Uncle Sam aims 50 million corn to feed hungry world
The article argues the United States must secure 50 million bushels of corn from black market operators to relieve famine areas in Europe and Asia. It recalls Hoover's WWI effort to promote corn bread and notes Europe’s, and Balkans', drought and war disrupt agriculture. The piece stresses corn's vital role amid global food shortages and urges safeguarding supply for relief.
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Uncle Sam
United States
America
Balkans
Asia
Europe
England
Herbert Hoover
Tme
Ble
John Bull
Wes
John
Danubian
Lowa
Western Hemisphere
South Africa
Sam
Diplomats Fail to Speak Plainly on Iran and UN
In a sharp critique, James Marlow mocks diplomats for talking over the heads of ordinary people. He cites the Iran/Russia issue in the UN Security Council and chides jargon like climate of opportunity and area of agreement. He urges clear, simple English and direct discussion of substantive problems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Marlow
Washington
Security Council
New York
Iran
United Nations
U. N
League of Nations
League
Sade
Curren
San Francisco
Ran
Russia
Long Time-No See Cecil Spadafora Reunion In Indiana
Cecil Spadafora manager of a new Oldsmobile agency renews a 16 year old boyhood friendship with Dr Ralph G Ells of Brushvalley. Ells and the Spadafora family doctor in Ellsworth Pa for 30 years. They last connected after Ellsworth high school graduation in 1925 and recently reconnected in Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil Spadafora
Oldsmobile
Indiana
Spadafora
Ralph G. Ells
Brushvalley
Ellsworth
Ellis
Plane Crash Kills Three
Harrisburg reports progress in plans to use about 1900 state police to crack down on reckless flying after a rise in postwar incidents. The Aeronautics Commission debated sites for private landing fields, approved nine and rejected two, while officials warned penalties for reckless flying can reach 200 dollars and 30 days in jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Aeronautics Commission
C. M. Wilhelm
State Police
Philadelphi
Commission
William J. Anderson
Benjamin Nelson, Jr
Duncanville
R. D
Ernest R. Neal
Windber
Robert E
Anderson
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Philadelphia
John MacFarlane
Moon Township
Pittsburgh
Franely
Long
Sharpsville
Ronald A. Cummings
Jack R. Lange
Oil City
Senaca
Verrango County
Stanley N. Siggins
Shady Hill
Finleyville
Arthur B. Haddock
Washington
Scott A. Blair
John J. Cable
Vernon L. Green
Davidville
Charles H. Scott
Compromise Near in Manchuria Standoff Heats Up
Manchurian talks show communists in strong bargaining position as Changchun remains under their control and Harbin may fall tomorrow. Lenan radio confirms safety of five American correspondents, while government air strikes hit Szepingkai south of Changchun and forces mass in northern Henan and eastern Hopeh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchuria
Changchun
Harbin
Lenan Radio
Manila
Associated Press
Tom Masterson
The
Associated Prous
Chamgchutn
Szepingkai
Henan
Hopeh
Hete Avate
China Praner
Altoona Gets Wet Housing Unit for Veterans
A federal housing unit for veterans in Altoona will house 150 families. City officials chose a site in the Pleasant Valley Area within Altoona city limits after controversy, and the site is acceptable to FHA officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Altoona
Pleasant Valley
FHA
Evacuation Planned for Deshon War Hospital Patients
Butler Pa April 24 Army officials say the last 194 patients at Deshon General Hospital, including 27 litter cases, will be evacuated Thursday as the facility is abandoned on April 30. A Baltimore and Ohio hospital train will move veterans to Halloran General Hospital near New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butler
Army
Deshon General Hospital
Baltimore and Ohio Hospital
Halloran General Hospital
New York
State Police Urge Caution On Highway Curves
Police advise drivers to slow before curves and stay in gear. Do not coast or brake harshly. Use intermittent pumping of the brake for best control and to maintain traction on curves.
See Big Boom In Tourists See Big Boom In Tourists
Harrisburg April 24 The Pennsylvania State Commerce Department estimates tourist business will exceed half a billion dollars this year with thousands visiting for postwar vacations. Director Herbert Walker says travel to Pennsylvania was 415 million before the war and could rise by as much as 100 million this year as hotels restaurants and about 1300 tourist camps benefit. He warns vacationists to secure accommodations before going to resorts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Keystone State
State Commerce Department
Herbert Walker
Tourism and Recreational Bureau
Walker
Commerce Department
Miners Lose Five Weeks Jobless Benefits Amid Strike
Local Employment Bureau manager Car ET. Lewis outlines that miners are disqualified from unemployment pay during a five week period due to a work stoppage. A May 4 disqualification ends with a May 12 to 18 waiting week, then May 12 to 18 as the first compensable period, followed by ongoing claims starting May 20. Veterans face adjusted eligibility rules for Servicemen's Reemployment Allowance during the stoppage with special filing guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Playes
Car ET. Lewis
Lewis
Monaree
van Dean
Te Walle Uh
Mystery of Mussolini's Body Deepens With Call
Il Momento says pamphlets in Milan claim Mussolini belongs to history and deserves burial. Milan police trace the body theft to an auto headed toward Gallarate. the bullet-riddled corpse was buried in Maggiore Cemetery nearly a year ago, its location kept to few to deter digs. The Iran flag section and classified ads end the item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Il Momento
Milan
Mussolini
Napoleon
France
Mila
Gallarate
Maggiore
Rioting Prisoners Surrender After Four Days at Milan
In Milan's San Vittore prison, twenty five hundred rioters surrendered after four days of siege. A small gang led by Eralo Barbieri still fought as tanks and artillery targeted the fortress. Over 30 guards were freed unharmed. eight prisoners died. Civil police moved prisoners to another jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milan
San Vittore
Eralo Barbieri
Ene
Walkout at Westinghouse hits 100th day in wave of plant strikes
William G Smock reports the Westinghouse Electric strike reaches its 100th day with 76,000 workers across 23 plants idle. Negotiations resume amid losses of $43 million so far and a proposed wage rise totaling 18 1 2 cents per hour for most workers. Company sales plummet to 10 million monthly. police guard major unit in East Pittsburgh as mass picketing continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William G. Smock
Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Electrical and Allied Industries
CIO
United Electrical, Machine and Radio
Westinghouse
Allegheny County
Edward Martin
Pennsylvania
Turtle Creek
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York Central System
Trafford
Derry
Sharon
Sunbury
Philadelphia
Springfield
Mass
Bridgeport
Conn
Attica
N. Y ii
Jersey City
Newark
Bloomfield
Trenton
Belleville
New Jersey
Baltimore, Md
Fairmont, W. Va
Cleveland
Mansfield
Lima
Ohio
Chicago, IL
St. Louis, Mo
Emeryville, Calif
Killer Kent faces new charges in Somerset case
James Henry Kent, an escaped slayer from Johnstown now in Reno, was indicted by the Somerset county grand jury on four counts including Robbery of Will and Elma Osler for 11,000 stolen last August, jail escape, aiding and abetting another escape, and furnishing escape implements. The trial will proceed before his first degree murder sentence, with return delayed to about May 10.
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Somerset
James Henry Kent
Johnstown
R. D
Reno
Nev
Pennsylvania
Somerset County
Will and
Elma Osler
Ursina
Nelson Remson
Western Penitentiary
Kent
Norman T. Boose
Somerset “American
Stettinius Backing Spain Investigation Reported
Stettinius intends to back a Spain related inquiry as Gromyko’s Iran debate move stirred UN Security Council tensions. Bonnet’s resolution failed apart from Russia and Poland support while other delegates favored keeping the Iranian case on the agenda until Russia withdraws troops by May 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
Security Council
Council
Deputies Guard Dravo Plant Gates in Strike Standoff
In Pittsburgh on April 24, Sheriff Walter C. Monaghan ordered 25 deputies to patrol the Neville Island Dravo Corp plant gates to enforce a court injunction against mass picketing. Judge Thomas M. Marshall signed a writ directing protection for non production workers and entrants. About 1,450 CIO Shipbuilding and Marine Workers Union members have been on strike two weeks seeking an 18 cent hourly raise. Dravo offered nine cents. Three Dragon foremen charged with assault and battery on pickets were held for court, denying the charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Walter C. Monaghan
Dravo Corporation
Neville Island
Common Pleas
Thomas M. Marshall
Cio-Shipbuilding and Marine Workers
Dragon
Justice of the Peace
Michael ©. Snuty
Neville Township
G. A. Palmer
Richard J. Klein
William Tosh
Brand
Thieves Steal 303 Fowls As Panic Smothers 247
At Raymond Pilar chicken farm in Sykesville Pennsylvania thieves took 203 fowls and 247 were smothered to death in a panic. A police watchdog was knocked unconscious by a club during the raid near Paradise. Loss totals about 450 chickens at roughly one dollar each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sykesville
Raymond Pilar Chicken Farm
Pifer
Paradise
Five Enlist In U S Army From Local Men
Five local men were recruited into the U S Army for three year terms. Captain John L. Clark, the local recruiter, lists Edward F. Gonds age 17 of Waterman in the Ordnance European Theater. David Seucemarra age 20 of Blairsville R D 2 in the Ordnance European Theater. Vincent A. Lisicky age 19 of R D 5 Ancy European Theater Clyde Ishman age 17 Knox Dale enlisted in the RAF Caribbean Defense Command. Donald James Clements age 18 of Sagamore enlisted in the AAF Alaska Silent duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal U. S. Army
John L. Clark
Edward F. Gonds
Waterman
David Seucemarra
R. D
Blairsville
Vincent A. Lisicky
Ordnancy
Clyde
Ishman
Knox Dale
RAF
Caribbean Defense Command
Donald James Clements
Sagamore
Hard Coal Men Meet On Strike
More than 300 delegates representing 76,000 Pennsylvania anthracite miners gather in Hazleton to discuss demands linked to the soft coal strike, with John L. Lewis promising to speak at the three day tri district convention. Delegates may file 30 day strike notices under the Smith Connally Act as talks hinge on wage, conditions, and welfare fund plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazleton
Pennsylvania
Afl-United Mine Workers
UMW
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Washington
New York
Netiion
Detroit
Ernest T. Weir
National Steel Corp
Weir
School Children Get Schick Test Announcement
Superintendent Edgar C. Perry says the Schick test will be given April 25 and 26 to pupils and pre-schoolers who had Toxoid in November. Tests occur at Thadius Stevens School on April 25 at 9:00 a.m. and Horace Mann School on April 26 at 9:00 a.m., conducted by Dr. Charles E. Rink with nurse Pauline Reynolds. This is not the Spring Round-Up. it is for these students only.
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Edgar C. Perry
Schick
Thadidius Stevens
Horace Mann
Charles E. Rink
Pauline Reynolds
Surface roads in Armstrong County awarded to Burrell firm
The State Highway Department awarded two road surfacing contracts in Armstrong County to Burrell Construction and Supply Company of New Kensington on bids totaling 27 089 dollars. Surfacing will begin on 1.77 miles between Applewold and West Kittanning and on Second Market Fifth Streets Freeport and Main Streets in Rural Valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
State Highway Department
Armstrong County
Burrell Construction and Supply Company
New Nensington
Applewold
West Kittanning
Market
Fifth
Freeport
Main Streets
Valley
County Agent Refutes Daylight Saving Time Endorsement Claim
Correction from J W Warner clarifies he did not speak for the Granges but presented the farmers majority view. He notes the Gazette misquoted him as opposing the Council endorsement and emphasizes his role as conveying farmers opinion only.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Warner
Warner
Strike Ties Up Detroit Terminal in Walkout
Detroit Railway Express Company terminal operations were halted for a third day as 1,000 workers joined a possible nationwide express worker walkout. A nationwide strike of 65,000 AFL express workers was notified to start at midnight Friday, with New York Local 2180 instructing 12,000 workers to stop all operations. Over 100 carloads of goods piled at the Detroit express office as shipments to and from the city were embargoed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Detroit Railway Express Company
Nationwide Express
APL Express
National (Railway) Mediation Board
Washington
New York
George M. Herrison
Rand
AFL Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Workers
Daniel Harrison
Thes Company
Harrison
Cincinnati
National Mediation Board
Detroit Express
Identify Man As Attacker
Johnstown man Robert Mallory, 26, faces assault and battery and morality charges after three of four Monday night attacks identified him as the assailant. Police say he admitted slugging one woman who resisted his advances as a Kernville woman and two Johnstown women were struck. One victim could not identify him but fled when she struggled free.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnstown
Robert Mallory
Mallory
Kernville
Dugan Granted Visiting Privileges in Connersville Custody Case
In Connersville Indiana Mrs Cora Dugan received custody of Snookie in the divorce from James Dugan while Dugan was granted the right to visit Snookie at reasonable hours. The case reflects a standard custody arrangement with visitation rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connersville
Ind
Cora Dugan
Snookie
James Dugan
Dugan
Obituary notices for Ditch Steffy and Mack in local paper
George W Ditch Sr longtime coal company worker dies at 4 AM in Homer City after 55 years with Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Survived by many children including George R Shope W Gerald Caldwell and others plus 21 grandchildren and a great grandchild Brother of David Ditch and Mary Laverick Friends to gather at Frank Oiten Homer City home Services to be announced Later Christie Ann Steffy Bradford Pa dies April 6 born May 13 1866 Indiana County Interment in Bradford Cemetery George Mack Last rites for Karmer New Florence to be held at 2 PM tomorrow in Germany Methodist Church Burial in Blairsville Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Ditch
Janey
George Ditch
Barr Slope
David and
Emma McClain Ditch
Alice Tease Ditch
Mr. Ditch
Bradys Bend
Big Soldier
Rothmel, Ernest and
Coal Run
Homer City
St. Louis Church
Lucerne
Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company
Ninal
George R
Barr
W. Gerald
Caldwell
Kenneth
Wailerman
Henry
Meadville
Frank
Helen Ganley
Oakland
Harry
Achine) Boden
Etdersridge
Odell
Zecelia) Sutton
Hayre de Grace
Edwin
Rita) Younkins
Kittanning
David Ditch
New Florence
Mary Laverick
Clairton
Frank Oiten
Maplestreet
Christie Ann Steffy
Bradford
McKean County
Indiana
Clay Martin
George Beneeme
Indiana County
Steffy
Elizabeth Livingston
George
Mack
B.D
Karmer
Germany
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Deshon
George M. Warrison
Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks
A. F. Te
Beethoven
Douf
Gazette
Elec
Killer
Stettinius
Spain
Dravo Plant
U.S. Army
Jap Schoolboy
Tasahito Mikasa
Emperor Hirohito
Nanking
Armstrong Co
Weather Report
Western
Penne
Florsheim
Florsheim Shoe Company
Moorhead
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