25 Mar 1944
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Newspaper
Somerset Daily American
Location
Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1944
Page
1
Two pipelines are dedicated Friday morning at the Big Inch and Little Inch pumping station south of Somerset. Notables are present for the ceremony.
Sunny weather followed two days of rain as a large crowd gathered for the dedication of the Big Inch and Little Big Inch pipelines. W. Alton Jones of War Emergency Pipelines, Inc. chaired the event attended by government and industry officials, including George A. Wilson, petroleum administrator for war, who called the project a turning point in mechanized warfare and military supply.
Normal schedules resumed by Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines as 600 drivers and staff ended a week long strike. Service from Pittsburgh to New York and Chicago on all routes began at 6 am. War workers were again carried to plants in the Ohio and Beaver valleys. Agreements signed in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Two drivers had penalties changed to 20 day suspensions.
Secretary of State Hull outlined a postwar Germany plan but failed to secure consent from Britain and Russia. Republican lawmakers pressed for a clear U S aims statement and noted Hull’s blueprint parallels Teheran talks on Japan.
Dr George Speicher was re elected head of the Rockpond Rotary club at the annual business meeting. Officers E E Miller Rev H G Hohman J D Snyder and L E Schrock were re elected. Six new members were admitted B F Hanna William L Lape Oscar Merrill Philip Schaff Harold Sanner and Fred Schumucker.
Governor Martin honored Justice Howard W. Hughes of Pennsylvania at a Washington dinner. He praised Hughes as typical of self-made leaders and urged clear division of powers among local, state, and federal governments along with proper tax fields. Judge Hughes, lauded by Chief Justice Maxey and PA Bar president Mason, was noted as Washington county’s first to reach an appellate court.
Leo C. McGee 41, a discharged merchant marine, was cleared by Federal Judge George A. Welsh of stealing two pounds of potatoes valued at four cents found in a ship's garbage. Rep. John E. Sheridan defended him pro bono, while the judge ruled the government failed to prove ownership and discharged McGee.
Stanley Cebula of Jenner Consol idation Coal company worker was admitted to Community Hospital Thursday night with multiple bruises after being caught between a mine car and the mine roof. He remained trapped before extraction and transfer. x rays showed no fractures and his condition was listed as fair.
Pittsburgh March 24 Dr William Lindsay Young newly installed regional director of the National Conference of Christians and Jews urged a relentless fight against bigotry and prejudices that have threatened to undermine America's social system.
President Roosevelt accepted Leo T. Crowley resignation as alien property custodian and named James E. Markham, his deputy for two years, to succeed him.
MacArthur reports American bombers hit Rabaul New Britain Wewak New Guinea and other Bismarck Sea points destroying gun positions runways and barges. 160 tons of bombs were dropped on exchanges at Vanukanau Lakunai Tobera Hansa Bay and Pougainville, while Kavieng and surrounding coasts were targeted and 44 anti aircraft guns were knocked out since March 11.
U S Pacific Fleet announces first bombing of Ant Island atoll near Ponape in the Caroline islands. No details given. Nimitz says daily raids hit four unidentified positions and three atolls with around thirty tons of bombs. planes returned safely.
Federal Judge R M Gibson ordered H City R D Stutchell of Trade Indiana County to appear before OPA Director Paul T Winter at Ebensburg on April 4 to answer questions about a farming equipment sale at a public auction. A subpoena duces tecum required Stutchell to testify and produce sale records, after he reportedly ignored a prior OPA subpoena to appear at District OPA headquarters in Altoona.
Mrs Frances Haupt of Pittsburgh learns her son Sgt James W Haupt has died somewhere in India. No details are provided. He had a twin brother Lieut John W Haupt at Camp Grant TI. Both brothers volunteered together in 1941.
Stephen Foster age two, son of Ralph Foster of Newville, died at Graduate Hospital as doctors prepared a second bronchoscope removal attempt for an open safety pin stuck in his throat. The pin was grabbed from a table while the mother bathed the child.
Mrs. Sylvania Winkelman Mills, 31, of Portsmouth Virginia, pleaded guilty to assault and battery and aggravated assault on a St. Clair township teacher. Judge Richard D. Laird sentenced her to six months in Westmoreland county jail.
Soviet forces push from Tarnopol toward Czernowitz and Lwow, breaking to the Dniester at Zaleshchiki. Moscow says 250,000 German losses with 400 towns overrun as Zhukov closes on Bucovina and Czecho Slovakia borders.
Sergeant John C. Clapper of Williamsburg Blair county Pa. recounted a harrowing night behind German lines in Italy. Wounded three times and missing a leg, the 24 year old said German troops searched rooms with guns blazing while his group hid in a building atop a hill until dawn when they slipped back to their lines.
Mrs. Rosaria Giannani, 79, was killed when a truck loaded with mine props struck her at a street crossing near her Dunmore home. Driver Walter Stauffer of East Stroudsburg was arrested on involuntary manslaughter charges. police said he was not to blame.
American heavy bombers with RAF fighters pounded Frankfurt and Schweinfurt in Germany and Nancy and St Dizier in France in the March air offensive. The mission, the 19th in March for the Eighth Air Force, involved about 250 bombers and as many fighters per wave, with casualties including three German aircraft downed and two Allied planes lost.
General Bernard Montgomery forecast the war lasting a year or more after touring forces to lead the invasion of the continent. He praised Britain's invasion army as the best ever, urged full support at home, and warned against inadequate equipment while promising a monumental effort toward victory.
The public utility commission ordered the Pennsylvania Railroad, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, North Union Township and Fayette County to reimburse the state highway department sums of 3000, 3000, 500 and 1683 dollars to apply on 9827 dollars paid on provert damage claims from grade crossing improvements in North Union township Fayette county.
Japanese troops break from three positions along the Tiddim Imphal road and push toward Imphal, 30 miles away, as British airlift support keeps ground links open. A second column near Tamu is repulsed within 38 miles of Imphal. Heavy fighting persists north of Tanzan.
Secretary Hull calls for firm resistance as German forces occupy Hungary. The warning promises better postwar treatment in victory for Hungary if it fights, while signals ripple across the Balkans about Romanian, Bulgarian, and Turkish alignments amid German expansion.
Prime Minister Churchill inspected an all American air drop force at a British base. He praised the airborne troops and pledged that British and American fighters in Italy and beyond would defeat the tyrannies shaping the world.
Washington reports 11 additional enemy vessels sunk by U S submarines in Japanese waters. Navy notes total ships sunk or damaged exceed two thousand with 653 Japanese vessels accounted for by submarines, including 503 sunk and 114 damaged.
President Judge Paul N. Schaeffer, speaking in Philadelphia, warned that juvenile delinquency is dangerous in eastern Pennsylvania and urged no commitments for delinquents under 15. He collapsed at the end of his speech but doctors said he was not seriously ill.
Temperature for the 24 hours ending 5:30 p m Thursday reported Friday evening shows high and low readings with reference to last year’s figures. Data includes observed maxima and minima for the day.
Western Pennsylvania sees Saturday cloudy and windy with colder afternoon and occasional rain west and north turning to snow flurries in the northwest at night. Eastern Pennsylvania grows warmer with increasing clouds then rain, the north portion windy. Maryland enjoys partly cloudy warmth while West Virginia has partly cloudy skies and cooler afternoon conditions.
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