Big Five Conference Encounters Storms in London
The Big Five Council of Foreign Ministers struggles in London to rehabilitate Europe. Analysts note Russia’s rise, Germany and Italy weakened, France dealt a heavy blow, and spheres of influence fueling tensions in the Balkans and Mediterranean as they seek a peaceful postwar order.
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Council of Foreign Ministers
London
Europe
London Daily Mail
Jong
Germany
Italy
France
London News
Chronicle
Precedent-Shattering Call Signals Japanese War Drift
Reported in Washington that close adviser Marquis Kido denied advance knowledge of Pearl Harbor and dismissed abdication rumors. MacArthur allegedly influenced Japanese appointments while Allied HQ banned any uranium enrichment or related research, with monthly laboratory data demanded, as President Truman claimed full policy control.
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Koichi Kido
Privy Seal
Russell Brines
Pearl Harbor
Kido
Chingeking Radio
HCC
Washington
Higashi- Kuni
MacArthur
Seihin Ikeda
Central Liaison Board
Hese
Mey
Fumimaro Kanoye
Ikeda
Tkeda
Vaste Mitsui
Directve
Sups
Truman
Lt Epes Gets Life Murder Conviction in Columbia
Lt Samuel C Epes, 27, son of a Virginia family, given life for murder after drugging suffocating his schoolteacher wife and burning her body. Jury of all men found him guilty with mercy recommendation. new trial motion filed. He faces possible pardon or commutation.
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Columbia
S. C
Samuel C. Epes
Virginia
State Penitentiary
A. L. Gaston
South Carolina
Epes
Strike Wave Expands Amid United Labor Disputes
The nationwide labor unrest widens as 323000 idle workers grow, with 60000 lumber and 23000 building service members joining strikes. Disputes center on a minimum wage of $1.10 and industry wide bargaining, while Westinghouse workers face wage demand battles across six states. Union leaders warn of a labor holiday if Talks fail.
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Untion
New York
APL Lumber and
Pacific Northwest
New York City
Building Service
Huwker
Manhattan
War Labor Board
WLS
WLB
Westinghouse
Lancaster
Monongalia County
Vadou Lancaster
B. I. Weigand
Central Labor Union
Won& Transportation Co
Weigand
AFL
CIO
Four Discharged At Indiantown Gap Military Reservation
Four airmen were discharged at the Separation Center at Indiantown Gap on Saturday September 22. Named individuals include Sgt. John M. Adair Pfc Ernest Pre John Lesneskie 1st Lt Clair R. Jamison and Pfc John W. Blairsville.
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Arca
Indianatown Gap
John M. Adair
Ernest
Pre
John Lesneskie
Clune
Clair R. Jamison
S. 7Th. Street
Indiana
John W
State Dept To Control War Surplus
Washington Sept. 24 AP President Truman decides to place the State Department in charge of disposing billions of war time surpluses worldwide The plan unifies disposal of Army Navy Liquidation Commission end Lend Lease functions within the Foreign Economic Administration The move aims to streamline surpluses with a transfer to occur at the earliest practicable date
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Washington
Truman
State Department
John W. Snyder
Europe
Snyder
Senate
Pacific
Senatorg
Army-Navy Liquidation Commission
Foreign Economic Administration
Government suit targets chain grocery impact on competition
Department of Justice sues a leading chain grocery system to prove it violated the Sherman Act. The record includes 4 445 exhibits and about 100 witnesses with a 15 000 page transcript. The government argues the chain blocked independents from entering or remaining in competition while independents claim high profits and varied pricing.
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Department of Justice
Red
Departent of Justice
US Radio Network Opened In Japan
The U S armed forces radio services opened a seventy network in Japan at 6 30 am 5 30 pm EWT Saturday and will operate on a 17? d62 hour daily schedule broadcasting programs through stations in some areas not yet occupied Colonel Ken Dyke and Major Grat A Boeppte directed the operation STATE POLICE SAY signals reduce accidents and warn drivers to signal before turning stopping or starting
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Fokyo
U.S. Armed Forces Radio Services
Japan
Ken Dyke
New York
Grat A. Boeppte
St Louis
Los Angeles
Drowned AP Reporter Witt Hancock Missing Since Java Fall
Associated Press correspondent Witt Hancock who vanished in Java in 1942 drowned when the Dutch ship Peelee Bras was sunk by Japanese dive bombers off Sumatra. Only Hancock and William McDougall survived aboard the vessel after leaving Bancdoing for Colombo with 232 passengers. Hancock, 33, a Bluefield West Virginia native, had worked in London Moscow and India before joining AP in Raleigh North Carolina in 1929 and was a Davidson College alumnus.
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Java
McDougall
Hancock
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Sumatra
Japan
Wast
Singapore
Netherlands East Indies
Bluefield
W. Va
London
Moscow
Turkey
India
Hickory
N. C
Record
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Henderson
Dispatch
Associated Press
Raleigh
WN. C
Davidson College
Calcutta
Board Criticized for Handling Pollution and Jobs
Harrisburg reports say the Democratic State Committee blasts the Sanitary Water Board as pitifully inadequate to curb Pennsylvania streams pollution. It also questions the state employment service, warning that returning it to the state could end in massive patronage and staff losses. The statements describe the burden of processing reports and plans as too great for current staff and note the service’s 94 full time offices and about 140 employees.
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Harrisburg
Democratic State Committee
Commonwealth
Sanitary Water Board
Pennsylvania
Congress
Bureau of Employment and Unemployment Compensation
Department of Labor and Industry
Survive
Huston backs Waddell in Pittsburgh mayor race
John M. Huston Allegheny County register of wills, defeated in the Democratic mayoral primary by David L. Lawrence, declares for Republican Robert N. Waddell and calls for a moral revolt to throw out the city bosses. He criticizes Lawrence twelve years of leadership, cites rising payrolls and state that city finances are bankrupt while urging citizens to support Waddell in November.
Budget balance by 1950 urged by Wallace at Chicago
Secretary Henry A. Wallace told a University of Chicago round table that the federal budget could be balanced by 1950 while pursuing full employment and free enterprise. He linked expanded foreign trade to job growth and warned against 10 to 20 million unemployed inviting government action regardless of party.
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Chicago
Henry A. Wallace
University of Chicago Round Table
Wallace
Andi
Department of Commerce
Ross
Washington
Obituary notices for Zimmer and local residents
Mrs Catherine Zimmer Man widow of Daniel Zimmerman died at 7:45 a m Sunday at her daughter Mrs Clarence Pifer in Punxsutawhey R D 3 born August 21 1867 in Young Township Jefferson County Surviving are three sons and six daughters Funeral services Wednesday at 2:30 p m at Mrs Pifer home Rev Louis Westphal to officiate Interment Pifer Cemetery Bowser Funeral Home Big Run in charge John N Lewis 75 Smicksburg resident died Sunday at home Funeral arrangements Bowser Funeral Home Plumville incomplete Silas W Mosher 65 Cleveland Ohio former Graceton resident died of heart attack in Cleveland Born May 7 1880 in Tioga County Surviving widow Emma Shank three sons Harry Leon Cleveland Grant Wilkes-Barre Two grandchildren Funeral services for Mosher 3:30 p m tomorrow at Robinson Funeral Home Indiana Rev David R Graham D D Interment Greenwood Cemetery Friends may call Robinson Funeral Home Wilmer Monroe Irwin 67 Marion Center died 8:10 p m Saturday Born October 25 1877 in South Mahoning Twp son of Benjamin Carl and Charlotte Irwin Resided in Marion Center 26 years Survived by widow Anna B Irwin and one sister Mrs Laura Bartholomew Rochester Mills Funeral arrangements Robinson Funeral Home Indiana complete
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John M. Huston
Allegheny County Register of Wills
David L. Lawrence
Robert N. Waddell
Waddell
Lawrence
Huston
Republican Party
Democratic Party
David Lawrence
Fittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Samuel Ward Mock
South Fourth Street
Indiana
Cherryhill
Jacob
Julia (Moore) Mock
Mock
Penn Ryn
Fundamental Baptist Church of
Eva Hamill
Cpl
Chester
Gloidie Cramer
R. D
Esther McElhoes
Heshbon
Silas
Ward Hamill
Fulton Run
Clair
Sheloca
Ray
Glenn
England
Ethel Lemmon
Marion Center
Clara Hoover
Elsie Bond
Titusville
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Hazel
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Irene Martin Jeannette
Jay Mack
Greensburg
John
Jeannette
Joseph
Diamondville
J. E. Wheeling
Oakland Rens Illery
Familly
Agnes Lillian Roser
James S. Roser
Juniper Street
Hamer City
John and
Elizabeth Kaufman Donahue
Clair R. Wick
Greenwood Cemetery
Catherine Zimmerman
Daniel Zimmerman
Clarence Pifer
Punxsutawhey
Young Township
Jefferson County
Pifer
Louis Westphal
Bowser
Big Run
John N. Lewis
Smicksburg
Plumville
Silas W. Mosher
Cleveland
Graceton
Tioga Co
Fairport Lodge
A. M. Fairport
McKeesport
Marist Methodist Church
Robinson Funeral Home
David R. Graham
D. D
Wilmer Monroe Irwin
South Mahoning Twp
Benjamin Carl
Charlotte
Link) Irwin
Anna B. Irwin
Laura Bartholomew
Rochester Mills
Champ Hiker Sets Out On 500 Mi Jaunt to Chicago
Pittsburgh observer A P Bergman, 58, left downtown at 2:20 PM aiming to reach Chicago by Oct 2 on a 500 mile trek. He plans 50 miles daily with stops in Walwalk Akron Bowling Green Defiance Kendallville Elehart Michigan City en route. He later hopes for a 3000 mile transcontinental hike next summer.
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A. P. Bergman
Chicago
Leetsdale
Windy City
Walwalk
Akron
Bowling Green
Defiance
Ohio
Kendallville
Elehart
Michigan City
Ind
Bergman
Strelt
Edward Payson Weston
Bergsman
Merger of Churches Is Up For Vote
In Palmyra Pennsylvania the East Pennsylvania annual conference of The Church of the United Brethren in Christ will vote on merging with the Evangelical Church to form a united body of nearly one million members. Approval requires conference consent and a majority denomination vote. if approved the new church would be named The Evangelical United Brethren in Christ Church. The four day meeting opens with a banquet led by Dr L L Huffman and Bishop J B Showers, with several other leaders scheduled to speak.
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Palmyra
East Pennsylvania
Church of the United Brethers In Christ
Evangelical Church
United Brethers In Christ Church
Evangelical United Brethers In Christ Church
L. L. Huffman
United Brethers
Dayton
Chin
J. B.showers
Harrisburg
C. B. Batdorf
Showers
Clyde A. Lynch
Lebanon Valley College
Annville
Willan L. Mudge
Pennsylvania State Council of Churches
E. E. Wing
Anti-Saloon League of
Philadelphia
French Vote Trend Is Left in Local Elections
In Paris on September 24, reports indicate France's impoverished voters favored the left as Socialists and Communists gained seats in local elections. With about a third of ballots counted for 80 councils, Communists hold 23 seats and Socialists 102, while the Center and right-wing blocs fade. a run-off is set for Sept. 30 ahead of national polls on Oct. 23. General de Gaulle and most ministers won unsalaried council posts, ensuring smooth administration despite partial results.
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Paris
Clarl
France
Commmunists
Paul Reynauds
FDIC Hints At Bank Insurance Premium Cut
Federal Deposit Insurance officials signaled a possible year end reduction in premiums for about 14,000 insured banks and a potential extension of coverage. The FDIC said it will require a deposit report on Oct 10, the first call since 1941.
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Washington
Federal Deposit Insurance
FDIC
Saga of Wake Told By Maj Putnam
Marine Major Paul A. Putnam recounted Wake Island’s fall from the first air assault to hand to hand fighting after returning from four years in Japanese prison camps. He described stripped installations, limited planes, and a breakthrough oxygen method, plus hazing and hardship in captivity and his views on fair but firm response to the enemy.
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San Diego
Calif
Paul A. Putnam
Transbay
Coronado
Japan
Wake Island
Putnam
Pearl Harbor
Wake
Herbert Frueler
Fot Berkeley Calif
Zentsuji
Big 5 Faces Serious Difficulties in Europe Talks
London Sept 24 The Big Five struggle to reach agreement on Europe Inland waterways and Austria as debate over spheres of influence and Soviet objections to France and China in Hungarian talks stalls progress and risks dissolving the council. Moscow fears US and Britain may pull France and China closer. The dispute centers on exclusive control within each power’s sphere and remains unresolved.
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Flora
France
China
United States
Britain
Moscow
Council
False Abdication Rumor Hits Tokyo Amid War Crime Fear
A Chungking radio broadcast claimed Emperor Hirohito abdicated due to fear of being listed as a war criminal, but Japanese Premier Higashi-Kuni and Imperial Household Ministry secretary Sotaro Ishiwata denied the report, calling it groundless. American journalists in Tokyo sought confirmation from General MacArthur's HQ.
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Associated Press
Chungking
Hirohito
Higashi-Kuni
Higishi-Kuni
MacArthur
Tokyo
Imperial Household
Sotaro Ishiwata
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