Soviet Hint Berlin Currency Drive May End If Mark Rejected
A Soviet source indicated Berlin tensions may ease if the Western Allies accept the Soviet Eastern Mark as the city’s sole legal currency. Taegliche Rundschau urged renouncing the Deutsche mark and said all difficulties tied to the currency would end, while reporting Russia would not seek to oust the Western powers. A Soviet official also announced a partial easing of interzonal travel restrictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omer Anderson
U.S
Berlin
Russia
Taegliche Rundschau
Soviet Union
Pa Newe Observes Many Bathers at Flat Rock and Bessemer
Bathers were seen swimming at Flat Rock near Mt Jackson road and at a quarry in Bessemer. Fish stocking for Lawrence county streams will arrive at 3 30 p m Wednesday. Fish Protector Clinton White asks sportsmen to help. Conrad Richards brought a Cecropia Moth specimen to The News for potential collectors. Downtown sidewalks show many holes that could cause tumbles. The Hollyhock marathon has begun. a nine foot eight inch hollyhock was reported by Mrs R J Zuraskey. Highway crews replaced downtown traffic signs with new poles for the white way system. Pennsylvania Power Company workers, led by C N Giddings, trimmed trees on the Diamond.
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Flat Rock
Mt. Jackson Highway
Bessemer
Lawrence County
Clinton White
R. J. Zuraskey
R. D
New Castle
Daily Weather Report for United States
The 24 hour period ending at 9 a m shows a maximum temperature of 89 degrees and a minimum of 68 with .02 inches of precipitation. River stage stands at 6.5 feet. Figures for the same date last year note a maximum of 87, minimum 62 and no precipitation.
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United States
Miss Betty Cray Named Queen for New Castle Sesquicentennial
Miss Betty Cray of 919 Winslow Avenue won the Sesquicentennial queen contest with 2 247 800 votes. Miss Barbara Lou Hamilton and Miss Andrene Gribble earned Miss New Castle and Miss Lawrence County titles with 1 437 400 and 1 412 900 votes respectively, as Brunettes dominated the field. Betty Cray will preside over the sesqui and receive a Hollywood trip, while Miss New Castle earned a New York City trip.
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Betty Cray
Winslow Avenue
New Castle
Miss Cray
Barbara Lou Hamilton
Court Street
Andrene Gribble
Shannock Avenue
Lawrence County
Betty
Hollywood
Cal
New York City
New O
Mors
Draft Registration Planned Across Pennsylvania in August
Harrisburg reports a new selective service administration will unite 175 draft boards to register and induct men aged 18 to 25. Lt. Col. Henry M. Gross says the plan replaces the 422 WWII boards, with about 750,000 Pennsylvanians to be called and roughly 30,000 inducted in the first year. August 16 is expected as registration date.
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Harrisburg
INS
Pennsylvania
Henry M. Gross
Selective Service Records Office
UN Approves Bernadotte Peace Formula for Palestine
United Nations signals approval of Count Folke Bernadotte's peace plan for Palestine and seeks broad Arab Jew acceptance of the basic proposals. The Lake Success mediator asks confidentiality on the draft while briefing the Security Council on the plan's principles.
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Lake Success
N. Y
United Nations
Folke Bernadotte
Palestine
U.N
Arab League
Israel
U. N
Trygve Lie
Bernadotte
Th Security Council
Electric Shock Kills Workman at Clark Dairy
Ernest Nair, 56, of Poland R D 1, was killed when he touched a 220 volt line while repairing an electric pump at Clark's Dairy near Enon Valley. County coroner Charles E. Allen reported the death occurred shortly before noon. A driller named Persing descended into the dairy pit for the investigation.
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Ellis Clark
Clark
Enon Valley
Ernest Nair
Poland
R. D
Fnee
Charles E. Allen
Persing
North China establishes unified Red government
The Communist North Shensi radio disclosed a consolidated Red government for North China to administer 44,000,000 people in five provinces. It announced the June 15 merger of the Shansi Hopei Chahar areas with administration over Shan tung Henan Shansi and Hunan forming the new liberated area.
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Nanking
INS
North Shensi Radio
Red
North China
Shansi-Hopei- Chahar
Shantung
Henan
Shansi
Hunan
Hopei
Speed Relief Work In Japan Disaster Area
Relief teams fought to ease distress in western Japan after yesterday's quake and fires. U S Army figures counted 10 907 casualties with 3 155 killed and 7 752 seriously injured in Fukui and 39 nearby villages.
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Japan
Tokyo
INS
U. S. Army
Fukui
John Rich
U.S
Kyoto
U. S. First Army Corps
Dewey Warren Plan Joint Campaign Talks at Pawling Farm
GOP nominees Thomas E. Dewey and Earl Warren will chart a vigorous campaign strategy during a private Pawling meeting. Warren travels with his wife and three daughters from New York City as Mrs. Dewey plans to meet Mrs. Warren and the daughters. The plan includes joint appearances and major speaking tours in September and October, a departure from 1944.
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James L. Kilgallen
U.S
Pawling
N. Y
GOP
Thomas E. Dewey
Earl Warren
California
Virginia
Dorothy
Nina
New York City
Dewey
Warren
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Death Notices Compiled For June 29 1948
Mrs Charles Mayberry 69 Walmo R D 3 Mrs Rose Sweeney Wilmington Road Sidney Adams 44 11 West Home Street Ernest Persing 56 Poland O indicating a list of deaths reported for that date with ages and last known addresses may reflect local obituary notices for community records.
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Charles Mayberry
Walmo
R.D
Rose Sweeney
Wilmington Road
Sidney Adams
West Home Street
Ernest Persing
Poland
New Bishop Lloyd Wicke to Speak at First Methodist
The new Bishop Lloyd C. Wicke of the Methodist Church will make his first appearance in the conference by preaching at First Methodist Church on Sunday morning July 4 at 11 o clock. The event is a notable honor for the church and city.
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Lloyd C. Wicke
First Methodist Church
Methodist Church
First Church
Democratic Delegates to Organize for National Convention
Pennsylvania's 164 delegates and alternates meet in Harrisburg to organize for the Democratic National Convention opening July 12 in Philadelphia. The session at 2 p.m. may name a delegation chairman, likely John S. Rice, with Ruth G. Harting as possible vice chair. Delegates hold 74 votes total.
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Harrisburg
INS
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Truman
White House
John S. Rice
Gettysburg
Ruth G. Harting
Lancaster
Democratic State Committee
Tito Repudiation May Show Weakness In Soviet Empire
Western power diplomats view the Cominform rejection of Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia as a sign of weakness in the Soviet bloc. Officials weigh possible shifts in export controls, speculate Tito faces imprisonment, and note broader implications for the Balkans during the Cold War era.
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Tito
Soviet Empire
Washington
Cominform
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Balkans
Jets to Cross Atlantic in Joint U S and British Flight
The air force announced 16 Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star jets will fly north Atlantic to England and Germany in about two weeks. Britain will send six RAF jet fighters from England to the United States, leaving southern England around July 7 for a two day crossing from Selfridge Field Michigan.
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Washington
INS
Air Force
North Atlantic Ocean
England
Germany
Royal Air Force
RAF
United States
Continue To Hunt Crashed Plane Near Mains Choice
Pennsylvania State Police and volunteers pressed a search for a small airplane that reportedly crashed into a mountainside near Mains Choice on Monday. Investigators found two sheared utility poles but no sign of the aircraft as night fell.
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Bedford
INS
Pennsylvania
Mains Choice
British Dock Workers Vote to End Two-Week Strike
London dock workers voted overwhelmingly to return to work on Wednesday after a state of emergency was proclaimed. The mass meeting in Victoria Park followed government plans to deploy stringent measures while troops continued to operate foodships and assist unloadings during the two-week walkout.
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London
Victoria Park
French Officials Question Split in Soviet Bloc
Paris reports suspicion that the announced schism between Cominform and Yugoslav leaders may be a Kremlin scheme. French officials fear Moscow may be guiding Yugoslavia into the Western camp as a Trojan horse while overstating a rift to mislead Western powers.
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Paris
INS
Cominform
Kremlin
Communist Information Bureau
Belgrade
Moscow
Soviet relaxes travel ban within Germany limited to permits
The Soviet ruled ADN announces a partial easing allowing Germans with proper permits to travel between eastern and western zones. Rail and cross border traffic remain restricted and no early resumption of Helmstedt Berlin rail links is expected. U.S. leaders Draper and Wedemeyer arrive in Berlin with war department experts on an information trip.
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Omer Anderson
Berlin
Germany
ADN
America
Britain
France
Helmstedt-to-Berlin
U. SS
William Draper
Army Plans
Albert C. Wedemeyer
War Department
Draper
New Japan Quake Shock Is Recorded
Cleveland area seismograph records a strong quake off Japan's west coast. The 6 750 mile distance places it northwest of Cleveland near Ioane Island. It is described as an after shock less severe than yesterday's Honshu quake.
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Cleveland
INS
Japan
John Carroll University
Henry F. Birkenhauer
Birkenhauer
Clevel
Ioeane Island
Honshu
Telegraphic link with Belgrade cut, Paris reports
Paris dispatch says the French Post Department reports telephone communication with Belgrade disrupted and no contact with the Yugoslav capital can be made. The outage affects international telephony and press signals.
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Paris
French Department of Posts and Telegraph
Belgrade
Mysterious Corn and Weeds Dominate Garden Row
The reader laments garden woes where corn and potatoes advance slowly behind persistent weeds. Weathering sun and rain, growth remains uneven and stifled by competitors, with the weeds thriving early and late and the rest of the crop lagging.
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Boemink
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Sumner Avenue
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Pierre J. Huss
N.S
Hos
Electric Shock
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North
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Inside Today
Wteenes
FUKUS
New Castle News
Mahoningtown
Atlantic
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W. Madison Avenue
Gary Shaffer
Chicago
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