Civil Strife Continues In Israel
Tel Aviv reports say civil strife worsened as Irgun gun runners beached a munitions ship within sight of a United Nations hotel. The LST fire and explosions raged four hours, with at least 40 killed or injured as Irgun and Haganah forces clashed amid a UN truce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Hewett
Tel Aviv
Irgun Zvai Loum
Israel
Irgun
LST
United Nations
Toudpker
Uicer
Haganah
Menachen Beigin
Local Guards Launch Drive For Members
Indiana Company F of the Pennsylvania National Guard begun an enlistment drive to fill 188 seats. Captain Alex Tait reports many show interest, with physical exams required. A jeep promoting enlistments sits outside the courthouse daily, and T/Set. Irvin S. Byers aids the effort at the Armory and courthouse for interviews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Company F
Pennsylvania National Guard
Alex Tait
Court House
National Guard
Irvin S. Byers
Indiana Tops Average in Bond Drive
Indiana County leads state in Savings Bond sales from April 1 to June 12 1948 with 259158 in E Bond sales and 451621 in FE FG Bond totals reaching 65 percent of quota. Pennsylvanias overall and E Bond quotas show 51.8 and 47.9 percent respectively as of June 12 1948.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana County
G. S. Parnell
Pennsylvania
Parnell
Indiana Co
Welding Clinic At Fair Grounds Opens In Indiana
A three day welding clinic for vocational agriculture teachers from Indiana and Cambrian Counties opened at the Indiana Fair Grounds with sessions daily 9 am to 4 pm. Woodrow W. Schrock organized it to enhance farm shop programs. Michael Miscoe of Lindy Air Products Co. will demonstrate farm machinery welding techniques. he trained hundreds of shipyard welders in World War II. Instructors include high school teachers and veterans training program personnel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Cambrian Counties
Indiana Fair Grounds
Woodrow W. Schrock
Lindy Air Products Co
Pittsburgh
Michael Miscoe
Miscoe
Taft and Stassen Chase Open Convention in Pennsylvania
Taft and Stassen lead rival camps to block Dewey as Pennsylvania votes shape the GOP fight. Edward Martin withdraws for Dewey, Stassen calls the move a Dewey Grundy deal as he seeks an open convention. Taft and allies plan further conferences to test if a dark horse could emerge.
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Stassen
Taft
Dewey
Aft
Qhioun
Pet Parade in Clymer Tomorrow
A pet parade for children and their pets is scheduled for tomorrow night in Clymer. It starts at 6:30 p.m. under the Clymer Kiwanis Club, with entrants gathering in the Tate Brothers parking lot on Franklin Street before 6:40 p.m. The sponsor offers 80 cash prizes for parade winners as the event proceeds through town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clymer
Ship of the Clymer Kiwanis Club
Tate Brother
Franklin Street
Kiwanis Club
Kills Atom Control Plan Discussed Across Pages One
The article notes a veto claim and a 9-0 vote sending records to the assembly. It mentions Dmitri Manuilsky and Faris Khouri as council figures, with the UN Atomic Energy Commission still weighing the atomic issue. The United States maintains a helium monopoly due to Texas and Oklahoma gas sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dmitri Z. Manuilsky
Ister
Faris Fe! Khouri
Syria
Youtcil
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
United States
Texas
Oklahoma
Vandenberg Banners Appear At New York Convention
In New York the crowd saw Vandenberg banners for the first time inside the big hall. A truck arrived carrying the banners shortly after Sigler announced his name at the convention, while one delegate refused to disclose his name.
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New York
Vandenberg
Sigler
Bob Duff and Martin Battle for Pennsylvania Delegation
Taft of Ohio and Harold Stassen of Minnesota loom as rivals in the nomination caucus. Duff and Martin vie for delegates as the Pennsylvania GOP fractures from top to bottom. Martin pledges support for Pennsylvanians and steps aside for Dewey, while Duff calls it a personal preference and says the delegation will decide Pennsylvania’s vote.
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Taft
Ohio
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Duff
Martin
Dewey
New Yorker
Pennsylvania
Greeks Push Offensive Reported Amid Frontline Clash
Dispatches describe guerrilla incursions into Albania with retreat routes into Greece and a flank attack on the Ninth Division. King Paul, arriving by air, inspected the front while Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet praised progress and predicted major fighting to finish within four weeks with mop up by August 1.
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Albania
Greece
King Papi
Kozane
James A. van Fleet
U. S
Movie Writer’s Yacht Pirated in Wilmington Harbor
Police report that the schooner Fiesta in Wilmington Harbor has been pirated. George Sherwood and his wife, the former Pauling Sterke, said their yacht was taken with a mink coat valued at 4000 dollars, a 2500 dollar cape, 900 dollar binoculars, and a 100 dollar wristwatch missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Calif
WipenGereen
George Sherwood
Pauling Sterke
Convention Program Obituaries at Republican National Convention
Philadelphia program details for June schedule with calls to order by House Speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr. and roll calls for nominations and balloting for President and Vice President. Includes addresses, resolutions committee report, and committee appointments. Balloting may stretch into Friday.
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Philadelphia
House
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Massachusetts
Rep. Halleck
Indiana
Robert W. Macauley
Republican National Committee
Ralph Becker
National Young Republican Federation
Call
Washington State
Holl Call
United States
Martin
Three Area Men Enlist In US Navy Chief Chrabasz
Three area men enlisted in the regular navy for three year terms as announced by Chief Chrabasz Indiana Navy Recruiter. Richard James Sinclair from Alverda will train as a pharmacist after hospital recruit duties. James William Lieb of Nicktown will enter airman pathways at Great Lakes with aviation school after basic training. Gerald Thomas Jenkins of Heilwood entered as a hospital recruit at Indiana Hospital and will train for a navy pharmacist role after basics at Great Lakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chrabasz
Indiana
Richard James Sinclair
George Sinclair
Alverda
Richard
Heilwood High School
Navy Medical Corps School
James William Lieb
George A. Lieb
Nicktown
James
Spangler High School
Naval Center, Great Lakes
Iinois
Gerald Thomas Jenkins
Augustus Leroy Laney
Edith Trinkley
Clymer
Navy
Indiana Hospital
Gerald
Heilwood High
Grat Lakes
Illinois
Gerald Will
Navy Hospital Medical Corps School
E B Race Dies at Home After Long Civic Life
E B Race former registrar and later steward of the Indiana Normal School died at his home. He married Agnes Campbell in 1911 and is survived by four children and two grandchildren. He lived in Forest Glen Maryland with work at National Park Seminary before returning to Indiana in 1920. He held church, fraternal and travel society memberships and will receive last rites from Benjamin Franklin Lodge. Funeral services are at his home with interment in Oakland Cemetery.
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Thomas H. Hoffman
Armagh
Buffington Township
Indiana Co
Milton
Lucinda Alit Hoffman
Buffington Two
Wintondale
Vintondale
Hoffman
Mary Elizabeth Moore Hoffman
Russell W
Greensburg T. C
Percy
Johnstown
Charles
Belsano
Brushvalley Trop
Alfred
Annie) Miller
Nicktown
Clark S. Derby
Pineland Cemetery
National Park Seminary
Indiana
Race
Pensylvania
Methodist Church
Presbyterian Church of
George Washington Race
Washington County
N.Y
Zion Luitheran
Episcopal
Presbyterian
Men's Glee Club of
Benjamin Franklin Lodge
Williams
Daugherty
Royal Arch Masons
Coudersport
Jaffa
Mystic Shrine
Altoona
United Commercial Travelers
James K. Leitch
United Presbyterian Church
Oakland Cemetery
Western Allies Reject Red Money For Berlin Crisis
Western Allies refuse Soviet currency in Berlin, plan immediate Deutschemark use in western sectors and demand two currency city status. Banks and most stores closed, only food and drug outlets open as tensions rise. Berlin population awaits Soviet move. four power accords ignored. Debates blocked as crowds swarm City Hall amid currency reform fallout.
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Lynn Heinzerling
Berlin
Socialist Unity Party
Soviet Zone
Germany
Farm Forester Assigned To Indiana County
Mr. Curtis L. Lytle of the Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters is assigned as Farm Forester for Indiana County. At the request of the Indiana County Soil Conservation District Board of Directors, he will spend most of his time in the district working with woodland owners and sawmill operators. He will assist with marketing, milling, woodland management, planting and growing timber. Contact through the Indiana County Soil Conservation District office or the Swank Building, Jahnstown, Pa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curtis L. Lytle
Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters
Indiana County Soil Conservation District Board of Directors
State Conservation Commission
Department of Forests and Waters
Lytle
Indiana County District
Convention To Ratify Platform
The piece notes a convention to ratify the platform with focus on public housing and civil rights planks. It questions whether President Trumean will compel a Republican Congress into a summer special session to push the party’s platform promises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trumean
Platforns
Woman Sentenced For Stolen Furs Buy Own Coat
In Los Angeles Judge Walter S. Gates fined Alta Bouldin 300 dollars and placed her on probation for three years after she pleaded guilty to receiving stolen furs worth 8500 dollars. He ordered 25 dollars monthly into a court fund and when 500 dollars accrues she will be escorted to a store to buy a fur coat of her choice.
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Los Angeles
Alta Bouldin
Bouldin
Walter S. Gates
Lewis Asks Aecess In Contract Talks
The court order against a strike issued by Goldsborough to end a walkout linked to pension fund disputes stands amid ongoing wage talks. John L. Lewis faces a plan for a $100 monthly miners pension, with bargaining resuming as the June 30 wage schedule expires. The Justice Department argues the pension order cannot halt a future work stoppage tied to contract deadlock.
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Goldsborough
John L. Lewis
Goldsboroung
Lewis
UMW
Matthew F. McGuire
Justice Department
Pansion Fund
Port -Coal
Death notices from Indiana County and Armstrong County
Obituaries detail burial plans for James Laney born 1870 in Armstrong Township and widower Frances Laney who died 1939, plus survivors including brother Sylvester Laney. Also notes the death of Edgar Young of Indiana, born 1875, a marble agent with a Zion Lutheran affiliation and three daughters and two sons. Clyde E. Altemus, WWII veteran born 1918, wounded in New Guinea and awarded the Purple Heart, with services planned in Indiana.
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William, Edgar Young
Washington Street
Indiana
Danial W. and
Dailiah Rearick Young
Armstrong County
Zion Lutheran Church
Martha Belle Moorhead Young
M. O
Laura) Alexandra
Wilkinsburg
Clyde E. Altemus
Brushvalley
Westinghouse
Wilmerding
Camp Croft
South Carolina
Camp Dix
N. J
Australia
New Guinea
Robinson’s
N. 7Th St
Weather and service notices for Indiana area
Quite warm and humid weather tonight and Thursday with scattered thunder showers. Military services in charge of Indiana Posts American Legion W F and Co F National Guards will be held at the grave with interment in Greenwood Cemetery Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennesylvanias
Indiana
American Legion
Co. F National Guards
Greenwood Cemetery
Indian Springs Pool Program Adjusts Schedule for Beginners
Due to high turnout Ui dian Springs Park pool shifts to two beginner groups. One group meets Mondays and Thursdays from 1 to 2 pm, the other Tuesdays and Fridays from 1 02 pm. About 120 boys and girls registered, nearly three times last year. Classes are free to pool members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uidian Springs Park Pool
Area Men Attend Church Meeting in Chambersburg
Five area men represented the Kittanning Presbytery at the annual Synod of Pennsylvania meeting of the Presbyterian Church in Chambersburg. Attendees included John Woods Indiana Dr. Harry Burton Boyd Indiana Rev. John A. Bacora Marion Center Rev. James Bair Ford City and Mr. B C Kerr Ford City. Mrs Agnes Hood attended the Women’s Synodical event, which ran from Monday through Friday evening last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kittanning
Synod of Pennsylvania of the Presbyterian Church
Chambersburg
Wilson College
John Woods
Indiana
Harry Burton Boyd
John A. Bacora
Marion Center
James Ԥ. Bair
Ford’ City
B.C. Kerr
Ford City
Agnes Hood
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Ilinois
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John 8. Knight
Chicago Daily News
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McCormick
Taft- Stassen
Fair Grounds
Wmurvey
Binghamton
Florida
Lake Worth
Fla
Harvey
Taft and
Edward Martin
Atom
US Navy
James Wilmer Moorhead
Bell Funeral Home
James K. ‘Leitch
Bell’s
E. B. Race
Aecess
Margaret Uncapher Laney
Armstrong Township
Blairsville
Princess Anne
Maryland
Katharyn
Margaret Moorhead
South Fifth Street
Frances Wicdlowson Laney
Sylvester Clark Laney
Holland Road
First Regular Baptist Church of
Grey M. Bolt
Dodson
Weather Report Today
Indian Springs
Minerva
Loire
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