New Scout Group In Busy Week At Summer Camp Site
A Lawrence County Council Boy Scout unit camped at Slippery Rock starting Sunday with 68 boys. Activities included swim tests, axe and knife work, bird and plant studies, tracking tests, a soft ball game, films, and an Indian fire ceremony as merit badges and advancement were celebrated.
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Lawrence County Council
Slippery Rock
Susy Wald
Lillian Sumner
William Crowell
John Jones
J. Arthur Turek
Woodcraft
Harold Barry
Tenderfoot
Pacifi
Jordan Game Farm
Nick Casillo
Bridge Swimmers Harvesting Coins On New Castle Streets
Local boys dive off the Fast Washington street bridge to collect coins. They retrieve nickels dimes and pennies amid light competition, with one boy amassing 25 cents in under an hour, marking a brisk summer mood shift.
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New Castle Streets
Washington Street
Give Truman China Aid Authority Passed by House Panel
The House Foreign Affairs committee reported a bill authorizing the president to extend military aid to China when in the public interest. It would empower him to deploy American troops, train Chinese forces, and provide technical support and ammunition without strict conditions to aid stabilizing China under UN obligations.
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Washington
INS
House Foreign Affairs Committee
China
George C. Marshall
Youth Charged With Murder in Harrisburg Case
John A. Howells fourteen of Lawnson was charged with the murder of three year old Margery Ann Vaughn a neighbor. The charge was filed before Alder man Joan L. Madden Jr. of Harrisburg and Howells was held for September term of court. A regular hearing was postponed probably five days due to the absence of his attorney Harold R. Prowell. Howells was adjudged sane by psychiatrists after re enact ing the strangling on the edge of a ravine near their homes.
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Harrisburg
John A. Howells
Lawnson
Margery Ann Vaughn
Joan L. Madden, Jr
Howells
Howell
Harold R. Prowell
Madden
Elroy R. Howells
Harrisburg State Hospital
Vanehn
British Soldiers Hold Mock Congress in Capitol Chamber
A historical account notes that British soldiers conducted a mock congress in the House of Representatives chamber inside the Capitol in Washington.
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House of Representatives
Washington, D
Radio operations resumed in the Philippines
Manila dispatch reports preparations complete for the first commercial radio operations since the Japanese invasion. George F. Rowe director of the new Philippine Broadcasting Company said broadcasting would begin July 1, with Norman Paige, former radio war correspondent, associated in directing the enterprise.
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Manila
INS
Philippines
George F. Rowe
Philippine Broadcasting Company
San Francisco
Norman Paige
Rowe
Pu laski Four H elects officers at church meeting
Leaders and members of the Pu laski Four H club met in the Presbyterian church and elected the upcoming year’s officers Marjorie Dicks president Billy Ray vice president Sally Rue secretary treasurer Marie Thomas song leader Barbara McFadden game leader Dorothy Morris news reporter Supervisor Mrs. Florence Cline. The club began with sewing on buttons. Next meeting set for July 5 at the Presbyterian church.
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Pulaski
No Shortage Of Teachers For City
City officials say enough teachers are lined up for the coming year to run the program, with substitute teachers in many classes. Superintendent Frank L Burton notes music art and health are the hardest subjects to fill in both elementary and secondary schools. In three locations enrollment is high enough that the board avoids hiring regular teachers until the situation settles.
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Frank L Burton
Conn and manager pay up income tax debt
Billy Conn and his manager John Ray settled longtime income tax debts in Pittsburgh. Granger reported Conn sent a check for 26,477 dollars and Ray for 11,033 dollars, covering 1941 income totals. Taxes on last Wednesday's Joe Louis purse were not due until March.
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Pittsburgh
Billy Conn
Johnny Ray
Uncle Sam
Stanley Granger
Conn
Ravy
Granger
Joe Louis
Egypt to be evacuated by British troops
London dispatch reports Egyptian Premier Sidky Pasha saying Britain concedes Egypt’s position and agrees to complete evacuation. Britain may sign a new treaty allowing Empire troops to return after evacuation only if war is declared.
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London
INS
London Daily Express
Cairo
Britain
Sidky Pasha
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