Hull Pressed by Republicans on Clear Foreign Policy
Washington March 22 Two dozen first term Republicans published a week old letter to Secretary Hull asking for a definite declared foreign policy. Hull spoke two hours with the Senate foreign relations committee about state department moves. The letter urges Moscow's structure for peace and questions abandonment for piecemeal regional spheres of influence.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
Hull
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
State Department
Hale
Cairo
Japan
Germany
Moscow
Europe
South America
1500 Miners Idle in West Kentucky Tool Dispute
About 1,500 United Mine Workers idle at five Muhlenberg county mines in a dispute over tool payments under Harold Ickes order. The involved operators are Shearn, Pacific, Black Diamond, Beach Creek and Bevier coal companies. An earlier Moss Hill stoppage adds to the unrest as workers protested armed guards.
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Madison
United Mine
West Kentucky
Shearn Coal Company
Pacific Coal Company
Black Diamond Coal Company
Beach Creek Coal Company
Bevier Coal Company
Muhlenberg County
United Mine Workers of America
Secretary of the Interior
Harold Ickes
Ickes
Moss Hill
Berlin-Brothersvalley Meeting Friday
Berlin-Brothersvalley Community Association led by president A. L. Miller will meet Friday at 8 pm in the high school auditorium. Miss Lillian Long of the Somerset County Tuberculosis Society speaks and shows films on TB work, plus a film about the Alcan highway construction.
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Berlin-Brothersvalley Community Association
A. L. Miller
Lillian Long
Somerset County Tuberculosis Society
Alcan
UNRRA Plan Approved by Congress in Relief Effort
Congress approved the UNRRA plan by a 285 to 58 vote and sent it to the White House for President Roosevelt's expected signature, shaping American participation in world relief efforts.
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UNRRA
Washington
Congress
White House
Roosevelt
Business Men to Banquet in Somerset Chamber Event
A Somerset Chamber of Commerce business men's division banquet is set for Tuesday March 28 at 3 30 p.m. in the Methodist church. President Jack Danahey announced final plans at a special board meeting with a notable out of town speaker and music program. Tickets are limited for extra purchases at Penn Furniture Co McCrorys Lohr Appliance and Somerset Bus Station.
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Jack Danahey
Somerset Chamber of Commerce
Methodist Church
Penn Furniture Co
McCrory’s
Lohr Appliance Co
Somerset
WLB Orders Greyhound Strike End in Pittsburgh
The regional war labor board ordered the Pennsylvania Greyhound drivers to end the six day walkout by midnight or appear in Philadelphia to show cause. AFL Local 1063 leaders and Samuel Berrang were summoned, with a compromise offer rejected.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines
Regional War Labor Board
Philadelphia
Wos
Samuel Berrang
International
Theodore Benson
AFL
WLB
Hit Rock
Office of Defense Transportation
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes
Teche-Greyhound Lines
Southeastern
Eighth Regional Labor Board
Dallas
Tex
Boston and Maine Transportation Company
Insland Lines
ODT
Branch of
Tech
Federal Conciliation Service
War Labor Board
Neralvzine
Fromm Sentenced for Embezzling at Hilltop Building and Loan
Judge A Marshall Thompson today sentenced William Fromm 71 to 2 to 5 years in the workhouse for embezzling 149550 dollars during 38 years as secretary of the Hilltop Building and Loan Association.
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Fromm
Pittsburgh
A. Marshall Thompson
William Fromm
Hilltop Building and Loan Association
Gray Soldier Sees Subs Blown Up
Corporal Eldon Palazza of Gray reports German submarines were blown up in the Atlantic near the Fort Pierce Florida base. The 21 year old medic with the Jungle Cat unit has 32 months in service including 25 in Panama. He witnessed the explosions from an observation tower and tours include Camp Crowder and Camp Forrest.
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Atlantic
Eldon Palazza
U. S
Army
Naval Amphibious Training Base
Fort Pierce
Florida
William Palazza
Gray
Army Engineers
Panama
Corp. Palazza
Camp Crowder
Camp Forrest
Tenn
Naval Amphibious
Paul H. Garrett
Lebanon
Pennsylvania
Palazzo
Somerset High School
Back to the Mines Men urged to return to coal pits
Pennsylvania's War Manpower Commission urged former coal miners to return to work, offering voluntary transfers aided by the U S Employment Service which will provide referrals and keep a complete mine job openings list through the manpower director H Raymond Mason.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
War Manpower Commission
H. Raymond Mason
The
Manpower Commission
U. S. Employment Service
Two pilots killed in Atlantic City aerial collision
Two pilots from the Atlantic City naval air station were killed when their planes collided five and one half miles north of Atlantic City New Jersey. The crash and fire occurred in a wooded area and the names were not released.
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Philadelphia
Atlantic City
N. J
Fourth Naval District
Atlantic City Naval Air Station
Truck Blocks Bridge Traffic In Pittsburgh
A truck ran off the Smithfield street bridge onto railway tracks, forcing thousands of streetcar passengers to walk to work as traffic snarled for hours. Workers faced difficulty removing the vehicle after it broke through two ties.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Railway
Smithfield Street
Allied Forces Press Cassino Assault Amid Fierce Fighting
Allied artillery blasted Cassino ruins including the Corvi Tal hotel as New Zealand infantry pushed forward on Monastery hill. German counterattacks on Castle hill were repulsed while Rome was declared an open city. about 30 more German prisoners were captured as air and ground forces support the effort.
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Richard G. Maslock
Naples
Cor Vital
Cassino
New Zealand
Rome
Monastery Hill
Castle Hill
Lynn Heinzerling
Associated Press
Liri
Wang W
Anzio
Eruption of Vesuvius Continues Its Destructive Outbreak
Mount Vesuvius unleashed a fresh surge covering farmland with two feet of ash and showering lava stones as residents fled with children under blankets. Winds pushed ash 25 miles south. lava threats persisted toward Torre del Greco and Torre Annunziata while Cercola eased. No new deaths reported though two had been claimed.
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George Tucker
Pompeii
Italy
Mount Vesuvius
Calerno
Pompei
Vesuvius
Torre del Greco
Torre Annunziata
Cercola
Six Prisoners Escape from Military Train
Six prisonered men in gray uniforms with red stripes escaped from a train en route to Portsmouth naval prison camp. The escape occurred near Schenevus as the train stopped for steam, with troopers pursuing from Schenectady. Identities were not yet known.
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Oneonta
N. Y
U. S. Naval
Portsmouth
N. H
Schenevus
Here
Schenectady
Rivers Harbor Work Approved
The House approved postwar rivers and harbors legislation with an estimated cost of 355 million dollars.
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Washington
House
Losses and raids as heavy bombers hit Berlin
American heavy bombers dropped about 1 900 tons of bombs on Berlin and surrounding targets amid strong German anti aircraft fire. Night raids by RAF Mosquitos continued over western Germany while German retaliatory raids on London caused casualties and damage.
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W. W. Hercher
Lonnvon
Berlin
Nazidom
Stockholm
Clane
U. S
Vranienburg
Warnea
Benin
Europe
DNB
Pas-de- Calais
France
London
Yanks Send Out Warning Before Berlin Bombing
A Stockholm dispatch reported the American bomber fleet on the way to Berlin issued a radio warning sixty minutes prior. The message urged evacuations of the northern and northwestern districts of Berlin and promised targets in those areas.
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London
Berlin
Daily Herald
Stockholm
Berin
Wedding
Overdue American Submarine Scorpion Sailed From Portsmouth
The Scorpion, a large American submarine with about 75 officers and men, is overdue and presumed lost. Built in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and launched in 1942, it was commanded by Commander Maximilian G. Schmidt of Boonville Missouri, whose wife resides in Annapolis Maryland. The navy’s fourth grim notice in eight days notes intensified wartime submarine activity in Pacific waters.
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Washington
Navy
Pacific
Knox
Portsmouth
N. H
Maximilian G. Schmidt
Boonville, Mo
Annapolis, Md
Major Stewart Hits Berlin in Liberator Mission
Major James Stewart, film star turned airman, led a Liberator combat wing from a U. S. bomber base in Britain. He reported heavy flak and distant enemy fighters during a raid on Berlin, calling the mission unusually bold and noting the city was hit.
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U. S
Britain
James Stewart
Berlin
European
Stewart
Penetration of India By Japanese Has Begun
Allied and Axis dispatches report Japanese forces penetrating Manipur toward Imphal as Gen Auchinleck downplays the threat. Imphal sits 175 miles from allied rail and river routes, with wider war context including Arakan and Burma fronts.
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India
Charles A. Grumich
New Delhi
Manipur
Imphal
Naga
Burma
Claude J. E. Auchinleck
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Asia
Arakan
Assam
Auchinleck
Brahmaputra
Chin Hills
Tiddim
India-Burma
Joseph W. Stilwell
Jambu Bum
Hukawng
Mogaung
Chungking
U. S
South China
Indo China
Churchill calls for new consultations on Atlantic Charter
In the House of Commons Churchill faced probing questions on the Atlantic Charter and postwar borders. He said the charter is a living doctrine needing clarification as the war evolves and urged renewed consultation among the principal allies. He stressed it remains a declaration of spirit, not a pact with enemies.
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James M. Long
London
Churchill
House of Commons
Conscription Expanded for Japanese Youth Mobilization
New York dispatch reports Education Minister Natakage Okabe announced on Tokyo radio that Japanese high school and college students will be mobilized for longer and more frequent labor service due to the critical war situation. Premier Tojo also warned Japan is at the empire’s most critical stage.
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New York
Natakage Okabe
Tokio
OWI
Okabe
Hideki Tojo
Japan
Nazis Extend Stranglehold On Neighbors
London dispatch reports Germany expanding control in Hungary Bulgaria Romania and Slovakia as Nazi troops move to fortify lines against the Soviet advance. Budapest installs a pro Nazi cabinet under Regent Horthy amid claims of no resistance and warnings to anti German elements.
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Richard R. Kasischke
London
Dungay
Puppel
Germany
Satelli
Europe
Hungary
Nazionets
Bulgaria
Rrumania
Slovakia
Berlin
Rad
Radio Tonight
Buchapest Radio
Nicholas Horthy
Ankara
Rumania
Bessarabia
Communiqne
WACs Arrive in Hawaii Impress Troops on Parade
In Hawaii the first WAC unit paraded for Col. Lawton at Hickam Field drawing praise from GI Joe. Pvt Switzer and Corp Werkmester noted the welcome sight of sisters from home while soldiers, sailors, and marines filed into quarters seeking hometown friends. Most had never left the country before.
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Morrie Landsberg
Hickham Field
Hawaii
WACS
Hickam Field
Malcolm S. Lawton
Pacifc Air Wing
Army Transport Command
Lawrence Switzer
Philadelphia
Corp
George F. Werkmester
Brooklyn
States
Set
Virginia Wagner
Battle Creek
Mich
Weather data for Somerset observers report
Somerset daily weather report from 5:30 p.m. Tuesday to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday shows a maximum of 42 and a minimum of 9. Temperature comparison notes a year ago today record shows a maximum of 5. Readings attributed to David Grove, U S Weather Observer.
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Somerset
David, Grove
U. S
Weather Observer
Eastern and Western Pennsylvania and Maryland Thursday Weather
Eastern Pennsylvania looks cloudy with a rise in temperature and occasional rain in the south while the north sees light snow changing to rain. Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia stay cloudy and warmer with intermittent rain. Maryland to see cloudy skies and a slow temperature increase with afternoon rain possible.
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Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Maryland
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