Fires Devastate Somerset Timberland Across County
Large fires scorch hundreds of acres in Somerset and Westmoreland counties on Monday. A major blaze northwest of Bakersville near Coontown burned about 1000 acres, threatening homes and a private game preserve before volunteers contained it. Other fires near Jennertown Laughlintown and the Somerset Bedford line charred additional acreage, with state and CCC crews aiding.
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Coontown
Westmoreland-Someret County
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Shaffer
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Central City
Somerset
Bedford County
Westmoreland
Jennertown
Laughlintown
W. M. Bearer
Forbes Forest District
Ligonier
Jesse Hoyman
Acme
Westmoreland County
McGees Mill Fire Crowds Indiana Clearfield Counties
District Forester Charles E. Zerby reported a major fire roared across 2 500 acres near McGee's Mill Indiana and Clearfield counties. The blaze, worst of the year, damaged timber grassland and a 160 acre game refuge as smoke darkened skies and more fires flared near Sandy Ridge and Madeirs Clearfield counties amid a prolonged drought since mid April.
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McGee's Mill
Indiana
Clearfield
Charles E. Zerby
Zerby
Centre County
Fall's Creek
Madeirs Clearfield
Pair Escape Burning Car In Route 711 Crash
Two Somerset men escaped serious injury after their car rolled near a ditch and overturned one mile north of Ligonier on Route 711. Firemen removed occupants as flames gutted the vehicle, injuring driver W. Z. Rehm with fractures and bruises and passenger O. T. Shanks with forehead lacerations.
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Ligonier
W. Z. Rehm
R. D
O. T. Shanks
Ligonier Township
Waterford
Rehm
Shanks
Disputed Replevin Case Over Somerset Presses Opens
The Chronicle and John M. Kehoe faced a civil jury as testimony opened in a suit to reclaim printing equipment including a Duplex press and a linotype. Stockholders claim $4,000 advanced. Kehoe says he repaid via publication work and disputes the debt.
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Somerset Democratic Chronicle
John M. Kehoe
Somerset County Times
Chronicle
S of
The
Kehoe
Somerset Democratic Chronicle, Inc
Budd B. Boose
Frank R. Coder
Boose
Oioce
J. S. Picking
Somerset
Quemahoning
County Times
Jay 8S
Picking
Frank Coder
Green Pledges AFL Support for National Defense
Harrisburg May 5 Wil liam Green AFL president pledged fullest cooperation with the national defense program while signaling the union will seek greater representation in defense administration He rebutted John L Lewis for warning labor against cooperation asserting five million AFL members disavow his remarks and defend the alliance with government and industry
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Harrisburg
Wiliam Green
American Federation of Labor
Green
AFL
Pennsyvania Federation of Labor
APL
Alliance of American Labor
Pyre Wno
John L. Lewis
Morganton double murder suicide linked to U S slaying
Sheriff Paul Dale said state and federal investigators concluded Thaddeus Florkiewicz 25 from Uniontown Pa killed Robert S Divvens 33 near Bowling Green Va last February then died by suicide in Morganton N C after his car fire near town. Evidence tied the two killings with a single pistol found with Florkiewicz.
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N. C
Paul Dale
Thaddeus Florkiewicz
Uniontown
Robert S. Divvens
Bowling Green
Florkiewicz
Dale
Divvert
Portsmouth
Florkiewics
Here
Divvens
Labor Demands Short Sighted Says Brookings President
Dr. Harold G. Moulton of the Brookings Institution warned the Hunery Club that aggressive union wage demands threaten a wage price spiral. He cited a $1 a day miner wage increase as an example of how higher wages raise consumer costs and ripple through the economy.
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Pittsburgh
Harold G. Moulton
Brookings Institution
Hunery Club
Wace
Ite Coller
Convoy Debate Roils House Floor In War Tension
Lawmakers clash over immediate convoying of supplies to Great Britain amid warnings of war. Supporters argue convoys are essential for national defense and ship tonnage needs, while opponents fear violations of international law and risk of conflict with Germany and Italy.
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Great Britain
House
Total Decate
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D-Ga
Rep Fish
R-Ny
R Oosevelt
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Roosevelt
Cox
Rep
Fish
Wendel
L. Willkie
Willkie
Sabath
Great Brittain
Russian Agent Held Under $25 000 Bail
A stocky middle aged man claiming to be a Russian representative since 1936 was arrested in New York for failing to register as a foreign agent. Gatk Radalovitch Ovakimian pleaded innocent before Federal Judge Murray Hulbert and was held on $25 000 bail as he allegedly resisted arrest.
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New York
Russia
Gatk Radalovitch Ovakimian
United States
Mathias F. Correa
Murray Hulbert
Greyhound Bus Strike Talks Disrupt Overnight Recess
Washington May 5 Negotiators for Pennsylvania Greyhound and the union failed to reach a settlement after a two and a half hour session held at Secretary Perkins invitation Federal conciliators said they explored all aspects of the dispute Company proposed arbitration and both sides plan to resume negotiations tomorrow The union seeks a closed shop better conditions and a raise to five cents a mile for drivers currently paid between 4 and 4 15 cents
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Washington
Perkins
Plane Crashes Near Detroit. Pilot Lands Safely
A U S Army air corps plane from Selfridge Field crashed two miles north of Detroit tonight and burst into flames. Lieutenant W A Watson parachuted to safety, escaping serious injury.
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Detroit
U. S Army Air Corps
Selfride Field
W. A. Watson
Loyalty Test Ships Guard Yugoslav Fleet in US Ports
Seven Yugoslav and seventeen ships were boarded or inspected in U S ports as Treasury directed measures to verify loyalty to King Peter or the German backed government. Officials said no action against vessels or crews would follow if loyalty to the king was affirmed.
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New York
United State
U. S
Germany
Yugoslavia
Frano Petrinovic
United States
Silence For Jap Hints In Washington On Pacific Talks
Reports from Washington state that Japan hints at possible talks with the United States on Pacific problems, while officials emphasize they will not abandon American interests. Yosuke Matsoka visits Berlin Rome and Moscow but denies plans to visit the United States. Secretary Hull remains noncommittal on a Tokyo invitation.
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Rome
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Visis
Roosevelt
Hull
Matenoka
75 Canadians Lost In Ship Sinking
Ottawa reports 75 military personnel lost in the sinking of a ship. Next of kin of the dead and survivors have been informed. Minister MacDonald expressed regret and said official casualty figures had not yet been issued. The ship's identity was not confirmed. Sam Robertson of the Canadian Press London Bureau was reportedly returning to England and believed missing due to enemy action.
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MacDonald
House of Commons
Otawa
Sam Robertson
Canadian Press
London Bureau
England
Canada
Convict Ircania Seamen Convicted in Jacksonville
In Jacksonville Florida on May 5 a federal court convicted 39 seamen from the Italian freighter Ircania who were seized March 30 by the coast guard. Judge Louie W Strum said sentencing would follow after defense motions on Friday for the Confidenza crew members still awaiting verdicts.
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Jacksonville
Fla
United States Coast Guard
Louie W. Strum
Confidenza
CBS withholds Hitler address citing religious program
CBS explains it did not broadcast Adolf Hitler's Berlin address yesterday. The network says it carried a devotional program at that hour and believes the Word of God in English is more important than Hitler's German speech.
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New York
Columbia Broadcasting System
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Berlin
CBS
RAF Direct Hits on Nazi Battlecruisers at Brest
Direct hits with armor piercing bombs were claimed on the 26 000 ton ships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau at Brest. Docks were damaged and RAF raids continued to target the German battleships lingering at the port amid nighttime air activity over London and inland Scotland.
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Gneisenau
Adolf Hitler
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Rotterdam
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Liverpool
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Fogland
Fires and German raid toll in Northern Ireland reported
Belfast and county Donegal endured more aerial violence as German bombers hit Northern Ireland in a small raid after a prior heavy attack. A communique noted some fatalities, with one aircraft reportedly shot down at sea, while fire brigades from Belfast and nearby counties aided Ulster efforts against the damage.
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Donegal
Vickers- Armstrong
Britain
Centralizes French Police Decree Issued in Vichy
In Vichy on May 5 Admiral Jean Darlan ordered centralization of police power, extending control to cities with over 10,000 inhabitants under the interior minister in Paris. The move coincides with Darlan leaving for conferences with Otto Abetz and follows a reported argument with Laval over the interior minister post.
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France
Jean Darlan
Paris
Otto Abetz
Darlan
Faris
Fierre Laval
Germany
Iraq Raiders Cut Highway Report
NBC reported that a desert route from Palestine to Iraq was briefly cut by an armed group. The party overpowered laborers supervised by British overseers at Rassa the half way oasis before escaping. Vernon Ward, 38, who was recently convicted of murder, walked away from Farview Hospital grounds and remains at large.
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NBC
Palestine
Iraq
Rassa
Farview Scranton
Vernon Ward
Philadelphia County
Farview Hospital
C. A. Zeller
Ward
Zeller
Britons Tighten Tobruk Defenses Amid New Works
Cairo May 5 Britons have thrown up new works opposite axis troops on Tobruk's southwest fringe to reestablish lines. Heavy casualties were reported as Axis forces faced a counter attack. British bombers attacked axis transport on the Cyrenaican plateau and strikes caused fires at Tobruk area installations. Haile Selassie was said to be en route to Addis Ababa amid continued pressure near Amba Alaji.
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Benina
Derna
Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
Addis Abava
Amba Alaji
Addis Ababa
No U. S. Ships In Red Sea
Consular records at CAIRO show no American ships have arrived in Egyptian ports since the Red Sea neutrality transit ban was removed. War materials and commerce move via neutral or other nations’ vessels, while reports from Vichy claim 26 American ships reached the Suez Canal under convoy. Washington denies any U S Navy ships as convoy duty.
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Egypt
United States
Red Sea
Roosevelt
Vichy
France
Suez Canal
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U. S. Navy Department
Washington
British Pressure as Iraq Withdrawals Stall Turkey Mediation
London reports Turkish efforts to halt the war near Iraq failed as Britain and Iraq demand the other’s troop withdrawal before peace talks. Britain insists Iraqi forces must leave Habbaniyah airfield before negotiations, while Iraq rejects Turkish mediation and cites British stance as blocking agreement. Basra defenses hold as Iraqi artillery target the Habbaniyah base and losses appear limited.
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London
Iraq
Britain
Rashid Ali al Gailani
Habbaniyah
Baghdad
Alsoa
Habadaniyah
Tne
Vaive
Royal Air Force
Ae Ao
Basra
Habbaniyan
Germany
Greece
Bulgaria
Turkey
Axis
Nazis Lag in Iraq Support
Cairo reports British officials say no German aid or moral and financial backing has appeared in Iraq for Premier Rashid Ali al Gailani’s forces. Many Iranians oppose conflict, with only a small faction eager for strife, while some Besra region leaders align with the British.
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Cairo
Egypt
Iraq
Rashid Aii al Gailani
Iran
Besra
Baghdad
War Relief Collections Reach Fifty to Sixty Million
Joseph E. Davis, head of a three man committee appointed by President Roosevelt to study war relief groups, said in an interview that between 50 million and 60 million dollars had been raised by various agencies in the last eighteen months.
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War Relief
New York
Joseph E. Davis
Roosevelt
Somerset Daily Weather Report by David Grove
Weather observer David Grove reports the 24 hour period from 6 30 p m Sunday to 5 30 p m Monday with maximum and minimum temperatures noted. The text includes data on temperature comparisons to the previous year.
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Somerset Weather
David Grove
Uv. S. Weather Observer
Weather forecast for the mid Atlantic states
Eastern Pennsylvania and Maryland expect partly cloudy skies with moderate temperatures and occasional rain by night into Wednesday. Western Pennsylvania turns mostly cloudy with a warmer edge in the north and scattered showers Tuesday and Wednesday. West Virginia shows partly cloudy conditions with showers on Tuesday and Wednesday and little temperature change.
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Maryland
West Virginia
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