England Faces Momentous Election Amid Leftward Shift
The forthcoming British general election pits Winston Churchill’s Conservative coalition against the Labour Party with aims of sweeping nationalization and broader public ownership. Observers note a visible move toward the left in Britain, influenced by continental trends and wartime dynamics, while Churchill leverages war leadership and stability to seek public support.
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England
John Bull
Russia
Europe
English
Britain
Winston Churchill
Commonwealth of Great Britain
House of Commons
Churchill
Japan
America
Jistices
William Emple
Canterbury
Youth Draft Rules Expand 18-Year-Old Quotas
War manpower head Hershey pushed liberal handling of deferments and a broader active duty path for 18 to 25 year olds. He said guardians should favor fathers over 30 and allow local boards wide discretion beyond the official essential activities list. An estimated 180,000 18 to 25 year olds may move to 1-A as reviews proceed.
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Europe
Hershey
Snene Randum
War Manpower J Commission
Here's Your Infantry Demonstration Tours to Boost War Bonds
Uniformed infantry from Fort Benning trained under Gen Stilwell will tour 600 cities in the 7th War Loan drive with 39-man units attacking pillboxes and displaying weapons and equipment. The show explains war costs and battlefield realities, with public handling of arms and live commentary to illustrate why War Bonds are needed.
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Army Ground Forces
Jattack
Adap
Pacific
Publi
Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Morgenthau
Joseph W. Stilwell
Bombers smash Ker Barriers on Luzon raid
In Luzon on May 21 a force of 175 P-38s and P-47s, with 350 fire bombs and fragmentation missiles, cleared a major Japanese barrier near Wawa and damaged artillery positions atop a promontory. The JAT Division reported capture of a key hill aiding the march toward the dam road. Captain Leonard J. Enzea of Conway Pennsylvania participated.
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Philippines
Luzon
Wawa’ Dani
Manila
Jat
China
Japan
Leonard J. Enzea
4Th Avenue
Conway
Japs Moving Forces to Manchuria
In a Chungking report from May 23 U S 14th Air Force planes attacked enemy troop trains moving north from Shanghai toward Manchuria. A 30 car train loaded with troops heavy artillery and motor vehicles was bombed north of Pengpu and another troop train south of Pengpu was attacked. A third train was firebombed on the Peiping Hankow line north of Hankou. Railyards at the Hsuchow rail junction were struck as Chinese troops advanced eastward toward Shaoyang.
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Chungking
Shanghai
Manchuria
U. S. 14Th Air Force
Albert C. Wedemeyer
Pengpu
Anhwei
Peiping-Hankow
Hanko
Hsuchow J
Kiangsi
Shuoyang
Payoang
Chihkiang
Shaoyang
Ike’s Double Plays Wartime Role in Nazi Plot Fear
Lt Col Baldwin Smith of Chicago doubled for General Eisenhower last December amid a scare over a Nazi plot against the Supreme Commander’s life. The incident underscores wartime security concerns and the use of stand-ins during high-risk periods.
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Baldwin Smith
Chicago
Eisenhower
Truman to address final UN conference plenary session
President Truman will travel to San Francisco in early June to speak at the final plenary session of the United Nations world organization conference. Secretary of State Stettinius said the conference should conclude successfully in the early part of June and that the president’s trip was confirmed after talks with Truman on a wide range of world affairs.
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Washington
Truman
San Francisco
United Nations World Organization
Stettinius
Stetlinius
Charles G. Ross
White House
State Department
Sen
Tomorrrow
Churchill resigns as Prime Minister in coalition crisis
Former wartime leader Winston Churchill tendered his resignation as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury at 12 noon after an audience with the King. The move will push Britain toward a caretaker government until elections resolve a rift between Conservatives and Labour who favor a Socialist economy. At Blackpool 1,100 Labour delegates authorized ministers to step out if the issue is forced now.
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Europe
No. 10
Downing Street
Winston Churchill
Treasury
Churchill
Labor Party
Dunkerque
Blackpool
Last of Red Cross Boxes Shipped
The last overseas food box from the Red Cross Allied Prisoners of War packing service left Philadelphia as centers close after the war end. Dr George P Rea notes 7 000 000 boxes packed since 1943 with 200 000 new cars urged for 1943. Sgt Wallace Kirschner, a former POW, and Cpl Donald Hamill, son of Mr and Mrs Blair Hamill, are mentioned among patients and donors.
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Philadelphia
Red Cross Allied Prisoners of War Food Packing Service
George P. Rea
Southeastern Pennsylvania
American Red Cross
Europe
New York
Brooklyn
St. Louis
Wallace E. Kirschner
Bronx
N. Y
Germany
Valley Forge General’ —Y— Hospital
Phoenixville
Donald Blair Hamill
Rea
Blair Hamill
East Here
Mahoning Township
England
Blairsville and Glymer sales quotas and totals report
Fragmentary financial notice lists Blairaville Blairsville and Glymer P O entities with quotas of 200000 and 100000 and total sales figures 42168.75 and 75000 for EB and Others categories. Mentions Commodore P Q and Bene Bannatine with unclear context.
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Blairaville National
Sseseeseee
Blairsville P.O
Export of false teeth fuels South American demand
Miami officials report a surge in export of fake chompers with over 500,000 artificial teeth in one week, many headed to Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. Philadelphia dealers penalized for butter price violations as Federal Judge Bard rules against C. S. Heyd & Co. and others in OPA cases.
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Miami
Fla
South America
Pan American Airways
Brazil
Uruguay
Argentina
Philadelphia
Guy x. Bard
OPA
C. S. Heyd & Co
John S. Morris & Son
A. F. Bickley & Son
Veto power dispute at United Nations conference abroad
At the United Nations conference Big Five nations clash over veto power in a proposed world peace body. Britain seeks to curb veto in investigations. U.S. doubt on Senate approval without hemisphere safeguards. Russia stance unclear. Syria and Lebanon accuse France of coercion. Ukraine delegates foresee wider Soviet admission. In Pennsylvania, 60,000 students expected to enter summer jobs to help ease labor shortages in food processing and other sectors.
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United States
Russia
United States Senate
Yalta
Security Council
Stettinius
Truman
Washington
Syria
Lebanon
France
Levant
Soviet Union
Manuutsky
Ukraine
League
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Francis B. Haas
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Commonwealth
U.S. Employment Service
Floran J. Boland
War Manpower Commission
Dr. Haas
Anti-trust Suit Filed Against Pgh Plate Glass
The Justice Department filed a civil anti trust suit in Toledo to break up Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company with 106 warehouses and stores. Libbey Owens Ford and seven other glass firms plus officers and a trade group are accused of monopolizing flat glass through mergers price wars patents and territory division. The action targets plate safety window tempered and sheet glass markets.
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Justice Department
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
Department
Toledo
Ohio
Pittsburgh Plate Glass
Pittsburgh
Libbey-Owetts-Ward Glass Company
Libbey-Owens-Ford
United States
Improvement For Co Road Indiana County Bid Summary
Harrisburg May 23 The Highway Department today received bids on a road improvement project for Indiana County totaling about 2.5 miles. The unofficial low bidder John B Schultz Contracting Co Inc Buffalo NC bid 161,284 for Route 56 Seward to Homer City in East Wheatfield and Brush Valley Townships Armagh Borough widening 2.48 miles. The article notes safety context about deaths.
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Highway Department
Indiana County
Seward
Homer City
East Wheatfield
Brush Valley
Armagh Borough
John B. Schultz Contracting Co, Inc
Buffalo
N. C
Obituaries for Pochet and Smith Lead Blairsville Notice
Louis F Pochet husband of Augusta Pochet of Blairsville Pa died May 22 at his daughter s home after six months illness Born November 21 1884 in Nurmar Belgium he was the son of the late Mr and Mrs Joseph Pochet Surviving include wife daughters Miss Eva Mae Pochet Blairsville Mrs William Sarver Mrs Kenneth Brubaker Blairsville Mrs Earl McLaughlin Baltimore Md sons Sgt Marcel L US Army in England Oscar F Chabot Blairsville Pa one sister Mrs Carmill Lessire Belgium and seven grandchildren Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 30 p m at the home of his daughter Mrs Kenneth Brubaker 625 Marewood Ave Blairsville Pa by Rev R E McClure D D Interment Blairsville Cemetery Melzenia Esther Smith of McIntyre died May 22 1945 at 3 00 p m Born December 15 1877 in Jefferson County daughter of Geo and Catherine Weber Pifer she resided in McIntyre 19 years Member of Paradise Reformed Church Surviving husband Emanuel M Smith two sons Gilbert E Cowansville Pa Lester A US Army Germany one daughter Mrs Irwin Turnbull McIntyre and five grandchildren Two brothers W C Pifer Punxsutawney R D Milton D Punxsutawney R D and one sister Miss Henrietta Pifer Punxsutawney R D also survive Funeral services Friday May 25 at 1 00 p m from the family home Interment in Pifer Cemetery Jefferson Co
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Augusta
Lessire) Pochet
Blairsville
Lucille Brubaker
Morewood Ave
Nur‘mar
Belgium
Joseph Pochet
Eva Mae Pochet
William Sarver
Kenneth Brubaker
Earl McLaughlin
Baltimore
Marcel L
U. S. Army
England
Oscar F. Chabot
Carmill Lessire
Marewood Ave
R. E. McClure
United Presbyterian Church
Blairsville Cemetery
Melzenia Esther Smith
McIntyre
Jefferson County
Geo
Catherine Weber Pifer
Paradise Reformed Church
Emanuel M. Smith
Gilbert E. Cowansville
Lester A
Germany
Irwin
Home Prisoner Reported Freed
Thomas P. Adams, son of Mr and Mrs Joe Adams of Home Indiana, has been released from a German prison camp per a Home Service telegraph via the American Red Cross. Adams left Indiana with the National Guards on February 27 1941, went to England October 5 1948, to France in June 1944, and served with General Hodges Army in Belgium when captured December 20 1944.
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Joe Adams
Home
Home Service Department
American’ Red Cross
Thomas Adams
Indiana
National Guards
England
France
Hodges
Belgium
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