Commerce Dept loyalty papers prompt public showdown
Dr. Edward Condon headed the National Bureau of Standards and was denounced by an un American activities sub committee. Secretary Harriman refused to turn over department files but offered to share relevant papers reviewed by the Civil Service loyalty board. Rep. Thomas pressed for public hearings and a full showdown to expose loyalties.
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Dr Condon
House UN- American Activities Committee
National Bureau of Standards
Reds
Francis I. Kelly Ashington
Edward VU. Condon
Louse un-American Activities Comittee
Condon
Nabureau of Standards
Secretary of Commerce
Harriman
House Group
Eee
Dr. Condon
Loyalty Eview
The
Civil Service Commission
Thomas
Ces J. Parnell Thomas
House Committee
United States
Washington
Senate House Atomic Committee
Senate
House
Hickenlooper
FBI
Garner Risks War Policy In Third Term Belief
John Nance Garner opposed a third term both on principle and as a critic of Roosevelt as war leader. Bascom N. Timmons in Collier's cites Garner saying Roosevelt would direct efforts on military and civilian fronts, possibly hindering the war. Garner feared long tenure and would not run again, even if asked, and he rejected a third term at Chicago.
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Washington
John Nance Garner
Roosevelt
Bascom N. Timmons
Collier's Magazine
Texan
Garner
Timmons
Wallace
Chicago
Mercury Drops Thursday As Snow Flurries Hit Roads
Thursday saw a sharp drop in temperature with a daytime high near 39 and low around 26, as snow flurries clung to cars and pavements iced over in spots. Residents wore heavy coats and kept furnaces at full blast while forecasts suggested colder weather could follow if the sun failed to warm air.
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David Grove
Pam
More Snow Forecast for Western Pennsylvania
The U S weather bureau predicts more snow for western Pennsylvania on Friday night into Saturday with no depth given. Temperatures may dip to 10 to 15 degrees in the early morning while a 35 degree rise is forecast by afternoon. Roads were glazed with ice and snow this afternoon as a 36 degree thaw cleared some highways.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
U. S. Weather Bureau
Fire damages Main Hardware & Supply Co in Uniontown
Fire which started today caused about 50000 in damage to the Main Hardware and Supply Co. Eighteen residents in an adjacent apartment building and a frame house fled as firemen confined the blaze to the store.
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Uniontown
Main Hardware & Supply Co
Fifty-Five Prisoners Jailed in February
The sheriff's office register shows fifty-five prisoners were committed to the county jail in February, a slight drop from sixty-one in January.
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Sheriff's Office
Specials at Cascio's Grapes and Fruits
Local ad lists prices for produce including grapes 2 lbs for 25 cents or 49 cents per dozen, 2 dozen for 59 cents, 4 for 25 cents, pears Dianjo, large oranges, seedless grapefruit, Valentine beans, and McIntosh apples with various prices. The listing mixes fruit and produce items with promotional offers and unclear formatting.
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Cascio’s
Valentine
MclIntosh
Trio of Gunmen Rob Coal Company Captured After Heist
Police trap at Politz Coal company led to the capture of Frank J. Politz 38 Ashley and the arraignment of Joseph Rogers 45 and Harry Turkes 29 Wilkes-Barre on armed robbery charges. Rogers pursued in a car and caught after a one mile chase. Colitz decoy money recovered. Politz held in Luzerne county for Schuylkill authorities.
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Colitz
Rogers
Turkey
Jewish tailor recalls boy he encouraged becomes archbishop
Samuel Greenberg, a 75 year old Jewish tailor from New Britain, recalls boosting Frankie Keough's path to priesthood. Keough, now 56 and Archbishop of Baltimore, honored the Greenbergs at his consecration with a Baltimore visit, paying expenses and arranging kosher meals.
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New Britain
Conn
Samuel Greenberg
Frankie
Francis P. Keough
Baltimore
Sam
Seneca St
Sonia
Keough
Greenbergs
Four Captured After fatal gun battle in Georgia
In Swainsboro Georgia a young state policeman Agent Garland Fields 35 of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation was killed after trying to question a rifle seller. A posse aided by bloodhounds and airplanes captured four suspects two women and two men after running gun battles. All four were wounded slightly and surrendered after a car chase into the woods. Fields was dining with his wife and two daughters when he was shot.
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Swainsboro
Garland Fields
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Fields
Elise van Pelt
Augusta
Reynolds Heads for China in Quest to Beat Everest
Milionaire explorer Milton Reynolds and his scientific expedition plane departed Honolulu for China at 7 46 Hawki time. He planned a route via Midway instead of Johnston Island and Kwajalein hoping to locate a mountain higher than Mount Everest.
Seven Jewish militiamen killed in ambush near Jerusalem
In Arab territory north of Jerusalem a Haganah road patrol of about 32 men was ambushed by an estimated 200 Arabs. Seven teen Jewish militiamen died. 12 Jews reportedly killed by Arabs, five captured and shot in Ramallah. Second Jewish group of about 25 men driven off or escaped. Arabs claimed mines were planned on the Ramallah road. British officials moved families out of Haifa to Jenin amid fears of Jewish attacks. Death toll in Palestine rises to 1,590 since the UN partition vote. Fawzi Al Fauji moves toward Palestine with a hand picked Arab force.
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James M. Long
Jerusalem
Haganah
Kalandiya
Ramallah
Tel Aviv
Haifa
England
Jenin
Palestine
United Nations
Partition
Damascus
Syria
Fawzi Bey al Faukji
Arab Volunteer Army
County School Board Schedules Seven Evening Meetings
The County School Board and Superintendent L S Williams set seven meetings at different centers. Starting March 8 in Rockwood High School with directors from Upper Turkeyfoot to Milford, followed by Berlin Berlin-Brothersvalley March 12 and onward through Meyersdale Somerset Confluence Boswell and Shade township high schools, listing involved districts for each session.
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L. S. Williams
Rockwood Borough
Upper Turkeyfoot
Middlecreek
Casselman
New Centerville
Rockwood
Black
Milford
Berlin-Brothersvalley High School
Berlin
Brothersvalley
Northampton
Fairhope
Allegheny
New Baltimore
Meyersdale High School
Elk Lick
Salisbury
Summit
Garrett
Greenville
Wellersburg
Southampton
Larimer
Meyersdale
Somerset High School
Somerset
Jefferson
Lincoln
Stonycreek
Shanksville
Somerset Township
Confluence High School
Addison
Township
Confluence
Ursina
Lower Turkeyfoot
Boswell Borough
Conemaugh
Jenner
Jennertown
Boswell
Benson
Shade Township
Paintborough
Paint Township
Hooversville
Quemahoning
Stoystown
Shade
Central City
Ogle
Jennings Begins Life Term for Wife Slaying
Westchester March 4 The Unionville man Lacey Jennings 41 started serving a life imprisonment sentence today for the slaying of his wife Mildred on Oct 27 1941 He was convicted of first degree murder by a jury that recommended life imprisonment The Commonwealth asked the death penalty Jenningss attorney J Paul Mace withdrew a motion for a new trial without explanation.
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Westchester
Lacey Jennings
Mildred
Unionville
Commonweath
Jennings
J. Paul Macefee
Russia protests U.S. planes in Far East
Moscow radio reports a second protest over American aircraft off Japan and in the Yellow Sea and Sea of Japan. Russia cites repeated violations of merchant shipping and says the U S has not replied to a January 30 note.
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Russia
Far East
Moscow Radio
U.S
Japan
U. S
Moscow
Yellow Sea
Sea of Japan
Foreign Ministry
United States
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Mellaha
Tripoli
North Africa
Iran
Britain
France
Germany
PennsylvanIa Battleship Pennsy Sunk Near Kwajalein After Scuttling
The battleship Pennsylvania, famed for Pearl Harbor duty and Bikini tests, was scuttled near Kwajalein on February 10 after being hit by an aerial torpedo in August 1945. Radioactivity and decontamination costs led to scrapping, as the Navy towed her to sea and opened sea-cocks to sink stern first into half a mile of water.
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Pennsylvania
Bikini
Kwajalein
Navy
Trippe
Banner
Kwajalein Lagoon
Prinz Eugen
Aleutians
Ryukyus
Atlantic
U.S
Attu
Kurtz Brothers Win School Supplies Contract
Stonycreek township school board awarded the contract to Kurtz Bros. of Clearfield to furnish school supplies. Bids for janitor supplies were rejected and will be reopened at the April meeting.
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Kurtz Brothers
Stonycreek Township
Kurtz Bros
Clearfield
Czech Leader Arrested For Setting Up Spy Nest In U S Zone German
The report notes a Czech leader arrested in the U S zone of Germany on espionage grounds. It mentions broader Cold War tensions and enforcement actions by Allied authorities in occupied Germany. The piece also covers a separate NLRB ruling on non-Communist affidavits from a CIO union and related legal questions.
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U.S. Zone
Germany
Italy May Be Serious Election For Parliament
Rome reports a pivotal April 18 vote as Italy confronts a six party race for 574 deputies and 400 senators. The Christian Democrats and the Communist Socialist Popular Front fight for a narrow edge, while a hidden Communist shadow government worries the nation about post election policy and possible Western disruption.
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John P. McKnight
Rome
Italy
Europe
Czechoslovakia
Finland
Trieste
Alcide de Gasperi
Christian Democrats
Popular Front
Front
de Gasperi
Prague
Pact to unite five Western European nations in defense
Brussels reports say a 50 year pact may form among Britain France Belgium the Netherlands and Luxembourg aiming for mutual defense with military political and economic provisions. talks stress united Western Europe to curb Soviet expansion and use Marshall Plan for economic fixes.
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Brussels
Belgium
Britain
France
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Stafford Cripps
London
Cripps
Paul-Henri Spaak
Fernand van Langenhove
United Nations
Ernest Bevins
Europe
Harris Named To Philadelphia Tax Revision Board
David W. Harris, chairman of the Republican committee and state secretary of revenue, was named to Philadelphia’s board of revision of taxes. He will resign his cabinet post. the new job pays $10,000 annually, $2,000 less than before. Harris aims to influence the presidential campaign from Philadelphia. The Common Pleas court judges made the appointment. Governor Duff’s office will comment after Harris resigns.
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Philadelphia
David W. Harris
Hairman
Board of Revision of
Harris
James H. Duff
Quaker City
Common Pleas Court
Harrisburg
Duff
Espionage arrests mark Czech security crackdown in Germany
Prague police announced the arrest of Felix Uhl on charges of aiding espionage centers in the American zone of Germany. Uhl, once head of the Peoples party student section, allegedly sold information to a foreign intelligence service and traveled on false documents. The probe ties to other fugitives, including figures like Adolf Prochazka, former minister of health, whose whereabouts were uncertain. Reports describe border escapes via snow and ski trails, with claims of police aid for refugees and car trafficked crossings. Two Americans criticized Czech academic freedom, signaling tension with the new government and its stance on higher education.
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Prague
Felix Uhl
Germany
Czzechoslovaks
Uhl
Peoples Party
Adolf Prochazka
Milada
Pravo
Miada Fronta
Emil Ransdorf
Information Ministry
Prochazka
Interior Ministry
Mlada Fronta
United States
American Association
International Student Federation
Weather Report From Somerset Daily by Observer
Somerset daily weather report notes a 24 hour period ending at 5 30. David Greve A S Observer records conditions and notable changes for the period in question.
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Somerset
David Greve
A. S
Lesday
Weather Elsewhere Temperatures For Thursday March 4
The United States Weather Bureau lists temperatures for Thursday March 4 across various locations. Readings show regional highs and lows guiding expectations for day and night conditions nationwide.
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U. S
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