Inspectors Accused In Ramsell Trial
The Ramsell trial enters its third day with William McGee fire boss at Kent No. 2 mine testifying. Defense claims state inspector Wardrop was negligent and cites a delayed inspection under mining law. Judge and witnesses discuss methane findings and mine classification during the June explosion inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William McGee
Kent No. 2
Rochester
Lawrence J. Redding
Redding
George J. Steinhelser
Charles J. Margiotti
W. B. Wardrop
Pennsylvania
Wardrop
Margiotti
Steinheiser
Weamer funeral Thursday at 2 30 p m
David Weamer aged 69 well known realtor and former restaurateur died yesterday morning at his office in the Weamer Building South Seventh street funeral services will be at 2 30 tomorrow at the Weamer home 112 North Eighth street Rev Charles Sinclair Applegath officiating Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery Surviving widow a daughter two grandchildren three brothers and a late daughter killed in an automobile accident years ago His church and lodge memberships noted Obituary continued on Page Two
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Weamer
Weamer
South Seventh Street
Oakland
North Eighth Street
Charles Sinclair Applegath
First Methodist Church
Modern Woodmen
Jane (Walters) Weamer
Helen Kilgour
City
Russell Colton
Allegheny College
Helen Colton
Indiana
Silas
Homer City
Frank
Charles
Samuel W. Brandon
Robinson
Brandon
Washington Township
John P. Lee
Clyde Woodward Struck by Car at Railroad Crossing
Clyde Woodward 51 of 1127 School Street, an employee of Stewart Hardware, was struck by a car driven by E R Lightcap at 6 45 last evening while helping raise a large American flag over Philadelphia Street at the Pennsylvania Railroad crossing. He sustained several fractured ribs and is reported in fair condition at Indiana Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Electric Company
Philadelphia Street
Pennsylvania Railroad
Clyde Woodward
School Street
Stewart Hardware Company
E. R. Lightcap
Indiana Hospital
Chorus in the street as crowd joins in song on busy Wabash
A fiend told Helen Senne that any Chicagoan could feel deep solitude in rush hour. She crossed Madison and Wabash and began singing When Irish Eyes Are Smiling. Policemen, cab drivers, and pedestrians joined in, turning a solo into a chorus at one of Chicago’s noisiest intersections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Helen Senne
Married Men May Enlist in U S Army
Major General Henry C Pratt announced that voluntary enlistments in the Army of the United States are now open for married men whose dependents can be supported. Enlistments in the Regular Army have ended, and service lasts for the war plus six months. Civilians with preliminary Army physicals may enlist if their Selective Service Board is notified immediately after enlistment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army of the United
Army of the United States
Selective Service Board
Robber Wires Threat At Western Union Office
An armed man entered the Western Union telegraph office in Columbus and forced clerks, including Clarence Gloeckner, to surrender cash after scribbling and discarding two messages. The undetermined amount taken followed a third note reading All your cash and be quiet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Western Union Telegraph Office
Clarence Gloeckner
Gloeckner
Russia recounts rout of six Nazi divisions near Kalinin
Moscow reports six German divisions routed from Kalinin and Vysokoe recaptured in a central front counteroffensive. Soviet commanders Maslenskov and Ushkenvich credited with the Kalinin victory as bomber aircraft and tanks were destroyed. a Romed airfield and Fascist Torino division commander mentioned in Rome broadcasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Moscow
Kalinin
Vysokoe
Adolf Strauss
Star
Soviet Information Bureau
Upper Volga
Volovo
Ivan Maslenskov
Ushkenvich
Moscow-Leningrad
Moscow Radio
Information Bureau
Rome
Hugo de Torelli
Torino
College hosts lighting demonstration at Home Management House
Miss Jean Lovejoy and Mrs. Anna McMahan of West Penn Power spoke to Home Management II classes today. The session showcased home lighting using actual fixtures and emphasized improving lighting with indirect or semi-direct bulbs and shades. Gearhart's advertises special prices on New Nelly Bons gifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Lovejoy
Anna McMahan
West Penn Power Company
Denniston and
Duncan
A. Pauline Sanders
Dr. Sanders
Third College Broadcast Set on I Hear America Singing
Indiana State Teachers College Music Education Department presents the third broadcast in its series I Hear America Singing titled Carols We Share at 10 am on WHJB Greensburg. Children from Laboratory and Thaddeus Stevens schools join college student teachers and the College Choir under Miss Muldowney with scripts by Helen Prutzman and study guide materials by the Music Radio committee led by Dr Irving Cheyette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Music Education Department
Indiana State Teachers College
America
WHJB
Greensburg
Thaddeus Stevens
Angot Borge
Lala Beclar
Mary Muldowney
Helen Prutzman
Music Radio Committee
Irving Cheyette
Marbach names wardens for five sections
George Denny Marbach Indiana County air raid warden announced the names of five sector air raid wardens and said he will name the other four later this week. Sector 1 Dr Wilbur Black Indiana Sector 3 Thomas Lynch Homer City Sector 5 Rev Joseph MacCarroll Saltsburg Sector 6 Wayne Myers Armagh and Brushvalley Sector 7 John Stapleton Clymer Wardens will establish posts for areas with about 500 population and will field inquiries on air raid precautions. He thanked county residents for their cooperation and urged continued aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Denny Marbach
Indiana County
Wilbur Black
Indiana
Thomas Lynch
Homer City
Joseph MacCarroll
Saltsburg
Wayne Myers
Armagh
Brushvalley
John Stapleton
Clymer
Marbach
Japan Attacks Hawaii Fleet Diversion Tactics Revealed
President names a five man board to investigate Pearl Harbor as Japan seeks to divert the U S Pacific fleet with hit and run raids near Hawaii The Johnston and Maui attacks plus Wake Island assault are reported amid a navy note that operations against the enemy continue and the fleet remains focused on the main target.
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Pearl Harbor
Washington
Japan
Hawaii
U. S. Pacific
Johnston
Maui Islands
Tokyo
U. S
Navy Department
Maui
Wake Island
Christmas Sign Draws Traffic in Mundelein
Police report shows Ralph Russell's 1941 Christmas sign at his service station drew motorists, causing two traffic jams as drivers slowed to read. The sign read Merry Xmas in Neon with floodlit Santa Claus kicking Adolf Hitler in the pants.
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Mundelein
Ill
Clayton Tiffany
Ralph Russell
Santa Claus
Adolf Hiller
British pressure on Rommel’s Libyan front advances
Cairo reports Allied pressure on Rommel’s battered Libyan force continues with 40 more German and Italian guns abandoned near Tobruk and anti tank guns recovered. RAF planes counter Axis air attacks and attack transport behind the front as a flanking move near Gazala threatens Rommel’s retreat. Germans reportedly short of aviation fuel due to Royal Navy disruptions.
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Cairo
Erwin Rommel
Tobruk
RAF
Rommel
Berlin
Germany
Libya
Halegh el- Olebam
Gazala
Romnel
Deyna
Eighth Army
Royal Navy
Europe
Dignified ceremonies mark burial of dead at Honolulu
Honolulu reports dignified burials of American service members killed in the Pearl Harbor attack. Marines fire volleys, a priest blesses graves, and chaplains commend the fallen while their bodies await shipment to the mainland. The scene contrasts quiet sorrow with resolute conviction as a nation mourns and vows reprisal.
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Honolulu
America
Navy
Army
William A. McGuire
Nwquank
Red Hill
Pearl Harbor
Maguire
British Menace In Three Vital Pacific Sectors
In Manila passage a war update reports U S Army bombers destroyed 26 Japanese planes and set fuel supplies afire in an attack on the Vigan beach head on Luzon West Coast. Submarines of the Asiatic fleet said to have made two successful strikes. British forces brace Hong Kong Singapore and Malaya as Japanese advances threaten key pacific positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Vigan
Luzon
Army
Japan
Philippines
Thomas C. Hart
United States
Hart
China
U. S. Navy
London
Western
Pacific
Hongkong
Man Peninsula
Isle of Barneo
Singapore
Mai
Hong
Macao
Sarwak
Bornieo
Java
New East Indies
Han
Hong Kong
Enlistments Open for Company A RDC in Indiana
Regimental HQ reports that Company A Pennsylvania Reserve Defense Corps will be doubled and enlistments opened immediately. Open to men 18 to 50 who are fit and qualify, with some volunteers over 50 acceptible. Apply at Indiana armory Wayne Avenue, telephone 1738-R. New recruits receive training before posting. current members guard vital bridges in Indiana County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steele Guthrie
Company A
Pennsylvania Reserve Defense Corps
Indiana Armory
Wayne Avenue
Indiana County
Safe Cracker Thrills Army Scene in Wichita Falls
Maj. Glenn C. Thompson, the pot supply officer, believed Army personnel experts were stumped when he sought a safe cracker. Officers browsed classification lists and assigned Pvt. Dans T. Mudd to the scene. He studied the date, the big safe door swung open, revealing the crack. Private Mudd is a blacksmith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita Falls
Tex
Glenn ¢. Thompson
Army
Dinate Ghed Pvt
T. Mudd
Mudd
Italian submarine sunk by British destroyer reported
The Admiralty announced that a submarine identified as Quido La 19, with 53 survivors captured, was sunk in the central Mediterranean by the British destroyer Far. The vessel, said to be the Ammi Caracciolo, a 1461 ton Italian ocean-going sub, was not among the five dozen prisoners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Quido la
Tip
Italy
Agtral Mediterranean
Adm
Admiralty
Lions Meet E A Delaney Guest Speaker at Lodge
The Honorable E A Delaney attorney general of Pennsylvania attended the Lions Lodge meeting as guest speaker. A program featured flag ceremony and a few stories, with the presentation of a daughter named Gueata Hart as part of the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. DeLaney
Pennagh
Cline
de Daniel H. Bee
Gueata
Store Bral Omits Name in Trial Bracket
A fragmented OCR item references a store bral trial bracket with unclear wording and missing names. The readable bits suggest a local court matter and an unresolved question about identity or designation, but essential details are unreadable in the provided text.
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Ramsell
C. Woodward
Pra Sens
Christmag
Obamere
U. S. Army
Kalinin and
Tzventia
Klin
Nelly
Gearhart
Borneo
Balan
U. S. S. Arizona
Arizona
California
Frank Knox
Johnson
Xmas
Hamilton
Widdowson
Gil
Fanantics
E. A. Delaney
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