Somerset High School 156 Graduates Hold Pageant Commencement
The 57th Somerset High School commencement featured 156 seniors in a three part pageant titled The American's Creed held in the auditorium Tuesday evening. The program traced freedoms from Magna Charta to the Bill of Rights and noted the Emancipation Proclamation. A four freedoms tableau and scenes with a bugle, soldiers, and a nurse highlighted the defense of democracy.
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Somerset High School
Bessie
England
John
America
George
First
Continental Congress
United States
Abraham Lincoln
Poppy Day Observance Set For May 27 Sale
The American Legion Auxiliary hosts Poppy Day next Saturday May 27 with Mrs. Harold Magee of East Race Street as chair. School children will sell the poppies made by disabled veterans to aid World War I sufferers and other veterans.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Harold Magee
East Race Street
Watson Speech At Courthouse Draws Small Philadelphia Crowd
Dr. Claude A. Watson of Los Angeles Prohibition Party touted his presidential bid and asked whether the family bar or family altar has made America great. Speaking in courtroom No 1 he noted a small audience of one lawyer and three ministers plus two women, yet delivered his usual fervent talk with Bible readings and remarks about his sons in service.
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America
Claude A. Watson
Los Angeles
Prohibition Party
Watson
Democratic Conventions Split Over Roosevelt Nomination in Texas
Two Democratic state conventions in Texas split sharply over rerunning President Roosevelt. Supporters walked out as the party divided on renomination and the path forward for the New Deal era.
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Roosevelt
Texas splits as two Democratic conventions form over Roosevelt renomination
In Austin two rival Democratic conventions emerge. One, led by Roosevelt supporters under Alvin J. Wirtz, seeks a delegation pledged to renominate Roosevelt. The regular party convention elects presidential electors and an uninstructed delegation to Chicago, after Lyndon Johnson leads efforts to reunite the factions.
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Associated Press
Austin
Tex
Texas
Roosevelt
Alvin J. Wirtz
Interior
Chicago
Lyndon Johnson
Dtex
Johnson
Democratic Party
33 Uninstructed Republican Delegates From Texas To Chicago
Houston tex May 23 the Republican state convention voted to send 33 uninstructed delegates to the Chicago national convention after boisterous anti administration speeches by Gov John W Bricker and a Dewey backer The delegation planned to split on the first ballot between Dewey and Bricker R B Creager was re elected national committeeman and chairman Lena Gay More was named national committeewoman Bricker urged that without a constitutional president the country has a dictator while Heck for Dewey warned of encroachment by the executive branch and described an economic autocracy in the United States over the war plans
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Associated Press
Houston
Tex
Chicago
John W. Bricker
Ohio
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Bricker
R. B. Creager
Brownsville
Texas
Lena Gay More
Oswald D. Heck
New York State Assembly
United States
Centenarian Cecilia Ann Believes Prayers for Peace Endure
Mrs. Cecilia Ann marked her 100th birthday at a M kepsport gathering on May 22 1945 stating her prayers for world peace will be answered. She said blindness to the past fifty years keeps her focused on prayer and she dedicates most time to it confident in divine responses.
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Kefsport
Cecilia Ann
Chinese forces cut Burma road at Chelang near Salween
Chinese communique says forces moved on Chelang cutting the Burma road 28 miles east of the Burma border, encircling and destroying the Japanese garrison at Chefang with over 200 Japanese dead and captured war materiel. Chinese attacks press Chaikungtang and Tatangtzu as monsoon slows Myitkyina operations 90 miles west in Burma.
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Chlingking
Salween
Burma
Chelang
China
Chefang
Tengchung
Salween Front
Ghamo
Burma Road
Chaikungtang
Tatangtzu
Myitkyina
Drive Japs Away from Northwest
Chinese high command reports a successful counteroffensive across Henan on Monday driving Japanese forces back from the northwest agrarian region. Loyang remains in Chinese hands as Japanese forces threaten the Lunghai corridor but fall back.
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Chungking
Henan
China
Loyang
Honan
Lunghai Railway
Tension Mounts in Balkans as Bulgaria Rumors Stir
Reports from Moscow and Istanbul indicate General Maximilian von Weichs arrived in Sofia to review Nazi troops while Bulgaria faces pressure from Germany for greater military aid and from Russia to shift axis alignment. Bulgarian leadership may resist Nazi demands, but internal revolt remains unlikely until Nazi resources are strained.
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Alex Singleton
London
Maximilian von Weichs
Balkans
Moscow Radio Tonight
Sofia
Bulgaria
Istanbul
Moscow
Constantin Lukash
Germany
Hitler
Russia
75 Strike Demands Fans During Heat at Steel Plant
About 75 workers at the Pressed Steel Car company walked out demanding more fans to cool ovens. An ordnance spokesman said a new ventilating system is being installed and 16 fans already carry heat from ovens in the plant.
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Pittsburgh
Pressed Steel Car Company
Army Ordnance
Fifth Army expands Tor river bridgehead in New Guinea advance
American Sixth Army press reports new bridgehead at Tor river mouth opposite Makde island as reinforcements arrive from Wakde airstrip. Allied air forces drop 150 tons on Biak, strike Manokwari and Wewak areas, and target Sorido and Barokoe dromes amid ongoing operations against Maffin Bay and Sarmi airfields.
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Sixth Army
New Guinea
Tor River
Wakde
Makde
Douglas MacArthur
Frome
Biak Island
Schouten
Geelvink Bay
Manokwari
Dutch New Guinea
Wewak-Hansa Bay
British New Guinea
Rabaul
New Brittain Island
Buka Island
Bougainville
Maffin Bay
Sarmi
Sorido
Barokoe
Reds Enter Trenches for Information in Eastern Front Clash
Moscow reported Red army patrols probing German trenches for data ahead of an offensive. In separate actions a reconnaissance party killed and captured dozens of Nazis near Tiraspol, and Red artillery hit German concentrations. The Baltic fleet sank two German transports in the Gulf of Finland, while both sides noted limited activity elsewhere.
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Russell Landstrom
London
Moscow
Tiraspol
Moscow Radio
Red
Mozyr
Stanislawow
Old Poland
Red Army
Farmen
Red Banner Baltic
Gulf of Finland
Lower
Dnestr
Five sergeants vow to push from Anzio beachhead
Five sergeants from New Albany Pennsylvania Fancy Farm Kentucky Warren Ohio Minot North Dakota and Nottingham New Hampshire gather in a huddle to discuss the move after 122 days in one spot. They express eagerness to break out and reach Rome with renewed resolve.
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Anzio Beachhead
Italy
Eugene Keating
New Albany
Keating
Vincent Wedding
Fancy Farm
George Preston
Warren
Ohio
Carroll Risd
North
Africa
Fernald
Nazi gloom in Paris radio signals chaos in France
London reports a Paris radio broadcast painted a desolate French transport scene with a ruined railway system and sabotaged hydro electric facilities. British timetables shifted to move troops as invasion fears rise, while Nazi raids and coastal air attacks continue.
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William Smith White
London
Paris
Robert Ce Beauplan
Hitler
Mussolini
de Beauplan
France
Britain
House of Commons
James Grigg
English Channel
Free Mail Extension Proposed by Postmaster General
Postmaster General Frank C. Walker urged the Senate to extend free mail privileges for armed forces beyond December 31. In a letter to Vice President Wallace he said an early extension would avoid administrative complications.
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Washington
Senate
Frank C. Walker
Walker
Wallace
Allied air offensive over France and Germany in daylight raid
American heavy bombers escorted by a record air arm blasted Nazi airfields and freight yards in occupied France and German targets near Dortmund and other cities. The force, about 750 bombers and 1 000 escort fighters, rained 5 000 tons of bombs in roughly 18 hours with limited losses.
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London
France
Germany
Paris
Straits
Channel
Boulogne
Dortmund
Ruhr
Brunswick
Ludwigshafen
Orleans
le Mans
Belgium
County War Loan Quota Set at 2 747 500 for Fifth Drive
Somerset county residents are urged to meet a Fifth War Loan quota of 2 747 500. The drive runs June 12 to July 8 after a dinner meeting of county chairman and aero co chairmen on June 1 at the Ferner hotel. The previous drive oversubscribed by over 15 000 with a 9190.70 county total.
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Somerset
Unen
Ferner
Allied Offensives Break Out Around Anzio Rome Front
Allied forces on the Anzio beachhead and the main Italian front launched simultaneous offensives led by American and British units under Lt Gen Mark W Clark. The attack aimed to determine Rome's fate as German defenses stiffened along the Liri valley and near Terracina with 17 German divisions redeployed to halt the push.
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Naples
Anzio
Rome
10Th
Fifth Army
Mark W. Clark
Berlin
Paris
Reinhardt Albrecht
Cisterna
Liri
Pico
Terracina
Albert Kesselring
Harold Alexander
Kesselring
Daniel de Luce
Associated Press
Somerset Weather Report From David Grove Observation
Weather record shows daily temperature from Monday 5 30 p m to Tuesday 5 30 p m in Somerset with data missing for key values and several unreadable segments. The entry notes a year ago temperature and minimum, but most details are garbled, leaving an incomplete weather summary.
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David Grove
U. S
Weather Update For Mid-Atlantic States Wednesday Thunder Showers Likely
Maryland and Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia expect thundershowers and continued warmth on Wednesday. Eastern Pennsylvania will be partly cloudy with scattered thunder showers and higher temperatures in the north.
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Maryland
Pennsylvania
West Virgina
North
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