Truman Likely To Seek Higher Taxes Next Year
Washington reports Secretary of the Treasury Snyder indicated a higher tax request next year to balance the budget while noting the president’s stance. He said Congress will hear of a $5.5 million deficit this fiscal year and that spending cuts should accompany any tax increases.
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Morgan Reynolds
Washington
White House
House
Snyder
Truman
Congress
Treasury
Douglas
D-Sil
80Th Congress
Evolution of the Law Traced by Matthews at Rotary Lunch
Attorney Archibald M. Matthews outlines legal history from kings and Hammurabi to Magna Charta and Justinian. He notes trials by combat gave way to forerunners of the jury system and the rise of common law, with Napoleon and Moses cited as pivotal codes.
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Archibald M. Matthews
Somerset Rotary Club
Ferner Hotel
Babylon
Hammurabi
Justinian
East
Near
England
Matthews
Truck Collision Kills Man in Portland Area
Harvey Riewald aged 37 from North East Pennsylvania died when two trucks collided on Route 29 near Portland New York today. He was thrown from the cab and suffered a skull fracture.
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Portland
N. Y
Harvey Riewald
North East
Here
Riewald
Man Killed at Altoona 12th Street Shops
John E. Crone, 49, of Hollidaysburg, was killed today at Altoona’s 12th street shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The electric welder was struck by the lifting beam of a crane while on duty.
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AltoOna
John E. Crone
Hollidaysburg
12Th Street
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pittsburgh Man Injured In Three Car Turnpike Crash
A Pittsburgh man suffered serious head and eye injuries and a leg laceration in a three car collision on the Pennsylvania Turnpike 28 miles east of Irwin. Damages totaled about 1250 dollars. A fast moving unidentified truck driver escaped injury when a trailer rolled over to the shoulder.
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Pitsburgh
Pennsylvania Turnpike
Irwin
Mitchell Krivoski
Bedford Turnpike
Newton Foner
North Negley Avenue
Pittsburgh
Washington, D. C
Joseph M. Hoddes
Somerset Community Hospital
Mr. Feener
Pvt
Ixrvoski
Avelyn H Durham
Taylor Avenue
Lawrence L. Albright
Pleasant
Durham
Mr. Albright
Mr. Hode
Hodes
Albright
Oscar F. Bennett
Somerset
Bennett
Three Vehicle Crash on Turnpike Injures No One
A three car collision on the Pennsylvania Turnpike six miles east of the Somerset interchange at 3 40 p m involved out of state residents. Richard Dunlap of Youngstown Ohio Mary C Trick of Woodbury New Jersey and Lewis Rowell of Madison Wisconsin were involved. Total damage about 900 dollars.
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Pennsylvania
Mr.Dunlap
Lewis Rowell
Madison
Wisconsin
Miss Trick
Mr. Dunlap
Mr. Rowell
Pvt
Repperd
Two Collisions End in Vehicle Damage in Meyersdale
A heavy snowstorm on Friday at 7 40 a m caused two Meyersdale men to collide on Wilmouth hill. George Staub of Meyersdale R D 3 was traveling to a Somerset job when Clarence Bitter of Meyersdale R D 3 attempted a left turn off Keystone Street. Bitter's car hit Staub's on the right side damaging Staub’s vehicle about 500 dollars.
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Meyersdale
Wilmoth’s Hill
George Staub
Meyersdale R. D. 3
Somerset
Wilmouth’s Hill
Clarence Bitter
Meyersdale R.D. 3
Keystone Street
Bittner
Staub
Mr. Staub
Car Crash Causes Extensive Damage in Meyersdale
Michael Nider of Garrett Route 1 collided with Earl Yutzy of High Street Meyersdale at 6 30 pm Thursday. Both cars suffered extensive damage though no injuries were reported.
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Michael Nider
Garrett R.D. 1
Earl Yutzy
High Street
Meyersdale
Mrs Sipe Hurt in Fall at Mother's Home
Mrs Pauline Sipe of Somerset fractured her right arm when she fell on the porch of her mother's home in Somerset Friday evening. She was treated at Somerset Community Hospital and listed in satisfactory condition.
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Pauline Sipe
Somerset
Jennie Schlag
Somerset Community Hospital
Sipe
Rev Smith Delivers Lions Dinner Speech On 20th Anniversary
The Somerset Lions club 20th anniversary dinner at Calvary Methodist featured Rev Nevin Smith of Hanover as speaker. A. J Kerin presided and awards honored 11 charter members for 20 years, with notes on club projects and members. The program included songs, solos, and remarks by Dr. Jacob Bowman and Lion Dr. W. W. Westfall among others.
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Sara Roberta Getty
Nevin Smith
Hanover
Somerset Lions Club
Calvary Methodist Church
A. J Kerin
Mr. Smith
I. F. Woodrow
Earl T. Lohr
J. T. Bowman
Richard Bowman
Virginia Reddin
Romberg
Victor Herbert
W. E. Menser
Jacob T. Bowman
Dr. Bowman
W. G. Carter
W. Guy Critchfield
Robert A. Gilmour
John W. Gnngey
W. O. Hershey
E. T. Lohr
Theodore Straub
Robert S. Uhl
A. G. Witt
Straub
Dr. Bownfin
Harvey Beates
L. S. Williams
The
Shade Lions Club
L. W. Barnett
Guy Critchfield
Milton E. Baughman
A. J. Kerin
Children’ Theatre
Lion
W. W. Westfall
California
L. R. Martin
Cumberland, Md
Somerset Drug Company
Lionheart
Hanover Reformed Church
Blue Ridge
Baltimore
Cumberland
Adolf Schickelgruber
Japan
Manchuria
Italy
Ethiopa
Germany
Poland
Pearl Harbor
Rotary
Lions
WSCS
Calvary Church
Lions Committee
Haldor Saylor
Luther Shanks
D. O. Thompson
Homer Spangler
Quentin Hine
Walter Bowen
Lewis Bars Dawson Vote on Welfare Fund Deadlock
In Washington on December 2 John L. Lewis blocked former federal Judge Charles I. Dawson from serving as a trustee on the miners welfare fund board. Dawson claimed his votes were counted, but Lewis and Senator Bridges failed to reach any conclusions. The $100 million annual fund faced a potential crisis with emergency hospital payments and pension benefits under dispute.
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Norman Walker Washington
John L. Lewis
Charles I. Dawson
Miners’ Welfare Fund Board
Dawson
Lewis
Louisville
United Mine Workers Union
Senator Bridges
RNH
Ezra van Horn
van Horn
Pittsburgh
Harry Moses
H.C. Frick Coal Co
Bridges
Reconciliation ends in death of Pennsylvania man
Robert Hurrie, 36, traveled from Eldred Pennsylvania to Kansas City to reconcile with a former sweetheart. His body was found in his car with two suicide notes. One note addressed to Miss Helen Schontz, 18, and another to her brother-in-law Mr Burns. The note to the girl read I tried to keep on going but I just can't.
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Kansas City
Pennsylvania
Robert Hurrie
Hurrie
Eldred
Helen Schontz
Burns
Chinese Reds Press Deep into West China Endangering Chengtu
Washington dispatch reports how Communist forces surge into western China cutting routes toward Chungking and threatening Chengtu within weeks. Nationalists deny Neikiang fell but confirm Reds reach Suyung 180 miles south of Chengtu on the Kunming highway.
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Spencer Moosa
Chengtu
China
Here
Chungking
Neikiang
Suyung
Kunming
China Defers Vote On Red Resolution at UN
At Lake Success on December 2 Nationalist China won a three day delay in a UN vote on a resolution condemning Russia and demanding non recognition of the Chinese Communists. Dr T F Tsiang said new instructions were awaited and would not withdraw the resolution.
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China
Francis W. Carpenter
United Nations
Russia
T. F. Tsiang
U. N. Assembly
Tsiang
U. N
Flushing Meadows
Snow and Wind Tie Up Somerset Highways
A several inch snowfall and heavy wind slowed travel across Somerset County with many accidents reported on highways and turnpikes. Crews used plows and cinders, about 38 to 40 workers sent out, drifting snow hampering roads between Salisbury and Meyersdale while motorists navigated cautiously. Temperature ranged from 36 to 24 as the storm continued into night.
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Somerset County
Pennsylvania Highway Department
Harry Davis
Highway Department
Salisbury
Meyersdale
Chiang Kai-shek narrowly escapes Red capture at Chungking
In Chongqing Chiang Kai-shek narrowly avoids seizure by Communist forces. His staff urged evacuation as Reds closed in, forcing him to wait overnight for a Skymaster flight. By dawn he departed and hours later Communist troops seized Chungking.
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Spencer Moosa Chengtu
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Chungng
Chiang
Chungking
Peishiyi Airfield
Skymaster
Air Force Headquarters
Lian
Generaissimo
Nuhoff Home Burns Down in Jenner Fire
An early morning fire destroyed George Nuhoff s Jenner residence with losses estimated between 6000 and 7000 dollars. Firemen from Boswell and Jennertown battled the blaze after a Pittsburg hunter passing by aroused Nuhoff around 345 a.m. Nuhoff escaped by leaping from a second story window. the rest of the family was away. The building and contents were a complete loss and insurance coverage was partial.
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George Nuhoff
Jenner
Boswell
Jennertown
Pittsburgh
Nuhoff
Weekend weather outlook for Mid Atlantic states
Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia see increasing cloudiness with Saturday rain or snow turning to snow flurries by Sunday. Eastern Pennsylvania and Maryland expect fair, cold Saturday, clouds rise Saturday night with rain or snow, Sunday warmer with possible rain. Northerly regions stay mostly cold with brief precipitation totals around one third inch north and one third to one half inch south.
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Pennsylvania
Maryland
West Virginia
Mid Atlantic
Weather brief for Somerset by David Grove
Temperature range for 24 hours ending 5 30 p.m. Friday not specified with a maximum or minimum. Snowfall and year ago maximum are not provided in the readable text.
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Somerset Weather
David Grove
Weather Observer
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Oakhurst Tea Room
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