CIO Keeps Merger- Talk Alive
Washington dispatch reports the CIO Executive Board renews calls for early talks with the AFL on organic unity and united action to meet labor’s problems. Philip Murray letters AFL president Green seeking date for a meeting while AFL signals the merger as a first step and the board prepares to tackle price controls and economic issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold W. Ward
Washington
Mar
AFL
CIO
Philip Murray
William Green
CIO Unity Committee
Murray
Green
Flood Confab Set On March 27 For Bradford Eldred Area
Army district engineers will hold a public hearing in Bradford on March 27 to review flood control options for the Bradford Eldred area. Study will cover possible reservoirs dikes walls channels and combinations after a field survey found severe flooding issues.
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Pittsburgh
Army District Engineers
Bradford
Bradford-Eldréd
Bradford-Eldred
Nazi Wives Face Denazification Trials in Germany
In Bavaria the widows of top Nazi leaders including Hermann Goering and Hans Frank are slated for denazification court proceedings as Nazi profiteers. Officials list Frau Goering, Frau Frank, and others such as Frau Frick Frau Von Blomberg and Frau Von Ludendorff among those to be indicted, with trials expected soon in Starnberg and other venues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munich
Germany
Adolf Hitl
Jet
Nuernberg
Bavaria
Bavarian
Denazification Ministry
Hermann Goering
Neuhaus
Hans Frank
Poland
Starnberg
Wilhelm Frick
Hitler
Interior
Werner von Blomberg
Erich von Ludendorff
Dorothea Keitel
UN Probers Were Gunned At in Greece Route
Greek Press Office reports a United Nations Investigating Commission team was fired on while traveling in western Macedonia toward Albania. No injuries occurred. Government forces then dislodged guerrillas from mountain heights near Kastoria. Reports conflict with higher insurgent tolls pending.
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Athens
Mar
United Nations Investigating Commission
Macedonia
Albania
Kastoria
Larisa
Mother and Child Die in Conneautville Fire
In Conneautville Pennsylvania a young mother Mrs Vaughn Sturn 26 and her five year old son died in a house blaze. Joseph Forro 16 carried the boy to safety then tried to rescue the mother. The child ran back into the flames and was lost. Forro suffered burns to the arms and face and smoke inhalation.
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Conneautville
Mar
Joseph Forro
Vaughn Sturn
Forro
Forra
Izvestia Editorial Attacks Truman on Greece Policy
Izvestia declares Truman’s leadership claims in international affairs overblown and warns U S influence harms Greek sovereignty. The piece argues old colonizer methods are doomed, criticizing American military and civilian personnel and $250 million in aid shaping Greece under foreign oversight.
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United States
Torial
Truman
Izvestia
Greece
Union Man Urges Labor Regulation Against Unions
Washington March 14 Ahn Walter W Cenerazzo president of the American Watch Workers Union urged Congress to regulate unions in the public interest, calling them reactionary management and saying Communist controlled unions must be eliminated by law. He outlined proposals for outlawing industry wide strikes and jurisdictional disputes and for compulsory mediation. A closed session was arranged after the perjury complaint motion against CIO leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ahn
Walter W. Cenerazzo
American Watch Workers Union
Congress
Independent Union
House Labor Committee
Senate Labor Committee
Concrazzo
Hartley
R-Nj
John F Kennedy
D-Mass
Convict Seeks Life Restart After Execution Plan
San Quentin March story reports convict Tom McMonigle proposing to revive him after execution using Dr. Robert Cornish methods. Warden Clinton Duffy rejects the idea citing legal and logistical barriers, including impossibility of removing the body quickly and the governor’s office deferring the request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Quentin
Calif
Mar
Tom McMonigle
Clinton Duffy
McMonigle
Robert Cornish
Berkeley
Cullf
Thora Chamberlain
San Jose
Cornish
Duffy
Dy.Cornish
State Director of Correction
Pole Jaunt Vets Killed
Two crew members of the U S A Navy Antarctic expedition were killed in an automobile crash at Edgecliff Sydney. Petty Officer Joseph Hollingsworth aged 24 and Seaman James Eason aged 19 died when their car hit a telegraph pole and wall while the driver Edward Ellis was seriously injured. The victims were part of the Currituck sea plane tender crew on shore leave amid about 1000 sailors easing into Sydney visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Australia
U. S.A Navy
Edgecliff
Joseph TL. Hollingsworth
James Eason
Currituck
Edward Ellis
Vandenberg Not In Race for 1948 Nomination
Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan states he is not a candidate for the 1948 presidential nomination and will seek no convention delegates or party approval. He says his place is in the Senate and he would only yield to a spontaneous draft if demanded by the nation. He notes no nominee is drafted without connivance. The piece also mentions lunar visibility near the poles.
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New York
Arthur Vandenberg
Michigan
Senate
Life Magazine
Frank Kent
Rescue efforts underway for Fort Dearborn crew near Hawaii
HONOLULU March 14 The freighter Telfair Stockton reports weather moderating and anticipates rescuing 22 men from the stern and eight from the bow of the broken tanker Fort Dearborn shortly after dawn Four navy patrol bombers are to depart Midway to search for 12 missing Fort Dearborn crewmen in a lifeboat since the ship split in a storm northwest of Honolulu The freighter Robert S Broussard in distress reports subsiding seas and winds and asks to continue toward Yokohama The 7 000 ton vessel carries locomotives from the United States and the Telfair Stockton says Dearborn crewmen have the stern under way Subscribe for the Gazette now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
Mar
Telfair Stockton
Hawaiian Sea Frontier
Fort Dearborn
Navy
Midway
Robert S. Broussard
Okahama
United States
Dearborn
Organizing Local Scouts Meeting Report
Floyd Rankin presided at Central District Committee and Scouter's Round Table last night at Laboratory School Indiana State Teachers College. Reports from Neighborhood Commissioner Lee Engle covered Troop 27 reorganization with Methodist Church backing and Troop 30 with American Legion support. resignation of Neighborhood Commissioner William Simpson accepted. successors to be named within the month.
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Floyd Rankin
Central District Committee
Central District Scouter's Round Table
Indiana State Teachers College
Lee Engle
Indiana
The
Methodist Church
Francis Nantais
American Legion Post
William Simpson
D. W. Sollberger
Francis Nantals
Pittsburgh
Sollberger
Connos
Elks Club
Lions Club
F. C. Rankin
D. E. Sollberger
C.L. Playfoot
Lee A. Engle
Roy Fee
F. A. Nantais
M. D. Elgin
Stanley Schall
Sid Boyd
Joe Murray
R. D. Orr
Walt Connor
Donald Shank
Thomas Murray, Jr
S. V. Wiley
R. C. Sexton
Albert J. Moreau
Plane Crash Near Newton Rescue Shines Bright
Alert residents and state police aided a quick search for a Miami to Philadelphia private plane that crashed into the Kittatinny Mountains near Lake Kittatinny, Newton. Pilot Gene Geuther and four passengers were found within a half hour and rushed to Newton Memorial Hospital with Zollers and Shearer seriously injured.
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Newton
N. J
Mar
Miami
Philadelphia
Kittatinny
Here
Lake Kittatinny
Newton Memorial Hospital
Gene Geuther
Landsdale
Dolly Rosie recalls Ziegfeld days in court suit
In Los Angeles on March 14 Dolly Roszik Dolly testified in songwriter Jean Schwartz’s 100000 damage suit. She remembered meeting Schwartz in 1912 while in the Ziegfeld circle with her sister Jenny and said Schwartz wrote several tunes. She testified to a 1913 elopement and a 1921 divorce amid a dispute involving 700th Century Fox Studios and the film The Dony Sisters.
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Los Angeles
Pj Roszika
Dolly
Jenny
Jean Schwartz
Rosie
Trying Metcher
Chicago
Schwartz
Enny
Jolley
Robert Dary
Bedelia
Daryl
700th-Century-Fox Studios
George Jessel
Hosie
the Dony, Sisters
Dewey Signatures Bill Outlaws Public Employee Strikes
Albany March 14 The Condon-Waldin bill banning strikes by public employees awaits Governor Dewey’s signature after passage in the GOP led Assembly 92 to 54 and Senate earlier in the week. Fourteen Republicans joined Democrats in opposing. The act would automatically dismiss strikers with a chance for reinstatement within 10 days. Rehired workers would have pay capped at their prior rate, no raise for three years, and reduced tenure for five years.
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Albany
N. Y
New York State
Thomas E. Dewey
Assembly
Senate
Obituaries and death notices from Indiana County
Obituaries list several local deaths including Mrs Helen Demeter of Heshbon at age 76, Mrs Margaret Ferreo of Rossiter aged 195 last Saturday, John O. Walter of Derry Township, Mrs Thresa Stimanovich of Brenizer, Paul Nealer Sr. of New Kensington, Blanche McClosky Straw of Nanty Glo, with details on births, survivors, church affiliations, funeral plans, and interment locations. Also notes extensive honey production figures in the United States.
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Margaret Ferreo
Rossiter
Aly
Bernard and
Catherine (Guando) Caranto
Carol Ferrea
Italy
Joseph
John Ferrea
John O. Walter
Clark Bridge
Derry Township
Blair County
Elvin G. Walter
Georgia
Boger) Walter
Mra
Helen Devers
Texas
Charles
Torrance
SS. Simon and Jude Church
Blairsville
Hunter Funeral Home
Thresa Stimanovich
Brenizer
George Ladovich
Anna Malet
Mary Tapson
Barbara Gen. Tutko
Pittsburgh
Caroline Verbonic
Austria
Nicolas and
Ignateus
John
Miami
Florida
George
Harrisburg
Vincent Ladovich
SS Simon and Judge
St. Francis Society of United
SS. Simon and Jude
F. J Muellen
Trager
Paul Nealer, Sr
New Kensington
Charles Hogg
Fourth Avenue
Hogg
Nealer
Harry Collins
Tarentum
Andrew
Paul Jr
Sam
East Brady
St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church
St. Eugebris Cemetery
Brady's Bend
Newler
Indiana County
Blanche McClosky Straw
Bushline
Grove City
David and
Annie Putt McClosky
Bury Township
Cambria County
Jan Wacy
Belsana
Nanty Glo
Methodist Church
Bradley R. Straw
Roy
Straw
Nancy Tr
Louisiana Storm Devastates Louisiana Towns and Crops
A March storm in southern Louisiana left at least two dead in Abbeville when a tornado wind blew homes across the street. Lightning struck two homes and a garage was moved 360 yards. The Alco Cutter ship ran aground near the Mississippi mouth. Rainfall reached nearly seven inches in some towns with widespread flooding and bridge blockages.
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New Orleans
United States Weather Bureau
Louisiana
Zuline Leblanc
Susie Yates
Abbeville
Alco Cutter
Mississippi River
Strawberry Belt
Meningitis Toll Hits Ivory Coast in Feb outbreak
PARIS March 14 AP a French press agency dispatch said 150 residents of the Ivory Coast a French colony in West Central Africa died of cerebro spinal meningitis between February 11 and 20 and more than 800 were reported dangerously ill in the outbreak time frame.
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Paris
Ivory Coast
Central Africa
Boys of Vocational Agriculture Complete Home Projects
Indiana and Cambria County schools report 275 projects across 9 high schools with total charges of 36354.83 and credits 64487.02. net profit 28132.19 and self labor valued at 4563.93, totaling earnings 32696.12. Data drawn from home farm records supervised by local agriculture teachers, part of annual DPI report to Harrisburg.
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Indiana and
Cambria County
Lecal
W. W. Schrock
Department of Public Instruction
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Explosion blamed on dynamite blast in Wilkinsburg
Pittsburgh AP report says a dynamite blast set by workers excavating for a sewer caused the Wilkinsburg explosion that killed 41 year old Mrs Jean Rapp and injured eight others while destroying two homes on Center Street. Children William Rapp age 3 and Jane Rapp six months were seriously injured but saved.
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Pittsburgh
Wilkinsburg
Peoples Natural Gas.Co
Center
Wilkinsburg Hospital
William Rapp
Jane Rapp
Jean Rapp
Rapp
Cambria County Song Meet Set at Cherry Tree Church
The Cambria Song Meet will be held at the Methodist Church of Cherry Tree at 2 p.m. Sunday with the public invited. Snakes are irmitne to many types of poisonous gases.
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Cambria County
Methodist Church of
Cherry Tree
Feeds and Mash Varieties From Ful-O-Pep Lineup
Tul-O-Pep Laying Mash Ful-O-Pep Chick Starter Growing Mash Egg-Breeder Mash Broiler Mash Chick Litter Fitting Ration Calf Ration Goat Feed listed in the available Ful-O-Pep catalog.
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Quaker
Richards
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