Pittsburgh Area Tornado Toll Tops 133
A tornado-like storm ripped across southwestern Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia, killing at least 133 people and injuring hundreds. West Virginia 95 dead, Pennsylvania 35, Maryland 3. Towns including McKeesport and Shinnston were hit hard, with entire blocks leveled and hospitals overwhelmed. Rescue crews, Red Cross teams, and military medical units aided in search and relief as power lines failed and roads blocked by debris hindered recovery efforts.
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Cedar Rapids Weekend Weather Outlook
Cloudy and warmer conditions expected in Cedar Rapids Sunday with partly cloudy skies. Saturday temperatures reached 87 degrees with humidity around 38 percent. Friday’s high was 83 and Onawa hit 92. No precipitation was reported in Iowa Friday.
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Onawa
Scouts Active as Linn Bond Drive Ends 2nd Week
Linn county War Loan drive nears completion as Boy Scouts Sea Scouts and Cub Scouts continue solicitation in Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas. Friday sales update expected in The Gazette. total pledges reach 43,060 with Troop 25 leading at 8,125 and Cub Packs 12 and 6 at 2,075 and 1,900 respectively. Nationwide drive reports 56.2 million in two weeks, including 20.4 million in series E bonds.
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Linn
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
John Bormann
Bormann
Irene
Bormann Way Conductors of America
Vernon L. Clark
Des Moines
Pfc Otto Novak Killed in Italy
Pfc Otto F Novak 21, son of Mr and Mrs James V Novak of 1201 Second St SE, was killed in action June 5 in Italy. Inducted Dec 26 1942, overseas since May 1943, he served in a tank battalion in North Africa before Italy. A McKinley high school graduate, he worked in the I C B I supreme office and was born in Wausau Wisconsin. Survived by parents and three brothers Lewis of Cedar Rapids George in England and Lt Elroy Novak in Louisville. He was engaged to Miss Maxine Valenta daughter of Mrs Anthony Just of Walker.
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Otto F. Novak
James V. Novak
Second Street
Italy
Novak
North Africa
McKinley High School
I.C.B.I. Supreme Office
Wausau
Wis
Lewis Novak
Cedar Rapids
George Novak
England
Elroy Novak
Louisville, Ky
Maxine Valenta
Thirtieth Street
Anthony Just
Walker
Reds Driving To Surround Nazi Bastion
Premier Stalin announced a major advance northwest of Vitebsk in White Russia extending the breakthrough to 50 miles. Russian forces reportedly cut railways, liberated over 150 towns, and pressed toward encircling the fortress as part of the Teheran agreed master plan to defeat Germany. German lines from Pskov to Mogilev were said to flare into action while Soviet war activity widened on the Svir front and around the Baltic region.
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Warsaw
Baltic States
Dvina
Riga
Baltic
Orsha
Leonid A. Govorov
Svir
Ladoga
Japs Close In on Hengyang Junction in China
The Associated Press reports Japanese forces closed in on the Hengyang rail junction as Fourteenth Air Force fighters strafed the area. Allied aircraft also damaged a troop-laden steamer at Chuchow, Bewee northwest of Chuchow, as part of offensive operations.
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Chuchow
Bewee
Jap Carrier Sunk or Damaged in Philippine Sea Battle
In a Friday communique Admiral Nimitz said a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Shokaku class was likely sunk by three torpedoes from an American submarine during the June 18-19 Philippine Sea battle. The report raises Japanese carrier losses to five sunk or damaged, with other carriers heavily crippled or damaged and air losses mounting to at least 370 planes over two days.
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Tourlaville
Yanks Fight Up Saipan Cliffs in Rugged Terrain
On Saipan's Tapotchau, American marines and soldiers pressed uphill through jungle cliffs in a fierce fight for terrain and positions near Laulau and the Magicienne Bay area. Artillery rules the southern island. Chamorros and civilians surrender as Nippon forces retreat from coastal plains to defend rugged ridgelines.
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Accident Fatal to Gilbert R. Person in South Pacific
News of the accidental death on the South Pacific June 19 reports Gilbert Raymond Person, 26, aviation machinist mate second class, U S Navy. His mother Mrs. Anna M. Person and his brother Carl Edward Person, an apprentice seaman, survive. Prior to enlistment he worked for Eddy Paper Corporation in Cedar Rapids.
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South Pacific
Gilbert Raymond Person
United States Navy
Anna M. Person
Ran Randall Jacobs
Naval Personnel
Carl Edward Person
Navy
Gilbert Person
Eddy Paper Corporation
Cedar Rapids
Japs Report U S Air Raid on Guam
Tokyo radio reported Saturday that 60 American carrier planes attacked Guam Friday and claimed 15 were shot down. The broadcast also said Japanese planes heavily damaged two United States carriers off Saipan Friday.
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Associated Press
Tokyo Radio
Guam
United States
Saipan
William Caldwell Killed in English Airplane Crash
First Lt. William J. Caldwell Jr. of 1717 Maple Drive NW was killed June 10 in England in an army air forces airplane accident. He was commissioned in the air corps and wings earned February 1943. A McKinley High School graduate, he attended Iowa State College before enlisting and married March 6, 1943 in San Antonio, Texas.
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William J. Caldwell
Maple Drive
England
Army Air Forces
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Secretary of War
William J. Caldwell, Jr
Air Corps
Lakefield
Ariz
McKinley High School
Iowa State College
San Antonio
Texas
Fremont, Neb
Convoy Hit Thwarts German Escape From Cherbourg
Allied motor torpedo boats sank or damaged five of seven merchantmen attempting to flee Cherbourg as American forces reached within about a mile of the port. German defenses showed signs of crumbling while heavy bombardment and ground assault drove fighters back toward the sea. About 1,200 prisoners were reported captured in 24 hours as Cherbourg defenses buckled under relentless artillery and air strikes.
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HDQ
Cherbourg
High Command
Channel Islands
Octeville
Associated
Don Whitehead
Autes
Wi‘hin
Whitehead
Normandy
Bernard L. Montgomery
Caen
Honorine la
Omar N. Bradley
Nine Jap Craft Sunk In New Guinea Area
MACARTHUR'S HDQ New Guinea The sinking of a Jap freighter transport five coastal vessels and three barges in a bombing attack by Allied planes near Sorong bay in western New Guinea was revealed Saturday Gen MacArthur announces American air and sea units are preventing Japan from evacuating trapped troops on New Guinea With few ports remaining in Japanese hands Fifth Air Force bombers hit shipping behind the Miadot nation peninsula Ground forces on Biak Island killed 205 Japanese in mopping up operations on the newly won area.
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HDQ
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INS
Sorong Bay
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Biak
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Aslito Airfield
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David Lawrence
Drew Pearson
Walter Winchell
Gilbert R. Person
William Caldwell
William Caldwell, JR
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