Pacific Coast ship operators snub new labor talks
Secretary Schwellenbach inviting maritime labor leaders to a Washington conference to avert a CIO Marine Engineers Beneficial Association strike. MEBA members threaten a nationwide walkout next Monday unless operators agree to wage talks. Pacific ship owners prefer west coast meetings and have just struck a wage agreement with the Sailors Union of the Pacific. Ballots show strong MEBA support for a strike in New York Houston Norfolk with final results due in Washington.
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Associated Press
Secretary of Labor
Lewin B. Schwellenbach
Washington
CIO Marine Engineers Beneficial Association
Mefha
Ion
Atase
Gulf
Schwellen
Pacifico-American Ship Sowners Association
Association
AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific
New York
The
Marine Engineers
Houston
Tex
Norfolk
Lawrence Kammer
the Maritime Engineers
Schwellenbach
Woule
Bomb Explodes in Auto Injuring Chicago Driver
Chicago police report a bomb exploded under a car injuring Mrs Hertha Wilson a 46 year old school teacher as she drove from her home on the South Side The blast damaged the sedan hood windows and upholstery and flung the car forward before stopping near the street A bomb squad detective said the device was home made and wired to detonate when the pedal was pressed
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Chicago
Hertha Wilson
Anti Noise Law Adopted By Solons
Bradford city council adopts an anti noise ordinance on first reading prohibiting unnecessary noises. It bans horns on vehicles except as danger signals and limits loud radios phonographs and instruments especially between 11 pm and 7 am to protect residents in dwellings.
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Bradford
Army Claims Fourth of Vanishing Meat
Carrall Reece denounces Me l Cormack action as cheap politics amid a proposed 60 day meat control suspension just past the November 5 elections. Reece accuses McCormack of trying to bid the voters and argues the policy is unworkable. The article notes past fights over extending and reviving OPA and mentions a portable charcoal broiler with a rubber-tired wheel for camping use.
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Carrall Reece
Mel Cormack
Massachusetts
Reece
McCormack
LorcCormack
Seven AFL Picket Lines Tie Up Hollywood Movie Lots
Hollywood studios face a new jurisdictional clash as the Conference of Studio Unions orders picket lines around seven film lots. CSU backed by AFL President William Green urges workers to strike, with 6,500 workers and spouses cheering CSU chief Herbert Sorrell. The dispute centers on which union builds and assembles sets, amid mass layoffs of carpenters and painters opposed to sets built by rival NATSE members. Byron Price of the AMP comments on the jurisdictional strike and talks of workers returning if assigned duties. Green confirms AFL backing via a Chicago committee letter.
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Hollywood
AFL
Conference of Studio Unions
CSU
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Herbert Sorrell
AFL International Alliance of
Sorre
Byron Price
The
Association of Motion Picture Producers
Sorrell
NATSE
Chicago
Green
Penalty Is Heavy For Violators
Oct 1, a landlord cannot legally collect more rent for a living quarters than was paid on July 1, 1945. However, he may petition to the rent office for an increase In the rent. The rent office will examine all rental registrations after they are filed to verify July 1 1945 rents and assess authenticity. The order from OPA administrator Paul Porter notes rising rents and housing needs as the reason for rent controls in the county.
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Akers
Office of Price Administration
Paul Porter
OPA
Washington
Buggey Graduates From ATC School
Pvt Lawrence C Buggey son of Mr and Mrs William J Buggey of Chambersville Pa graduated from the Air Training Command plane and engine mechanic school at Kessler Field Miss The training covers basic mechanics and evictions rules require landlord notices only with Indiana County officials approval after Oct 1 and the director Akers offers to meet with local groups to explain rent control procedures to ease compliance
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OPA
Indiana County
Kessler Field
Miss
Lawrence C. Buggey
William J. Buggey
Siven
Chambersville
Akers
Air Training Command
Indiana
Mechanics School
Indiana i Tlons
Indiana Evening Gazette
Democrats Open New County Headquarters in Indiana
Democratic County Chairman Frank A. Sibley announced the campaign headquarters are located at 43 North 6th Street. The center will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. except Sundays, with Saturday hours until 10 p.m. Democrats and supporters are invited to visit.
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Frank A. Sibley
North 6Th Street
Indiana
Pilot's Fault in Shannon Landing Damage
Pan American World Airways says a co-pilot error caused damage to the Constellation Carrile during a Tuesday landing at Shannon airport after a flight from the United States.
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London
APY
Pan-American World Airways
Carrile
Shannon
United States
World Series Tickets Go Out For Red Sox Games
Boston officials announce Fenway Park tickets mailed tonight to about 66 000 line up for three home games. Ed Doherty, Red Sox publicity director, notes a couple million dollars in rejects already moved to Boston post office vaults.
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Boston
Fenway Park
Boston Red Sox
Ed Doherty
Red Sox
Cub Scout Meet Set For Tonight
A meeting of parents with children in Cub Scout age will be held at Thaddeus Stephens School at 8 p.m. today. Parents with boys aged 8 to 11 are urged to attend. The meeting was moved from the Laboratory School to Thaddeus Stephens due to conflicting engagements.
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Parenta
Thaddeus Stephens School
Laboratory School
Thaddaus "Stephens
Solon urges quick probe on housing delays in wartime hearings
Senator Ferguson of Michigan pressed the Senate War Investigating Committee to speed up or pause other cases to focus on housing delays. He called the administration housing program a fraud and urged using all staff to study housing, cut red tape, and produce living quarters amid two days of hearings on wartime projects including the Canal Of! project. The hearings also probe Channel return of surplus property and the Inter-American Highway through Central America. Ferguson criticized Wilson Wyatt for inaction as he toured the country. The committee also planned questions to Adm. Ernest J King on why the joint chiefs pursued continuing the 133 million Canal project in Canada despite adverse advice from navy and budget officials.
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Francis
Kelly Washington
Ferguson
R-Mich
Lyday
Senate War Investigating Committee
Central America
Michigan
Wilson Wyatt
Wyatt
Adm
Ernest J. King
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Canada
Secretary of the Navy
King
Joint Chiefs
Community Chest Drive Allocations For Local Groups
The Community Chest sets allocations for 1946 1947 campaigns. Scouts goal $25 000 while hospital gets 1333 for 16 months and 1060 for 12 months. Salvation Army receives 7933 plus 1046. USO gets 1250. Foreign Relief 1218. Operating expenses budget at 1800 covers both campaigns.
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Indiana Hospital
Salvation Army
USO
Trainmen Plot Doom of 16 Enemies
A Soviet note reports eight regional officials in Kuibyshev and Yaroslavl charged with violations of the collective farm charter. Prosecutions target district secretaries, with reprimands issued to provincial prosecutors for inaction. Separate coverage notes in Miami Beach cite the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen planning to defeat 16 congressional districts in November.
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Yaroslavl
Soviet Councill
Provintes
Kurbsk
Gavrilo-Yamsk
Kurbvshed
Miami Beach
Fla
The
Brotherhood of Railroad
A. F. Whitney
Gerup
Whitney
BRT
Amasay Witney
A. P
Bocharev
Hig
Ferenyev
Colt
Democratic Party
Committee Backs Hodge Over Attack
A House military subcommittee denied claims that it urged removing Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge as Korea commander. The five member panel, returning from a Far East trip, said no such recommendation exists. Members Short and Martin praised Hodge's handling of difficult Korea duties and voiced support.
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Washington
House
John R. Hodge
United States
Korea
Philadelphia
Sheridan
D-Pa
Hodge
Gene Eisenhower
Rep
Short
R-Mo
Thomas Martin
R-Iown
War Department
Sikes
Dfla
Martin
Iodge
Greek King Returns To Civil War In Greece Withdrawal
Continued from page one, reports that Greek King plans withdrawal amid internal strife. Maj. Gen. Kenneth Noel Crawford, head of British troops in Greece, declined to comment on a Foreign Office spokesman’s warning that British forces would be used only as a last resort. In London, the Daily Herald quoted that British forces would leave Greece as soon as transport is available and that Britain cannot be used to solve Greece’s internal troubles, with an early withdrawal date expected.
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Greece
Kenneth Noel Crawford
British Foreign Office
London
Laborite Daily Herald
Rev Krall to Speak at Clymer Church Friday
The Rev Franklin Krall known as The Country Preacher will preach at the Clymer Christian and Missionary Alliance Church on Friday September 27 at 7 45 p m. His radio staff will attend and special singing and music are planned. The public is invited.
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Franklin Krall
Clymer
Big Teacher Conference Demonstrations At Local College
The Central Western Education Conference opens at State Teachers College with a series of classroom method demonstrations led by six Indiana teachers over two days. Demonstrations include Reading Activities in the First Grade and Ten-Year-Olds social living programs, plus art and play activity sessions. The event features lectures by Thomas G. Pullen and Clyde Eggleton, with prominent education officials attending.
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State Teachers College
Indiana
Yall
Thaddeus Stevens
Thelmy Braten
Ella Moore
Martha Zimmerman
Dorothy Murdock
College Art Depart ‘Ment
Demon ‘Stration
Indiana County Teachers Institute
Thomas G. Pullen
Maryland
Clyde Eggleton
New York University
Eagleton
State Department l
Obituary for Jessie B Klingensmith of Leechburg
Jessie B Klingensmith of 969 Pershing Avenue Leechburg widow of Homer W Klingensmith died at Citizens Hospital New Kensington on Monday morning September 23 at 1 20 o clock Born in Creekside daughter of Frederick and Rebecca Fleming Snyder she lived in Leechburg 43 years employed in the Cafeteria at Joseph Finch Company Schenley member of Hebron Lutheran church leaves two daughters Mrs Margaret Morson of New Kensington Lois at home and one sister Mrs Rose Emery of Avonmore
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MBS
Jessie B. Klingensmith
Pershing Avenue
Leechburg
Homer W. Kiltigensmith
Citizens’ Hospital
New Kensington
Creekside
Frederick
Rebecca Fleming
Snyder
Leechsburg
Joseph
Finch Company
Schenley
Hebron
Urge To Kill Led Navy Youth to Murder Librarian
Bryan, Sept 26. Norman A. Barnes said he would file a murder charge today against James Robert Brigle, a Bryan youth and former Bryan High School student, who confessed an urge to kill led him to stab Emily Abernathy, 20, city librarian, 23 times in the library basement. Brigle, who gave a bloody penknife to prosecutor Charles G. Stahl, described how he planned to kill the librarian after finding her alone, then washed the blood from his hands at a park pump and later saw himself in a mirror and thought he looked like a mad dog. The case was reported as a shocking confession and murder amid local fear.
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Bryan,o
Norman A. Barnes
Bryan
Emily Abernathy
Barthes
James Robert Brigle
Bryan High School
England
U.S
Stahl
Engle
Miss Abernathy
Garver Park
Roy
Scout Group Seeks 25000 Dollar Funding Upgrade
A William Penn Council report details a 1947 budget of 25000 dollars to hire three full time Scout executives and expand offices. The move aims to boost service across six districts, contrasting with neighboring councils that already sustain larger staffs. Local districts pledge to raise the funds with a list of named scouters aiding the effort.
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Counjeil
William Penn Council
Pennsylvania
Sema
Bucktail Council
DuBois
Armstrong ,Council
Butler
Col. Drake Council
Qi City
Westmoreland-Fayetta Council
Greensburg
Robert HE
Harald Keck
Indiana
Col
J. J. Daub
Salisburg
R. E. Mateer
Punxsutawney
N.L. King
Rural Valley
G. R. Davis
Graceton
Merle Craig
Ralph McCreary
F. E. Barr
J. Frank Noble
Blairsville
Robert Gay
Paul Ansley
Plumville
Fred Hancock
Clymer
Tester Tuck
Homer City
Countians Attend Fellowship Banquet in Latrobe Church
Over 180 attendees, many from Indiana County, gathered for the Bisirsville Methodist district Young Adult Fellowship Banquet at the Latrobe Methodist Church on Tuesday.
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Indiana County
Bisirsville
Latrobe
Plea Review for Corrine Sykes Seeks Clemency
Harrisburg reports the State Pardons Board debated Corrine Sykes 22, condemned to die the week of Sept. 30 for the murder of Mrs. Freda Wodlinger in Philadelphia. Raymond Pace Alexander pushed for Governor Martin to grant a fourth reprieve pending new Pardons Board hearing. If executed, she would be the first woman electrocuted in Pennsylvania since 1981.
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Harrisburg
State Pardons Board
Corrine Sykes
Philadelphia
Raymond Pace Alexander
Freda Wodlinger
Martin
Grant
Pardons Board
Pennsylvania
Ban Dissolved At City's Request In Duquesne Strikes
Union president George L Mueller won temporary freedom after apologizing for calling a court order a scrap of paper He pledged to seek acceptance of a new company offer by 8200 Duquesne Light workers The offer includes a five percent raise to raise average base pay from 118 to 124 an hour Union voted against considering the offer until the injunction is lifted. other unions plan to join anti injunction effort across mills and offices in Pittsburgh.
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Jones &Laughlin Steel Corp
Westinghouse Electric Corp
George L. Mueller
Allegheny County
Mueller
Independent Association of Employes
Duquesne Light Company
Carnegie Hall
Herman ‘Lipsitz
Common Pleas
Walter P. Smart
Harrisburg
James
McDevitt
Afl-Pennsylvania Federation of Labor
No Meat No Work Hits Upper Mine in Windber
In Windber Somerset County 200 miners quit Upper Mine No 37 of the coal company awaiting meat purchases. Officials say 700 workers operate on three shifts and the strike may last until stores sell meat. The slogan No Meat No Work is cited by a spokesman.
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Windber
Upper Mine
Ceaesemerates Coal Co
Somerset
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