Cavalcade of Victory Comes to Somerset High School
The Cavalcade of Victory army show with 37 performers plays Somerset High School auditorium at 8 15 Saturday December 8. Lynn Solomon Chief Halftown Neel Leeper headline with Ed Murphy as MC. Admission by bond purchase only through banks and post office with tickets issued to bond buyers.
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Somerset
Charles R. Blatt
Lynn Solomon
Chief Halftown
Neel Leeper
Mal Hallett
Ed, Murphy
War Finance Committee
Post Office
Truman urges Congress to curb labor strikes with cooling-off period
President Truman asked Congress for legislation to curb strikes using fact-finding boards and 30 day cooling-off periods. He urged CIO auto workers and steel workers to stay on the job while boards study wage disputes. Congressional reaction varied from quick approval to calls for broader measures.
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Sterling F. Green
Washington
Truman
Congress
Mr. Truman
Eric A. Johnston
United States Chamber of Commerce
CIO Auto
CIO
Detroit
General Motors
Capitol Hill
House
Senate House
Rep
Smith
D-Va
United Automobile Workers
United States Steel Corporation
United Steelworkers
Benjamin F. Fairless
U. S. Steel
Plane Search Fails To Find Missing Hunter In Snow
In Lycoming County authorities used an airplane to locate Albert Manuel, 29, of Chester, missing since Thursday while bear hunting between Slate Run and Pine Creek. A 16 inch snow blanket hindered ground searches, Game Supervisor Thomas F. Bell said, with hopes the flight would reveal a camp fire or other sign of the hunter's whereabouts.
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Williamsport
Albert Manuel
Chester
Slate Run
Pine Creek
Lycoming County
Thomas F. Bell
ALCOA Top Raps Clark Vandalism of Split Plan
ALCOA chairman Arthur V. Davis condemns Attorney General Clark's plan to divide the company into smaller firms. He argues breakup harms national security and postwar aluminum capacity, urging competition through new investment in a single efficient firm rather than fragmentation.
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Pittsburgh
Aluminum Company of America
Department of Justice
Arthur V. Davis
Tom C. Clark
Congress
ALCOA
Davis
Department
Elwood Walker Wins Custody After Habeas Hearing
A habeas corpus hearing was canceled when Mrs. Mary Louise McNelly Walker surrendered seven year old Nancy Jane to Elwood Walker of Somerset. The couple, separated six years, had the child living with the father at his home. The hearing was postponed after Mrs. Walker failed to appear.
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Mary Louise McNelly Walker
Nancy Jane
Elwood Walker
Somerset
Jury Seeks Trial for 19 Year Old in Murder Case
In Uniontown on December 3 the jury panel for Frederick E. Hauser 19 faces a full day as 35 veniremen are rejected for reasons inclining against death penalty doubt and ill health. Court plans another venire to fill the 400 seat courtroom crowded with Hauser relatives and Dreyer family members. Hauser pleads not guilty and asks to be tried by God and country.
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Uniontown
Talesmen
Frederick E. “Red” Hauser
Anna Elizabeth Dreyer
Fayette City
Sunshine Girl
Commonwealth
W. Russell Carr
Ldwie
Emma Kroeschel
Monessen
Hauser
Joseph Kroeschel
Sgt
Gus Hauser
Hilda
Emme Lxu
Frederick Dreyer
Pred Dreyer, Jr
Europe
Ruth McCréry
Previcemen
South Pacific
LST
Bethlehem Navy Plant Fire Destroys Shop No 17
A blaze at Bethlehem Steel plant in Bethlehem wiped out machine shop No 17 after five and a half hours. The wooden roof collapsed after the fire began at 5 30 am. No injuries were reported though 500 to 600 workers were idle since V J Day. Loss estimated at 2 to 3 million dollars with naval equipment destroyed. Captain R L Adams attributed the fire to a short circuit and said the shop was unoccupied. Fire crews from Bethlehem and nearby plants fought the blaze. Officials offered no comment.
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Bethlehem
BethLehem Steel Company
R. L. Adams
Allentown
Easton
Nationalist Troops Close On Mukden in Manchuria
Nationalist forces move within 30 miles of Mukden in Manchuria with plans to reach Harbin within a month. Airlift of troops to extend deeper into Manchuria eyed, as Russians pledge airfield protection and stay until January 3 to aid consolidation. General Tu Yu M ing says no foreign arms support evident and expects Communist-led opposition to collapse within two months due to disorganization and supply problems.
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Spencer Moosa
Chungking
Manchuria
Mukden
Harbin
Changchun
Tu Yu-Ming
Associated Press
Olen Clements
Chinhsien
Progress Report From Gasperi On Italian Government
In Rome Alcide de Gasperi said he was making good progress toward forming a new Italian government after talks with six major parties. Pietro Nenni reported no agreement yet on the interior ministry, though liberal opposition to leftists holding the post had diminished.
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George Bria
Rome
Alcide de Gasperi
Pietro Nenni
Ministry of Interior
Nenni
de Gasperi
10th And 14th Air Forces Quit
Shanghai December 3. The 10th and 14th Air Forces were declared non operational with headquarters reduced to non assignable status as personnel are processed for return to the United States. Only three squadrons and a troop carrier group remain, with volunteers and low point personnel.
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Shanghai
10Th
14Th Air Forces
George Stratemeyer
Army Air Forces
Nina
United States
China
14Th Air Force Flying Tigers
China Air Task Force
Claire L. Chennault
Burma
Young Robbers Cobaugh and Custer Sentenced in Cambria Court
Wilbur W Cobaugh 23 of Johnstown and James R Custer 19 of Johns town were sentenced in Cambria county court after pleading guilty to burglary at Randolph near Boswell. Cobaugh received 3 to 18 months and Custer 4 to 18 months in jail. They also face larceny charges from prior Cambria county arrests and remain at Ebensburg jail. State police Pvt Lutz testified. The sentences run for both offenses.
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Wilbur W. Cobaugh
Johnstown
James R. Custer
Johnso
Cambria
Orivy
Cobaugh
Custer
Randolph
Boswell
Wagner Motor Sales Company
Cambria County
Ebensburg
Pvt
Lutz
Somerset State Police Force
Treachery of Hitler Laid Before Court
An American prosecutor at Nuernberg outlined Hitler’s treachery over Munich and Czechoslovakia. He cited documents showing pretext for invasion, plans to smash Czechoslovakia, and Hungary’s participation, amid ongoing evidence in the trial’s Czech case.
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Czechoslovakia
Sidney S. Alderman
U. S
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Sudetenland
Moravia
Bohemia
Hunt
Austria
Wilhelm Keitel
Keitel
Alderman
Hungary
Alfred Jodl
Jodl
Neville Chamberlain
Memelland
Foreign Office
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Sudeten Party
Konrad Helein
Hartley Shawcross
Poland
Norway
Holland
Belgium
Balkan
Reyes Becomes College Head in Manila
Reyes assumed the presidency of FEU succeeding Dr Nicanor Reyes after his death while the University of the Philippines and Far Eastern University shuttle service paused. A Cornell graduate, Reyes led UP engineering, became FEU Institute of Technology dean, then UP vice president before returning to FEU as president.
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Manila
H. B. Reyes
University of the Philippines
Far Eastern University
Reyes
Cornell
Philippines
U. of P
FEU Institute of Technology
FEU
Nicanor Reyes
Bush Says Atomic Bomb Ends World War Says Atomic Bomb Ends World War
Dr. Vannevar Bush testifies before a Senate atomic energy committee claiming the atomic bomb would end the war with Japan. He notes controls will take time to set up and warns two nations with bombs could deter war due to catastrophic consequences.
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Dec
Vannevar Bush
National Defense Research Committee
Office of Scientific Research and Development
Special
Senate Committee On Atomic Energy
Johnson
D-Cole
Bush
Committee Room
Roosevelt
Japan
Truman
Potsdam
Congress
Japanese war crimes conviction shocks Pacific theater
A Japanese officer was found guilty by an Australian military court in New Guinea for mutilating and eating part of a dead Australian soldier and was sentenced to death. Another court at Morotai convicted Capt. Tokio Iwasa of ordering a bayonet killing. his sentence was not announced. Lt. Takehiko Tazaki was convicted of cannibalism after admitting eating Austrian flesh.
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Sydney
Wewak
New Guiea
Morotai
Tokio Iwasa
Talaud Island
Celebes
Pacific
Iwasa
Takehiko Tazaki
Tazaki
Knoxville Man Dies on Pipeline Job Near Mt Jewett
Coroner Elmer Beatty reports Walter Dennis 38 of Knoxville killed by a tractor boom crushing his chest on a pipeline construction site near Mt. Jewett. He left a widow and three children.
Iran seeks Moscow okay to move Iranian troops in Azerbaijan
The United States revealed Russia rejected a request to withdraw British and Russian troops by January 1. Iran pressed Moscow to allow Tehran to move Iranian forces into Azerbaijan amid rebel activity. Washington cited wartime pledges for Iranian independence and opposed any foreign troop presence that curbed Iran’s sovereignty.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
State Department
Russia
Iran
Moscow
Truman
United States
London
Michael J. McDermott
Teheran
Azerbaijan
Previ
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Europe
Death traced to monoxide in two room Pittsburgh flat
Irene Windisch aged 28 was found dead in her two room apartment in Pittsburgh. Detectives said three small gas stoves were burning in the apartment indicating possible carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Pittsburgh
Irene Windisch
Weather Forecast for Maryland and Nearby Regions
Maryland predicts rain in the southeast with rain turning to sleet or snow in the north and a colder Tuesday. Clearing and much colder Tuesday night followed by fair Wednesday and continued cold. Eastern Pennsylvania experiences cloudy, colder, with light snow in the north and rain or snow in the south on Tuesday, then clearing. Western Pennsylvania stays cloudy and colder with possible light snow or sleet on Tuesday and a slow rise in temperature by Wednesday amid increasing clouds and likely snow. West Virginia sees rain changing to snow and cooling Tuesday night, then increasing clouds and a gradual temperature rise Wednesday.
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Pennsylvania
West Virginia
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