Peace Group Has Able Men At Helm
The Dumbarton Oaks conference opens with a trio of leaders from the United States Russia and Britain at a Washington mansion. Edward Stettinius Jr former U S Steel head Andrei Gromyko Soviet ambassador and Sir Cadogan British diplomat bring blunt efficiency to shaping a world peace organization.
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Robert J. Manning Washington
Dumbarton Oaks
Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr
U. S. Steel Corp
Andrei A. Gromyko
United States
Sir Alexander George Montagu Cadogan
Washington
Stettinius
Virginia
Stet
University of Virginia
J. P. Morgan
General Motors and Steel
National Defense Comission
Lend-Lease
Cadogan
Gromyko
Quebec
State Department
Anatoli
Soviet For Service
Moscow Institute of Economics
Soviet Academy of Science
7th Army In Mad Scramble To Save Self
Allied pursuit of the German seventh army intensifies as Nazi forces retreat toward the Seine and Rhine lines. Montgomery’s British Second Army fights east of Paris while air forces pound retreating units and seize prisoners amid widespread demoralization and exhausted troops.
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Richard PD. McMillan
U.P
Seventh Army
Normandy
Seine
Bernard L. Montgomery
Rhine
Hitler
Goose Power Used To Keep Mississippi Cotton Fields Weed Free
Hickory Flats Mississippi farmer J A Farr reports using 15 geese per acre to keep cotton weed and grass free and claims boll weevils avoid fields with geese. He cites a simple goose-proof fence and water as the key setup and notes the birds work all day without breaks.
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Hickory Flats
Miss
J. A. Farr
Cornersville
Farr
Airport Gas Tax Change Aims to Boost Sky Harbor Use
Phoenix action to sell aviation gasoline without the five cent per gallon tax will raise out of state pilot traffic at Sky Harbor. The Arizona highway department allows the city to deduct the tax from sale prices and file exemption certificates, previously delaying refunds for six months and limiting fuel purchases.
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Phoenix
Sky Harbor
Arizona Highway Department
Akron schools suffer broken windows after vacation
Akron reports 535 windows broken since vacation began as youths hurl stones at schools while teachers are away. Playgrounds are strewn with stones, and temptation to vandalize grows with lack of supervision.
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Akron
Akron Public
Free Asthma Trial Offer From Frontier Asthma Co
An advertisement urges asthma sufferers to request a free trial of a method during hot humid summers. It claims relief regardless of location or prior remedies and promises no cost. Mail to Frontier Asthma Co., 107N Frontier Bldg, 462 Niagara St., Buffalo, NY.
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Frontier Asthma Co
Frontier Bidg
Niagara St. Buffalo
Cans Of Beer Roll Off Lines For Services
Milwaukee reports beer in cans camouflaged with olive drab paint to avoid revealing troop positions. Cans roll out at 600 per minute, 64 000 daily, while one trip bottles cut weight and size. A sergeant from Pittsburgh praises the beer as a morale booster. Tales claim lizard tails break off and cannot rejoin.
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Milwaukee
F. J. Favorite
Pittsburgh
Old Records Reveal Pittsburgh’s Early Court Life and Names
Pittsburgh history emerges from six 1762 to 1801 court volumes found in the county clerk’s office. The records name early landowners and streets, note proposals to extend Fifth Avenue and widen a path to Fort Duquesne, and recount early court scenes with fines for public decency, curfew offenses, smuggling, and nagging wives.
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Robert B. Squires
Pittsburgh
U.P
Jacob Negley
Negley Avenue
Edward St. Clair
St. Clair Township
John Kennedy
Kennedy Township
James Bedford
Bedford Avenue
Peter Wood
Wood
Wood Street
Wilkinsburg
Jeremiah Wilkins
Wilkins Township
Snowden
Mifflin
Fifth Avenue
Quarry
Soho
Grant Hill
Court House
Market Place
Wood Run
Fort Duquesne
Grace Haverhill
Gypsy Rose Lee
Amanda Sohmers
Hunnery
Oom
Gunney
Babbighter
Sand
Lewn
Meddle
Lambkin
Hober
Kingsmen
Kingslaw
Ladyslipper
Jogg
Sarah Longhorn
Navy blimps scout skies for fish to aid fishermen
The Navy will deploy blimps to locate schools of fish from the sky. They guide boats to where nets should be dropped, allowing fishermen to bring in catches from the deep.
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Navy
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