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Newspaper

Indiana Evening Gazette

Location

Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

May 24, 1947

Page

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Installation of Catholic Daughters Officers Held in St Bernard

Grand Regent Mrs. Samuel Magistrelia presided as new officers of the Catholic Daughters of America were installed at St Bernard on Monday. Named officers include vice grand regent Mrs. Paul Mazzarp, historian Miss Helene Lahr, financial secretary Miss Margaret Plotzer, treasurer Mrs. Joseph Quinn, lecturer Mrs. M. G. Sullivan, monitor Miss Rita Strillmatter, sentinel Miss Reamnia Muller, organist Mrs. John Kenosh, and trustees Miss Ity Plotzer and Mrs. J. Anthony.

Bernard St. Bernard's Pranda W. Mohit Josephine McCéniyn Vander Seat Daughters of America Samuel Magistrelia Vita Grand Paul Mazzar Herman Ridupero Helene &, Lahr Margaret F Plotzer Joseph Quinn M. G. Sullivan Monitor Rita Strillmatter Sentinel Missy Reamnia Muller John Kenosh Ity Plotzer J. Anthony

Salisburg May Queen Crowning Sunday at St Matthews

Salisburg to observe May Day with the crowning of the May Queen at St Matthews Catholic Church. The ceremony on Sunday May 25 led by Father Raynald includes a May Queen and her court, with the queen crowning the Blessed Virgin. 3 PM in the church yard weather permitting.

St. Matthews Catholic Church Salisburg St. Matthews Father Raynald

Mural Unveiling At St Jacob's Lutheran Church

The mural Mount Galilee by John A Fullerton will be unveiled at St Jacob's Lutheran Church in South Bend this Sunday at 8 00 p m DST with an appetitive service and special music.

Mount Galilee John A. Fullerton St. Jacob's ‘Litheran South Bend

Noon Stocks Rally as Markets Close on Mixed Booth

The closing list shows widespread gains with major names like General Electric, General Motors, and Chrysler posting higher quotes, while firms such as United States Rubber and Southern Pacific show modest moves. Notable fallers include Armour & Co and Anaconda Copper, amid a broad mix of金融s and industrials.

Allegheny Corpany Allied Eastman Kodak New Food Fair Gen Foods Gen Motors Kresge Lehigh Val Coal Leh Val RR Libby, McN & L Loew's Inc Mack Trucks McKess & Rob Montgom Ward Nash-Kelvinator Nat Biscuit Nat Dairy Nat Distillers Nat Pow & Lt Nat Supply NY Central RR North Sperry Corp Stand Oil Cal Ol NJ Stone & Webster Studebaker Corp Fexa Texas Gutt Sulon Union Pac United Arera United Co Rubber U & Steel Warner Bros Pict Wire Woolworth York Corp Youngs Sh & Otm

Moose Lodge Initiates 63 At Mead owbrook Meeting

Indiannah Lodge No. 174 of the Loyal Order of Moose initiated a class of 63 candidates at a special meeting Thursday evening at Meadowbrook. The initiation was led by the local degree team, followed by dinner for members and their ladies. A judge meeting, dancing with Umbrey Tate and his orchestra, and a talking movie titled Mooseheart, the Child City were also featured for members and guests.

Indianna Lodge No. 174 Legcal Order of Moose Meadowbrook Uimrhy Tate Mooseheart

Kiwanis Club to mark 25th anniversary in church meeting

Indiana Kiwanis Club founded May 23 1922 observes its twenty fifth anniversary at a Methodist Church gathering Monday evening. Four of the sixty seven original members remain. Principal speaker Belmont Mosser of St Marys Kiwanis Club is treasurer of Kiwanis International and a Chicago convention candidate for re election in June.

Indiana Kiwanis Club EB. C. Buchheit Robert M. Fisher J. Clotd Rinn Ward M. Zeigler Willard Boy Scouts Girl Scouts J. Reppell Moorhead George Rinkenberger Belmont Mosser Mosser St. Mary’s Kiwanis Club Kiwanis International

Organization of Clymer B and P Club Achieves Permanent Status

The Clymer business and civic men’s club completed its months of organization and elected officers Weldon Levinson as president Gerad Bence as vice president Leonard Longwell as secretary and Floyd Houck as treasurer. A rules and policy committee was formed and will report next meeting. Two delegates were appointed to Civic Center.

Clymer Weldon Levinson Gerad Bence Leonard Longwell Floyd Houck Civic Center

Lynch mood grips Rich Square after alleged assault fears

In Rich Square the night after an alleged attack a Black man named Bush is seized by masked white men while police and a nearby solicitor report high race tensions. Authorities note Bush denies molesting Mrs Bryant. the accuser could not identify him.

Bush Edwards Saint Bush Rich Square Northampton County Jackson Hertford County Virginia North Carolina Greenville S. C Willie Earle Louisburg Raleigh Govan “Sweat’ Ward

Clark May Take Action In Lynch Case

United States Attorney General Tom Clark urged local judicial strength against injustice at the Kansas Bar Association meeting in Topeka. He cited lynching cases in Monroe Georgia Linden Louisiana and said the Justice Department may go into court in local matters when a thread of law exists.

Topeka Kas United States Tom Clark Justice Department South Carolina Kansas Bar Association Clark Department Monroe Linden

Atlantic Students Win Essay Awards

The piece describes entertainers visiting a Pacific Island outpost to boost soldier morale. It highlights a second honorable mention by Mr Shaffer a corporal in the Army Air Corps and author of a desert survival story set on a Burmese mountain weather station. Awards will be listed in June Atlantic Monthly.

Bob Howe Frances Langford Pacific Shaffer Army Air Corps Burma China India Atlantic Burm Band Atlantic Monthly Shafter Veron Penn Township High School Indiana Penn Bond Indiana Laboratory School Indiana High School

President To Stay At Bedside In Kansas City

President Truman remains beside his mother in Kansas City with no plan to return to Washington as her health fails. He skipped his usual morning walk for a fourth day, noting heavy work ahead, while doctors report his condition unchanged and Mrs. Truman rests quietly in an oscillating bed.

Page Truman Kansas City Mary Jane Truman Washington Wallace H. Graham Charles G. Ross

Bracken Family To Depart For Germany In June

Mrs Clarence D Bracken and her five year old son Billy of Winton dale plan to leave in early June to join Tech Sergeant Clarence Bracken in Heidelberg Germany They will report to Fort Hamilton N Y on May 29 and board ship at the New York Port of Embarkation The heraldic color murrey red purple is noted as symbolizing patience and sacrifice.

Clarence D. Bracken Billy Wintondale Tech Clarence, Bracken Heidelberg Germany Fort Hamilston N. Y New York Port of

First Lady Truman Sinks Deeper as President Stays Near

News describes Mrs Truman weakening at home under special care while President Truman remains at her side. General Graham worries over her frail condition as the presidential party balances duties at the bedside and official duties in Kansas City.

Soviet Press Accuses U S and Britain of Slander

New Times denounces Western correspondents Ward Denny Ewer Clifford Whitman and Davis for lies and slander aimed at discrediting the Soviet Union and fostering Anglo American hostility. The piece asserts journalists are ordered to attack Soviet policy and spread distrust among peoples. A Moscow play echoes the claim that foreign reporters are sent to slander the USSR.

Soviet Union Britain Davis New Times Ward Denny Ewer Clifford Whitman Moscow Konstantin M. Simonov

Marshall Criticism by Soviets and German Question

New Times notes Soviet criticism of Western policy on Germany and argues Moscow conference did substantial work. It blames American and British monopoly groups for Germany's troubles and calls for informed public opinion in Britain and the United States.

New Times Germany Britain United States

Battle Royal as Maryland Students Raids Johns Hopkins Campus

In Baltimore on May 24, about 250 Maryland undergrads raided Johns Hopkins to recover a kidnapped bronze Terrapin. Police arrested 11 Maryland students for disorderly conduct. Hopkins students and police kept the scene under control as the standoff continued into early morning.

Baltimore University of Maryland Johns Hopkins University Maryland University Maryland Herbert Murphy Earl Porter Northern District Hopkins College Park Porter

100 To Search For Missing Girl

In Bennington Vermont 100 searchers began a 24 square mile mountainside hunt for Paula Welden an 18 year old Bennington College sophomore who vanished last December The search teams include her father mother two sisters scouts guards and volunteers aiming to confirm if she died in the mountains was foully harmed or wandered away to Washington and other places mentioned by the article

Bennington Paula Welden Bennington College Lord Conn Glastonbury Bald W. Archibeld Welden Huntera

Night Owls Pestering U S Army

Army officials say civilians seek access to sniperscope and snooperscope secrets once used in war. An eye doctor proposes a dark room eye exam using snooperscope principles, while wildlife researchers eye nocturnal study gear. Army resists sharing the devices and rejects various requests.

Arthur Edson Fort Belvoir U. S. Army Army Engineers Army Fish and Wildlife People Wildlifers

Waitress Pie Thrower Released In Jackson Miss

An 86 year old waitress named Diana Gaunce was freed on a charge of assault after the charge was dismissed in city court. The report notes a disturbance at the Ritz Cafe with a pie incident and mentions a separate memorial service plan.

Threat of Another Beer War Looms

In Pittsburgh on May 24 the CIO petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to organize truck drivers at 90 beer distributors in western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. CIO regional director Anthony J. Federoff seeks unit by unit election machinery, noting current AFL contracts run to June 30. He says the move does not imply renewed violence but a legal step for workers to choose a union, as AFL officials did not comment. Distributors named include Tube City, Monongahela Valley, McKeesport groups, plus Leroy Calderone Co., Homer Zucconi, and others across Butler, Donora, Coraopolis, and Wheeling.

Pittsburgh CIO AFL National Labor Relations Board Pennsylvania West Virginia Anthony J. Federofi Federoff Ciolente Tube City Distributing Co Monongahela Walston Ceramio Beramia Beverage Co Coraopolis Jurick Novotny Beer Distributors Donora Fritz Reitler & Sons Ford City A. P. Nase Punxsutawney Peter M. Casper Beer Distributing Co Sharpsburg Egnas Miladin Co New Brighton Victor Grem Rimersburg McCann Distributing Co Wheeling W. Va

Partial Wartime Controls Debate in Congress

Senator Taft indicated Republicans may grant President Truman only half of his wartime controls extension. The President seeks a year longer authority to regulate imports of fats oils rice and to retain allocation controls on tin manila cordage antimony cinchona bark and quinine. Taft wants more study before final decision and may drop import controls. The President also asked for continued fertilizer controls and industrial material priorities to aid projects abroad. Hoover warned Europe’s fertilizer hunger and criticized destruction of German plants.

Washington Taft Ohio Truman Congress Manila Senate Republican Policy Committee Herbert Hoover Europe Hoover

Obituary for Catherine Bertha McCombs Johnston

Mrs Catherine Bertha McCombs Johnston of Horner City R D 2 died at Dr Raymonds Hospital Johnstown yesterday evening at 7 00 She was born October 31 1862 a daughter of Joan and Jane Griffith McCombs Survivors include husband William J Johnston children Mrs Ernest Ritchey Franklin Mrs William Bepler Mrs Homer Downey Cleveland Richard Beaver Roy Homer City R D 2 and Doris at home She was sister of James McCombs Cleveland and Mrs George Nolder Elizabeth Pa Grandchildren also surviving Friends may call at Askew Funeral Home after 1 00 this evening Services will be at Homer City Nazarene Church Monday at 2 30 Rev L T Wells officiating Interment Oakland Cemetery Indiana

Catherine Bertha McCombs Johnston Horner City R. D Raymond Doris James McCombs Cleveland George Nolder Elizabeth Eleyn Askew Homer City

American tanker Newhall Hills ablaze near England

May 24 reports say the 10,000 ton American tanker Newhall Hills burned for six hours off England and drifted toward Goodwin Sands with at least one crew member dead. Ramsgate lifeboat aided search as John La Farge stood by to recover survivors from an unknown fishing vessel.

Deal England Ramsgate Goodwin Sands English Channel John la Farge Newhall Hills

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