General Motors and UAW CIO Reach Mediation Accord
Washington reports GM accepted defense mediation board recommendations for settlement with CIO UAW. In Flint Michigan four GM units halted operations affecting 34,100 workers amid a broader strike risk. Saginaw plants faced partial walkouts while Hudson Motor Car Company saw a separate shutdown amid ongoing wage dispute talks.
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Flint
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CIO
National Defense Mediation Board
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Fisher Body
R. J. Thomas
Uaw-Cio
Washington
General Motors
Saginaw
Mich
Linwood C. Smith
Thomas W. Wolcott
Hudson Motor Car Company
Frank J. Kolodziejski
State Labor Mediation Board
Hudson
Uawcio
Kolodziejski
Marines and Hawaii Strike Disrupt Pearl Harbor Work
In Honolulu on May 15 construction workers halted at defense projects along Pearl Harbor. U S marines ejected the more vocal demonstrators from the naval reservation while about 230 plumbers continued work. An official called the stoppage definitely mot.
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Honolulu
Pacific
Pearl Harbor Naval Reservation
U. S
Company C Appeals For Contribution To Furnish Recreation Hall
Capt W Curtis Truxal appeals to Somerset county groups and private citizens to fund furnishing a recreation hall for Company C at Indiantown Gap. Local organizations and banks have donated, with ongoing public contribution invited through the Somerset post office. Funds will support camp life and, if excess, benefit the company fund for all Somerset county boys.
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W. Curtis Truxal
Somerset
Truxal
Somerset County
Capt. Truxal
Oscar Sutliffe
Samuel
Crouse
American Legion
Fraternal Order Eagles
Somerset Chamber of Commerce
Somerset Rotary Club
Somerset Lions Club
Somerset Trust Company
First National Bank
the Peoples National Bank
the County Trust Company
Henry Beerits Speech At Planning Conference
Henry C Beerits a Somerset man and Philadelphia lawyer spoke at the National Conference on Planning held Monday to Wednesday at the Warwick hotel Philadelphia The Tuesday luncheon was hosted by multiple planning and civic groups with about four hundred attendees Mayor Lamberton and other notables attended The mayor praised Beerits committee report and the press quoted his remarks
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National Conference On Planning
Warwick Hotel
Philadelphia
Somerset Mah
Henry C. Beerits
John H. Beerus
Grand
Tri-State Regional Planning Federation
Junior Board of Commerce of Philadelphia
Philadelphia Housing Association
Philadelphai Chapter
American Institute of Architects
City Policy Committee
Percy C Madeira, Jr
Land- Title Trust Company of
Hugh R. Pomeroy
Virginia State Planning Board
Beerits
Beerus
Lamberton
Jury Acquits Mrs Close In 55 Minutes
A Somerset county jury acquitted Mrs Mary Close of involuntary manslaughter in the death of her illegitimate newborn girl born March 17 at her parents home. The trial ended in 55 minutes after deliberations begun at 2:59 pm. Crissey, the infant's father's, was ordered to pay costs and hospital bills. The judge left open the possibility of divorce discussions.
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Mary Close
Listie
James Gross
Muncy
Albert Crissey
Somerset
Lansberry
Matthes
Boose
Cargill
Uphouse
All French Hamilton Vessels in See Hess 1 8 Seized
A terse item reports French vessels named Hamilton seized in a Hess region and notes a deputyFuehrer who flew to Scotland is able to hobble around his room with ease.
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Fuehrer
Scotland
Nazis Hold Dr. Carrel in Occupied France
New York May 15 Professor Alexis Carrell a 67 year old Rockefeller Institute scientist is detained in occupied France to aid Germany in child nutrition knowledge James Wood Johnson organizer of the American Volunteers Ambulance Corps said he accompanied Carrel to Europe February 1 and left Vichy while Carrel went to Brittany Johnson claimed Carrel expected to be unable to obtain a pass to return and planned to meet in New York today but warned he might be blocked from leaving occupied France
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New York
Alexis Carrell
Rockefeller
France
James Wood Johnson
Johnson
American Volunteers’ Ambulance Corps
Carrel
Europe
Brittany
Vichy
Spain
Hess riddle grips Britain as Hess in custody near Glasgow
British officials remain silent on Rudolf Hess purpose in Britain while the Duke of Hamilton Ivone Kirkpatrick and Alfred Duff-Cooper confer. Hess, injured yet mobile, is guarded in a hospital and barred from certain broadcasts and newspapers as the mystery over his mission deepens.
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Rudolf Hess
Winston Churchill
Hess
Duke of Hamilton
Ivone Kirkpatrick
Foreign Office
Alfred Duff-Cooper
Glasgow
Messerschmitt
Hamilton
Britain
Tower of London
Daily Mail
British Press Association
Augsburg
Germany
Coal Groups Defer Parley Amid Possible Shutdown
Southern operators and the United Mine Workers met separately before resuming wage contract talks in New York. A Tuesday night alert warned that a failure to agree this week could trigger a work stoppage across eight states affecting 330000 miners and 70 percent of U S bituminous coal.
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New York
Representa
United Mine Workers of America
CIO
Leaps Track Crash Wrecks Tower and Fires on Rail Line
A Pennsylvania freight train derailed seven cars tumbling a railroad tower in West Apollo. Operator F G Dobson was pinned by a fallen girder before freeing himself with a knife. Fire spread through wreckage and forced detours as firemen battled flames between Altoona and Pittsburgh.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
F. G. Dobson
Vandergrift
Conemaugh
Altoona
Pittsburgh
Blairsville
Three German Supply Ships Left Burning Off Frisian Islands
British bombers attacked an escorted convoy off the Frisian Islands burning three German supply ships totaling about 11 000 tons. Nazi planes defended the convoy as RAF fighter squadrons conducted additional sweeps over the channel and northern France.
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Frisian
Air Ministry
Germany
England
Channel
France
Calais
RAF
Bevin Claims Hitler Knew Hess Purpose in Britain
British labor minister Ernest Bevin said Rudolf Hess came to Britain with a calculating aim and secret information, not from sympathy for unions. He called Hess a sane planner knowingly tied to Hitler while dismissing Nazi claims Hess was mad. Churchill delayed a full public statement on Hess’s arrival.
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Rudolf Hess
Britain
Adolf Hitler
Ernest Bevin
Berlin
Hess
Holborn Chamber of Commerce
Kiel
Hamburg
Bevin
Germany
Social Democrats
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British Isles
Churchill
British Press Association
Duke of Hamilton
Scotland
Mrs Farquharson Killed in Air Raid
The death of Mrs. Yrtle Farquharson chief of the Farquharson Clan and close friend of the king and queen was announced today from London claiming she died in a recent air raid on Friday May 16.
Petain Bids France Put Trust In Him In Negotiations With Germany
VICHY May 15 Chief of State Petain urged Frenchman to hold faith in negotiations with Germany saying France could rise above defeat and keep world rank if talks succeed. He called for calm and discipline while noting a collaboration system with Germany is growing.
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France
Petain
Germany
Jean Darlan
Adolf Hitler
Darlan
Paris
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Syria
Admiral Darlan
Grance
Plot Hitler's Overthrow Plot
Montreal May 15 Dr Otto Strasser leader of the anti Nazi Black Front says he received five weeks ago from a German foreign ministry official a secret report of a plan to overthrow Adolf Hitler. Strasser broadcast the claim over the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation network saying the Prussian military group has lost confidence in Hitler and the Nazi party and is preparing a way to retreat.
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Otto Strasser
Black Front
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Foreign Ministry
Strasser
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Hitler
Nazi Plane Sinks British Merchantman Off English Coast
Berlin reports a German plane sank a 3 000-ton British merchantman off the English coast raising daily tonnage totals to 31 000. Long-range reconnaissance over the British Isles yielded no reportable results. Axis strikes hit To bruk Libya targets while a British battery was silenced. A German submarine sunk a 20 000-ton auxiliary cruiser in the North Atlantic, the eighteenth thus far.
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British Isles
Tobruk
Libya
High Command
North Atlantic
Free French Leader Demands Syrian Surrender
General Georges Catroux, head of Free French forces in the Middle East, demanded the surrender of French authorities in Syria in a British radio broadcast heard by CBS. The broadcast aired from New York on May 15.
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Syria
New York
Georges Catroux
Middle East
CBS
Norwegian Ship Bolette Reported Lost
The Norwegian vessel Bolette of 167 tons is reported lost due to war operations. Eight crew members are missing. The loss was announced in Oslo on May 15 via Berlin.
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Norway
Berlin
Bolette
British report German planes reach Syria and Iraq fronts
British Near East command says German bombers and fighters arrived on French Syria airfields and in Iraq. RAF and navy planes retaliate by attacking Luftwaffe facilities while Germany shifts experts and officers toward Baghdad and Beirut amid growing regional tensions.
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Egypt
French
Syria
Iraq
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Navy
Vichy
British Near East Command
Bhe
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Dispatch
AFI
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Beirut
Fleet Air Arm
London
Adolf Hitler
Eden condemns French aid to German air operations in Syria
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons that Syrian authorities permit German aircraft to use Syrian airfields as staging posts en route to Iraq. He said Britain has full authority for action against these aircraft and criticized France for backing measures agreed at Berchtesgaden between Hitler and Admiral Darlan.
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Eden
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
London
Syria
Iraq
Berchtesgaden
Hitler
Darlan
Somerset Weather Report by David Grove Observer
Daily weather report for Somerset by U S Weather Observer David Grove covers 24 hours from 5 30 p m Wednesday to 5 30 p m Thursday. Maximum 68 and minimum 35 degrees with measure of precipitation noted. Temperature comparison to previous year shows higher daytime maximum and lower nighttime minimum with missing data in OCR.
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David Grove
U. S
Weather outlook for West Virginia and nearby regions
Partly cloudy and warm Friday with scattered showers followed by cooler Saturday. In Western Pennsylvania a similar pattern with north portions expecting showers Friday and cooler Saturday. Eastern Pennsylvania sees scattered showers with warmer Friday, Saturday mostly cloudy and followed by cooler in west and north. Maryland forecasts mostly cloudy conditions with warmer Friday and scattered showers Saturday followed by cooler weather.
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Pennsylvania
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South
Maryland
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