Bethlehem Strike Ends At Buffalo
Bethlehem Steel’s Lackawanna mill ends a two day strike after the company and workers accept a government drafted agreement. Union leaders call the settlement a great victory and outline plans for a conference with the labor board and possible collective bargaining agency election.
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Buffalo
N. Y
CSO
Bethlehem Steel
Lackawanna
Apon
Wunanimouly
Roosevelt
Office of Production Management
Edward P. Entwisle
OPM
van A. Bittner
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Labor Board
Colective Bargaining Agency
Bittner
Witan
Walter E O Hara Killed In Crash
Taunton Massachusetts February 28 Walter E O Hara former horse racing magnate was killed in an automobile crash two cars involved one victim identified as the Providence Rhode Island newspaper publisher and race track figure O Hara was in the spotlight during a dispute with Rhode Island authorities while managing director of Narragansett race track He was rushed to Mortonite hospital in Taunton and pronounced dead on arrival
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Taunton
Mass
Walter E. O'Hara
Big Lone
O’hara
Providence Star-Tribune
O'Hara
Morton Ite
Winant Arrives Lisbon on Way to London
Joan G. Winant the new United States Ambassador to Britain arrived in Lisbon today by plane en route to London.
Marriage in Indiantown Gap Ceremony by Lutheran Pastor
The marriage of the son of this marriage to a World War Company C member occurred at Indiantown Gap. Rev. Dr. I. Hess Wagner of Old Trinity Lutheran Church officiated in a military style ceremony without music. Pvt. Leo J. Meier, of the present age, was noted.
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I. Hess Wagner
Old Trinity Lutheran Church
Pvt
Leo J. Meier
Adolph Meier
Ada D. Brant
Brothersvalley Township
Somerset
Company C
Co. C
Indiantown Gap
Adolph
Ada Meier
Meier
Law On Strikes Advocated By Knudsen Amid Settlements
The plan calls for a 30 day cooling off period before a strike, a 60 percent secret employee vote to authorize, and OPM investigation within 10 days after voting. It aims to curb minority strikes and involve federal conciliation services in disputes. The drive follows Bethlehem Lackawanna settlement and targets Allis Chalmers and Ford plants amid defense orders and union shop disputes.
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Bethlehem
SWOC
Lackawanna
Buffalo
Bittner
Memorial Hall
Bethlehem Steel Company
Entwisle
Herbert H. Lehman
Estavanampie
Sense Industries
William 8. Knudsen
N. Y
Office of Production Management
Congress
Federal Conciliation Service
OPM
Allis-Chalmers
Ford Motor Company
Sidney Hillman
Cio-United Automobile Workers
Milwaukee
Allis- Chalmers Manufacturing Company
Army
Navy
James F. Dewey
Detroit
Ford
Lincoln
River Rouge
Highland Park
Michigan
National Supply Company
Philadelphia
International Association of Machinists
AFL
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
CIO
Banquet Tickets Sell Fast in Somerset Chamber Drive
Charles Weimer reports 120 tickets sold for the Somerset Chamber of Commerce business men's division banquet with more prospects. Tickets must be bought before next Tuesday to ensure a seat and accommodations. The Ferner Hotel dining room will host a 6:30 p.m. dinner followed by entertainment and a board review of the first year. All interested in the community are invited to attend.
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Charles Weimer
Somerset Chamber of Commerce
Weimer
Ferner Hotel
Board of Directors
Rotary Speaker From Chicago Addresses Somerset Club
Joel B Guin national forum lecturer from Chicago spoke at the Somerset Rotary Club at the Ferner hotel about What’s Right With America. He praised America's resources opportunities and consumption of domestic production and highlighted the nation's heritage and living advantages. He also spoke at the Lions Club dinner meeting at the Church of the Brethren.
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Joel B. Guin
National Forum
Chicago
Somerset Rotary Club
Ferner Hotel
America
Mr. Guin
Mr. Gunn
The
Lions Club
Church of the Brethren
Lost Job Despondent Man Ends Life in Smithton
Greensburg Feb 28. August Gehringer 57 of Smithton died in a hospital from wounds deemed personal safety related after being found in the cellar by his wife Elizabeth. He had been despondent since American Reduction Company's plant closed a year ago. he leaves two married children.
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Greensburg
August Gehringer
Smithton
American Reduction Company
H. A. McMurray
Gehringer
Elizabeth
First 1941 License Plates Arrive in Somerset County
The Somerset County Motor Club reports the arrival of the first 1941 automobile license plates for Floyd Sabin and S. S. Warner, with Harold Dunn urging motorists to apply early to avoid delays.
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Somerset County Motor Club
Floyd Sabin
S. S. Warner
Harold Dunn
Alfonso XIII Burial Granted in Royal Pantheon
Madrid announces permission for the burial of former King Alfonso XIII in the Escorial royal pantheon. The decision marks the end of a long period of exile and will allow the former monarch to be laid to rest alongside royal family members.
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Alfonso
Madrid
Alfonso XIII
Escorial
Former King Alfonso XIII Dies in Rome Exile
Former King Alfonso XIII of Spain died in Rome after a 15 day battle with angina pectoris. He passed at 11:50 a.m. in a hotel bedroom where he had lived in exile with his family nearby including Don Juan and Beatrice. A funeral mass will be held at St Mary of the Angels with provisional interment at St Mary Monserrato, and possible reburial at El Escorial.
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Rome
Alfonso XIII of
Spain
Infanta
Christina
Turin
Alfonso
Victoria
Don Juan
Jaime
Beatrice
Bourvon
Juan
St. Mary of the Angels
St. Mary Monserrato
Escorial
Pius
Luigi Cardinal Maglione
Umberto
Ulpiano Lopez
Japan Seeks to Force Indo China After Ultimatum Expiry
Tokyo reports indicate 51 Japanese naval vessels patrolling the Gulf of Siam and southern Indo China while troops and air bases in northern Indo China rise beyond the September accord. France awaits clarification as a conference with mediation delegates is planned, with no reply expected from Paris by midnight. Evacuation of civilians from Indo China continues, to finish March 7.
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Tokyo
France
Oriental
Thailand
Japan
Indo-China
Saigon
Gul
Siam
China
Vichy
Germany
Charles Arsene Henry
Yosuke Matsuoka
Italy
Laos
Cambodia
Foreign Office
Usine
Indo China Crises Heighten Over Japanese Demands
In Saigon on February 28 authorities ordered air raid precautions as reports swirled of 51 Japanese naval vessels off the coast. Hanoi communications were cut, and Paris waited on terms for a border peace with Thailand. Japanese residents anticipated no evacuations, while officials questioned who might be forced out.
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Frank L. Martin, JR
Saigon
Indo-China
Hanoi
Thailand
Siam
Japanese Armistice Supervisory Commission
Tokyo
Exmoor Destroyer Lost In Nazi Torpedo Attack
London March 1 The British destroyer Exmoor was lost during a German torpedo boat attack on a British convoy in the North Sea Tuesday night The attack was driven off and the convoy reported no damage.
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London
North Sea
Admiralty
Nazi Foreign Minister Japanese Envoy in Vienna
Adolf Hitler’s foreign minister and the Japanese envoy arrived in Vienna amid rumors that Bulgarian leaders would join the German Italian Japanese pact. Reports also claimed Bulgaria’s prime minister and foreign minister planned to sign, tying Bulgarian adhesion to the allied arm forces.
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Vienna
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Balkan
Budapest
Bogdan Philoff
Bulgaria
Ivan Popoff
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Hiroshi Oshima
Germany
New Planes For Britain From America
London reports bombing by German planes in thick mist and high winds over the Dover Strait with several raids on London and southeast England. British officials say four more Stirling bombers, described as very powerful, were sent from the United States to bolster attacks into German territory.
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London
Dover Strait
Britain
England
Channel
Aeroplane
United States
Can't Enforce Lottery Laws in Washington County Trial
District Attorney George T. Cummins testified as a defense witness that violations of lottery laws by numbers rackets cannot be wiped out due to insufficient officers and racketeers who know local police. He testified for former District Attorney James C. Bane in a case alleging misconduct in office stemming from slot machines and lotteries between 1936 and 1940. The defense hoped to end its case and allow jury deliberations to begin Tuesday.
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Cummins
James C. Bane
Bane
Michael J. Powell
William McBride
Qhaceee
McBride
Relief rolls shrink in Somerset county as week ends Feb 15
A Kris singer report shows 327 fewer persons on relief in Somerset county for the week ending February 15 compared with February 8. Direct relief beneficiaries were 3,500, down from 3,827, with 96 RWP jobs and a payroll of 527.20 for the week. The county Board of Public Assistance met Friday to handle routine matters.
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Somerset
Richard H. Krissinger
County Department of Public Assistance
County Board of Public Assistance
Daryle Heckman
Light Snow Forecast For Mid-Atlantic And Northeast
Extended outlook from March 1 to March 5 predicts light snow in northern Appalachian areas with generally fair conditions elsewhere. Temperatures trail cooler by period end as patterns moderate then dip.
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North
Middle Atlantic
Appalachian
Perod
Priority System Ruled Out
Washington February 28 President Roosevelt ruled out a steel product priority system saying industry capacity is ample to meet civilian and military needs.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Retreats Of Italians Predicted In War Report
Italian high command warned of British advances in Somaliland and possible new Italian retreats. The Fascist communique noted Mogadiscio falls but said Cheren Giarabub and Cufra still resisted. Il Popolo D Italia warned of worse to come along coasts and lowlands and British superiority in mobility.
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Rome
Somaliland
Mogadiscio
Cheren
Giarabub
Cufra
Eritrea
Libya
Mario Appealis
Il Popolo D'Italia
Italian Empire
Britain
Ethiopia
British Quit Turk Capital After Talks on Balkan Problems
The British mission left Ankara after talks with Turkish leaders in which both governments voiced full agreement on Balkan problems. Anthony Eden will likely visit Athens for Greek-army aid discussions, while Eden and General Dill departed by special train to Adana after meetings with Sir Stafford Cripps and the ambassador to Turkey.
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Ankara
Turkey
Germany
Bulgaria
Greece
Mediterranean
Anthony Eden
Egypt
Athens
Eden
Sir John Dill
Adana
Sir Stafford Cripps
Russia
Britain to Draft Labor for War Shipbuilding
Britain orders all experienced shipbuilders not currently in shipyards to register for national service in the industry. A list of over twenty shipbuilding related occupations requires men with at least one year of work in the last 15 years to register from March 17 to March 19. Exceptions apply to those already in shipbuilding or the armed forces.
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London
Britain
British planes down 26 Italian warplanes in Albania
British fighter planes shot down 26 Italian warplanes on the southern Albanian front, the Royal Air Force announced tonight from Athens.
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Athens
Greece
Royal Air Force
Axis Bombs Hit Malta Base Damaging Buildings
Axis airplanes bombed the British base at Valetta Malta early this morning causing damage to buildings and some casualties according to reports.
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Valletta
Malta
mid-Mediterranean
Missing Man Russell Curry Found Dead in Clearfield Woods
A search by state police and COC workers located Russell Curry a 31 year old trapper hanging by a rope over a tree limb in snow covered Clearfield county woods. Curry had been missing from La Jose since yesterday while checking traps.
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Clearfield
COC
Russell Curry
Clearfield County
Joseph Steiner
Curry
la Jose
Bulgaria Joins Axis As Bulgaria Signs Pact In Vienna
Belgrade reports early today that Bulgaria will join the Rome Berlin Tokyo axis. Bulgarian premier Bogdan Philoff and Foreign Minister van Popoff head to Vienna to sign the pact with German Foreign Minister Von Risventrop and the Japanese ambassador. Bulgarian air defenses mobilize as troops mass toward the Turkish border amid widespread fear of a southward German movement.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Vienna
Romania
Great Britain
Smaijanic
Ivan Stratoff
Sofia
Bogdan Philoff
van Popoff
Joachim von Risventrop
Berlin
Hirosai
Axis
Bucharest
Philof
Boris
Philoft
Aria
Bulgar
Britain
Turkey
Greece
Mediterranean
Agean Sea
Danube
Adolf Hitler
Al-bama
Somerset Weather Report Highlights Daily Temperatures
Daily weather summary by David Grove records 5:30 p m Thursday to 5:30 p m Friday. Maximum 23 degrees with low readings and missing snowfall data. Year ago values noted as 33 and low not listed.
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Somerset Weather
David Grove
U. S
Weather Outlook for Western and Eastern Pennsylvania
Western Pennsylvania sees a partly cloudy, continued cold Saturday with Sunday fair and a slow temperature rise. Eastern Pennsylvania and Maryland report partly cloudy, continued cold Saturday, then Sunday fair with rising temperatures.
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Pennsylvania
Maryland
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Methodist Church
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Director OF Defense Production
Associated Press
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Dunlop Tire
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W. Patriot Street
Somerset, PA
Richard G. Massoce
Far East
Exmoor
Paulasse
Boersen Zeitung
French
Krissinger
Africa
Turk Capital
Philoff
Popoff
U. S. Weather Bureau
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Cereennesenee Seeennmnetee
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Cleveland
Denver
Galveston
Los Angles
Miami
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