Franchise Tax Act Upheld by Pennsylvania Supreme Court
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on June 2 upheld the 1935 Franchise Tax Act, confirming a lower court ruling and letting the state collect over 36 million dollars from out of state corporations in the past three years. Ford Motor Co and Quaker Oats Co challenged the act as unconstitutional, but the court upheld the tax formula based on real estate, payrolls, and sales to determine amounts due.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Whch
Allen M. Stearne
Ford Motor Company
T He Quaker Oats Company
Stearne
Columbia Gas & Electric Corporation
Pennsylvania
Dauphin County
Ford Motor Comany
Dewey Nears Conference Invite as Campaign Schedules
Dewey spent a long day in meetings with press and campaign aides. He refused no questions on policy and fielded inquiries on international conference options. He held late talks with National Committee members and with Landon and Spangler, with Landon praising him as a strong leader.
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Roosevelt
Dewey
Anne Dewey
World War I Bond Drive speakers energize crowd
A. Elf led the Bond Show as Private First Class Robert H. Snyder and Private First Class John Mascara shared wartime service accounts. Snyder, from Rom River Rouge Michigan, described Tarawa and multiple injuries earning the Purple Heart and Presidential Unit Citation. Mascara, 13 months in service with the 10th Division, spoke of Africa and Sicily campaigns and injuries, earning campaign ribbons. War Department films followed as rain threatened but turnout remained strong.
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John Mascara
U. S. Army
Mascara
War Department
Court House
Tire rationing continues as June allocations reach 1.9 million
Rationing Chief Charles Philips said demand for new tires remains far above supply. July and August allocations are 1,950,000 tires. Card B drivers, eligible May 31, face delays with new tires. Large truck and bus tires remain the most critical shortage as summer approaches.
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Charles ¥. Philips
Phillipa
Tornado Disaster Deaths and Damage Reported
The Red Cross reports 188 dead from a Friday tornado that devastated parts of Pennsylvania West Virginia and Maryland. It destroyed 450 homes and damaged 502 others with 261 hospitalized and 244 still under treatment. Disaster headquarters were set in Clarksburg West Virginia as 1,122 families may need aid and 722 had registered.
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Pittsburgh
Tri-State
Red Cross
Joseph Carter
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Maryland
Clarksburg
W. Va
Gustave Meyer
Carleton C. Pierce
West, Virginia
Saurch
Finland Faces World War II Strains and Diplomatic Expulsions
The article recounts World War II tensions involving Finland with Russia and Britain, and the United States. It notes the June 18 expulsion of Finnish Minister Hjahnay J. Procope and three counselors, the departure of two others, and U.S. aid repayments. President Roosevelt rejects the notion of foreign policy being bought for $148,000. Finland’s diplomatic presence shrinks to a secretariat level, while Gullion remains as U.S. chargé d affaires. The Swiss government to protect American interests in Finland.
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Finland
Russia
Great Britain
United States
Roosevelt
Hjahnay J. Proscope
Procope
T. O. Vahervuori
Risto Solanko
Washington
Urho Tiavola
Tiavola
Thesleff
Helsinki
Edmund Gullon
Hull
Gullion
Tinland
Congress Approves Price Stabilization Act Revisions
Congress finalized the price and wage stabilization amendments after a lengthy wrangle. The act tightens enforcement while allowing reduced penalties for non-wilful violations, broadening OPA powers to purchase evidence and sue for damages. major changes adjust textiles ceilings and rent rules, and relax highest price line limits. The administration argues safeguards remain against inflation.
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Congress
Senate
House
OPA
Ican
Bombers Strike Vienna Area As Invasion Presses On
Berlin reports American bombers from Italy striking Vienna area for a second time in two hours while British raids hit three northern France air bases and another in Belgium. Marauder medium bombers with Ninth Air Force Thunderbolts and Mustangs attacked railroad and highway hubs in France. Italy-based bombers hit Yugoslavia. RAF bombed Vienna area with aircraft from Italian bases. German claims of fierce battles over Vienna suburbs. British Beaufighters attacked an enemy tanker in the Bay of Biscay, mine laying noted. Allied air forces reported heavy activity, with significant losses on both sides and continued robot torpedo strikes against southern England.
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London
Taly
Berlin
Vienna
Britain
France
Belgium
U.S. Air Force
Europe
Continent
England
Bay of Biscay
Air Ministry
Ninth Air Force
Vierzon-Ville
RAF
Tactical Air Force
Gierman Lines
Five Hard Coal Mines Down
SHENANDOAH June 30 A fifth hard coal mine closure in Pennsylvania amid wage and vacation pay disputes. Cranberry Improvement Company Colliery now Hazleton reports 700 miners absent seeking back pay, while Maple Hill and Knickerbocker Collieries near here idle 2,700 workers over wage issues. United Mine Workers seek back to work talks for 2,200 bituminous miners at Vesta No 5 Vestaburg and Vesta 4 California, both tied to Jones and Laughlin Steel in a vacation pay dispute.
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Shenandoar
Pennsylvania
Cranberry Improvement Company
Hazleton
Maple Hill
Knickerbocker
Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron Company
Here
United Mine Workers Oocials
Vesta No. 5
Vestaburg
Vesta 4
California
Jones and Laughtin Steel Corporation
Aluminum Workers Out At New Castle Plant
Washington June 30 The War Labor Board calls the stoppage at the Aluminum Company of America plant in New Castle Pennsylvania particularly unfortunate as armed forces depend on its products for the European and eastern fronts The board telegraphed a back to work order to Local 219 United Automobile Workers CIO noting 157 die sinkers struck over disputed union membership The WLB will assign an arbitrator to settle the dispute once full production resumes
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Washington
New Castle
Aluminum Company of America
War Labor Board
Loval
United Automobile Workers (Cio
WLB
Die Sinkers
Allies Break Through in Italy West Coast Drive
Allied forces push along Highway 1 toward Livorno and Pisa as German retreat continues northward. American armor reaches near Siena and Florence region while French troops seize Castiglione del Lago and advance near Buonconvento. Heavy losses to German reinforcements and a large convoy of vehicles and tanks destroyed by air attack.
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Ome
Italy
Cecina
Livorno
Siena
Florence
Eighth Army
Trasimeno
Castiglione del Lago
Albert Kessel
Ring
Highway 1
Pisa
Bibbona
Monteverdi
Castelnuevo
Radicondoli
Frosini
Poggio Siena Vecchia
Buoconvento
Arbia
Pampana
Murlo
Lake Trasimeno
Eighth
Nardella
Pozzuolo
Laviano
Cassemaggiore
Aquaviva
Chianciano
Montepulciano
Parachutists Are Rescued In Grand Canyon
Three army parachutists bailed from a disabled bomber on June 21 and spent nine days on Tonto plateau deep in the Grand Canyon. Rescuers Ed Laws and Dr A A MacRae descended via a rare north rim trail to reach the airmen camp. all radios and provisions had been dropped earlier. Identified flyers included Second Lt Charles Goldblum Flight Officer Maurice J Cruickshank Jr and Cpl Roy W Embanks.
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Grand Canyon
Ariz
Tonto
Park Service
Army
Charles Goldblum
Pittsburgh
Maurice J. Cruickshank, Jr
Lawrence
Mass
Roy W. Embanks
Kallspetl
Mont
North Rim
Donald Phillips
Kingman
Aziz
H. C. Bryant
Victory Arch project to raise funds for county service members
Aiming to raise three to four thousand dollars for a Victory Arch, organizers anticipate a dollar drive amid criticism over cost and space. The arch will span from the Service Scroll point to the First National Bank, mostly in the air, with little ground footprint, affecting no structures. With about eleven thousand service men and women in the county, the cost equates to roughly thirty cents per person. The plan includes a payment coupon as shown.
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Court House
First National Bank
Farmers Told About Inflation
Harrisburg June 30 Walter C Young acting OPA director told a four state conference that farmers have a definite stake in price control to protect against a postwar price collapse. He praised record food production and urged that farmers prices remain stable while addressing black market harms.
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Harrisburg
Walter C. Young
OPA
Young
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Maryland
Dala Iware
Daniel P. Woolley
New York
Woolley
Liquor Ration 15 For Six Weeks
Harrisburg June 30 Pennsylvanians will continue to receive one fifth gallon of whisky at state stores for the next rationing period July 10 through August 18. The period is shortened from seven to six weeks due to summer declines in purchases. Licensees will keep 60 percent of their former normal purchases and there is no immediate plan to raise this percentage.
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Harrisburg
Russians Drive Deep Into White Russia As Minsk Front Tightens
Russian forces under Rokossovsky push along the Gomel Minsk highway crossing toward Minsk with air cover from Sergei Rudenko’s aviation fleet. Northern and southern flanks cut rail lines, with major advances 10 to 11 miles from key links. Bagramian’s troops near Lithuanian and Latvian borders widen the encirclement as Red Star describes vast destruction of German columns and a massive casualty and capture tally.
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Minsk
Rokossovsky
Berezina
Gomel-Minsk
Gen
Sergei J. Rudenko
Red Army
Baranoweze
Polotek
Riga
White Russia
Bagramian
Lithuanian Republic
Latvian Republic
Kaunas
Lithuania
Red Star
Peter Troyanovsky
Bobruisk-Minsk
Bobruisk
Pravda
Lepel-Berezina
Kirkenes
Norway
Moscow
Munique
Petsama
Aunus
Ladoga
Onezhskae Tonega
Petrozavodsk
Lake Onezhskoe
Kyrill A. Meret °Skov
Robby horse fall kills two year old in Braddock
In Pittsburgh on June 30 a fall from a hobby horse proved fatal to two year old Joe Kirsher at Braddock Hospital yesterday. His parents reside in Rankin.
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Robby
Pittsburgh
Joe Kirsher
Braddock, Hospital
Rankin
Bumper Cherry Crop In State
Gettysburg reports a bumper sour cherry harvest in Adams County with an expected five million pounds. About 1,200 seasonal workers plus 300 cannery staff are needed, aided by 200 Jamaicans at Old Forge Camp Mont Alto. High school pupils and local workers will pick, aided by efficient pay of three cents per quart.
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Gettysburg
Adams County
Growera
Old Forge Camp
Mont Alto
Grenerals
World War II Batttle Reports From the Pacific Front
Allied forces report heavy air strikes and bombardments across the Pacific. In Saipan north of Pagan Island Japanese troops suffer a knockout blow while air bases are bombed. MacArthur’s bombers attack food bases in New Guinea, and Wewak sees Japanese barge losses as supply routes are disrupted.
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Saipan
Pagan Island
Carolines
Tru
Marshalls
MacArthur
New Guinea
Kokas
MacClearn Gulf
Wewak
British New Guinea
Obituary notices for Rellick Redpath Johns Laney Debrosky
Obituary notices report the deaths of Stanley Rellick at Fulton Run age 53 born in Austria, with surviving brothers Charles and Pete Rellick. Also Mrs Sarah Elizabeth Redpath 89 in Blairsville, plus Mrs Sara Agnes Johns widow of John Johns Indiana R D, and Katharine Laney wife of Private Earl Laney, plus Mrs Helen Debrosky Labernemines. The notices note funeral arrangements and local services in Indiana, Blairsville, and surrounding communities.
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Stanley Rellick
Fulton Run
Allegheny General Hospital
Pittsburgh
Austria
Homer City
Ernest
Pete Rellick
Lucerne Mines
Charles Rellick
Coal Run
Sarah Elizabeth Red‘ Path
Paul W. Graham
Blairsville
John and
Elizabeth (Shane) Henderson
Charles
Merle W
Aspinwall
Graham
Sara Agnes Johns
John W. Johns
Indiana R. D
Robinson Funeral Home
Indiana
Harold L. Loveless
Greenwood Cemetery
Helen Debrosky
Indiana Hospital
George Debrosky
Austria-Hungary
John Duiga
Debrosky
Lutheran Church
Paul
Lucernemines
Andy
Crowland
Canada
Andy Sobosky
Detroit
Mich
Charles Nshindler
Greenwood Cemetry
Invasion Forces Push From Orne Toward Cherbourg
Allied reports describe German troops using armor to probe lines after invasions near the Orne estuary and Cobourg. British corridors across the Odne remain secure as Cherbourg breakwater forts fall to Maryau der bombers. German transport moves in daylight. 100 plus enemy vehicles were hit by allied air power. Don Whitehead notes Caen’s liberation will aid the bridgehead, while HQ says Caen’s port value differs from Cherbourg’s naval role.
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Orne
Cobourg
Associated Press
Roger D. Greene
Greene
Sities
Odne
Eyrecy
Cherbourg
Channel Islands
Don Whitehead
Caen
Supreme Headquarters
Man found dead with throat cut in Chambersburg
Earl Stanley Mellin of West Virginia was found dead yesterday with a gash at the throat and a pocketknife in his hand. Police Chief H. N. Byers said authorities seek him for questioning in connection with a street slashing in Chambersburg involving James R. Carney, 17, Harrisville. The report notes a local weather quip about northern Chile.
Visiting Faculty at Shippensburg Laboratory School
The Laboratory School at State Teachers College Shippensburg hires Thelma Small acting director rural education and longtime state figure to supervise second grade during a six week term. Dr. Ralph Cordier heads the Soul Studies Department at Clarion Teachers College, with a cooperative supervisor and two teachers part of the summer staff. Marty Russell, Horace Munn School principal, teaches Reading with Margaret Lowman and Ella Moore directing grades four and seven, and Ethel Cughlin handling eighth grade work.
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Thelma
Small
State Teachers College
Shippensburg
Schcol
Miss Small
Tural Education
Ralph Cordier
Stats 'Teachers College
Clarion
Ise Marty Russell
Horace Munn
Margaret Lowman
Ella Moore
Ethel Cughlin
Framed obituary: Frances Marie Hogan dies in Buffalo
Frances Marie Hogan nine teen year old daughter of Edward and Viole Hogan of Buffalo New York died suddenly Monday June 26 1944 at Millard Fillmore Hospital Buffalo She was buried yesterday at Altoona Pa The Hogans lived in Indiana for years Ned Hogan a World War I veteran and former Quartermaster of the VFW post Survivors include war fares and one brother Edward at home
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Frances Marie Hogan
Edward
Viole Hogan
Buffalo
New York
Millard Fillmore
Altoona
Hogans
Indiana
Ned
V. F. W. Post
Frances Marie
Lightcap recalls frontline hardship and hunger in war report
CPL Lightcap spoke of three weeks in emergency hospital care before returning to the United States. He described 180 days on front lines including 76 days without bath or clean clothes and six days of fierce fighting with no time to eat. He recounted hunting for food and spending about ten dollars for a square meal. Weather notes: Western Pennsylvania expected fair, cooler in the northwest, east and south portions cool tonight through Saturday.
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Lieved
Lightcap
United States
Pennsylvania
Enri
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Germany
Katharine Laney
Earl Laney
Adam and
Elizabeth E. (Schmidt) Haas
North Side
Virginia
Blacklick
United States Army
Earl Robert William Carl
Elgin Raymond
Harry Haas
Adam
George
William Washington
D. C
Carl
Earl Bott
Blacklick Free Methodist Church
A E. Tomb
W. H. Nicholson
Mo Ai Oo S.C. Sere Reii
Chile
Ned Hogan
Cpl. Lightcap
America
Wendell L. Willkie
Lile and
Esquire
B.V. D
Emart
American Institute of Laundering
Moorhead
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