Scout Execs To Hold 46 Confab Here
Will iam Pann Scout Council announces Sept. member meeting plans at Pantall Hotel Punxsutawney to host a planning conference and annual business meeting in State Weather's College Nov. 4 with district chairs, staff, and committee meetings. Budget set at 25000 for 1947 to expand executive staff to three full time positions across six districts.
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William Pann Scout Council
Miber
Pantall Hotel
Iff Punxsutawneay
Weather’s College
Davis
A. E. Long
N. L. Diem
J. Thompson
Robert E. Mateer
Gerald Carrier
Divorce of James M Cain and Aileen Pringle Cain
Writer James M Cain, famed for realistic novels, was divorced from actress Aileen Pringle Cain who testified they were temperamentally unsuited. She will receive 6000 dollars and a third interest in two Cain novels written after their marriage on August 12 1944, Past All Dishonor and the unpublished Butterfly.
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Los Angeles
James M. Cain
Aileen Pringle Cain
Cain
Garssons Cleared In Deaths Through Defective Ammo
New York reports the Garsson munitions firms, under Senate War Investigating Committee scrutiny, were cleared of responsibility for deaths from defective chemical mortar shells. A War Department study found defects only in fuses, not shells, and tied casualties to 63 faulty rounds out of about 4,000,000.
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New York
the Times
Washington
Garsson
Senate War Investigating Committee
War Department
Times
Henry M. Garsson
Garsson Munitions Empire
G. I
James M. Mead
D.N
Romance of Royalty Rumor Denied at Buckingham Palace
London reports of a Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillipe romance are dismissed as pure nonsense by a palace source. Catholics in the Greek royal house make an alliance unlikely. Stories claim Phillipe, a naval officer, visits Buckingham Palace frequently, though no wedding is planned.
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London
Elizabeth
Prince Phillipe
Greece
Buckingham Palace
George II
Duke of Kent
George V
Marina
Mob raids mosque. three killed and woman stabbed
A mob stormed a mosque this afternoon, slaying two men and a woman with knives and seriously stabbing another woman. The attackers wrecked the mosque and set it on fire before troops arrived.
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Pennay
India
City council buys electroencephalograph for court institute
James B. Bowler urged the Chicago finance committee to approve 2300 dollars from the city hall exterior fund for the municipal court psychiatric institute. Aldermen suggested the device would record brain waves to reveal abnormalities, while joking about the word’s meaning.
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Chicago
James B. Bowler
Psychiatric Institute
Duffy
Gillespie
Bowler
Alderman Merryman
Orlikowski
Webster
City Hall
Institute
Exams for Clune Post Office Master Vacancy
The United States Civil Service Commission announces an open examination for the position of postmaster at the Clune Post Office. Eligibility requires U.S. citizenship or allegiance, one year residency in the delivery area, good health, and within age limits. Open to men and women. Names of top three eligibles will be certified to the Postmaster General for nomination to the President and Senate. Full details at the Clune Post Office.
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United States Civil Service Commission
Clune Post Office
United States
Civil Service Commission
Senate
Garden Oddity Hand Shaped Carrot Surprises Gardener
Samuel A. Fiwowar of Fdti grows carrots yearly and this specimen is the most unusual. The carrot resembles a human hand with thick stubby fingers from one to two inches long, nearly forming a five fingered hand.
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Samuel A. Fiwowar
Fdti
Mr. Fiwowar
Miss America pageant heats up second day in Atlantic City
New York City Brooklyn 21 Eileen Henry and Atlanta Mississippi Louisiana tied atop bathing suit prelims while Marguerite McClelland 23 from Memphis won talent with Voice of Spring. Crowd of 10,000 watched at Convention Hall as preliminaries continue toward Saturday finals expected to draw 25,000. Local UN costumes section opened the program.
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Atlantic City
N. J
New York City
Atlanta
Louisiana
Eileen Henry
Brooklyn
Jane Miller
Marguerite McClelland
Memphis
Tenn
Miss McClelland
Louisiana State University
Pagean
United Nations
Carrier FDR Arrives Off Athens Port
The United States aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt and escort vessels arrived at Athens for a four day courtesy visit. No air show is planned though an aerial display had been considered. Greek political leaders react to the plebiscite returning King George II and discuss recognition of the monarchy. British embassy notes on the timing of British force withdrawals from Greece beginning mid September.
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Chakales
Athens
United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
George II
U. S
FDR
Roosevelt
Fanayotis Kanellopoulos
Republican National Unionist Party
Supreme Court
George Papandreou
Union Bloc
Social Democrat
Kanellopoulos
Greece
National Liberation Front
EAM
Stillilanos Gonatas
Plea Hearing Planned for Corrine Sykes Death Row Case
Corrine Sykes, a Philadelphia housemaid, seeks commutation from death to life imprisonment. The state Pardons Board will hear her plea on Sept. 10 after multiple stays and appeals to the U S Supreme Court. She was convicted of killing Mrs. Freda Wodlinger on December 7, 1944.
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Harrisburg
Corrine Sykes
Philadelphia
Sykes
State Supreme Court
Martin
U. S. Supreme Court
State Pardons Board
Freda Wodlinger
14 Year Old Thrill Killer Faces Court
In Waynesburg Pennsylvania 14 year old Carmichaels farm hand and former court ward Donald G Mullenaux was indicted for murder in the stabbing death of Mrs Kate Pletcher in Richhill Township. Prosecutors say the youth confessed to State Policeman William Wath that he killed her with a carving knife while she kneaded bread seeking a thrill.
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Waynesburg
Donald G. Mullenaux
Carmichaels
Kate Pletcher
Richhill Township
Donald
Greene County
Frank
Mullenaux
Fletchers
William Wath
Not Safe Inside Closed Ship Atom Test Animals Proved
Elton C. Fay reports that the atom bomb’s radium like poison can penetrate a tightly closed ship and spread death throughout the interior. The findings suggest severe risks from enclosed vessels if radioactive material is released.
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Elton C. Fay
Washington
Openhanded Attorney Faces Wave of Advice on Fortune
Pittsburgh on September 5. Charles A. Locke, famed for giving away $300,000, has received countless letters telegrams and calls offering ideas to dispose of his remaining fortune. An Operation Crossroads report notes porks pigs and other animals used in Bikini tests.
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Pittsburgh
Charles A. Locke
Locke the bachelor courted by letters from abroad
A storied gold mine of single men and women flood Locke with 1500 letters. Correspondents from Australia England Peru Puerto Rico and distant points propose marriage and gifts while seeking his attention. One man writes you’d rather have a million friends than money and Locke admits the truth.
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Locke
Australia
England
Peru
Prto Rico
Union weighs arbitration as Duquesne Light dispute looms
In Pittsburgh on September 5 an independent union of Duquesne Light Co employing submitted plans to resolve the contract deadlock by arbitration or a fact finding board, promising an answer by 9 AM to Mayor David L. Lawrence. Union president George L. Mueller said issues could be settled by collective bargaining and that the strike could start within days to two weeks.
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Pittsburgh
Duquesne Light Co
David L. Lawrence
George L. Mueller
Mueller
Duquesne Fight Co
Allegheny
Beaver Counties
Petit Trial List Has 15 Cases Indictments Passed by Jurors
A list of 15 cases plus one added matter proceeding in court this week includes defendants from Indiana New Florence and Homer City. Scheduled trials span Monday to Wednesday with charges of bastardy rape assault and battery motor vehicle offenses involuntary manslaughter and larceny. Names include Robert Sell Paul W Reithmiller Walter Topic G H Mathews Katherine Mathews John McFarland M H Jones Daniel Weir and Elizabeth Albert among others. Puerto Rico is about 3,400 square miles in area and Jerusalem has about 150,000 residents.
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Robert Sell
Sheloca
Pete Harvilla
Clymer
Blanche Silvis
School St
Indiana
Paul W. Reithmiller
Rome
R. D
Walter Topic
New Alexandria R.p
H. Mathews
Katherine Mathews
New Florence R. D
W. L. Morris
McIntyre
John McFarland
Rossiter R. D
Joan H. Irwin
H. Jones
McDonald R. D
Washington County
Daniel Weir, Jr
Homer City
Sault and Battery
Daniel C. Weir, Sr
Daniel M. Weir, Jr
Elizabeth Albert
Josephine
Canada government reshuffles top diplomatic posts
Ottawa announces new ambassador to the United States and high commissioner to London in a shakeup. Home Wrong, 51, will replace Lester B. Pearson in Washington, while Pearson moves to Ottawa as undersecretary of state. Norman A. Robertson, 42, becomes high commissioner in London, succeeding Vincent Massey who retired. King resigns as external affairs minister and Louis St Laurent will become external affairs minister while remaining justice minister.
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Ottawa
W. L. Mackenzie King
United States
London
Canada
Home Wrong
Lester B. Pearson
Washington
Wrong
Pearson
Norman A. Robertson
Vincent Massey
King
Louis St Laurent
Dominion
Obituaries of Munshower Bytheway Benigni Boyer Virginia area
Obituary notices list William A Munshower of Blairsville two daughters and two sons, with funeral arrangements by Hunter Funeral Home and interment at Blairsville Cemetery. Pete Sirko of Kent dies in Indiana Hospital. Mae Laura Bytheway of Saltsburg dies after two years illness, survived by husband Edward and children. services in Saltsburg with DST. Louie Benigni of McIntyre dies at daughter’s home Austria-born, survived by three children and four grandchildren. services at St Gertrudes Church with burial in St Bernard Cemetery Indiana. Guy Amber Boyer of Indiana dies at home. survived by widow Bertha and three daughters, one son killed in WWII. services in Robinson Funeral Home with burial in Oakland Cemetery.
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William A. Munshower
Blairsville
R. D
Derry
Harrison H
Katherine (Switzer) Munsneer
Gracd Hullenbaugh
Elizabeth Willard
New Florence
William P
John H
Cokeville
Ida Cobes
Gillis Munshower
Martin P. Munshower
Wooster
Ohio
Pete Sirko
Kent
Indiana Hospital
Canada
Robinson Funeral Home
Indiana
Mae Laura Bythway
Saltsburg
John V. Widdut
Clarksville
Indiana County
Edward Bytheway
John Edward
Pittsburgh
Robert W
Newark
N. J
Blanche E
Margaret G
Annie B. Wilcox
St. George
Bermuda
J. D. Widdut
Waynesburg
Mary Floyd
Jeannette
Stace Washabaugh
New Wilmington
Baptist Church of
Saltsbury
Order of Eastern Star
Lodge
John Dornhoefer
The
Baptist Church
Louie Benigni
McIntyre
Ferncio Ghezzi
Austria
Mary
Reynoldsville
Wishaw
St. Gertrudes
Ghezzi
Guy Amber Boyer
Noah and
Survilla (Peddicord) Boyer
Bertha (Weimer) Boyer
Cleveland
Edward
Helen) Morrow
Joseph
Carrie) Mihalich
Betty Boyer
Crea Boyer
Meinald Boyer
Eugene Boyer
Boyer
Zion Lutheran Church of Indiana
Robinson Funeral
Arthur J. Pfohl
Oakland Cemetery
Guard Fails Heirens 3rd death by own action
Court heard details of the Heirens case as the husky youth, whose crimes date to grade school, refused to testify. His 118 page confession of three murders and other crimes was to be read, with evidence mainly by stipulation. The state may refrain from seeking the death penalty in exchange for the confession. Suzanne Degnan’s father testified as witnesses described the gruesome acts.
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Page One
Heiren
Heirens
Ward
George Heirens
James ‘Degnan
Suzanne
Degnan
Gazette
Philadelphia Meat Shortage Shrinks Local Supplies
Philadelphia area meat supplies collapse as 130 small packers in nine counties shut down and 367 more likely to follow by tomorrow. Large independent plants have closed, 167 jobbers halted trucks, and hotels and restaurants cut deliveries by half while OPA agents monitor livestock sales.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Eastern Pennsylvania Slaughterer’ Association
Western Packers
William M. Paschall
OPA
Lancaster
Hatfield
Perkiomenville
Quakertown
Rossiter Welcomes War II Vets Home
More than 3,000 people witnessed the Labor Day parade in Rossiter as part of an official Welcome Home to World War II veterans. The three day celebration started with registrations and a Saturday dance, about 140 vets attended Sunday's banquet, and the parade featured 60 World War II veterans, Gold Star Mothers, American Legion members, four floats, local firefighters, the high school band, Etherson Grange, and the Rossiter Girl Scouts.
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Rossiter
Gold Star
American Legion
Punxsutawney
Punxsutawney High School
Etherson Grange
Rossiter Girl Scouts
Glen Campbell Man Loses Thumb
Eugene Bowser, 25, of Glen Campbell, lost his left thumb at Spangler Hospital after a rock drill slipped at Lambie Brothers strip mine near Glen Campbell. The injury tore the thumb from the socket.
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Eugene Bowser
Glen Campbell
Spangler Hospital
Lambie Brothers
Bowser
Patients Eat Cake in New York Hospital Aid
New York City hospitals will receive extra cake and bakery items tomorrow as part of a city response to the trucking strike. Two grocery chains with over 270,000 pounds of cake doughnuts rolls and bread donated supplies to the Department for Hospitals, which arranged collection by city trucks.
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New York
New York City
Department For Hospitals
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