Coal Div Loaded With Reds At Un American Activities Hearing
Washington May 21 A House sub committee on un American activities heard investigator Mary Spargo testify that the interior department bituminous coal division was tainted with Communists from the top. She said a peace meeting promoted by the American Peace Mobilization was under Communist control and that division employees feared testifying about subversive activity. Rep Voorhis condemned unsubstantiated charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Interior Department
House
Mary Spargo
Voorhis
D-Calif
United States
Sarah V. Montgomery
Washington Peace Mobilization
Starnes
D-Ala
Miss Spargo
Hasel Huffman
New York
APM
Miss Huffman
Tell Truth To Cleanse Saul In Philadelphia Trial
William Fox, once a prominent movie figure, testified he told the truth about his relations with retired U S Circuit Judge J Warren Davis. Fox said he did so on advice to cleanse his soul as Davis faces trial on conspiracy to obstruct justice and defraud charges. The case involves $57 million in claims Fox called fictitious and wrongful amid disputed bankruptcy rulings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
William Fox
J. Warren Davis
U. S
Davis
Bast
Third Circuit
District Court
Morgan
Kaufman
United States
Fox
Isador Gainsburg
New York
M. H. A. Mellin
St. Augustine National Bank
St. Augustine
Fla
Roger S
Mary Firestone
Merlin
Simpsons Car Damaged by Fire
Fire destroyed part of an automobile owned by Steve Simpson on Wagewood Avenue Wednesday at 6. Somerset volunteer fire department extinguished the blaze. Damage was estimated at 25 dollars.
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Steve Simpson
Wagewood Avenue
Somerset Volunteer Fire Department
Boy for Pletchers Ward Jr. Named
Mr and Mrs Ward Pletcher of Somerset Route 1 are the parents of an eight pound son who will be named Ward Jr. The birth announcement notes the family warmly and records the newborn’s weight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ward Pletcher
Somerset
Ward, Jr
Red Cross First Aid Grows in Somerset County
Problems of defense abroad boost Red Cross home front work as Somerset chapter reports hundreds of trained volunteers. A fourth mobile unit joins three highway stations including Reels Corner Lis with plans to expand to Meyersdale and Salisbury areas.
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Red Cross
Hollywood Inn
Berlin
National
Idd
Ress
Iiecsitiyz
Somerset County
Citie 15
Rockwood
Somerset
Meyersdale
Roland Fulham
Edmund Imboff
Martha Tanner
Betty Momesberg
Mary Eilen Benford
M. C. Clemence
Counry
Mary Webber
Merle Snyder
Lincoln Highway
Reels Corner
Snyder Station
Laurel Park
Route 31
Bakersville
Pine Grove
Mty
Olive Reffner
John K. Pritts
Frances Orndorff
Blanch Meyers
Stanley P Hoffman
Sara P. Hill
Ella M. Hay
Adele B. Fenwick
Stella Cc. Corliss
Mabel Clites
Marian Clemence
Mary A. Bowlin
Anthony Anodide
Jay Reichard
Frank Worner, Jr
M. ©. Clemence
Clemence
F. W. White
Kansas
Ethel Louise Clemence
Jean Toner
Central City's Patriotic Rally Honors 16 New Citizens
An Americanization rally at Central City's Recreation Hall welcomed 16 foreign born individuals becoming naturalized citizens. Speakers included District Attorney Archibald M. Matthews and immigration official Garminkie of Pittsburgh, with Irvin Spangler delivering the welcome. The Keystone Post American Legion sponsored the event with music, a play by the bicquet club, and songs like God Bless America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central City
Moss. Mock
Archibald M. Matthews
Garminkie
Immigration and Naturalization Bureau
Department of Justice
Pittsburgh
Emerick
Kline
Greensburg
WPA
Irvin Spangler
Keystone Post
American Legion
Bciquet Club
God Save America
America
Hazel Luther
Cable Accident Kills King at Irvine Work Site
Donald Howard King 22 of Coraopolis died after a scaffold cable failed at Irvine while he and Ralph Ellis 25 of McKees Rocks worked for Elwin G. Smith repairing the National Forge and Ordnance plant. King suffered a broken back. Ellis is listed as in fair condition. Coroner Lowrey ruled the death accidental with no inquest. King married Dorothy Sharp last September 26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren
Donald Howard King
Coraopolis
Irvine
King
Ralph Ellis
McKees Rocks
Elwin G. Smith
Bellevue
National Forge and Ordnance Company
Ellis
Dan E. King
Dorothy Lucille Sharp
Florida
Ed Lowrey
Seek New Basis For Mines Costs
Washington May 21 A government hearing began to set a new basis for bituminous coal costs to decide if minimum prices should be revised. About 100 mine operators distributors and consumer representatives attended as economist George Lamb presented methods and regional cost figures with cross examination to follow. Officials expect a long proceeding possibly two months after a preliminary study showed an average 18 cent drop per ton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
George Lamb
Interior
Ickes
Coal Division
Bridges Deportation Hearing Labels Bridges a Leading Communist
Major Lemuel B. Schofield, head of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, called Harry Bridges a leading Communist of the United States during the Bridges deportation hearing. Defense counsel pressed on propriety, and Schofield said it was his duty to provide the opinion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Lemuel B. Schofield
U. S. Department of Immigration and Naturalization
Harry Bridges
United States
Richard Gladstein
Bridges
Schofield
Memorial playstead to honor Methuen boy killed in Spain
Edward J. Neil Jr memorial playstead will be dedicated next Saturday in Methuen Massachusetts to honor a local boy who died from a shell burst while covering the Spanish Civil War for the Associated Press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward J. Neil, Jr
Methuen
Mass
Spain
Associated Press
Frey Leads Workers To Shipyards Through Picket Lines
AFL shipyard workers returned to 11 yards in the San Francisco Bay area defying picket lines. John Frey led about 500 workers into the Moore shipyard in Oakland, insisting the strike was unauthorized while other plants resumed operations. The action affects $500 million in defense orders as machinists seek higher wages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
AFL
Culbert L. Olson
San Francisco Bay Area
John Frey
AFL Metal Trades Council
Moore Shipyard
Oakland
Frey
CIO
Ravenna
Ohio
Buffalo
AFL International Longshoremen’s Union
Great Lakes
CIO United Auto
Hudson Motor Company
Detroit
Father and Son Die in Flames in Fertigs Fire
In Oil City on May 21 Raymond Benninger 31 an oil lease worker and his four year old son Norman perished in a blaze that leveled their apartment over a garage at Fertigs about ten miles away Mrs Margaret Benninger discovered the flames on returning from a walk and said the men were napping when she left Coroner S G Foster found no clue to the fire's start The garage was owned by John Benninger the father
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oil City
Raymond Benninger
Norman
Fertigs
Margaret Benninger
S. G. Foster
Benninger
John Benninger
Robbed Blind Friend Robey Goes To Jail
New Kensington resident Harry Robey aged 41 was jailed after being charged with stealing from Clayton Pierce a blind man who befriended him. Alderman Joseph B. Bordonaro bound Robey over for court after Pierce accused him of taking tools groceries and wearing apparel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Kensington
Harry Robey
Josephb. Bordonaro
Robey
Clayton Pierce
Somerset Hospital Grant Bills Move For Higher State Aid
State appropriations for Somerset Community hospital to rise in the next biennium under bills the House appropriations committee prepared to submit. The district's appropriation is expected to increase from 10 000 to 18 300 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerset Community Hospital
House Appropriations Committee
Somerset Institution
Wage clash ends as miners, operators refer to mediation
The United Mine Workers of America and southern coal operators halted wage talks over 11 weeks and turn to the national defense mediation board. A separate Pennsylvania hard coal strike ended in a peaceful contract agreement granting 7% and up to 19% raises for nearly 100,000 miners. Northern operators prepare to testify in Washington as part of the Appalachian wage conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United Mine Workers of America
CIO
Southern Soft
National Defense Mediation Board
Lewis
K. C. Adams
Pennsylvania
Washington
Mediation Board
Union
Reds Train V Parachutists
Moscow reports 7 000 citizens practiced repulsing parachute troops in drills over the weekend. Consomol Pravda urged militarized preparation despite Russia's neutral stance, and Stalin’s premiership was noted. Red Star announced reserve and junior officers called to annual field training amid Ukrainian youth awaiting service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Young Communist League
Consomol Pravda
Russia
Joseph Stalin
Soviet Union
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
Communist Party
Red Army
Red Star
Lwow
Ukraine
Partitioned
Poland
Portadoc Sunk by Enemy Action Nine Prisoners Held
Ottawa reports the Canadian freighter Portadoc was sunk by enemy action on April 4. Nine crew members were taken as prisoners to French Guinea on the West African coast, with seven others believed to have returned to Scotland. One more was later said to have landed in Scotland, leaving eight still believed captive. Officials could not explain the designation prisoners amid ongoing Canada France diplomacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Great Lakes
Portadoc
England
French Guinea
Canadian Transport Department
Scotland
Department
Britain
Department of External Affairs
Canada
France
Allied RAF Bombs Helgoland Base in Surprise Strike
London reports a successful surprise attack by the RAF on the German naval base at Helgoland. One British bomber is missing and six fighters were lost. The raid also targeted a power station and an oil refinery at Beuthune in German-occupied France, with enemy fighters challenging the sortie but unable to prevent the damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
RAF
Helgoland
Ene
Bethune
France
British Planes Downed Over French Coast
German news agency said German fighters shot down a British bomber and six British fighters late today as a British formation approached the French coast during the engagement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
British score air and land successes in Iraq Syria Africa
British Middle East command reports air and land successes across Iraq Syria North Africa and Ethiopia. In Iraq, forces consolidated around Fallujah, air gains near Baghdad, and RAF raids damaged Rashid airdrome. In Syria, attacks hit Damascus and Palmyra airports. Basra activity described as quiet. In North Africa, RAF destroyed Junkers transport and Me 109s, with truck interdiction near Gabala and Torbuk. Ethiopian endgame nears as Amba Alagi surrenders. captives rise to about 18 000 to 19 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iraq
Syria
Africa
Cairo
Egypt
Middle East
North Africa
Ethiopia
Falloujan
Suphrates River
Baghdad
Rashid
Junkers
Damascus
Palmyra
Persian Gulf
Basra
Beirut
Lebanon
India
RAF
Western
Desert
Messerschmitt
Mekili
Gabala
Tobruk
Libya
Duke of
Aosta
Amba Alaji
Nazis Move War Material Through Turkey to Iraq
Diplomatic sources report German military equipment crossing Turkey by rail to reach Iraq as small units establish along the Baghdad railroad. Turkey yielded to allow transit to prevent isolation as eastern Mediterranean war lines tighten and freight traffic likely continues while passenger service drops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vichy
France
Turkey
Iraq
Istanbul
Baghdad
Persian Gulf
East Mediterranean
Yeni Sabah
Germany
Syria
Walsh Warns Convoys War Threat as Navy Pledges
New York May 21 Senator Walsh chairman of the Senate naval committee warned that using the United States navy to convoy merchant ships would surely trigger war with Germany. He spoke at an Americans United meeting where Senator Nye urged non intervention in Europe. Walsh said naval convoying would precipitate direct combat and “mean war.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Senator Walsh
United States Navy
United States
Sennhenn Due For Call In Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA May 21 A selective service appeal board ordered Dr Hans Carl Heinz Sennhenn a clerk in the German embassy at Washington retained in Class 1-1 and directed his local board to include the German born physician in its next call. An official said his only recourse now was a presidential reversal. He is son in law of late E Pusey Passmore. He claimed diplomatic immunity through employment and said he took first citizenship papers in 1938 though he still considers himself German. Chairman Leon J Obermayer noted he joined embassy staff three months after the draft law took effect. He has a five year old daughter and made no claim for deferment for family reasons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Selective Service Appeal Board
Hans Carl Heinz Sennhenn
Washington
Sennhenni
Sennhenn
E. Pusey Passmore
Leon J. Obermayer
Pair Fainted Too Soon in Bus Crash Lawsuit
In Omaha on May 21, District Judge Arthur Thomson dismissed the civil action by Mr and Mrs Emil Wilde of West Point seeking 10000 damages from a bus company after a September 29, 1939 collision near Craig. They testified they fainted about 30 feet from the impact, but the judge ruled no proof of cause since both were unconscious when the crash occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Emil Wilde
West Point
Craig
Arthur Thomson
Wilde
Thomson
Rotary to hear Captain J G McCann speaker
Captain J G McCann of the Pennsylvania motor police Turnpike division will address the Somerset Rotary Club at the Ferner hotel during the regular Friday noon meeting.
Diplomats Ordered To Quit Paris
Vichy France May 21. Germany ordered all foreign embassies and legations in Paris to withdraw by June 10 ending any plan to return the French government to the city. US envoys Edwin A. Plitt Tyler Thompson and Lawrence W. Taylor hold dual positions. It was unclear if consular officers are affected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vichy
France
Paris
Berlin
United States
Germany
Ote Keere
Washington
U. S. State Department
Reich
Edwin A. Plitt
Tyler Thompson
Lawrence W. Taylor
State Department
Air Armada Ready In 1942
Kansas City dispatch reports 80 giant 72 ton airLog ships planned by Transcontinental & Western Air and Pan American, developed with Howard Hughes, capable of 10,000,000 pounds cargo to Canal Zone in 48 hours. Each ship features four 2,500 horsepower engines, top speed 350 mph, 30,000 foot ceiling, and can carry 64 passengers or 100 soldiers. Trials set for next April with first units.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
United States
Canal Zone
Jack Frye
Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc
Frye
Howard Hughes
Sportsman-Pilot
Lockheed Company
TWA
Pan-American Airways
Air Logiathians
Atlantic Ocean
U. S
Alaska
Four British Ships Sunk in German Attacks
New York reported four British service ships sunk. The 11,849-ton Huntingdon formerly Munsterland was torpedoed with crew landing at Lisbon. The 7,939-ton Statesman was said sunk by long range bombers. Copenhagen reports two presumed former Danish ships Dagmar and Rigmar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lisbon
Copenhagen
Dagmar
Rigmar
Lioya
Register of Shipping
Nazis Lose 1000 In Crete Clash As Gliders Fail
German sky troops landed on Crete and fought British and Greek defenders but failed to gain key positions. Cairo reports say about 1,000 Nazis killed or captured on day one, with many gliders crashing. No confirmation of German naval strikes. British commander Freyberg mobilized forces as fighting continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Crete
Cairo
DNB
Mediterranean
Gallipoli
Somme
Bernard C. Freyberg
Middle- East
Suda Bay
Canea
Winston Churchill
House of Commons
Situa
Somerset Weather Report by David Grove
Daily weather summary from Somerset records the 24 hour period ending 5 30 p m Wednesday with a reported maximum temperature of 85 degrees and minimum of 42 degrees. Data notes garbled but indicates normal observance by U S Weather Observer David Grove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerset Weather
David Grove
U. S
Weather Observer
Weather forecast for Wester Pennsylvania and neighboring states
Wester Pennsylvania will see partly cloudy skies on Thursday and Friday with a few widely scattered afternoon showers in the north portion and slightly cooler air in the extreme north Thursday. West Virginia Maryland and eastern Pennsylvania expect generally fair and warm conditions Thursday and Friday with some variability in cloudiness.
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Wester Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
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Renee Rao
Los Angeles
SRP
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Renee
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Eero Pester
Peano
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