25000 Men Armed Ready to March on Paris
Paris July 1 AP A self described leader of the Black Maquis says 25000 armed men are ready to march on Paris to form an anti Communist government. Interior Ministry disclosed the existence of the group and arrested leaders for plotting a military takeover. The figure claims some members stem from the resistance and notes an important Breton Maquis center.
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Paris
Black Maquis
Interior Ministry
Champs Elysees
Committee of Revolutionary Action
CSAR
Normandy
Miss Sarah Wherry Dies at 97 Former Indiana missionary in India
Miss Sarah Maria Wherry longtime missionary and civic figure died at her Rite home at 6:20 pm aged 96 or 97. Born December 23, 1849 in South Bend township Armstrong county she taught at Alders Ridge Academy and served forty two years in Punjab India. She helped establish The Middle School and educated a native girl now a Bible woman. Survived by nieces Clara and Helen Wherry and other relatives. Visitation at Robinsons 36 North Seventh Street tonight after 6 o'clock. Funeral Thursday at 2:00 pm at the funeral home conducted by Rev. Burton Boyd. Interment Oakland Cemetery.
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Sarah Maria Wherry
Indiana
North Ninth Street
Miss Wherry
South Bend Township
Armstrong County
James
Sarah Nesbit Wherry
Alders Ridge Academy
India
Presbyterian Board
Elwood M. Wherry
Punjab
Probation Granted to Driver Robert Grosse after Plea
Robert Grosse of Home entered guilty pleas to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and driving with a suspended license. He was fined 250 dollars plus costs and placed on probation. He pled guilty to driving before his operator privileges were restored and nolo contendere to the drinking driver charge.
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Hopert Grosse
Home
Grosse
Nolo Contendre
Modern Piracy Hits Union Office in Manayunk
Manayunk police report thieves broke into the International Brotherhood of Fulp Sulphite and Pepper Mill Workers office and stole seven thousand five hundred twenty five dollars in government bonds. The union building backs onto the Mangyuok Cong.
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Manayunk
AG Afl
International Brotherhood of Fulp, Sulphite and Peper
Rawbogs
Mangyuok Cong
Blairsville Moose Lodge steward found dead at home
William H. Duncan, a World War I veteran and longtime steward of the Blairsville Moose Lodge, was found dead in his home at 6 a m today after working at the club yesterday and returning home about 3 a m. Obituary on page 25.
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William H. Duncan
Blairsville
Moose Lodge
Fair Grounds
Sulky Racing Is July 4th Attraction
The Indiana Lions Club plans a Fourth of July celebration at the Indiana County Fair Grounds to benefit the Indiana Health Camp. The program features harness races at 1:30 PM, a 10:00 AM horse show, a 11:00 AM ball game between Ernest and Mc Intyre and Rochester and Pittsburgh League contenders, an evening square dance, a horse pulling contest at 8:00 PM, amusements, rides, and a post dark fireworks display.
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Indiana County Fair Grounds
Indiana Lions Club
Indiana Health Camp
Ernest and McIntyre
Rochester
Pittsburgh
Stores To Stay Open Wednesday For Fourth Of July
Indiana stores and business houses that kept Wednesday afternoons closed during summer will reopen this Wednesday afternoon for the full day Fourth of July holiday after merchants agreed to stay open, an announcement by the Chamber of Commerce said yesterday.
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Indiana
Chamber of Commerce
Bar Association Sets Summer Vacation Schedule
The Indiana Bar Association in a meeting yesterday set their annual summer vacation period as Wednesday afternoons and all day Saturday during July and August. Last summer county offices closed daily at 3 pm and Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, but this summer they dispensed with the 3 o'clock closing time.
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Indiana Bar Assosiation
C C Dinsmore Announces Bid for County Auditor
Indiana County voters are informed that C C Dinsmore is a candidate for County Auditor in the Senate Republican primary to be held September 9 1947. Dinsmore asks for support and votes. Indiana field notes reference horse racing at the fair grounds on July 4.
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Indiana
C. C. Dinsmore
Man In White Shines Through Long Railroad Career
Charles E. Onderdonk began as a coal shoveler on a New York Central railroad Wain and retired at 69. Known for eight decades of service, he wore a white shirt and collar daily. Co-workers recalled him as a rare railroader who served as fireman, steam engineer, and electric engineer while maintaining pristine attire.
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New York
Charles E. Onderdonk
New York Central Railroad
Sill
New Levee Breaks On 90 Mile Front Near St Louis
Mississippi River floods force evacuations along a 90 mile stretch as the river hits a 103 year peak. Dupo Illinois and nearby East Carondelet face deliberate levee breaches. Degonia Mountain Bluff breaks drive about 600 from Gorham and Neunert, Illinois, threatening Grand Tower residents in lower areas.
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ST. Louis
Mississippi River
Dupo
Here
Mllinois Central
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Cupo
East Carondelet
Degonia Mountain Bluff
Gorham
Neunert
Minois
Grand Tower
Ill
Jesse Grammer
Pa Congressmen Voice Record on Statehood
Washington July 1 Pennsylvania members in the U S House of Representatives vote on a bill to admit the Hawaiian Islands as a state. Fifteen in favor eight against with several Republicans and Democrats listed for against and a number of members recorded as not voting. The Senate action was pending.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
U. S
House of Representatives
House
Hawaiian Islands
Senate
Crow
Fulton
Larbacher
Hugh Scott
Buchanan
Eberharter
Morgan
Walter
Chadwick
Corbett
Dague
Fenton
Gavin
Gillette
Graham
Grass
Kinkel
McConnell
McCowell
McGarvey
Maloney
Muhlenberg
van Zandt
Gallagher, Jenkins
Kearns Rich
Scoblick
Hardie Scott
Simpson
Tibbott
Kelley
Second Concert Slated Thursday
The Indiana High School Summer Session Band will present the second in a weekly open air concert series on Thursday at 7 30 pm on the Indiana High School athletic field. The band includes students from Horace Mann Thaddeus Stevens Laboratory and High Schools and features first concert performers in the early weeks of the summer session. The July Mth concert will be the Summer Session Orchestra. The Board of Education sponsors the series for Indiana Public Schools under Dr. Harry A. Canfield.
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Indiana High School
Horace Mann
Thaddeus Stevens
Board of Education
Indiana Public Schools
Harry A. Canfield
Indiana School Directors Set Tax At 19 Mills For Year
At a special Indiana School Board meeting the 1945 48 budget was tentatively adopted setting the school tax at 19 mills and a $5 per capita tax. Salary funds exceed last year with $113 721 state reimbursement, leaving $102 511 local for 1947 48. Five teachers were hired to fill vacancies and several moves approved as Ruth B R Kline Harriet Wolfe John M Hillkirk Evelyn Shupe and David Bell joined or shifted staff.
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Indiana School Board
Indiana
Ruth BR. Kline
Barnesboro
Harriet Wolfe
Mansfield
John M. Hillkirk
Cochranton
Evelyn Shupe
West Newton
David Bell
Pittsburgh
Elwood Sheeder
Board of Education
Five People In Air Crash Near Sibley Louisiana
SHREVEPORT La July 1 One man was believed killed and four others reported missing after a plane crash three miles south of Sibley La Sheriff Oscar Haynes Odey said a man was found in the wreckage but no trace of the remaining four aboard The crash crew from Barksdale Field headed to the scene but field officials could not confirm contact and reported no scheduled flights today First news came at 5 20 am from an unidentified commercial airline.
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Shreveport
Sibley
Oscar Haynes Odeyline
Barksdale Field
Field
Truman Signs Bill Keeps Three Cent Postage Rate
Washington reports President Truman signed legislation that maintains the three-cent postage rate for letters indefinitely. Without the bill the rate would have fallen to two cents at midnight.
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Washington
Truman
Russian Scientist Finds New Cancer RemedyKR Therapy Reported by American Soviet Society
The American review reports that KR, a Russian cancer remedy, dissolves malignant growths in about half of treated patients. One patient has remained cancer-free for two and a half years. The treatment uses a chemical extract from Trypanosoma parasites, with fever as a side effect. higher doses show greater activity. Cancers treated include larynx, esophagus, breast, lip, and cervix with notable responses in laryngeal and breast cases.
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New York
American Review of Soviet Medicine
Mme
N .G. Kiyueva
G. Koskin
Boykin
Klyueva
Bride Says No At Ceremony In London
London report details Rosanna Pevers, a British G I bride to be, refusing to marry Gio vanni Castellani at the altar. In Chicago she met Peter Vasquez, whom she was to wed, sparking hope Castellani holds for a future union.
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London
Rosanna Pevers
G. I
Chicago
Rosanna
Giovanni Castellani
U.S
Ingi
Samuel Pevers
Castellani
Peter Vasquez
Giovanni
Peter
Truman signs Treasury Post Office Bill amid tax agency cuts
President Truman signed the Treasury Post Office Appropriation Bill but denounced it as a gross inadequacy for tax collection. He warned that a $20 million cut in the Internal Revenue Bureau would force 4 000 to 5 000 layoffs, reduce revenue by at least 400 million, and delay 30 000 tax evasion leads awaiting investigation.
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Washington
Truman
Treasury Post Office
Internal Revenue Bureau
Congress
Bureau
Remembering Rent Control Under New Law
A rent office notice explains the new federal rent control law effective today. Tenants keep current rents unless signing a new lease with up to 15 percent increase, lease terms to December 1948, and landlords must register signed leases within 14 days. Tenants may choose to sign or not and are protected against unlawful eviction or higher rent. questions at 124 Main Street, Johnstown. Also promoting summer driver training with dual controls. McGill Motors, phone 723.
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Congress
Main Street
Johnstown
Home’s In the Bag County Secutes and Indebtedness
Chicago reports two wrens nesting in a clothes pin bag on a Sinnett yard line as a light note. The piece also notes Indiana County’s bond debt reduction to 2,235,000 after a 50,000 payment and mentions horse racing events at Fair Grounds on July 4.
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Chicago
Home Sweet Home
Melvin Sinnett
Barrington
Indiana County
Poe Steele Clark
British, French To Set Up Aid Plan Without Beds
Prague dispatch reports a specially appointed commission urged Czechoslovakia to cooperate with United States aid under the Marshall Plan. Foreign Minister Masaryk would be authorized to act, informing Soviet British and French governments of Czechoslovakia’s willingness to work toward conditions for U S aid. Pope Pius XII commented on Europe’s rehabilitation as Britain negotiates food deals with Hungary Yugoslavia and Russia aligning with Marshall aid.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
United States
Masaryk
Vatican City
Pius XII
America
Europe
London
John Strachey
Great Britain
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Russia
U. S
State Marshall
Marshal
Styachey
House of Commons
Tass criticizes Anglo French plan on European aid
The Soviet news agency Tass in Paris dispatches denounces the Marshall aid for Europe as a device to burden small nations and favor Britain and France. It argues American credits will be used as pressure and that Molotov’s European needs listing would hasten recovery and serve European interests.
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Moscow
Tass
Paris
Britain
France
Europe
Great Britain
V. M. Molotov
Long Delayed Letters of Administration Filed in Olvera Estate
In Los Angeles on July b a distant grandson sought letters of administration for the estate of Senora Concepcion Arguella De Olvera who died in 1865. Charles A Forbes outlined the action to aid heirs of the early California family in pursuing old land claims against the Mexican government.
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Los Angeles
Senora Concepcion Arguella de Olvera
Charles A. Forbes
California
Conference Deadlock in Allied Talks Over European Aid
The four way meeting of Russian British and French foreign ministers in Paris debated a U S plan for European economic recovery. Molotov vetoed Marshall plan terms while Bevin and Bidault considered solo continental planning without the Soviet Union. Officials warned of possible failure and a final communique signaling the collapse.
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Joseph £. Dynan
Paris
Marshall
V. M. Molotov
Ernest Bevin
Georges Bidault
Soviet Union
Brault
Molotov
Georgie C. Marshall
United States
Bevin
Bidault
Paul Ramadier
National Assembly
Ramadier
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Jan Masaryk
George Carshall
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