Industrial Areas Near Great Lakes First Target in Next War
The report notes a forecast by General Eisenhower and Senate actions on presidential succession. Eisenhower warned that enemy initial strikes in a new war would target industrial zones near the Great Lakes, while urging rapid approval of US aid to standardize arms for all American nations. The piece also covers Senate plans to vote on a Truman request changing presidential succession and political maneuvering in Congress.
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Great Lakes
Eisenhower
Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Army
House Foreign Affairs Committee
United States
Canada
North American
Rail Car Shortage Drives Coal Stockpiles at Yatesboro
Yatesboro reports indicate large coal stockpiles stored on Rochesey and Pittsburgh Coal Company property after truck transport from Namine and Sagamore. Rail car shortages limit flats to haul coal mined, with as many as 25 trucks used to move the vod.
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Yatesboro
Rochesey and Pittsburgh Coal Company
Namine
Sagamore
Fire damages at Brown Cockerel Heights Farm
A large fire at Richard C Brown Cockerel Heights Farm nine miles south of Punxsutawney on Route 119 destroyed a five story poultry house and adjacent barn. Between 5 000 and 6 000 young chickens died. Firefighters from Marion Center and Punxsutawney fought the flames but lacked sufficient water. The home on the property remained unscathed. Cause cited as heating system defect in brooders. Loss partially insured.
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Indiana County
Richard C. Brown
Marion Center
Punxsutawney
Died In Each Others Arms After 54 Years of Marriage
In North Truro Massachusetts on June 24 John E. Rogers 77 and Ellen Rogers 80 died in each other’s arms from heart attacks. Dr Daniel H Hiebert reported Mrs Rogers suffered the first attack triggering her husband’s collapse seconds later. It was her 80th birthday.
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North Truro
Mass
John E. Rogers
Ellen
Daniel H. Hiebert
Young Prince Disappears, Now In Paris
Prince Price Samid-Reza Pahblevia brother of the Shah of Iran arrived in Paris after disappearing from a New York hotel. He was met at Orly by Iranian attache and taken to the legation where officials said he would return to school in a few days. The youngster had run away from private schools in Newport and Beirut previously. Newsmen were told he planned to visit two brothers in Paris and would rejoin his education soon.
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Paris
Price Samid-Reza Pahblevia
Iran
New York
Legation
Tad
Mahmoud Salehi
United States
Tehran
Air France
Associated Press
Orly Field
Newport
Rex
Beirut
Switzerland
Salehi
Wise Action economy could double incomes in 25 years
Paul G. Hoffman, president of Studebaker, urged that incomes could double within 25 years through “wise action” to steady the economy. He warned against future depressions and outlined a program for dynamic stability, including reducing price and wage spirals and fostering private enterprise with tax reform and restrained federal spending.
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Washington
Paul G. Hoffman
Studebaker Corporation
Hoffman
Committee For Economic Development
Joint
Congressional Committee On the Economic Report
50 Percent Minimum Wage Hit By GOP Leaders
Republican leaders move to push a 60 cent minimum wage rise under the Taft Hartley law. Hearings to raise the floor from 40 cents begin Friday, with a 50 percent boost likely. Landis says bill could pass this year. Truman supports up to 75 cents. Coverage notes the change targets interstate workers and certain transformed labor, with possible exclusions.
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William F. Arrogast
Washington
House Labor
Halleck
Indiana
Wisconsin
Rep
Landis
Rind
Labor Committee
Operator Permits Suspended And Restored In Weekly Report
The State Bureau of Highway Safety reports for the period ending June 13 that one operator permit was suspended for reckless driving, another was restored, and 385 drivers had cards withdrawn. Withdrawals rose by 92 from the prior week. suspensions totaled 348 and 37 were revoked. The suspended operator was Robert C. Farmery of Rossiter. Howard Friel of Indiana was among restorations. The report reflects ongoing enforcement.
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State Bureau of Highway Safety Today
Robert C. Farmery
Rossiter
Howard Friel
Indiana
River Victim Identified in Kiskiminetas River death
State Police identified the body found in the Kiskiminetas River near Vandergrift on June 11 as Angeline Jurek a 60 year old resident of 320 McCauley Avenue Minersville. Fingerprints led to the identification after burial. Her son in law and daughter in New York City reported she had been missing since June 9 to Johnstown police.
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Kiskiminetas
Vandergrift
Angeline Jurek
McCauley Avenue
Minersville
John Gul
New York City
Johnstown
Nine Miles of Road Widening Bids Advertised
The State Highway Department advertises bids for widening and paving nine miles of Route 80 and Legislative Route 362 in Banks and Montgomery townships. Work covers Hillside Arcadia Hooverhurst and Glen Campbell. Widening from 16 to 20 feet runs from a point 380 feet northeast of the Grant Montgomery line to the Indiana Clearfield County line.
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State Highway Department
Banks
Montgomery Township
Hillside
Arcadia
Hooverhurst
Glen Campbell
Grant Montgomery
Indiana-Clearfield County
Start Phila St Widening Contract
The Moreau and Sons Contracting Company began widening and paving East Philadelphia Street in Indiana Borough this morning on the south side from the borough line to Fifth Street with curb work. After this phase the project will move to the north side and then proceed to West Philadelphia Street.
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Moreau and Sons Contracting Company
Philadelphia Street
Indiana Borough
East Philadelphia Street
Borough
Fifth Street
West Philadelphia Street
Fair canceled by DA edict halts June fair activities
Ernest Michael, chairman of the Fair Committee for the Black Lick Volunteer Fire Company, announced the June 3 to July 6 fair is canceled due to a district attorney edict restricting bingos and other lotteries. The fire company meets tonight to decide the disposition of the new car to be raffled or refunded.
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Ernest Michael
Black Lick
Fireman Stop Lunchroom Blaze At Eddie's Lunch
Salt Lake City reports two city firemen Henry J Abylehous and Ralph L Reaney completed a four hour shift then sat for coffee at Eddie's Lunch. An electric motor in the lunch room burst into flames but the fire was extinguished before engines arrived.
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Salt Lake City
Iy —City
Henry J. Abylehousen
Ralph L. Reaney
Eddie
Cattle Herd Survives Floodfind Birth Calf Added
A farmer, Forest Whipp, discovered his herd stranded on a waterlocked rise after floodwaters swept through the land. He counted every cow and found all present, plus a newborn calf born during the ordeal.
Eisenhower to become Columbia University president
Gen Dwight D Eisenhower, former Allied supreme commander, is slated to become president of Columbia University after likely being relieved as army chief of staff, with exact timing uncertain though expected in early 1946. He has joined the university board of trustees, while Gen Bradley is viewed as possible successor in the army top job.
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Washington
Dwight D. Hisenhower
North Africa
Europe
Columbia University
Army
Car N. Bradley
Eisenhower
Wustees
Nicholas Murray Butler
Trumian
Patterson
War Department
Columbia Post
United States
Fof War
Bradley
Floyd J. Parks
Cen
Uke
Warm Springs White House Dedication
Warm Springs Georgia hosts a dedication ceremony for the Warm Springs White House Memorial in memory of Franklin D Roosevelt. Notables include Basil O Connor William Hassett Josephus Daniels and Justice Vinson while governors diplomats and Congress members attend. The event marks the transfer of the deed to the Franklin D Roosevelt Warm Springs Memorial Commission.
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Warm Springs
Georgia
White House
Franklin Delany Roosevelt
Warn Springs
Basil Q O'Connar
Roosevelt
M. B. Thompson
Branklin D. Roosevelt Waray Springs Memorial
Full-Fledged Tieup Feared After Vacation Protest
AP reports in Pittsburgh on June 25 that nearly half of the nation's 400,000 soft coal miners were idle in angry protest against a so called slave labor bill. Walkouts idled 176,000 miners across 10 states while small groups returned to Osage mine in Monongalia County and National 5 mine in Christopher Coal Co. WV United Mine Workers leader predicted about half the idle miners would resume digging within a day.
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Pittsburgh
Monongatia County
W. Va
Osage
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co
National 5
Christopher Coal Co
Warlier
United Mine Workers
West Virginia
Harold W. Ward
Washington
John K. Lewis
Justice Department
al ‘Varlan
Alx
Half Nation's Indiana Co. Miners Idle Mines Down
Indiana County coal mines largely idled as nearly half of John Lewis s miners protest the Taft Hartley bill. About 1 550 deep miners and 4 500 R and P miners are idle, with only Helvetia and a few strips operating. Government probes possible. talks urged between Lewis and federal officials to avert indefinite shutdown.
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Half Nation
Indiana Co
Indiana County
Truman
Trvin
Ranil Hes Bay
Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company
Helvetia
Jefferson County
Big Ben
Twin Rocks
Kent
McIntyre
Water- Lee Indiana CO
Court Rules On Curley Tomorrow
Washington June 25 James M Curley ailing 72 year old Mayor of Boston rests here for his federal court appearance tomorrow to learn whether he must serve six to 18 months for mail fraud A neighbor said he fears a suspended sentence or a presidential pardon Curley arrived last night He had lost his final appeal from convict on a $60000 war contract brokerage scheme He had taken the oath for a fourth term in February and announced plans to run from behind bars if needed Prison rules would not permit such outside activity.
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Washington
James M. Curley
Boston
Curley
Tan
William
Killian
Supreme Court
Convictmon
James V. Bennett
Federal
Spicher Announces Candidacy for County Commissioner
Howard R. Spicher Sr of 209 Olive Street Indiana announces his bid for the Democratic nomination for County Commissioner. Longtime resident, former county Democratic committee chairman for four years, sole inheritance tax appraiser for three and a half years, now a gasoline station attendant.
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Howard R. Spicher
Olive Street
Indiana
Spicher
Democratic Committee
Mother Confesses Beating Child in Oregon California Case
State Police report confessions by a man and a woman who beat and abandoned a girl found unconscious in Weed California. Mary Jane Meddlin, 2 ½, of Selma Oregon, identified as the victim, with her mother Lucille Meddlin signing a confession and joining Hugh Gilreath in the beating. Gilreath denied severe participation and will be taken to Yreka after extradition.
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Grant Pass
Ore
Weed
Calif
C. R. Borgman
Mary Jane Meddlin
Selma
Lucille Meddlin
Hugh Gilreath
Gilreath
Borgman
Lucille Gilreath
Burgman
Yerka
Gilreat
Jelbeut
Penn
Yreka
Curfew Violator Becomes Familiar in Borough Streets
Borough police picked up an 18 year old boy at 12 10 a m today for curfew violation after he went to a movie and failed to return His mother notified authorities and they found him on Philadelphia Street He will appear for hearing before the Burgeas Monday.
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Philadelphia Street
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Steve Audler
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Rep. Rayburn
Texas
Congress
Senate Gop
Marshall
Executive Department
Pulicy Committee
Meadowbrook
Benefit of Pennsylvania's Own Society
Indiana County Post
Central Drug Co
Phila. St
Sears, Roebuck and Ca
Start Phila. St
Lenox
Tas Dame
Forest Whipp
Lettox
Ike
Warm Springs White House
Justice Dept
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