Wallace enters presidency race in 1948 bid
Wallace announces as an Independent candidate dedicating his movement to peace. He says Truman and Republicans share a bipartisan war policy and warns against overconfidence. Both parties see Wallace as a factor that could boost GOP chances in key states including New York and California.
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Wallace
Chicago
Truman
GOP
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
Illinois
California
Mr. Truman
Thomasses
Eugene Debs
Yuletide Greetings And Local Redevelopment Underway
Pa Newe notes Yuletide greetings reaching Mr and Mrs Joseph Retort at 426 Neshannock Avenue with cards from all states and Canada. Remodeling begins on the Diamond era Wallace and Hoyt blocks to become a modern department store with barricades and elevator shaft work. Local stores begin inventory as post Christmas breathes. hundreds attend watch night services with refreshments. paperhangers operating briskly while many housewives wait until after fires to paper walls.
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Joseph Retort
Neshannock Avenue
Union
Canada
Mr. Retort
Kansas City
Wallace and Hoyt
Daily Weather Report Summary
Daily weather report shows a high of 31 and a low of 11 with no precipitation. River stage logged at 4.5 feet. comparison a year ago records a 52 high, 20 low, and 0.33 inches of rain.
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United States
See Russian program in world wide effort to halt plan
United States officials anticipate a broad Soviet strategy to oppose the Marshall plan unfolding as Congress debates the 17 billion dollar program. Key focus areas are Greece and China where US commitments under the Truman doctrine shape responses to a perceived external totalitarian threat. George C Marshall has signaled study of options to meet China challenges.
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Washington
United States
Russia
China
Chiang Kai-shek
George C. Marshall
Frew Furniture Starts Remodeling at Diamond Corner
James R. Frew announced remodeling of the Wallace and Hoyt blocks at the Diamond corner. The work aims for rapid completion and a April 1 relocation to a modern furniture establishment in western Pennsylvania with new display windows and Jefferson street frontage.
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Wallace and Hoyt
James R. Frew
J. R. Frew Co
Frew Company
Pennsylvania
Jefferson Street
Rotary Gives To Hospital Drive In New Castle
At a Monday meeting of the New Castle Rotary club in The Castleton the members voted to donate 2000 dollars to the hospital fund in memory of David Jameson founder of the hospital and a Rotary member. The club also challenged Butler Rotary to a three month membership contest starting after the new year.
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New Castle
Rotary
Frank L. Burton
L. C. Layton
Snow Likely as Western PA Warms After Ice Edge
The western part of Pennsylvania will see ice cleared from highways as temperatures rise above freezing, with a high near 50 degrees expected in spots today. Mild conditions are forecast for tomorrow before another cold snap tonight, with some snow expected for tomorrow and tomorrow night.
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Pennsylvania
Federal Weather Bureau
Tojo Denies Emperor's Involvement in Doolittle Fliers
In Tokyo on December 30 former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo told the war crimes tribunal that Emperor Hirohito bore no part in the execution of the Doolittle fliers. He said reports about the captured airmen were never shown to the emperor and no Japanese leader supported their punishment without trial.
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Tokyo
Hideki Tojo
Japan
Hirohito
Pearl Harbor
Axis
Far East
Nineteen Injured When Bus Crashes Into Parked Truck
A Greyhound bus traveling from Columbus to Detroit struck a parked truck and car on U S 25 near Eureka Wyandotte Michigan. Nineteen aboard the bus were injured including several in serious condition five hospitalized at Wyandotte General Hospital while others received first aid. The bus driver Cecil L Gray 28 of Columbus was uninjured and the crash left a 200 foot skid after the right side was ripped open. Witnesses said the bus was traveling about 50 mph.
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Wyandotte
Mich
Ohio
Columbus
Detroit
Wyandotte General Hospital
U. S. 25
Eureka
Henry Claywell
Chillicothe
O. Peter Gauriluk
Effie Slayton
Albert Saunders
Theodore Manuel
James Puckett
Greensboro
N. C
Richard Horn
Ecorse
Cecil L. Gray
Gray
Death Notices for Mrs J W Tait and Others
Death records list Mrs J W Tait age 77 of Mercer R D 5 John Frederick Lemack four months of Volant R D 3 Abe Moses age 55 of 512 East Long Avenue and John Hetrick of North Beaver township all reported on Tuesday December 30 1947
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John Frederick Lemack
Volant
R. D
Abe Moses
East Long Avenue
John Hetrick
North
Beaver Township
Guerrillas in Greece May Be Forced Back
Greek government reinforcements occupy strategic heights overlooking Konitsa as regular forces push on the northwest front. Army sources say guerrillas led by Communists may retreat to the Albanian frontier to escape encirclement, though a Borazani bridge artery remains open for escape.
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Greece
Konitsa
Athens
Borazani
Grece
Albania
State Teachers Study Program in Pennsylvania
A 13 point school improvement plan was studied by 1500 delegates at the Pennsylvania State Education Association convention in Harrisburg. The proposal calls for a minimum of five years college training for teachers, presented by Dr. W. F. Peik of the University of Minnesota. Four candidates were named for president to succeed Fred W. Hosier: Elizabeth Glass, Frances Goodwin, Herbert Lauterbach, and M. Eugene Shoemaker. Results of the election come tomorrow.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania State Education Association
W. F. Peik
University of Minnesota
Education College
Fred W. Hosier
Allentown
Elizabeth F. Glass
Penn Township
Allegheny County
Frances M. Goodwin
Carmichaels
Herbert P. Lauterbach
Aliquippa
M. Eugene Shoemaker
Red Lion
Anderson Orders Distillers to Cut Their Use of Grain
Washington dispatch reports Secretary of Agriculture Anderson ordered U S distillers to limit grain use to two million four hundred fifty thousand bushels from midnight to January 31. The emergency order follows President Truman signing the anti inflation bill. The quota caps distiller use at about 30 percent of January 1947’s eight million six hundred eighty four thousand bushels.
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Washington
INS
Anderson
Truman
Mystery hospital campaign nears conclusion with early totals
First phase of the Jameson Memorial hospital expansion fund reports $113,050 raised to bring the total to $526,994, 70 percent of the $750,000 goal. Campaign chairman Alex Crawford Hoyt urges a final push for $600,000 at a Wednesday noon meeting at The Castleton hotel with tax deduction timing influencing donors. Major gifts include Johnson Bronze Co. $50,000 and New Castle Dry Goods Co. $10,000 among others.
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Jameson Memorial Hospital
Alex Crawford Hoyt
Castleton
Campaign Headquarters
Johnson Bronze Co
E. M. Flaherty
J. Preston Flaherty
New Castle Dry Goods Co
Lawrence Savings & Trust Co
Thomas H. Hartman
Hudson Motor Car executives meet New Castle citizens
Warren Morris of Ostendorf Morris Cleveland hosts a noon luncheon at New Castle Country Club with Hudson Motor Car Company leaders led by A Edward Barit and R W Jackson. Local leaders Judge Lamoree Mayor Haven and GNCA officials attend to discuss plans for the She nango plant sheet mill operation and June steel sheet production prospects.
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New Castle Country Club
Hudgon Motor Car Company
New Castle
Warren Morris
Ostendorf-Morris Company
Cleveland
Hudson Motor Car Company
Shenango
Detroit
A. Edward Barit
R. W. Jackson
F. A. Allen
Frank R. Fowles
Howard B. Thomas
Edward Ostendorf
John G. Lamoree
John F. Haven
Roger W. Rowland
Ivor V. Davis
Greater New Castle Association
J. C. Wachtman
GNCA
Robert H. Cunningham
A. Crawford Hoyt
James M. Smith, Jr
J. Preston Flaherty
Richard E. Rentz
Howard B. Cummings
Louis B. Round
Haifa clash leaves 47 dead at oil plant
Violence broke out at the Consolidated Refineries in Haifa as Arab and Jewish workers clashed over barrel bombs. Official tallies show 36 Jews and 11 Arabs killed with 14 Jews and 47 Arabs wounded. over 2,000 participants in one of the longest running Holy Land conflicts since late November.
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Jerusaem
Haifa
Consolidated Refineries
Holy Land
Jerusalem
Damascus
Zvai Leumi
Five Are Missing In Alaska Plane Mishaps
In Nome Alaska a B 29 crash left five missing two crew and three rescuers after a weekend incident. Six others from the bomber were hospitalized at Nome Air Force base as rescue flights faced 40 below weather and reports said two paratroopers and a doctor failed to land near the crash site.
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Nome
Alaska
Air Force
Turkey
President Signs Duplicate Taft Inflation Bill
President Truman signed a duplicate Taft anti inflation measure into law after a second copy was delivered from Washington to North Attleboro Massachusetts for signature by House Speaker Martin. The original draft vanished from the White House desk between Sunday and Monday prompting a search by Judge Maurice Latta.
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William E. Zimmerman
Washington
Truman
Senate
White House
Maurice Latta
Trading Records of Truman Doctor to Be Examined
Congressional committees plan to subpoena records of commodity market transactions by Brig. Gen. Wallace H. Graham, President Truman's physician. Graham, listed by Anderson as a Chicago wheat trader, will be part of a broader probe into official dealings over many months. The White House says Graham will stay in his post and denies knowledge of any holdings by him or his family.
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Washington
INS
Congress
Wallace H. Graham
Truman
Congressional
Graham
Agriculture
Anderson
Chicago
Whie House
King Michael of Romania abdicates throne for love
In Bucharest on December 30 King Michael of Romania abdicated to enable formation of a Communist led government. The move allows his marriage to Princess Anne of Bourbon Parma. The throne ceases to exist, drawing a parallel to Edward VII's abdication for Wallis Simpson.
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Bucharest
INS
Michael
Romania
Peoples
Carol
Anne of
Bourbon-Parma
Edward VII
England
Edward
Duke of Windsor
Wallis Warfield Simpson
Baltimore
Nine to Death for Burma Ministers Massacre
In Rangoon Burma a special tribunal sentenced former Premier U Law and eight associates to death for the July 19 machine gun attack on the executive council meeting. Seven ministers were killed and two wounded. U Aung San, then de facto premier, was among the dead. Police had already rounded up U Saw and 19 lieutenants with some resistance deaths.
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Rangoon
Burma
U Law
Burmese Council
U Saw
Moyochit Party
U Aung San
House Restaurant In Capitol Robbed
The House of Representatives restaurant in the Capitol was robbed of 250 dollars last night. The safe door was found unlocked when employees arrived this morning. Capitol police noted the outer door was left unlatched and the lighter inner door was forced open enabling access to the cash. Police said this was the first time a safe had been forced open in the Capitol area.
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Washington
INS
House of Representatives
The
Capitol
Capitol Building
Three American Girls Rescued After Samar Sea Sinking
Ada Espenshade of Chicago Anne Malek of Jewett City Conn and Louise Rosso of New York City were among 24 survivors who landed in Manila after the Danish motorship Kina sank on Christmas night in the Samar sea. The trio were former war department civilian employees in Tokyo and spoke of relief after a Christmas nightmare as 34 people were missing or presumed dead.
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Manila
INS
Kina
Philippines
Samar Sea
War Department
Tokyo
Ada Espenshade
Chicago
Anne Malek
Jewett City
Conn
Louise Rosso
East 75Th Street
New York City
Explosion injures two at DuPont plant in Kearneys Point
Two unidentified workmen were injured today when an explosion rocked an experimental production unit attached to the E I DuPont de Nemours and Co plant laboratory at Kearneys Point New Jersey. They were treated at the plant hospital. extent of injuries and damage were not determined.
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Kearneys Point
N. J
Insi
E. L DuPont de Nemours and Co
GOP Chairman Calls Wallace Move A Clear Democratic Split
Carroll Reece, GOP chairman, said Henry Wallace's presidential bid formalizes the split between the Moscow and Pendergast wings of the Democrats. He predicted the event would be highly interesting and possibly entertaining to the nation as both factions lose. He added Wallace's action may boost Republican prospects in 1948.
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Washington
Carroll Reece
Republican National Committee
Henry A. Wallace
Moscow
Democrat Party
Pendergast
Reece
Wallace
Jefferson
Jackson
GOP
Truman
Kansas City
Theatre Burns in Old Forge Fire Damage Estimated at 50000
A two story frame Home theater building in Old Forge was destroyed by fire causing about 50000 in damage. No injuries reported.
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Old Forge
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Frew Furniture
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Wyandote, Mich
J. W. Tait
Mercer, R. D
P.S.E.A
Hudson
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Iatichae
Frank B. Allen
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