New Year Celebrations Planned Across Somerset 1941
In Somerset and nearby towns residents prepare for 1941 with home gatherings and informal observances amid blackouts and air raid warnings. The Somerset Country Club hosts a New Year's Eve dance with Paul Orpet Orchestra. Trinity Lutheran Church holds a midnight communion. governor theater offers a midnight show. Berlin and Meyersdale host high school alumni dances at their gyms and auditoriums.
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Aeraeron Ie
Somerset
United States
Somerset County
Somerset Country Club
Pail Orpet
Homs
Old Trinity
Trinity Lutheran Church
I Hss Wagner
Trinity Lutheran
Governor Theatre
Berlin
High School Alumni Association
Berlin-Brothers Valley High School
Meyersdale
Meyersdale High School
County Home Bars Visitors Over Influenza Threat
Physicians and health officers monitor rising influenza cases in Somerset. Somerset County Home and Hospital suspends visiting days until the threat passes. Somerset Community Hospital board also restricts visits except by physician order. Dr. Shaffer notes no current influenza cases at the home, while borough health officer Smith says no community cases are notified but local doctors already impose restrictions as needed.
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Somerset
Somerset County Home and Hospital
Somerset Community Hospital
C. S. Shaffer
Ben
John I. Smith
Fellowship Supper at The Garrett in Brethren Church
The Garrett Brethren Church hosts a fellowship supper in the church basement on Wednesday evening December 31 followed by a social period. At 11 30 a candle lighting and watch night service will be held. Services are open to the public.
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Church of the Brethern
Somerset Weather Report Summary by David Grove Observer
Daily weather entry for Somerset records 24 hour period from 5 30 pm Sunday to 5 30 pm Monday with maximum and minimum temperatures and precipitation notes. Previous year figures listed for comparison.
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Somerset Weather
David Grove
U. S. Weather Observer
Weather forecast for Western Pennsylvania and mid-Atlantic region
Western Pennsylvania sees cloudy skies with northeast snow flurries on Tuesday and Wednesday the outlook shows continued cloudiness with possible snow or rain in the afternoon or night. West Virginia remains cloudy with light rain potential midweek and little temperature change. Eastern Pennsylvania reports continued cloud cover with slightly colder conditions in the east and south and snow flurries in the northeast. Maryland shows broken clouds and cooler conditions with clouds dominating Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Pennsylvania
West
Virginia
Maryland
White House says reaction favorable to Roosevelt broadcast
Washington reports a favorable public reception to President Roosevelt's defense address with praise from Republicans and Democrats yet Senate critics warn of policy tensions. Senators Wheeler McCarran Holt Sheppard discuss dangers while others support unity and escalating arms policy. Former Gov. Alfred E. Smith comments from New York.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Senate
Clark
D-Mo
Stephen Early
Early
Wheeler
D-Mont
United States
Montana
McCarran
D-Ney
Nevada
Marshall Clark
van Nuys
Dind
Johnson
D-Cole
Holt
Dwva
Verne Marshall
No Foreign War
Senera
Europe
Sheppard
D-Tex
New York
Alfred E. Smith
Viewers Named On Four Tracts For Damages Review
Judge Norman J. Boose appoints viewers to assess damages on four Somerset county properties affected by land appropriation and Pennsylvania Turnpike construction. Viewers: Vance Boher Ea., Walter S. Thomas, Mrs. Mary Lohr, Donald Inley, Sylvester Mickie, Harry Cunard, and others, with viewings set in January 1941 across Jefferson, Allegheny, and Stonycreek townships.
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Norman ‘J. Boose
Somerset County
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
Boog
Vance B5oher Ea
Greensburg
Walters
Thomas
Latrobe
Mary Lohr
Ligonier
Warren K. Hay
Jefferson Township
Donald «Inley, Esq
Bedford
Sylvester H. Mickie
New Paris
Harry Cunard
Everet
Caaries
K. W
Allegheny
Stonycreek
Haseen
Thomas McNeal
Windber
Allegheny Township
John A. Minnick, Esq
D. Raymond Smith
E. E. Mills
Clearfield
Wheeler warns against war and outlines eight peace points
Senator Wheeler declares the idea of a Nazi invasion of America is fantastical and urges immediate European peace to avoid entanglement. He proposes eight points including restoring borders and autonomy in Europe, independent France and Holland, Alsace Lorraine to France, German colonies, minority protections, Suez internationalization, no reparations, and arms limits. He argues invasion would require an impossible mass of transports and ships.
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Washington
America
Wheeler
D-Mont
Roosevelt
England
Europe
Germany
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
France
Holland
Norway
Belgium
Denmark
Alsace-Lorraine
Montana
Senate
WMAL
National Radio Forum
Washington Evening Star
NBC
Amerca
Rebuff Nazi Peace Offer Denied by State Dept
Verne Marshall of the No Foreign War Committee claimed the administration rebuffed a Nazi bid for a peace conference in 1939. The State Department said no feasible proposal had been received and that official channels govern international affairs. Marshall alleged Davis, an oil operator, delivered the document drafted by Goering.
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Verne Marshall
No Foreign War Committee
Roosevelt
State Department
Marshall
W. R. Davis
New York
Hermann Goering
Davis
Marehall
United States
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Mene
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Col. Lindbergh
Fifth Avenue
Adolph Berle
Poland
Columbia Broadcasting System
E.s.t
WGN
Chicago
CBS
Herbert Agar
Agar
Louisville
Courier-Journal
Committee To Defend
America
Auditors To Start Work In Somerset County
Somerset county auditors George Brant Waldo Buechley and Miss Pearl Levy will begin auditing the county's records for the year 1940 next Monday January 6.
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Somerset County
George Brant
Waldo Buechley
Miss Pearl Levy
Axisistinger Up Tou 8 In Warning
Rome dispatch reports Italian Fas cist radio, reacting to Roosevelt speech, warning the United States could break neutrality. Virginio Gayda cites axis tolerance limits and endorses Monroe Doctrine while implying Europe should not interfere in the Americas.
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Rome
United States
Europe
Roosevelt
Virginio Gayda
Mussolini
Britain
U. S
England
Nazis Kept Hospitals in Rush Sunday
London dispatch describes a London air raid night as hospitals flooded with casualties. Surgeons worked amid fires and bombardment while ambulance drivers, nurses, and policemen moved patients, with sand buckets and fire defense on a burning roof as incendiaries fell.
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Drew Middleton
London
Norwegian ship Talley rand reported missing in Pacific raid
New York reports said the 6732 ton Norwegian freighter Talley rand is missing in the Pacific and believed sunk by a German raider. Officials also confirmed the 5811 ton Norwegian freighter Touraine sunk in the Atlantic by a submarine.
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New York
Talleyrand
Pacific
Sipping
Atlantic
Italians abandon skills to battle Greeks in Albania
Athens dispatches say Italian troops in Albania tried to use skill to counter Greek advances but the plan collapsed as Greek forces countered with runners. Greeks report over 1,000 prisoners captured, including an entire battalion and officers, with more Italian guns and supplies seized. George II praises army as front lines hold and goal remains to regain Albanian soil. Front reports note local gains north of Chimara toward Valona amid heavy shelling of Tepeleni Klisura defenses.
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Albania
George II
Greece
Chimara
Valona
Tepeleni- Klisura
Nazi Night Bombers Nearing End Warns Dowding in Ottawa
Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding told Canadians in Ottawa that the nights of Germanys bombers are numbered. He said a method to frustrate night raids is ready and by spring the bomber threat will be reduced though some daylight bombing may continue. Dowding discussed coordinating British air needs with the United States and expressed interest in US fighters and aircraft for coastal patrols.
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Wade Werner
Ottawa
Ont
Germany
Sir Hugh Dowding
London
United States
Hugh
Britain
C. G. Power
Washington
Air Marshall
Toek
Woudd
Sir Hugh
RAF
U. S
U S
Eleven Destroyers on This Side Stalled at Halifax and St Johns
Boston dispatch reports eleven of fifty U S destroyers exchanged for Atlantic bases remain at Halifax Nova Scotia and St Johns Manitoba due to insufficient crews to sail them to England. British freighter crew members say seven of the four stackers are at Halifax and four at St Johns, with others already on convoy escort duty near Liverpool.
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U.S
Great Britain
Atlantic
Halifax
N. S
St. Johns
Liverpool
British Get Flying Boats Sold to Britain
The Sun reports three of Pan American Airways' six new transoceanic flying boats under construction in Seattle were sold to the British government with U.S. approval. The deal, aided by the state department, aims to help Britain. Each plane priced around one million dollars, though not designed for military use, could aid long range patrols over the north Atlantic.
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The
Sun
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Seattle
United States
State Department
Great Britain
North Atlantic
Somerset Trust Co Announces Semiannual Dividend
The board of directors of the Somerset Trust Company declared a semi annual dividend of two percent. The trust company reports a surplus of $125,000. The dividend payment will be made Monday evening.
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Somerset Trust Company
Hungarians Called Into Army Service
Budapest reports say Hungary called more men to the army as Germany pours troops into Romania. Sofia dispatches claim German units are moving to the Russian border near Dobruja and Giurgiu with Danube mining. General mobilization was expected by January 15.
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Hungary
Germany
Rumania
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Sofia
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Danube River
Danube
Giurgiu
Russia
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Lemberg
Balkan
Kitchen Fall Proves Fatal for Somerset Widow 82
Mary Alice Bauman 82 widow of Amos Bauman died at Somerset Community Hospital after a kitchen fall at her son Harry E Bauman's home on East Race street. Born December 22 1858 in Deal she lived in Deal Sandpatch Garrett and Somerset, helped in family restaurant and bakery, survived by children W Garfield Bauman Harry E Bauman and others with 13 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. Funeral 2:30 pm at Walter S Hoff man funeral home with Rev B W Kovsack of St Pauls Presbyterian church. Interment Hus Van cemetery.
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Amos Bauman
Somerset Community Hospital
Harry E. Bauman
East Race Street
Bauman
Deal
Jesse Bittner
Sandpatch
Baumans
Garrett
Somerset
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
South Pleasant Street
Patriot Street
Somerset Mortician
B. W. Kovsack
St. Paul's Presbyterian Church
Husvand
Stenographer Survives 90-Foot Fall From Bridge
Mrs. Ann Silker, 27, plunged 90 feet from a bridge in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, but survived with fractures to leg and arm and internal injuries. Park guards who found her reported her condition was critical despite three emergency blood transfusions.
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Philadelphia
Ann Silker
Fairmount Park
Wissahickon’ Creek
London Firemen in Readiness as Nazi Raid Ravages City
London braces after the heaviest fire raid of the war left the city in ruins and sparks new calls for reprisals. Churchill visits the wrecked Wall Street area as landmarks along the Thames corridor are damaged or destroyed including the Associated Press building and Guildhall. Johnson’s Dictionary survives in the burned Memorial House, while rescue squads demand action amid ongoing air raid threats.
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United Kingdom
Winston Churchill
Wall Street
Strand
Ittington
Rial House
Samuel J
Memorial House
Gough Square
Fleet Street
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