China Moscow talks could shift Asia power balance
AP Foreign News columnist Dewitt Mackenzie analyzes a rumored Chinese mission led by Soong to Moscow. He notes potential for a Sino Soviet pact against Japan, likely shaping postwar Asia, with Communist influence in northern China and possible Russian aid that could sway Chiang Kai-Shek’s government and China’s future. The piece discusses Moscow’s stance, civil war prospects, and the broader risk of expanded Soviet influence in the region.
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Chungking
Moscow
T. V. Soang
Chiang Kai-Shek
Aaryard ‘1
San Francisco
Suong
Russia
Asia
China
Soong
Japan
Ching
Kiang Kai-Shek
Soong Culd
Chiang
Soviet Union
Red
Sovyiet
Orient
Europe
Bombing Run Hits Japanese Ports on Kyushu and Honshu
Allied B-29 raids over Honshu and Kyushu from Wednesday to Thursday sank eight ships and damaged eight more, targeting Nobeoka and Okayama. The strikes, part of heavy air campaign, burned facilities at Sasubo and Moji, inflicting widespread destruction across 115 square miles, with crews observing large fires rising through the clouds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Korea
Nobeoka
Kyushu
Okayama
Kenshu
Osaka
Sasebo
Moji
Okiyama
Mayji
Sasubo
PTS
Shimonoseki’ Strait
Youshe
Buvehu
Indiana County Dairy Herd Improvement Association Year End Report
Indiana County testers finish the 1946 testing year with 28 members and 2042 cows on test, representing 20 percent of county cows. Total milk 15,202,464 pounds and butterfat 682,905 pounds, average 7.90 pounds milk and 359 pounds fat with 4.4 percent test. Jersey herd of Mackal Armagh had highest butterfat average at 414. The First Association reported product value per cow 366.14 dollars and total feed cost per cow 167.85 dollars. labor and overhead not included. Carl Johnson has 18 years on the job. Penn State dairy extension notes led by Sidelmann summarize 120 associations nationwide. Pennsylvania leads in active associations as artificial breeding cooperatives grow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana County
Jersey
W. DB
Mackal Armagh
Carl Johnson
First Association
Sidelman
Dairy Extension Department
Penn State
Pennsylvania
Sidelmann
Denmark
Dairy Herd Improvement Association
Pennsylvania State College
Strike Decision of Penelec Union Expected Today
Representatives of six locals of the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers met in Brookville to decide what power services to provide if 2,000 Pennsylvanian Electric Co. workers strike. Delegates backed keeping service for hospitals water works and sewage plants while denying supply to industrial plants. The potential strike would affect 16 Pennsylvania counties and one in Maryland, risking 165,000 homes and 24,000 industrial users. Local officials blamed a delay by the War Labor Board for the vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brookville
Jame
The
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
APL
Pennsylvanian Electric Co
Johnstown
Headford
Oil City
Erie
Clearfield
Tocn
Bruce Lape
Johnstons Toval
NLRB
Pennsylvania
Maryland
War Labor Board
Philadelphia
Brotherhood
Lawleb
Meadville
Chamber of Commerce
Clair Jackson
National War Labor
Crawford County
Future Peace Depends On Ratification
President argues world peace hinges on ratification and unity beyond U.S. borders. He envisions global cooperation similar to domestic cooperation, plans meetings with Churchill and Sudin, and hints at high-level talks as Congress weighs commitments.
Electrical Storm Strikes Eastern Pennsylvania and Area
A powerful storm across Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, and Upper Delaware damaged barns and structures, disrupted trains and communications, and caused extensive power outages. Spies Church in Berks County suffered fire damage for the second time in 33 years. Damage totals reach 350000 with Lancaster County at 20000 and Camden area outage repairs underway. Winds hit 52 mph as rain fell about three quarters of an inch.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Upper Delaware
Spies Church
Berks County
Calvin W. Humbert
Lancaster County
Camden
N. J
Weather Bureau
Urge Special Session For Legislature
Harrisburg June 29 A special session of the Pennsylvania General Assembly to act on fair employment practices legislation low cost housing a G I bill of rights and a full employment bill was urged by more than 100 representatives of county FEPC committees at a conference here The meeting adopted a recommendation to petition Governor Martin for such a session Temporary officers named Michael Johnson Harrisburg chairwoman Lillian Narrens Philadelphia secretary and Charles Thompson West Chester treasurer will serve until July 10 An executive board to be named by county committees will meet to set up the structure and publicity departments and raise funds for a statewide FEPC campaign Rep Homer Brown Allegheny urged legal chartering by the Dauphin County Courthouse to carry on the program saying it is vital to fight the forces involved and to fund the effort
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania General Assembly
FEPC
Pennsylvania
Martin
Michael Johnson
Lillian Narrens
Philadelphia
Charles Thompson
West Chester
Homer
Brown
Allegheny
Stife
Dauphin County
Comdiun Pleas Court
Liuchow Airfield Captured in Central China
Chinese Army spokesman announces capture of Liuchow main airfield and south railway station as fighting shifts to suburbs. Liuchow center damages noted with less than 1,000 Japanese believed remaining. Forces north toward Kweilin and Linchow as key railroad nears Chinese control, though repairs are needed.
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Chungking
Liuchow
Claire Chennault
14Th Air Force
Kwangsi
Kwellin
U. S
Kweilin
Lluchow
Linchaw
Kweighow-Kwangsi
Returning Over-Seas Service Men
Column notes service men returning home from overseas arrive in the country and are welcomed. It lists those discharged and visiting home, highlighting the mix of veterans and new arrivals with brief mentions of their origins and destinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jenif Waren
Wits
Homer
Kerr to Return from Mediterranean Duty in Italy
Sergeant John Kerr of Marion Center Pennsylvania is due to return to the United States from the Mediterranean theater after 28 months of service with a B-25 Mitchell bomb group. He served with the 340th Medium Bomb Group, which supported Montgomery’s Eighth Army and earned two Distinguished Unit Citations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Suez
Joh Kerr
Marion’ Center
Will Soo
United States
Frank Kerr
Marion Center
Kerr
Po Vatley
Europe
340Th
Tunisia
Field Marshal Montmagery
Eighth Army
Mediterranean
War Department
Soldier Oberlin Receives Honorable Army Discharge
William Blair Oberlin of Juneau Pennsylvania has been honorably discharged from the army due to physical disability per an announcement from Moore General Hospital Separation Center Swannanoa North Carolina. He served in the Pacific Theater with a heavy bomber squadron earning the American Defense Ribbon Good Conduct Ribbon and Asiatic Pacific Ribbon with four bronze stars for campaigns in the Marianas Central Pacific Western Pacific and Japan air offensive. Oberlin is a Marion Center High School graduate formerly a mechanic salesperson for Montgomery Ward Punxsutawney.
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Mandated Islands
Central Pacific
Western Pacific
Japan
Sgt
Oberlin
Marion Center High School
Mineral Ridge sergeant freed from German camp returns home
Everett Minto a n/Sgt from Mineral Ridge Ohio and formerly Indiana arrived home after liberation from a German prison camp. He served on a B-17 shot down over Germany on 1 April 1944 and was held 13 months at Stalag I B near Krems Austria. He was released May 3 and returned home recently. He is nephew of O M Widdow son of Church street.
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Everett Mite
Mineral Ridge
Ohio
Indiana
Coal Strippers Meet To Challenge Ohio Stripping Law
Coal stripping operators and landowners from Indiana Clarion Clearfield and Jefferson counties plan a July fifth meeting at Punxsutawney American Legion rooms to discuss the new stripping law. They contend the law is discriminatory and unconstitutional and intend to seek an injunction to halt enforcement while the legality is tested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Clarion
Clearfield
Jefferson Counties
American Legion Rooms
Punxsutawney
Central Pennsylvania Coal Stripping Association
Commonwealth
500 Japs Wiped Out In Burma
Southeast Asia Command says about 300 Japanese were wiped out in southern Burma while attempting to cross the Sittang River on rafts. Most rafts were sunk and few still reached the east bank. Gurkha troops battled Japanese near Nysungkashe west of Wan on the Moulmein Railway. village cleared after heavy close fighting with heavy enemy casualties.
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Calcutta
Southeast Asia Command
Burma
Sittang River
Manehi
Toungou
Commianique
Walter
Nysungkashe
Wan
Moulmein Railway
Sittang
Pittsburgh Welcomes POW Sgt Budd Taggart Home
Sergeant Eugene Budd Taggart arrived in Pittsburgh at 2:30 PM after being a prisoner of war in Germany since February 1944 when his B-17 was shot down over Schweidanfurt. He was liberated in early May and plans a 60 day leave with his parents at 575 South Negley Avenue before reporting for reassignment.
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Eugene
Budd
Taggart
Pittsburgh
Tagzart
Eugene Taggart
Germany
Schweidanfurt
Boston
J South Negley Avenue
Taclang
Employment Agent At Gap INDIANTOWN GAP PA June 29
Two U E Employment Service representatives assigned to the Personnel Center at this military reservation to aid men being discharged on employment problems. They are Solon Barley from the Lancaster USES office and Secretary Morgenthau of the Treasury. Morgenthau is slated as next in line for the presidency in the event of Stettinius’s death or disability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiantown Gap
U. E
Washington
Lancaster
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry
Jony Rehnert
Pottstown
Morgenthau, Jr
Stettinus
Three Indiana County Soldiers Discharged From Reserve Center
Three Indiana County soldiers were discharged from the Personnel Center Lat Tin jigatown Gap Military Reservation. The men named were TS Arthur J. Walker of Carlyle street Homer City Vic. Joh J. Drebs of Marion Center wed Pin and John W. Garmon of Mechanicsburg.
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Indiana County
Tinjigatown Gap Military Reservation
Arthur J. Walker
Carlyle Street
Homer City
Vic
Joh J. Drebs
Marion Center
John W. Garmon
Mechan-neburg
Grant Bell A wartime tour of duty in Italy
1st Lt Grant C Bell of 999 Wayne Avenue Indiana co pilot of a B 24 Liberator bomber is returning to the United States for training and re equipment according to Brig Gen Fay R Uphegrove wing commander. He has served with the 456th Bombardment Group under Col Thomas W Steed of Etowah Tennessee which has flown numerous bombings of German held targets in southern Europe and the Balkans and has been cited by Nazi leaders for the 15th AAF strategic bombing campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Sith Air Force
Grant ¢.Bell
Wayne Avenue
Indiana
United States
Fay R. Upihegrove
456Th
Thomas W. Steed
Etowah
Tenn
Europe
Balkans
15Th Aaf
Henkel on 80 day convalescent furlough from Luzon action
John J. Henkel, a rifleman with the 43 Winged Victory Division, is on an 80 day convalescent furlough with his parents in Iselin Pie after being wounded on Luzon near Manila. He has served 26 months, 19 overseas, trained at Camp Wheeler Ga. He will report to McGuire General Hospital Richmond Va. His brother Pfc Steve Henkel recently returned to Kearns Utah after a 45 day furlough from the China Burma India Theater.
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Pfe
John J. Henkel
Steve Henkel
Iselin
Pie
Henkel
Luzon
Manila
Camp Wheeler
McGuire General Hospital
Richmond
Pfc
Steve
Kearns
Utah
Lucerne Mines Soldier Returns From Army Service
Sgt. David Walker, son of Mr and Mrs James Walker of Lucerne Mines, arrives home from the ETO after honorable discharge. Inducted February 1942, he served with the 29th Division and overseas with the First, Third and Ninth Armies. Wounded June 1944, again August 1944, and February 1945. he wears the Purple Heart, Bronze Star, Combat Infantryman’s Badge, Bronze Arrow, and two Oak Leaf Clusters.
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David Walker
James Walker
Lucerne Mines
ETO
Army
Walker
Pvt Peter Turko Reunites With Family On Furlough
Pvt. Peter Turko enjoys a furlough at his Heilwood home after 27 months in a German prison camp. His brother, Pfe. Nick Turko, traveled from Fort Lewis, Washington, to visit him.
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Peter Turko
Heilwood
Pfe
Nick Turko
Fort Lewis
Washington
Pvt
Turko
Obituary for Margaret Emma Beatty of Apollo at 66
Margaret Emma Beatty 66 of Apollo R D 1 died at 10 30 yesterday at her home Surviving are her husband George Co Beatty one daughter Mrs Raymond Wagner of Indiana and one son Robert Milton Beatty at home A half brother Frank D Wilson of Ashtabula Ohio and one grandchild Also surviving She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Apollo and of the Herean Sunday School Class Friends are received at the Thomson Funeral Home Vandergrift where services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 00 in charge of Rev Charles Cochran Interment in Manor Presbyterian Cemetery Blanche Er Lewis White 65 died at 2 30 p m yesterday at her home in Dayton She was born in Smicksburg September 9 1979 the daughter of the late H C Lewis and Ada K Hazlett She was a member of the Jeanette Lutheran Church and the Daughters of America Surviving are her husband Barry White her mother Ada K West two brothers Archie Lewis of Dayton and Ed Lewis of Jeannette One sister Mrs Hazel Johnson of Dayton Also survives Wardding Funeral Home Dayton where services will be held Monday at 2 30 p m In charge of Rev J D Troudman pastor of the Smicksburg Lutheran Church Burial will be in the Glade Ren Presbyterian Cemetery Dayton
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Margaret Emma Beatty
Apollo
R. D
George Co. Beatty
Raymond Wagner
Indiana
Robert Milton Beatty
Frank D. Wilson
Ashtabula
Oho
First Presbyterian Church of
Herean
Thomson Funeral
Vandergrift
Charles Cochran
Manor Presbyterian Cemetery
Blanche ER. (Lewis) Wipe
Dayton
Smicksburg
H. C. Lewis
Ada K. Hazlett
Jeannette Lutheran Church
the Daughters of America
Barry White
Ada K. West
Archie Lewis
Dayston
Ed Lewis
Jeannette
Hazel Johnson
Wardding Funeral Home
J. D. Troudman
Smicksburg Lutheran Church
Glade Ren Presbyterian Cemetery
Wes Yavang
Samuel Creston
Mental
Opal
Simon
Homer Barkley
Dixonville
Charles
Glen Campbell
John
Mahaffey
George W
Marbach
Pittsburgh
Albert
Fray
Buria
Burnside
McArdle Funeral Home
Robert H. Knox
Marchand
Indiana County
North Mahoning
Samuel M
Catherine
Henry) Knox
Knox
Pearl Col Kitt
Clark Knox
Weather and funeral details from Punxsutawney
A weather report notes events for tomorrow at 2 30 p m at Morrison Funeral Home Punxsutawney with burial at Marchand Cemetery Rev Hugh Givens to conduct services Anna Minerva Bence died at 3 15 this morning at 053 Chestnut Street She was born December 23 1860 in Tanoma Rayne Township Her survivors include children from both marriages and multiple grandchildren The Robinson Funeral Home will receive mourners after 2 00 p m Saturday Services Monday at 2 00 p m Greenwood Cemetery.
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Morrison Funeral Home
Punxsiutawney
Hugh Givens
Marchand Cemetery
Major Harry R. Smith Returns on Leave From Overseas
Major Harry R. Smith, son of the late Raymond Smith, arrived in Indiana last Tuesday for a thirty day leave. He has just returned from 20 months overseas and was last stationed in Germany after serving in England Luxembourg Normandy and Belgium. After his leave he will report to the Officers Replacement Depot in Philadelphia for reassignment.
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Harry Smith
Harry R. Smith
Raymond Smith
Soldier Elmer Buterbaugh Awarded Purple Heart
Private Elmer J Buterbaugh 21 of Homer City Pa served four months overseas in the ETO. He was wounded in action and is at Deshon General Hospital for recuperation and is entitled to wear the Purple Heart and ETO campaign star. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Albert Buterbaugh and has a brother Jesse also in the armed forces.
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J. Buterbaugh
B.D. No. 3
Box
Somer City
Army
Deshon General Hospital
Buterbaugh
Pvt
Albert Buterbaugh
Homer City
Jesse
Vandenberg Appeals For Charter Support
Senator Taft discusses limits on American force use under the proposed world charter. He considers restricting troop deployment without explicit congressional authorization, proposing a token force outside the Western Hemisphere with no breach of the charter. Van den Berg argues for peaceful dispute settlement while Connally highlights the Security Council’s potential military power.
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Haus
Taft
Congress
Ohio
Europe
Western Hemisphere
Pacific
Bretton Woods
Connally
D- Tex
Foreign Relations Committee
Vandenberg
Michigan
San Francisco
Senate
Sécurity Council
Canterbury Cathedral Glass Restoration Set to Take Years
WP Craftsmen began today the task of replacing Canterbury Cathedral's ancient stained glass windows, removed for safety during the War. The work of fitting the glass into the boarded up windows is expected to take five to six years.
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Canterbury
Eng
Canterbury Cathedral
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Langley Field
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Tanoma
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Order of
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Purchase Line
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Harry L. Fyock
Haddon Heights
A. T
Mable) Cox
J. S
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Home
Clarence D. Bence
Mation Center
H. E. Bence
Charley L. Bence
John L. Bence
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Lakeland
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