Churchill Will Oppose Labor's Restrictive Plan
Churchill signals Conservatives will block Labor’s emergency bill seeking unlimited powers to control Britain’s economy. The vote showed a large Labor majority backing the crisis plan, with Attlee pushing a program framed as sacrifice and control.
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Churchill
Labor
ED Creagh
London
Winston Churchill
Britain
House of Commons
Attlee
Attlee Mieerares
Hugh Alton
House of Mmons
Hollywood
Centennial at St Francis College observed in Loretto
The Franciscan Fathers of Saint Francis College in Loretto celebrate the institution’s centennial October 4 to 6. Founded by Irish brothers in the Alleghenies, the college prep school seminary and parishes expanded from Washington DC to Stuebenville and India, under president Adrian J. M. Wiegle TOR.
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Franciscan Fathers
Saint Francis College of
Loretto
Ireland
Allegheny Mountains
St. Francis Preparatory School
St. Francis’ College
St. Francis Seminary
Washington, D. C
Spring Grove
Stuebenville
India
Adrian J. M. Wiegle
TOR
Seven Wounded In Border Dispute In Trieste
Trieste dispatch reports seven members of the international frontier commission tracing the Trieste free territory were wounded during a Slav demonstration in Zone B. The frontier commission, set up by the Big Four foreign ministers, had no immediate official confirmation.
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Trieste
INS
Voce Libera
Trieste Free Territory
Zone B
Frontier Commission
Big Four Council of Foreign Ministers
Three Airmen Die In Midair Crash At Chanute Field
Three army airmen died when a B 25 bomber and an AT 6 trainer collided near Chanute Field Illinois. Capt Louis Benne parachuted to safety and survived. Lt Ray Burlington and Capt Frederick Zeidler died in the bomber fire. a third crewman aboard the trainer was unnamed pending notification. Burlington had 32 combat missions in Europe.
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Ill
INS
Army
Ray Burlinton
Fayetteville
Frederick Zeidler
Chelmsford
Mass
Louis Benne
Listie
Benne
Zeidler
Lieut
Burlinton
Nationalists Launch Drive to Oust Reds in North China
Chinese Nationalist troops opened a three-pronged offensive to clear Communist forces from the Peiping Tientsin Paoting triangle. The push targets a 2,800 square mile area to reopen rail lines and roads blocked by the Communists. Nationalists report success in central western Shantung with Communist forces said to be split into pockets.
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Feiping
China
Peiping-Tientsin-Paoting
Peiping
Tientsin
Paoting
Paksien
Shantung
May Call On Court to Aid Memories
Los Angeles August 7 Court action was threatened to compel better memory from witnesses before a congressional committee probing television clauses in a contract between motion picture producers and the AFL American Federation of Musicians. Rep Carroll Kearns said he may seek court procedure if testimony remains faulty.
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Los Angeles
AFL American Federation of Musicians
Carroll Kearns
R-Pa
Musicians’ Union
James C. Petrillo
Musicians Union
Maury Paul
Musicians
Petrillo
Keerns
Irving McCann
Heat Wave Ends as Death Toll Reaches 133 Across U S
A severe Midwest heat spell ended as 133 heat related deaths were tallied nationwide. Cooler Canadian air moved in while the corn belt awaited rains. Deaths listed in Chicago, St Louis, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Pennsylvania amid easing temperatures.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Canada
Great Plains
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Minnesota
Mississippi
Louisiana
Arkansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Texas
Chicago
St. Louis
Wisconsin
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Ship Mahia Sinks After Dockyard Blast in Melbourne
The British freighter Mahia unloading match sticks newsprint and chemicals from Canada at Melbourne Victoria docks exploded and burned sinking at the dockside. Ten men died in the blast caused when two drums of sodium chlorate bumped together during unloading.
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Melbourne
Australia
Canada
Victoria Docks
Pope names two American bishops
Pope Pius XII named Father Hubert Noel of Littlestown Pennsylvania as coadjutor bishop with right of succession to Archbishop Patrick A. McGovern of Cheyenne Wyoming. He also named Msgr. James A. McNulty of St Bridget's as auxiliary to Archbishop Thomas Y. Walsh of Newark New Jersey.
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Pius XII
Hubert Noel
St. Mary’s Church
Littlestown
Patrick A. McGovern
Cheyenne
Wyo
Msgr
James A. McNulty
St. Bridget’s
Thomas Y. Walsh
Newark
N. J
Railroad Blasted Near Tel Aviv Derails Oil Cars
Palestine authorities reported a mine blast by the Jewish underground north of Tel Aviv derailing 19 oil tank cars and disrupting railroad service.
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Jerusalem
INS
Palestine
Jewish Underground
Tel Aviv
Odom Soars Across Atlantic In Bombshell Solo Flight
William P. Odom began the second leg of his solo attempt to beat Wiley Post’s globe record, taking off from Gander at 7:11 p.m. after a Chicago start and a fuel stop. His Bombshell carried 1500 gallons with a 2450 gallon max and aims for Paris as his next stop.
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Gander
William P. Odom
Atlantic
Wiley Post
E.s.t
Chicago
Odom
Paris
Milton Reynolds
T. Carroll Sallee
Post
Plea Accepted to Avoid New Mexico Atomic Secrets Trial
U S Attorney Everett M. Grantham said he approved a no contest plea from Alexander von der Luft of Mount Lebanon Pennsylvania to removing secret documents from the Los Alamos atomic project. The move would moot bringing von der Luft to New Mexico for trial on the June grand jury indictment. The same charges target Ernest D Wallis of Chicago, a former GI, for taking secret Los Alamos photographs.
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Santa FE
N. M
New Mexico
U. S. Atty
Everett M. Grantham
Grantham
Alexander von der Luft
Mount Lebanon
Pennsylvania
Los Alamos Atomics Project
Earnest D. Wallis
Chicago
Los Alamos
Paraguayan insurgents near victory in five month civil war
Reports from Buenos Aires indicate insurgents closing in on Asuncion with government troops surrendering in large numbers. Rebel air power dominates the skies while civilian resistance rises within the besieged capital.
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Buenos Aires
INS
Higinio Morinigo
Asuncion
Only 36 Survive Scharnhorst Sinking
A British admiralty report states about 900 officers and men aboard the Scharnhorst perished when the ship sank off the North Cape on December 26 1943. Only 36 German sailors survived the disaster described as the vessel’s last seaworthy battle cruiser. The report, signed by Admiral Fraser, details the pursuit by Home Fleet units as the Scharnhorst tried to attack a convoy bound for Murmansk.
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London
Adolf Hitler
North Cape
Norway
Adm
Bruce M. A. Fraser
Murmansk
Plane Crash Kills Four In Massachusetts Chimney Doom
A chartered Montreal to Boston plane plunged into a 30-foot oil furnace chimney in Everett Massachusetts killing four aboard. Pilot Nelson Pell 32 and Boston businessman Thomas Mandell 46 plus his two daughters Ann 22 and Harriet 19 perished. Fire crews retrieved bodies after shutting gas lines and cooling the burner. Mandell was linked to Carrier Air Conditioning and related to General Patton’s family.
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Colonial Beacon Oil Company
Pell
Thomas Proctor Mandell
Boston
Boston Transcript
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Ann
Harriet
Stinson
Greater
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Cyril Craig
St. Johns
Quebec
Carrier Air Conditioning Corporation
New England
Nancy Campbell Blagden
New
Legion Head Warns US to Keep Strong
Pittsburgh August convention of the American Legion hears national commander Paul H. Griffith label Russia the great enemy of freedom and warn that current clashes may precipitate a shooting war. He cites martial plans, indicts Russia’s postwar record, and urges universal military training and national unity.
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Pittsburgh
Russia
National American Legion
United States
Paul H. Griffith
Uniontown
Pennsylvania Legion
Europe
Griffith
Pineapple Labor Fuss Is Settled
Settlement of a long labor dispute in Hawaii's pineapple industry was announced by Special Federal Conciliator Nathan P. Feinsinger. An agreement on all contract terms was reached between employers and CIO union representatives in San Francisco after a truce ended a strike by pineapple workers in the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union.
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INS
Hawaii
Nathan P. Feinsinger
CIO
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
Bulgar Blames Britain For Greek Civil War
Bulgaria accuses Britain of starting Greece’s civil war and labels Greece a satellite of big powers. Bulgarian representative Nevrah condemns Greece for calling Bulgaria Yugoslavia and Albania satellites and says Britain set the present regime in Greece. The council debate centers on Greece being drawn into Russia and its allies as tensions rise.
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Russia
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Faris el Khoury
Syra
Wheel falls off truck injuring three on Route 160
State Patrolman Paul Kunkel reported three people injured when a light pick up truck lost its rear left wheel on Route 160 one mile from Central City Thursday around 7 am. Levi Keller drove the truck with A J Long Clarence Carmony and Rush Wagner riding aboard. Long and Carmony were taken to Windber hospital for chest injuries and shock while Wagner received treatment for shock and minor head and hip bruises. Truck damage was about $30.
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Route 160
Central City
Levi Keller
R. D
Stoystown
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Keller
A. J. Long
Clarence Carmony
Rush Wagner
Buckstown
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Carmony
Windber Hospital
Wagner
Freshly Dressed POULTRY Announcement
Local poultry producer Coleman’s Dressing Plant at 254 W Fairview St Somerset advertises freshly dressed poultry and delivery service with phone contact 329 W. We Deliver.
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Weather Forecast for Maryland and Nearby States
Maryland sees considerable cloudiness with scattered showers and thunderstorms Friday and near the coast Saturday. Eastern Pennsylvania expects scattered showers and storms Friday with generally fair and less humid Saturday. cooler Friday night. Western Pennsylvania turns partly cloudy and cooler Friday night with Saturday more clouds. West Virginia remains mostly cloudy with scattered thundershowers in the east and south Friday, cooler at night, with Saturday generally fair.
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Maryland
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Weather Report for Somerset by David Grove
Daily weather note shows temperature range from 5 30 p m Wednesday to 5 30 p m Thursday with unspecified maximum and minimum. A prior year reference lists a maximum of 73 and a minimum value not shown for context.
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Somerset Weather
David Grove
U. S. Weather Observer
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