Kent Lands Has News for Americans
former junior American diplomat Tyler Kent returns to the United States aboard the Silver Oak after years abroad. He says he took embassy documents containing information the U S should know but refuses to detail what they were or how many. Kent, 34, served part of a seven year sentence for violating the Official Secrets Act. He plans to disclose more to the Senate later.
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Hoboken
N. J
Tyler Kent
London
United States
Kent
Silver Oak
United States Senate
Old Baily Court
Somerse ters sentenced for draft law break
In Pittsburgh on December 4, federal court handed down sentences to five Somersets residents for draft law violations. Robert C. Brown of Warren Ohio received one year and one day for transporting a stolen car from Warren to Mercer County Pennsylvania. James Pryor of McDonald and Jack Dalla Valle of Somerset were each sentenced to three years in a special institution for failure to report for induction. John L. Furlong of Charleroi was fined 100 and costs after a no contest plea to unlawful possession and transfer of gasoline ration coupons. Robert A. Stinson of Greensburg received three years in a government work camp for failure to report for induction.
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Pittsburgh
Robert C. Brown
Warren
Mercer County
James Pryor
McDonald
Jack Dalla Valle
Somerset
John L. Furlong
Charleroi
Robert A. Stinson
Greensburg
Four Held in Erie Westfield Burglary Ring
Detective Capt Roy B. Mong said four men from Erie and Westfield New York are detained over a string of safe burglaries totaling more than $5,000. The Westfield suspects were captured after a $300 lumber yard office theft.
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Erie
Roy B. Mong
Westfield
N. Y
Mong
somerset bankers banquet at ferner hotel this evening
The Somerset County Bankers Association holds its annual banquet this Wednesday at 6 pm at the Ferner hotel. About 180 bankers and guests are expected. No formal speakers. after dinner and the business meeting entertainment follows with Eleanor Savage’s Pittsburgh group, Jack Taylor as emcee, Nora Lewis dances, Buddy O’Neil acts, harmonica, songs, pantomime, a phonograph, and Sandra and Mildred Hugo’s all girl orchestra providing music.
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Somerset County Bankers Association
Ferner
Eleanor Savage
Pittsburgh
Jack Taylor
Nora Lewis
Buddy O'Neil
Miss Sandra
Mildred Hugo
All Girl
Lewis Attacks Truman Plan On Labor Policy
John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers condemn President Truman's plan to curb big strikes. House action is urged before Christmas. Labor leaders, managers, and officials prepare hearings on a bill to implement the president's fact finding board concept amid looming auto and steel disputes.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Truman
House
UMW
MacArthur
Japan
General Motors
CIO
United Auto
Charles G. Ross
White House
Capitol Hill
Ramspeck
D-Ga
House Labor Committee
Organized Labor
National Association of Manufacturers
The
Chamber of Commerce
Labor Department
Labor and business clash over anti strike and union bills
In Washington labor and business groups at odds over pending House labor bills convene as AFL President Green and CIO leader Thomas oppose anti strike legislation and a bill expanding racketeering act reach. The gathering of over 100 House members signals deep tensions in labor policy.
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Washington
Truman
Labor Management Conference
House
AFL
William Green
All of
Labor
Amercan
R. J. Thomas
The
CIO
Guilty Plea For Sunshine Girl Slayer Heard In Uniontown
Ex sailor Frederick E. Hauser changed his plea from innocent to guilty in the slaying of 17 year old Anna Elizabeth Dreyer known as the Sunshine girl. The case proceeded with five witnesses as the degree of guilt was considered. The defendant and his mother Emma Kroeschel showed emotion after the conference. Evidence included the victim’s torn clothing and a nude body found on a highway near Fayette City.
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Uniontown
Frederick E. Hauser
Fayette City
Anna Elizabeth Dreyer
W. Russell Carr
Oie
Emma Kroeschel
Hauser
Sgt
Gus Hauser
Army Air Corps
Fred
Frederick W. Dreyer
Dreyer
Winter Storm Ravages Southern States With Snow and Rain
Ahowling winter storm swept across the deep south bringing snow to Tennessee Mississippi and Louisiana then turning to rain as it moved northeast toward the Atlantic seaboard The Weather Bureau warned of subfreezing temperatures to follow in the south for two days extending into Florida while New England and western New York faced snow from a prior northeaster and future cold.
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Associated Press
Mississippi Delta
Deep South
South Atlantic Seaboard
Weather Bureau
Atlanta
North Carolina
Cape Hatteras
N. C
Eastport
Tennessee
Mississippi
Louisiana
New England
New York
Lakes
South
Florida
U S Plans Food Shipments to Germany in 1946 Ration Boost
In Stuttgart on December 4 General Lucius Clay announced the United States will import food into the German occupation zone starting January 1 to raise the daily ration to about 1550 calories. The move follows earlier targets and ties payments to Germany’s ability to pay.
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James F. King
Stuttgart
Germany
United States
Lucius D. Clay
U. S
Clay
Ruhr
Allied Control Council
I. G. Farben
Farben
Berlin
Roosevelt role prompts Pearl Harbor witness call
In Washington on December 4 1941 Senator Ferguson urged that General Douglas MacArthur be summoned as a Pearl Harbor witness. He argued MacArthur knew more about the warning threat than Hawaii commanders and cited Roosevelt’s direct involvement in sending war warnings to the Philippines in 1941.
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William T. Peacock
Washington
Roosevelt
Philippines
Douglas A. MacArthur
Pearl Harbor
Senator Ferguson
R-Mich
MacArthur
Navy
Hawaii
Ferguson
Joint
Japan
L. T. Gerow
Stimson
Harold R. Stark
Naval Operations
Thomas Hart
Asiatic Fleet
Asiatic
Philippine Army
Corregidor
Miles
War Department
Henry Clausen
S Stimon
Clausen
Ackley faces dropped count in Binghamton larceny case
In Binghamton New York Judge McAvoy struck one of two grand larceny counts against former undertaker Donald C Ackley. The action accompanies his trial over alleged larceny and a misdemeanor tied to four un buried bodies found at his abandoned funeral home last winter. The judge said the jury should be told Ackley is innocent on the dismissed count while rejecting a defense bid to dismiss another count and denying a request for a directed verdict on the misdemeanor charge.
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Binghamton
N. Y
Donald C. Ackley
Daniel J. McAvoy
Ackley
McAvoy
Edna Schoolcraft
Edward Osbert
Probation Given Two Blair County Men in Postal Case
In Harrisburg on December 4 federal Judge Albert L. Watson placed Herrick L. Johnson of Altoona on two years probation after he pleaded guilty to receiving checks in the mails and cashing them. Thomas Benton of Hollidaysburg, a former assistant postmaster, also got two years probation after admitting a $675 shortage in postal accounts and making restitution.
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Harrisburg
Blair County
Albert L. Watson
Herrick L. Johnson
Altoona
Thomas Benton
Hollidaysburg
Eighty One Year-Old Hunter Bags Eight Pointer
Dayton reports Arm strong County resident A. W. Schrencongost, longtime postmaster, hunted alone on December 4. He started at 8:30 a.m. and by 10 a.m. bagged an eight pointer weighing 125 pounds, dressed it himself, and returned to his car to drive home for lunch.
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Dayton
A. W. Schrencongost
Armstrong County
Schrencongost
German POWs Recaptured After Medina Breakout
Two German prisoners of war who escaped from a camp at Medina New York on November 25 were recaptured near the camp by New York state police and Medina firefighters according to the FBI. The men were identified as Fran Stredinger and Karl Jonas.
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Pittsburgh
Medina
N. Y
New York
Promise of Self Rule Reaffirmed
London reports the British government reaffirmed its pledge of self rule for India and vowed to resist forceful moves. The policy pledges transfer of power after a suitable constitution is adopted, with elections next spring and a non partisan committee to observe and draft unofficial recommendations.
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Romney Wheeler
London
India
Jury impaneled for Mull murder trial in Huntingdon
Four women and eight men were chosen to judge Ray R. Mull in the July 16 slaying of Lee Barber. Three eyewitnesses John Barber Della Barber and Jean Duval testified Mull shot Barber twice with a rifle.
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Huntingdon
Ray R. Mull
Lee Barber
Chester D. Fetterhoof
Newton Taylor
Taylor
John Barber
Della
Jean Duval
Mull
Barber
Blair Snyder
R. Merle Heffner
Xopher Beck
Rumors of Civil War Flares in China and CIO Clash
Rumors of a renewed civil war in China persist as Nationalist forces reportedly seize Japanese planes and advance toward Mukden while Communists claim broad conscription across six provinces. In Pittsburgh, CIO chief Philip Murray denounces Truman proposals as a threat to labor rights, accusing the administration of ignoring human rights and aiding industrial expansion.
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Chungking
Manchuria
China
Tu Yu-Ming
Chinhsien
Mukden
Associated Press
Olen Clements
Harbin
Chang Hsu-Shin
Chang
Marshall Chang Hsueh-Liang
Chiang Kai Shek
North China
Henan
Shansi
Hopei
Shantung
Suiyuan
Anhwei
Tatung
Chiang
Chefoo
Weihaiwei
Lungkow
Murray
OWM
Office of War Mobilization
Roosevelt
Troops Move to Le Havre and Marseille for Redeployment
The 82nd airborne division is ordered to the Le Havre staging area between December 11 and 19 with advance elements sailing home directly from Le Havre. The 90th Infantry Division arrived near Marseille to await shipment. Redeployment covers 75th 79th 12th Armored on high seas 36th Infantry first on high seas. rest in Marseille staging. Five thousand to England today. 10,000 to depart Le Havre later.
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Paris
82Nd Airborne
le Havre
Theater Service Forces
England
90Th Infantry
Marseille
79Th
Twelfth Armored
High Seas
36Th
16Th Corps
Oise
84Th
Baron Iwasaki Dies In Tokio
Baron Koya ta Iwasaki aged 66, head of the Mitsubishi financial interests and one of Japan’s wealthiest men, died at his Tokio home on Sunday. A law graduate of Tokyo Imperial University and Cambridge, he retired after the Zaibatsu dissolution. The family dynasty was founded by his father.
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Tokio
Koyata
Iwasaki
Mitsubishi
Japan
Yomiuri
Tokio Imperial University
Cambridge University
Zaibatsu
Woman Is Given Four To Eight Years For Killing Husband
In Pittsburgh on December 4 a court convicted 39 year old Ethel Richardson of voluntary manslaughter over a quarrel sparked by money for gambling. The judge sentenced her to four to eight years in the workhouse after testimony she refused to give her husband George funds to play that day and he became angry when the money ran out.
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Pittsburgh
Ethel Richardson
George
Senate Approves UNO Participation Bill Amid Debate
The Senate passed the United Nations participation bill 65 to 7 sending it to the House. The chamber rejected a proposal to require presidential Congress for troop deployment to the Security Council, leaving approval only for numbers and types of forces. Delegates to UNO bodies would be Senate confirmed and bound to vote as directed by President Truman or Secretary Byrnes.
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Washington
Senate
House
United Nations Organization
Congress
UNO Security Council
Wheeler
D-Mont
Willis
R-Ind
UNO
Security Council
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Langer
R-Nd
Moore
R-Ohia
Revercomb
Ccy
D-Tex
Vandenberg
R-Mich
UNO Assembly
Economic and Social Council
Trusteeship Council
Truman
Byrnes
Final Defense Pleas of Yamashita Open
American officers today opened final pleas in defense of Lt Gen Yamashita charged with condoning atrocities in the Philippines. Lt Col Feldhaus outlined four points including Yamashita background and commissions of atrocities while Capt Sandberg described his activities as commander of the 14th Army Area. A U S Supreme Court ruling on stopping the Manila trial was awaited, with a likely answer of no.
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Manila
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Philippines
James Feldhaus
Howard
S. D
i-Yamashita
Milton Sandberg
New York
Yamashita
14Th Army
United States Supreme Court
Washington
High Court
Japan Hangs On After MacArthur War Crimes List
Tokyo reports reveal politicians and high military leaders confronting postwar problems as 96 Diet members appear on General MacArthur's wanted list. Officials fear further dragnet extensions and seek relief from a grim financial outlook and higher taxes.
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Tokio
MacArthur
Japan
Arrest Man For Wounding Pair In Allentown
Luther Thomas 45 of Allentown was charged with aggravated assault battery and attempt to kill after a fight last night. He surrendered with his attorney. Victims are John Dvorak 66 a watchman at Lehigh Valley Shirt Company and John Barner 31 of Coplay both injured with Dvorak in serious condition.
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Allentown
Luther Thomas
John Dvorak
Lehigh Valley Shirt Company
John Barner
Coplay
Somerset Weather Summary Reads Oddites Across Period
Daily weather report by David Grove records a 24 hour temperature span from 5:30 p.m. Monday to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday with unclear maximum and minimum values and a comparison note to last year’s figures.
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Somerset Weather
David Grove
U. S
Weather Outlook for Maryland and Nearby States
Cloudy windy cold with snow and rain mix in eastern Maryland and Pennsylvania Wednesday. Clearing and colder Wednesday night. Thursday remains fair and very cold. Eastern states expect continued cold with some warming by Thursday. western zones partly cloudy and cold with fair conditions and rising temperatures.
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Maryland
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
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Berlin, Pa
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Camp Berkshire
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Buddy Wills
Orchestra
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Philip Murray
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