United States Bars Russian Veto on Japanese Treaty
The United States delivered a new note to Russia barring any Russian veto over a Japanese peace treaty. Washington says the U S will proceed with a treaty in cooperation with other nations if needed, though it hopes Moscow will cooperate. The note, handed to UN representative Jacob Malik in New York, replies to Russian questions raised during talks at UN HQ. It clarifies that postwar dispositions like Formosa are subject to final peace and UN charter obligations. The material continues on page two.
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Washrington
United States
Russia
U. N
Jacob Malik
New York
State Department
John Foster Dulles
Formosa
China
U.S
Tito Warns His People Russia Plots To Ruin
Premier Marshal Tito told the Yugoslav parliament that Russia and Cominform satellites are plotting to swallow Yugoslavia. He warned of 660,000 enemy troops nearby, urged national defense funding of 20.1 billion dinars, and pressed for peace only with freedom, not at any price.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Russia
Tito
Munich
Romania
Hungary
Bulgaria
Cominform
Milk price increases in Philadelphia area Jan. 4 to 22c
Harrisburg dispatch reports milk prices in eastern Pennsylvania will rise by a half cent per quart in Philadelphia and suburbs on January 4, bringing retail to 22 cents a quart. Wholesale stays at 5.84 per hundredweight city and 5.69 suburbs. Other zones keep rates: York Lancaster Harrisburg Zone 1 21c and 5.50, Harrisburg Zone 2 20 1/2c and 5.30, Reading Berks 21 44c and 5.60.
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Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
York
Lancaster
Reading Berks
Clarion River flood control project advances north of Johnsonburg
Part of the $9 600 000 Clarion river reservoir flood control project north of Johnsonburg was completed today. Outlet works and a diversion tunnel for the seven mile project are finished. A 1 370 acre six mile long reservoir and 1 660 foot dam are planned.
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Pittsburgh
Johnsonburg
Remington Perjury Trial Ties Harvard Justice to Case
Mrs. Ann Remington testified that William W. Remington sought advice from a Harvard professor now on the Supreme Court about his career. She said he pressed her to claim mental incompetence to dodge testimony and that their marriage aimed to be saved but ended in separation in 1947.
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New York
William W. Remington
Harvard
Supreme Court
Ann Remington
Felix Frankfurter
Frankfurter
Alger Hiss
State Department
Whittaker Chambers
Hiss
Remington
Young Communist League
Harold Laski
Communist Party
Somerset Weather Observers Receive Commerce Department Honors
David Grove and Carl M Holt of Somerset are among local observers honored for ten years of service. Awards note their nightly temperature and precipitation data supports the state climatological service, with praise from the U S Commerce Department Weather Bureau.
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David Grove
Carl M. Holt
Somerset
Grove
Somerset American
Holt
C. P. Darling
Lawrenceville
Mr. Grove
Somerset Water Works
Louise M. Weld
Meyersdale
William F. Carey
Hooversville
Allen E. Yoder
Springs
U. S Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
Harrisburg
L. F. Conover
Commonwealth For Industry, Commerce and Agriculture
Summit Township Property Sells for 5000 Each
A frame house and two parcels of land in Summit township sold for 5000 to Glenn and Mary Jayne Martin. The deed filed Thursday with Recorder Philip C. Dosch confirms Henry M. and Mary Elizabeth Housel as the sellers in Summit township.
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Summit Township
Philip C. Dosch
Henry M
Mary Elizabeth Housel
Glenn
Mary Jayne Martin
Mother and Son Meet in Walter Reed Hospital
Mrs. Clara Smith and her soldier son Robert Smith, among the first quadruple amputees of the Korean War, reunite at Walter Reed. Robert, 20, lost both hands and both legs below the knees from frostbite near Chosin Reservoir on November 27.
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Washington
Bob
Clara Smith
Walter Reed Hospital
Pfe
Robert Smith
Far East
Ashington
Chosin Reservoir
American Legion
Robert
Zann
Japan
Middlebury
Pennsylvania
Legion
Phil Bucci
Public Information Office
Smith
Gas Explosion Harms Pittsburgh Man and Damages Home
A gas explosion in Lincoln Place, Pittsburgh, severely burned 71-year-old Hugh M. Long and destroyed his home, with an adjacent house also damaged. Fire Chief William Davis says gas leaked from a basement fault and likely ignited by an electric spark.
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Pittsburgh
Lincoln Place
Hugh M. Long
William Davis
Truman Labels Hoover Isolationist in Europe Aid Debate
President Truman called former president Hoover an isolationist for opposing U S aid to Europe and pressed that the nation will not return to isolationism. He contrasted Hoover's plan for a European defense with his own policy of supporting allied troops and arms.
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Washington
Truman
Hoover
Europe
New York
Korea
Japan
British Isles
U. S
White House
United Nations
Madrid
State of the Union
Congress
Chesapeake Bay
Chian
Formosa
Chiang Kai-shek
China
Byrd
D-Va
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Senate
Fulbright
D-Ark
Acheson
West
State Department
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Beering to Bier Was Route of Follies Girl murder
A Swedish-born apple-picker Birger Nordkvist confessed to strangling former showgirl Evelyn Hughes in a hotel room after she rebuffed his advances. The body was found at the Hotel Ashland with a scarf gag. Nordkvist, arrested in Utica, is held on homicide charges with a hearing set January 15.
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New York
New York State
Follies
Evelyn
Yvonne) Hughes
Birger Nordkvist
Ashland
Miss Hughes
John McDonald
McDonald
Ashland Hotel
Nordkvist
Nordvkist
Nordwkist
Utica
N. Y
Sweden
Hamlin
1000 Strike Shuts Joy Plants in Franklin Wage Fight
Franklin workers at Joy Manufacturing Co. walk out over a wage dispute. Two plants closed fully and a third partially closed as about 1000 employees strike today.
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Franklin Franklin
Joy Manufacturing Co
Couple Dead In Cabins Motorcycle Murder Suicide Likely
GREENSBURG Dec 28 A tourist court proprietor found a man and woman shot to death in a cabin. Coroner calls it murder death by own action. Police identify the man as Roy W. Huey 50 of Watson West Virginia. woman unnamed. Huey held a 30 30 rifle. couple registered as Robert Johnson and wife of Philippi WV. West Virginia State Police assist.
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Greensburg
Joseph R. Check
William Johnson
Roy W. Huey
Watson
W. Va
Fairmont
Johnson
Huey
Chuck
Charles Anderson
Robert Johnson
Pennsylvania 1950 farm crop output up one percent
Pennsylvania farm crop production in 1950 rose one percent from 1949 and seven percent from the prior year, totaling 316.706 million dollars. Strawberries and vegetables added 17.78 million to the total. potatoes yielded a record 195 bushels per acre. cherries and grapes also posted strong results with grapes the largest since 1935.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
State Agriculture Department
Department
Government Takes Over All Rubber Imports
The U S government orders itself sole importer and distributor of natural rubber and natural rubber latex effective tomorrow. General Services Administrator Jess Larson will control imports, ending private company involvement and aiming to stabilize prices for defense stockpiles.
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Washington
National Production Authority
General Services
Jess Larson
Korea
General Services Administration
Larson
Truman
Clement Attlee
Russia
Southeast Asia
GOP Committee to Meet for 1952 Organization Drive
The Republican national committee was called to meet in Washington on January 26 to launch a 1952 organization drive and begin selecting its presidential convention city.
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GOP
Washington
INS
Republican National Committee
Quinn McKeldin's Assistant Named After Inauguration
Albert W. Quinn Baltimore Sun political writer will become assistant to Governor Theodore R. McKeldin at his January 10 inauguration. Quinn is 46 and a Democrat from Jermyn Pennsylvania.
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Quinn MccKeldin
Baltimore
Albert W. Quinn
Baltimore Sun
Theodore R. McKeldin
Quinn
Jermyn
West Germany to Cut Production Over Raw Material Shortages
West Germany faces mandatory production cuts as a coal and raw material shortage worsens. An ECA official in Frankfurt warned that demands for raw materials will exceed supply, prompting possible curbs on civilian consumption and power rationing to support defense mobilization.
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Frankfurt
Germany
West Germany
Jean Cartier
ECA
Cattier
Ruhr
Wehrmacht
Cartier
Korea War Casualties Rise to 38325 Through Dec 22
Total casualties in the Korean conflict reached 38 325 as of December 22 based on next of kin notifications. An increase of 1 904 from the prior week. Dead 5 742 in action 684 died of wounds six dead of those reported missing. Wounded 27 012 including 648 later died. Missing 5 571 overall 4 753 currently listed. Army 32066 Marines 5524 Navy 429 Air Force 306.
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Washington
U. N
Army
Marines
Navy
Air Force
Chinese and North Koreans Build Up On East Flank And In Centre
The Eighth Army reports enemy massing on the east flank and center as about 31 divisions, possibly 310,000 men, prepare a major offensive between Jan. 1 and 10 with possible Chinese air support. Kaesong and Korangpo movements indicate eastward push toward Korea’s 38th parallel.
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Robert Eunson Torio
United Nations
Korea
Eighth Army
38Th Parallel
Kaesong
Korangpo
Seoul
U. N
Task Force 77
Hungnam
MacArthur
Red
Army Corps
China
Fourth Field Army
Weather Forecast for Maryland and Nearby States
Maryland sees rain on the coast and freezing rain and sleet inland Friday with a Friday afternoon change to rain. Saturday stays mostly fair but colder at night. West Virginia faces freezing rain and sleet Friday then rain around 35 with Saturday cloudy and colder and a few snow flurries. Western Pennsylvania grows cloudy Friday with snow or sleet by afternoon or night and a high near 30, Saturday snow flurries and colder. Eastern Pennsylvania remains cloudy with 25 to 30 and sleet inland and freezing rain and sleet in the southeast Friday. Saturday partly cloudy with snow flurries in the mountains and a colder finish.
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Maryland
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Somerset Weather Report Summary
Daily weather figures show the 24 hour period ending 5 30 p m Thursday with a maximum and a minimum temperature, compared to the previous year. The text includes unknown values and appears to be a weather bulletin by David Grove, U S Weather Observer, for Somerset.
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Somerset Weather
David Grove
U. S
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