Hagana Opens Attack on Arab Strongholds Near Jerusalem
In Jerusalem a 500-strong Hagana force attacked Arab positions near Bab El Wad and Beit Mashir to break the road choke points on the Jerusalem Tel Aviv highway. The plan aims to open the route for Jewish supplies as truce terms and potential mayoral arrangements unfold with British mediation.
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Jerusalem
Ources
Hagana
Tel Aviv
Bab el Wad
Beit Mashir
Ighway
Bab el- Wad
Jerusalem-Tel
Body of Gang Victim Found in South Philadelphia Lot
The body of 34-year-old Harry Barriglio was found on a vacant South Philadelphia lot yesterday. Police say he was likely the victim of a gang killing.
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Philadelphia
Harry Barriglio
18 Months In Workhouse For J.M. Beal
James M. Beal received 18 months in Allegheny county workhouse after being convicted on eight counts of issuing worthless checks. The sentence opened the May term of criminal court amid multiple other rulings including jail terms for Blair and Strickler for larceny.
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Norman T. Boose
James M. Beal
Allegheny County
Beal
Berlin
Meyersdale
Garrett
Ed Peck
Boose
Kenneth William Blair
George Alfred Strickler
Acosta
Champion
Blair
Strickler
Thomas H. Sterner
Somerset State Police
Star
Richard Mitchel
Pittsburgh
Turnpike
Mitchel
Norman Rhoads
Somerset Bus Company
Pvt
P. G. Marenna
Rhoads
West Main Street
Main St
Marenna
Joe Foy
Lloyd Searfoss
John A. Miller
Somerset Township
Incline Motor Failure Strands 32 in Pittsburgh
Thirty two people stranded on Pittsburgh's Castle Shannon incline after two cars stopped due to a motor failure. Passengers in the lower car walked 200 feet along a cat walk after about an hour delay. two in the upper car waited nearly three hours before assistance. Cars resumed service and operated on schedule today.
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Pittsburgh
Castle Shannon
Barkley Mill Planing Mill Fire at Listonburg
Flames gutted the Barkley planing mill in Listonburg on Saturday afternoon. Firefighters from Confluence and Addison fought for 3.5 hours to prevent spread and salvage contents causing about 50000 in losses mainly lumber and machinery. An Addison firefighter injured his ankle. another employee slightly hurt. The two story tile mill, built a year ago, stored building materials and supplies.
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Barkley Planing
Listonburg
Confluence
Addison
Walter Bowers
White's Creek
Planing Mill
Koreans in Japan Demonstrate Against South Korea Elections
Thousands of Koreans in Japan protested the United Nations approved elections in South Korea. In Fukuoka about 10 000 demonstrators urged voting rights in Japan and an end to what they called Korean oppression. Police cited no violence.
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INS
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United Nations
Seoul
Fukuoka
U. S. Eighth Army
Communist Party
Reds renew offer to tempt U S out
North Korea’s radio, controlled by Russia, says Moscow stands ready to withdraw from Korea if American troops pull out of the south. A message from Lt Gen G P Korotkov claims Russia has completed withdrawal plans to pressure U N actions and would move jointly with the United States during a Korean occupation commission meeting in Seoul last September.
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Seoul
INS
Radio
North Korea
Russia
Pyongnyan
G. P. Korotkov
Korea
United States
U. N
Fire erupts at Hoffman home near Edie
Somerset volunteer firemen answered a Sunday noon alarm one mile south of Edie to a Hoffman family residence. Flames appeared to start from an overheated flue with multiple roof fires, aided by Sipesville firefighters. Damage estimated at about 500 dollars.
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Somerset
Edie
Hoffman
Sipesville
Vought Dies by Suicide in Rockwood Home
Harry B. Vought 56 of Broadway Rockwood died Saturday from hanging himself to a bedpost due to ill health and despondency. The coroner ruled it a plain death by own action. Survived by wife Grace Hostetler, children Blaine Clayton Gloria Jean Geneva Shirley Delores Harry Jr Freeman, three grandchildren, and twelve Vought relatives. Funeral Monday at 2:30 p.m. with Rev. Hillis Berkey. burial in Rockwood IOOF cemetery.
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Broadway
Rockwood
Mr. Vought
Charles Vought
W. W. Vought
R.D
John
Milton
Clyde Vought
Somerset
Annie Frazee
Point Marion
Mary
Carrie Vought
Hillis Berkey
Deadly Pennsylvania week end claims thirteen lives
The Associated Press reports thirteen deaths in Pennsylvania from accidents over the weekend. Fatalities include Reading Railroad train wreck victims Engineer Bud Demmy and Fireman Howard Jackson, and others from Norristown Uniontown Evans City Chester County Philadelphia and Hamburg.
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Associated Press
Pennsylvania
Valley Forge
Reading Railroad
Bud Demmy
Howard Jackson
Allentown
Swedeland
Robert Arter
Norristown
Everett D. Magee
Uniontown
Pennsylvania Railroad
Chester County
William Flynn
William Jr
William Canada
Savannah
Evans City
Butler County
Anthony Meichnek
Philadelphia
Robert Suich
Route 51
Michael J. Fitzpatrick
Hamburg
Pilsen Students Honor Truman Amid VE Day Ceremonies
In Pilsen Czechoslovakia May 6 liberation by Third Army GIs is remembered by schoolchildren who bless President Truman with flowers and US Army memorials despite Communist propaganda. Crowds wave American flags as officials push a rival narrative.
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London
Pilsen
Czechoslovakia
London News Chronicle
Prague
Third Army
Truman
United States Army
Rev Cassler to Speak To Connumach Lions
Rev Henry Cassler chaplain of the Chillicothe Ohio federal prison will address the Connumach Lions at their semi monthly meeting Monday at 6 30 p m in the Hol sapple Reformed church This is the club s first meeting since chartering on April 26 He is a native local and brother of Strohl Cassler a charter member and director He also served as a chaplain at Alcatraz California A business session will follow.
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Henry Cassler
Chillicothe
Ohio
Connumach Lion’s Club
Reformed Church
Holsapple
Strohl Cassler
Connumach Club
Alcatraz
Cal
Surplus Sale For Veterans At Camp Reynolds
World War II veterans can buy surplus goods at Camp Reynolds on May 12. Items include electric fans fire extinguishers plumbing and heating equipment and pipe fittings as announced by Greenville WAR District Director Charles R. Griffiths.
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Cleveland
Camp Reynolds
Greenville War District
Charles R. Griffiths
Reds Radio Bids Yanks Flee Korea
Seoul dispatch reports North Korea radio urged Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge to pull out of Korea and abandon plans for a separate election. The letter, from representatives of political parties, warned against colonization and noted violence by communists aimed at disrupting the South Korean vote. Fourteen Koreans were reported killed in Communist attacks and sabotage across South Korea on Saturday.
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Roy Roberts
Seoul
Korea
North Korea
John R. Hodge
South Korea
Hodge
South Koreans begin voting as deaths mount
Amid widespread Communist violence in the American zone, South Koreans began voting for a 200 member national assembly under UN oversight. Reports to U S headquarters say about 40 people were killed in the past three days, with over 400 dead in three months as Russia boycotts the plan in North Korea.
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SOUL
United Nations
U. S
Russia
North Korea
Freighter Sails For Fismes With Meadville Gift
The French freighter Phryne leaves tomorrow for Fismes France with 29450 pounds of food clothing and general supplies a gift from Meadville Pennsylvania in 1909 19 days total. The Meadville Army Day committee organized the drive through the Societe de Fismes veterans group and American aid to France Inc will ship the aid.
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New York
Fismes
France
Meadville
Beer hoax ends with eight trucks at Tillery home
Mrs Louise Tillery in Pittsburgh on Sunday saw eight beer trucks deliver 190 cases after a four week hoax. Taxis and florists delivered roses and fruit as C O D gifts. Police were called yesterday and may file criminal charges against the joker.
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Pittsburgh
Louise Tillery
C.O.D
Scientists Seek Key to End All Disease
Chicago May 9 Scientists nationwide seek a universal cure by bacteriophage to immunize against germs. Dr Stanley Dexeman of Carthage College says researchers must learn to grow and to make bacteriophage contagious so contact with a patient could activate healthy germs and aid recovery.
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Chicago
INS
Stanley Dexeman
Carthage College
Rubber Workers Strike at Pottstown Plant
About 1,800 workers at the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company plant in Pottstown struck yesterday over a discharge they say was without cause. The workers belong to Local 336, CIO United Rubber Workers. management had no comment.
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Pottstown
Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
CIO
Cio-United Rubber Workers
Union And Management Called To White House To Head Off RR Strike
The magazine Steel reports the threat of a national railroad strike is slowing the steel industry’s recovery from the coal strike. Producers cut blast furnace drafts and coke sellers limit orders as uncertainty lingers toward mid-summer. Steel output sits at 92 percent capacity, with prices now set by individual producers based on production costs.
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White House
Cleveland
Steel
Long Island First RR To Feel Strike
Long Island railroad the first line to be struck in a national rail tieup as engineers firemen and switchmen plan to quit at 5 am est on Tuesday. Milk trains medical troops and essential freights will continue under union supervision while other lines suspend shipments of perishables and foodstuffs.
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New York
Long Island Railroad
Thomas J. Harkins
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Long Island
New York Central Railroad
Harkins
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Reading Co
Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association
States' Rights Democrats Meet In Jackson
Governors Ben Laney of Arkansas and Fielding Wright of Mississippi lead a states' rights Democrat gathering in Jackson to block Truman’s nomination. Laney says the group aims to rewrite the Democratic platform and force a convention revolt against civil rights measures.
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Jackson
Miss
Ben Laney
Arkansas
Truman
Laney
Conference of States’ Rights Democrats
Democratic Party
Mississippi
Fielding Wright
Wright
Democratic Movement
Tentative Resolutions Committee
Horace B. Wilkinson
Birmingham
Alabama
If U S Seizes Railroads What Might Happen Next
The May 9 report discusses possible outcomes if the government seized railroads amid a pending strike. Options include negotiating with unions under altered laws or Congress changing the railway labor act to require arbitration, or seeking injunctions in federal court if unions push the walkout. The Norris La Guardia Act and Taft Hartley implications are noted.
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Congress
White House
Norris-La Guardia
Supreme Court
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Eight Cars Derail Near Chambersburg In Coal Spill
Eight cars of a 175-car freight train derailed a mile north of Chambersburg causing a coal spill. Conductor A R Townsend of Martinsburg WV reported no injuries. Dispatcher J B Rambo said damages and coal loss would total about 20000 dollars before service resumed on the Hagerstown to Harrisburg line.
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Chambersburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
A. R. Townsend
Martinsburg
W. Va
J. B. Rambo
Hagerstown
Harrisburg
Italy Parliament Splits Over Chief Election
Italy’s first republic chamber divides over electing a president to replace Enrico De Nicola. A joint session is set for tomorrow as Premier Alcide De Gasperi’s Christian Democrats, nearly securing the presidency, confronts a split with the Communist led Popular Front after De Nicola’s withdrawal.
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Rome
Italy
Enrico de Nicola
de Nicola
Alcide de Gasperi
Christian Democrat Party
Popular Front
No Agreement Signals Nearing Railroad Strike Talks
Washington May 9 1946 union and management negotiators met in late night White House talks aimed at averting a nationwide railroad strike set for Tuesday morning. Alvanley Johnston said Nothing's Settled as talks extended with Dr John Steelman and Clark Clifford present. Seizure of the rails was reportedly under consideration by the White House.
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Washington
White House
John R. Steelman
Steelman
Alvanley Johnston
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Charles G. Ross
Truman
Johnston
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Ross
Clark Clifford
Trumen
Mr. Truman
Engineers
Con
Somerset Weather Report Summary
Daily weather note by David Grove shows a 24 hour period from Saturday 5 30 p m to Sunday 5 30 p m with temperature readings and a year ago reference. The text is garbled and unreadable in parts though the main data references the Somerset area and a U S Weather Observer.
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Somerset Weather
David Grove
U. S. Weather Observer
Desveseenes
Weather Outlook for Maryland and Nearby States
Partly cloudy and warm with wind and thunderstorms in Maryland on Monday. Eastern Pennsylvania and West Virginia show cloudy, windy, cooler trends with scattered showers. Western Pennsylvania and the region anticipate cooler temperatures by Tuesday with continued clouds and showers.
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Maryland
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
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