Pennas Guards Will Scatter to Harrisburg Camps
Pennsylvania plans to deploy 14 000 National Guardsmen for a year of active duty in four states. Most will train at Indiantown Gap near Harrisburg with the 28th Division, while others join camps at Camp Shelby Mississippi Fort Meade Maryland Savannah Georgia and Virginia Beach Virginia. Enlistments and unit reorganizations accompany the mobilization.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Indiantown Gap
Hartisburg
Lebanon
Edward Martin
Tooth
110Th
112Th Infantry
108Th
109Th Field Artillery
103Rd Engineers
1034 Medical
104Rd Quartermaster
104Th Cavalry
Reyatone
Sir
103Rd
Camp Shelby
Miss
490Th Field Artillery
106Th Field Artillery
22Nd Cavalry Division
Pittsburgh 176Th Field Artillery
29Th Division
Maryland
Virginia
District of Columbia
101St Radio Intelligence Company
Pittsburgh
105Th
Cavalry
Fort Mead
Virginia Beach
213Th Coast Artillery
Savannah
213Th
Allentown
Cor
Charles C. Curtis
Pennsylvania National Guard
Enlistment Odds Skew From Missouri Draft Tide
Kansas City report from Army recruiting officer details a week of varied draft dodgers and applicants. The sergeant cites highbrow air corps seekers, educated cadets, professionals seeking information, and a mix of married and single men, with many discharges and administrative holds noted.
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Kansas City
Fred M. Logan
Army
Missouri
Japan seeks balance as war shifts and Asia expands
The analysis argues Japan aims to avoid direct involvement in the European war while expanding influence in Asia to gain self sufficiency. It notes Tokyo seeks wary alignment with Moscow against aggression, and keeps Britain and the United States at arm's length while accelerating expansion. The piece discusses risk to Japan from Germany and Russia and the uncertain western victory.
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India
Vladivostok
Tovko
Britain
United States
Japan
Germany
Russia
Tokyo
Moscow
America
Job growth in Johnstown industrial area noted
The State Department of Commerce reports 30,061 people employed full time in Johnstown in August, up 625 since May. Industrial workers also averaged more hours per week than earlier in the year, signaling stronger local industry activity.
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Johnstown
State Department of Commerce
G men probe peace meeting in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Sept 27 local meeting of conscientious objectors discussed conscription as three investigations opened by FBI agents following suspension of Perry High English teacher J C Spahr Hull who presided over the meeting Hull said he would serve non combatant and would not bear arms while stressing a distinction between conscientious objectors and draft dodgers FBI and local Legion officials joined the probe to see if laws on draft dodgers were violated with similar meetings reported in New York Chicago Detroit and other cities
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Pittsburgh
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. C. Spahr Hull
Perry
Hull
Bernard C. Clausen
Jane Addams Peace Center
Frrom
John H. Adams
Perry High School
FBI
U. S
George Mashank
American Legion
Embargo on Scrap Iron Draws Mixed US Reactions
United States and Japanese officials debate the impact of a scrap iron embargo. In Pittsburgh, Ernest T. Weir and G. W. Sanborn urge earlier action urging inventories low and large exports to Japan. In San Francisco army ordnance officers estimate per ton yields range from field guns to large naval shells.
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Pittsburgh
Ernest T. Weir
National Steel Corporation
G. W. Sanborn
United Engineering and Foundry Company
San Francisco
Army Ordinante
Axis Pact Speech Warns Against Foreign Interference
Von Ribbentrop speaks to diplomats after the pact reading, calling it a union of the three most powerful powers and vowing to oppose any nation meddling in joint affairs. He describes the treaty as an axis against warmongers and notes a formal alignment with Japan to manage Asia and leave European affairs to Germany and Italy.
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Galeazas Ciano
Malan
Saburo Kurusus
Berlin
von Ribbentrop
Lhce
United Nations
Soviet
Russia
Weither
Rusia
Japan
Germany
Italy
Far East
Asia
Europe
Ciano
Clane
Earle 4th Hurt In Car Crash Near Bryn Mawr
George H. Karte III, 23, son of Pennsylvania's former governor, was hospitalized in Bryn Mawr with head and neck lacerations after his car left the road and struck two trees in Penn Valley. Residents who heard the crash helped him to the hospital where doctors said he would stay five to six days. Karte had just returned from Bulgaria where his father serves as minister and planned to join the naval air corps.
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Bryn Mawr
George H. Karte
Pennsylvania
Bryn Mawr Hospital
Penn Valley
Pann Valley
Earle
Bulagaria
Naval Air Corps
Food Shortage Seen in Hawaii Amid Siege Survey
Sept 27 Honolulu reports a survey by businessmen and educators finds Oahu with 24 days of stale foods for 225,000 civilians if all lines are blocked. Civilians lack 14 days in warehouses seven in stores three at home. total could stretch to 38 days with livestock slaughter, plus shortages of fuel oil and fertilizer.
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Honolulu
United States
Oahu Island
Oahu
Oshu
Pearl Harbor
Hickam Field
Schofield Barracks
U. S
Army
Navy
Osha
Axis trio extends new order pact with Japan
Washington reports Japan aligned with Germany and Italy forming a three power bloc to resist Britain and Anglo-American efforts. Officials say pact aims to bound military and economic cooperation and deter wider conflict while the United States maintains pacific deterrence and ships in Hawaiian waters.
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Washington
Japan
Tokyo
State Department
Germany
Italy
Roosevelt
United States
Britain
Konoye
East Asia
Berlin
Russia
Pacific
Indo-China
Hawaiian
Singapore
New Flight Teacher Appointed at Local College Program
William F. Strouse, popular instructor at the local airport, becomes the principal contractor for the college aviation program starting October 1. D. J. Hamilton retires from active participation after summer phase. Strouse will also teach a unit. Training uses a modern Aroner trainer plane with expanded facilities at Hamilton Fields. 35-hour course runs with eight hours of dual instruction, then solo flying, logging maneuvers for each student, ending with a cross country flight to Ebensburg Punxsutawney and back. College students or those with two years of college may apply. cost is seven dollars an hour with government funding and no mandatory military obligation. Interested parties should apply before the interview date.
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William F. Strouse
D. J. Hamilton
Strouse
Hamilton Fields Bene
Ebensburg
Punxstrawney
Global Axis Pact and London Air Attacks Split World News
Adolf Hitler's chancellery and Japan sign a tripartite pact to preserve a new European order while Japan expands in the Orient. Ribbentrop calls it peace driven, yet warns against encroachment. Nazi raids sink morale as London endures 20th night of bombardment and RAF counters. In Pittsburgh, coal output dips 1.5 percent as shipments fall with reduced mine throughput.
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Adolf Hitler
Russia
Japan
Europe
Orient
Im Reine
Germany
Joachin von Ribbentrop
United Nations
Spain
Germain
Britain
Great Rock
Gibraltar
London
Dover “Hall
London Air Ministry
RAF
Berlin
Hitler
England
Thames River
Dover
Channel
Keil
Benares
Canada
Diamonds Lost in City Rubbish Heap
Harrisburg reports 48 diamonds missing from a wholesale jewelry house after a manila envelope containing gems was swept into a rubbish can. City ash and garbage workers search a wide area with 40 to 45 truckloads moved daily by a bulldozer while the value remains undetermined.
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Harrisburg
DIRT MAY FLY SOON ON BASES
Washington reports wartime secrecy shields plans as dirt may fly on eight new Atlantic bases. A joint Army Navy survey recommends five northern sites with Bermuda and Newfoundland funded to begin, while the rest await surveys within a month. Neutrality patrol may use bases before detailed plans are released. The survey group heads to inspect Bahamas Jamaica Santa Lucie Trinidad Antigua and British Guiana after September 3 destroyer lease exchange.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Atlantic
Great Britain
Army-Navy
Roosevelt
Bermuda
Newfoundland
Neutrality Patrol
Caribbean
South American
Puerto Rico
Alaska
White House
Joint
Norfolk
Bahamas
Jamaica
Santa Lucie
Trinidad
Antigua
British Guiana
British Inventions Aiming To Curb Night Raiders
London reports new British devices developed to fight night raids. Observers say two devices used together could make night bombing as risky as daytime raids. Noise descriptions include a heavy explosive crack, a flat ceiling-striking roar, and a muffled carpet slipper machine-gun.
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London
Landonerts
Reassurance for Policeman Seoria Sept 27
A Seoria police officer hailed a motorist stuck in traffic as he attempted a sharp turn. The driver paused, then reassured the officer that he believed he could complete the maneuver safely.
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Seoria
Allegheny College to Enlarge Dormitory Facilities
Allegheny College announced a construction program to enlarge dormitory facilities for 240 women students by next fall. Preliminary work begins on the first three units of a girls residential hall. Hulings Hall will be remodeled and incorporated into the dormitory wall.
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Meadville
Allegheny College Today
Hulings Hall
Walle
Postmaster Misreads Box in Fire Alarm Mixup
J C Stopt postmaster of Willard admitted he mistook a fire alarm box for a mail box while attempting to mail a letter during the national postmasters convention. He brought eight pieces of firefighting equipment to a downtown intersection in Columbus on September 27.
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Columbus
J.C. Stopt
Willard
Postmaasters
New Pastor Installed at Gilgal Church Near Marion
The Rev. Harry C. McDevitt Jr. was installed as pastor of Gilgal Presbyterian Church near Marion Center Thursday evening by a Kittanning Presbytery committee. Presiding minister Rev. M. M. McDevitt preached and posed the constitutional questions. McDevitt, a Princeton Theological Seminary graduate, succeeds Rev. C. A. Waltman who resigned last October for Florida. Gilgal, founded in 1808, is among Indiana County’s oldest churches.
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Harry C. McDevitt, Jr
Gigal Presbyterian Church
Marion
Center
Kittanning
Convicted trio linked to communist petition fraud
A Beaver County jury found three men guilty of election flaw violations tied to circulating Communist party nominating petitions. Sam Reed Ali Quippa and George Maich faced charges of misrepresentation and false affidavits. Potts Maich and a fourth defendant John Lartick were acquitted of conspiracy. Sentencing will follow.
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Beaver
Besger County
Communist Party
Sam Reed
Aliquippa
George Maich
Ambridge
Josiah Potts
Maich
Potts
John Lartick
Henry H. Wilson
Lee A. McCracken
Venango County
McCracken
United States
Reed
Soviet Union
George Powers
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Express Train Leaps Tracks Near Traf ford
A Pennsylvania railroad express bound from New York to Pittsburgh leaped the tracks at a switch near Traf ford and overturned today. Engineer F. F. Smith of South Greensburg and fireman William S. McConnell of Pittsburgh were killed. Four of the 16 cars overturned and four others derailed but stayed upright. no passengers were aboard. West-bound traffic was blocked and seven trains were delayed about 16.8 miles from Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
Trafford
Ag F. F. Smith
South Greensburg
William S. McConnell
Trafic
Trais
Labor Acts Before Court in State Supreme Term
Pittsburgh dispatch reports the Pennsylvania labor relations act faces constitutionality questions in two cases as the State Supreme Court opens its fall term. W T Grant Co seeks reinstatement with back pay for a worker alleged to be dismissed for union activity. CIO and AFL unions appeal a Dauphin County ruling restraining hospital unions from organizing 28 Allegheny County facilities. Also under review is a Dauphin decision upholding state purchase of voting machines at county expense. Washington County upheld state buy of 150 machines costing $142000.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Labor Relations Act
State Supreme Court
W. T. Grant Company, Inc
Greensburg
Westmoreland County
Labor Board
United Retail Employes of America
CIO
AFL
Dauphin County
Allegheny County
Dauphin
Washington County
Leading musician praises Retonga in relief claims
Emma Haling of Pittsburgh lauds Retonga for easing long standing digestive woes. She cites improved appetite, strength, and energy after taking the herbal tonic, noting she can perform housework and errands with little fatigue. Diamond Drug Store advertises Retonga.
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Pittsburgh
Emma Haling
Howley Sr
Retonga
Diamond Drug Store
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Hawaii
Istc Flying Courses
Weneversity of
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Gilgal Church
Presbyterians
Marion Center
Harry C. McDevitt Jr
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