London
France
Great Union
Pierre Laval
Vichy
Blue Network
America
Tyatty
Ose
Laval
Orider
Germany
Geness
Gestapo
Elsenhower
French Committee of National Liberation
Charles de Gaulle
Algiers
New York
American Telephone Co New Adventure Fails
Stockholders rejected a labor group attempt to gain a board seat at American Telephone and Telegraph Co. Management held a strong majority with 11,286,781 shares for. The labor nominees drew 77,000 votes, marking the first time organized labor stockholders sought direct participation in management. The company remains the world’s largest business enterprise with about 60,000 employees owning stock and 21,246,000 Bell system telephones in service at year end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Po Ot
Chast. HO Parsons
New York ‘Telephone Co
Elizabeth Walsh
United Et
Ich
Mayer
Parsons
Utey
I Ag
Amerigin Telephone
Arnt Telegraph Co
Bell Systen
Mystery of Charles Kelly Remains Unsolved in Shawano
Neighborhood crowds wait along Shawano street for Charles Kelly, dubbed the one man army, as preparations for his homecoming drag on. Friends, a neighborhood club, and city celebration organizers discuss rumors while Miller's steak house awaits his arrival with bets on when he will appear. War bonds ad ends the note.
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Charles
Grandma
Inidee
Young Men’s Club
Chas
Shawano Street
Miller
Toe Miller
Kelly
Chuck
Jimmy
Fisherman’s Paradise delayed opening in Centre County
Harrisburg reports the fishing spot Fisherman’s Paradise on Spring Creek Centre County will not open this season until around mid May. The board has discussed the decision and delayed final action. Last year the site opened briefly then closed due to gasoline restrictions across the East. Separately Laval warned Frenchmen against cooperation with Allied forces as an invasion loomed.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Learf
Spring Creek
Centre County
Paradise
Charles A. French
Labor Seeks Price Control Backed by CIO and AFL
In a joint appeal read to the Senate Banking Committee President William Green of the AFL and leaders of the CIO urged Congress to extend the Federal Price Controls Act for two years after the war without weakening amendments. They called for restoring prewar price wage relationships and for stronger enforcement funding and subsidies to maintain price stability.
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Washington
CIO
AFL
Senate Banking Committee
William Green
Green
C10
Organized Labor
Banking Committee
RAP
Ditch Blasting Demonstration Saturday near Shelocta
A ditch blasting demonstration is set for Saturday morning April 22 at 8:30 at the L. W. Robinson Jr. farm one fourth mile east of Shelocta station along Route 422. About 600 yards of open ditch will be blasted using 50 percent dynamite. County Agent J. W. Warner will conduct the demo with W. W. Kay of Du Pont Co assisting. Dynamite for stump blasting is available to farmers, but buyers must obtain a permit from the Prothonotary's office. cost is 25 cents.
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L. W. Robinson, Jr
Shelocta Station
Route 422
Carson Farm
J. W. Warner
W. W. Kay
DuPont Co
Prothonotary
Court House
New York Woman Risks 10-Foot Sewer Rescue
Mrs Muriel Shaffer, an animal lover, climbed 10 feet into a New York sewer to rescue a struggling Maltese cat. The cat clawed her nylon stockings, yet she offered to pay the expenses to retrieve the animal.
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New York
Muriel Shaffer
Anima Glover
Warren named convention temporary chairman and keynote
Michigan reports Gov Earl Warren of California chosen for the convention as temporary chairman and keynote speaker. House Republican Leader Martin backs Warren as permanent chairman, while senators and governors weigh VP prospects. Bricker attacks administration on Japan stance as Democrats seek unity and potential nominees.
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GOP National Convention Arrangements Committee
Chicago
Earl Warren
California
Rep
Martin
Masachusetts
House
Warren
Butler
R-Neb
Nebraska
Dwight Griswold
Republican House
Dewey
White
Maine
Austin Cr-Vu
Keysoter
Senator Vandenberg
Michigan
Austin
Dangher
Connecticut
Hawkes
New Jersey
John W. Bricker
Ohie
Phoenia
Ariz
Japan
Pacific
Dallas
Tex
Renet
Hunsnegan
Democratic National
Sant Rayburn
Marty So
Wallace
Allied air actions and Kohima siege update from India
British relief forces train heavy mountain guns against Japanese positions near Kohima after establishing contact with the besieged garrison at Dimapur. Dispatches report garrison held despite a week of night and day attacks as Japanese forces push toward Dimapur.
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Kandy
Ceylon
Kohima
Dimapur
Calcutta
Nto
India
Burma
Iaimy
Watters
Imphal
Lord Louis Mount- Initiern
Southeast Asia
Incoinel
Ceyl
Heiderman Freed On Charges of Kidnapping
Frank Heiderman and his wife Alma were freed on kidnapping charges by Justice of the Peace Edward Sneiderwine at the request of Heiderman’s father Edward J. Heiderman. The case involved Lucretia, a ten-year-old girl taken from Masury, Ohio, then returned to Jamestown, New York. Lucretia had been a ward of the Heidermans until custody was awarded to her father in a Mercer County, Pa., court.
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Masury
Lucretia
Heiderman
Jamestown
Ohio
Sneiderwine
Frank Heidermans
Cercer County
Russell F. Stein
Planes Lost to Own Guns in Sicilian Operations
A U S air forces officer recalls a July 14 1943 Sicily raid in which eight or nine Allied planes were lost, likely over Sicily rather than at sea. He notes no evidence of Allied Navy shootdowns of paratroopers after July 1, contradicting Drew Pearson on August losses, and cites a North Africa investigation with secret findings.
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London
Sicily
United States
Gela
Sicilian
Air Force
Drew Pearson
Washington
Catania
U. S
North Africa
Camp Reynolds Expands Civilian War Worker Programs
Camp Reynolds Greenville Pa plans new off duty recreation, dances, sports, and social events for civilian employees. The civilian personnel office will operate a car sharing exchange and offer housing at Shenandoah Project across Route 1. Four hundred civil service jobs open in drivers, teletypes, clerks, stenographers, pharmacists, projectionists and related posts with sick leave and retirement benefits.
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Camp Reynolds
Greenville
Henry J. Dewalt
Shenango
Route 1
Dewalt
U. S
Municipal
Indiana
Stimson reports Allied air power advances in war zones
Secretary Stimson outlined Allied aerial strengths and enemy production drops in a press conference. He cited German fighter output down about 2 percent since January and warned of critical air-war periods ahead while noting overlapping Soviet and Allied air operations from Italy and in the Pacific with campaigns across the Caroline Islands and Kuriles.
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Japan
Pacific
Southeast Asia
Stimson
Italy
Galati
Romania
Plesti
Southwest Pacific
Caroline Islands
Woman In Bronx Fires Alarm After Domestic Dispute
A Bronx woman reported a domestic dispute and triggered a fire alarm, drawing three engine units, two ladder companies, two battalion chiefs, a deputy chief, and three police patrol cars to the scene. She later paid a 25 dollar fine for a false alarm in court.
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New York
Bronx
Obituary notices from Indiana area deaths in April era
Obituaries for Jemima Kooser of 114 Maple Street Indiana died April 20 at Indiana Hospital aged 62. Survived by sons Robert Kooser and Irvin Kooser and daughter Margaret Steffey, ten grandchildren and two brothers. Two sisters. Services at Robinson Funeral Home with interment Washington Presbyterian Cemetery. Also Jessie Lydic of Indiana RD 4 died at Indiana Hospital. arrangements pending. Alta Carney McSwiney of Indiana died in Irwin after illness. George W. Strong of Tyrone died at Methodist Home for the Aged Tyrone. survived by one daughter and a grandson. Funeral services held in Tyrone.
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Jemima Kooser
Maple Street
Indiana
Samuel Munshower
Pord
Kellysburg
Robert Kooser
Leechburg
Irvin Kooser
Norman
Margaret) Steffey
Marisa Center
Frank Munshower
Charles Munshower
Gary
Jessie Lydic
R. D
Robiinson
Alta (Carney) McSsviney
Arthur McSwiney
Irwin
Idabelle Carney
Lisle
Charles Carney
Harry Hefflin
Edward Beechey
Harrisburg
Penn Lincoln Memorial
George W. Strong
Tyrone
Penn Run
Methodist Home For
Strongs— Town
Samuel
Susan (Brown) Strong
Indiana County
Isabel Reed
Jesse Sheets
Strong
Methodist Church
World Labor Charter Takes Shape At ILO Meeting
Philadelphia April 20 AP The International Labor Organization opened its 25th year meeting with 40 nations present to craft a World Charter for Labor The talks aim to link postwar money flows to working conditions and cover child labor international loans and currency stability Key proposals include including welfare provisions in loans and sustaining postwar material rationing until shortages end The conference will also back a UN postwar food plan and seek a permanent body to raise global agricultural levels with price stability.
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Philadelphia
International Labor Organization
United Nations Development Bank
ILO
United Nations
Atlantic City
Hot Springs
Bernard Samuel
Robert L. Johnson
Temple University
Philadelphia Pants Factory Murder Plea Sentences Man
In Philadelphia on April 20 a seven year old murder case ended when George C. Graham 31 pleaded guilty to the slaying of Mrs Rose M Di Sario 60 of Camden and was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in Eastern penitentiary A confession showed he beat Di Sario with a wrench after she threatened to report his theft of pants Judge Macswaille urged the Pardon Board to allow the full 20 year term.
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Philadelphia
George C. Graham
Rose M. di Sario
Camden
Eastern
Graham
di Sariu
Raymond Macsweille
Pardon Board
Weather forecast for western Pennsylvania today
The forecast indicates near normal temperatures across western Pennsylvania today with showers ending and a warmer trend late tonight into Friday. A stray shower is possible today with improved conditions later this week.
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Wester Pennsylvania
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