Coal talks collapse as miners and operators clash at hotel
Washington June 8 A joint wage conference broke down with John L. Lewis calling the session a farce and Burke of the Southern Coal Operators Association agreeing. The war labor board will be asked for an oral hearing as both sides accuse the other of stalling. The meeting ends with no agreement and the parties await the board’s ruling.
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Washington
War Labor Board
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Edward R. Burke
Nebraska
Southern Coal Operators Association
Lewis
Burke
Major
Percy) Tetlow
UMW
WLB
UMW Policy Committee
Convention Opens Today at Church of the Brethren
The Somerset County Sunday School Association holds a two day convention starting today at 8 30 am at the Church of the Brethren. GC C Shaffer presides with two minute reports and devotions by Rev Galen Blougn. Miss A M Roberts Ira C Sassaman and Dr Norman McClure speak. banquets for adult and children divisions set for 5 30 pm.
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Somerset County Sunday School Association
Church of the Brethren
Evangelical Church
GC. C. Shaffer
Galen Blougn
A. M. Roberts
Ira C. Sassaman
State Sabbath School Association
Norman , McClure
Miss Roberts
Sassaman
McClure
Ursinus College
Collegeville
Twenty Die in Pope Field Plane Crash Near Laurinburg
A C 47 transport plane crash near Laurinburg Maxton air base yesterday killed twenty men, all passengers and crew. The other aircraft diverted after entering a thunderstorm, and wreckage was found two hours later. Names of victims to be released later.
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Fort Bragg
N. C
Pope Field
Palne
Laurinburg-Maxton Air Base
Sam Price
Fort Brage
Laurinburg-Maxton
Laurinburg-Maxton Field
Col. Price
Wasted Millions On War Plant
Senator Harry S. Truman charged at a senate hearing that the Sunflower ordnance plant near De Soto Kansas wasted between 25 and 50 million dollars of taxpayers money. He and Senator Ralph O. Brewster said inefficiency in labor raised the cost with 65 percent of project expense tied to labor and labor efficiency at 65 percent.
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Kansas City
Harry S. Truman
Beat Robbers Held for Attacking Aged Farmer
George Mellors 24 of Mt Pleasant and Elmer Husband 21 of Ruffsdale were jailed in Westmoreland County on charges of beating and robbing 82 year old farmer Francis Marion Wilson. State Policemen Miller and Harrison filed the charges before Alderman Thomas after arresting the pair yesterday. Wilson was found beaten at his Acme Rural District Mt Pleasant Township farmhouse last Friday.
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Greensburg
George Calvin Mellors
Mt. Pleasant
R. D
Elmer Husband
Ruffsdale
Westmoreland County
Leo R. Miller
Edward P. Harrison
Paul Thomas
Francis Marion Wilson
Acme R. D
Kingport Times Names Its Sultan Of News Staff
In Kingsport Tennessee on June 8 seven women and one man pose as the Times news staff. They nickname the lone male member Sultan reflecting a playful newsroom hierarchy.
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Sultan of ‘Times
Kingsport, Tenn
Kingsport Times
Sultan
Sawmill needs 100M Ash Cherry Maple Hickory timbers
Tudor and Co. advertises urgent timber purchase of 100,000 board feet of Ash Cherry Maple and Hickory with 9 inch diameter and larger. Cash, no discount. Somerset firm listing telephone contact 880 for orders and other timber requirements.
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M. B. Tudor & CO
Somerset
Hoover Outlines War Food Plan for U S and World
Former President Herbert Hoover told a New York audience that U S food supplies would tighten next winter and spring. He urged consolidating food authority under a single administrator, expanding farm labor and machinery, abolishing price ceilings, and creating farmers war committees to keep food moving and curb inflation.
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New York
Herbert Hoover
American Farm Bureau Federation
Hoover
Toog
New Yorker
Columbia Broadcasting System
Secretary of Agriculture
Roosevelt Rites Held in Alaska
Anchorage mourns Major Kermit Roosevelt 53 son of President Theodore Roosevelt with army and Veterans of Foreign Wars services at the military post chapel. Burial followed in Alaska under wartime provisions amid military and civilian tributes.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Kermit Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Army
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Former Seattle Publisher Clark Nettleton Dies
Seattle today reports death of 74 year old Clark Nettleton former publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer He assumed the post in 1918 and saw associates sell their interests to William Randolph Hearst in 1921
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Seattle
Clark Nettleton
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Randolph Hearst
Yanks Lose 7 Planes in Pacific Air Battle
The United States Navy reports a South Pacific clash over the Russell Islands where 19 Zeros were shot down and six damaged while seven American planes were lost with three pilots saved. Attu also shows progress as Japanese troops in Chichagof valley kill themselves and others. total enemy dead reaches 1,826.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Japan
South Pacific
Navy
United States
Russell
Solomon Islands
Knox
Ernest J. King
Naval
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
Pacific Theatre
King
Nimitz
Roosevelt
Churchill
George C. Marshall
Army
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mediterranean
North Africa
Pacific
Russell Islands
Attu Island
Chichagof
Attu
Four Injured One Fatally In R R Wreck
Four persons were injured one fatally today when the Manhattan Limited struck a derailed freight car in the Altoona yards. Engineer Francis M. Nickols of Harrisburg died later from steam burns. Fireman J W Dixson also burned. Conductor P N Steiner and Gunner’s Mate H G Breckinridge sustained lesser injuries. Investigators suspect saboteurs caused the derailment after the train passed 18 minutes earlier.
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Aluuona
Manhattan Limited
Pennsylvania Railroad
Altoona
Francis M. Nickols
J. W. Dixson
Harrisburg
Nickols
P. N. Eteiner
H. G. Breck
Brooklyn
N. Y
Baden
Bombing Pantelleria Eyes Underground Hangers With New Skip Technique
Allied air forces raid Pantelleria for the sixteenth day as American pilots employ a skip bombing tactic against subterranean hangars embedded in volcanic rock. Fighter-bombers join B 17s, B 24s, B 29s and others in dawn to dusk raids amid heavy anti aircraft fire. Axis losses climb while the island’s strategic position between Tunisia and Sicily remains under steady attack.
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Daniel DE Luce
North Africa
Talys
Panelleria
U. S
Pantelleria
Tunisia
Sicily
Italy
Sicilian
Axis High Command
Rome
Trial Details Show Theresa Williams Was Strangled Before Assault
In Pittsburgh on June 8 the coroner's physician testified that four year old Theresa Williams was strangled prior to the assault in the Earl Perry murder trial. Jurors heard grisly testimony as Perry sat humming, while relatives described their close ties to the Perrys and Theresa's family.
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Pittsburgh
Theresa Williams
J. W. McMeans
Earl Perry
McMeans
Perry
Adolph Williams
Dress Rehearsal for Air Raid Across Tri State Area
In New York on June 8, a full dress air raid drill drew 12,500 participants across Delaware New Jersey and southern New York. Army bombers simulated attack with searchlights civilian spotters and a three color warning system to train civil defense forces and observers.
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New York
Tri-State
Delaware
New Jersey
Thomas A. Terry
Second
Army
Big Inch Nears Goal for East Coast Oil Line
Somerville New Jersey June 8 pipe laying crews on the big inch oil line from Texas to New Jersey near the Linden and Bayonne refineries. Officials say a parallel line toward Port Arthur Texas will be built and refinery oil may not reach metropolitan refineries until late fall due to remaining mid west and west sections.
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Somerville
N. J
Texas
New Jersey
Linden
Bayonne
Construction Company
Port Arthur
War Emergency Pipeline Administration
Mid-West
West
Blast Furnaces Back in Service in Steel Mills
Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp, a major U S Steel subsidiary, reports eight of eleven blast furnaces restored after the coal strike, with operations resuming in Pittsburgh area facilities.
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Pittsburgh
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation
U. S. Steel
Free Bridge Bonds Urged Not Mandatory in Pa
Harrisburg reports a legislature approved resolution urging a 10 million dollar bond issue to free Pennsylvania’s remaining toll bridges. An administration source said the measure is not mandatory and outlines no binding obligation.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Axis Reports Attack Fails on Lampedusa
London reports an overnight commando raid on Lampedusa by British forces repulsed with German and Italian claims of minimal success. Allied sources describe the operation as a probing action preceding a potential wider assault in North Africa.
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Axis
Lampedusa
Edward D. Ball
London
Rome
Berlin
North
Africa
Mediterranean
Sicily
DNB
Seven Mile Long Island
Cargo Ship Damaged Off Soemba in Allied Raid
Allied Liberators damaged a 5,000 ton cargo ship off Soemba in the Dutch East Indies. Bombs near the ship caused damage while other raids hit Babu, Kaimana, and Dili Koepang as recon planes probed Kavieng and Waingpace harbor with renewed air activity after stormy weather.
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Allied
Australia
Soem’ba
Dutch East Indies
High Command
Soemba
Lesser Sunda Group
Darwin
Kavieng
New Ireland
New Britain
Babo
Dutch New Guinea
Sands Islands
Waingpace
Portuguese Timor
Ili
Koepang
Dili
Babu
Kaimana
Babu Weer
Churchill signals near grand amphibious assault in Europe
In a Commons address Winston Churchill spoke of amphibious operations on a large scale nearing readiness. He stressed Allied air power and U Boat declines, urged unity with the United States and Soviet allies, and warned the coming offensive fits into broader wartime plans while highlighting the Russian front and postwar unity among English-speaking democracies.
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Associated Press
London
Winston Charen
Commons
Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill
Parliament
Congress of the United States
British Isles
Dominions
United States
Stalin
Russia
China
Australia
New Zealand
Rice Bowls Saved From Japanese
Chinese counter-offensive defeats Japanese drive toward Chungking and leads to the recapture of Itu on the Yangtze 18 miles below Ichang. Chinese high command reports progress toward Sungtze and Kinhwa in Chekiang with several strategic points recaptured and heavy enemy losses. The push aims to restore the Hupeh-Hunan and Yangtze lines and protect the central rice bowl region. The Hwajung pivot near Tungting lake is key to the remaining front.
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Chungking
Great Rice Bowl
Central China
High Command
Itu
Yangtze River
Ichang
Sungtze
Shasi
Chekiang
Kinhwa
Hangchow
Pukiang
Japan
Hupeh-Hunan
Yangtze
Hunan
Szechwan
Hwajung
Tungting Lake
Argentine lifts martial law after coup and pledge
Buenos Aires reports Gen Pedro Ramirez's new government lifted martial law 24 hours after taking office. An official press statement says Argentina will seek closer ties with American republics by deeds not words and maintains neutrality for now while upholding state autonomy.
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Buenos Aires
Pedro Ramirez
Ramonos. Castillo
Ramirez
Roosevelt warns on Axis poison gas threat
President Roosevelt said reports indicate the Axis plans to use poison gas and warned such desperate warfare would trigger the utmost retaliation on munition centers seaports and other military targets. He stated the United States would treat gas attacks against any allied nation as attacks on the United States.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Axis
Rooseevlt
United States
United Nations
Two pilots killed in Taft plane crash near Gardner Field
Aviation Cadet George Shirey 27 of Bridgeville Pennsylvania and Lieut Erik Olle son 26 of Longview Washington died when their aircraft crashed near Gardner Field Taft California yesterday.
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Taft
Calif
George Shirey
Bridgeville
Erik Olleson
Longview
Wash
Gardner Field
Grave plant theft leads to six month jail term
In Pittsburgh Judge W Heber Dithrich sentenced 45 year old Joseph Weikel to six months in jail for stealing three plants from a grave and selling them to mourners for use on other graves.
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Pittsburgh
W. Heber Dithrich
Joseph Weikel
Somerset Weather Report From David Grove Observer
Daily weather summary for 24 hours ending Tuesday night reports a high of 16 and a low of 58 in Somerset. The preceding year recorded a maximum of 12 and a minimum of 63, with notes obscured in OCR.
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Somerset Weather
David Grove
U. S
Weather Outlook for Mid-Atlantic Regions
Eastern Pennsylvania and Maryland see cooler Wednesday morning and moderate temps by afternoon and evening. Western Pennsylvania remains cool Wednesday with moderate conditions later. West Virginia reports moderate temperatures with scattered thunder showers in western and southern areas on Wednesday.
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Pennsylvania
Maryland
West Virginia
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