Pedestrian Killed By Car Near Ogletown
Joseph Androsek aged 58 was struck and killed while walking on a highway near Ogletown Saturday night. Kenneth Miller 26 of Johnstown told police he swerved to miss Androsek who was intoxicated and walking in the road. The driver’s wife 23 suffered a broken arm as Androsek’s body went through the windshield. Coroner F E Sass said Androsek had skull fractures and multiple injuries. Androsek had a history of intoxication and recent jail time for similar conduct.
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Joseph Androsek
Ogletown
Kenneth Miller
Vickrey Avenue
Johnstown
F. E. Sass
Miller
Androsek
Windber
Eee
Morticia
Shank
Winde
Sass
Jennertown
Motor Police
Car Overturns Injuring Three Men Near Meyersdale
Three men were injured when their car overturned on Route 219 between the Salisbury railroad branch and the stone bridge. Scottie Reese was pinned and taken to Wenzel hospital in Meyersdale with possible internal injuries. Donnie Walker and Red Miller escaped with cuts and bruises. Reese said another vehicle forced his car from the highway.
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Salisbury
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Stone Bridge
Route 219
Scottie Reese
Wenzel Hospital
Meyersdale
Donnie Walker
R. D
Red” Miller
Keystone Street
Reese
Car Crash Near Corry Kills Three, Injures Four
Three people die and four are injured in a head on collision three miles east of Corry when an automobile failed to negotiate a curve and struck a bus. Victims are Mrs. Decastro, Mrs. Petrucelli, and Felix Corvino, all of Erie. Bus driver Robert McWilliams and five passengers escape serious harm.
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Corry
Here
Joseph Decastro
Amelia Petrucelli
Felix Corvino
Erie
Decastro
Dorothy Caker
David Swedn
Brie
West Ridge
Robert McWilliams
Warren
J. M
French Tire Maker Edouard Michelin Dies at 84
Edouard Michelin, 84, French tire manufacturer and inventor of the Michelin rubber tires, died today at his home in Orcines. He established a roadway service covering nearly all of Europe, shaping modern tire and road services.
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Vichy
France
Edouard Michelin
Orcines
Europe
Railway Publisher William T J Montgomery Dies
William T J Montgomery 71 president of the Benefit Association of Railway Employees and publisher of the Railway Employes Journal died in Chicago. He came from California in 1912 and helped found the insurance association, serving as its president and chairman of the board since 1933.
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Chicago
William T J. Montgomery
Benefit Association of Railway Employes
Railway Employes Journal
California
The
Insurance Association
Jones Too Ill To Preview Pike Today
The Pennsylvania turnpike commission hosted federal officials and lawmakers for a preview tour of the 160 mile route of the nation's first super highway. A motorcade Monday will showcase defense, safety, and engineering features, with dedication planned for October 1.
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Hershey
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
Harrisburg
Pittsburgh
Henry L. Stimson
Navy
Frank Knox
Willam
Knudsen
Ralph Budd
National Defense Advisory Commission
Loe
Duquesne Club
Philadelphia
Walter A. Jones
Washington
John D. Fuller
Stimson
Jacob L. Devers
Eugene Harrison
Pennsylvania
James J. Davis
Joseph F. Guffey
Sheridan Downey
California
House of Representatives
Finishing touches on Laurel Hill tube near completion
Work on the Somerset county strip of the all weather highway nears completion as the Allegheny tunnel awaits inspection. At Laurel Hill, permanent lights are being installed and the east entrance portal is being rushed for a proposed inspection while a portable scaffold remains for final facing work.
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Somerset County
Allegheny
Laurel Hill
Counterfeit Dimes Arrests In Pittsburgh Case
Two Uniontown men Eugene Pranks aged 26 and Glenn Helmick aged 29 were held for a hearing yesterday after Secret Service agents testified they found 24 counterfeit dimes in their possession. The hearing was before a U S commissioner in Pittsburgh on August 25.
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Pittsburgh
Uniontown
U. S
Secret Service
Eugene Pranks
Glenn Helmick
Willkie Declines Debate With McNutt Over Time
Willkie says debating McNutt is a pure loss of time. McNutt, federal security administrator, had proposed a platform debate while Willkie discusses Western Pennsylvania rally plans with former state senator Frank Harrisburg. Willkie criticizes the President for not debating and hints Ickes sanctioned the withdrawal.
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William B. Ardery
New York
Wendell L. Willkie
Paul V. McNutt
Beta ‘Neta Pi
Indiana University
McNutt
Federal Security Administrator
Willkie
Paul
Henry A. Walace
Ickes
Pennsylvania
Frank J. Harrisburg
Pittsburgh
Harris
Bercheny Returns to Somerset Jail in Series of Thefts
Francis Bercheny, 21, of Johnstown, was returned to the Somerset county jail after a stay at the Allegheny county work house. He had just finished a term for break ing and larceny and faces similar counts in Indiana county. He helped steal safes from chain stores in over 20 towns, with loot from contents. He is reported ill with impaired eyesight.
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Francis Bercheny
Johnstown
Somerset County
Merle K. Glessner
Allegheny County
Cambria
Westmoreland
Somerset
Indiana County
Bereceny
Indiana
Bercheny
Gas station holdup ends with assault on caretaker mother
In Lansdale two bandits battered 13 year old boy and his mother Mrs Wilhelmina Ewald at a Bergen gas station. The attackers tied the boy to a chair, robbed the till of $50, then fled. The mother was struck with a blackjack and left dazed.
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Lansdale
Bergen
Wilhelmina Ewald
Henry
Two Pedestrians Die in Williamsport Area Crashs
Two pedestrians were killed by automobiles in Williamsport and nearby. Albert W. Lear, 76, was struck crossing a city street on Saturday night. Mrs. Elmyra Kinley, 69, was hit while crossing a three lane highway a few miles east of here late today.
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Williamsport
Albert W. Lear
Gray Consolidation First Aid Team Wins Uniontown Meet
Gray Consolidation first aid team captained by Oliver Boyer defeated Vesta No 5 and claimed first honors at Uniontown after both scored 100 percent in the first aid meet. Langloth Fifth Langloth and Gibson split fifth and sixth places in a tight field of 18 teams from nine bituminous districts.
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Pennsylvania
Uniontown
Consolidation Coal Company
Gray
Vesta No. 5
Washington County
Gray Consolidation
Robensburg
Westmoreland
Somerset
Greene
Washington
Allegheny
Jayette
Somerset County
Fayette County
Oliver Boyer
William Foley
Robert Kimmel
Irvin Lambert
Melvin Fritz
Robert Harvey
Grayam
Red Cross
Crucible
Acosta
Jenners
Langloth Coal Company
Burgettstown
Melcroft
Koppers Coal Company
Gibson
Hillman Coal and Coke Company
Ellsworth
Langloth
Ebensburg
Hustead Field
Richard Maize
W. J. Crow
J. J. Forbes
U. S. Bureau of Mines
White Swan
Short Jailed Richard Short Committed on Process
Short Jailed Richard Short, 35, of Meyersdale, was committed to the county jail late Friday on a process.
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Short
Richard Short
Meyersdale
James Taken Into Tribe Of Cornplanter Chief Cornplanter Adopts Governor James
Harrisburg August 25 1940 Governor Arthur H James was adopted by the Seneca Cornplanter tribe as Dahn Goht Sunlight at their Warren reservation joining a long lineage of American Indian relations. Two thousand spectators watched ceremonies including scalp checks dances and the conferral of a clan name Ga In Dah Qua. James praised William Penn and Presidents Washington Jefferson and spoke of frontier days and future strength. He received a bow and arrow and gave cash while a tobacco pouch symbolized future tobacco use. The event highlighted the small Cornplanter community facing potential loss from the proposed 100 million flood control project on the Allegheny and Kinzua dam.
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James
Pennsylvania
Fill
Warren
New York State
Cornslanter
Washington
Jefferson
William Penn
Arthur C. Parker
Rochester, N. Y
Parker
Willkie
Assembly
Cornplaner
Penn’s
Western
Kinzua
Allegheny River
Chautauqua Lake
N. Y
John Siggins, Jr
Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
Erie
Chamber of Commerce
James F. Torrance
Torrance
Mine Kills 2 Of Nobility in England Explosion
In a Southeast coast town in England on Aug 25 an explosion from a land mine in a prohibited area killed Lord North aged 38 and Lady Cynthia Williams. Lady North, elder daughter of Sir Merrik Burrell, was wounded. Lady Cynthia Williams, 32, was the daughter of the Earl of Guilford and wife of Max Wells Williams.
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England
Lord North
Cynthia Williams
Lady North
Earl of Guilford
Merrik Burrell
Max Wells Williams
American Steel Company
Miss Dia Visits Brother in Nebraska During Recovery
Miss Dia of Meyersdale a member of the Somerset county public assistance board has traveled to Davenport Nebraska to visit her brother Harry Dia who is recovering from a serious operation.
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Dia
Olivia Dia
Meyersdale
Somerset County Department of the Public Assistance Board
Davenport, Neb
Harry Dia
Berliners Take Shelter In Three Hour Air Raid
Berlin huddled in basement shelters for over three hours as anti aircraft cannons roared and British planes circled the city. No damage reported though fires and tracer shells lit the skies. officials noted prior raids on England and omitted details of Berlin raids. Nearby Leipzig faced a shorter raid during its famous fair as British leaflets warned of railway bombing.
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Berlin
England
London
Leipzig
Hungary Calls Thousands Of Reservists In Hungary
Hungary ordered air raid precautions and mobilized thousands of reservists after reports Romania sent reinforcements to Transylvania. The government said Romania acted against axis will while Hungary insists on its claims. Negotiations with Romania may resume this week, but experts expect months to reach any agreement.
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Budapest
Hungary
Rumania
Transylvania
Lurman-Severin
Kumara
Romania
Bucharest
Off To Check Blitzkrieg
Sir John A. MacTaggart a 72 year old Scottish real estate operator left New York aboard an American clipper bound for Lisbon and Great Britain saying he had heard a blitzkrieg was coming within a day or two and he did not want to miss it. He joked about not seeing a blitzkrieg and wanting to verify the advertised specifications. He planned a weekend visit and would book passage back on arrival.
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New York
John A. MacTaggart
Lisbon
Portugal
Great Britain
Hitler
Sir John
Nazis Dislike Vichy Report
Berlin reports the German government denounces a French air ministry communique claiming French losses totaling 306 planes through June 10. The radio asserts these figures are faked, stating the armistice left France’s air force destroyed, challenging the French official statement.
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Berlin
Vichy
Air Ministry
Germany
France
Mrs Baker Ill Sister of Late Congressman In Greenville
Mrs. Baker is seriously ill at her home in Greenville township following a paralytic stroke. She is the sister of the late Congressman S. A. Kendall of Meyersdale.
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Baker iII
Rachel
Kendall) Baker
S. A. Kendall
Meyersdale
Greenville Township
Gayda Warns Britain of New Surprise Near Rome
Aug 25 dispatch says Virginio Gayda warned Britain of a forthcoming surprise as Italy and Germany step up air raids on Malta and North Africa. The piece notes Italians claim British raids on Lombardy and Piedmont with two civilian deaths, and reports clashes around Tobruk and Bardia amid escalating theater tensions.
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Rome
Fascism
Britain
Italy
Germany
Virginio Gayda
Malta
North
Africa
Gauda
Egypt
Balkans
Greece
Gayda
North Africa
Bardia
Mediterranean
Tobruk
Defense Board Meets Today In Ottawa
The joint Canada United States defense board opens its first meeting in Ottawa at 2 p.m. BST with US members arriving two hours earlier. Mayor LaGuardia of New York attends as an associate on the board. The panel, announced after a Roosevelt King conference, will study ways to broaden continental defense cooperation.
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Ottawa
Joint Board of Defense For
Canada
United States
F. H. LaGuardia
New York
Washington
Roosevelt
W. L. MacKenzie King
Federal study to seize marijuana fields in Fayette County
U S attorney George Mashank said federal officials are examining narcotics laws to see if lands where marijuana is grown illegally can be confiscated. The move centers on Mike La Rosa's Fayette County farm, where agents found 150000 marijuana plants.
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Pittsburgh
U. S
George Mashank
Mashank
Mike la Rosa
Fayette County
la Rosa
Air raids pound Britain as Luftwaffe claims rise
London reports loud bombs and flares as fifth raid warning in three days echoes across England. British claims pace of Luftwaffe loss climbs with 1,175 planes down since August 8 while raids continue, with mass anti-aircraft fire and searchlights lighting the night.
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London
Somerset Weather Report by David Grove
Daily weather summary from Somerset shows 24 hour period ending 5 30 p m with high 63 and low 56 degrees precipitation noted. The text includes garbled OCR fragments but preserves the attribution to David Grove US Weather Observer and the daily reporting context.
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David Grove
U. S. Weather Observer
Svarecneves
LRA Weeririers
Associated Press
U. S. Weather Bureau
City
New York
Boston
Elkins
Weather outlook for Mid Atlantic states with showers
Forecast covers West Virginia and nearby zones with cloudiness and light rain. Northeast portions expect Monday rain then Tuesday showers with a gradual warmup. Eastern Pennsylvania and Maryland see rain or light showers while remaining cool then warmer later. Western Pennsylvania remains largely unsettled with rain on Monday and Tuesday.
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West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Maryland
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