Big four foreign ministers meet in Paris to shape postwar pacts
A Paris conference of Byrnes Molotov Bevin and Bidault opens Thursday to draft peace treaties with Hungary Romania Bulgaria Finland and Mali. The talks focus on realigning Anglo Russian influence over the Mediterranean and Europe with secrecy shaping rumors as heavy horse trading is expected for concessions.
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Paris
Byrnes
America
Molotov
Russia
Bevin
Britain
Bidault
France
United Nations Peace Organization
U.N
Luxembourg Palace
Maly
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Finland
Moscow
London
Great
Mediterranean
Far East
England
Europe
North Africa
Middle East
Soviet Union
China
United States
Uncle Sam
Who's Who in Food Famine Aid Explained by Marlow
James Marlow explains the three main bodies handling world food relief. UNRRA supplies free food to the needy nations. the Combined Food Board parcels food to those who can pay and to UNRRA. the Famine Emergency Committee publicizes the famine threat and recommends conservation. Union nations, including the United States, Canada, and Great Britain, participate, with 13 UNRRA recipients listed.
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James Marlow
Washington
UNRRA
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Food Board
United States
Canada
Great Britain
Famine Emergency Committee
Fiorello LaGuardia
New York
Combined Food Board
Truman
Herbert Hoover How
Albania
Austria
Russia
Ukraine
China
Czechoslovakia
Greece
Italy
Poland
Yugoslavia
Finland
Hungary
Philippine Islands
Rites Set for Hay Wirl Bowman Editor of Millersburg Weekly Sentinel
Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Hay Wirl Bowman 75 editor and owner of the Millersburg Weekly Sentinel for 51 years who died Sunday after a long illness. Bowman served as former chief burgess of Millersburg, took over the Sentinel in 1905. His father attorney Francis Aavens founded the paper in 1884.
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Millersburg
Hay Wirl Bowman
Millersburg Weekly Sentinel
Dauphin County
Bowman
Sentinel
Francis Avens
UNRRA coal plea ignored in bituminous strike talks
Washington April 23 CAP Leaders of soft coal miners and operators rejected UNRRA's plea to resume production to ship famine relief. UNRRA chief LaGuardia urged reopening enough mines for 500000 tons monthly, but Ezra Van Horn and John L. Lewis declined to comment. Lewis plans conference in Hazleton as anthracite talks loom with a May 33 contract end.
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Washington
UNRRA
Frorens M. LaGuardia
Itis
Ezra van Horn
Bituminous Cor
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
la Guardian
New York
van Horn
Lewis
le Guardin
Secretary of Labor
Schwellenbwerg Thas
Hazleton
UMW
OPA Rapped By Labor Sec Chesnut in Philadelphia
William Chesnut Pennsylvania secretary of labor and industry urged citizens to pressure Senators Myers and Guffey about the OPA amid House action to revise the program He argued production matters most and criticized 21000 pages of regulations as blocking industry He warned the war time measure cannot curb black markets and called the OPA a failed approach to control prices and production
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Philadelphia
William If. Chesnut
State Secretary of Labor and Industry
OPA
Chesnut
America
Discharged Indiana area veterans listed at Bainbridge center
Honorably discharged veterans from the Bainbridge naval separation center are named including Andrew Koprlec Glen Campbell George R Heider and others with addresses or notes indicating service at Atterbury Ind and Homey City. The list mentions Vincent A Buss Richard Wellen and Daryel Bowers among those discharged.
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Indiana Area
Bainbridge
Naval Separation Center
Bkr
Andrew Koprlec
Glen Campbell
Cox
George R. Heider
Bolly
Anthony Senuskie
Iieliu
Skd
John F. Magtrak
Bryant St
Homer City
Lowry Ressler
Cramer
Tony Terrana
Clinton St
Hottest Day In Pittsburgh Since Start Of Year
Pittsburgh endured the citys warmest day of 1946 with 80 degrees at the County Airport and 83 downtown as temperatures rose across the region yesterday setting a new local high.
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Pittsburgh
Steel City
Global food board links nations in commodity committees
United States Britain and Canada sit on a board with committees specializing in wheat oils oats meat. Other nations have representatives on these committees based on surplus or need. Nations like United States Canada Australia Argentina share wheat and join the Wheat committee with buyers. Committees report to the Combined Food Board which can accept change or reject recommendations.
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United States
Britain
Canada
Australia
Argentina
Ius
County sale yields strong profits on 20 parcels
At a county commissioners sale held yesterday, 20 parcels were sold to recover unpaid taxes and costs. 16 parcels exceeded tax and expense amounts, netting the county a profit on most sales. The largest bid was 1225.00 for property owned by Adda P. Elkin and Jennie Hetrick in Grant Township.
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Fdneres
Grant Township
Adda P. Elkin
Jennie Hetrick
Banks Township
Arnold National Bank
Shreve Sweeney
Burrell Township
First Ward
Blairsville
Waller Covey
First National Bank of Mahaffey
Death of Chief Justice Stone and court fate
The passing of Chief Justice Stone ends a 30 year tenure shaping liberal rulings on school salutes and religious literature taxation. His death leaves Truman to select a successor, with the court current in 1946 showing 4 to 4 splits on cases and no clear successor in view. Stone, nicknamed The Chief, once began law after a campus punch, later rising to lead the old court.
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Slone
Roosevelt
High Tribunal
New Hampshire
Stone
Jackson
Nuernburg
Truman
Harold H. Burton
Ohio
Patterson
Owen J. Robert
Warren R. Aislin
Vermont
Homer Ferguson
Michigan
Austin
Ferguson
War Investigating Committee
Tronan
United States
Edward Douglass White
Charles Evans Hughes
Old Court
Hoosevelt
Roberts and McReyholds
Hughes
Barkley
Kentucky
Senate
Vandenberg
R.-Mich
Supreme Court
Amherst
Cal
Meat supply cut by Phila independent packers
Philadelphia driven meat curtailment as Cross Brothers and South Philadelphia Dressed Beef Company slash slaughter and distribute to hundreds of retail shops. Cross warns penalties on costs under OPA rules hinder large scale purchases while OPA denies a citywide shortage and notes only a few firms cut output.
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Cross Brothers
Samuel Cross
Cross
South Philadelphia
OPA
Philadelphia
Vets Clean Out Gap Surplus Depot
Harrisburg April 29 Veterans really cleaned out the stock of surplus military vehicles at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation and Mechanicsburg Naval depot Harry H Cramer acting district manager for the War Assets Administration reported today Approximately 265 general purpose vehicles were put on sale on April 15 governmental agencies school districts and municipalities with first priority purchased about half The veterans took more than three quarters of them Prices ranged between 350 and 1200 They are taking a second look at the ones that gave left Cramer told a reporter The vehicles will remain on sale until April 26 Another sale of approximately 600 vehicles will be held at Letterkenny Ordnance depot near Chambersburg May 13
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Harrisburg
Indiantown Gap Military Reservation
Mechanicsburg Naval Depot
Harry H. Cramer
War Assets Administration
Mr. Cramer
Leff
Cramer
Letterkenny Ordnance Depot
Chambersburg
Governors To Talk On Conservation
Harrisburg April 23 A governors conference agenda item will be a discussion on conservation of natural resources at Oklahoma City from May 26 to 28. Lawrence Martin, chairman, said 48 states have been invited to attend the 38th annual meeting to review various affairs including reconversion and expansion of industry and state and local relations.
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Harrisburg
Oklahoma City
Lawence ‘Martin
Martin
Fall Kills Boy in Carrick Home Accident
Three year old Girard Stofft of Carrick climbed a cedar chest at home, fell from a two story window and died shortly after from multiple fractures.
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Pitisburgit
Girard Stofft
Carrick
Escape Bad Forest Fires In Pennsylvania Report
Harrisburg April 238. Chief George H. Wirt reports Pennsylvania has avoided major forest fire losses so far, but ongoing drought raises danger. One 1000 acre Lewistown Narrows blaze in Mifflin County stands as the only serious fire recently. crews are ready to act and public care is urged after multiple small weekend fires across Williamsport, Clearfield, and Johnstown regions.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
George H. Wirt
State Bureau of Protection
Wirst
Lewistown Narrows
Mifflin County
Wirt
Department of Forests
Walters
Williamsport Forest J
Clearfield
Johnstown
Lt Who Gave Up Harem Its Home
Worcester mass April 28 An American Army lieutenant returned home with his wife and young son after declining a Moros royal post and an 18 wife harem to pursue law studies at Harvard. Lt William C Patterson led efforts to unite Moros and form an Islamic congress while in the Philippines. He rejects movie fantasies and plans to complete law school after military police service.
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Worcester
Mass
Wiliam C. Patterson
Moros
Florence Christopoulos
Buzzards Bay
Dorothy Lamour
Patterson
Philippines
Harvard Law School
Educators To Look Over Indiantown
Harrisburg reports Governor Martin invites Pennsylvania college and university leaders to tour Indiantown Gap Military Reservation as a potential emergency veterans college. He seeks expanded post high school facilities for returning veterans and graduates. Invitations go to 74 colleges, 15 junior colleges, principals association, and veterans groups. A survey of potential students and facilities has been ordered.
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Harrisburg
Indiantown Gap
Martin
Pennsylvania College
Secondary School Principals Association
Veterans’ Organizations
Farmers Night dinner hosts in Indiana County clubs
About 140 farmers attended an annual Farmers Night dinner at the Methodist Church in Indiana County. Rotary, Kiwanis and Lions members invited county farmers as personal guests with Russell Guard as master of ceremonies. Entertainers Ed Shaugheney and Rainbow Jackson performed.
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Indiana County
Methodist Church
Russell Guard
Kiwanis
Ed Shaugheney
Rainbow Jackson
Morton White
Carolyn Holstein
Carpenter dies after fall in Warren area
William Lawhead, 79, a Sheffield resident and carpenter, died from a fractured skull after falling 15 feet onto a concrete sidewalk at his home. Coroner Ed Lowrey said the fatal accident occurred when he stepped on a loose plank on a scaffold.
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Warren
Willian Lawhead
Sheffield
Ed Lowrey
Lawhead
Pittsburgh delays smoke law enforcement to Oct 1 1947
City Council President Thomas E Kilgallen announced a delay of Pittsburgh’s anti smoke ordinance enforcement until October 1 1947. A resolution to amend the ordinance was sent to committee and will be considered for a final vote next Monday.
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Pittsburgh
Thomas £. Kilgallen
115 Towns On Fast Time Across Pennsylvania
Harrisburg reports more than 115 Pennsylvania cities will observe daylight saving time this Sunday. The State Chamber notes many large and small communities have adopted a fast time, listing towns from Allentown to York including Philadelphia Pittsburgh Scranton Erie Reading and Bethlehem among others.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
State Chamber of Commerce
Allquippa
Allentown
Altoona
Ambridge
Bangor
Beaver Falls
Berewick
Bethlehem
Braddock
Cambridge Springs
Canonsburg
Carbondale
Carlisle
Charleroi
Chester
Clairton
Clearfield
Coatesville
Connellsville
Corry
Dallastown
Downington
Dunmore
Duquesne
Easton
Eldred
Emilenton
Emmons Ephrata
Erie
Fleetwood
Franklin
Gettysburg
Haverford
Hazleton
Hershey
Homestead
Honesdale
Huntingdon
Indiana
Kane
Kennett Square
Kingston
Kittanning
Knoxville
Kurtztown
Lancaster
Lansdowne
Latrobe
Lebanon
Lehighton
Lewistown
Lititz
Lock Haven
McClure
McConnellsburg
McKeesport
McKees Rocks
Mechanicsburg
Merion
Midland
Monongahela
Morrisville
Mt. Lebanon
Mt. Pleasant
Myerstown
Nazareth
New Bethlehem
New Castle
New Kensington
Norristown
Northampton
North Braddock
North Wales
Oil City
Palmertown
Palmyra
Perkasie
Philadelphia
Pine Grove
Pittsburgh
Plains
Plymouth
Pottstown
Reading
Schuylkill Haven
Scottdale
Scranton
Shamokin
Shickshinny
Shippensburg
Slatington
Souderton
Spring City
Steedton
Stroudsburg
Swissvale Tarentum
Telford
Titusville
Union City
Upper Darby
Vandergrift
Washington
Waynesboro
Wellsboro
West Chester
Wilkes Barre
Wilkinsburg
Williamsport
York
Loot Tombs Of Chinese Emperors
Chinese authorities announced that tombs of Manchu emperors Kang Hsi Hsien Fung and Tung Chi were looted last December by pillagers and militia under Communist direction, with rich gold jade pearls and ornaments taken from the burial grounds in Hopei province. Navy doctor Lt. (jg) Bryan V. Williams, who visited the area near Peiping, found the tombs crumbling but could not confirm loot.
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Peiping
China
K’ang Hsi
Hsien Feng
Tung Chi
Tsing Dynasty
Hopei
Martin Cites Need For Church
Philadelphia April 23 The Democratic form of government cannot live without the church Governor Edward Martin of Pennsylvania tells the Presbyterian Social Union that churches can bring about permanent peace through faith and understanding He warns Americans face a tragic period and urges an aroused populace to choose the hard path of fidelity to God and country.
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Philadelphia
United States
Edward Martin
Pennsylvania
Martin
Presbyterian Social Union
America
Increase In Car Operators Cards
Harrisburg reports 1945 motor vehicle registration and operator licenses yielded 33,711,895 to the Department of Revenue, up 1,953,003 or 6.1 percent from 1944. BMV notes 1946 registrations already total 27,888,442, up 9.2 percent. Passenger registrations fell from 2,029,120 in 1941 to 1,731,430 in 1945. commercial vehicles rose to 304,792, the bureau's record. Operators numbered 2,754,983 versus 3,117,457 in 1941.
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Harrisburg
Department of Revenue
Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Bureau
Turnabout at Wilkes-Barre YMCA Highlights Low Female Participation
In Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania on April 23 the YMCA notes a dramatic drop in female dancers with only five of 72 registrants being girls. A doctor links lumbago to poor blood, a humorous barb closes the item.
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Wilkes-Barre
AntiTB program blamed for lack of direction in Pa
Harrisburg April 23 John A Shroyer Republican gubernatorial candidate says Pennsylvania's anti tuberculosis program has been stymied for six months by the absence of a directing head He notes federal funds totaling 1500000 would be available for tuberculosis control if a civil service system were instituted but warns the move would cost political jobs He also criticizes the cancer program and notes the legislature appropriated 100000 for cancer in 1945 with no action despite private foundations efforts He announces five county chairmen for his campaign team and internal affairs candidate J Calvin Frank joins in naming them.
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Harrisburg
John A. Shroyer
Norinaion
Pennsylvania
Shroyer
Nathan B. Williams
J. Calvin Frank
Secretarylary of Internal Affairs
Erke
James M. Calkins
Johnsonburg
Erie
James Eames
Eric
Lawrence
Joseph V. Leyde
New Castle
Venango
Joseph McElhinney, Jr
Cherry Tree
Warren
Fred J. Traub
Express Halt Set At Friday
Sixty five thousand employees of the Hallway Express Agency will strike at 12:01 a.m. Friday over wages. AFL chief George M. Harrison said the vote showed momentum to end delays on wage demands after the company refused a 16 cents an hour raise. The agency offered 10 cents, aligning with industry patterns, while a nationwide coal miners strike loomed.
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Associated Press
Hallway Express Agency, Inc
George M. Harrison
AFL Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks
Cincinnati
UNRRA
Saloon for Fast Time Debate Spawns Farmer Grievances
John W. Warner, Indiana County Agent for the Granges, commends the Gazette for reporting the Borough Council’s plan to re consider fast time. He argues the change burdens farmers with irregular schedules for milk trucks, harvest work, and school runs, urging adherence to sun time and welcoming an open forum on the issue.
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John W. Warner
Indiana
Yast
Woman loses left arm in Bradford fire
Mrs. Bernice Cole age 50 suffered severe burns in a house fire at Bradford. She required amputation of her left arm at Bradford Hospital after being found on the floor with burns to the arm shoulder and chest. Cause of the fire was not determined. Read the Gazette Classified Ads.
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Bradford
Bernice Cole
Bradford Hospital
Obituary James Murray Dill of Homer City
James Murray Dill of Homer City Pennsylvania died April 20 at 11 p m at the family home. He was the son of Watson B Dill and Hazel M Cramer Dill. Friends may call at the family home with services set for Wednesday April 24 at 2 p m in the Rev Callins Cramer officiating. Burial will be in Armagh Cemetery under Robinson Funeral Home direction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Murray Dill
Homer City
R. D
Watson B
Hazel M Cramer Dill
Callins Cramer
Armagh Cemetery
Robinson Funeral Home
Seven Fat Years Predicted By Lehigh Coal Leader
Philadelphia April 23 AP President Robert W. White of Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co predicted seven years of prosperity for the United States and the anthracite industry at the stockholders meeting. He cited more home building heated with coal, advances in research and cooperative merchandising, and a push to market fine flotation coal and lightweight concrete aggregate from mine waste. White said one coal recovery plant operates well and more plants are planned. A large aggregate plant should be in production by end of 1944. White reported first quarter consolidated net income about 650 000 or 44 cents a share versus 431 849 or 22 cents a share the prior year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
United States
Robert W. White
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co
White
Lehigh
Whitested
Duff for Rural Power Promotes Electrification Plan
KITTANNING Pa April 23 Attorney General James H Duff Republican governor hopeful outlines a six point program to aid Pennsylvania farmers He calls for rural electrification education training and scientific farming to boost production and control costs Duff with Brig Gen D B Strickler begins a four day Northwestern County swing outlining broader farm support and development goals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kittanning
James H. Duff
Pennsylvania
Farmer's
Duff
Armstrong County
D. B. Strickler
Lancaster
Blairsville Presbytery Annual Session Opens in Moxham
Blairsville Presbytery meets today for its first post war session outside Greensburg at Second Presbyterian Church in Moxham. Presbytery commissioners for the General Assembly of the Pennsylvania Presbyterian Synod will be named. the 458th annual Assembly will convene May 23 in Atlantic City. Prof. S C Wallace of Greensburg, retiring moderator, delivers the principal address. Rev. Herold F Post, D D, Greensburg First Presbyterian Church pastor, will assume the moderator post. The Sons of Union Veterans Auxiliary will hold a meeting at Mrs Joseph E Monres home near Ewings Mills on Route 422 Friday at 2:00 p m with talks on My Flower Garden and My Victory Garden.
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Blairsville
Greensburg
Second Presbyterian Church
Moxham
General Assembly
Pennsylvania Presbyterian Synod
Atlantic City
S C. Wallace
Wallace
Herold F. Post
Greensburg First Presbyterian Church
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