Pennsylvania Campaign Fever Grows Across State
Pennsylvania voters face a daily parade of speeches as the Nov 6 election nears. Republican and Democratic camps set up headquarters in Harrisburg while county officials rush registration lists with many names added. Former Congressman Faddis publicly backs Governor Martin against Senator Guffey, criticizing debt, as statewide candidates tour the state with Congress and state lawmakers’ races joining in the push.
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Pannaylvania
Ekeystone
State” Election Bureau
Harrisburg
Charles J. Faddis
Waynesburg
Martin
Joseph F. Guffey
House of Pennsylvania
Democratic Party
Pennsylvania
Faddis
PAC
Guffey
Congress
State Senate
State House of Representatives
Tharrishurg
Ihe
Engineers To End Chaos of Tokyo Travel
Army engineers after months of work present a street marking plan aimed at ending Tokyo travel chaos. The proposal marks principal streets radiating from the imperial palace and designates circular routes, using letters to identify main arteries as Tokyo streets currently change names every few blocks.
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Tokyo
Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D. C
Imperial Palace
Old Castle
Co-Op Men in Indiana County Discuss Breeding Progress
The Indiana County Artificial Breeding Cooperative directors met at the Extension office to hear Penn State dairy extension specialist Joe Taylor report statewide progress. He cited 187 bulls in use and 100000 cows signed up nationally, with Indiana County seeing about 3000 cows enrolled locally. The board approved allowing single cows from any herd to join, not just entire herds, and plans to hire a full time technician starting in December to manage the growing program.
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Indiana County
Court House
Joe, Taylor
Penn State
Wendell Wetzel
Co- Operative
Strip Act Under Fire
Attorneys for coal operators challenge the 1945 strip mining law after Dauphin County Court upheld its constitutionality. F Brewster Wickersham said exceptions cover nearly all rulings. A conference next week will decide if the case goes to the state Supreme Court. Original action by Alexander Dufour and Yorkshire and Elba Coal Companies drew 60 firms into the test.
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Harrerury
Central’ Pahnayitania
Thestate
Dauphin County
F. Brewster Wickersham
State Supreme Court
Wickersham
Alexander Dufour
Yorkshire and
Elba Coal Companies
Clearfield County
Clymer Grange Reschedules Meeting to Sept 20 at 8 PM
Members of the Clymer Grange will meet at Buck Run School on Friday September 20 at 8 p m daylight saving time. The program includes songs games and a discussion on happiness home conveniences versus amusements. Mrs Ira Reithmiller will sing Old Folks at Home and members will discuss religious influence in the modern home.
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Clymer Grange
Buck Run
Ira Reithmiller
State Police Pass Drivers in Indiana Examinations
The Indiana Armory hosted driving examinations by the State Police yesterday awarding licenses to 36 individuals who passed tests conducted by Greensburg police. Names listed include Merle Leydic, Joseph Bartow, Sarah Fair an, James Plummer, and many others from Indiana and nearby towns, with addresses across Blairsville, Indiana R D areas, and surrounding communities.
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Indiana Arm‘ory
Greensburg
Merle J. Leydic
Clymer
Joseph
Bartow
Kent
Sarah Jean Fairan
Home
James H. Plummer
Derry
R. D
Anne Pollard
Weerry
Anna August
Melmyre
Whirley Guy
6Th Street
Ectus H. Bright
Maple Street
Meirsville
Robert L. Richardson
Chester Mills
Ohn
A. Madoni
Blairsville
Harwich
J. Rondarme
Water St
Indigiana
Salvatore J. LaMantia
Indiana
Edna G. Prugh
Ural Valley
Catherine A. Lahr
Edak Street
Mike E
Frederick G. Weitzel
Nicholas Mekussin
Heilwood
Alice Shuster
Locust Street
Bernard J. Ray
General Delivery
Bert F. Klinger
S. 7Th Bireet
Clarice Fifelman
Andrew Motsko
Ernest
Harry S. ‘McPhilimy
Washington Street
Bruce H. Corio
Locust
Townsend Plan speaker Carroll E Johnson to speak Friday
Townsend movement director Carroll E Johnson will address the Indiana Community Center Building Friday September 20. He serves as director for Pennsylvania Maryland West Virginia and Delaware and has worked in the East for about five years advocating the Townsend Plan. All Townsendites and the public are invited to attend.
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Carroll E. Johnson
Regeinal
Townsend Movement
Indiana Community Center
Johnson
Pennsylvania
Maryland
West Virginia
Delaware
Townsend
East
Stork Flight Ends With Baby Born In Police Car
In Grand Haven on Monday James Smith rushed his wife as a swinging bridge blocked the river. He rowed 300 feet across Grand River after obtaining a rowboat and phoning police. The baby, a girl, arrived 13 hours later at Municipal Hospital.
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Grand Haven
Mid
James Smith
Grand River
Smith
Municipal Hospital
Hold Meet On Hot Literary Issue Today
The Authors League met with the American Writers Association to discuss the Cain plan for a copyright repository and leasing of writings. Key figures John Erskine Rene L Kuhn and Louis Waldman faced objections over Waldman’s attendance as counsel. Opponents call the plan monopolistic and a control of the nation’s literary output.
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New York
Authors’ League
American Writers Association
Authors
James M. Cain
Hollywood
Screen Writers’ Guild
John Erskine
American Writers’ Association
Rene L. Kuhn
Louis Waldman
Elmer Rice
Authors League
Rice
Waldman
Miss Kuhn
Cain
Mercy plea denied for Philadelphia maid to be electrocuted
Corinne Sykes, 22, Philadelphia housemaid, had clemency plea rejected by the Pennsylvania Pardons Board. She faces execution in the week of Sept. 30 unless Governor Martin grants a reprieve. The board refused commutation. attorneys may seek a reargument, needing majority approval for the next session October 22.
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Harrisburg
State
Corinne Sykes
Philadelphia
Martin
Joseph Nissley
Philadelphia Common Pleas
Barney Ross Seeks Treatment For Drug Addiction
Former boxing champion Barney Ross, newly surrendered to federal authorities, entered the U S Public Health Service Hospital in Lexington for voluntary treatment to halt drug use. He explained the addiction began during illness in the Overseas campaign after narcotics were given on Guadalcanal.
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Lexington
Barney Ross
United States Public Health Service
Ross
Seececaiel
New York
Guadalcanal
Ambulance Troubles Delays Somerset Father’s Heart Attack Care
W C Leer, 44, of near Markleton, sought emergency aid for his 76 year old father struck by a heart attack. He faced blocked calls, a car wreck, and an ambulance breakdown before finally getting a functioning unit to the Leer home. The father remained in serious condition while Leer was treated and released.
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Billy Anderson
Yuba City
Calif
Anderson
Somerset
W. C. Leer
Markleton
Somerset Community Hospital
Leer
School Dilemma In Houtzdale Pennsylvania
In Houtzdale, Woodward district closes Whiteside Grade School due to enrollment of 44 pupils, above the unit system limit of one teacher per 30. Pupils are redistributed to neighboring schools as directors cite too many students for one teacher and not enough for multiple.
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Houtzdale
Clearfield County
Houtzdale- Woodward
Man in Jail Refuses Release in Hit Run Death
Detroit Sept 18 AP John Bender 34 a material witness in a blind newsboy hit and run case spurned attempts to release him saying he likes jail He told Circuit Judge Lila M Neuenfelt that a friendly jail gang exists and hinted at possible weekend release.
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Detroit
John Bender
Wayne County
Bender
Lila M. Neuenfelt
Neuenfelt
Fla Senator Charley Andrews Dies in Washington
Senator Charley O. Andrews a Florida Democrat died of a heart attack at Naval Hospital in Washington at age 69. A former Florida Supreme Court justice elected to the Senate in 1936 and again in 1840 he planned to stay in Washington until the 80th Congress. Survivors include his widow Margaret and three sons.
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Washington
Charley O. Andrews
Dfla
Naval Hospital
Andrews
Ihtis
Orlando
Florida State Supreme Court
Senate
Margaret Andrews
Florida State Senate
Criminal Court of Records
Walton County
Florida
Supreme Commission
Trucks Begin To Roll in NY
New York dispatch reports food and newsprint trucks moving again as 456 employers signed individual pacts with three AFL Teamsters locals ending strike binds. Mayor O'Dwyer forecast quick resumption of normal shipping while Local 807 approved a compromise plan raising drivers pay to 71.40 for a 40 hour week, up from 64 for 44.
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New York
New York City
AFL
William O’dwyer
Jumpin Jive Strikes End In New York Hotels
New York musicians resume playing after a 15 day hotel strike ending with Mayor O Dwyer and hotel leaders agreeing to a 20 percent wage rise plus overtime pay and extra New Year’s Eve compensation. Local 802 members will ratify the pact Friday. The agreement also caps show lengths and enforces intermissions.
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New York
City Hall
William O'Dwyer
AFL American Federation of Musicians
Red Papers Carry Speech In Soviet Press
Soviet papers reported Henry Wallace's New York speech with no comment. TASS dispatches from Washington quoted President Truman's approval of Wallace's right to speak but not as a shift in United States foreign policy.
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Moscow
Henry A. Wallace
New York
Levestia
Washington
Truman
Wallace
United States
Byrnes
Congress
Price Board Hears Dairy Price Curbs Debate
The Price Control Board debated dairy pricing with three members possibly delaying a decision until Friday to review letters and data. Milk prices have risen modestly since June 30 with subsidies ending, and the panel warned it could reimpose ceilings if prices move upward.
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Edwin B. Harkinson
Washington
Price Control Board
OPA
Roy L. Thompson
Thompson
Agriculture Department
Rebellion Probe Begun in Caracas Garrison
CARACAS Venezuela Sept 18 The government said military tribunals have begun an investigation to identify intellectual instigators of Monday night revolt by non commissioned officers at the Am brosia Plaza Cavalry Barracks in which four army men died and four were wounded The communique called the act a criminal mob attack and praised the garrison for its discipline Commandante Enrique Rincon Calcano head of the garrison helped quell the revolt by ordering entry with a machinegun and the guard captain Antonio Davila Celis and Lt Pedro Delgado Suarez were killed
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Caracas
Venezuela
Ambrosia Plaza
Caracase
Enrique Rincon Calcano
Antonio Davila Celis
Pedro Delgado Suarez
Trial set for James Plank in toddle r strangling case
HUNTINGDON Sept 18 AP The week of Dec 2 was fixed for the trial of James Forrest Plank 30 trucker charged with murder in the strangling of his two year old daughter Barbara Jane at their Rockhill Furnace home District Attorney I Newton Taylor said the Commonwealth would press for a first degree murder conviction Plank was indicated by the grand jury after signing a confession Taylor said that he stuffed a woman's sleeve length glove into the mouth of his daughter because she cried in her crib
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Huntingdon
James Forrest Plank
Rockhill Furnace
I. Newton Taylor
Commonwealth
Plank
Taylor
Barbara Jane
Housing solution eyed by Camden social agency
Directors of the Union Organization for Social Service an affiliate of the Camden Community Chest plan to borrow a light cruiser or aircraft carrier barrier for civilian billets. Joseph S. Bicking executive secretary says the vessel could be moored near the municipal pier and house 50 families.
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Camden
N. J
Union Organization For Social Service
Camden Community Chest
Joseph S. Bicking
Municipal Pier
Secretary To Be Offered 2 Choices Quit Post or Stop Speeches
The article outlines President Truman weighing Wallace related options amid a foreign policy dispute. It notes State Department pressure to maintain unity, tying in Byrnes and Clayton discussions and Wallace’s planned Providence speech.
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Providence
R. I
Mr. Truman
Wallace
Russia
Will Clayton
Truman
Commerce
Esterday
Byrnes
State Department
Department
Clayton
Japan Used Geneva Pact Contends It Was Not Binding
Tokyo reports show Col. C H D Wild testifying before the international war crimes tribunal that Japan claimed the Geneva Convention did not bind its treatment of prisoners. Wild, a British POW held four years after Singapore, said Japanese quotes of the convention were used against them yet they insisted it did not apply to Japanese. Shiohara argued over Wild's claim that Indian troops were kept separate from British officers.
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Tokyo
C. H D. Wild
International War Crimes Tribunal
Wild
Singapore
Tokisaburo Shiohara
Heitaro Kimura
Burma
Shiohara
William Webb
Tribunal
Shibara
Court Hearing On Real Estate Sale In Indiana County
Commissioners announced a Common Pleas Court hearing for September 30 at 10 00 a m to approve a private sale of 22 parcels of real estate purchased at a county treasurer's sale in Indiana County.
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Indiana County
Common Pleas Court
Noon Stocks Roundup of Major Corporations and Markets
A condensed list of noon stock figures shows numerous large firms with varied fractions of gains and losses, including Amalgamated Chemical and Dye, Anaconda Copper, Boeing, Chrysler, General Electric, General Motors, IBM and many others. The ticker tape highlights percentages next to each corporation reflecting current trading.
Obituary notices from multiple towns and families
Obituaries list Mes Estella Ober Cook of Winter Park Florida and Hazel Meckley Gilpatrick of Marion Center, plus Bertha Marsden Jones of Mt Erie and Michael Ghudzik Yhansko of Clymer. Also Stoyan Knezevich of Lucernemines, all noted with birthplaces, family survivors, service times and burial plans in various local churches and cemeteries.
Horseshoe Pitching Contest Sets County Championship
The Indiana County Horseshoe Pitching Contest will be held Saturday September 21 at 1 30 PM at the Home Community Fair Rayne Township Consolidated School near Home. Arthur Lambing of Home is in charge. Residents who farm or work on a farm are eligible. Contestants should arrive by 1 00 PM.
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Michael Ghudzickyhansko
Clymer
Indiana Hospital
Andrew Hudick
Dayton
Commodore
Margaret Jean
Andrew Hodzick
Charles Batten
Detroit
Mich
Indiana County
Rayne Township
Home
Arthur Lambing
Harrisburg
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Polo
Gazette
Bobbies
Commie
London
John Morton
Ivanhoe Hotel
Price Board
Douglas Lovelace
Guam
Ichiro Shinoda
Kunzio Mori
U. S
Navy
Shizou Yoshi
Army
Sueo Matoba
Yoshi
Matoba
Tachibana
Romania
Mihail Raiea
Japan
Smelt & R
T& SF
Ad Refining
Bald Loco
Ball & Ohio
Bendix Aviat
Beth Steel
Boeing Airplane
Borden Co
Briggs Mfg
Budd Cn
Case (Ji) Co
Ches & Ohio
Chrysler Corp
Com Solvents
Cons Edison
Douglas Air
Eastman Kodaki
Erie RR
Elec
Gen Foods
Gen Motors Cya
Gen Motors
Greyhound Corp
Hard Walker
Hercules Powder
Illinois Central
Int Harvester i
Nick Can
Tel & Tel
Sve NJ
Pullman
Pure Oil
Radio Corp
Reading Co
Repub Steel
Sears Roebuck
Socony Vacuum
Sperry Corp
Stand Brands
Stg
G & E Pt
Stand
Cal
Oil Ind
Stand Oil NJ
Studebaker Corp
Sutherland Pap
Swift & Co
Texas Co
United Air
United Gas Imp
US Smeltr & M
US Steel
Warner Bros Pict
West UN Tel
Woolworth
Youngst
Sh & T
Weather Report
Mes
Estella Ober Cook
Fairbanks Avenue
Winter Park
Joseph Ober
Purchase Line
D. C. Cook
Hazel Meckley Gilpatrick
Marion Center
Columbia Hospital
Wilkinsburg
Marion Center Presbyterian Church
Bertha Marsden Jones
Mt. Erie
Willam J. Jones
Mt. Carmel
William and
Elizabeth Marsden
Ivor
Portsmouth
Griffith
McIntyre
Marsden
William
Norfolk
Virginia
Mabel Goss
Youngstown
Ohio
Rhoda Brown
Mahaffey
Samuel Marsden
Stockton
Harry Fleater
Agnes Getchey
Centralia
Mabel Marsden
McCardle
Burn Side
Paul J. Taylor
Cherry Tree
Crown Crest
Memorial Cemetery
Clearfield
Stoyan Knezevich
Lucernemines
Yugoslavia
Joyo
Petra (Zee) Knezevich
Michael
Helen Skinner
Rose Kaleafus
Cleveland
Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company
United Mine Workers of America
Croatian Fraternal Union Lodge
Homer City
Gheenwood
Amt
Ulance Bell
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