Republicans Meet To Decide On Tax Bill
WASENINGTON June 23 The Republican policy committee led by Minority Leader Martin Mass meets behind closed doors with ten Republican members of the tax drafting Ways and Means Committee to decide their stance on a one billion dollar excise tax reduction bill. Decisions will be announced at a Monday conference in the House chamber. Debate starts Tuesday with final vote set for Thursday as House passage is seen as likely. Martin denounced the measure as phony tax relief due to a provision boosting corporate taxes on large firms.
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Wasenington
House
Republican Policy Committee
Martin Mass
Marin
Pittsburgh Business Activity Surges in Week
In the Pittsburgh district last week business activity rose sharply with trade volume leading gains. The University of Pittsburgh Bureau of Business Research index jumped to 190.9 percent of the 1935-39 average, a level surpassed only once before this year.
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Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh
Bureau of Business Research
House Burns Down Volunteers Quickly Build Another
Croydon Pennsylvania June 23 Fire destroyed the home of Raymond Clark his wife Bertha and seven children leaving them homeless. Neighbors organized bringing lumber and help with 100 volunteers laying floors erecting walls and lighting the site to rush a new house toward completion expected roof soon and occupancy shortly.
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Croydon
Raymond Clark
Clark
Bertha
Bristol
Clarks
Seeking To Avert Philadelphia Strike
INSi Union and management meet to avert a strike by Philadelphia bus and trolley workers due at 12:01 a m on July 1. Negotiators are Andrew J Kaelin president of local 234 CIO transport workers union and William J MacReynolds vice president of the Philadelphia Transportation Co. Verdi wrote three famous operas after he was 85.
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Philadelphia
Insi
Andrew J. Kaelin
CIO Transport Workers Union
William J. MacReynolds
Philadelphia Transportation Co
Greenglass to be arraigned on atomic espionage charges
David Greenglass 28 a former Young Communist League member and Los Alamos A bomb project technician faces a U S commissioner today on charges he betrayed atomic secrets to Russia. Prosecutors say he passed vital defense data to Harry Gold. Both men are detained in lieu of 100000 bail and could face the death penalty if convicted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
INS
Young Communist League
Los Alamos
U. S
Arges
Russia
David Greenglass
Harry Gold
Philadelphia
Helmsburg
Brooklyn
Gold
Greenglass
Seventeen Years Sentence For Murder
Robert A R Sherman 21, a Philadelphia short order cook, was sentenced to a maximum of 17 years in prison for the strangulation death of David R Clement a bellhop at the Merion Cricket Club. Clement was found strangled and tied to his bed at the club on February 13. Clement was a native of Lowell Massachusetts where his father is a prominent construction engineer.
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Norristown
Robert A. R. Sherman
Philadelphia
David R. Clement Clement
Swank Merion Cricket Club
Lowell
Mass
Community thanks for kindness after bereavement
The Kornrumf family expresses gratitude to friends neighbors and relatives for kindness sympathy flowers and cars given during their recent bereavement.
Will Seek Higher Truck Weights In Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association officials announced at their Harrisburg convention that they will push for a 1951 bill to raise truck cargo limits. They seek 62,000 pounds on tandem axles instead of 45,000 and a single axle limit up to 22,400 pounds, per President William Crossett.
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Harrisburg
INS
Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association
Pennsylvania
William Crossett
Warren
PGE
Two Are Killed In Plane Crash Near Uniontown
A University of Pittsburgh student John Quinn 25 and his father-in-law Marquis Chisholm 59 a Civil Air Patrol pilot from Des Moines Iowa were killed when their plane crashed into a corn field near Uniontown after engine trouble. Chisholm was a long time CAP officer and organizer in western Pennsylvania.
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Uniontown
INSI
University of Pittsburgh
John Quinn
Pittsburgh
Marquis Chisholm
Civil Air Patrol
Des Moines
Chisholm
Blairsville
CAP
Pennsylvania
Liquor Spending Drops to Postwar Low in 1949
Washington report shows Americans spent eight billion five hundred million dollars on whisky beer and wines in 1949 the lowest outlay since 1944. Distilled spirits fell about six percent from 1948 to 8.8 billion.
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Washington
INS
Commerce Department
Distilled Spirits Group
The Black Hills Mountain Claim
The Black Hills of South Dakota are described as mountains in this concise assertion highlighting their elevated terrain and regional identity. The statement emphasizes the geographic distinction within South Dakota’s landscape.
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Black Hills
South Dakota
Deaths Of The Day Frederick Hohmann And Others
Obituaries from Plaingrove Township and surrounding area report the deaths of Frederick Hohmann 78, Mary Magdalen Wochner 76, Ralph A. Criswell 47, James Alexander Mitchell 77, with funeral plans, survivors, and service details noted. Hohmann survived by two sons ten grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Criswell longtime city police official with a career from 1926 to 1944 and navy service. Wochner widow of Joseph J. Wochner with children and burial in St. Joseph’s cemetery. Mitchell died after a hip injury from a two week-old accident, born Venango County, son of Michael and Harriett Highfield.
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Frederick Hohmann
Plaingrove Township
Slippery Rock
R.D
Allegheny County
Henry
Anna Ruh] Hohmann
Hohmann
Plaingrove
George
Fred Hohmann
McClelland Funeral Home
Harlansburg
Fred Cochran
Plaingrove Presbyterian Church
Plaingrove Presbyterian Cemetery
New Castle
Joseph E
Catherine Campbell Criswell
Detective Bureau
Criswell
U. S. Navy
Third U. P Church
B.P.O.E
Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 21
Edna Markham Criswell
Robert E
Chicago
Joseph E. Criswell
City
Ernest H
Howard E
Kenneth C
Beaver
Mary Magdalen Wochner
Joseph J. Wochner
West Washington Street
Wochner
Pittsburgh
Frank and
Eva Mott Berner
St. Joseph's Church
L.C.B.A
Rosary Society of the Church
Hedwig McGovern
New Braunfels
Texas
Agnes Frey
Grove City
Magdalen Yingling
This City
Joseph A. Wochner
St. Joseph’s Church
St. Joseph’s
Joseph B. Leyde
Highland
James A. Mitchell
James Alexander Mitchell
North
Mercer Street
Jameson Memorial Hospital
Venango County
Michael and
Harriett Highfield
Daugherty
Joseph
Irene Stevenson Daugherty
West
Washington Street
New Castle Hospital
Joseph Daugherty
Paul Plant
Youngstown, O
Burke Funeral Home
Greenwood Cemetery
Hudspath
Buena Vista
Ellwood City
Monongahela
John
Clara Reese
Akron
Olive
Harry
Mitchell and Strzula Obituary Notices From New Castle Area
Obituary notices recall Mitchell a Pennsylvania Power veteran and Strzula of New Castle who died of heart attack. Survivors include spouses, children and siblings with funeral details at Leyde Mortuary and St. Agatha’s Ellwood City. Additional notices report infant Daugherty death and McCabe Pisano funeral masses with church services and burial plans.
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Joseph B. Leyde
Highland
Winter Avenue
E. W. Bloomquist
Youngstown
Ohio
Oak Park Cemetery
Simon Straula
Simon Strzula
New Castle
R.D
Austria
Ellwood
Yonkers
N. Y
National Tube Company
St. Agatha’s Church
Hungarian Lodge
Hungarian Club
Anna Strzula
Anna Toth
William
R.D. No. 1
Europe
Ellwood City
St. Agatha’s Cemetery
Patton Funeral Home
Obituary notices and funeral services in local paper
The text lists multiple funeral notices and services for individuals including Margaret Gail Hake infant, Oliver Hudspath of Ellwood City, and Mrs Laura Larzo. It names dates, locations such as St. Vitus church and Savannah Cemetery, and personnel like pallbearers and officiants.
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Margaret Gail Hake
Alvie Hake
Montgomery Avenue
Howard L. Krause
Don Weigley
Nick Carran
Fred Hake
Joe Dout
Savannah Cemetery
Larzo
Laura Larzo
Croton Avenue
St. Vitus Church
St. Vitus Cemetery
DeCarbo Funeral Home
East Sutton
Cunningham
British Admiralty Probes Possible Sabotage Of Sub
The British Admiralty said an inquiry is underway into possible sabotage of the submarine Tallyho at Devonport dockyard where sand in the oil system and jammed bearings occurred during engine trials. Ten days earlier the Trenchant battery room explosion off Ireland killed four crew. An investigation of sabotage aboard the Trenchant was conducted in 1949.
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London
INS
Admiralty
Devonport
Ireland
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Verdi
Commercial Credit Plan
Consumer Discount CO
N. Mercer St
Compa
Vas
Tion— Topay
American Home Furnishings Co
Moravia Street
Julian
Goldman
E. Washington St
Acme Telephoto
Truman
United States
Idlewild
Jack Z. Anderson
R. Calif
Johnny Nielsen
San Francisco
San Mateo
Peter Lethnissen
Denmark
Kornrumf
America
Jefferson
Jesse N. Kerr
N. Mill St
U.S
Nantes
Tr Safe
Up Boy
the Ontaries, Inc
N. Mill St. Ph
Castle Stationery Co
the Mosler Safe Co
Hemitton, Ohio
Weingartner
Jack Gerson
Washington St
Mil
McCabe
James McCabe
R. D
Cunningham Funeral Home
J. Paul Graham
Arthur Minick
Abe Kildoo
John Alexander
Charles B. Caruthers
Howard Duncan
L. E. McCreary
Pisano
Angeline Pisano
St. Vitus
Richard Paluse
Raymond Heintz
RCA Victor
RCA Record
East Street
Albert M. Inteso
King Humbert Auxiliary
Casa Savoia
Unione Calabro Club
Lawrence Gillest
Joseph Retort
John Retort
Sam Rotunno
Nick Moraldo
John Donofrio
Hake
Oliver Hudspath
Ellport
Patter
Rev
E. H. Mink
Monongahela Cemetery
Samuel
Mary McGettis
Gan
British Admiralty
Springers
Derosa’s
S. Jefferson St
North Mill Street
Aary Ma
Eae
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