Peacetime draft bill signed by President Truman
President Truman signed the peacetime draft bill and two defense appropriations totaling over ten million dollars for the army navy and air force. The navy bill appropriates 3 749 059 250 for the year and funds a 65 000 ton aircraft carrier and related costs. the army and air force bill totals 6 705 418 163 to begin manpower and equipment buildup.
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Jack Riutledge
Washington
Truman
Army
Navy
Air Force
National Guard
Congress
Selective Service
U. S
Pearl Harbor
Franklin Contest Invites Worm Wonder 18 Inch Angelworm
Franklin resident A. D. Phenide finds an angelworm measuring 18 inches long and half an inch in girth. The city hosts a new “can you top this” worm contest inviting participants to claim top worm status.
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Franklin
A. D. Phenide
No Murder No Body Man Put In Jail
A Perry Will home near Dead Man's Curve became the scene as John Rhodes 46 claimed he killed a man after a shotgun blast. No body was found and Rhodes was jailed then given 15 days for disorderly conduct after reconsidering the tale.
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Perry Will
John Rhodes
Rhodes
Thomas H. Sterner
E Squire H. S. Whipperman
Norwegian Ship Afire Off Spanish Coast
A Norwegian steamship was ablaze 450 miles west of Spain and abandoned by its crew. The S S Fenris sent a distress at 649 miles west northwest of Brest reporting fire in the engine room while the S S Bentsfort, 55 miles away, hurried to assist. Coast guard stations intercepted the message and kept radio alert for updates.
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Boston
Spain
Coast Guard
Brest
France
S. S. Bentsfort
Able
Charlie
North Atlantic
Children's Day at Wesley Chapel
A Sunday 7:30 p.m. program at Wesley Chapel Methodist Church Upper Turkeyfoot township features songs and exercises by twenty children in four sectional pieces Gardens Common Classics Sunday Fishing Look Up and a short playlet The Heart's Desire by 15 girls The choir and other numbers perform The program committee includes Miss Alice Pletcher Miss Ruth Temple Mrs Ralph Gary and Mrs Earl Pletcher Earl Pletcher is Sunday school superintendent and Rev Paul E Trimpey is pastor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Chapel Methodist Church
Upper
Turkeyfoot Township
Patty Pletcher
Jean Gary
Betty Temple
Effie Gary
Alice Pletcher
Ruth Temple
Ralph Gary
Earl Pletcher
Paul E. Trimpey
Official says Dr. Stuart has not resigned as U S ambassador
An American embassy spokesman in Nanking denied reports that Dr. J Leighton Stuart resigned as U S ambassador to China calling the claim absolutely untrue. He attributed the rumor to an erroneous newspaper interpretation of remarks made to Yenching University students in Peking.
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Nanking
INS
J. Leighton Stuart
U. S
China
Stuart
Yenching University
Peiping
Coal Strike Threat Lifted New Bargain
Washington reports a new contract ending the coal strike threat between John S. Lewis and the soft coal industry. Miners may gain a $1 daily wage increase to $14.05 and a $100 million annual welfare pension fund. A night UMW and operator talk aimed to finalize terms as Truman’s inquiry board nears its report.
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Washington
John S. Lewis
Board of Inquiry
Truman
UMW
Harry M. Moses
Moses
H. C. Frick Coke Company
Pittsburgh
All
Steel Company
U. S. Steel Corporation
CIO
Philip Murray
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Presidential
15Th
Eye
Firemen and Police Hunt William Brown
Somerset volunteer firemen and state police searched the countryside for William Brown, missing since Sunday from his Somerset rural route home. The 65 year old employee of the Somerset County Home disappeared without warning, and authorities found no trace after a six o’clock call and extensive searching.
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William Brown
Somerset
Brown
R. D
Viscose Parley to Continue in Wage Talks
Union demands a 25 cent hourly raise for 21,800 American Viscose workers. talks at American Arbitration Association in New York resume tomorrow after several sessions. Seven plants across Pennsylvania West Virginia and Virginia show an average hourly wage of 1.26 dollars per hour per union sources. Neither side commented on progress.
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New York
American Viscose Corporation
American Arbitration Association
CIO Textile Workers Union
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Virginia
Renew Efforts to Settle Rail Dispute Washington
The White House renewed efforts to settle the railroad labor dispute. Presidential Assistant John R. Steelman met separately with spokesmen for the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers, Switchmen and Firemen amid a lack of progress. A court decision on continuing the rail strike order was postponed to next Tuesday.
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Washington
White House
John R. Steelman
Brotherhoods of
Locomotive Engineers
Steelman
T. Alan Goldsborough
Vail
Dewey Secures G O P Nomination on Third Ballot in Philadelphia
At the Republican convention in Philadelphia on June 24 the New York governor Thomas E. Dewey won the presidential nomination on the third ballot, 1094 to 0, pledging to pursue freedom, unity, and a just peace. Dewey’s rivals Taft Stassen Warren and others yielded one by one as delegates backed him. the convention adjourned until the next day.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Philadelphia
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
G.O.P
Dudley Hay
Dewey
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Earl Warren
California
H. Vandenberg
Michigan
Stassen
Inman
House
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
Dwight H. Green
Ilinois
United States
America
Taft
Henry Baker Reiley
Perha
Sena
John W. Bricker
Robert H. Taft
Herbert Hoover
Senator Bricker
Senator Taft
Edward Martin
Martin
Warren
Berlin Faces Warlike Atmosphere as Blockade Intensifies
Russians cut electricity milk and bread deliveries to western Berlin. American commander Gen Lucius D Clay halted all trade with eastern Germany. British troops guard scrap metal and deny withdrawal demands while Berliners rally for freedom. Westerners receive powdered milk for hospitals and public welfare amid sporadic power.
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Edwin Shanke
Berlin
U. S
Ruher
Lucius D. Clay
Germany
Kommandatura
Hertha
Franz Newmann
Western Perlin
Westinghouse Grants Salary Increases Across Plants
About 12 000 white collar salaried workers at Westinghouse Electric Corp regions won pay raises from 16.74 to 40 dollars monthly. An 8 percent boost applies to those earning up to 625 dollars monthly on a 40 hour week. The contract runs to April 1 1950 and may be reopened in 1949 for salary talks.
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Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Westinghouse
Cio-United Electrical Workers Union
Baltimore and Ohio Sues Dunlo Coal for Damages
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad filed suit against Dunlo Coal company in the prothonotary's office. It claims it re-railed and repaired two coal cars on July 6 1946 at a cost of 425 91 dollars after derailment at the mine near Berlin and sent to the company. Three more cars were repaired at a cost of 591 79 dollars. The railroad says repeated payment demands have gone unmet.
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Dunlo Coal Company
Prothonotary’s
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Berlin
Bricker Speech Dominate GOP Convention Night
At the 1948 Republican convention in Philadelphia Senator John W. Bricker delivered a strong speech praising Senator Robert Taft, with Bricker's remarks highlighted as the best of the night. The hall faced audio challenges, yet Bricker’s delivery drew praise as Hoovers and Tafts speeches competed for attention.
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Bricker
GOP
Fourteen New Recruits Join Company C Guard
Pennsylvania National Guard Company C gains fourteen new members at the local armory. With seventeen more added earlier in the week, total strength reaches ninety nine men. Enlistment cited as draft exemption ahead of President Truman's conscription bill signing, offering promotion pathways in the regular army. Names of Berlin Shanksville Friedens Rockwood Johnstown Central City Confluence listed.
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Pennsylvania National Guard
Charles Nearhouse
Truman
PNG
Howard J. Nicklow
Robert E. Monahan
Wayne A. Miller
Richard Lee Hittie
Berlin
Fred Foster Zeigler, Jr
Robert D. Custer
Charles E. Platt, Jr
Shanksville
Richard E. Zimmerman
William D. Ogline
Friedens
Dale R. Cramer
Rockwood
John E. Koenig
William H. Dawson, Jr
Johnstown
Blair K. Walker
Central City
Robert Alan Fike
Confluence
New Pastor for Beam Reformed Charge
The Rev. Warren O. Ziegler moves from Hublersville to Sipesville to lead the Reformed parish serving Jennertown Edie and Beam. He succeeds Rev. Ira Gass who goes to Derry Evangelical and Reformed church. Ziegler graduated from Myerstown High School Franklin and Marshall Theological Seminary and is a Bucks County native with a wife and son.
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Warren O. Ziegler
Hublersville
Evangelical and Reformed Church
Center County
Sipesville
Jennertown
Edie
Beam
Ira Gass
Derry
Ziegler
Myerstown
Franklin and Marshall Theological Seminary
Lancaster
Bucks County
Pastor Hawley to Wed Parishioner Mrs Caroline McKee
The Rev. Dr. John W. Hawley longtime pastor of First Methodist church announced plans to marry Caroline McKee a widow and member of his congregation in Pittsburgh on June 24.
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Pittsburgh
John W. Hawley
First Methodist Church
Caroline McKee
Weather Outlook for Maryland and Nearby States
Partly cloudy and cooler with scattered afternoon thunder showers in Maryland and eastern Pennsylvania. Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia expect considerable cloudiness with showers and probable storms Friday, then fair and slightly cooler by Saturday.
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Maryland
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
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Vandenberg
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Defense Forrestal
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L. J. Lateri
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Spanish Coast
Wesley Chapel
Berlin Hardware CO
Berlin, PA
Billy Merle
June
Jack Dahl
Oakhurst Tea Room
Bake Sale
Faidley Clan
Kingwood Ioof Grove
Neafach
Neafach's
N.Y
Halleck
Green
Oliver Red River Threshers
the Farm Equipment Co
Kamp
Eagles
Ladies Aux
Eagles Basement
Critchfled CO
Proctor & Gamble
B and Clues Dunlo Company
A. M. Glessner Coal Co
E. Main St
J. Edward Gump
NEW York Life Insurance CO
Critchfield CO
Israel
Irgun
Tel Aviv
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Council of 37
Irgun Zvai
Abraham Slavsky
Hillel Cook
Peter Bergson
American League For Free Palestine
Beam Reformed Charge
Penna. Quarries, Inc
Friedens, PA
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Ream’s Cafe
Somerset Weather
David Grove
U.S
U. S. Weather Bureau
Chicago
Cleveland
Phulacoy Ptl Scene
Sessenestenes Ties Stanting
Pittsburgh Ame
St. Louis Oe
Saeree Eemeromans Tenenenenes Nanernnnamersans Tae
Mountain Playhouse
Joe Lawther
American Legion
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