Roeder Dies Nine Days After Turnpike Crash
Carl Roeder 25 of 2 Belmere Place Rochester New York died nine days after his vacation trip car rear ended a semi trailer on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near the Somerset interchange. He and his mother Mrs Gertrude Roeder and sister Elizabeth were injured. mother and daughter later released from hospital. Coroner and state police investigated. operator of truck unharmed. Roeder single, survived by mother and several siblings.
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Eays
Somerset
Carl Roeder
Belmere Place
Rensaelar
New York
Somerset Community Hospital
Walter McElhaney
Indianapolis
Inaana
Gertrude Roeder
Settlement in Sandusky Specht Case Approved
Judge Norman T. Boose approved an out-of-court settlement of 959 dollars in a Somerset borough auto accident suit involving Specht Motor Co. and Josiah Specht. Carl Sandusky 8 sustained leg and collarbone fractures and body injuries, with parents seeking 809 hospital and medical fees and 150 for pain and suffering.
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Norman T. Boose
Specht Motor Company
Somerset
Josiah Specht
Somerset Borough
Carl Sandusky
Charles Sandusky
Margaret Sandusky
Church Street
Acros
Center Avenue
Specht
Sandusky
Leland W. Walker
Clarence L. Shaver
Fast Rescue Work Saved Four Miners
Indiana state mine inspectors praised emergency rescue teams for freeing four men trapped by a 50 foot rockfall at Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Kent No 2 mine. Edward Brink, 23, suffered fractures to his left hip and right foot. Gerald Swan 54, Fred Fogle 30, and John T. Wysocki 27 were unhurt. Rescue crews tunneled through and around the rockmass to reach them.
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Indiana
Kent No. 2
Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company
Edward Brink
Aultman
Gerald
Swan
Fred Fogle
John T. Wysocki
Lavansville Lutheran Ladies Serve 350 Supper
The Lavansville Lutheran church ladies served about 350 suppers on Wednesday evening for their annual chicken corn soup supper held in the church basement.
Subscriptions Offered for Somerset American Renewal
Notice extends subscription renewal through August 31 on new terms. Rate is 5.00 per year outside Somerset County by mail, 4.00 per year in Somerset County. New subscriptions welcome on same terms as old.
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Somerset
Somerset County
Snyder Hoax Sparks Debate Over Somerset Library Grant
Som erset residents confront a letter campaign by Congressman J Buell Snyder claiming a 27402 grant for a Mary S Biesecker Public Library building. Officials say no official notice yet, WPA labor shortages threaten the 40000 dollar project and site plans at Rosina avenue and West Church street, with architect Charles Stolz Jr. involved.
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Mary S. Biesecker Public Library Board
J. Buell Snyder
Somerset
George J. Krebs
Snyder
Somerset County
Department of Public Assistance
Pennsylvania
DPA
WPA
Mary Ss. Biesecker Public Library
The
Library Association
Fred W. Biesecker
Honest Man Returns Dime After Year-Long Delay
Deputy Sheriff Karl I Hare receives a dime returned by a man who had asked for it on the street over a year ago. The reclaimer explains hardship and pride in honesty in a letter, noting he has no work and seeks to repay the donor.
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Karl I. Hare
Mr. Kar] Hare
Fire damages Walker home near Rockwood
Roy E. Walker and his wife escaped as flames gutted the attic of their frame house on Water Level road three miles north of Rockwood. Firefighters from the Rockwood and Somerset volunteers battled the stubborn blaze, bringing it under control around 5 p.m. The family moved out belongings. damage estimated at about 500 dollars with additional furnishings harmed. No cause determined.
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Roy E. Walker
Rockwood
Water Level
Walker
Somerset
CIO Threatens Ten County Blackout Over Wages
Altoona August 22 Edne R. Vance secretary of Local 180 CIO utilities workers organizing committee said union members voted to strike next Thursday at Pennsylvania Edison company unless wage gains and bargaining rights are granted. A power blackout could affect Blair Mifflin Huntingdon Cumberland Franklin Perry Juniata Bedford Indiana and Cambria counties if talks fail. Negotiations with the company remain deadlocked despite federal and state mediator efforts.
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Altoona
Edne R. Vance
CIO Utilities Workers Organizing Committee
Pennsylvania Edison Company
Blair
Mifflin
Huntingdon
Cumberland
Franklin
Perry
Juniata
Bedford
Indiana
Cambria
Struck By Bicyclist Dies in Lebanon
In Lebanon on August 22 a 73 year old woman, Mrs. Kate Matterness, wife of the Rev. Thomas Matterness, died from injuries suffered yesterday when struck by a bicycle ridden by an 11 year old girl. The incident involved a retired minister.
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Lebanon
Kate Matterness
Thomas Matterness
Somerset Statue Debate Refutes Pittsburgh Press Tale
Somerset town council members viewed a plaster model of a proposed statue fountain by Carl Milles in Cranbrook Michigan. They approved the design but balked at the 15 foot height and $25,000 price, planning to seek outside funding while awaiting a September 8 vote on final placement in the public square.
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Pittsburgh
Somerset
Public Square
Somerset American
Cranbrook
Michigan
Carl Milles
Allegheny
Somerset County
Lown Coidhell
W. G. Critchfield
George Schenck
Ralph Smith
Richard Pile
Ross Rinard
Boyd Picking
Tne
Millesscae
Smith
United States
Wertz Lad Suffers Arm Injury in Somerset
Robert Ray Wertz a 13 year old of Somerset R D 2 was taken to Somerset Community Hospital after an arm injury from a fall or jump from a pile of grass near his home Friday evening He was admitted as a patient and doctors suspected a fracture of the left elbow He is the son of William Wertz of Somerset R D 2.
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Robert Ray Wertz
Somerset, R. D
Yout
Somerset Community Hospital
William Wertz
Somerset
Nazis Raid Leningrad Airfields in Central Front Push
Berlin reports massive Luftwaffe strikes around Leningrad hitting eight airports and bridges near Lake Ilmen. Russian losses claimed at 1,250,000 prisoners and thousands of tanks and planes as German forces press operations on multiple fronts including Dnieper bend and near Novgorod.
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Berlin
Leningrad
DNB
Lake Ilmen
Novgorod
Gomel
Central Front
Red Army
Adolf Hitler
Schutz Staffel
Odessa
Dnieper River
Ukraine
Pinsk
Smolensk
Dnieper
Lower Dnieper
Kherson
Black Sea
Ochakov
Finns Drive Within 50 Miles of Leningrad Front
Finnish high command says forces breached defenses near Leningrad and drove within 50 miles, routing five Russian divisions on the Karelian Isthmus and around Lake Ladoga. They claim gains from Enso to Kiviniemi, capturing Kakisalmi and trapping troops on Kilpelansaari while bombarded on land and sea.
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Leningrad
Helsinki
Finland
Mannerheim
Karelian
Lake Ladoga
Vuoksi
Enso
Kiviniemi
Kakisalmi
Rock Coal Kills Miner in Independent Mine
SHAMOKIN Aug 22 A rock coal collapse in an independent mine near the Northumberland county town killed Malcolm Crist 41, marking the 32nd coal mining fatality in the Northumberland-Schuylkill area this year.
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Northumberland County
Malcolm Crist
Northumberland-Schuylkill
Nazis Use French Hostage Policy In Occupied France
German forces declare all French held or arrested in France as hostages for any anti German act. The order signed by Lieutenant General von Schaumburg takes effect Aug 23 1941 and allows shooting hostages equal to the crime’s gravity. Reports from Paris say the Petain government considers death penalties for communists and coordinates Gaullist and Communist groups.
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Vichy
France
Paris
von Schaumburg
Petain
Council of Ministers
Cri du Peuple
Jacques Doriot
Popular Army
de Gaullist
Showdown Near as Iran and Britain Clash Over Techs
Teheran delivered a formal reply to Britain demanding expulsion of German technicians, signaling a final showdown. Radio marches and a cancellation of leave preceded 1,072 newly graduated officers being deployed to border areas as troops guard against attack.
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Daniel DE Luce
Teheran
Iran
Mexico orders Nazi consulates closed and withdrawals directed
Mexico City Aug 22 The foreign office ordered 15 German consulates in Mexico closed by Sept 1 and instructed all Mexican consuls in German occupied Europe to withdraw by the same date The move follows Germanys demand that Mexico withdraw its consular representative from German occupied Paris as an act not friendly.
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Mexico City
Foreign Office
Mexico
Europe
Foreign Ministry
Germany
Paris
Leningrad's peril bears on Iran issue
The peril to Leningrad affects Russia's southern and Far Eastern frontiers, threatening rail routes to Arctic ports. Britain and Russia press to oust Nazi influence from Iran while the US and Britain push aviation fuel and machine tools to Vladivostok despite Japan. Iran offers routes by rail across the Persian Gulf, via Bagdad and India, and Vladivostok across Siberia, each with varying risk of disruption.
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Leningrad
Rusia
Russia
Arctic
Iran
Caspian Sa
United States
Murmansk
Ladoga
Archangel
Moscow
Britain
Kirkenes
Norway
London
Bagdad
Iraq
Caspian
Black Seas
India
Black Sea
Caucasus
Vladivostok
Pacific
Japan
Japs Weak In The Air Threat Seen By Analyst
Lucien Zacharoff in Aviation magazine argues Japan’s air industry is weak with 3 000 to 5 000 planes and about 5 000 personnel. He notes training output under 1 000 pilots and high accident rates, with only about 250 warplanes produced monthly versus 1 500 in the United States. He deems Far East Russian air forces stronger than Japan, and Dutch British power in the Pacific greater than Japan’s navy air arm.
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New York
Japan
Lucien Zacharoff
Aeronautics Authority
Aviation
Tokio
Zacharoff
Office of Production Management
Pacific
Germans Halt Push On Leningrad Amid Heavy Fighting
Moscow reports a stubborn Russian defense along a vast arc around Leningrad as German drive stalls. Russian communique notes continued combat on the entire front while ships strike German transports in the Baltic. Two months of war show German losses far exceeding Soviet figures, with tanks, guns, and aircraft heavily dwindled on both sides.
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Moscow
Klementi Voroshilov
Red
Leningrad
Neva
Baltic
Kiev
Red Army
Russia
Izvestia
Gulf of Finland
Kingisepp
Novgorod
Sec
Somerset Weather Summary Report
Daily weather summary by David Grove reports 24 hour period from Thursday 5 30 p m to Friday 5 30 p m with a maximum 73 and minimum 54 degrees. A year ago the maximum was 41 degrees.
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Somerset Weather
David Grove
U. S. Weather Observer
Weather Outlook For Eastern States This Weekend
Weather Elsewhere Eastern Pennsylvania: Cloudy with a few scattered showers Saturday morning followed by clearing in the afternoon or early morning, cooler Saturday night, Sunday fair with moderate temperature. Maryland: Cloudy with a few scattered showers Saturday followed by clearing and somewhat cooler Saturday night, Sunday generally fair with moderate temperature. Western Pennsylvania: Generally fair with moderate temperature Saturday, cooler Saturday night, Sunday fair with moderate temperature, West Virginia: Mostly cloudy with a few scattered showers in east and south portion Saturday, clearing and slightly cooler Saturday night, Sunday generally fair with moderate temperature.
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Pennsylvania
Maryland
West Virginia
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