Railroad wage pact ends strike threat
President Roosevelt mediation board settles wage and vacation dispute between rail labor and management. The deal, not yet published, may add up to 325 million dollars yearly to payrolls and avert a Dec. 7 railroad strike.
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Carson F. Flynn
Washington
Roosevelt
Wayne L. Morse
Morse
Chicago
Mors
Frank L. Mulholland
Toledo
Ohio
W. L. Morse
President's Emergency Mediation Board
Charles M. Hay
St. Louis
J. Carter Fort
Arrest Pair After Wreck on Harrison Acosta Road
A weekend wreck on the Harrison Acosta road led to the arrest of two Listie men, James Pugh and Lawrence Kerr. Pugh, 24, was charged with operating a vehicle under the influence and arraigned before Justice Josiah Swank. Kerr faced a disorderly conduct count and paid a $10 fine plus costs. No injuries occurred though both cars suffered extensive damage.
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Harrison-Acosta
Listie
James Pugh
Lawrence Kerr
John Sprock, Jr
Acosta
Pugh
Josiah Swank
Somerset
Somerset County
Kerr
Timber Fall Kills Man at Local Colliery
George Anstead aged 67 of Lansford was killed at a Lehigh Navigation Coal company colliery when a timber dropped 12 feet and struck him on the neck during construction work with a gang.
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Tamaqua
George Anstead
Lansford
Lehigh Navigation Coal Company
Airline Seeks New York to Ireland Nonstop Service
American Export Airlines announced it would apply to the Civil Aeronautics Board tomorrow to operate a nonstop New York to the Irish Free State service.
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Ireland
New York
American Export Airlines
Civil Aeronautics Board
Irish Free State
Jury Deliberates Overnight Over Graham Damage Case
A Somerset County civil trial over land damages from the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission continued after more than eight hours of deliberation without agreement. The jury, considering the A D Graham Company versus the Turnpike Commission, heard expert testimony on land values and was shuttled to Somerset House for the night.
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A. D. Graham and Company, Inc
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
Somerset County
John Weimer
Edith Koontz
Somerset House
Norman T. Boose
Graham Company
Turnpike Commission
Turnpike
Charles F. Uhl
A. D. Graham Company
Somerset
Lincoln Townships
Harrisburg
Pittsburgh
Gohn
Stahl
Friedine
Coleman
Adams
Maust
Mr. Uhl
Old South Penn Railroad
P. W. and
A. D. Graham
Uhl
Fulton, Bedford and Somerset Railroad Company
P. W. and S. Railroad Company
Acquittal in Minneapolis for 23 on Seditions Conspiracy
Federal court in Minneapolis acquitted 23 defendants linked to the Socialist Workers Party of seditious conspiracy. One defendant died by his own hand before trial. The trial, long and contentious, followed indictments naming 29 suspects and emphasized alleged Trotskyist influence and calls for armed revolution.
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Minneapolis
See Heive
Maes Uunne
Kelly Postal
Ray Organ
Ray Rainboldt
Harold Swanson
M. M. Joyce
Sentencine
V. R. Duahe
Harry DeBoer
Carlos Hudson
Clarance Hamel
Emil C. Hansen
Jake Cooper
Edward Palmquist
Carl Skoglund
Alert Goldman
New York
James P. Cannon
EWP
Grace Carlson
Stak
Felix Morrow
New Militant
Oscar Coover
Alfred Ruscel
Oscar Schoenfeld
Max Geldman Farrell Dobbs
Carl Kuehn
Grant Dunne
Socialist Worker Party
Leon Trotsky
Mexico City
Russia
United States
Walter Hagstrom
Rose Seiler
George Frosig
Dorothy Schultz
Nick Warner
U. S
Somerset Borough Council Settles With Township Over Annexation
Somerset borough council approved a settlement with Somerset township related to the East End annexation for $855.70. The Gladehurst water plant purchase for $1,000 was approved, and a contract with International Salt for salt used in the water softener plant was set at $960 per ton for the coming year.
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Somerset Borough
Somerset Township
East End
Gladehurst Water Company
International Salt Company
Prison For Belsenoit in Brownsville
Rene Belsenoit Frenchy, fugitive from Devil's Island and author of Dry Guillotine, was sentenced in Brownsville to fifteen months in prison and deportation after pleading guilty to illegal reentry. He swam the Rio Grande near Brownsville on May 24 1941 following a 1940 deportation.
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Belsenoit
Brownsville
Tex
Rene Belsenoit Frenchy
Devil's Island
United States
Rio Grande
Here
Petain and Goering Hold Conference in Occupied France
Marshal Petain and Admiral Darlan met with Hermann Goering near Saint Florentin in occupied France in a long session described as cooperation talks. A crowd at the railway station gave only a muted welcome as reports from Paris framed the meeting as part of closer Franco German collaboration amid strategic aims in North Africa and coal supplies.
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Vichy
France
Marshal Petain
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Saint Florentin
Paris
Darlan
Verdun
Germany
Fernand de Brinon
Petain
Montoire
Adolf Hitler
Maxime Weygand
French Empire
Teleradio
French North Africa
Italian
Libya
la Ferte-Hauterive
Moulins
Here
Dijon
Krug von Nidda
Morgantown Plant Picketed Over Welders Strike
In Morgantown West Virginia pickets around the 40 million dollar Morgantown ordnance works informed incoming welders of a strike affecting 67 workers over jurisdiction. M A Brown vice president of the United Brotherhood of Welders cutters and Helpers said this action followed outside welders hired by AFL steamfitters Local No 449 from Pittsburgh.
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Morgantown
W. Va
AFL
Pittsburgh
Riggs-Distler Pipe Company
Brown
J. C. Lowry Takes Bradford Post at Still Funeral Home
John C. Christy Lowry accepts a position in Bradford with Still Funeral Home. He previously served 14 years in Somerset at Charles R. Hauger Funeral Home and has 21 years embalming experience in Pittsburgh. His family plans to join after spring due to three Somerset schoolchildren.
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John C
Christy) Lowry
Bradford
Still Funeral Home
Somerset
Charles R. Hauger
Lowry
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Industrialist James Schoonmaker Jr. dies at 53
James M. Schoonmaker Jr., 53, prominent Pittsburgh industrialist, died at his home in Sewickley Heights. He served as a director of Standard Steel Spring Company Union Spring and Manufacturing Company and Union Storage Company.
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Pittsburgh
James M. Schoonmaker, Jr
Sewickley Heights
Standard Steel Spring Company
Union Spring and Manufacturing Company
Union Storage Company
FDR Talks with Hull and Stark Over Pacific Crisis
President Roosevelt held a noon conference with Admiral Harold R. Stark and Secretary of State Hull as Pacific tensions rose. Officials noted no concessions from Japan yet Japan’s cabinet plans to continue talks while U S forces in the Philippines and bases in Hong Kong and Singapore remain on high alert.
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Washington
Pacific
Roosevelt
Harold R. Stark
Naval Operations
Hull
Warm Springs
White House
Knox
United States Navy
Atlantic
Kichisaburo Nomura
State Department
Japan
Nomura
Saburo Kurusu
United States
Tokio
Far East
Dutch East Indies
Thailand
Philippines
Britain
Hoong Kong
Singapore
U S Freighter Macbeth Reported Torpedoed or Missing
The U S maritime commission freighter Macbeth flying Panamanian flag is missing in the north Atlantic with unofficial reports claiming a torpedoing. The ship operated by U S Lines ferried American supplies to England and faced wartime radio silence since leaving New York on September 20.
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New York
U. S. Maritime Commission
Macbeth
North Atlantic
Ida Z. O
U. S. Lines
Maritime Commission
England
Mobile
Ala
G. B. Martini
Geona
Italy
United States
Gulf
U S Air Chief Reveals Axis Fire During Med Flight
Maj. Gen. George H Brett said his plane came under fire from Axis destroyers while crossing the Mediterranean from London to Cairo. He announced a large US depot and maintenance facility for American planes to be set up in the Middle East and a technical school for British maintenance crews led by Brig. Gen Adler.
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Cairo
Egypt
George H. Brett
United States Army Air Corps
Mediterranean
London
Middle East
U. S. Army Air Force
United States
Adler
Brett
Malta
Japan to Continue Talks With U S as Diverging Policies Persist
Tokyo cabinet decide to pursue settlement with the United States while stressing divergent Pacific policies. Nomura Kurusu and Prime Minister Tojo led talks with Shigenori Togo and Hull’s principles. Domei notes Japan likely to push negotiations to influence Pacific issues. Thai neutrality and British forces in Burma and Malaya raise regional tension.
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Tokio
United States
Washington
Pacific
Burma
Malaya
Thailand
Bangkok
Hideki Tojo
Japan
Shigenori Togo
Domei
Togo
Hull
Comei
Thaind
Expect No Jap Attack Bangkok Says Thailand Safeguards Independence
Bangkok radio declared Thailand would never be attacked by Japanese troops, aligning with a pledge to welcome help if independence is threatened. Observers note the claim amid Japan’s hold on parts of Indochina and British Burma nearby. U.S. consulars urged Americans in Bangkok to be ready to depart quickly.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Indo- China
Burma
United States
Amercans
Philippines on alert as Japan massing troops
Manila reports United States army and naval forces on alert amid rumors of Japanese troop deployments into French Indochina. Observers think a thrust could target southwestern China or Thailand with 70 000 picked soldiers concentrated near the French colony borders.
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Manila
United States Army
Philippines
Japan
China
Thailand
Bateson Appointed to Employment Committee
Governor James names ten additional re employment committeemen to aid discharged soldiers in finding jobs. Among the appointees is W T Bateson of Confluence in Somerset County.
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Bateson
Harrisburg
James
Somerset County
W. T. Bateson
Confluence
Worst Nazi Setback on Campaign
Washington Tokyo Berlin Vichy talks shaped by German defeats in Rostov Russia and in Libya. Hitler’s forces suffer a major setback near Rostov, threatens Soviet advances toward Klin and Volokolamsk, while British and Egyptian actions in Libya gain leverage as Nazi risks ease along the Don and Caucasus fronts.
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Kirke L. Simpson
Russia
Libya
Washington
Hitler
Marshal Petain
France
Tokio
Cabinet Council
Europe
Marshal Goering
Petain
Rostov
Caucasus
Don
Crimea
Moscow
Berlin
Klin
Tula
Devonshire Sinks German Armed Merchant Raider In South Atlantic
London reports the British heavy cruiser Devonshire sank an armed German merchant raider on November 22 in the south Atlantic. The German vessel, a submarine fueling ship, showed a smoke screen and burned after a magazine explosion, with survivors not rescued due to a prowling U boat nearby.
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London
Devonshire
South Atlantic
Admiralty
Night raids pound six Nazi ports as weather eases
London reports moonlit RAF attacks hit Hamburg and five other northwest German ports last night ending a 38 month pause due to bad weather. German raiders strike a southwest English town, killing one and wounding several. The air ministry says 20 British planes were lost and notes attacks on German ships off the Dutch coast aided by Hudson bombers of the Canadian air force, including an American pilot.
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London
Hamburg
Germany
Air Ministry
Milk Price Hike In Scranton Area
Scranton reports milk prices rising today from 13 to 14 cents per quart and from seven to eight cents per pint in the Scranton area as a local adjustment.
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Scranton
Russians claim large gains as they drive German forces westward
Soviet communique reports destruction of 102 German aircraft and capture of 118 tanks and 210 cannons as Red Army advances from Rostov-on-Don toward Taganrog and Mariupol. Moscow counters say Moscow front attacks repel invasion attempts while counteroffensives push Germans from 35 villages toward Stalinogorsk and Klin.
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Kalinin
Volokolamsk
Klin
Tra
Rostov
Taganrog
Sea of Azov
Mariupol
Don River
Caucasus
Egypt
Libya
Caucasian
Moscow
Rostov-on-Don
Moscow Central Front
Lopatin
von Kleist
von Kleists
Donets Valey
Moscow Radio
Stalinogorsk
Pravda
Donets
Somerset Weather Report by David Grove Observer
Daily weather report for 24 hours ending 5 30 p m Monday notes temperature trends and observations by U S Weather Observer David Grove at Somerset with a reference to the previous year’s readings.
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Somerset Weather
David Grove
U. S. Weather Observer
Prue
Weather Outlook for West Virginia and Nearby States
Weather forecast notes scattered brief showers in West Virginia with mild temperatures on Tuesday and generally fair conditions on Wednesday with slightly colder air. Eastern Pennsylvania may see occasional light rain, mild Tuesday and Wednesday fair with a touch cooler. Maryland turns cloudy and warmer with scattered light rain Tuesday, Wednesday fair and slightly colder. Western Pennsylvania expects scattered showers Tuesday ending by afternoon, then Wednesday mostly fair with cooler night temperatures.
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West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Maryland
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Ernest O. Kooser
Council For the
South Penn
U.S
Edie Reformed
S. Wed
Petain Ang Goering
Ola Marshal
Marshal Cenfer
J. C. Lowry
FDR
Stark
U.S. Air Chief
Dans
Hope
Associated Press
Orient
Max Hill
Nazi
U. S. Weather Bureau
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Wader Sreeennee
Boston
Shee
Cleveland
Denver
Galveston
Los Angeles
Miami
Senes
Philadelphia
Neace St. Louis
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