Panic and Food Shortage After Caribbean Earthquakes
Panic and a severe food shortage spread through the Dominican Republic’s northern provinces after a series of earthquakes and tidal waves. At least 73 dead and 20,000 homeless as towns like Matanzas Puerto Plata and Sanchez were crushed and flooded. Refugees shelter in trees or hills while roads and bridges wash out hindering aid. Government says damage may run to millions as Red Cross camps multiply and communications lag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ciudad Trujillo
Dominican Republic
Republic
Bahia Escocesa
Sotch Bay
Matanzas
Puerto Plata
Batey
Samana
Sanchez
Red Cross
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Jia Molina
San Francisco de Acoris
George Washingtn Avenue
Mayaguez
Port-au-Prince
Haiti
Hispaniola
Captain Earl W. McKee Recalled to U S Army
Captain Earl W. McKee of the Vannear apartments is recalled to service and stationed at Fort Belvoir Virginia with the officers replacement pool. A World War I veteran he spent 41 months in World War II with the engineers and earned six battle stars. He previously served as chief construction engineer for Pennsylvania’s Department of Property and Supplies in Philadelphia. His wife and daughter Miss Betty Margaret will stay at the Vannear for now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl W. McKee
Vannear
Fort Belvoir
Virginia
McKee
Engineer Corps
Combat Engineers
The
Engineers
E.T.O
Anti lynching meeting probe over free postage envelope
Washington report says post office inspectors investigate use of a penalty mail free envelope for an anti lynching meeting invitation. Senator Bilbo reported receiving such an invite and turned it to postal inspectors. The rally at Lincoln Memorial drew several thousand people, two thirds of them black, protesting Georgia lynchings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Post Office Department
Department
Senate
Bilbo
D-Miss
Capitol
Joseph Vick
Lincoln Memorial
Talmadge
Georgia
80th Division Marches Again at 4th Convention
Indiana August 9 The 80th Division held a four day national convention with veterans from World War I marching with World War II members through festooned streets. Officers for the coming year to be elected during sessions and a banquet with Attorney General James H Duff as keynote speaker tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
80Th Division
80Th
Blue Ridge) Division
Pennsylvania
James H. Duff
New Member Joined Lions as Two Birthdays Noted
Somerset Lions club met at Grace Evangelical church with Haldor Saylor presiding. Oscar W. Stevens was welcomed as a new member from Everett Lions, Harold Schweinberg received a membership pin, and birthday greetings went to Dr. R. N. Fithian and Richard Dewitt. A picnic was planned with Carl Friedhofer as arrangements chairman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerset Lion’s Club
Grace Evangelical Church
Haldor Saylor
I. F. Woodrow
Herbert Sann
Robert S. Uhl
Oscar W. Stevens
Everett Lions Club
Harold Schweinberg
R. N. Fithian
Richard Dewitt
Carl Friedhofer
Hoffman Speaks to Rotary Club on Congress and Policies
Congressman Carl H. Hoffman addressed the Somerset Rotary Club at the Ferner hotel in a noonday talk. He reviewed his work in the 23rd Pennsylvania district, discussed voting against the British loan and the opa bill, and argued for voluntary enlistment over conscription. Amused Rotarians applauded the Somerset-Fayette representative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl H. Hoffman
Somerset Rotary Club
United States Congress
Ferner Hotel
Pennsylvania
Hoffman
Congress
Somerset-Fayette
Washington
United States
Truman
Republic
West Virginia Coal Mines Beat Fatality Record in 1945 Output
West Virginia mines produced about 27 percent of U S bituminous coal last year while reporting 269 worker deaths. Output reached 151,909,714 tons, yielding an average production per fatality of 564,720 tons, a new state best. Employment averaged 92,900. total output declined 7.9 percent from 1944.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
G. R. Spindler
Spindler
Tax Liens Filed Against Henry Lustig and Longchamps Chain
The federal government filed tax liens totaling 5 784 925 49 against Henry Lustig and Longchamps chain for 1940 to 1944 taxes. Lustig personally owes 1 931 435 37 for those years. Lustig was convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to four years and 115 000 in fines for evading 2 872 766.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Henry Lustig
Longchamps
William J. Pedrick
Internal Revenue
Lustig
Alston to Face Death Next Week in Kilby Prison
William Edgar Alston, 41, convicted of murdering his wife, will begin the death walk on August 16 in Kilby Prison. He faces execution in the electric chair, unless a court intervention or clemency from Governor Chauncey Sparks alters the sentence. His twin brother is serving a life term for murder in a nearby cell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Alt
Pale
William Edgar Alston
Kilby
Alston
Chauncey Sparks
McNarney Pushes to Bar Jewish Influx in American Zone
Gen. Joseph T. McNarney said he aims to halt organized Jew arrivals into the U S zone of Germany after UNRRA ends, estimating U S taxpayers face about 80 million dollars annually for displaced persons. He noted border guard limits and plans to assume DP camp administration with Gen Geoffrey Keyes while preserving some UNRRA staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard A. O'Regan
Frankfurt
Germany
Joseph T. McNarney
UNRRA
U. S
JT Am
United States
Palestine
Army
Philip S. Bernstein
Poland
Hungary
Bulgaria
Romania
Berlin
Vienna
McNarney
Hold Sailor For Shipmate Death In Navy Killing
A 22 year old sailor confessed to FBI and naval intelligence officers to slaying his 19 year old shipmate Benjamin LeRoy Hobbs aboard the destroyer USS Stribling off Key West Florida. David Joseph Watson of Norfolk Virginia admitted assaulting bludgeoning and strangling Hobbs after returning from liberty on July 24. Hobbs was found in a gun tub as Watson slept on deck due to the heat and then attacked him when he awoke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Key West
Fla
INS
Navy Today
FBI
Naval
Benjamin LeRoy Hobbs
Nebo
N. C
Joseph Thornton
Miami
David Joseph Watson
Norfolk
Hobbs
Stribling
Watson
Liberty
Deferred election at Crucible mine postponement latest
A Greene county Crucible Steel mine election for supervisory employees was postponed to August 20 after a national labor relations board appeal. The AFL United Mine Workers District 50 had sought the vote, while Crucible and Buckeye Coal asked dismissals. No hearing date set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Greene County
Crucible Steel Company of America
National Labor Relations Board
Washington
AFL
United Mine Workers District 50
United Clerical, Technical & Supervisory Employes
Buckeye Coal Company
Buckeye
NLRB
Frank Kleiler
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company
Diver Prepares To Raise Sub Off San Pedro
Tonga Stainbrook a wartime navy diver planned to raise a Japanese submarine said to lie about a mile offshore near White Point San Pedro at 180 feet. He claims the U-boat torpedoed the lumber ship Absaroka on December 24 1941 and was sunk minutes later by an army patrol plane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Pedro
Cal
INS
Tonga Stainbrook
Stainbrook
White Point
British American talks near complete on economic fusion of zones
Berlin reports say Air Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas announced talks between Britain and the United States are nearly settled on joint plans for German administration in food and agriculture trade industry and finance. officials noted a common food ration standard and for equitable resource distribution while American leaders blamed the Soviet stance for blocking a four power agreement on interzonal newspaper exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin Shanke
Berlin
Germany
Sholto Douglas
U. S
Potsdam
Dr George H Ashley to retire as Pennsylvania state geologist
Harrisburg August 9 Dr George H Ashley state geologist since 1919 will retire from his post August 31 He turns 80 today and will be succeeded by Dr Ralph W Stone who will serve until January 31 1947 Stone is 69 turning 70 next November 17 and Ashley has longed for geology since childhood with a career spanning the US Geological Survey Arkansas Indiana Tennessee and Pennsylvania’s Geological Survey leadership paths detailed
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
George H. Ashley
Ashley
Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey
Department of Internal Affairs
William S. Livengood, Jr
Ralph W. Stone
Stone
Rochester
N. Y
Cornell University
Leland Stanford University
Arkansas Geological Survey
Indiana
U. S. Geological Survey
Washington
Tenessee
Pennsylvania Geological Survey
Camden
U. S. Service
Woman Fatally Leaps From Moving Car Near Fairmont
In Fairmont West Virginia on August 9, a department store clerk, Mrs. Bess Ingram, died from a skull fracture after jumping from a speeding car on a highway. Police detained three men C R Markey H R Markey and Walter E Preston for questioning after they allegedly drove her from Fairmont toward Mannington and then fled from the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairmont
W. Va
INS
D. E. Kidd
Bess Ingram
C. R. Markey
H. R. Markey
Norwood
Walter E. Preston
Ingram
Mannington
Gettysburg Grad Marshal Head Gets Promotion
The West Virginia state board of education named Dr. Stewart H. Smith associate dean of Marshall College to act as president of the Huntington institution. He fills the vacancy after Dr. John Davis Williams resigns to become chancellor at the University of Mississippi. Dr. Smith, Marshall’s acting head of the graduate council since June, will serve indefinitely. A Glen Rock Pennsylvania native, he holds a Gettysburg College B S from 1927, a Columbia M A, and a Syracuse Ph D from 1943.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
State Board of Education
Stewart H. Smith
Teachers College of Marshall College
Huntington Institution
John Davis Williams
University of Mississippi
Smith
Marshall
Marshall Graduate Council
Four Hurt When Bus Collides With Truck Near Dixmont
Four people in a bus of 20 were injured slightly when the bus hit a truck near Dixmont. They were treated at Sewickley Valley hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Dixmont
Sewickley Valley Hospital
Leather price boosts hit shoes as OPA revises policy
OPA authorized immediate leather price increases up to 30 percent on goat and kid hides, with potential higher shoe prices. The agency ties leather hikes to the new price control law while declining higher raw-hide ceilings. Justice Department probes possible industry conspiracy to hoard hides until ceilings ease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Opa
John R. Steelman
Justice Department
Steelman
Plane crash at Great Falls air show kills six
four crew members of two A 26 Invaders and at least two civilians die when two planes collide during an air show at North Montana state fair. one plane hits a horse barn causing a fire. another crashes a mile away. rescue crews recover six bodies amid charred debris and ongoing investigations by an army board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Falls
Mont
North Montana State Fair
Lake Charles
Army Air Base
Wilson R. Wood
Smyrna
Tenn
Army Board
Page Two
Isotopes Touted as Hope for Hay Fever and Asthma
Washington report says W A Higinbotham, president of the Federation of American Scientists, announced radioactive isotopes may diagnose and treat hay fever and asthma by tracing chemicals causing reactions. Isotopes already aid cancer and diabetes research and could tag causal substances in pollen, fur, feathers, or other allergens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
W. A. Higinbotham
Federation of American Scientists
Higinbotham
Plane Crash at Lakehurst Kills 3. 3 Hurt
An Atlantic Central Air Lines twin-engine Lockheed Lodestar crashed just outside Lakehurst Naval Air Station New Jersey killing pilot Thomas A. Carlin Jr. and two passengers, Paul Foley and Raymond Kreidler, with three others injured. Witnesses said the plane overshot the runway, stalled, and plunged into scrub near a brook as flames erupted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lakehurst
N. J
Atlantic Central Air Lines
Atlantic City
Newark
Naval Air Station
Thomas A. Carlin, Jr
North Hills
Paul Foley
Bayway
Phelps-Dodge Copper Products Corporation
Elizabeth
Raymond le Roy Kreidler
Westinghouse
Fairmont W. Va
Navy
Station Hospital
Ruth Eckersley
East Orange
Anthony Morrelli
Sheriff’s Find Points to Stolen Goods Linked to Baker
Somerset borough police report recovered items including a green glider cushion two striped awning cushions a white cotton blanket a patched wool blanket and a swing pad found with John Walter Baker a parole violator who was found sleeping in an area behind the high school gym. Residents with matching property urged to claim at the borough police as the investigation continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerset
John Walter Baker
R. D
Somerset High School
Simon Kennel
Baker
End Hearing on Unionized Bosses
National Labor Relations Board heard United Mine Workers plea to represent 25 supervisory employees at Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp mines. Twelve general assistant mine foremen testified that their duties increased after a November mine reorganization. The company argues foremen are management and not eligible for union representation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
National Labor Relations Board
United Mine Workers Union
Jones and Laughlin Stee. Corp
Geneal
J&l
AFL
Conference rejects two thirds rule at peace talks over Albania stance
The European peace conference rejected Russia’s demand for a two thirds majority vote after Byrnes warned allies would not be dictated to. A clash arose over allowing Albania as a consultative member with Greece opposing and Tsaldaris denouncing the invitation as inadmissible while Molotov cited the Moscow pact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Dynan
Paris
Russia
Byrnes
United States
Albania
E.s.t
Greece
Ukraine
Constantin Tsaldaris
Foreign Ministers Council
Molotov
Tsaldaris
Bar Byrnes
Tashdaris
Weekend Weather Outlook for Pennsylvania and West Virginia
Extended forecast covers August 10 to 14 with Western Pennsylvania expecting mostly cloudy skies and scattered showers early Saturday, then partly cloudy and cooler afternoon. Sunday looks generally fair and cool. West Virginia will see scattered showers and thunderstorms Saturday, cooling through the afternoon, with Sunday partly cloudy and cool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Also Mentioned on This Page
Barkman’s Hardware
Girs
Neer
Hearing Center
W. J. Mostoller
Sonotone
Sonotone OF
Johnstown
Second Ave
Johnstown, Pa
U.s.army
Anti-Lynch
Inopa
LIONS
Donna Lee Beauty Salon
W. Main St
Dairy Land
Coleman
Fairview St
Somerset, Pa
Rotary Club
West VA
Just
Eddy Howard
Lohr
Record Bar
People’s Bank Bldg
Shady Nook Park
Somerset Pike
Jennerstown
Orchestra
Curley Mangel and His
Wildcat Ramblers
Somerset Concrete Works
Crucible Mine
IXL
Uss
DR. Ashley
Gettysburg
Millers Orchard
Somerset Taxi Service
Lakehurst Navy Station
Somerset Restaurant
Somerset Weather
David Grove
A. S. Weather Observer
IRI Tai
Ox Scassininissaeninanauaiae
Evdomueeiiniial
Baldatian
Aanneteet
U. S. Weather Bureau
Ciecennmenenia
CEVA
PACIS
St. Lou
Bakersville Lutheran Church
Church OF Christ
Woodrow
Somerset County Memorial Park, Inc
Knepper Sisters
Kingwood
Ivan Gardner
Sacred Aires Quartet
Dwight Funk
H. L. Fisher
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!