Germans Killed in Air Raids Report From Berlin
Berlin reports estimate World War II aerial bombardments have killed 600 Germans and wounded 1,400 since the war began. Heidelberg, near Mannheim, was bombed with several deaths. other Western cities saw fire and phosphorous bombs. Pressure mounts as Axis powers push Africa strategy with Egypt eyed for alignment and independence under axis terms.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Germany
Heidelberg
the Neckar
Mannheim
Rhineland
High Command
London
England
Liverpool
Prague
Vienna
Europe
Egypt
Italy
Africa
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Rome
Mussolini
Nile
Paul Joseph Goebbel
der Angriff
Mystery of Short Pints Unveiled in Federal Hearing
In Pittsburgh on September 20, Louis Weis a former rectifier for two distilleries explained the short pints of whisky sold to the state. He cited mixing hot distilled water with alcohol due to warehouse space shortages as the cause and noted pint bottles may have lost about a half ounce when cooled. About 20 products from Monongahela Rye Liquors Inc and Fry and Mathias were banned from sale last July amid findings of short pint bottles. Proceedings in federal court followed. NOTICE The Registration Commission of Indiana County will have Registrars filing at Jacksonville Pa Election House on September 26 1840 to receive personal registrations party enrollment changes and elector notices from Varroug boroughs towns and townships.
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Pittsburgh
Louis Weis
Weis
Monongahela Rye Liquors, Inc
Fry and Mathias
Registration Commission of
Indiana County
Jacksonville
Prize find a 60 pound elm mushroom
Wampum Sept 20. While hunting for a biology project, Tony Isabella found a 60 pound elm mushroom three and a half feet tall. He said his mother would can it.
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Tony Isabella
U S to Sponsor Health Work
Philadelphia reports a nation wide drive to make America fit. Led by John B Kelly a phys ed reformer allied with President Roosevelt the plan calls for voluntary programs of regular exercise for all aged 15 to 60. A committee will draft a model program and badges for fitness levels may be issued.
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Philadelphia
America
John B. Kelly
Todust
Ruddy
Democratic Party
Roosevelt
Kelly
Schuylkill River
Lawson Robertson
Olympic
University of Pennsylvania
London
Gustav Heineman
Temple University
Ralph Levine
Pittsburgh
Allegheny County
324Th Medical Regiment
U. S. Army Reserve
Indiana Film Library brings instructional films to schools
The Indiana Film Library at State Teachers College Indiana Pennsylvania will distribute 18 mm sound motion pictures to member schools. Under Wilber Emmert, the library serves about thirty schools, providing two films per week for thirty weeks. Films are shipped Saturdays and returned Fridays for redistribution. Interested schools should contact Wilder Emmert for enrollment.
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State Teachers College
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Indiana Film Library
Erpi Classroom Films, Inc
Wil
Indiana Free Library
Wilder Emmert
Pa Sabbath School Conference Plans Worship and Talks
Sponsored by the Pennsylvania State Sabbath School Association the camp has influenced over 50 000 young people with the association. A session on Christian living led by Dr Stillman A Foster is planned along with worship coordinated by James Ansley Bernice Craig Jessie Mae Beatty Paul Botsford and Willis Reiter. The Indiana County Christian Endeavor Union organizes the evening worship. Dr Beatty H Dimit of State Teachers College speaks at the 530 banquet on Gyroscope or Star with toastmaster Dr Frank Edwards. Joseph Henderson handles other arrangements and Rev James McClelland will direct music.
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Pennsylvania State Sabbath School Association
Pennsylvania Sabbath School Association
Stillman A. Foster
James Ansley
Baptist Young People’s Union
Bernice Craig
Indiana
Epworth League
Jessie Mae Beatty
Paul Botsford
Willis Reiter
Indiana County Christian Endeavor Union
Beatty H. Dimit
State Teachers College
Frank Edwards
Joseph Henderson
James McClelland
Indiana U. P. Church
Willkie Escalates Attack On New Deal Tax System
Willkie urged creation of a special commission to study the revenue situation and condemned the New Deal tax structure as unscientific and punitive. The audience, about 70,000, applauded as he warned against a regulated economy and totalitarian system. His campaign schedule carried him north toward San Francisco, then into the Northwest, while a tomato barrage greeted his Los Angeles parade.
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J. W. Henry
Offlee
Census Center Moves East for First Time in U S History
Preliminary figures indicate the national population center has shifted eastward for the first time, with experts estimating the new center a few miles southeast of its 1930 location near Columbus, Indiana. The South Atlantic states show a 12.5 percent gain as overall U S population rises about 7.5 percent to roughly 132 million.
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Washington
United States
Union
Linton
Indiana
South Atlantic
Census Bureau
Seaboard
Baltimore
Columbus
Ind
Youth leaders to hear Bonsall at state teachers college
English and Social Studies Departments at the State Teachers College host Mr. Bonsall who will lead discussion groups for youth leaders and adults on Program Planning. Bonsall is renowned nationally for youth work and directed the Pennsylvania State Youth Council and Interseminary Movement Tour to Europe last summer to attend the World Christian Youth Conference in Amsterdam. He serves as Camp Director for Camp Kanesatake, the interdenominational state camp.
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State Teachers College
Bonsall
United States
Pennsylvania State Youth Council
Europe
Amsterdan
Holland
Roosevelt tours Pensacola navy yard amid policy debate
President Roosevelt visited Philadelphia to speak in the third city and tour the navy yard with orders for half a billion dollars of war materials. He inspected a new 16 story naval hospital and warehouses while workers, veterans, and patients lined up to greet him during the Pennsylvania University centennial observance.
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Sents
Naval Air Base
Pensacola
Naval Hospital
Philadelphia
Roosevelt
America
Navy Yard
Army and Navy
Pennsylvania
University
White House
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Mr. Roosevelt
Wendell L. Willkie
NBC Blue
Lincoln chancellor plays golf on time record
Chancellor C.8 Boucher of the University of Nebraska defends golf as a time oriented game. He clocks his round at 1 hour 40 minutes and scores in the middle to high 70s despite a slow between shots.
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Lincoln
Neb
Boucher
University of Nebraska
Seek Cause Of PlaneCrash In Firewreck Kills Two
State police probed the crash that killed Merrill Leese 26 of Johnstown and his cousin Robert Ream 21 of Quakertown, as witnesses described flares and a burning craft near a plowed field. Leese a Bethlehem Steel researcher died later. Ream died at the scene.
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Merrill Leese
Johnstown
Robert Ream
Quakertown
William Cope
Ream
Seese
Bethlehem Steel Company
Akron
No Winter in Your Market Basket By Jane Floyd Qu
In grandmother era fresh produce vanished until summer yet today Mrs American Housewife relies on modern distribution to have fruits vegetables year round. The piece traces history of staples like pineapples potatoes and tomatoes noting royal feasts, wars and novelty, and ends with modern market control by consumers guiding purchases across regions to keep markets stocked continuously.
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Jane Floyd
Modard
Charles
Gardner
Frederick the Great
Roosevelt Inspects Defense Plants Amid Bomb Scare
President Roosevelt continues a tour of defense facilities from Virginia to Maine with police and detectives securing the route. Officials say no group has paid for time on broadcasts yet, while inspectors flag possible threats including a time bomb mailed to Norfolk and a warning issued for mail to government buildings along the Philadelphia visit route.
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Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Joseph F. Gallagher
Norfolk
Washington
Virginia
Delaware
Maryland
J. M. Johnston
Gallagher
Custom House
Arsenal
Navy Yard
Naval Hospital
Night Air Raids Persist as London Bears Brunt of Attacks
RAF reports small scale enemy air activity across Lancashire Essex Surrey Berkshire Kent Midlands and the Southwest while London suffers the fiercest blows for the 13th straight night. A shelter hatch is blown open by a scream bomb with some refuges killed or injured as daybreak brings renewed raids.
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Lancashire
Essex
Surrey
Berkshire
Kent
Midlands
England
London
Straits of Dover
Dover
London Planners Brace For Continued Night Raids And Dispersal
Citizens prepare for ongoing German raids with winter shelters planned. London’s 8.5 million population has been cut to 7.5 million by dispersal, with 1,000 children leaving. railways see crowding as families move to the countryside under an official program. Diplomatic chatter links Ribbentrop talks in Rome to Egypt independence offers in exchange for neutrality. French Indo China talks with Japan reach a critical stage as Tokyo presses new troop and supply movement demands amid the China war context.
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Gan
Lord Beaverbrook
Daily Express
London
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Rome
Egypt
Middle East
Europe
Mediterranean
China
Hong Kong
France
Japan
Indo-China
Hanoi
Shanghai
Haiphong-Yunnan
Yunnan
Chiang Kai-Shek
Burma
Great Britain
Desperate German Resistance and Allied Gains at St Quentin
Today of Other Years notes the German defense on the Pi cardy battlefront while British and French forces push in the flanking move on St Quentin and Cambrai. A German helmet souvenir from France is mentioned as a war memento. Home Defense Guards of Indiana Borough plan a 7:45 PM meeting.
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Picardy
St. Quentin
Cambrai
Johnston
France
Richard White Watson
Anna Mae Watson
North Ninth Street
Home Defense Guards
Indiana Borough
HOUSES DIFFER ON PROFITS TAX
Washington policy fight over excess profits tax rages as House and Senate spar over terms, approve war related riders, and push a joint committee to hammer out a compromise to speed arms production and adjournment. Senate boosts corporate rates to 24 percent above $25,000 and expands to smaller firms, while tax computation and rate structure are revised. Both chambers back suspending profit limits on warship and airplane contracts and allow five year depreciation for new defense facilities.
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Washington
House
Senate
Congress
Two Stand Collapses Marm Major PA Fair and Baseball Final
In two Western Pennsylvania towns 80 miles apart stands failed at public events injuring 25 spectators. At Ligonier Valley fair 150 observers watched livestock judging when a bleacher collapse sent 15 hurt, four to hospitals. In Altoona three were injured as stands collapsed during the final game for the county baseball title. one person broke a foot and the game was called in the third inning.
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Ligonier
Pennsylvania
Portage
Ligonier Valley Fair
Rounda
Altoona
Lightning strikes: woman recalls halo of bolt moment
In Denver on September 20, 62 year old Mia Josephine Mangone described the approaching lightning as “a sort of halo” rolling up through the window as the bolt hit. The memory records a vivid, single eyewitness account of the event.
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Denver
Mia
Josephine Mangone
Scuub
Allegheny College sets new enrollment record
Meadville Sept 30 Allegheny College registrar Hurst Ro andenon announced the enrollment reached 1133, breaking the previous record set last year. The 125 year old institution reported growth for the second straight year with 1133 students, 0 more than last year.
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Meadville
Allegheny College
Hurst Ro Andenon
Shaw Promises Free Medicine For Pneumonia Victims
Dr John J Shaw state secretary of health announced in Philadelphia that sulfathiazole will be distributed free to patients unable to pay. He noted the pneumonia control program saved about 4000 lives last year and that the drug, as effective as sulfapyridine and less toxic, will be issued to physicians at state distributing centers.
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Philadelphia
John J. Shaw
State Secretary of Health
State Health Department
Pneumonia Control Division
Pneumonia Commission
State Medical Society
Shaw
British admiralty reports sinking of German troop transport
The British Admiralty said the 10 000 ton German troop transport was torpedoed by the submarine Sturgeon off Denmark on Sept 2. Nearly all of 4000 men aboard were believed lost as the ship burned and sank after two minutes. Escort vessels searched for survivors.
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London
Admiralty
Sturgeon
North Sea
Denmark
Sweish
Marion
Hamburg
Kattegat
Germany
Norway
Kattergat
Guffey Forecasts Democratic Victory in Pennsylvania
In Philadelphia Roosevelt’s return to the city of his 1928 renomination, Senator Joseph F. Guffey predicted a larger Democratic victory in Pennsylvania than four years ago. He expects wins for U S senator auditor general and state treasurer plus at least four more congressional seats and control of the lower state house.
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Philadelphia
Roosevelt
U. S
Joseph F. Guffey
Pennsylvania
United States
Guffey
Democratic Executive Committee
Luther Hart
Meredith Myers
John B. Kelly
Myers
Marie M . Bickert
State Committee
Ruth Grigg Forting
Lancaster
Clara Buttermore
Uniontown
Democratic Digest
Ella Ross Kile
Harrisburg
Anna Hoffman
Wilkes-Barre
Bernard E. Willard
S’CUSE ME MISTAH PRES White House mixup
A prank call in the White House press room prompts a reporter to correct a caller who asks if the number is Doduh Adams residence. The caller exclaims confusion and apologizes, thinking they dialed a private home. The exchange ends with the reporter clarifying the location as the White House.
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Washington
White House
Dis Doduh Adam
Obituary of Homer City resident John Shadle
John Shadle 61 long time Homer City resident died last evening at his home following illness. Born June 23 1879 in Dauphin County he moved to Homer City 38 years ago and worked as a mine worker most recently for Graceton Coal Mining Co. Survived by wife Minnie Laney Shadle a son Lloyd two brothers and a sister. Funeral Sunday 2:30 pm at Homer City Methodist Church with Rev F A Edmund. interment Greenwood Cemetery. Also notes the burial of Rubsr Fulton infant in Greenwood Cemetery and Mrs Sara Price 27 Burnside dies at Indiana Hospital of natural causes. services at Burnside Funeral Home.
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John Shadle
Homer City
S. Mail Street
Shadle
Graceton Coal Mining Company
Dauphin County
Hutchinson Bible Class
Methodist Church
Minnie
Laney) Shadle
Lloyd Shadle
Oscar
Albert Shadle
Emma Kouder
Homer City Methodist
F. A. Edmund
Greenwoal
Sara Price
Harold Price
Burnside
Clearfield County
Indiana Hospital
Price
Akien
Eee Funeral
France Defies Japan Ultimatum Dealing Indo China Crisis
In Indo China Japan issues a 72 hour ultimatum to France demanding new secret concessions. Paris stands firm amid fears of stalled talks on troop passage and base rights, while observers predict possible last minute face-saving accords rather than war.
Markets Putselawn hog and cattle prices report
Salable hogs and cattle lists with price ranges across weight classes. Hog data cover 100 to 280 lb groups with 5.00 to 7.50 per cwt ranges. cattle show steers, heifers, cows and calves with 5.50 to 12.50 per cwt bands. sheep numbers around 100 with tops near 9.00. Grain futures from Chicago show wheat and corn firming on war developments with mixed early advances.
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Chicago
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