Russia considers sending observers to Palestine cease fire
At Lake Success June 7 Francis W. Carpenter reports Russia openly offered to provide military observers to Palestine. Gromyko told the UN that the USSR is ready to join observers from the United States Belgium and France, raising questions on how observers would be chosen and whether red army forces could be involved. The Security Council deferred decisions pending instructions from member governments. Count Bernadotte seeks a four week armistice to enable peacemaking efforts.
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Francis W. Carpenter
Lake Success
Russia
Palestine
Andrei A. Gromyko
United Nations Security Council
Council
Truce Commission
United States
Belgium
France
Gromyko
United Nations
Security Council
Middle East
Folke Bernadotte
Sweden
U. N
West Germany to get separate federal government plans
Four powers including the United States Britain France and the Benelux nations proposed a separate western German federal government and pledged continued occupation troops until peace is secured. Russia likely to oppose. The six week London talks outlined a democratic constitutional path with a constituent assembly and state rights while resisting centralization akin to Hitler.
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Alex HH. Singleton
London
United States
Britain
France
Benelux
Germany
Europe
Russia
U. S
U. S. State Department
Washington
George C. Marshall
Ruhr
Georges Bidault
French National Assembly
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Foreign Office
Georgi N. Zarubin
Vassily D. Sokolovsky
Berlin
Nacht Express
Moscow
Hitler
Truman Promotes Western Reclamation Projects in Idaho
President Truman stumps through Idaho praising power and reclamation development in the West. He warns against the Congress budget cuts to reclamation and hydro projects and cites the Columbia and Snake river basins as key examples. He plans an aerial flood-area survey before spending the night in Sun Valley.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Son Valley
Idaho
Truman
Republican Congress
Far West
Pocatello
Glen H. Taylor
Henry Wallace
Taylor
Pocatello Station
Columbia
Snake River
Sa’‘Id
Columbia River
Sun Valley
Vacation Bible School Opens June 14 at Somerset
Vacation Bible School conducted by Somerset Protestant churches begins Monday June 14 at 9:00 a.m. in Patriot Street School building. Reed S. Shirey serves as superintendent for seventh year. Classes include four year olds through fifth grade with multiple teachers listed and a final program June 27 at 7:30 p.m.
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Somerset
Patriot Street
Protestant Churches of
Somerset Ministerial Association
Reed S. Shirey
John Speicher
David Weimer
Edward Specht
M. A. Bowlby
Nancy Hare
Janet Swishes
Ruth Ann Dickey
Janet Gearhart
Jackie Winters
Bbile Times
Goldie Shanks
Mr. Shirey
John S. Milholland
Vance Coleman
R. S. Shirey
Big Auction For Overseas Relief At Meyersdale Fair Grounds
Farm Bureau Co op workers donate a new side-delivery hay rake and other items for a charity auction at Meyersdale fairgrounds. Walter Beck gives up his place on a wait list and will miss haying season with his old rake. Items include washing machines, livestock, tires, grain, fertilizer, a hammer mill, potatoes, and dairy ice cream sticks. Proceeds benefit Church World Service via the Pennsylvania Council of Churches for overseas relief.
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Roof Garden
Farm Bureau Co-op
Meyersdale Fairgrounds
Walter Beck
Somerset
R. D Farmer
John L. Knepper
Brothersvalley Township
Knepper
Stella B. Cook
Howard Boose
Church World Service
Pennsylvania Council of Churches
Church Habit Saves Lives Of Five Persons
Edward Shunk and four companions avoided a deadly carbon monoxide incident when Shunk woke late and opened doors and windows after a gas stove overheated in a lakeside cottage. Fire Chief Frank Baker noted CO can be fatal and credited the churchgoing habit for timely action.
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North East
Edward Shunk
Shunk
North Fast
Lake Erie
Sunk
Frank Baker
Laurel Hill Creek Closed for Five Days Fishing Ban
Laurel Hill creek will be closed to fishing from near Trent to near King's Bridge for five days starting today Tuesday after 1,600 fish are released into the stream. The act is announced by Sheriff Karl I Hare, president of the Somerset Sportsman's Association. The 1,600 fish are part of 4,000 fish to be placed in Laurel Hill creek in this county and are supplied by the Pennsylvania Game Commission. The stream will be posted from Tuesday until Sunday.
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Laurel Hill Creek
Trent
King’s Bridge
Karl I. Hare
Somerset Sportsman's Association
Somerset Sportsmen
Pennslvania Game Commission
No Welfare No Contract Says Lewis
John L. Lewis warned soft coal operators that a new contract must include welfare aid for distressed miners. He called operators fat cats and pressed for nearly 20 million dollars in welfare obligations as a condition precedent to any wage agreement before the current contract expires on July 1. Talks ordered by a federal court stretched for two years without progress.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Ezra van Horn
Charles A. O'Neill
T. Alan Goldsborough
Southern Coal Operators Association
Movie Night planned to boost Somerset Soapbox Derby entries
Somerset youths ages 11 to 15 will attend a Friday Movie Party Night at 8:30 p.m. in the S and A Chevrolet building to promote the annual derby. Sponsors met at the Somerset Country Club where Emil Anderson announced the derby chairmen and John E. Reiley spoke on available sponsorships. The 35 entries needed for a return next year sit at 19, with committees led by Harold Wright and others including Blair Barkman Robert Boose and J Edgar Lohr.
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Somerset
Somerset Country Club
Emil Anderson
S & A Chevrolet
Derby
John E. Reiley
Somerset American
Harold Wright
Blair Barkman
Robert Boose
Robert Shoemaker
W. O. Hershey
J. Edgar Lohr
Jerome Good
D. O. Thompson
Japanese Astronomer Claims Second New Comet
Minoru Honda of Okayama reports a second new comet visible near Perseus moving toward Cassiopeia. He says he observed it yesterday and today and that the object appears to be increasing in brightness, following an earlier claim of a prior comet late last year.
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Rio
INS
Minoru Honda
Okayama
Perseus
Cassopia
Honda
Rigger Falls 30 Feet to Death at Bethlehem Steel
Joseph Mikesic 33 a Bethlehem Steel rigger died when a ladder rung pulled out causing a 30 foot fall in the gas cleaning stack. The accident occurred today in Johnstown.
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Johnstown
Joseph Mikesic
Bethlehem Steel Company
Benes Quits As Czechs' President
Prague reports Eduard Benes resigns as Czechoslovakia's president rather than approve a Soviet backed constitution. Premier Gottwald favored succession. Benes, 64, led for 11 years in two terms after serving as Masaryk's foreign minister.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Eduard Benes
Klement Gottwald
Benes
Gottwald
Thomas G. Masaryk
Masaryk
Czechoslovak Republic
Oehling Buys Dosch Drug Store Monday
W. Q. Oehling became owner of the Dosch drug store in the Harrison building after a Monday afternoon transfer. Oehling, from Pittsburgh, has led the Somerset Drug Company as manager this past year. Dosch will remain as pharmacist. no staff changes.
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W. Q Oehling
Dosch
Harrison Building
Agiamond
Oehling
Pittsburgh
Somerset
Somerset Drug Company
Oehlings
South Pittsburgh Water Company
University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy
West Main Street
Wilson strikers return to work after 10 week walkout
Members of the CIO UPW returning to Wilson and Co after a 10 week strike are being rehired today on a work available basis. A Wilson spokesman says only a small number of the 8000 workers will be rehired immediately. The CIO UPW said it called off the strike in seven plants nationwide two weeks after settling with the other three Big Four members.
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Chicago
INS
Cio-United Packinghouse
Wilson and Co
Wilson
Cio-Upw
Meyersdale Man Struck, Injured Along Route 55013
William H. Hahn, 47, of Meyersdale R D 2, was hit by a car driven by John C. Cross while walking with his wife near Meyersdale. Hahn suffered a compound fracture of the right leg and burns. he is hospitalized at McGilvery hospital Meyersdale. Mrs. Hahn was uninjured.
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William H. Hahn
Meyersdale
R.D
John C. Cross
Sand Patch
R.D.1
Hahn
McGilvery
Cat uses bird's nest as home to raise six kittens
A Sharon cat owned by Fred Andres moved into an abandoned bird's nest in a hollow tree limb 12 feet high and gave birth to six kittens, amid a housing shortage story.
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Sharon
Hitler
Fred Andres
British Ask Reds To Move Berlin Radio
The Russian news bureau reported that Britain requested the removal of the Berlin radio station from the British sector, saying it could be damaged by the nearby air raid shelter as part of a demilitarization program. The Russians warned counter measures could follow since Western comms cross the Russian zone.
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Berlin
M. I. Dratvin
Germany
Wireau
Bureau
Weimar Republic
Socialist Unity Party
Five Die and Dozens Hurt in Oudja Riots
In Oudja French Morocco a quarrel between Arabs and Jews escalated into riots. Police with French Senegalese troops restored order after about two hours. Five people were killed including a French civil servant and about 30 injured. looting occurred in the native quarter but no gunfire was reported.
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Oqujda
French Morocco
Palestine
Oudja
Oujda
Columbia River Flood Crest Threatens Further Damage
Warm spell drives the Columbia toward a third flood crest as 27 lives are lost, 60,906 left homeless, and $140 million in damage. Red Cross still lists 715 unlocated in Vanport devastation while dikes brace for another rise beyond 29.9 feet.
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Portland
Ore
Columbia
Weather Bureau
Lower River
Vanport
Red Cross
Elmer Fisher
Col
O. E. Walsh
Longview-Kelso
Washington
Longview
Clatskanie
Oregon
Guests Swipe Fan In Fort Worth Hotel
Two Fort Worth hotel guests checked in with a single large trunk and left to find the room missing its ceiling fan. Police investigated the theft as a possible prank or theft.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Egyptian amphibious effort near Isdud and Tel Aviv clash
Egyptian seaborne reinforcements reportedly landed near Isdud as Israeli troops pressed a 12 mile front toward Tel Aviv. Intelligence notes claim about 1,000 King Farouk troops may be trapped south of the coastal strip while Israeli forces try to hold Arab units eight miles east of Tel Aviv. A Cairo communique reports Jewish casualties and prisoners in a battle near Majdal Isdud.
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Cairo
Egypt
Iscud
Tel Aviv
Farouk
Isdud
Egyptian Defense Ministry
Miesanim
Betwe Majdal
Comunique
Holy Land
Bernadotte
Palestine
United Aazi Palestine
US Security Council
U .N
Jerusalem
Holy City
Somerset Daily Weather Report Summary
Weather observer David Grove notes 24 hour period ending 5 30 p m Sunday with forecast details for Somerset area.
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T Weather Daily
David Grove
U. S. Weather Observer
Ture
Weather Forecast for Maryland and Pennsylvania
Maryland sees considerable cloud and warmth with scattered showers on Tuesday and coast night, then fair and cooler by Wednesday. Eastern Pennsylvania reports mostly cloudy with showers Tuesday, fair and cooler Wednesday. Western areas forecast cloudy with scattered showers, modest temperature drop by Wednesday.
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Maryland
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Weather Elsewhere Reported Temperatures June 7
The U S Weather Bureau released the June 7 temperature readings from distant stations, listing figures for highs and lows to supplement national climate data.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
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