East West Moscow Talks Stalemate On Danube Free Navigation
The Belgrade Danube conference failed to approve free navigation guarantees as western powers lose early attempts. The United States pressed an anti discrimination amendment to the first article of the Danube shipping convention, while Russia and Eastern Europe pushed a bloc backed pact barring western influence. The preamble test passed 7 to 2, with US and France opposing and Britain abstaining.
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Alex H .Singleton
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
United States
Russia
Danube River
Europe
Cavendish Cannon
Cannon
U.S
France
Britain
Communist Bloc
Subpoenas Issued for Russians in US Spy Hearings
The House Un American Activities Committee issued witness subpoenas to two Russians, Michael Samarin and his wife, as part of its probe into Communist intrigue. A third Russian, Mrs Oksana Kosenkina, remained at the New York consulate awaiting possible subpoena, with authorities stating entry to the consulate requires a warrant.
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Washington
Russia
House
UN American Activities Committee
New York
Michael Ivanovitch Samarin
FBI
Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina
4-H Clubs Largest yet as 22,000 expected in Pennsylvania
STATE COLLEGE Aug 10 More Pennsylvania farm youths join 4 H club work than ever before. J M Fry director of the agricultural extension reports total enrollment may reach 22 000 this year up from 20 603 in 1947 This is the second straight year of big gains in the extension program with over 24 941 projects in 1948. At the convention 1 109 4 H boys and girls competed in judging contests with teams from Cambria Lancaster Westmoreland and Franklin counties winning top honors.
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State College
Pennsylvania
J. M. Fry
Fry
Agricultural and Home Economics Extension Service
Pennsylvania State College
Cambria
Lancaster
Westmoreland
Franklin
Robert Leiden
Henry Leiden
St. Lawrence
Edward Metzger
Johnstown
Westmoreland Co
Manheim
Anna M. Burkholder
Willow Street
Alice Weichsel
Christiana
Mary Ella Stauffer
Westmoreland County
Joanne Conner
William Lazar, Jr
Jeannette
Bruce Cooper Greensburg
Beaver County
Schuykill County
Lancaster County
Montgomery County
Helen Miller
Manheim RD
Dean Belt
Chaddsford
Elsie Schmidt
Pine Grove
James Loder
Berlin
Franklin County
Laura Dice
Paul Lehman
Paul Skelly
Chambersburg
Northampton County
Sullivan County
William George
Shelocta
Robert Bond
Ellenton
Joseph Durika
Blairsville
Harry Clewell, Jr
Easton
Uniontown Man Killed Wife Wounded in Salina Shooting
A Uniontown Pennsylvania man Robert Walter Greenlief killed himself after fatally shooting his estranged wife Lillian Greenlief in an apartment. Police say jealousy triggered the attack after earlier separation and a prior assault charge against Greenlief.
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Uniontown
Salina
Kas
U. Gs. McDonalu
Robert Walter Greenlief
Lillian Greenlief
McDonald
L. H. Day
Greenlief
For Sale Modern 5-Room House on Plank Road
Modern two story house with kitchen dining living room two bedrooms and bath plus storage room. Automatic gas heat ample closet space walls and roof well insulated built in past two years and finished or to be completed and vacated within 30 days.
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Plank Road
Partisans Spiritually Rescue Czech Leader and Family
A Czechoslovak partisan group reported to have abducted and smuggled Peter Zenkel and his wife to the U S occupation zone in Germany. The operation, described as a careful rescue, freed Zenkel and eleven others and was intended to grant exile with American aid.
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Tom Agoston
Frankfurt
INS
Scarlet Pimpernel
Peter Zenkel
U. S
Germany
Zenkel
Millikin urges scrapping useless government duties
Senator Millikin forecasts a budget surplus and urges a study of all government-financed functions to cut the tax load. He says Dewey would implement such a survey and that tax reductions could follow the surplus, with excise levies repealed if margins allow. Bridges expects tax cuts next year depending on international and military needs.
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Frankk B. Allen
Washington
INS
Sen
Millikin
Cole
Senate Finance Committee
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Senate
GOP
Taft
Ohio
Treasury
Snyder
House
Senate Appropriations
Bridges
Somerset Community Hospital July Patient Totals Report
Two hundred patients were cared for at Somerset Community hospital in July with 55 medical and 84 surgical cases. There were 52 births and nine deaths. Dr. C. I. Shaffer presided, and a technicolor film on digitalis use in heart ailments was shown.
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Somerset Community Hospital
C. T. Saylor
C. I. Shaffer
Shaffer
Saylor
W. W. Westfall
C. B. Korns
M. J. Korns
I. C. Miller
H. G. Haines
A. M. Uphouse
W. V. Fetche
C. J. Hemminger
J. R. Hemminger
G. FP. Speicher
Actress June Allyson Powell adopt baby girl
Hollywood reports actress June Allyson and husband Dick Powell adopted a two month old girl named Leslie Allyson Powell. The couple announced the adoption today in Hollywood.
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Hollywood
June Allyson
Dick Powell
Leslie Allyson Powell
Reds Fail To Win Special Privileges
In Geneva Brazil Chile and China allied with the Communist bloc to block extending news gathering rights to locally hired foreign correspondents under a proposed international convention. The draft, originated by Britain, seeks to define and protect rights for foreign news reporters at UN information talks.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Brazil
Chile
China
Communist Bloc
United Nations Conference On Freedom of Information
Freedom of Information Confrence
U. N. Economic and A Social Council
Britain
France
United States
Council
Committee On
Pravda
Russia
Pennsylvania Wheat Loss From Rust and Fly Costs Large
Harrisburg reports rust and Hessian fly reduced Pennsylvania wheat harvest in July. Losses totaled about 8.856 million bushels at $2.17 per bushel, with July 1 yields dropping to 18.5 bushels per acre in the southeast. August 1 prospects show 65.32 million bushels overall, oats up to 27.09 million, tobacco at 57.77 million pounds, potatoes 19.08 million bushels.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
State Department
Fronzoli Death Ruled Accidental At Inquest
A Jerome inquest found Ruby Jane Fronzoli four died after stepping in front of a car driven by Ed Schrock of Stoystown. She died next day at Mercy Hospital Johnstown. The jury ruled the accident unavoidable.
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Jerome
Ruby Jane Fronzoli
Thomas Mills
Ed. C. Schrock
Stoystown
Mercy Hospital
Johnstown
Fall From Hay Load Injures Farmer Eli Lephart
Eli Lephart a Somerset rural resident was injured when he fell from a hay load in his barn Tuesday around noon. He was operating a mechanical hay loader when the trip rope snapped, ejecting him to the floor and causing neck injuries and a possible brain concussion.
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Eli Lephart
Somerset R. D
Education Congress Set for Sept 30 and Oct 1 in Harrisburg
Pennsylvania's Education Congress will convene in Harrisburg on September 30 and October 1. Dr. Francis B. Haas, superintendent of public instruction, announced the annual conference will cover progress in Keystone State education.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Francis B. Haas
Keystone
Hoover Celebrates 74th Birthday In West Branch
Herbert Hoover returns to West Branch to mark his 74th birthday with a tribute and an address on The Meaning of America. He denounces "fuzzy minded" views that would merge freedom with state power, stressing America rests on freedom of mind and spirit.
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West Branch
Herbert Hoover
U. S
Hoover
Little Hoover
America
Hegel
Karl Marx
Europe
Somerset American
Britons Freed From Israeli Spy Charges
Three of five Britons detained on espionage charges in Jerusalem were freed by an Israeli magistrate after prosecutors said there was insufficient evidence. The two remaining were kept without bail for 10 days and to be re examined. Britain had protested to the United Nations Security Council.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
United Nations
Israeli High Court of Justice
Peter Bergson
American League For A Free Palestine
Yaakov Meridor
U. N. Security Council
Eliezer Malchi
Jerusalem
Trans- Jordan Arab Legion
July vital statistics report from Norman Knepper
The July report lists 52 births and 23 deaths. Births occurred 48 in hospitals and four outside. deaths totaled 10 in hospitals and 13 outside.
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Norman E. Knepper
Reds Reject U S Program For Trieste
Lake Success August 10. Russia rejected a U S demand that Trieste be returned to Italy and accused the western powers of creating a Bizonia style entity in the Adriatic Free Territory. Deputy Foreign Minister Malik said 21 nations had ratified the Italian peace treaty and any revision was unacceptable to Moscow. Britain and France backed the American position while Tito was accused of aiming to annex the territory to Yugoslavia. Debate adjourned until Friday as the council weighs governor nomination and four power accord violations.
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Lake Success
Russia
United States
Trieste
Italy
Bitonia
Adriatic
Jakob A. Malik
Security Council
Britain
France
Malik
U. S
Germany
Yugoslavia
Philip C. Jessup
Marshal Tito
Moscow
Tito
Andrei A. Gromyko
Shot in scuffle with hold up man
Frank J. Pugliano of Turtle Creek was shot in a car scuffle after a holdup man robbed him and his companion Phyllis Quenzler of a diamond ring and $6. When Pugliano handed over $2, the robber struck him and fired a shot into his hip before fleeing.
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Pittsburgh
Frank J. Pugliano
Turtle Creek
Phyllis Quenzler
Pugliano
Stoystown Girl Injured in Highway Crash
Hazel Smith of Stoystown R. D. 3 was admitted to Somerset Community Hospital Tuesday morning with multiple cuts and bruises after her car allegedly plunged from the highway between Somerset and Stoystown.
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Hazel Smith
Stoystown
R. D
Somerset Community Hospital
Somerset
Russia Gave Miss Bentley Medal In 45
Elizabeth Bentley received 2000 dollars and a Red Star medal from the Russian government in 1945 after informing the FBI she acted as a red spy. The House committee said the money and decoration were turned over to the FBI and provided confirmation of the 1945 payment. Bentley says she was a courier who collected and passed government secrets to red agents.
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Kosenkina
Samarin
New York
House Committee
Elizabeth T. Bentley
William Ludwig Ullman
Duncan Lee
Office of Strategic Services
Miller
Robert T. Miller
Coordinator of inter-American Affairs
State Department
Lee
Ullman
Miss Bentley
FBI
Washington
House un-American Activities Committee
Supreme Russian Council
Red
Thomas
R-Nj
Bentley
Jet Fighter Explodes Off San Diego Coast Pilot Rescued
A Navy jet fighter exploded with two flashes offshore near San Diego. Ensign Constantine Pierozzi parachuted from the craft and was picked up by a fishing boat. a crash boat removed him from the vessel.
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San Diego
Calif
11Th Naval District
Constantine Pierozzi
Milk Dealers Pledge Adequate Supplies Despite Shortage Claim
Pittsburgh editors report that milk dealers vow to keep supplies at adequacy year round. E. C. Hibbetts, secretary of the Greater Pittsburgh Milk Dealers Association, rejects Albert D. Brandon's warning of potential false shortages as unfounded and injurious to the industry and its workers.
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Pittsburgh
E. C. Hibbetts
Greater Pittsburgh Milk Dealers Association
Albert D. Brandon
Talks in Moscow Reach Grim Bargaining Stage
Diplomatic sources report the east-west talks in Moscow entering a tough bargaining phase with each side aiming to extract maximum concessions. British informants say a broad basis for four power talks on Germany is blocked by Berlin settlement issues and the missing immediate Berlin solution. The blackout on Kremlin news continues as officials expect a result by week’s end with further meetings likely into next week.
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London
Moscow
Germany
Berlin
Kremlin
Somerset Weather Report and Extended Forecast
Daily temperature 24 hours to 5 30 p m shows a high of 80 and a low of 42 with historical contrasts. Maryland and adjacent regions anticipate fair weather then scattered thundershowers midweek, rising humidity and near normal temperatures into the weekend with limited rainfall.
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Maryland
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Weather Elsewhere August 10 Temperatures Reported
The U S Weather Bureau lists temperatures for August 10 in various locations. Readings indicate regional heat and cooler pockets as the nation experiences a mixed July to August climate pattern.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
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Samaria
Committee
J. Parnell Thomas
Alexander S. Panyushkin
Thomas’ Committee
Penna. Quarries, Inc
Friedens, PA
Monessen
NEW Holland
Greensburg
Washington St
Oliver Sales and Service
Hurley Farm Equipment
Greensburg, PA
Partisan
Reds
Prague
Zinkel
Route 53
Ursina
Gomer W. Edward
J. F Smith
Ernest Brink
Clarence B Turry
Arthur Stiles
Maurice R. Keim
James J. Phillips
Berlin Hardware CO
Gindlesperger Grove
New Centerville
Milford Grange
Walter’s Tire
Lambert
Shanksville Grove
Guy Lambert
Pres
Lavansville Lutheran Church
Budd’s Shoe Store
Mother Goose Nursery
Edna Weller Knepper
S. Center Ave
Mountain Playhouse
Somerset Sportsmen’s Ass’n
VFW Hall
Arthur Gavshon
Somerset Weather
David Grove
Chicago
Cleveland
Earl M. Younkin
Somerset Country Club
Wilbur Cox
Sport Shop
Barkman’s Hardware
Jack Dahl
Lenny Payton
Oakhurst Tea Room
Ld Eee Ae
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