Harmony talks rattle Pennsylvania governor bid
In a cleft between factions, Dr Luther Hart urged harmony to unite under a single Democratic gubernatorial candidate. Guffey backs Ralph Smith. Meyers backs Hart as state leaders seek consensus. Washington reports note potential harmony options but no decisive agreement. Roosevelt said politics are out as war effort takes priority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rishurg
Luther Harr
Philadelphia
Esucer
Washington
U. S
Joseph F. Guffey
Fudge Ralph Smith
Pittsburgh
Meredith Meyers
Hart
F. Claire Ross
Nation
David AL. Law
Vélice
Harr
Ross
State Committee
Tomorow
William G. Bullitt
France
Prussia
Guy K. Bard
Guffey
Walker
Scranton
Upa
Biddle
Smith
Tains
William McNair
FDR
Roosevelt
Congress
Frank Walker
Pennsylvania
Soviet claim of Red Army pressure on German lines
Moscow reports the Red Army is breaking German resistance in winter offensives and preparing for spring campaigns. The Soviet Information Bureau said enemy losses are heavy with 1,400 German officers and men killed in engagements northwest of Moscow and over 1,000 German troops destroyed on the Leningrad front with 420 more killed or wounded in the Kalinin region. A transport of 36 vehicles was also reported smashed in the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Red Army
Soviet Information Bureau
Leninygerod Front
Kalinin
Stout Quits as Post Editor at The Saturday Evening Post
Wesley Winans Stout resigned as editor of The Saturday Evening Post after a firm but friendly disagreement. Ben Hibbs of Country Gentleman was named successor, with Robert Fuess becoming managing editor in a newly created post as the Curtis Publishing Company shifts its editorial direction during wartime isolationist policy changes.
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Philadelphia
Saturday Evening Post
Curtis Publishing Company
Wesley Winans Stout
Ben Hibb
Country Gentleman
Stout
Robert Fucss
The
Post
War News From Pacific and Europe Dominates Pages
Allied forces marshal manpower for tests in the west Pacific and Burma as Japan seeks Vatican ties provoking US protest. Kiel bombardment continues with bombs on shipyards and naval targets while U boats pressure Atlantic convoys. US reports detail raids on Salamaua Lae and hits on a pier at Lea, with five bombers lost in action.
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West Pacific
Burma
Japan
Tokyo
Vatican City
United States
State Department
Vatican
4500 Miners Leave Work In Wage Dispute
In Tamaqua on March 13 AP reports 4500 miners failed to report to work, forcing suspension of operations at five collieries in Panther Creek Valley. The walkout began at Tamaqua Colliery of Lehigh Navigation Coal Co, affecting Coaldale Greenwood Lunsford plants and Nesquehoning plant of Edisan Anthracite Co.
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Tamaqua
Panther Creek Valley
Lehigh Navigation Coal Company
Coaldale
Greenwood
Lunsford
Lehigh Company
Ed' ‘Isan Anthracite Company
Russian Front Slows Mudbound March Amid Spring Thaws
The report notes Russia advancing in multiple sectors with unlisted communities reoccupied as spring rains turn dirt roads to mud. Dispatches say Soviet forces are active from Lake Ilmen to the Sea of Azov, while Berlin claims Nazi air strikes hit central front areas and the Btareya Russ sector southeast of Lake Ilmen, destroying tanks, vehicles, and artillery and machine-gunning infantry to blunt Soviet offensives.
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Russia
Smolensk Vyazma
Arche Murmansk
Berlin
Moscow
London
Lake Ilmen
Sea of Azov
Btareya Russ
Noutheast
Governor Hopes Wartime Powers With Legislature But 22 Statutes May Change
Harrisburg March 13 Governor James signals better legislative understanding for wartime powers to suspend or modify laws hindering the war program. He lists 22 statute areas likely needing changes to grant emergency authority, while urging peacetime legal protections remain strong and warning against piecemeal fixes.
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Harrisburg
James
State Defense Council
House
Lee A. Achterman
Council of Defense
Pennsylvania
Wounded Exposito flees across Fifth Avenue before shooting officer
Exposito and his brother fled after wounding the cab driver and a patrolman. The brothers were deemed legally sane by a governor's psychiatric commission while both awaited execution. Anthony entered the death chamber in a wheelchair, calm but tense as William followed, expressions stark in the chair.
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Page One
Fifth Avenue
Maher
Bernard Martin
Anthony
Lehman
Heath Chamber
William
More ships of foe sunk in Japanese waters
The Navy reports three more enemy freighters and one passenger cargo ship sunk by a U S submarine near Japan, raising total enemy ships sunk to eight and ships damaged or destroyed to 149 in the Western Pacific. Also two large Japanese four engine seaplanes were intercepted by fighters from Midway Island. one was shot down west of Midway, the other escaped.
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Kiel
RAF
Gneisenau
Brest
Germany
Admiralty
Stanley
United States
Air Ministry
Washington
Navy
Japan
Pacific
Midway Island
Midway
Treasury balance report highlights March 1 figures
The Treasury shows receipts at 85.74 million and expenditures at 114.39 million for March 1. Net balance stands at 3.12176441437 billion with gross debt at 62.55406049017 billion, up 20.47151482 million from the previous day.
Trade City Service and church schedule in Frostburg area
The community notes Sunday service at Trade City Church at 4 45 A M with Sunday School at 10 45 A M. A large roster of locals from Frostburg Punxsutawney Indiana and nearby towns visit relatives and friends across several households including the Kensingers Sprankles Neal Chandlers and Cochrans with several calls and visits noted throughout the week.
Williams of Pine Flats Returns Home After Hospital Stay
Pine Flats resident A. H. Williams left Pittsburgh Hospital Tuesday with his wife after a sinus operation and is reported as doing as well as possible. Nearby residents Mrs. McDonald, Mrs. Gibson, Mrs. Lowman, and Mrs. Parry were business callers in Indiana Saturday. Zene Hines and Merle Lydie left for Pittsburgh Sunday to seek work. Mrs. McAdoo and family visited with her parents. Numerous locals attended the funeral for Mrs. Margaret Griffith in Johnstown Wednesday afternoon.
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A. H. Williams
Pittsburgh
Robert McDonald
Fred’Gibson
Wilber Lowman
Frank Parry
Indiana
Zene Hines
Merle Lydie
McAdoo
Charles Lydie
Sheridan Lockard
Minnie Stephens
Mary
Sara
Homer
J. D. Joiner
Raymond Lockard
William Lockard
Mary Atkins
Margaret Griffith
Johnstown
John Wagner
Benny Littan
Loray Wagner
Deane Wagner
Dick Beck
U. S.’ Army
Rhode Island
Chas
Beck
John B. McCormick
Virginia
Tillie Pierce
Albert Milburh
New Kensington
Stanley Wadding
Dayton
Daisy
Effe Barnett
Here
Plumyville
Jay Daugherty
Harold Casedy
Hazel Stiteler
Val
Te Casedy
Clyde Reithermiller
Oliver Barnett
NuMine
Harold Casedy Vine
Prunes Cause West Side Fire Alarm Panic
A March 13 false alarm sent two pumpers a hook and ladder truck and an assistant chief to a West Side home. They found a pan of scorched prunes. Fireman Ralph Lombard, the assistant chief, arrived on a pumper and found the house belonged to him, the housewife reportedly embarrassed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
West Side
Ralph Lombard
Dachsund Named Hansi Wears I Am An American Blanket
In Cincinnati on March 13 a dachshund owned by Mrs. Joey Hardin is photographed with a blanket embroidered I Am An American. The note accompanies a lighthearted remark on Nazi ancestry claims.
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Cincinnati
Joey Hardin
Hansi
Daughter shoots father after alleged abuse near Valley View
A 15 year old girl shot and killed her father, 44 year old Peter Peoletti, with a shotgun in self defense after claiming ongoing abuse. State Police and Schuylkill County detectives reported the incident near Valley View and the girl was taken into custody with no charges filed.
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Valley View
H. E B. Bell
State Motor Police
Peter Peoletti
Schuylkill County
Louis Buono
Bruceo Clayton
Bell
Peoletti
Petrosylvania
Bank Seizure Likely On Ford Memorial Church Mortgage
The Peoples Pittsburgh Trust Co began Armstrong County court actions that may lead to foreclosure of the Ford Memorial Methodist Church mortgage in Ford City. A notice labeled seizure on the mortgage declares $39,425.40 due immediately. The original mortgage was $40,000 with first payment set for May 27, 1826.
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Kittanning
Peoples-Pittsburgh Trust. Co
Armstrong County
Ford Memorial Methodist Church
Ford City
Roy P. Bowser
Harry A. Heilman
Smicksburg Community Notices and Local Visits
Smicksburg residents share social visits as Mrs. Virginia Barrete hosts the Women’s Society of Christan Service with sixteen members present. News includes Hazel Stetler’s trip to Harrisburg for her ill daughter, family visits from Clark Lewis and Joshua Lewis, and multiple local ambulatory updates across Smicksburg and nearby towns. Lincoln man fined $1 for U turn with humorous explanation about saving tires.
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Virginia bBarrete
Women's Society of Christean Service
Hazel Stetler
Harrisburg
Clark Lewis
Joshua Lewis Sundday
Staff Sergeant Lockard Moves Toward Army Commission
Staff Sergeant Joseph L. Lockard, famed for his warning of Pearl Harbor’s approach, enters the Signal Corps Officer Candidate School in Fort Monmouth New Jersey en route to a second lieutenant commission. He received the Distinguished Service Medal in Washington from Under Secretary of War Patterson in a ceremony attended by his family.
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Fort Monmouth
N. J
Joseph L. Lockard
U. S. Army
Pearl Harbor
Signal Corps
Lockard
Washington
Patterson
Saltier
Ethel Maye
Daniel
3Dier
Wilhiamsport
New York
Relief checks rise for Indiana residents this week
State Treasurer G Harold Wagner reports relief payments to needy Indiana Countians rose by 15.00 to 3 070 for the week ending today, with 571 fewer checks than a year ago. Disbursements show 3 070 this week versus 35 055 prior week and 6 817 for the 1941 comparable week. February total cateogrical payments reached 48 141. Old Age Assistance 382 501 Aid to Dependent Children 298 203 Pensions for the Blind 41 110.
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Indiana
G. Harold Wagner
Bureau of Assistance
Treasury Department
Freight raise may be denied in New York
The Office of Price Administration urged U.S. railroads to suspend approved freight rate increases on ten large commodity groups including petroleum lumber and pig iron. It signaled possible cancellation of the entire rate increase. Dexter Keezer said the move could disrupt scrap iron pricing and other OPA price control efforts.
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New York
Office of Price Administration
Dexter M. Keezer
OPA
Railroad Committee
Markets Produce Pittsburgh Price Marks and Receipts
Pittsburgh March 13 notes slow produce demand with varied apple prices by type and region. Russet Rurals, Rome Beauties, Baldwins, McIntosh, and Chippewas show mixed quotations. potatoes and sacks listed. Livestock prices steady with changes in receipts for hogs calves and sheep.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
New York
Baldwins
McIntosh
Rome
West Virginia
Ohio
Maine
Reformatory Inmate Slays In Washington Case
Raymond Stanley McPherson, 22, of Gettysburg, confessed to killing Rudolph Canan of San Antonio, Texas, in a statement signed before Judge H Nellson in Washington. A robbery warrant was issued. McPherson to be arraigned before a U S Commissioner. He claimed hitchhiking from Fort Smith Arkansas around March 1 and dumping the car near Dallas before returning to Washington. He previously served time in Huntington Pennsylvania reformatory.
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Washington
J. J. Tolwon
Raymond Stanley McPherson
Gettysburg
Rudolph Canan
San Antonio
Texas
Tolson
H Nellson
Collin County
Nellson
McPherson
U. S
Fort Smith
Ark
Mareh L
Dallas
Huntington
Burglary Steals Butter Cash From Butler County Offices
A burglar looted three business establishments in Butler County by forcing a window in the Butler County Record office. About $40.40 and 10 pounds of butter were stolen from the newspaper’s safe, which was closed but unlocked. Archibald M. L. Du Pont, 53, ex DuPont de Nemours executive, died at Montchanin Delaware after a stroke.
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Butler
Record-Ziegler
Butler County Record
DU Pont
Wilmington
Archibald M. L.du Pont
du Pont de Nemours Company
Montchanin
Del
du Font
Obituary notes from Blairsville area families
Obituary items continue listing survivors and funeral plans for several local residents. McParland and A Householder connections noted. 21 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren mentioned. Services set 2:30 p m Sunday with Blairsville Methodist Church rites and Blairsville Cemetery interment. Also: Joseph Hudy services in McIntyre and Steuintyre, St Gertrude’s Church, with burial in St. Bernard’s Indiana. Frances Piekarski obituary details Poland birth and McIntyre life, lists children in multiple states. Andrew Kostryk obituary includes Dixonville residence, children listed, funeral at St John the Baptist Catholic Church Dixonsville. Interments planned in local church cemeteries.
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Joseph Hudy
Setlock
McIntyre
St. Gertrude's Church
Steintyre
Vincent Kulleski
St. Darenard's Cemetery
Indiana
Frances Pierkarski
Indiana Hospital
Poland
Helve
St. Gertrude's Catholic Church
Frank Piekarski
Walter Piekarski
Zigmond J
Edward Volpe
Mary Piekarski
New York
John Piekarski
Kessler Field
Fred Andrews
Robinson
Andrew Kostryk
Austria
Dixonville
Nicholas
Willian
Stephen Kostryk
Frank Pappas
Margaret Kostryk
St. John
He Baptist Catholic Church
Dixonsville
Father Fedorovich
Bakerton
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War Department
Philippine
Bataan
New Guinea
Salamaua
Lae
Lea
G. Albert Stewart
National Guard
Achilles L. Tynes
Milk Control Commission
Expositos
Treasury
Marth
Position of the Treasury
Floyd Hoover
Frostburg
Gertrude Beck
Emerson Sprankle
la Fayette
Illinois
Cree Casaday
Annabelle
Edna Neal
Emmabelle Bush
Eleanor
Gamble
H. C. Casaday
Rossiter
Kenneth Kensinger
Walter
C. Sprankle
Dale Dumb
Punxsutawney
Merle Neal
Arthur Scott
Apollo
Russel Cochran
Karl Chambers
Clive Chambers
Emery Bush
Lulu Gretta
Dale Taylor
Smicksburg
C. W. Postlewart
J. B. Coon
George Beam
Clark Heitz
North Point
Alice Neal
Merle Neville
C. W. Postlewait
Charles Coon
Georgeville
C. C. Sprankle
Elmer Back
Eugene Neal
Karney Neal
Russell
John
Rachel Cochran
Wilbur Fetterhoff
Frederick Chambers
Midland
Walter Wineberg
March
Ambrose Wells
Walter Kinter
Beverley Shields
Clyde Lewis
Teez Oy
Pine
Prunes
Charles
Lincoln, Neb
Lincoln
Reformatory
Slaye G
Ettysburg
Streams Funeral Home
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