Kent Murder Trial Faces New Trial Bid and Arrest of Judgment
Attorney A M Matthews filed motions for arrest of judgment and a new trial in the George Kern murder case. He alleges the prosecutor knew of a confession by the real perpetrator and failed to disclose it, claiming the first degree verdict should be set aside. Kent previously faced two trials, with the second yielding a first degree murder verdict and life sentence.
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Commonwealth
James Henry Kent
Kent
Counse
A. M. Matthews
Ivan Lambert
Matthews
Irene
Irene Kent Collsimo
George Kern
Johnstown
Ogle
Cambria County
Walter McNutt
Somerset
Wife Dead Husband Missing Marine Couple In Fatal Gas Scene
A 32 year old wife was beaten to death with a hammer in a gas filled apartment. A neighbor found the couple's two year old daughter semi conscious from fumes. Husband S Sgt Oren E Cleveland 38, was due at the depot in Philadelphia after 72 hour leave.
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Marine Corps
Oren E. Cleveland
Philadelphia
Jacob Lienhard
Arlington
Cleveland
E Bond Sales Near Goal in Fort Pitt Area
In the Fort Pitt area of 19 counties sales of E bonds reached 72.5 percent of the $61,280,000 quota as the drive nears its December 31 close. Purchases totaled $1,889,400, boosting optimism the target may be met in two weeks.
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Pittsburgh
Fort Pitt
United States Backs Polish Frontiers Plan Amid War Rifts
Secretary of State Stettinius announced in principle agreement to a Poland Russia boundary settlement, conditioned on accord by all directly involved nations. The move aims to aid war prosecution and help Poland with population transfers and postwar rehabilitation. Continued on Page Two.
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Washington
United States
Poland
Russia
Britain
Stettinius
United Nations
Secretary of State
Last Rites Today for Pfc Ira Weighley
Last rites for Pfc Ira Eugene Weighley of Meyersdale will be held today at 2 30 pm at the Charles R Hauger funeral home. The Somerset American Legion post will conduct military rites at Husband cemetery and present the flag draped casket to the deceased’s mother. Weighley, veteran of campaigns in the south Pacific, died of sepsis after being wounded in Palau and in a head injury. He had written his father of a furlough home and praised the U S Marines.
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Pfc
Ira Eugene Weighley
Ralph Weighley
Meyersdale
R. D
Charles R. Hauger
David Lykins
Somerset Church of God
Husband
S. S. Crouse Post
Somerset American Legion
Fied Weighley
South Pacific
Palau
Carolinas
Philippines
Weighley
Marine Weighley
Somerset
United States Marines
Snow Storm Unlike That Of Last Week
Fresh snows piled on ice encrusted drifts from last week causing travel hazards across western Pennsylvania and parts of the state. The weather bureau warned of light falls and no repeat of the deadly storm that killed 21. Alfred Bender 15 died in Pittsburgh after a sled crash.
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Weather Bureau
Alfred Bender
Pittsburgh
Allegheny County
Erie
Pennsylvania
Centra Pennsylvania
Greensburgh
Jacktown Hill
Lincoln Highway
Greensburg
Turnpike
Irwin
Everett
Washington
Greene
Westmoreland
Uniontown
Perryopolis
West Deer Township
West Virginia
Fresh Snow Covers Roof Garden and Somerset Streets
A three inch snowfall Monday and more snow overnight blanketed Roof Garden and Somerset, hindering travel and shoveling efforts. Borough crews used six plows on the Pennsylvania turnpike while side streets, stop signs and windows remain buried. Thermometer ranged from 25 to 33 degrees as meltwater threatens buildings and plaster.
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Somerset
Pennsylvania Turnpike
David Grove
Weather Observer
British led assault on ELAS grows heavier in Athens fighting
British forces push south toward Phaleton and the port as ELAS resistance stiffens in Athens. Patrols report one British dead and 45 ELAS prisoners after counterfire with PIAT anti tank weapons. British gains include control of the Athens Piraeus highway via Phaleron as clashes continue around Averoff prison and RAF HQ.
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Stephen Barber
Athens
ELAS
Phaleton
Fireaus
Acropolis
EAM
Piraeus
Kalamaki
Phaleron
Phaleron Bay
Averoff Prison
RAF
Averoff
Ronald M.scobie
Bam
Mindoro invasion progresses as weather favors Allied forces
Mindoro, Philippines December reports describe the island as the promised land with minimal Japanese resistance aside from air harassment. The dry season aids operations as Brig. Gen. Dunckel notes the San Jose air field near ready, aiming to shorten Manila distance. Lt. Col. Lawrie and Capt Pow ers partake in a lighthearted race while six Japanese are counted killed in the invasion area.
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Mindoro
Philippines
San Jose
Joseph S. Lawrie
San Antonio
Tex
John H. Powers
Oneonia
N. Y
Dunckel
21St Bomber Command
Saipan
Navy
Nagoya
Vincent J. di Filippi
Brooklyn
Clarence Ceres
Harvey, Jr
Pershing L. Yon
Tallahassee
Fla
William W. Douds
Columbus
Ohio
Stanley Pierce
Los Angeles
Tan
Tus
Malmala Ou
AL Lee
Olmer
Haywood Hansen Jr
Hatsudoki
Mitsubishi Aircraft Works
U S Casualties in European Operations Total 258,124
The War Department reported U S ground forces casualties in France the Lowlands and the German border region totaled 258,124 up to December 1. Included were 44,143 killed 189,118 wounded and 24,863 missing. Air force losses not counted. November casualties were 57,775 possibly covering prior months.
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Washington
France
War Department
Department
Christmas Trees Find Few Buyers in Erie Market
Christmas trees were plentiful in Erie today but buyers were scarce. Shoppers said small table trees sold for 5 dollars while larger floor trees went for 10 dollars.
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Erie
Allied Air Initiative Pounds Nazi Targets Across Western Front
In a massive 36 to 48 hour air offensive, about 7,000 allied planes dropped roughly 12 000 tons of bombs on German rail hubs and targets across the Western front. RAF Lancasters hit Gdynia while US Eighth and Fifteenth Air Forces attacked Cologne Coblenz Mainz and Silesia oil refineries and Vienna area targets.
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London
Gdynia
Danzig
Baltic
Cologne
Coblenz
Mainz
Belgium
Germany
U.S. 15Th Air Force
Silesia
Vienna
Italy
Luftwaffe
No Comment From Greek King George II
London reports quote reliable Greek sources saying King George II has not been approached by his cabinet about a regency to end the crisis. British dispatches claim ELAS is being pressed and that key roads near Athens have fallen to Allied forces as Volos ELAS officers press a demand to quit.
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John A. Parris, JR
London
George II
ELAS
R. M. Scobie
Greece
Faleron
Pireaus
Athens
Volos
U.S. Subs Sink 33 Japanese Ships in New Pacific Toll
A navy communique reports 33 more Japanese vessels sunk by U.S. submarines in the far Pacific raising total enemy losses to 907 ships, including 94 fighting ships. The tally lists twelve combatant ships such as a light cruiser and three destroyers along with many tankers and transports.
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Washington
Navy
Far Pacific
United States
Counteroffensive Advances Toward Bologna in Italy
British Eighth Army patrols near the Senio five and a half miles from Imola prepare for renewed Po valley action as German lines bend along the via Emilia toward Bologna. Italian Fascist units deploy south of the Faenza road while New Zealand and Polish forces seize villages and prisoners in quick blows along the front.
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Noland Norgaard
Rome
Eighth Army
Senio
Imola
Po Valley
Via Emilia
Bologna
Faenza
New Zealand
Sintria
San Namante
Curiano
Limisano
Casette
Mindoro invasion cited as easiest major Pacific operation
Gen Douglas MacArthur reported the destruction or damaging of 742 Japanese warplanes in the past week as American forces landed on Mindoro with minimal resistance. Airstrips are being built for further operations, while Leyte fighting continues with American losses described as light.
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General MacArthur
Philippines
Ouglas MacArthur Toaay
Mindoro Island
William F. Halsey
Third
Manila
Mindoro
Associated Press
ElmontaWite
San Jose
Leyte
Valencia
MacArthur
Amerika magazine for Russians goes on sale in Moscow
The United States OWI releases Amerika a Russian language monthly in Moscow priced at 3 rubles. Ten thousand copies are distributed via the Russian book agency with 25 percent of gross sales kept for distribution costs. The 64 page issue features a color U.S. flag cover and aims to expand translation work in Moscow.
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Moscow
Amerika
United States
U.S. Office of War Information
Russian Book Agency
New York
OWI
U.S
Russia
Japs Report Heavy Raids On Homeland
Washington dispatch reports U S bombers reaching Japan with heavy raids across the homeland and occupied regions. Tokyo claimed feints at Toko and strikes over Nagoya works Hankow and Nanking with purported good results in Hankow in a late afternoon communique.
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W. H. Mobley
Washington
Japan
Nagoya Aircraft Works
Hankow
China
Radio Tokio
Toko
Nanking
Germans Use New V Weapon in Major Allied Front Clash
Allied reports describe a deep German counteroffensive striking U S First and Ninth army sectors in Belgium and Luxembourg. British Typhoon forces and U S fighter bombers hit armored columns and supply traffic, while large numbers of parachute troops were dropped behind Ninth army lines as censorship on front news intensified.
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George Tucker
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Paris
U. S. First Army
Belgium
U. S. Ninth Air Force
Stavelot
Liege
First
Ninth Army
First Army
Falaise Gap
Normandy
U. S.S
Rhine
Ludendorf
Duren
Luxembourg
U. S
Somerset Weather Report for 24-Hour Period
Daily weather summary from Somerset by David Grove and A. S observes a 24 hour period ending 5:30 p.m. Monday with temperature readings incomplete. A year ago maximum and minimum values appear garbled and unreadable in the record.
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David Grove
A. S
Weather Observer
BHO XIII
Tercros
Weather Forecast for Mid Atlantic and Northeast
Maryland mostly cloudy and colder Tuesday with a gradual chill into Wednesday. Eastern Pennsylvania shows mainly cloudy skies with continued cold and light snow possible Tuesday. Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia face persistent cold with intermittent snow and partly to mostly cloudy conditions Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Maryland
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
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