Survivors Arrive at East Coast Ports After Sea Disaster
Twenty four survivors of the Nordic tanker Matit II, torpedoed off Newfoundland and split in two, reach East Coast ports. Six landed at Norfolk area hospital after 56 hours aboard a life raft in 30 foot seas. eighteen rescued at Morehead City prepare to fly to New York. Coast Guard and Navy continue search but expect few more survivors. Captain Lief Williamson’s brother Rolf Williamson provides details of the wreck and survivors recounts the rapid breakup and bridge flooding.
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Gaut Hawk
Tepday
Beebe
Nore
Panamaco
Morehead City
N. C
Rocky Mount
New York
Army
Navy
Coast Guard
Cmdr
J. R
Scullion
Norfolk
Rolf Williamson
Lief Williamson
Newfoundland
Williamson
Esther Erickson
Lubold Honored For Youth Work At Kiwanis Meeting
Indiana High School principal A Lubold addressed Kiwanis Club guests including school board members and faculty. Dr Harry Burton Boyd presented him a wrist watch for his work with children. He urged recreation, reading, film viewing, and church programs to curb delinquency and supported expanding scouting and the Teen Age Club which drew about 450 attendees last week.
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A. Lubold
Indiana High School
Kiwanis Club
Burgess J. R. Maloney
Mr. Labold
Lubold
Boy Reads Comic Book With Pistol In School
Chicago detectives found a year old boy in a classroom poring over a book after midnight at Haines Elementary School. He claimed he entered to read because dim streetlights and a home ban on the comic inspired a late night reading stunt. He was sent to the juvenile home.
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Chicago
Marshal Jackson
Lester May
Haines
Johnny
Nine year old Simeon II begins exile from Bulgaria
Sofia reports nine year old Simeon II depose d as king left Bulgaria for Egypt after a plebiscite turned the nation into a republic. He boarded a train to Istanbul with Queen Mother Joanna, his 13 year old sister Princess Marie Louise, and a small group of former court attendants. Queen Joanna refused interviews with newsmen before departure.
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Sofia
Simeon II
Bulgaria
Egypt
Istanbul
Joanna
Sisr
Marie Louise
Joanny
St Francis College Fall Term Delayed to Oct 14
Postponement due to dormitory addition delays and slow book delivery announced by Rev. Dr. Adrian J. M. Weigle. Fall semester opening moved from earlier date to Oct. 14 at St. Francis College in Loretto, with 454 students registered at the time.
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Loretto
St. Francis College
Adrian J. M. Weigle
Raymond Hall
Tis
School District Funds Approved by Auditor General Wag ner
Auditor General G Harold Wagner approved payments totaling 10877 07 to three Indiana County districts from state school appropriations. Center Township receives 7853 86, South Mahoning 1492 52, and Washington 1530 09 for high school tuition year ending July 1945.
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G. Harold Wagner
Indiana Couty
Center Township
South Mahoning Township
Washington Township
Spud Picking Help Arranged in Potter County
The Farm Labor Office of Indiana arranged transport and lodging for workers to harvest a bumper potato crop in Potter County. A bus will depart the Indiana Court House at 9:00 a.m. Sunday September 22 and stop in Clymer to pick up men. Washington dispatch notes General Mark W. Clark said U.S. readiness may affect Austria aid and avenues for postwar economic and political settlement with the Soviet Union. Clark outlined rehabilitation needs and warned without long-term aid Austria could turn to Russia. He called the American zone a bridgehead in eastern Europe and stated the U.S. would stay to resolve disputes with the Soviets.
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Farm Labor Office of
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Potter County
Indiana Court House
Clymer
Red Light
Washington
Lare
Mark W. Clark
Austria
State College
Russia
West
United States
Allied Council
Vienna
Penney
New York
UNRRA
Clark
Washington Overseas Writers’ Club
Europe
Law Enforcement Curb Traffic Toll Urged Nationwide
Pennsylvania advocates immediate lasting curb on traffic accidents. State police and big funding from the Motor Vehicle License Fund support prevention, while public opinion backs stricter enforcement, higher education, safety engineering, and tougher penalties including fines. Pedestrian responsibility to be emphasized as part of unified traffic laws across states and cities.
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Pennsylvania
Harvey
Domestic Tragedy Ends In Two Deaths
Pittsburgh report details a domestic quarrel that led to a man killing his mother-in-law and himself after shooting his wife and child. William Weston 24 and Helen Oles 49 are dead, Pearl Weston 20 survived with bullet wounds. the crime occurred near the couple’s 1 month old son Billy. Weston's wife had filed desertion and non support charges the day before.
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Pittsburgh
John F. Stack
Louis Hamel
William Weston
Helen Oles
Weston
Pearl
St. Francis Hospital
Stack
Hamel
Oles
Westons
Billy
Ratify Brazil's New Constitution Ends Dictatorship
Brazil moves to restore representative government as constituent assembly ratifies the new constitution on a Wednesday. The Vargas charter, drafted in 1937, had dissolved Congress and granted dictatorship powers. it remains in effect until ratification.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Constituent Assembly
Getulio Vargas
Congress
Ox Hill Senior Extension Club Meets at Ox Hill School
The Ox Hill Senior Extension Club will hold its monthly meeting tonight at 8 o'clock in the Ox Hill School building, announced president Jean McMillen. After the business portion, games will be played and Gazette Classified Ads read.
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Ox Hill
Jean McMillen
Gazette
GI Sergeants and State Dept Differ on Embassy Custody
Three U S Army sergeants and a State Department official disagreed on who bore responsibility for seven months of protective custody at the Belgrade Embassy after a fatal shooting of a Russian soldier. The men, stationed under Ambassador Richard C Patterson, were in custody from February 10 to September 12 to avoid arrest by Yugoslav authorities.
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U.S. Army
State Department
Belgrade
Richard C. Patterson
Kenneth E. Schussell
San Francisco
Yugoslavia
War Department
Schussell
Nelson
Park Falls
Wis
Chester B Scott
Nashville
Romanian Priest Honors Grave of Fallen American Airmen
A Romanian priest from Campina recalls honoring American airmen killed in Romania on August 1 1943 and May 8 1944. He notes burial details, identifies several named airmen, and describes ceremonies with civil and military authorities. He asks U S authorities to allow him to join future prayers for the fallen.
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Rumania
William §. Kaufman
Maple Street
Indiana
Robert P. Kaufman
Sgt. Kaufman
Mr. Kaufman
Romania
United States
Washington, D. C
America
Europe
Arlington Cemetery
Germany
Ploesti-Campina
Elwood R. Emerson
Frank V. Horton
Campina
Campinita
Parcul Istrato
A. H. Johnson
A. R. Jenings
Mohring
Dayton C. Volz
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Vasile Afterne
Titus Malal
Victor Fodor
Bucharest
Jean de Krhssewsky
Liberty
Laurentiu Diodor Moisin
Prahova Welley
Councellor
Co Man Teaches Indians In Arizona
HB W Smeaton of Sacaton Arizona reports teaching Indians in the locality. He says he finished his first week of teaching, notes the area is a fine agricultural country 45 miles south of Phoenix if you can get water, and mentions the scorching 108 degree heat. He records they were planting sweet peas for Christmas.
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HB. W. Smeaton
Sacaton
Ariz
Marchand
Saltsburg
Phoenix
Eight Months For Cruelty To 17 Year Old Servant Girl
BEDFORD Pa Sept 17 Dr David Lee veterinarian and his wife were sentenced to eight months in jail after pleading guilty to aggravated assault and battery They were also fined 300 each and ordered to pay court costs Betty Reffner of Altoona the teen serv ant endured beatings starvation and confinement at the Lees home last June she escaped weighed 75 pounds later up to 134 pounds after hospital care and said she was starved and beaten for working earlier fines of 200 each were imposed on arrest initial cruelty charges back in June
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Bedford
David Lee
Near Bedford
J. Colvin Wright
Lees
Betty Reffner
Altoona
Blair County
Lee
Justice of the Peace
Betty
The Eighth Bullet and Other Features Preview
The Sun Telegraph promotes next Sunday’s American Weekly magazine with feature teasers including The Eighth Bullet by Peter Levins and Vernard J. Fearn, a Waco coal dealer shot six times by an unidentified young woman. Jules Berry gambled his wife in Paris, Horatio Alger romance Irving Berlin and Ellen MacKay appear, and more.
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Peter Levins
Vernard J. Fearn
Waco
Jules Berry
Paris
Horatio Alger
Irving Berlin
Ellen MacKay
American Weekly
Pittsburgh
Sun-Telegraph
Actress Arline Judge Sues Ex Husband For Back Support
Actress Arline Judge sues her first husband film director Wesley Ruggles for 5979 back antimony claiming he signed a 1943 agreement to pay 800 monthly until 1954 for her and their son Charles Wesley Ruggles Jr. The estranged couple's daughter-in-law and Ruggles arrived with his current wife to face the suit.
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Los Angeles
Arline Judge
Wesley Ruggles
Ruggles
England
Final Hearings On Carrier Rate Increase Begin
The Interstate Commerce Commission opened final hearings on a 25 percent freight rate hike sought by railroads. Carriers also want to retain a 10 percent rise in passenger fares from 1943, expiring six months after war termination. Rebuttals start 9:30 a.m. EST as parties present testimony and arguments from regional hearings.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Association of American Railroads
Stabilization Office
OPA
French War Leader Gouraud Dies in Paris at 78
Paris dispatch reports Gen Henri Gouraud, aged 78, a key WWI figure and Fourth Army commander, died yesterday after months of ill health. The "Lion of Champagne" led the Tenth French Division and later commanded the Expeditionary Forces at Gallipoli, losing an arm in action. Born in Paris and educated at St Cyr, Gouraud began in Africa in 1894.
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Paris
Henri Gouraud
Argonne
Gallipoli
Gouraud
St. Cyr
Africa
Obituaries from Indiana County listing several deaths
STOYAN KENEZEVICH died suddenly en route to Indiana Hospital from Lucerne at 10:00 AM aged 63. MELDA ANN WILSON HAM ILTON died in the Peterman home Rayne township Sunday morning at 9:00 AM, born August 8, 1873 in South Mahoning township, wife of Charles N. Hamilton. ELMON GRANT LAWTON of Shelocta died 8:30 AM Sunday in Adrian Hospital Punxsutawney. survived by widow Mary Pickle Lawton and numerous children and grandchildren. services to be held at Elderton United Presbyterian Church with interment in Gaz town Cemetery. Friends received in the Peterman and Lawton homes ahead of funeral services tomorrow.
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Stoyan Kenezevich
Indiana Hospital
Lucerne
Melda Ann (Wilson) Hamilton
Lawrence Petarman
Rayne Township
Charles N. Hamilton
South Mahoning Township
Indiana County
Peterman
J. K. Boston
Oakland Cemetery
Indiana
Elmon Grant Lawton
Shelocta
Adrian
Punxsutawney
Stephen C
Margaret A. (Jamison) Lawton
Lawton
Kansas
California
Peoples Gas Company
Atwood United Presbyterian Church
Mary
Ruth Kimmell
W. W. Lawton
Portland
Oregon
Bessie M. Lawton
Jhansi City
India
Jane Pickle
Vandergrift
Frank B
Lucille (Lawton) Rearick
Elderton United Presbyterian Church
W. O. H. Garman
Arche M. Neale
D. D
Gaztown
Rotarians Enjoy Lamb Roast At Schroth's Cabin
Indiana Rotarians gathered at Walter Schroth’s Route 422 cabin for a lamb dinner with no special program. A new Rotarian, Larry L. Mason, associate editor of the Indiana TM Evening Gazette, was welcomed as a member.
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Indiana
Walter Schroth
Route 422
Larry L. Mason
Evening Gazette
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