Combat Veterans Learning To Read And Speak Again
The army released a report showing World War II veterans suffer aphasia from brain injuries, with cases of writing but not reading or reading without speaking ability. It notes brain areas can relearn functions if treated promptly, though long delays leave patients with little hope. The finding was tested in army hospitals by medical and psychological officers.
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Washington
INS
Army
War Department
Norman T. Kirk
Firsr
Russia Objects To Industrial Survey In Germany
Gen Joseph T. McNarney said the Soviet Union objected to a four power probe of industry and scientific laboratories in Germany extending across all four zones. He noted talks on a disarmament commission failed after the Soviet Berlin council member rejected broad survey plans and insisted the study focus only on armed German units. The matter was sent to Washington as the Allied council members seek instructions.
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Berlin
INS
Joseph T. McNarney
Europe
Soviet Union
Germany
Berlin Control Council
Reich
Russia
McNarney
Washington
Allied Council
C P A Increases Price of Coal
The C P A announces nationwide price boosts for soft coal with three districts limiting increases to deep or prepared coal. OPA notes total add on sales after May 13 and cites wage and welfare fund costs as driving higher prices. Industry margins before the wage deal were used to justify the adjustments.
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OPA
Lewis
Welfare Fund
Caldwell Family Attends Fort Wayne Wedding in Indiana
Mrs Mary Caldwell and her children Robert and Eleanor travel from Maryland Avenue to Fort Wayne Indiana for the wedding of Glenn E Caldwell son of Mrs Mary Caldwell to Miss Shirley Finkreiner. The ceremony is set for Saturday at Trinity Episcopal Church with other relatives from Maryland Avenue and Warren Avenue joining the trip.
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Mary Caldwell
Robert
Eleanor
Maryland Avene
Fort Wayne
Ind
Glenn E. Caldwell
Shirley Finkreiner
Trinity Episcopal Church
Lula Kocher
Mabel
James Nene
Pocketbook Found Restored To Owner by Police
Mrs Hazel Conway located a pocketbook on East Washington Street and turned it in. Police returned it to owner Mrs Roy Campbell of Bartrum Avenue with contents intact. Campbell confirmed no items were disturbed.
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Hazel Conway
Superior Street
East Washington Street
Roy Campbell
Bartrum Avenue
Campbell
Couple Honored On Golden Anniversary
Mr and Mrs John Williams of West Pittsburg observed their Golden wedding anniversary on June 20. They married June 20 1896 in Colletsville North Carolina. An open house 7 to 10 pm followed a 5 pm dinner with local aides and many well wishers. Special guests included Rev and Mrs J L McFarland and others. The couple has two children Mrs L W Beard and Herbert Williams.
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John Williams
West Pittsburg
Colletsville
N. C
Vergil Avery
L. W. Beard
Rachel Pryor
Lulu Arnold
Mattie Pryor
Winona Smith
Elizabeth Eggleston
Doris Mae Pears
J. L. McFarland
Sarah Johnson
Venus
Highland County
Fla
Search Continues For Missing Boy In Mechanicsburg
Mrs. William Conter reports ongoing search for her grandson, three year old son of Capt and Mrs Dick Thompson, missing since Saturday afternoon. Army and Navy personnel search the swollen creek and surrounding woods near the Thompson cottage on a knoll in Mechanicsburg. Ensign Robert Conter flew in from Treasure Island to assist, with mother Mrs Conter traveling to Mechanicsburg.
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William Conter
West
Grant Street
Mechamicsburg
Dick Thompson
Thompson Home
Army
Navy
Robert Conter
Treasure Island
Calif
UNRRA funded relief costs and wartime overruns cited
The speaker notes that W P A aid was added to UNRRA relief and that the US effectively paid 80 to 90 percent of relief costs in both Russian and US zones in England. He criticizes lump sum military funding and cites Tripler hospital in Hawaii whose cost rose from 11 million to 33 million dollars, urging procurement reform to save hundreds of millions.
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UNRRA
United States
Angria
Engel
Honolul
West Virginian Taken Ill Here
John Polka of post office box 186 meadowbrook Pa, a transient, became ill while eating in a Jefferson street restaurant this morning. Police summoned to the scene had the man removed by ambulance to Jameson Memorial hospital. Try The News Want Ads For Results.
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John Polka
Teadowbrook
Beame
Downefferson Street
Erning
Jameson Mrenoria! Hospital
Four-Power Plan for Japan Demilitarization and Control
A proposed postwar treaty by the United Kingdom the Republic of China the Soviet Union and the United States would bar Japan from manufacturing and importing military equipment including arms and naval vessels and would require elimination of military bases facilities and research centers. A control commission would inspect enforce and report violations with emergency measures including possible air sea or land forces. The treaty would set a six month deadline to draft deployment plans and permit consultation before expiry to assess progress toward a democratic peaceful reconstruction.
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Atomic Energy M
Japan
State Department
Britain
China
Moscow
Commission of Control
Asia
United Kingdom
Republic of China
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
United States
Control Commission
Deaths of the Day in Local Notices
Obituary notices report deaths of Mrs Margaret C Trushel 83 of 738 Butler Ave and Sam Alley about 60 of Savannah road. Details cover birth, parentage, survivors, church ties, funeral arrangements and interments at St Marys and Savannah cemeteries. Additional notices mention Brewster, Androla, Berdick and Simondic families with funeral services and pallbearers.
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Margaret C. Trushel
Fred J. Flynn
Butler Avenue
John C. Trushel
Trushel
Joseph D
Mary Dowling Brennan
St. Mary's Church
Mary B. Davis
Long Beach
Calif
Frank Flynn
Zenner
Church Cemetery
Christopher N. Androla
Baden
Marshall Funeral Home
William R. Wigton
George Ault
Everett Huffman
Joseph Mills
John Scotsch
Ernest
Harold Androla
Locust Grove Cemetery
Ellwood City
Compromise Draft Measure Reached Amid War Debate
The draft compromise sets exemptions for fathers and a end to some deferments with industrial essentiality. It fixes army strength at 1,550,600 on July 1, 1946 and 1,970,000 on July 1, 1947 while limiting re induction of U S veterans and mandating 18 months service for draftees. Nazi war criminals on trial show signs of stress amid the headlines.
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Selective Service
Sparkman
Army
Dewey Short
Andrews
N. Y
Bikini
United States
Truce Extended in China War as U S Influence Persists
Chiang Kai shek signals renewed sincerity by prolonging the truce while resisting Marshall interpretation power. Government concessions still leave American vote pivotal in three way negotiations amid urgent relief needs. Dr Peng Hsueh Pei comments on conciliation.
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Marshall
Chiang
Peng Hsueh Pei
Meat and basics rise with price control doubt
OPA price control fate prompts producers to delay market release to July. Officials say meat, butter, and clothing supplies will flood the market after July 1 regardless of price controls as consumers, flush with money, will pay high prices to obtain goods.
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OES
OPA
CES
U.S
U S Will Resist Soviet Bomb Control Proposal
The United States floated doubts about a Soviet plan for international atomic control. Officials debated whether Moscow aims to outlaw the atomic bomb before or after a formal control framework, and how much U N inspection of atomic programs would be allowed.
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U.S
Bernard Baruch
Russia
U. N
Bomb test party leaves Honolulu
Report of a Honolulu gathering for a nuclear test event notes attendees including scientists newsmen and observers who suffered sunburn while learning to surf at Waikiki. The piece mentions a warm welcome easing fears about the atom bomb and hints at proposed name changes for a vessel and ships due at Bikini Atoll in six days.
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Ray
Waikiki
Clark Lee
Honolulu
Appalachian
Blue Ridge
Bikind Atoll
Alleged rapist injured escaping jail in Fairmont
Charles Strain 28, sought in Columbus Ohio on rape charges, leaped from the second floor of the Fairmont jail during an escape attempt. He fell about 40 feet, breaking a leg and fracturing an arm and fingers, and remains in a Fairmont hospital. Columbus authorities hold a warrant for rape.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Charles Strain
Columbus O
Firmont
Columbus
Coast Civilians Warned On Mines
SAN FRANCISCO June 21 The Navy warned west coast civilians to beware of Japanese mines that may wash ashore in the future They noted past mines reached U S shores and veterans expect mines to continue surf detritus could detonate on sinking beaches or while rolling in the surf
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San Francisco
INS
Navy
United Ones
Frontiers Study Delays Colonial Decisions at Peace Talks
The Big Four clash over colonial fate with France and the Soviet Union favoring Italian trusteeship, the United States pressing for United Nations trusteeship, and Britain advocating direct British control of Cyrenaica, delaying treaty drafts.
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Molotey
France
U.S
Mit
United Nations
James Hares Earns Seminary Diploma in Evanston
James Hares son of Mr and Mrs Job Hares of 1510 South Jefferson Street graduated from Garrett Theological Institute in Evanston UK with a Bachelor of Divinity. He previously earned a BA from Westminster College in May 1944 and will study at Northwestern University for a year to pursue a master's degree while serving as assistant minister at Euclid Avenue Methodist Church Oak Park Chicago.
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James Hares
Job Hares
South
Jefferson Street
Garret Theological Institute
Evanston
Hares
Westminster College
Northwestern University
Euclid Avenue Methodist Church
Oak Park
Chicago
Churches Protest Atomic Weapons At Grinnell Meeting
Members of the World Order and Relief Group of the General Council of Congregational Christian churches prepared to recommend that the U S should see manufacture of atomic weapons stopped. The committee supported a halt tied to achievement of effective international control.
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Grinnell
World Order and Relief Group
General Council of Congregational Christian Churches
U. S
Grinnell College
Mace
Card of Thanks for Stanley Porter
Neighbors and relatives extend thanks for kindness and sympathy after the death of husband and father Mr. Stanley Porter. Appreciation for flowers and cars donated by Mrs. Selma Porter and family. In Memoriam Charlies David Wharton died June an Vb. 1wad. If all the world Was Ours to give we would give it all and more to see his face and hear his voice again. Wife and family.
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William Blews
Stanley Porter
Charlies
David Wharton
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