Death claims: famed athletes Cagle and Borican
Dec 23 report from New York and Bridgeton notes the deaths of football star Red Cagle, a former Army All American, and track great John Borican. Cagle died of pneumonia and injuries after a possible head trauma in Queens. Borican, 41, died in Bridgeton after a protracted illness, once dominating 800 meters and decathlon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red” Cagle
New York
Christian Kesner
Red
Brooklyn Dodgers
Queens
Cayle
Edward Mattins
Army
Cagle
West Point
Marion Munford Haile
Gretna
New York Giants
John
Joan Borican Bridgeton
N. J
John Borican
America
Borican
Bridgeton High School
Temple University
Hiness
Virginia State College
Columbia University
Capitol Holiday Shut Down And Christmas Plans
Capitol employees leave for holidays while Governor and Mrs. Jones celebrate at the mansion with three decorated trees Santa Claus in the executive quarters distributes candy to poor children and a family dinner precedes a trip to Doylestown. Governor elect Martin and wife spend Christmas at Indiantown Gap as son Captain Edward Martin Jr recovers from surgery to return to duty with the 28th Division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James
Santa Claus
Capitol Messenger
Howard W. Lewis
Doylestown
Jdnes
Robert Radcliffe
Martin
Indiantown Gap
Edward Martin, Jr
Pennsylvania
Allies drive toward Tripoli in North Africa push
Allied forces report General Montgomery's 8th Army within 180 miles of Tripoli after a rapid 220 mile advance from El Aghelia line. In Tunisia, patrols clash near Mendjez el Bal and Mateur as Allied efforts strand Axis supply lines. RAF and naval actions widen pressure on Axis across the Mediterranean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Millerove
Cay Bataan
Adolf Hitler
North Africa
Libyan Desert Front
Bernard L. Montgomery
Tripoli
Tripolitania
el Aghelia
Cairo
Montgomery
Erwin Rommiel
Africa Corps
Mater
Bizerte
Tunisian
Gulf of Gabes
Tunis
Tunisia
Tunis-Hizerte
Hialian
Mediterranean
North
Africa
Zide
Europe
Harold Texander
Ritisd
Middle East
Cyprus
Syria
Greece
RAF Aehter
France
Low Countries
British Air Ministry
RAF
Holland
Japan
South Seas
Sumatra
Dutch East Indies
Bay of Bengal
Sabang
Admiralty
London
Ceylon
Akyab
Burma
Sir
Archibald P. Wavell
India
United Nations
Myittha
New Guinea
Buna
Douglas MacArthur
New Britain
New Cuinea
Sidotla Mine Barrens Area Noted For History And Flora
About 1,700,000 tons of ore were removed from the Sidotla mine before its abandonment in 1911. The commission notes the Barrens area is well known to Penn State College affiliates and state sportsmen, with a designation that conveys an erroneous impression of its character.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Axia
Sidotla
Agjer
Pennsylvania State College
Bus Wreck Kills Many in Pittsburgh Region
A Pittsburgh Manufacturers Bus Company accident left a traveling supervisor from the Federal Public Housing Authority and 16 others dead or injured. The bus plunged near a cliff beside the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie tracks. Police and safety crews worked through the night to recover bodies as a 25 foot boulder threatened the wreck site. Names of the deceased include Paroy McAllister, Edworth. Philip J. Tormay Jr.. Ben Watkins. Charlies Holman Jr.. Clyde White. Dymptro Karapan. James Burger. Clifton Pour. Rev. Willam Boose. Ralph White. Samuel Stafford. Luigi Tyccl. John Howes. Lucas Mikedis. Merthel L Gearin. C B Saylor. Mariana Bruno. Caborn Hair. Vitor Siviky. and Stephen Cheryp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh Mercatile Company
Rochester Hospital
Mratha L. Gearing
Pittsburgh
Federal Public Housing Authority
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie
Ben Watkins
Trevor Jenkins
Paroy McAllister
Edworth
Philip J. Tormay, Jr
Barement
Charlies Holman, Jr
Leetaule
Clyde White
Glenfield
Dymptro
Dan) Karapan
Ale Oaks
James J. Burger
Clifton Pour
Negro
Pittsurgh
Willam J. Boose
No‘a
Ralph J. White
Sewickley
Samuel A. Stafford
Edgefworth
Luigi M. Tyccl
Pittaburgh
John Howes
Glanigid
Lucas Mikedis
Pittyburgh
Miss Merthell
Gearing
Idteburgh
C. B. Saylor
Fair Oaks
Mariana Bruno
Caborn W. Hair
Gewlebley
Devig N. Kirk
Avalon
Johu Mollvain
Aliquinre
Stephen Cheryp
Ben Avon
Vitor Siviky
Gewlokley
Hiciory
Apen
Dempsey says divorce plans filed by wife amid rumors
Lieutenant Commander Jack Dempsey, ex heavyweight champion now Coast Guard, announced his wife Hannah Williams is pursuing a divorce lawyers say. He noted the split could be friendly and said the couple’s two children are in White Plains while the pair had recently separated and planned a quieter country life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jack Dempsey
Coast Guard
Hannah Williams
Dempsey
Hannah
Manhattan Beach Coast Guard
Joan Hannah
Barbara
White Plains
N. C
Scarsdale
Botts
Broadway
Tragic Aliquippa Bus Crash Claims Multiple Lives
Eyewitnesses recount a deadly rock fall that crushed a bus and a following vehicle near Aliquippa, as rescuers use a crane to lift boulders. Coroner and state officials investigate while survivors recall the horror and those injured head to hospital for treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valley Hospital
Sewickley
H. C. McCarter
Beaver County
State Highway Department
Aliquippa
Pittsburgh
Roslyn
Colbert
Mary Glover
Michael J. Joyce
Joyce
George Susce
Pittsburgh Structural Steel
Cleveland Indians
Susce
Ben Watkins
Oyster expert finds 73 pearls in single oyster
Expert Philadephia Roy Mas demonstrates spotting pearls in oysters and reveals he found 73 pearls in one shell. He notes he never earned more than $3 per pearl and plans to have the lot appraised when possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Roy Mason
Mason
Surprise Lt Davis Returns From Africa During Holidays
Lt Joseph Ted Davis cabled his parents in Africa asking to light a Christmas tree. His parents began trimming but he arrived just as they finished, delivering the surprise homecoming in a burst of holiday timing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph
Ted Davis Yon
Africa
Pep Talks Feed Nazis As War Brings Shortages
Stockholm dispatches report Goebbels mobilizing hundreds of Nazi orators to deliver nationwide Pep Talks as Germany faces food ration declines. Press notes, while asserting resilience, describe shortages, hoarding, and penalties for illicit slaughter, with Christmas bleak but apples allotted to each child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Germany
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Goebbels
Robert Lay
Asis
North
Africa
Russia
United Nations
Adolf Hitler
Voelkischer Beobachter
Europe
Beobachter
Stock Market Movers and Percentages From Elided List
A fragmented OCR list shows many major companies and sectors with assorted percentages and figures. It references Am Can Am & For Pow Am and For Pow Am, railroads like Penn RR, utilities, airlines, autos, and steel bodies, plus brands such as Boeing, General Motors, IBM, and Woolworth. The text ends with garbled names and stray numbers, offering little cohesive narrative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Air Reduction
al Chem & Dye Am Can
Am & For
Pow Am
Rad & St. Am Smelt & R Am Tel & Tel Am
Anaconda Atch
T& SP
Ad Refining Bald Leco Balt & Cilio Bendix Aviation
Beth Steel
Boeing Airplane
Borden Co
Budd Mfg
Ches & Ohio
Chrysler Corp Colum G & el
Coml Solvents
Cons Edison
Consol Oil
Curtiss-Wright del Lack & West
Douglas Aircraft
du Pont del Eastman Koda
el Auto-Lite Gen
Elec
Gen Foods
Gen Motors
Gen
Greyhound Corp
Hercules
Hershey Choc Minors Central Int Harvester Int
Nickel Can
Tel & Tel
John Manville
Kennecott Cop Kresge
Lehigh Val
Lehigh Val RR
Libby McN & L
Liggett & Myers Loan's Inc
Montgom
Ward Nat Biscuit
North Ameria North Pacific
Packard Motor Param Pictures
Penn RR
Pullman
Pyre Oil Radio Corp
Repab Steel Reynolds
Sears Roebuck Socony Vacuum Sperry Corp
Studebaker Corp
Swit & Co Texas Co
United Aircraft Iris Genited Gas Imp
U. S
Navbar
U & Smelt U
Warner Bros Pic West Union Tel Wet & Mrs
Woolworth
Yellow Ty & Co
Oh & T
Pay-As-You-Go Tax Plan Move Aims To Halt Defaults
Senator Clark proposes a new Pay-As-You-Go tax drive to shift to at source withholding, oppose a broad sales tax, and consider emergency taxes on war worker earnings. He critiques Ruml's plan while urging measures to tax swollen incomes and fund eight billion dollars in wartime revenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Dat
Clark
D-Mo
Beardsley Army
Treasury
Ruml
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Finance Committee
Senate
Columbus Depot seeks Master Mechanics for War Dept jobs
The Columbus Quartermaster Depot of the War Department seeks Master Mechanics. Ralph McColley will interview applicants December 23 and 24 in Room 1018 New Federal Building from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Positions require five years of heavy construction equipment experience, training of troops in equipment use, and willingness to serve anywhere in the United States. Base pay $2,600 to $3,200 yearly plus overtime. Applicants 1-A under the Selective Service Act not eligible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Armyone
Icy roads halt games and slow city travel
Weather continued with travel hazards as Coatesville-William Penn game stopped due to icy roads. Williamsport buses suspended amid danger. Pt Marion bus skid injures three. Pittsburgh reports many little injuries. Harrisburg sidewalk falls injure over 100. speeds rarely exceed 15 mph. Temperatures ranged with 40/15 in Pittsburgh and 31 in Harrisburg, 35 in Philadelphia. Similar conditions expected today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Williamsport
Pt Marion
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Elderly Bowser couple saved from starvation in cold cottage
Rescue in Meyersdale after neighbors found Mr. Bowser 72 and Mrs. Bowser 64 in dire straits. With outside temps plunging to 26 below zero, they had no fire and only dried apples to eat. Bowser was hospitalized while his wife was placed in the county home after days without aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meyersdale
Dec
John Bowser
Somerset County
Sheri Merle Glessner
Bowsers
Bowser
Parole Board Considers Bruno Parole History in 1941 Case
Chairman Robinson said the Bruno brothers, cousins linked to a 1934 parade killings in Kelay, faced parole after prior crimes. The board weighed their conduct, employment, and sponsor while noting the July 5 reduction of minimum terms and the six month decision window under law. The board emphasized pardon actions carry weight in deliberations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
al Democratic
Kelayres
George H. Earle
Robinson
Parole Board
Bruno
Board of Parole
Pardon Board
Sharp Union Curb Proposed
A plan for sweeping changes to federal labor laws drafts a new War Labor Board to limit presidential powers, suspend premium pay, outlaw strikes in war industries, ban closed shops, curb union political contributions, revive the Hobbs bill, and keep general wage scales to protect war production. Key backers include representatives from CO, APL, NAM, U.S. Chamber, and the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
War Labor Board
New War Labor Board
APL
National Association of Manufacturers
United States Chamber of Commerce
WAACS Seek Africa After Crossing Ocean
A fragment from a WAACS dispatch shows a mix of personalities as they reach Africa. Statements reveal humorous hunger for butter and hairpins, a wish for baths, and relief at hot water and cultivated countryside. An Rhode Island lieutenant notes the welcome and questions about stockings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
Maine
Mississippi
Minnesota
Colorado
Baker Misses Anniversary Radio Broadcast
New York December 24 Phil Baker quit his anniversary appearance on the American radio show Take It Or Leave It after an appendicitis operation at West Side Hospital last night. He is reported recovering normally today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Phil Baker
Columbia Broadcasting System
Baker
West Side V Hospital
Obituary notices for Cooper Construction manager and Ralph Swivers
Obituary continues with details of a Cooper Construction Company manager who supervised miles of road work in Central and Western Pennsylvania. He recently became tax collector of Clymer and married Ella Mary Evans in 1910, leaving a daughter, Laural Louise, and a sister in Pittsburgh. Services at his residence with Rev. C. C. Fulton and burial at East Mahoning Cemetery. Ralph Swivers a former Indiana resident and Philipsburg salesman died after a yearlong illness. Wife Esther, sister Dorothy, and brother Joseph survive. Funeral at his Philipsburg residence with burial in Philipsburg Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cooper Construction Company
Pennsylvana
Clymer
Ella Mary Evans
Laural Louise
Margaret R. Tomb
Pittsburgh
C. C. Fulton
East Mahoning Cemetery
Ralph
Philipsburg
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Fort Jom Meliouel Messiment
Rida
Mit Peveonp
Brunos
WAACS
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