Tornado leaves five dead in Ohio and Pennsylvania
A roaring tornado cut a 75 mile path through eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania leaving five dead and hundreds injured or homeless. It damaged hundreds of buildings, with Sharon hardest hit as 100 homes in a 15 block area were damaged and 300 people reported minor injuries. Red Cross opened feeding stations and volunteers moved tarpaulins to Sharon and Mercer as residents began repairs.
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Sharon
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Youngstown
Mercer
Myron Jones
Buhl Hospital
Red Cross
Vienna Township
Ohio-Pennsylvania
Survivors Of Tornado Tell Of Escapes
Dazed residents in eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania search rubble after a deadly tornado killed five and injured many. In Vienna Ohio twelve houses were leveled and families escaped with scratches and bruises, recounting near misses and miraculous survivals amid destroyed homes and overturned cars.
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Elaine Kahn
Youngstown
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Vienna
Harold Chilton
Helen
Chilton
Wayne Poehler
Lavin
Doctors warned against greed tarnishing medical ranks
Dr. Paul R. Hawley told state medical residents in Atlantic City that a grasping minority, about 10 percent, could give medicine a bad name. He argued some groups charging the VA top rates fuel calls for regulation and blamed lawyers for limiting reform. He noted the VA pays private practitioners over $2.5 million monthly, about $32 million yearly, in fees.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Paul R. Hawley
Veterans Administration
Physicians Today
Congress
Hawley
Dr. Hawley
Mrs Roy Walker Admitted As Surgical Patient
Mrs Roy Walker of Somerset was admitted to Somerset Community Hospital late Sunday as a surgical patient. Her condition was listed as fair.
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Walker
Roy Walker
Somerset, A .D
Somerset Community Hospital
Saltonstall Denounces Dollar Diplomacy As Inadequate
Senator Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts told Franklin and Marshall College graduates that dollar diplomacy cannot solve world problems. He urged reliance on a functioning United Nations and targeted aid by trained relief experts to restore destitute nations, while opposing overextension of American dollars. He also urged Hungary to settle its crisis on terms that leave its people with confidence in their own government.
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Lancaster
Leverett Saltonstall
R-Mass
Franklin & Marshall College
United Nations
Saltonstall
Hungary
Konnerth Frick Names General Manager for Frick Coke
K L Konnerth a native of Erie is named general manager of operations for the H C Frick Coke Co a coal producing subsidiary of U S Steel Corp A J Breitenstein from Bridgeport Ohio will succeed Konnerth as assistant to the president in charge of engineering
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Pittsburgh
K. L. Konnerth
Erie
H. C. Frick Coke Co
U. S. Steel Corp
A. J. Breitenstein
Bridgeport, O
Frick
Kenwerth
Miners Deliver Strike Voice Over Labor Bill Flood Toll Grows
In southwestern Pennsylvania miners walk off amid labor bill tensions as floods across the Mississippi and nearby states claim lives and homes. Ottumwa and Arcadia report rising death tolls while farm floods and canyon washouts add to devastation.
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Associated Press
Mississippi River
Illinois
Missouri
Alexandria
Missippi
St. Louis
Keokuk
Des Moines
Iowa
Ottumwa
Herschel Loveless
Loveless
Dalle
Ore
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Oregon
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Arcadia
Kas
Chanute
Somerset To Get Another New Industry
A historic corner known as the Gil bert place at Rosina and West Main streets will be cleared this Monday to make way for Lytles Fashion Cleaners a modern dry cleaning plant. Harold R. Lytle leases the site from L. Harrington Gibbs Jr and plans two buildings with $10 000 in equipment and a July 4 completion target. The Gibbs family will depart Monday morning after demolition begins and excavation starts Wednesday with a high lift bulldozer.
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West Main Street
Gilbert Place
Lytles Fashion Cleaners
Harold R. Lytle
Somerset
L. Harrington Gibbs, Jr
Gilbert Corner
Cavalry
Gilbert
L. Harrington Gibbs
Frank Gilbert
Gibbs
Kretchman
Roy D. Hostetler
New Centerville
Lytle
A. W. Francis
Jane Francis
House Committee Seeks War Pledge Compliance Policy
The House foreign affairs committee has called up a resolution demanding Russia honor wartime pledges and pursue a firm U.S. policy. Hearings will probe the issue with testimony from top officials and former leaders, outlining conditions on lend-lease, aid, and reciprocal access.
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Alex H. Singleton
Washington
Europe
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Russia
Rep. Colmer
State Marshall
Commerce Harriman
Moscow
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Army
Herbert Hoover
Congress
United States
Colmer
United Staes
Coun
Drum Victim Identity Remains A Mystery In Barrel Case
The Philadelphia mystery of a woman found stuffed in a metal drum last week deepens as the son of a former WAC, a waitress at Atlantic City, claims he spoke with her by phone in New York about two hours before the body’s discovery. Police note she had been dead about three weeks and a towel from an Atlantic City hotel was found with the remains.
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Philadelphia
WAC
Harry W. Huffnagle
Atlantic County
N. J
Atlantic City
New York
Stahr resigns as Hood College president in 1948
Dr Henry I Stahr announces resignation as Hood College president at the 54th commencement in Frederick Maryland effective July 1 1948. He became head college president in 1934 after serving as executive secretary of the board of Christian Education. He is a Franklin and Marshall and Cornell Ursinus alumnus. No reason given. Miss Margaret Lashinsky of Cornellsville Pa wins Elsie Muir Loucks prize as outstanding senior.
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Cornell
Ursinus College
Stahr
Margaret Lashinsky
Cornellsville
Elsie Muir Loucks
Mellon Trust Grants 76 Million For Education and Charity
The A. W. Mellon Education and Charitable Trust reports grants totaling nearly 76 million dollars over 15 years ending December 31, 1945 for religious charitable scientific and educational purposes. Established in 1930 by Andrew W. Mellon the trust’s gifts and bequests exceed 100 million dollars. Remaining assets will be distributed in the next 15 years. The National Gallery of Art in Washington received over 71 million dollars, and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in Pittsburgh was a major beneficiary. Book value of principal was 30,087,890 dollars and market value 46,361,720 dollars as of year end 1945.
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Pittsburgh
A. W. Mellon Education and Charitable Trust
Andrew W. Mellon
U. S. Secretary of the Treasury
National Gallery of Art
Washington, D. C
Mellon Institute of Industrial Research
Veterans groups split over federal job preference rules
Five major veterans organizations remain in sharp disagreement over how veterans should receive score or placement preference in federal civil service. The dispute covers disability bonuses, ranking lists, and long term priority, with groups split on passing grades and separate eligibility lists.
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Chicago
Civil Service Assembly
American Veterans Committee
Assembly
AVC
American Veterans of World War 2
Veterans of Foreign Wars
American Legion
Disabled Veterans
VFW
Amvets
Indonesia Considers Interim Government For Federal State
Soetan Sjahrir said Indonesia is ready to consider an interim government to bridge the gap to 1949 and ease the move toward a federal Indonesia. He spoke after counter-proposals to a Dutch five-point note and noted a June 11 deadline for replies.
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Jojakarta
Java
INS
Soetan Sjahrir
Jogjakarta
Indonesia
Netherlands Indies Commission-General
United States of Indonesia
Sjahrir
Roof Collapse at Osaka Theater Kills and Traps Many
Kyodo reports 50 killed or injured when a theater roof collapsed during a youth rally near Kishiwada. About 100 were trapped beneath rotting timbers, with half believed unhurt. Emergency crews battle debris as the incident prompts safety questions.
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Osaka
Kyodo
Kishiwada
Navy to donate ships to Latin American nations if Congress approves
The Navy plans to transfer four cruisers and 117 smaller vessels to Brazil Chile and Peru plus 33 destroyer escorts under President Truman's hemisphere arms standardization program. Total cost to the Navy would reach about 21.1 million with monthly maintenance around 15,628.09 dollars. the plan includes training and ongoing support for Latin American armed forces.
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Washington
Navy
Congress
President Truman
Brazil
Chile
Peru
Secretary
United States
U. S
Berry Loses Suit Against TVA in Flood Damages Case
In Knoxville Tennessee on June 8 a decade long suit by George L Berry former senator and union president seeking multi million dollar damages from the Tennessee Valley Authority ended in failure Federal Judges ruled Berry's marble land in East Tennessee was not suitable for marble mining and dismissed the claim The defendants were TVA and three federal judges George C Taylor Leslie Carr and Elmer Davies handed down the decision.
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Knoxville, Tenn
INS
Tennessee Valley Authority
George L. Berry
International Printing Pressman’s Union
Berry
TVA
East
Tennessee
George C. Taylor
Leslie Carr
Elmer Davies
President Truman Flies Back to Washington From Canada Visit
President Truman returns to Washington from the 35th division post war reunion. He declines to discuss tax cut veto timing and says Charlie Ross’s forecast is no better than others. He visits his mother in Kansas City before heading to Ottawa for a goodwill visit and a speech to the Canadian parliament.
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Kansas City
Truman
Washington
Fairfax
Kansas
Canada
Charlie
Mushlebach
Grandview
White House
Ottawa
Japanese Cannibalism Confession Emerges From Mindanao
Manila report details 31 Japanese soldiers held in a Del Monte stockade facing numerous murder charges with cannibalism alleged. S. Melville Hussey, of the army legal section, cites confessions from a six week inquiry revealing a case of forced flesh tasting and brutal killings during 1945.
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Mindanao
del Monte
S. Melville Hussey
Bayonne
N. J
Hussey
Felix Saguinwan
Emiliana
Felisa
Comrade Truman Spends Day With Buddies Of 717
President Truman visited Kansas City to reunite with the 35th World War I division and to see his 94 year old mother in Grandview Missouri. He arrived in good spirits and checked on his mother’s health after a two week bedside vigil. He also planned to attend an event at the municipal auditorium with General of the Army.
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Uniontown
Pennsylvania
Andrew S. Rayner
AFL
United Mine Workers
Gates
H. C. Frick Coal and Coke Co
Fayette County
John Ozanich
Robena
Truman
Robert G. Nixon
Kansas City
INS
Missouri
France
35Th
Grandview
Kansas City Municipal Auditorium
No Honeymoon For Mail Order Bride And Groom
Warren E. Rounds of Florida Massachusetts married Bessie Riley a mail order bride from Knoxville Tennessee. The ceremony was conducted by City Clerk Albert L Fuller and the couple foregoed a honeymoon as Rounds remains on the night shift at the Windsor print shop. The meeting drew a crowd of about 3000 at Union Station.
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North Adams
Mass
INS
Warren E. Rounds
Florida
Bessie Riley
Knoxville
Peverase
Albert L. Fuler
Rounds
Windsor
McQuade Sued for Damages After Wreck Near Brotherton
Latshaws sue Guy E. McQuade of Berlin for 5 000 damages from a February auto collision near the Routes 31 and 219 intersection. Latshaw seeks 1 000 for his injuries and 2 500 for his wife’s jaw laceration and facial and rib injuries.
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Brotherton
Guy E. McQuade
Berlin
Clarence C. Latshaw
Fredericksburg
Latshaw
Christine Z. Schrock
McQuade
Reward For News Of Lost Professor Haber Missing
STATE COLLEGE June 8 A substantial reward has been offered for information on the whereabouts of Dr Vernon R Haber a 55 year old professor at the Pennsylvania State College missing since last Tuesday Mrs Julia Haber the professor s wife announced the reward over the weekend saying she believed her husband suffered an attack of amnesia His two brothers Roy Haber and J Peter Haber from Union City Ind came to help in the search
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State College
Vernon R. Haber
Pennsylvania State College
Julia Haber
Haber
Roy Haber
J. Peter Haber
Union City
Ind
Weather outlook for Maryland and nearby states
Eastern region shows mostly cloudy conditions on Monday with clearing by noon and a slight afternoon warmth. Tuesday brings higher temperatures and humidity with scattered afternoon thunderstorms. Western Pennsylvania sees mostly sunny skies and warmer Monday, while Tuesday includes scattered thunderstorms and further warmth. West Virginia expects sunshine and a modest rise in temperature Monday with scattered thundershowers Tuesday.
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Pennsylvania
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