Hanley To Be Charged In Two Murders
Kenneth Hanley, 26, a war veteran, was to face a murder charge in Montgomery Hospital for the fatal shooting of his estranged wife Helen Hanley and her escort John Hoffman. He surrendered after a week in Six Boya Woods, telling police he believed his wife was still alive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norristown
Kenneth Hanley
Montgomery Hospital
Hanley
Six Boya Woods
Helen Hanley
John Hoffman
William Bradley
Winnie
Bradley
James R. Caiola
Winnie” Hanley
Mrs. Hanley
Hoffman
Heirens case nears climax with detailed confessions
Chicago reports William Heirens, 17, a University of Chicago student held on $200,000 bond, spent nearly five hours with his lawyers recounting the Degnan kidnapping and three murders, detailing the slayings of Suzanne Degnan, Frances Brown, and Mrs. Josephine Ross, and describing a split personality named George Murman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
William Heirens
Suzanne Degnan
The
Chicago Tribune
Hal
University of Chicago
Heirens
Tribune
Cook County
the Tribune
North Side
Brown
Ross
Ten enlistments announced by local Army recruiter
Lieutenant John Axsmith at 642 Philadelphia Street reports ten enlistments in the Regular Army during the past week. Names include James Bragg in Commodore, 18 months. Robert Isenberg of Indiana Route 3, three years in Transportation Corps Caribbean Defense Command. Richard Zack of Homer City Route 1, 18 months. Evo J Aspero Algerda, 18 months. John R R Phillips Punxsutawney, three years in Army Air Corps Caribbean Defense Command. David Forrest Punxsutawney, 18 months. William D Phillips Punxsutawney, 18 months. Samuel Parr Dixonville, three years in Corps of Military Police Ala skan Theater. Robert B Mog Black Lick, three 18 months. Becony Air Forces Harry Rising Indiana Route 3, 18 months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Axsmith
U. S. Army
Philadelphia Street
James R. Bragg
Commodore
Robert Isenberg
Indiana R. D
Transportation Corps
Caribbean Defense Command
Richard Zack
Homer City
R. D
Evo J
Aspero
Algerda
John R&r
Phillips
Punxsutawney
Army Air Corps
David Forrest
Wiliam
Camp Mack Scout Staff Prepares For 1948 Camp
George Ober camp director and William Penn Council staff moved into Camp Seph.Mack to ready the site for troop organizations. Camp opens July 28 with Rev. Joseph Kovalik supervising special demonstration and scoutcraft areas. Fred Barclay and Wally Nordby Jr coordinate waterfront and handicraft programs. Edward Pavlick leads mess hall duties with cooks Mrs Brig ham and Mrs Rolls. Merle Conrad and Robert McCracken assist as cooks helpers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Ober
William Penn Council
Seph
Mack
Joseph Kovalik
Blairsville
Kovalik
Fred Barclay
Punxsutawney
Wally Nordby, Jr
Indiana
Edward Pavlick
Graveton
Clarence Brigham
Dixonville
Lee Rolls
Device
Merle Conrad
Robert McCracken
Graceton
Cook
W. D. Sievers
A. E. Long
Ernest Gi Visits In Luzon 1 Capital
Corporal Charles J. Motsko of Ernest spent an eleven day furlough in Baguio Luzon summer capital of the Philippines as a guest at Camp John Hay Reception Center. He entered the Army June 16 1945 from Ernest Pa where his father Elias Motsko resides. After training at Camp Stoneman Calif he sailed November 27 1945 for overseas duty in the Philippines and now serves with Headquarters Squadron Pacific Air Service Command on Luzon.
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Baguio
P. 1
Charles J. Moto
Ernest
Luzon
Philippines
Pacific Air Service Command
Return After 30 Years To Meet Here Event
In summer 1912 two evangelists pitched a tent on West Church Street and the Indiana townspeople gave a hearty response. W. B. Johnson is noted as deceased, while D. L. Roy has returned to preach nightly at 7 45 in a tent on Washington Street between 13th and 14th. The piece mentions the wife of the U S president being called Your Majesty.
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West Church Street
Indiana
W. B. Johnson
D. IL. Roy
Washingen Street
13Th
UK backs Egypt move on Palestine at UN
London reported July 24 that the Foreign Office said Britain was aware of Egypt's plan to bring the Palestine questions before the United Nations and had no objection. It also stated the UK would welcome El Salvador's membership application to the UN.
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London
Foreign Office
United Kingdom
Egypt
United Nations Organization
Elre
U. N
Noon Stock Ticker Snapshot Of Major U S Firms
A fragmented list of stock quotes and percentage changes for numerous corporations across industries. Notable names include Am Can, Am Rad Sts, Boeing, General Motors, U S Steel, Penn RR, Packard, Studebaker, Woolworth, Edison, and Union Tel, with varied gains and losses reflecting a busy trading session.
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Smelt & R
Adl Refining
Balt & Ohlo
Bendix Aviat
Heth Stee
Boeing Airplane
Borden Ca
Briges Mfg
Budd Co
Case
Ches & Ohio
Chisler Corp
Vitm Column
Wrony Com Salvents
Cons Edison
Curtiss Wright
del Lack & West
Douglas Aircraty
du Pont de
Erie
Gen Foods Bi Gen Motors
Gen Motors
Gen
HOY Greyhound Corp
Hard Walker
Hercules Powder
Gly Int Harvester
Nick Can
Johns Manville
Kennecott Cop
Kresge SS
Lehigh Port Cadie Lehigh Val Coal
Val RR
Libby McN & L
Loews
Ing Bay Montgom Ward
Nat Biscuit
Nat Dairy
Nat Distillers
Nat Pow & Lt
NJ Central RR
North Ameria
Northern Pac
Packard Motor
Param Piet
Penney (Jc
Penn RR
Radio Corp
Repab Steel
Sears Roebuck
Socony Vacuum
Sperry Corp
Steg & el
Cal
Ing
Hughes Said In Good Shape After Crash Recovery
Los Angeles July 24 Howard Hughes in pretty good shape doctors report after his spectacular crash in an experimental plane. He has a crushed chest a fractured skull and other injuries but shows remarkable stamina. Left lung fluid drained twice is beginning to function though danger remains until fluid is removed and a third chest tapping is planned.
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Los Angeles
Howard Hughes
Hughes
Verne Mason
Beverly Hills
Vet Charged In Murder In Somerset County
Robert W. Sehn, 24, a World War II veteran of Holsopple, was charged with murder in a warrant prepared by State Police. He allegedly stabbed Henry A. Bienjas, 29, of Boswell, at the Firemen's Club in Friedens last Sunday night. A coroner's jury recommended holding Sehn for grand jury action. Sehn faces aggravated assault and battery, assault, unlawful assembly, and related counts and is jailed awaiting hearings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerset
Robert W. Sehn
Justice of the Peace H. 8
Whipperman
Sehn
Henry A. Bienjas
Boswell
Friedens
Jusice Whipperman
Somerset County
Sy William Fleegle
Jenners
Iilis Son
Albert
Kartner
United States Communists chart renewed militant line
The national board of United States Communists orders a return to Marxist Leninist theory. It calls for mass actions against inflation and rents, reopening wage talks, backing Labor Progressive candidates, breaking with Franco Spain, withdrawing US forces from China, halting aid to Chiang Kai-shek, and forming an anti fascist coalition guided by the working class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
National Board
Daily Worker
Spain
China
Roosevelt
Soviet Union
Japs Ignore Indemnities Budget Presented in Tokyo
Tokyo July 24. Finance Minister Tanai Ishibashi presented a 1946-47 budget to Japan's House of Representatives with no provision for war indemnities. Claims for war damages, reconstruction costs, and damaged contracts exceed 70 billion yen, while postwar settlement and occupation costs top 19 billion yen and economic reconstruction 10 billion yen. The budget totals 56,088,455,108 yen, with an exchange rate of 15 yen per dollar.
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Tokyo
Japan
House of Representatives
Tanai Ishibashi
Ishibashi
Hirohito
China Masses Troops Near NanKing For Push On Reds
Nanking July 24 A government spokesman said China’s coastal province Klangsu has ample troops to defend Nanking and Shanghai and that the contested Tash Ings Jukao area northeast of Nanking would be cleared of Communist forces soon. Peng Hatteh Pei refused travel access to front lines across the Yangtze and dismissed Sun Yat sen’s appeal to withdraw US troops. Both sides claimed Jukao in its strategic position, with Kuo Min tang reinforcements said to have taken the city two days earlier, while Communists argued they still held it.
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Nanking
Klangsu
Shanghai
Peng Hatteh-Pei
Yangtze River
Peng
Sun Yat-sen
China
George Washington
United States
Madame Sun Yat-sen
Kuomintang
Government Party
Third Party
Democratic League
Rebuilders of Germany Given Rules
Thousands of former Nazi party members work to clear rubble in bomb torn German cities. A former Nazi posted so called commandments for rubble removers in Milbertshofen Munich advising on attitudes, conduct, and safety at sites. The Sueddeutsche Zeitung noted the rules boosted worker energy and altered eating shelf life through packaging experiments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munich
Germany
Milbertshofen
Suedderutsche [Zeitung
Carrier Based Jet Fighter Ushers In New Aviation Era
The McDonnell FD Phantom became the first all jet aircraft to take off and land on an American carrier deck during at-sea tests aboard the carrier F D Rooger. Lt Comdr James Davidson piloted five takeoffs and landings, with a 380 foot roll for one takeoff, on a 60 mile east of Cape Henry flight. The jet weighed 8800 pounds ready for tests and could top 500 mph. The Navy plans to order several dozen Phantoms and may deploy a squadron aboard a carrier before year’s end. The British also tested a De Havilland Vampire jet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James J. Strebig
Associated Preas Aviation
F. D. BR
Navel
Westinghouse
Franklin D. Rooger
James J. Davidson
Rochester
Minit
Navy
Aetro
Davidson
Cape Henry
American Fleet History Advances with Phantom Trials
Three launches and landings were conducted last December 4 as the American Navy tests a Jet-piston engine fighter aboard carriers. Today's Phantom trials open a new page in U S fleet history with improved carrier operations and performance.
Urge Check Of Old Age S S Accounts
Workers who had social security taxes deducted should check their old age and survivors Insurance accounts yearly at this time, urges Johnstown office manager Richard C. Wiestling. Request Form 7004 to obtain wage statements, available at the Johnstown Social Security Office. Employers urged to supply forms for employees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Social Security Board
Richard C
Johnstown
Wiestling
Social Security Office
Carnegie Building
Plan Pullman Strike Aug 7 Over Wage Issue
Washington July 24 74 Conductor union plans a Pullman system strike on August 7 unless a fact finding board is named by President Truman. The dispute centers on interpreting a recent wage increase for about 2700 conductors. Fraser says the company seeks an hourly basis, reducing the monthly rise by eight cents a day, altering long standing wage formulas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pullman
Truman
H.W. Fraser
Order of Railway Conductors
Pullman Company
Fraser
Ten Die In Sea Off Alaska Cannery Tender Sinks
In treacherous Shelikof Strait waters the 65 foot cannery tender Cougar sank after breaking in two during a storm. One severely injured survivor, Harold Aya of Larsen's Bay, was rescued from a drifting gasoline container and flown to a hospital. An all day search failed to locate any other survivors among the crew and passengers, including two women and seven others.
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Kodiak
Alaska
Shelikol Strait
Navy
Alaska Sea Frontier
Harold Aya
Larsen’s Bay
Hope
Frank McConaghy, Inc
House Says No To Bond Pay For GI's
Washington July 24 terminal pay for GIs faced House opposition to the Senate bond plan cashable after five years. House leaders argued cash is needed for enlisted men and would seek to restore lump sum payments. The dispute, to be resolved in a Senate House conference, centers on a bond based payment system with cash splits under $50 and five year bonds. Costs projected up to 3 billion dollars, with some cash outlays immediate for certain discharged or deceased service members. The article also notes unrelated church and weaving references from earlier eras.
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Washington
House
Gobs
Senate
Senate House
Nightfail
Rep
Sikes
D-Fla
Dr. Rogers
Rodgers
Truman
Obituaries for Davis Darr Myers Strong and heirs
A consolidated obituary notice lists Mrs Rachel Anna Davis Darr of Burnside died July 22 at 6 p m age 85. She leaves two sons George W Burnside and Harvey in Washington DC, 18 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren with funeral at Union Church Burnside July 25 at 2 pm Reverend Stebbins officiating Interment IOOF Cemetery Burnside. Also listed are Clementine Reese Myers of Indiana died yesterday at 8:30 am born September 25 1879 in Pine Flats with survivors including husband J Irvin Myers two sons Leroy and Hugh, a daughter Thelay male, a granddaughter Mrs Roy Hadden, siblings Haze Williams Benjamin Frank and Mrs J O Davis with services July 25 at 2 pm DST at Robinson Funeral Home Indiana and interment Greenwood Cemetery. James H Strong of Elderton died in Mercy Hospital after three days illness born January 20 1875 in Isington Lane England. He resided in Boswell Salina West Newton Elderton, a mining official, wife predeceased him. Surviving children listed across multiple locations include Clarence E Portage Thomas Edmon James B Niagara Falls NY John R Shelcoa Mrs William Musick Ardmore Mrs Wilmer Clawson New Alexandra BD Ason Captain George W Strong of Pittsburgh and siblings Mrs Emma Cramer West Newton and Mrs Annie Morrell Pittsburgh. Twenty-one grandchildren and two great grandchildren noted. Funeral services Friday at 1:40 pm DST in Robinson Funeral Home with interment Oakland Cemetery.
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Rachel Anna Davis Dare
James G. Darr
Burnside
Union Church
BE. Stebbins
IOOF
McCardle Funeral Home
Clementine Reese Myers
North 10Th. Street
Indiana
Hugh
Elizabeth Williams
Pine Flats
Barnesboro
First
Regular Baptist Church of
J. Irvin
Myers
Leroy
Kensington
Maryland
Thelay
Roy Hadden
Haze Williams
Benjamin
Frank
J. O. Davis
Rizeville
W. Va
Robinson Funeral Home
Chester C. Mustead
Greenwood Cemetery
James. H. Strong
Elderton
Mercy Hospital
Stephen and
Sara (Haines) Strong
Isington Lane
England
America
Boswell
Salina
West Newton
Clarence E. Portage
Thomas x. Edmon
James B
Niagara Falls
John Strong
Erie
Emma Cramer
Annie Morrell
Pittsburgh
Oakland Cemetery
Hammers Named Next Imperial Potentate of Shrine
Indiana Mason Hammers, longtime Gourgas Lodge of Perfection past thrice potent master, serves on Scottish Rite board of trustees and is advancing through Shrine ranks. Elected Potentate for next year after holding Outer Guard and Imperial Council roles, he holds 38th degree honor from Grand Rapids in 1934 and is honorary member in many temples.
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Indiana
Imperial Council of the Shine
Detroit
Hammers
Imperial
North America
Tall Cedars
Lebanon
Pittsburgh
Royal Order of Jesters
Association of Masonic Veterans of
Weeter Pennsylvania
Glassport Bank Joins Federal Reserve System
The Bank of Glassport in Glassport Pennsylvania has become a member of the Federal Reserve System. President Ray M. Gidney of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland announced the inclusion as Fourth Federal District banks total 724 and hold about 85 percent of district deposits.
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Bank of Glassport
Glassport
Pittsburgh
Federal Reserve System
Ray M. Gidney
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Fourth Federal District
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William George Heirens
George Murman
George
Ernest Gi
U.S
Palestine
Marx
Lenin
Coney Island
Shorty Sprouse
Mattie
Cat Hollow
Shorty
Godfrey Tearle
Frantelin D. Roosevelt
Ann Santini
Patricia Ann
Pat
S.S
George White
San Diego
Calif
Owen Brewster
John Coffee
Tacoma
Wash
Eivind Anderson
Ray Miller
Waldhof
Ontario
Weather Report
War Profits
New York Daily News
Nea-Acme
George Meader
Garssons
Andrew May
Gre
James M. Mead
Homer Ferguson
Hugh B. Mitchel
Glassport Bank
C. Streams
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