Somerset Business Men Defeat Daylight Saving Proposal
At a Somerset Chamber of Commerce meeting the business men's division voted to continue eastern standard time throughout the summer. Farmers and miners from Berlin Windber and other towns opposed daylight saving time as unsuitable for an agricultural county. The motion to stay on standard time was approved amid calls to study summer store hours and near-term actions.
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Somerset County
Couny
Chambers of Commerce
Business Men
Somerset Chamber of Commerce
Somerset Country Club
Berlin
Windber
Hooversville
Confluence
Rockwood
Meyersdale
Robert Beerus
Somerset
Harry Countryman
P. C. Dosch
Mr. Beerus
Oscar F. Reitz
Somerset Bus Company
Countryman
Somerset Business Men
Picket Dies In Strike Flare Up In Detroit
Violent clashes in a building trades teamsters strike left 41 year old pickup driver Arthur G Quaesbarth dead from a fractured skull and at least 16 injured. The Currier Lumber plant saw two skirmishes as trucks were moved while non union drivers and lumber workers fought. Governor Van Wagoner and Mayor Jeffries brokered talks to avert a city wide trucking tie up as dealers agreed to meet union officials tomorrow. The strike seeks wage increases and union recognition though present rates are not disclosed.
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Detroit
Building Trades Teamsters
Arthur G. Quaesbarth
Quaesbarth
Currier Lumber Company
Murray D. van Wagoner
Edward J. Jeffries
Teamsters’ Union
AFL
FDR Speech Cancelled and Fireside Chat Planned
President Roosevelt remains in bed with a gastro intestinal illness and will deliver a fireside chat on the night of May 27 instead of the scheduled address. Diplomats and guests will be invited to the White House for the broadcast, with no formal pronouncement on hemispheric defense.
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Washington
Ube
Watt House
Roosevelt
Tles Pan- American Union
Board of Governors
Hum
Hyman
Ovidil
T. Early
Early
Capitol Hill
Hemisphere
Barry
Pair arrested for counterfeit bills in Kane
Ridgway chief H. M. Hill said two men from Niagara Falls New York Sam Porto age 40 and Charles Fauci age 29 were arrested for passing four counterfeit five dollar bills in Kane. Officers found two counterfeit fifty cent pieces and two bogus five dollar bills in their car and they were jailed in McKean county Smethport with secret service notified.
Mrs Daniel E Keller Improves After Heart Attack
Mrs Daniel E Keller of West Race Street was a patient at Johnstown Lee Homeomathic hospital. Her condition late Monday evening was reported as improved after a heart attack on a Johnstown street Saturday. She was accompanied by her son Charles.
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Daniel E. Keller
West Race Street
Johnstown Lee
X Ray Service Offered At Low Price
John Holderbaum advertises x ray service with guaranteed high quality under $3.75. Available day or night and contact via County Trust Blog, phone listed.
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John Holderbaum
County Trust
Not Ready For Convoys
Senator Nye says Roosevelt cancelled his Latin America diplomats address and fireside chat shows the public is not ready to back convoys. Nye calls cancellation a tribute to the people and cites protests against convoys as evidence.
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Denver
Gerald P. Nye
R-Nd
Roosevelt
Latin America
United States
Nye
Tot Killed By Auto Near Blair County Community
Four year old George Mayr was struck and killed by an automobile near Williamsburg Blair County when his father shouted a warning to stay off the highway. The farmer witnessed the fatal accident.
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Auto
Williamsburg
George Mayr
Blair County
Acosta youths plead guilty to tires theft case
Three youths from Acosta pleaded guilty to burglary receiving and possession of stolen tires from a home basement. John Mays 14 Charles Trimpey 19 and Robert Morgan 18 faced charges before Justice H S Whipperman. They were bound over for the next term of criminal court and remanded to jail in absence of 200 bond each.
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Acosta
Lloyd Baughman
John Mays
Charles Trimpey
Robert Morgan
Justice of the Peace
H. S. Whipperman
North Center Avenue
Whipperman
Baughman
State Motor Police
Kenneth Baldwin
Somerset Township
May
Trimpey
Morgan
Squire Whipperman
Soldiers Clash With Pickets Near White House
In Washington on May 12 police reports a clash between off duty soldiers and Marines and a picket line from the American Peace Mobilization near the White House. A marcher was hospitalized after being struck and police detained a soldier and a marine.
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Washington
White House
Pennsylvania Avenue
George Walroct
Walrodt
Second Victim Of Fire Dies In Center City
Lewisburg report states a $150000 blaze that wiped out a hardware store and warehouse in the town center claimed a second life. Fireman Charles Liddick, 32, died at Evangelical Hospital from head and chest injuries and shock. Earlier, Charles Stephens, 60, was recovered dead from brick rubble after a wall fell following a steam explosion while they inspected the site.
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Lewisburg
Charles L. Liddick
Evangelical Hospital
Charles Dtephens
Stephens
Liddick
Lynders' Victim Alive Found Near Quincy
Sheriff M P Luten said a negro named A C Williams about 22 was found alive but badly wounded a mile and a half from Quincy after four armed white men released him from the Gadsden county jail. Williams had been held for an alleged attack on a 12 year old girl. The four men forced officer Dan Davis to open the jail and fled.
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Quincy
Fla
M. P. Luten
Gadsden County
A. C. Williams
Luten
Dan Davis
Davis
Death of George F. Sheran Automobile Distributor
Heart disease caused the death of George F. Sheran age 47 in Altoona. He distributed automobiles in central Pennsylvania and served on the Altoona school board. He is survived by his widow and five children.
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Altoona
George F. Sheran
Central Pennsylvania
Plane Brewsters Dead Burned In Pennsylvania Crash
New York socialites Mr and Mrs Benjamin Brewster missing four days on a cross country pleasure flight were found dead in a charred wreck atop Shade mountain near Lewistown Pennsylvania. State police noted the 1800 foot peak was scorched by recent fires and the craft plowed 100 feet into trees before burning.
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Lewistown
Benjamin Brewster
New York
Pennsylvania
Whitney Stone
Brewster
Shade Mountain
Here
Preston CU. Artmeyer
Ccene
A. & Nearhood
Beaver Spring
Haue Mountain
Discovery
Aviation Arma
Lin
Aviation’s “U Saveyard
Alleghenies
Brewsters
Warren
Willam A. Moore
Harrisburg
Moore
Knox Urges Firm Action Against Aggressor
Secretary Knox told the American Society of Military Engineers that America must oppose the aggressor with enough force to scare or defeat him. He warned the nation has three choices face with force isolation or surrender and urged not to act weakly.
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Washington
Knox
America
Navy
American Society of Military Engineers
Appeals Court Upholds Bethlehem Steel NLRB Ruling
The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a National Labor Relations Board order calling Bethlehem Steel’s employee representation plan a company dominated union and directing its disestablishment. The decision clears the path for CIO steel workers organizing committee to seek exclusive bargaining agency at Bethlehem plants.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Bethlehem Steel Company
United States Court of Appeals
CIO Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Bethlehem
Bomb raids leave German shipyards in chaos and London suffers heavy damage
British bombers strike Bremen and Hamburg crippling shipyards along the Elbe and irradiating Lip yet the RAF reports heavy destruction of key German targets. London endures a fierce night raid with monuments damaged as King George VI seeks a report on Westminster Abbey’s losses.
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Germany
Hamour
Bremen
Hamburg
Air Ministry
Britain
Oulletin
Elbe
Blohm and Voss
Emden
Rotterdam
Ijmuiden
Texel
Nign
Houses
Parliament
Westminister Abbey
British Museum
George VI
Axis talks loom as Hitler to meet Stalin and Mussolini
Diplomatic circles in Vichy France expect Adolf Hitler to meet Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini to advance a unified axis plan. Observers tie Spain's civil and military reshuffles and Admiral Darlan’s talks with Germany to forthcoming conferences, amid Petain’s return and Leahy meeting talks on the European crisis.
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Stalin
Mussolini
VICHP
France
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Europe
Spain
Jean Darlan
Tuhhrer
Jean Marie Bergeret
Dakar
French West Africa
Bergeret
Petain
Philippe Petain
Riviera
Darlan
Unco
Paris
U. S
Fernand de Brinon
Vichy
United States
Brinon
Hess Flight Dominates British Headlines Across Europe
British papers on May 13 reported Rudolf Hess's parachute arrival in Scotland as a major war story. The Daily Express called him Deputy Fuehrer giving himself up, while the Times titled Hitler's Deputy Escapes to Britain and Berlin papers claimed Hess had an accident, fueling Nazi leadership intrigue.
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London
Scotland
Rudolf Hess
Adolf Hitler
London Daily Express
Goebbels
Hess
Royal Air Force
Germany
National Socialist Party
Hitler
Daily Express
Fuehrer
London Times
Britain
Daily Sketch
Berlin
Ess
Hoss
Messerschmitt
United States
Reich
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Hess Goering
England
Downing Street
Scottish
Glasgow
Horn
British Foreign Office
Ministry of Information
Rudolph Hess
Somali Joe Leads Ethiopian Irregulars Against Italians
British journalist recounts Captal Thomas Henfrey known as Somali Joe commanding about 1500 Ethiopian irregulars in southern Ethiopia. The unit uses swift mule mounted scouts and operates inside Italian lines, keeping Fascists unaware until too late. Henfrey, a Munster native with a sky blue Ethiopian officer cloak, has fought in prior wars and enjoys tea beneath thorn trees as he describes the fighting.
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Godfrey H. P. Anderson
Thomas Henfrey
Munster
Ethiopia
Joe
Tanganyika
Khyber Pass
Saudi Arabi
Henfrey
Galla
Kent
London
Wage Talks Resume Between Miners and Operators
In New York on May 12 representatives of southern bituminous operators and the United Mine Workers of America resumed negotiations for a new wage contract covering 150 000 miners.
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New York
United Mine Workers of America
CIO
British Fair At Bengasi Routs British Warships
Italian forces claim success in Bengasi harbor as three ships attacked by Italian shore batteries and German dive bombers. The Italian high command reports nine Royal Navy vessels damaged across three days while the British admiralty says no casualties and notes shelling of Bengasi with limited damage.
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Rome
Bengasi
High Command
Royal Navy
Mediterranean
Bengali
Hitler Meets French Official in Berlin Conference
Berlin dated May 13 reports Adolf Hitler received Admiral Darian in the Reich Chancellery with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop present. The communique did not specify location or time of the meeting and named theFrench ministerial council vice president Admiral Darlan.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Darian
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Fuehrer
Reichsminister of Foreign Affairs
Darlan
Falls 12 Stories to Death in Midtown Office
New York police report Steph en B. Runyon a 30 year old former newspaper and publicity man leaped or fell from the 30th floor of a midtown office building to a 12 story extension next door. The incident occurred today in May.
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New York
Stephen B. Runyon
Plowman Recalls Hess Landing on Scottish Farm
Glasgow on May 13 a Scottish ploughman described arming with a hay fork to confront a Nazi parachuting into his farm. He aided Rudolf Hess after a crash and later identified the man to authorities, saying Hess was courteous and unarmed as he was taken away.
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Ernest Agnew
Glasgow
Arth
Rudolf Hess
David McLean
Hess
McLean
Germany
Desert Army Attacks Axis in Tobruk Salam Sector
British desert troops press the offensive against Axis forces in Tobruk and Salam as two British columns close on remaining Italian troops in Ethiopia. Strong actions in extreme heat disable Axis tanks and fire battles scorch Bengasi harbor and Benina airfield. Imperial forces reportedly take Amba Alagi and Gumsa in northern Ethiopia.
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Cairo
Egypt
Tobruk and
Salam
Middle East
Ethiopia
Charader
RAF
Bengasi
Benina
Berka
Amba Alaji
Gumsa
American Women Killed in London Air Raid
British radio reports two American women from the United States ambulance corps in Britain were killed in last Saturday night’s air raid. The names given are Mrs. M. Butler and Mrs. H. M. Richardson.
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London
M. Butler
H. M. Richardson
United States Ambulance Corps
Britain
Hess Flight to Britain Signals Desertion of Nazi Leader
Unprecedented report from London says Rudolf Hess landed in Britain by parachute and is hospitalized in Glasgow for a broken ankle after a flight from Germany. Photographs, a nonreturnable plane, and an empty gun offer inferred evidence of a one way mission amid Germany and Britain exchanges.
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Glasgow
London
Rudolf Hess
Adolf Hitler
Britain
Churchill
No. 10
Downing Street
Hess
Messerschmitt
Somerset Weather Report By David Grove Observer
Daily weather report from Somerset notes a 24 hour period ending 5 30 p m Monday with a maximum near 54 and a minimum of 22 degrees The text is garbled but indicates routine observations by a U S Weather Observer in Somerset with reference to prior year temperature.
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David Grove
U. S
Weather Observer
MAM
WEA Kemau
Regional Weather Outlook for Pennsylvania West Virginia
Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia expect partly cloudy skies on Tuesday and Wednesday with a slowly rising temperature. Eastern Pennsylvania stays fair and cool then turns partly cloudy and warmer. Maryland sees fair conditions with mountains more cloudy and interior warming midweek.
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Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Maryland
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