Tornado Death Toll Rises Across West Virginia
A massive tornado from Pennsylvania killed at least 102 people across central West Virginia with about 400 injured and 200 in critical condition. Clarksburg and Fairmont reported many deaths and Shinnston suffered severe damage as the storm extended into Maryland. Search for victims continued.
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Shinnston
West Virginia
Clarksburg
W. Va
Fairmont
Harrison County
Pennsylvania
Mary
40 Known Dead in Pennsylvania Tornado Toll Rises
Weary rescue teams in rain sought more victims after a tornado devastated parts of southwest Pennsylvania West Virginia and Maryland. The toll stood at 145 dead and hundreds hurt with 107 in West Virginia 40 in Pennsylvania and three in Maryland. Red Cross and federal state relief units operated as hospitals overflowed and communities searched for missing loved ones. The twister uprooted trees and destroyed homes as soldiers civilian defense workers and police aided in relief operations.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Maryland
McKeesport
Shinnston
W. Va
Tne
West Virinia
Red Cross
Republicans Get Us In Chicago For Convention
Chicago June 24 AP Republicans converge on Chicago for their first wartime convention since 1864 amid talk of a Dewey Warren ticket. Delegates pour in pace hotels and bars as caucuses form with California TM votes Pennsylvania 70 Illinois 59. Bricker and Dewey HQs wage all out fight for delegates with possible shifts before the convention.
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Chicago
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Earl Warren
California
United States
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Dewey
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Bricker
Rep
Joseph W. Martin
Massachusetts
Warren
Martin
Harrison E. Spangler
Resolutions Committee
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Clarence Brown
American Troops Close In For Knock-out Blow At Cherbourg
American carrier bombers and fighters reported sinking five Japanese ships and destroying 72 enemy planes in raids within 800 miles of Tokyo. The push targeted Iwo Pagan Rota and Saipan, with U S Marines advancing on Garapan Laulau and Mt Tapotchau as airfields at Tinian Shumushu were neutralized.
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Cherbourg
U. S. Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Tokyo
Nippon
Saipan
Iwo Island
Kazan Group
Bonins
Tillian Pagan
Rota
Merianes
Medan
Tinian Island
Pagan
U. S
Magicienne Bay
Navy
Shumushu
Kuriles
Carc
Nes
Marshalls
Garapan
Laulau
Mt. Tapotchau
Barneville Normandy Town Scene Under Firelight
Ernie Pyle reports Barneville a seaside town in Normandy with an army truck in a public square and several American soldiers on guard. Local French authorities speak with a help of a single English speaking woman as crowds react to German threats nearby.
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Barneville
Normandy
Relatives Hunt Morgues For Storm Victims
In S iinston West Virginia a large storeroom becomes a public morgue as families view tornado victims. A town of 2 800 people reels after 101 dead and 35 homes leveled. Red Cross aid, free storage, and shelter support flow from nearby Clarksburg and Clarksburg firms.
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Gaiinston
Red Cross
Clarkspurg
Clarksburg
Surburban
Pleasant Hill
Nazis Threaten Reprisals After Alleged Prisoner Shootings
London reports Nazi headquarters claim German prisoners in the Cherbourg area were shot while wearing uniform or recognizable badges. If true the command warns ten U S prisoners of war will be shot for each German murder. The note follows Eden's mass murder remark and claims of Allied airmen lynching.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Normandy
United States
High Command
DNB
Cherhoure
Anthony Eden
RAF
U. S
Germany
Supreme Command
Cherbourg
Todt Organization
Reich Labor Service
Evry
Eden
Commons
England
Berlin
Goebbels
Gore Slaying Case Ends With Prison Term
Joe Gore, 68, labeled a Negro, was sentenced in Hinton West Virginia to five to 18 years for a 32 year old Christmas party killing. Judge Mark L. Jarrett set the minimum term with 75 days credit and noted Gore’s alias Thomas Mann and Lima Ohio employment history. The case involved the 16 year old victim Thomas Agee.
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Hinton
W. Va
Joe Gore
Mark L. Jarrett
Gore
Thomas Mann
Lima
Charleston
West Virginia
Thomas Agee
Allied air attack destroys Japanese planes on Yap
Advanced Allied Headquarters reports twenty two Japanese planes grounded on Yap after a U S air strike. Liberators also hit Yap southwest of the Marianas, dropping 33 tons of ordnance on June 22, with twelve planes destroyed or damaged.
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New Guinea
Yap
Marianas
Pvt Sutphin Killed in Action on Anzio Beachhead
Pvt James E. Sutphin of Wyco was killed in action in Italy on May 14 1944 while serving with the Fifth Army on the Anzio beachhead. overseas since June 10 1942 he fought in North Africa Sicily and southern Italy and reportedly saved two fellow soldiers. He is survived by his mother in Bland Va two sisters Mrs Lawrence Worley Wyco and Miss Riley Sutphin Bland and was nephew of K N Stowers and Mrs G B Mathena.
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James E. Sutphin
Wyco
Clyde Dalton
Bland
Italy
War Department
Sutphin
Anzio
Fifth Army
Lawrence Worley
Riley Sutphin
Pvt
K. N. Stowers
G. B. Mathena
Eton
Russians Break Through Nazi Defenses Near Vitebsk
Soviet troops widened their fronts around the fortified town of Vitebsk in White Russia with two new break throughs reported yesterday. The advances come as Soviet forces press Nazi defenses extending the front about 150 miles.
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London
Hitler
Russia
White Russia
Vitebsk
Soviet offensives expand in White Russia gains near Vitebsk
Stalin issued three special orders and a nightly communique announcing dramatic Fronts gains in White Russia. Soviet forces reportedly breached German lines up to 9.5 miles deep over a 12.5 mile front with breakthroughs toward Orsha and Mogilev and advances up to 25 miles northwest and 15 miles southeast of Vitebsk.
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Basse Wty Aten
Kewanee Weeny
Stalin
Vitebsk
Orsha
Mogilev
White Russia
Germans Raid Shuttle Base
German air force raided two Russian airdromes used in shuttle bombing by American heavy bombers. Three crewmen were killed and a number of American planes destroyed. The raids targeted fields used by Italian and Britain based bombers in shuttle operations over axis targets.
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Washington
Europe
War Department
Department
Russia
Poltava
Ukraine
Nazis Put Fresh Armor Into Italy
Rome reports Allied forces push into central Italy as French Fifth Army advances to the Ombrone river six miles northeast of Roccastrada after overrunning Roccastrada itself. Western coastal fighting resumes near Pallonica amid heavy German artillery as air raids strike Romania.
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Fifth Army
Rome
Italy
Ombrone
Fifth
Roccastrada
Pisa
Combrone
Albert Kesselring
Pallonica
U. S
Ploesti Oi
Romania
Mercer County Reaches Halfway Mark in War Loan Drive
Mercer county reports half the Fifth War Loan quota achieved with 1 791 354 25 toward 3 382 000 00 through June 21 22. County must buy 1 590 645 75 more by July 8 to meet its target. E bond receipts total 296 568 75 leaving a 682 431 25 short of the E quota.
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Mercer County
Hugh Ike Shott
Mercer County Finance Committee
Federal Reserve
Richmond
Cleveland
Ohio
Twe
Shott
E” Pond
O. M. Dawson
Norfolk and Western Railway Company
Bluefield
B. F. Goodrich Company
E. W. Harris
Women’s
Mercer County War Finance Committee
S. S. Kresge Company
Raleigh
Federal Streets
F. W. Woolworth Company
Princeton Avenue
Americans Close on Cherbourg After Fierce Fighting
American shock troops push within 1000 yards of Cherbourg's southern city limits as they breach German defenses amid black smoke and exploding ammunition dumps. British forces foil a German sea escape while U S and Allied artillery and air support pound the city.
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Gladwin Hill Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Cherbourg
Don Whitehead
Associated Press
Whitehead
Pointblank Range
Jurors Return 61 Indictments in Bluefield Grand Jury
During the Jans term of the U S district court in Bluefield West Virginia the grand jury returned 61 true bills of indictments and was excused until further notice by Judge Ben Moore. Petit jurors are to report Monday at 10 am. Five indicted for gasoline rationing violations pleaded guilty with sentences from three to four months or fines.
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U. S. District Court of the
Southern District of
West Virginia
Bluefield
Ben Moore
Moore
Blueeld
Presons
Joseph Arthur Barta
Elbert
Mill Point
Pocahontas County
Fauntleroy Todd Reed
Margaret Barnes
Welch
Alderson
Hattie Lee Bowles
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Legions
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BY Leif Erickson
Ernie Pyle
Charles Armentrouts
Iinston
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Vitebsk-Mogilev
Gestoniag
Latvia
Lithuania
Poland
Velikie
County
Mercer
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