No 2 Power Talk With Russians Says Marshall
Secretary of State Marshall rejected a two power U S Russian conference to end the cold war and urged Moscow to show good faith by act ing in immediate fields such as Korea Berlin and the Austrian peace treaty. He warned that general talks could fail and harm the world, and clarified that the United States would not pursue bilateral negotiations on affairs of other nations.
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Washington
INS
Marsall
United States
Russia
Marshall
Walter Bedell Smith
Moscow
Molotov
Korea
Berlin
Idt
Walter Bedell ‘Smith
Smith
U. S
Council of Foreign Ministers
Security Council
United Nations
Morean
Allied Control Council
Rus
Bevin Warns Against Premature Red Reform Conference
In London Bevin tells the House of Commons he favors a Russia settlement but opposes calling a conference before ground is cleared. He criticizes Moscow for publicizing exchanges as Marshall rules out direct US-Russia talks, and says only the Communists stand in the way of world peace.
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London
Ernest Bevin
House of Commons
Russia
U .S
George C. Marshall
Washington
Anthony Eden
U. S
Bevin
Moscow
United States
Tass
Britain
Left handed mirror writing delights seven year old Toni
Toni Nadolski, seven, writes with her left hand and backwards but reads and reverses with a mirror. A Pittsburgh expert says mirror writing is a habit and reversible in one to two years. Her teacher notes progress as she tries a right hand.
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Lilly
Antionette Nodolski
Toni
Mass
Anthony Nadelski
Pittsburgh
Charles Manwiller
Dr. Manwiller
Army Sees No Trouble From Strasburg Railroad
The Strasburg railroad in Lancaster county operates four miles between Strasburg and Leaman Place with two employees. It carries feed lumber and coal using a single locomotive and one box car. An army captain visiting today said management expects no labor trouble and the U S army is not worrying about the line's operation from Fort Lee Virginia.
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Strasburg
U. S. Army
Fort Lee
Leaman Place
Lancaster County
Judge Advises Glessner on Conduct After Disturbance Trial
Victor B. Glessner of Brothersvalley was sentenced to pay costs and given a three month jail deferment for disturbing a public assembly. Judge Norman T. Boose urged him to withdraw from Roxbury Reformed Church and avoid further contact with church members. The judge expressed sympathy for the troubled farmer and warned against further trouble in the community.
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Victor B. Glessner
Brothersvalley Township
Glessner
Norman T. Boose
Brothers Valley
Roxbury
Roxbury Reformed Church
Boose
Vic
John Mitchel Pritts
Milford Township
Pat Dward Wojick
Greensburg
Pritts
New Lexington
William Custer
Friedens
Stoystown
Custer
John Walker
Zimmerman
Smerset
Jacob Platt
Somerset
Clifford K. White
Harrisburg
Flatt
Platt
Columbus
Raymond Beeman
Pvt
Thomas H. Sterne
Somerset State Police
Pratt Named President of Indiana State Teachers College
Dr Willis E Pratt named president of Indiana State Teachers College with Gov Duff's approval. He will earn 7590 dollars annually and succeeds Dr Joseph M Uhler. Pratt earlier led education at Pennsylvania State College and served in the Erie county schools and Mansfield State Teachers College. He fought in Italy earning a bronze star and Italian knighthood. He is an Allegheny College graduate with advanced degrees from Pittsburgh.
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Harrisburg
Willis E. Pratt
Indiana State Teachers College
James H. Duff
Pratt
Department of Education
Pennsylvania State College
Joseph M. Uhler
Francis B. Haas
Erie County
Mansfield State Teachers College
Italy
U. S. Army
Allegheny College
University of Pittsburgh
Garden Club of America Holds Pittsburgh Meeting
More than 500 members of the Garden Club of America gather in Pittsburgh for a four day annual meeting that opened yesterday. Delegates traveled on 18 cars of a special New York to Pittsburgh train.
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Garden Club
Pittsburgh
Garden Club of America
New York
Knowland Accuses Taylor of Aiding the Kremlin in Senate
In Washington on May 12 Senator Knowland denounced Senator Taylor for attacking President Truman and calling Forrestal a potential Hitler. Knowland said Taylor could not have aided the Kremlin more and charged Taylor with following a Communist line as he criticized the press and democracy. Taylor, a Henry Wallace third party vice presidential candidate, accused U.S. leaders of flirting with Russia and warned of Hitler-like paths.
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Washington
Knowland
Taylor
Truman
Russia
United States
America
Senate
Missouri
Kremlin
Idaho
California
Senate Bill Pushes Over One Billion for Farm Programs
A Senate appropriations panel advanced a measure totaling 1,126,597,405 for next year’s federal agricultural programs. It adds 580,170,278 in new cash, boosts school lunch funds to 65,000,000, and includes 400,000,000 loan authority for rural electrification. The committee rejected a 75,000,000 add on for soil conservation and trimmed a 1,000,000 cut from a 5,000,000 farm research fund.
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Washington
Senate
Appropriations Committee
House
Senate Agriculture Committee
Treasury
Rural Electrification Administration
Russell
D.ga
Bill House
Secretary of Agriculture
Bureau of Animal Industry
Senate Committee
Miners buy majority of Gray company houses in sale
Miners in Gray purchased 73 of 80 company owned houses offered by Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal. Most homes sold for about 1600 dollars, some with modern conveniences at 3000. Duplex ten rooms, running water, bathrooms for some. Priority given to longest residents. remaining homes to be sold to others.
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Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company
P. M. Pitver
West Catherine Street
Pitzer
Gray
Acosta
Jenner
Pittsburgh
Lewis Calls Up Policy Committee
John L. Lewis summoned the United Mine Workers 200 man policy committee to meet in Washington to review his proposed demands for new coal mining contracts. District committees have drafted initial demands for talks set to begin next Tuesday with bituminous operators. The soft coal contract ends June 30, while anthracite talks start May 20 for about 80 000 miners in eastern Pennsylvania.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Pennsylvania
Police guard area as anti red film sparks theater clash
Mounted police and detectives guarded the Roxy theater in New York after rioting erupted over the film The Iron Curtain. Five arrests were made, scores injured, and Catholic War Veterans vow to counter picket as veterans from Queens and Bronx chapters plan continued presence. The American-Russia Friendship council released a list of 297 signers condemning the movie.
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New York
INS
Roxy Theater
Canada
Queens
John Huther, Jr
Huther
Bronx
National Council of American-Russia Friendship
State cuts wait for unemployment checks in Harrisburg
Harrisburg announces a new plan to bypass local offices for jobless benefit checks. Executive director A J Caruso says the single operation eliminates a delaying step and speeds delivery by reducing mailing steps. The checks will include claimant name and address.
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Harrisburg
A. J. Caruso
State Bureau of Employment and Unemployment Compensation
Caruso
Jews Prepare to Take Jaffa as British Quit Palestine
With the British mandate ending in 48 hours, Jewish forces announced plans to seize virtually deserted Arab Jaffa as Haganah tightens its hold in southern Palestine. Reports say three Arab bastions between Tel Aviv and Gaza fell, Beit Mahsir was retaken, and Beisan near the Jordan frontier surrendered to Haganah while Tiberias and Safad are already in Jewish hands.
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James M. Long
Tel Aviv
Palestine
Jaffa
Haganah
Holy Land
Mandate
Gaza
Jerusalem
Beit Mahsir
Bab el Wad
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Ephriam
Sharon
Tulkarm-Nablus-Ramallah
Chrysler Strike Paralyzes 12 Michigan Plants
Detroit May 12. About 75,000 CIO UAW Chrysler workers walk out over wage demands, pausing operations at 12 Michigan plants and idling Briggs Manufacturing units. Gov. Sigler orders labor board to test new Bonie-Tripp law. Henry Wallace views pickets at Dodge. Reuther hospitalized. strike marks first major action since 1939-45.
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Detroit
Chrysler
CIO
Michigan
United Auto Workers
Wgnes
Corporation
Briggs
Sigler
State Labor Mediation Board
UAW Cio
Washington
Big
Dodge
Henry A. Wallace
Auto
General Motors Corp
Uaw-Cio
General Motors
Ford Motor Co
Walter P. Reuther
Reuther
Army Makes No Rail Wage Pact Royall Refuses Negotiations
Secretary of the Army Royall declined to negotiate a wage contract with three rail unions. A 10 day restraining order from Judge Goldsborough kept trains running while unions and carriers await possible settlement. Union leaders remained silent on talks as Royall named three advisers, one for unions, one for railroads, and a public representative.
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Harold W. Ward Washington
Army
Royall
T. Alan Goldsborough
Pennsylvania Railroad
M. W. Clement
Army Behief
Alvanley Johnston
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Cleveland
David B. Robertson
Arthur J. Glover
Edward F. McGrady
New York
Harold C. Heiss
William T. Joyner
Goldsboro
North Carolina
Railroad Corporation
Illinois couple sues for 12139.88 after turnpike crash
James L. and Jessie G. Strange of Forrest Park Illinois file a bill of complaint seeking 12139.88 in damages from John Haydock of Los Angeles after their car rear collided on the turnpike seven miles east of Somerset on August 15 1947. They claim 1400 for a demolished car 633.30 for contents 5000 each for pain and suffering 4994 for medical expenses 5660 for transportation and are represented by attorney A M Matthews.
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James L
Jessie G. Strange
Forrest Park
Ilinois
Prothonotary’s Office
John Haydock
Los Angeles
Strange
Somerset
Haydock
Illinois
Stranges
A. M. Matthews
Mother and Child Die in House Fire Tragedy
A mother Mary Hoffman 41 and her three year old son John Jr died from suffocation when a fire starting in the child’s play room damaged their home. Fire Chief Lawrence Scully reported the blaze centered in the play room with damage estimated at 1500 dollars. The husband J K Hoffman a drug salesman was away on a business trip.
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Mary Hoffman
John, Jr
Lawrence Scully
Scully
J. K. Hoffman
United States proposes UN high commissioner for Palestine plan
The United States urged the UN to appoint a high commissioner for Palestine to mediate Jewish Arab differences and arrange shared services. The plan, discussed with five powers, would remove the UN Palestine partition commission and carry no government powers.
Four Hours to Recover Miner From Mine Collapse
Workmen spent four hours with jacks and chisels to free Bruno Bukoski, 66, from under 500 tons of rock after a roof fall at the McIntyre mine of the Pittsburgh & Rochester Coal Co. Bukoski was pulling pillars in an abandoned area when a 100 foot roof section collapsed.
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Mcintyre
Bruno Buykoski
Pittsburgh & Rochester Coal Co
Bukoski
Somerset Weather Report With Erratic OCR Entry
Daily weather note by David Grove records 24 hour period from 5:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. with unclear maximum and a past temperature value of 77. The garbled OCR text includes stray sequences and nonsensical words.
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Somerset Weather
David Grove
U. S. Weather Observer
Narlkmasusteiesichaalen Opal
Max Timi
Weather Forecast for Maryland and Nearby States
Intermittent rains and scattered thunder showers expected in Maryland Thursday and Thursday night with cooler temperatures likely Friday. Eastern Pennsylvania sees similar rain Thursday through Friday with cooler conditions. Western Pennsylvania remains cloudy and cooler with rain Thursday and possible lingering showers Friday. West Virginia reports intermittent rain and scattered thunderstorms Thursday and Thursday night, with cooler conditions Friday.
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Maryland
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
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Indiana
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Seed Headquarters
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Wilson
Lancaster
Surecrop
Iowa
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A. D. Graham & CO
Beaver Brand Fertilizers
Somerset, PA
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the Park Theatre
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Myrl
Dukes OF Recording Fame
Oakhurst
U.S
Emil Mazer
Uaw.cio
Bristol
Critchfield CO
Penna. Quarries, Inc
Friedens, PA
Special Palestine Assembly
By Larry Hauck
U. N. Palestine Partition Commission
Special Assembly
United Nations Assembly
U. N
Alexander Cadogan
Araus
U.N
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