Wire drops on car top after storm near Ligonier
Thomas of 617 North Center Avenue Somerset narrowly escaped electrocution when a bolt of lightning severed a high tension line and dropped onto his parked car along a Ligonier street. The car was damaged, a tire ruined, and witnesses aided by volunteers and a light company worker.
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Charles Thomas
North Center Avenue
Somerset
Ligonier Street
Thomas
Fuller Brush Company
Witnes
Light Company
Ligonier
Rotarians Hear B and O Man on Railroads in Defense
Special representative C Vernon Thomas of the Baltimore and Ohio rail line told Somerset Rotarians that railroads remain vital to national defense. He criticized government policies that favor waterways like the St Lawrence project, noting millions spent there while railroads lose support and efficiency.
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C. Vernon Thomas
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Baltimore
Somerset
Mr. Thomas
St. Lawrence Waterway
St. Lawrence
Quadruplet Girls Born to Chicago Adams Family
Four baby girls weighing one to one and a half pounds each were born prematurely at Mercy hospital Chicago to 19 year old Mrs Edward H Adams wife of a lunch room cook. The first birth occurred 20 minutes after arrival by taxi with the others within five minutes. Doctors said mother is in good condition and babies are in incubators under observation with five pediatricians summoned.
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Chicago
Mercy Hospital
Edward H. Adams
William J. McCraley
McCraley
Janet Towne
WPA Officials Merge Offices Furlough 29 Workers
Twenty nine WPA employes are furloughed following the merger of the Pittsburgh and Greensburg offices. Ten workers from Pittsburgh and nineteen from Greensburg are affected, announced Director Lyell E. Buttermore.
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WPA
Pittsburgh
Greensburg
Works Projects Administration
Lyell E. Buttermore
Miners Standoff Deepens as Talks Collapse in South
In New York on May 16 United Mine Workers and southern soft coal operators fail to reach progress. John L Lewis threatens a 30 000 miners shutdown across eight Appalachian states if no pact is signed this week. Northern operators accept a unsigned deal raising wages to seven dollars daily while southern mines offer five dollars. Putman notes movement but calls the gap insurmountable. Trade talks resume tomorrow with a policy committee meeting set for Monday.
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Molions
Southern Soft
United Mine Workers of America
CWO
John L. Lewis
Chieftain
Mt Rugs
Appalachian
L. T. Putman
Sty
Erai
Lewis
Putman
Roosevelt hints navy may shield shipping in Red Sea
President Roosevelt suggested the navy could be used to protect American shipping in the Red Sea. He cited the Barbary pirates as a precedent and urged reporters to consider that analogy. He declined to predict future moves or comment on France relations, noting the situation is days-to-days dynamic.
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Richard L. Turner
Washington
Roosevelt
Red Sea
Rooevelts
Germany
United States
France
Newport
R. I
Knox
Naval War College
Pan-American Union
Hull
Senate
House
RFC
Jesse Jones
Rayburn
Britain
Mr. Roosevelt
East Africa
Ford Grants Wage Increase At Ford River Rouge Plant
Wage increases totaling 13 002 442 annually have been granted since January at the Ford Motor company's River Rouge plant, raising pay for 53 024 hourly workers. The raises are said to be effective in all Ford plants, aligning wages with competitors, amid UAW CIO negotiations and after a recent strike.
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Ford Motor Company
River Rouge
Harry H. Bennett
Ford
Michael F. Widman, Jr
United Automobile Workers (Cio
Ford Company
Uawcio
General Motors
B. D. Kunkle
G. M
Vwuu
UAW
Chicago
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
Order of Railway Conductors
Brotherhood of Railroads Trainmen
Switchmen's Union
Washington
War Department
Retired Missouri Dean Emeritus Dies in Albuquerque
Elmer James Mea Custland 77 former dean emeritus of the University of Missouri school of engineering died today in Albuquerque. He had lived there since retiring in 1936.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Elmer James Mea Custland
School of Engineering
University of Missouri
Nazis Pose RAF Acts To Strike West In New Assault
British forces retake Salam while Nazi panzer units push in French Syria towards Iraq as RAF operations loom to shape the Suez crisis stage.
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RAF
West
Suez
Salam
Syria
Iraq
German commentary says Germany poised to strike from French-held territory
Berlin reports German commentators claim Germany has occupied positions to strike Britain and may move planes and troops through French or colonial territory. They argue Roosevelt’s policy enables Axis moves, while denying Hitler or Ribbentrop presence in France. In North Africa, German forces report British tanks at Salum and an attack on Fort Capuzzo near the Egyptian border.
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Berlin
Germany
Britain
Dienst Aus Deutschland
France
Syria
Iraq
United States
Roosevelt
Russia
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
Aimone King of Croatia to Wear Restored Crown
Rome reports Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele III will name a Savoy prince to wear Croatia's restored crown. Expected pick is Prince Aimone, Duke of Spoleto, with Croatia to sign frontier accords and align with Fascist Italy's economic orbit.
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Rome
Italy
Vittorio Emanuele Tii
Savoy
Croatia
Aimone
Spoleto
Kingdom
British Navy Losses in War Reach 11285 Officials Say
London reports the admiralty confirms 11 285 officers and men lost since the war began. Of these, 4 260 killed in action and 6 944 missing presumed dead. An additional 3 352 wounded, 513 captured, and 81 died of natural causes. The sinking of the cruiser Bonaventure last month cost 139 lives.
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London
Admiralty
Tony
Bonaventure
Double Funeral Planned for Hoff Couple at Cool Spring
A double funeral was planned today for Mr. and Mrs. Harnwal ter Hoff of Cool Spring, Uniontown. Hoff, 67, collapsed and died on a street car en route to visit his wife in a Uniontown hospital. Mrs. Hoff, 57, died shortly before midnight.
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Cool Spring
Harnwalter Hoff
Hoff
Global RAF and Axis Clash Deepens Near Suez Front
British forces launched ground and air offensives west and east of the Suez Canal as Salam and Halfaya Pass were stormed and retaken. In Syria and Iraq, Nazi moves toward Iraq met a British air assault with raids on Rayak and Damascus. British messaging warned eastern Mediterranean shipping dangers and noted reinforcements arriving in Iraq and Palestine.
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Egypt
Britain
Suez Canal
Libya
Iraq
Syria
Salam
Halfaya
Africa
Rayak
Palmyra
Damascus
Mediterranean
Turkey
Trans-Jordan
Henry Maitland Wilson
Abdullah
Baghdad
Russia
British Armies Rout German Units in Western Egypt
British land and air forces rout German armored units in western Egypt and attack Fort Capuzzo in Libya while seeking to hold Salum and Halfaya pass. Allied operations claim hundreds of Nazi casualties and prisoners as Ethiopia chaos aids the Nile army buildup.
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Egypt
Syria
Iraq
Britain
Salum
Fort Capuzzo
Libya
Halfaya
Ethiopia
Amba Alaji
Duke of
Hess not Nazi spy or traitor to Nazis
London may 16 Sir Nevile Henderson Britain's last ambassador to Germany before the war declared he did not believe Rudolf Hess came to Britain as a Nazi spy or to reveal Nazi secrets but warned the deputyFuehrer flight would accelerate Germanys war effort He called Hess an honest fanatic devoted to Hitler and said the momentous step showed deep German feeling
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Nevile Henderson
Britain
Germany
Rudolf Hess
Hess
Nevile
Sir Nevile
Stamford
Himmler
Ribbentrop
Ley
Germans bomb midlands in major raid with casualties
German raiders pounded the Midlands and London in a major air raid. Dozens killed, homes wrecked, and many injured as bombs and high explosives hit air raid shelters and residential areas. RAF downed two attackers. total planes lost rose to nine.
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Midlands
Britain
Rudolf Hess
England
Hanover
Hamburg
Cuxhaven
Berlin
Calais
Boulogne
Dieppe
St. Nazaire
Lorient
Ijmuiden
On Brink of War in West Texas Rally
Brig. Gen. Preston A. Weatherred warned at a Camp Bowie rally that the United States is on the brink of war with the axis powers. He stated the nation has already acted and would send American troops abroad if war comes, framing defeat of fascism as the aim of U S policy.
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Mineral Wells
Tex
Preston A. Weatherred
United States
Camp Bowie
West
James Roosevelt Meets Yugoslav King In London
U S Marine Captain James Roosevelt visits King Petar II of Yugoslavia in London as Reuters reports the exchange. Petar asks about US military planes to rebuild Yugoslavia air force and Roosevelt replies that as many as the king desires. Roosevelt previously met King Farouk of Egypt with a personal message from the President.
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U. S
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Petar II
Yugoslavia
Reuters
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Petar
Roosevelt
Farouk
Egypt
Holsopple Child Injured At Play
Pearl Ruby an 11 year old Holsopple girl was treated at a Johnstown hospital for painful contusions to the cheeks and nose after a playmate's blow shattered her spectacles late Thursday evening.
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Pearl Ruby
Jacob Ruby
Holsopple
Johnstown
Nazis Bomb Malta Intensify Attacks
German planes bombed Malta last night and today causing damage to government property and several fatalities, according to a communique.
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Malta
Valletta
French Accept Cooperation With Germany In Europe Plan
Vichy officials in France say cooperation with Germany is voluntary and limited to economic and political measures. They argue France must negotiate to live in the Nazis order, deny admitting any arms against others, and note British bombing of Syrian airports used by German planes.
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Vichy
France
Roosevelt
Germany
Marshal Petain
Iraq
United States
Red Cross
America
Community of Nations of Europe
Bomb Cyprus And Rhodes Bombed Heavily
The British island of Cyprus and the Italian island of Rhodes were reported bombed heavily today as they lie on the Mediterranean route to Mosul oil fields. In northern Ethiopia British forces attacked Amba Alagi with ground troops planes and artillery.
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Rome
Cyprus
Rhodes
Mosul
Ethiopia
Amba Alaji
Two top British generals given new appointments
London May 16 Two senior officers Sir Robert Haining and Major General H C B Wemyss have been chosen for special appointments. Haining will assume his new duties May 19 while Wemyss, once head of the Palestine signal corps, is noted as one of Britain's youngest major generals. The moves reflect a push to promote younger officers.
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London
Britain
Robert H. Haining
Imperial General Staff
H. C. B. Wemyss
War Office
Haining
Palestine
Trans-Jordan
Wemyss
Signal Corps
Allenby
Labor fears of new coal strike widen across plants
The Associated Press reports the threat of a new coal mine stoppage expands as General Motors faces a deal with a mediation board. Washington pressure grows over San Francisco shipyards and drydocks, while a Senate defense progress probe pushes for shipyard reopenings.
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John L. Lewis
General Motors
Washington
San Francisco
Senate Committee
Defense Progress
Truman
D-Mo
Jessey Jones
Secretary of Commerce
Pilots Return to Canada By Air in Plane Ferry
Montreal May 16 announces that ferry pilots are being returned to Canada by air rather than by steamer as part of moving American made warplanes to Britain with increased numbers and without loss.
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Montreal
Britain
Canada
Western Pennsylvania Weekend Forecast With Showers
Western Pennsylvania will see cloudy and cooler conditions with scattered showers mainly in the southern area Saturday morning. Sunday turns generally fair and rather cool. In West Virginia scattered showers and thunderstorms with cooler Saturday, then Sunday is fair and cooler. Eastern Pennsylvania expects a few showers then cooler Saturday with generally fair Sunday and Maryland shows scattered showers and cooler conditions Saturday.
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West Virginia
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