Expropriation of Lands Spreads in Europe
AP analysis notes widespread land expropriation across eastern and central Europe with Poland Hungary and the Balkans already reforming property. In Saxony German estates are being broken up and given to smallholders, while Poland reports 7.27 million acres parceled to nearly 270 thousand families. Agricultural schools rise as Prussian war lords wealth is redistributed, challenging German militarism roots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Jessi
Poland
Hungary
Balkans
East Prussia
Saxony
Germany
Berlin
Provisional Government of
Alfred Potocki
Radio Education Boosts School Broadcasts Aimed Nationwide
Radio Manufacturers Association outlines six anticipated benefits of school radio programs for children. They expect improved scholarship, reduced delinquency, better parent teacher coordination, higher retention of subjects, enriched curriculum, and a shift away from thrill seeking programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Radio Manufacturers G Association
U. S. Office of Education
Gattes
Associaton
RMA
21 Liberated Prisoners Arrive Home
Oakland Calif Sept 21 liberated sailors and marines landed at the airport, first group freed from Japan prison camps. Three more planes with liberated men expected. Wives and relatives waited anxiously, reunion joyful yet tearful amid the arrivals. One repatriate was Clayton Decker of Paonia Colo, a motor machinist’s mate second class. Decker described escaping from the Tang and reaching the surface after its torpedo failure. He plans to return to entomology studies at Colorado State.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland
Calif
Japan
Clayton ©. Decker
Paonta
Colo
Jane
Tang
Formosa
Ching
Decker
Monson
Colege
Colorado State
MacArthur Heading 15 000 Cavalrymen
The article details a 24 member rescue team including five American nurses freeing Allied prisoners of war from a Japanese train bound for Yokohama. It reports 609 infirm prisoners evacuated from Bataan Corregidor Wake and Guam and a Formosa prisoner takedown by a task force, with Seventh Fleet units at Port Arthur and Mukden camp inquiries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yokohama
Japan
U. S
Eighth Army
Kobe
Hong Kong
Murata
Middlesex Regiment
United States
Bataan
Corregidor
Wake
Guam
Navy
Formosa
Seventh Fleet
Port Dairen
Manchuria
Mukden
Carregidor
Send Farm Help To Potter County
Plans to send a bus load of boys to Camp Potato in Coudersport to aid potato harvest. State College will supervise work and living conditions. High Schools grant two week leave for this emergency. J I Myers of Indiana, former teacher and Boy Scout leader, to supervise. Open to men or boys out of work due to reconversion. housing arranged on farms. Information at Farm Labor Office rear Farmers Bank Building or phone 1584.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potter County
Coudersport
State College
J. I. Myers
Indiana
Farm Labor Office
Farmers Bank
Crop Loans Available for Farmers in Clearfield
Farmers may apply to Field Supervisor N Archer Ogden of the Emergency Crop and Feed Loan Office in the Post Office Building, Clearfield, or write to Box 750. Loans up to 400 dollars at 4 percent interest are secured by a mortgage on the crop and repayable after August 31, 1946. Subscribe for the Gazette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Archer Ogden
Clearfield
Redeployed Soldiers at Indiantown in World War II roster
A long list of redeployed soldiers appears, naming ranks and hometowns such as S/Sgt Frank A. Serene from Kittanning, T/5 James C. Bell of Waterman, T/5 Samuel W. Kelley of Punxsutawney, and many others from Punxsutawney, Indiana, Kittanning, Yatesboro, Homer City, Blairsville, Cherry Tree, and nearby towns. The notice catalogues service members across multiple units with scattered addresses. The document preserves a formal roll of personnel including captains, lieutenants, corporals, privates, and staff sergeants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank A. Serene
Kittanning
James C. Bell
Waterman
William J. McCullough
Shetoda
Glenn Wooks
Dominic Rugini
Pfc
Maurice C. Lester
Punxsutawney
Floyd J. Hensel
Saltsburg
R. D
Willam H. Pete
Arthur Oligher
Philadelphia St
Indiana
Samuel W. Kelley
John R. Ranch
Cherry Tree
Paul
Murphy
Alfred R. Piccola
Yatesboro
Fife
George A. Lamison
Kittaniing
Edward J. McConnell
Blairsville
Hugh H. Brown
Ray C
Sanderlin
Glen Campbell
Pic
Stanley Kozik
Culver
Darrel D. Miller
West Phila
Joseph J. Halutick
McIntyre
Pete Sedar
Homer City
Louis J. Gosetti
Pie
William F. Shrader
E. Reams
Punxsutawne
Israel Schreckengost
Samuel McDermott
Ernest E. Freeman
Barnes-boro
Michael C. Motsko
Ernest
Ist
Joseph RB. Davis
Chestnut St
Louis J. Manfredo
John J. Slavick
Punxsu
Awney
John S. DeSimone
sAvon- Mare
Discharged Soldiers Listed From Indiantown Center
Seventy soldiers were discharged Thursday at the Separation Center Indiantown Gap Military Reservation. Names include T/Sgt Thomas W. Harris of Belle Vernon, T/4 Albert S. Ranalli of Indiana, 5/Sgt Anthony Amarino of Punxsutawney, and others with addresses in Nanty-Glo Blairsville Indiana Kittanning and Prollana among the list. The full roster provides rank, name and hometowns as part of the release ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiantown Gap Military Reservation
Thomas W. Harris
May St
Belle Vernon
Albert S. Ranalli
10Th St
Indiana
Anthony Amarino
Findley St
Punxsutawney
Pie
George Wasilko
Rural Valley
Thomas F. Bell, Jr
Campbell St
Bidirsville
Andrew P. Kiebrowick
Fatton
R. D
William M. Kerr
Caroline St
Nanty-Glo
Ray D. Leigh
Robinson
John Longalel
Ralph L. Hare, Jr
Wood
Ward Ave
Kittanning
Charente M. Smith
Blairsville
George J. Nash
Chestnut
St. Belle Vernon
Morton
J. ‘Brody
Church
St. Indiana
St. Thomas
Harrison
Church St
John J. Connolly, Jr
Philadelphia St
Prollana
Police Seek Two In Death of Young Girl
Fayette City Pa Sept 7 Police sought two young men to-day for questioning about the death of 17 year old Anna Dreyer a pretty red haired waitress whose strangled nude body was found in the woods off a highway. Miss Dreyer disappeared after finishing work at a restaurant early Saturday morning. Police believe she died in an automobile and her body was removed to the brush. One youth had been questioned and released. a friend could not be found. The body lay near Route 51 and the Fayette City Connellsville road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fayette City
Anna Elizabeth Dreyer
J the Woods
Miss Dreyer
Sparties
Alrody
Eayette City
Connellsville Road
Ford Motors Halts Production Amid Detroit Strike
Ford Motor Company halted all passenger car and truck production in eight cities, idling over 30,000 workers, due to the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Company strike in Detroit. About 45,000 area industrial workers are idle. Kelsey-Hayes strikers voted to continue their walkout. Details list Indiana County plants closed and a wide set of named committees and local officials involved in wartime support and community participation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Company
Kelsey-Hayes
John Davis
Jane Gowmaster
Gilbert Parnell Sr
Richard Watson
Carl Bentz
William McCrady
H. B. Buter
Baugh
Hugh S. Beck
Clinton BE. Myers
John Ackerson
Harold C. Williams
John Frampton
John W. Warner
James Heilburn
John Plenniken
Indiana County
Indiana
J. R. Maloney
Blairsville
Wm. C. McKee
Homer City
Smicksburg
John 8. McCormick
Plumville
Donald Bowser
Marlon Center
C. L. Wolfern
George Miller
Clinton File
Orrin McMillen
Edward Alien
Thomas Lostrick
Harry Simmons
Wallace Cunningham
Clair Friedling
William Steiner
William Peters
Dwight Galbreath
Earl Lieb
Harry Cendeld
William Beck
L. J. Redding
A. P. Sundry
Charles Spires
J. J. Daub
Thomas Blair Bath
William Pierce
John Everett
John Eiseman
Martha Nolan
Harry McCreary
Carl Wyant
Wilbur Swift
Tim McCarthy
Margeret Serene
Truman backs liberal wing in 1948 message
President Truman’s 16,000 word address signals strong support for the liberal wing of his party. GOP and some Democrats describe the message as a campaign document addressing 21 issues. Senator Murray says no fear of a conservative shift, while Majority Leader Barkley anticipates Democratic conference reactions next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Parnell Thomas
James E. Murray
D.mont
Truman
White House
Barkley
Survivors Tell Of Houston Crew and Burma Death March
Survivors of the sunken USS Houston and members of the 19th Field Artillery Regiment recount brutal conditions in Japanese prison camps in Burma. They report about 20,000 of 56,000 Allied prisoners died from starvation disease and cruelties, including 3,500 on a 140 mile Thai death march. The group notes 133 Americans were among the prisoners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calcutta
Houston
19St
Texas National Guard) Field Artillery
Burma
Thailand
Rural teacher shortage hits rural districts hard
Harrisburg reports rural elementary schools face severe teacher shortages. A Department of Public Instruction study cites a demand for 400 ungraded and 270 graded rural teachers, with 2,465 vacancies among 95 percent of districts and only 1,434 qualified candidates observed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Department of Public Instruction
Henry Kronower
Sald
Klonawer
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Salaried Workers Vote To Strike
Salaried employees represented by the federation vote on a strike at Westinghouse plants. Nationally the wage rise from 213 to 282 dollars monthly since January 1941 is cited. The War Labor Board denies the bonus demand tied to production workers. Cincinnati voted 40 no 25 yes. other cities show large majorities in favor of striking, with Cleveland 148 11, Baltimore 720 18, Lima 520 15, Buffalo 92 9, Newark 0 0, Sharon 954 35, East Springfield 309 55, Pittsburgh 480 287.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westinghouse
War Labor Board
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Baltimore
Lima
Buffalo
Newark
Sharon
East Springfield
Mass
Pittsburgh
Nine-Year-Old Held in Murder of Neighbor Girl
Nine-year-old Lloyd James Edwards of South Fork Pa is held in Cambria County jail after being charged with murder in the death of Phyllis Jean Epperson a three-year-old neighbor. Authorities say he admitted striking the girl with bricks as she ran away and later reenacted the attack. Evidence includes four bloodstained rocks found at the Little Conemaugh River embankment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ee Ebonsburg
Lloyd James Edwards
South Fork
Cambria County
Phyllis Jean Epperson
Vincent F. Bunch
Jour Ger
Justice of the Peace
Elizabeth Rowland
Ebensburg
Philippines
Conemaugh River
Phyllis
Rocky Creek
John J. Carroll
Jack Bennett
Wounded Vet Jimmy Wilson Receives $100,443 Gift
In Atlantic City Pfc. Jimmy Wilson, severely injured in a plane crash, learned Americans donated 100,443 to secure his future. He sat in a wheelchair, motionless yet grateful, as funds are placed in government securities until a trust guarantees steady income. The money is said to be tax free.
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Atlantic City
N. O
Jimmy Wilson
Philadelphia Inquirer Charities, Inc
Jimmy
Taggart
Ex Paratrooper Indicted in Eastern Slaying Case
Howard Auld a 25 year old ex paratrooper was indicted for murder in the slaying of Philadelphia waitress Margaret McDade 23 after a victory celebration on August 15 Her nude battered body was found in a sewage disposal well at Haddon Heights New Jersey Detectives pursuing the case also questioned five witnesses in Union City about Mildred Viaud 19 wife of a sailor but none could positively identify Auld as the man last seen with her
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camden
N. J
Howard Auld
Margaret McDade
Philadelphia
Haddon Heights
Union City
Mildred Viaud
Auld
Obituary notices from Indiana area include multiple deaths
Obituary items list Ellen Gertrude Wauga Man of Creekside R D and several other local deaths. Richard Brenza infant son of Mr and Mrs Brenza of Indiana, Jessie Laula Orr Alexander of Brushvalley, Robert Ellsworth Sutton of Cokeville, Claudia Clair Overdorff of Black Lick Township, plus survivors, service times, and burial details noted. Funeral services, interments, and religious affiliations tied to Hopewell Methodist and Blairsville Cemetery are listed with dates in September 1945.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellen Gertrude Waugaman
Creekside R. D
Harry C
Anna Rishell Watgaman
Robinson Funeral Home
Indiana
Robert F. McLaughtin
Oakland Cemetery
Richard Brenza
John
Helen Margaret Kramer Brenza
Chestnut Street
Indiana Memorial Hospital
St Bernard's Cemetery
Jessie Laula
Orr
Alex.ander
W. F. Alexander
Brushvalley
Brushvalley Luberan Church
Charles N. Shindler
Robert Ellsworth Sutton
Cokeville
Blacklick Township
John Perry
Annie Mack Sutton
Flora E. Sutton
Lillian E. Bracken
Richard
Youngstown
Ohio
Samuel M
Harry W
Canton
Mary Wilson
Apollo
First Methodist Church of
Blairsville
Claudia Clair Overdorff
Black Lick Township
Burrell Township
James P
Charlotte Empfield Hill
H. B. Miller
Hopewell
Hundred Million Highway Program Promised in Pa
Harrisburg Sept. 14 War Production Board controls lifted clear path for Pennsylvania s 100 million postwar highway plan said Secretary J A Shroyer The program is part of a broader 180 million public works target over two years with possible reconversion needs Governor Martin noted 74 million in direct 1946 legislative appropriations plus 100 million for highways Funds include 61 million from general fund surplus and remaining from current revenues per State Budget office briefing
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
War Production Board
Pennsylvania
J. A. Shroyer
Martin
Highway Department
Legislative
State Budget Office
McNutt to Return as Philippines High Commissioner
Washington September 7 Paul V McNutt will go back to the Philippines as high commissioner His friends think he may also be assigned to other Pacific islands In remarks President Truman said the Philippines are the only place he has a right to send a representative now The future of islands taken from Japan will be decided at the peace table McNutt previously held the Philippines post from 1937 to 1939.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Paul V. McNutt
Philippines
Pacific Islands
Truman
McNutt
The
1939 Birth Rate Drops in Pennsylvania
Harrisburg report shows 1939 birth rate among state's lowest in two decades with about 3,500 fewer first graders starting school. There were 118,500 beginners versus 122,000 last year. The Pennsylvania Manual records 16.3 births per 1,000 residents, a low not seen since 1932’s 18.2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Department of Public Instruction
Carl D. Morneweck
Truman to attend first major league game as President
President Truman will attend his first major league baseball game since becoming Chief Executive. Clark Griffith, owner of the Washington Senators, announced that Truman plans to sit in the Presidential box for tomorrow afternoon's decisive Washington St. Louis finale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
President Truman
Clark Griffith
Washington Senators
White House
Truman
Nylon stockings seized in wartime diversion trial
Federal authorities opened bales containing 6 500 pairs of unfinished nylon stockings in Newark to select samples for a trial of four men charged with diverting nylon from war manufacture to civilian channels. The defendants Walter L Schantz Stephen F Schmidt Samuel M Paris and Joseph Milstein were arrested in 1944 and freed on bail. Raids had taken place in Paterson Philadelphia and New York and the stockings are stored in a local warehouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
U S
Paterson
Philadelphia
New York
Walter L. Schantz
Grive Lake Co
Dunmore
Stephen F. Schmidt
Clifton
Samuel M. Paris
Feir Lawn
Joseph Milstein
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Vale
Westline
Moxes Coun
Pate
Indiantown
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Shove
House
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Sen
Alben W. Barkley
Kentucky
Senate
Kenneth McKellar
Tennessee
Ford Motors
Gazette
Llangollen
North Wales
Kakuzo Iida
Ofuna
Tot
Cambria
Penna
Sally Muir
Hopewell Methodist Church
Black Lick
Moorhead
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