Senate Approves Marshall Plan Funds and Arm Aid
The Senate approved 2,726,761,473 for Marshall plan funds and President Truman pledged an additional 4,000,000,000 to arm non Communist nations. The vote followed recommendations from the appropriations committee with amendments debated by Hayden Wherry and others as the United States strengthens the free world amid Korea conflict. In Belgium, King Leopold II hedged on abdication timing delaying Baudouin’s succession and signaling a volatile royal crisis.
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Appropriations Committee
Hayden
Kem
Cannon
D-Mo
Tru- Man
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R-Mo
Wherry
R-Neb
Engi i
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Korea
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Europe
Hickenlooper
Biowa
France
French
Morocco
Paul Hoffman
Russia
Rusia
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D-Ark
United Nations
Brussels
Belgium
Leopold II
Prince Baudouin
Leopold
Baudouin
Three New Police Assigned to Somerset Barracks
Three additional officers join the Somerset force today bringing the total to 11. Pfc. Pau Kunkel Pvt. William G Brustle and Pvt. Ralph W Weller transfer from Greensburg troop HQ. Kunkle has prior Somerset service and moves reflect county officials push for greater protection with changes across Indiana Ebensburg and Greensburg.
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Somerset Barracks
Pfc
Pau Kunkel
William G. Brustle
Ralph W. Weller
Sfrom
Greensburg
Kunkle
Somerset
Indiana
Ebensburg
West Salisbury Protests Dust From Pittsburgh Plant
Residents of West Salisbury protest gray dust from a limestone-laden road paving plant owned by Allegheny Asphalt and Paving of Pittsburgh. Women lead a petition of 34, citing damaged laundry, dusty wells, and ruined fabrics, while officials consider a dust arrester and legal talks with the company.
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Allegheny Asphalt and Paving Company of
Pittsburgh
July Jailing Reported for Somerset County
A monthly state ment from Sheriff Karl I. Hare shows 62 people jailed in Somerset in July. June commitments were 46, while May figures stood at 57.
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Somerset County
Karl I. Hare
Festival Web Hosts Chicken Supper and Music Night
An Aug. 2 festival offers a hot chicken sandwich supper from 5 30 to 8 00 pm with home baked goods for sale and musical entertainment.
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St. Paul’s Ridge S.S
Finley Grove
Fish Pond
Gospel sermon urges stability through ancient gospel
The Rev Luther Painter of Huntington West Virginia told Edgewood Grove Camp Meeting crowds that stability in a chaotic world comes only from the gospel. He decried modern philosophies and modernist ideas while urging stronger preaching and faith in Christ as the path to salvation.
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John Kochalka, JR
Luther Painter
Huntington
W. Va
Church of God
Edgewood Grove
Christ
Plato
Painter
Call Up 4 Divisions of Guardsmen
Four national guard divisions are being called to active duty about Sept. 1 to bolster the military. Two guard combat teams and two marine reserve air squadrons will join First and Second marine divisions, now under strength, with plans for another emergency naval budget of 950 million dollars.
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Washington
National Guard
Department of Defense
Marine Reserve Air
Department
Marine Corps
Far East
Pacific Coast
Camp LeJeune
N. C
Army
Truman
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
National Security Council
Air Force
Korea
Move To Jail Bridges As Peril To U S
San Francisco reports the government moved to revoke bail and jail Harry Bridges, CIO longshoremen's union president, citing him as a national security threat. Bridges remains free on 25 000 bond while appealing a five year federal sentence for perjury and conspiracy.
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Harry Bridges
Justice Department
Bridges
CIO Longshoremen's
U. S
F. Joseph Donohue
U.S
George B. Harris
Harris
Donohue
Bridges Union
United States
United Natioens
Korea
22 Burgesses Set To Meet Defense Officials Tonight
The revived county civilian defense program begins tonight with a 7:30 p.m. meeting of the 22 burgesses in the courthouse grand jury room. Deputy coordinator Albert D. Graham says the session will acquaint mayors with the county setup and start ground work on the local level. Burgh leaders will select local defense officials, focusing on borough needs in times of threat.
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Court House
Albert D. Graham
Graham
Red China Proposes Mediation to End Korean War
A British source reports Communist China offered a Korean War settlement via Asian mediation. Chou En Lai named India Pakistan and Burma as possible mediators and urged a quick cease fire while U S forces withdraw beyond the 38th parallel. India’s response awaited after Nehru’s peace talks.
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London
British Commonwealth
China
Russia
United Nations
Security Council
Red China
Chou En Lai
Peiping
K. M. Pannikar
Britain
J. C. Hutchinson
Chou En Lai-Pannikar
British Foreign Office
38Th Parallel
United States
Mythey
Korea
India
Pakistan
Burma
Jakob Malik
New Delhi
Rajendra Prasad
Jawaharlal Nehru
South Korea
No Divorces in County During July Report
Somerset county saw no divorces granted in July per a monthly report from D. Guy Floto’s office. The prior month had five divorces in June and six couples received warting papers in May.
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Somerset County
D. Guy Floto
MacArthur Rejects Chiang Call for 33000 Troops to Korea
General MacArthur turned down Chiang Kai shek’s offer to send 33,000 Nationalist troops to Korea saying such action would jeopardize Formosa. He traveled to Taipei to study Formosa’s defense and to coordinate with Chinese and American forces to repel any Communist attack. The Seventh Fleet patrols Formosa waters under President Truman’s orders to deter invasion.
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Spencer Moosa
Taipei
Formosa
MacArthur
Chiang Kaishek
Korea
U. S. Seventh Fleet
Truman
Chiang
Buljat Ready To Leave Hospital After Accident
John J. Buljat of Rockwood, former Baltimore and Ohio railroad worker and Navy veteran, has been in Somerset Community hospital for five weeks after an accident that severed his left arm and left leg. He is to be moved this week and he and wife Mrs. Buljat seek a first floor apartment in Somerset due to his handicap. The family has four children and will use a Veterans of Foreign Wars wheelchair during recovery.
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John J. Buljat
Rockwood
Somerset Community Hospital
Buljat
Reinforcements Arrive as Koreans Fall Back Near Chinju
U S Second Infantry Division troops reach a South Korean port and move to the front near Chinju as defenders retreat 50 miles west of Pusan. Field reports say American losses were heavy and Chinju airstrip was lost. General MacArthur’s HQ did not confirm arrival of Maj. Gen. Laurence B. Keiser’s division.
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Chinju
Don Huth Tokio
U. SS
South Korea
Pusan
North
MacArthur
Eighth Army
Laurence B. Keiser
Tom Lambert
Don Whitehead
U. S. First Cavalry
Weather Outlook Across Mid-Atlantic States
Weather reports show cloudiness and humidity with scattered thunderstorms in West Virginia and Maryland Tuesday. Cooler, partly cloudy conditions expected Wednesday with less heat and humidity in interior regions. Pennsylvania experiences scattered showers Tuesday, with a cooler Wednesday. western areas may see showers giving way to cooler nights.
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Virginia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Somerset Weather Report by David Grove
Daily weather note from Somerset by U S Weather Observer David Grove records 24 hour period from 5 30 p m Sunday to 5 30 p m Monday with a high of 83 and a low of unspecified value compared to last year 73 for the high.
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Somerset Weather
David Grove
U. S
Weather Observer
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