Landing at Night in Australian Bush with Kurtz Heroic Flight
A battered air crew recounts Fortunes of a forced landing in remote bush country as Frank Kurtz saves the day. The bomber touched down on rocks, escaping with fuel nearly exhausted. After landing, rough bush and mosquitoes plagued the crew until a relay plan for gasoline and relief formed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Kurtz
Kurtz
Royce
Harry
Gen. Royce
Frankie
United Nations
Johnson
Capitol Hil
Obituary notices from several West Virginia deaths
Funeral services are set for multiple individuals including Mrs. Virginia E Bostic 74 at Harewood and burial at Ward cemetery. Effie Louise Davis 62 of Spring Hill to be laid to rest at Harden and Harden chapel. Sarah Elizabeth Lege 66 of Chandler's branch to be buried at Legg cemetery. Benjamin Thomas Harper 60 of St. Albans to be buried at Mt. Tabor cemetery. Samuel Spicer 43 to be buried in Spring Hill cemetery. Edward Pritt 60 of near Sissonville to be buried in family cemetery. Josephine Y Johnson 77 of near St Albans to be remembered at Rehobeth Baptist church funeral. Sarah Catherine Jessee 10 of St Albans dying yesterday to be buried at Turley cemetery. Infant Ida Elizabeth Tittle of Ruffner hollow died yesterday. E C Sampson 58 of Huntington to be buried in Huntington. Mary C Whitman 61 of Beech avenue to be buried at Spring Hill cemetery. Andrew B Charles 33 of Dunbar to be buried in New Lexington after services at Hardman and Hardman chapel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia E, Bostic
Virginia E. Bastic
Harewood
Ward
B.C. Hooper
Effie Louise Davis
Spring Hill
Harden and Harden Mortuary
Hy. P. Woodson
Spring Hill Coryete
Sarah
Elizabeth Lege
Chandler's
Legg Cemetery
Rey
Hosen D. Fisher
Noble Long Mortuary
Benjamin
Thomas Harper
St. Alvans
Holiness
Church of God
Highlawn
Ezra Johnson
Mt. Tabor
Bartlett's Mortuary
St. Albans
Samuel Spicer
Cunningham Mortuary
Henel
C. Cannon
Spring Hill Cemetery
Josephine Y. Johnson
Josephine Virginia Johnson
George Thacler
Walter Meadows
Fred Johnson
Charleston
William Lovine
Mt. Crab
Thacker
Cunningham's Mortuary
Rehobeth Baptist Church
Tackett's Creek
George Hartwell
Jarrett Bailey
Shepherd Cemetery
Siemia
Sarah Catherine Jessee
A. B. Barnett
Fifth Avenue
J. £. Myers
Turley
Bartlett
Barnett
W. M. Stone
C. C. Jessee
Mary C. Whitman
Miles Wills
Beech Avenue
Charles Whitman
Charles Walker
Zume
Holda Whitman
Minden
Joe
Nuttallburg
Ray
Ralph
William Bryson
Hico
Baptist Temple
Strother A. Campbell
B. T. Trevey
Andrew B. Charles
Dunbar
Fletcher Enamel Company
Henry Charles
Hardman and Hardman
Clay
Hunt
Traub
New Lexington
Fred Harmele
Thomas Madson
Melbert Hudnall
Mammoth
Marian Reed
Hartland
Charles Dolson
Akron
Benther
George Charles
New Philadelhi
Scrap Rubber Collection Begins At Nation's Filling Stations
Washington June 14 report notes Sen. Butler urges breaking War Production Board bottleneck to rely on grain alcohol for synthetic rubber. He warns current petroleum path delays tire supply until 1944, and a grain plant could produce rubber in nine months, aiding 20 million cars. WPB and agencies organize 12,000 local salvage committees to collect scrap rubber nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sen. Butler
R.neb
Roosevelt
Butler
War Production Board
Pearl Hubor
Bureau of Industrial Conservation
Wee Production Board
Federal Petroleum Coordinator
Petroleum Industry War Council
Lessing J. Rosenwald
RIC Wil Play
Washington
America
Boy Scouts
WPB
U S Bombers Pictured Set to Defend Caucasus
Berlin radio quotes Madrid on reports of a German landing on the Caucasus coast as secrecy surrounds W S bombers in Turkey. Three crew wounded near Izmit after a bomber landed, with Allies mobilizing in Iran and Syria to aid the Soviet Union and deter a German move toward the Middle East.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Caucasus
Berlin
Kerch
Middle East
Madrid
Ankara
Russian
Crimea
ABC
British Empire
Soviet Union
Turkey
W. S
Washington
London
Point
Ploesti
Black Sea
Syria
Izmit
The
Bosporus
Istanbul
Russia
Iran
Wreck in Seaboard Division Kills Eight and Injures Ten
Eight people die and ten are injured after a Seaboard wreck in the Virginia division near Henderson. The fatalities include Pet. Sullivan of Fairview Mass and Kirshman of Brooklyn. Victims were taken to Henderson for burial or treatment. most injuries are minor. Police and coroner weigh whether shooting near the scene was self inflicted or a homicide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
H. M. Terrell
Virginia
Seaboard Airline
Terrell
Railway Division
Hubert Horton
Horton
Roy Banks
Henderson
Pet. Sullivan
Fairview
Mass
Kirshman
Brooklyn
Walter R. Rau
Baltimore
Thomas E. Carley
Rutherford
N. J
John Service
N. C
Edna Warneck
Barbara Usman
Hempstead
M. Y
Ruth Ebyler
Sieges and Front Reports Grow Turbulent in Crimea and Murmansk
A Soviet communique highlights heavy Nazi losses as 99 tanks and 200 supply trucks are knocked out, while Barents Sea actions see a Soviet ship sinking two transports totaling 15,000 tons. Murmansk endures five raids with eight attackers shot down, and locals defend Sevastopol amid a siege described as the Russian Troy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sevastopol
Barents Sea
Murmansk
Leningrad
Ukraine
Kharkov
Tass
Task
Moscow
Red Star
Crimean
Troy
Hisetory
Sevastopal
Pravda
Flag Day Observance Held in Charleston
A Charleston Flag Day observance featured a B’nai B’rith ceremony with colors by John Brawley Legionnaires and state guard, pledge, songs, and remarks by Dr. Joseph Abrams and Leo Loeb. Invited guests included judges, military officers, and Charleston Daily Mail staff. U. S. Sen Kilgore urged a peacetime department of supply. 35 men joined the U S Navy in Clarksburg. a Morgantown war bond booth and Monongah treasury lag presentation were noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B'nai B'rith
John Brawley
Leo Loeb
Comdr
J. E. Rech
America
The
Assembly
Rev
Joseph ©. Hoffman
Frank A. Baer
John C. Bond
Frank Greenlee
A. P. Hudson
Selective Service Board
H. L. Brown
U.S. N
W. A. Saunders
H. C. Cox
U.S.A
Dawson
Lee Ray Smith
John Brawley Post
H. E. Grace
Charleston Gazette
H. D. Thurmond
Charleston Daily Mail
F'nai B'rith
Charles and
Paul Aaron
Manuel Abromowitz
Irving Adler
Jack Baker
David Bass
Charles
Harry Beckenstein
Harry A. Bergman
Zander Biltzer
Julius Boiarsky
David Borstein
Ben Brecker
Irving
William Brown
Charles Brownstein
Julian G. Budnick
Milton Caplan
Robert Diznoff
Ted Eiland
Sam Ferlmer
Charles Fisher
Anatol Feanz
William Freedman
Dan Glassman
Max Goldfarb
Herman Goldstein
Bernard Gottlieb
Mike Gudnick
al Hallen
Hershel Hark
Dack
Richard Herman
Meyer Kahn
Sam Kanner
Joseph Kataeff
Paul Kaufman
Harry Lazaroff
Morton Levin
Armand
Morton Levy
Robert Loeb
Stanley Loewenakin
Bert
J. L. Margolis
Associated Press
United States
West Virginia
U. S
Harley M. Kilgore
W. Va
Clarksburg
Department of Supply
U.S
Morgantown
Monongah
Treasury
Star Spangled Banner Valued in War Bond Effort
Road Commissioner Ernest J Bailey spoke in a program by the Daughters of the American Revolution praising the Star Spangled Banner. He cited its history as a force for liberty and democracy and its influence beyond the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest J. Bailey
Daughters of the American Revolution
Nations Celebrate Flag Day Across Allied Lands
Allied and exile leaders praised unity and relief efforts as crowds paraded in London and Scottish cities. Monarchs and diplomats joined, with flags flying from public buildings. Mexico, Moscow, Chungking, New Delhi, and Cairo marked United Nations Day with marches, parades, and flag ceremonies highlighting unity and resolve against the Axis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
London
George
Queen Elizabeth
Buckingham Palace
Royal
Haskon
Norway
Peter
AEF
Mexico
Moscow
Izvestia
United States of America
United States
Russia
Britain
Publc
Chungking
Wid
Chiang Kuai- Shek
New Delhi
India
Hnlf
Vice-Roy
FDR Urges Allies to End Tyranny of Warlords
President Franklin D Roosevelt appeals to Axis powers to abandon tyrannical rulers and grant freedom from want and fear. He envisions nations united under democracy with free speech and religion, bread, justice, and security for all, invoking a UN alliance and a Benet prayer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
America
Stephen Vincent Benel
God of the Free
7 Airmen on Rafts Reach Indian Coast After Bay of Bengal Drift
Seven airmen survived a crash in the Bay of Bengal and drifted on improvised rafts for four days. They landed on an uninhabited island to ration water, found no food, and lashed the rafts together to sail toward India. A capsizing sea surge briefly endangered them before they reached the coast at dusk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay of Bengal
India
Negroes Get War Jobs in U S Orders
Washington June 14 a presidential committee ruled that two AFL unions in Chicago barred Negroes from major defense projects. It ordered changes by June 16 and found the agreements violated Roosevelt orders and denied Negro workers equitable participation in the defense program. The case centers on Local 597 Steamfitters and Local 120 Chicago Journeymen Plumbers and their contractor ties at Great Lakes naval station and Cabrini housing project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
AFL
Chicago
Roosevelt
Committee On Fair Employment Practices
Steamfitters Protective Association
Chicago Journeymen Plumbers Union
Negro Plumbers
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Enemy Seen Holding One Aleutian Island
American pilots reported fog and limited sight of the sea surface for over 24 hours near the Aleutians. Eastward at Kiska, enemy ships were sighted but deemed of little strategic importance. Kiska, once a U. S. coaling station, had been largely abandoned. castaways were rescued by friendly natives. Lt. Col. Conrad Necrason coordinated recovery of missing men with veteran pilot Charles Sharpe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiska
U. S
Conrad Necrason
Cooperstown
Charles Sharpe
Piles Relieved At Home Assertion By Dr Johnson Clinic
Piles relief claim from Dr. O A Johnson Rectal Clinic promotes a home treatment for uncomplicated piles after 26 years of practice. The advertisement offers free information by writing to Dent. 908 1924 Main St Kansas City Missouri for details and cure guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Johnson
Pr. Johnson
Hind
O A. Johnson
Johnson
Fis
Dr. O. A. Johnson
Dent
Main St
Kanens City
Nelson Warns U S Of New Sacrifices In War Aid
Nelson head of the War Production Board warns Americans production is booming but hardships are ahead. He says we have not started to pay yet and must endure inconveniences as daily life adjusts during the war. He notes 800 war plants with harmonious management labor committees and rejects doom predictions. Victory is assured but the road will be hard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitler
Nelson
War Production Board
Roosevelt
Gen Emmons Sees Japan Sun Setting in Pacific War
In Honolulu speakers including Gen Emmons and Gen Hale declare Midway a major defeat for the Japanese navy. Lt Col Brook Allen led bomber command in Midway. Hale cautions the struggle continues and the Allied victory is not the final chapter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
Honolulu
Willis A. Hale
Brook Allen
Wellington
N. C
Bomber Command
Midway
Hale
Chinese harass Japanese in Kiangsi front advances and heavy losses
Chinese forces press flanks of Japanese positions along the Cheklang border region in Kiangsi and near Nanchang and Wanling. Dozens of Japanese killed in counterattacks as Chinese harassing drives widen. Japanese northern thrusts in Can ton area report tear gas use but heavy casualties and retreats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inege
Cheklang
Kwangfeng
Yustan
Domei
Thailand
Bangkon
China
Mong Kouk
Kengtung
Anyi
Nanchang
Waning
Canton
Kwangtung Province
Rommel Near Tobruk Offensive Presses West Coast
British units around Acroma hold the sea approaches as Rommel’s spearhead advances near Tobruk. RAF reports say Ritchie’s tanks block access to the sea west of the Tobruk fortifications while Axis forces regain footholds on the escarpment west of the coastal plain. Supplies reach El Gazala and Knightsbridge, with Tobruk not yet shelled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acroma
Neil M. Ritchie
Britain
Tobruk
Fee
Bir Hacheim
Tobrek
el Gazala
Knightsbridge
Rommel
Sidi Rezegh
Hale States Chapter Written As Americans Wanted
General Hale described the episode as a chapter written the way Americans wanted it, signaling a communal framing of events and public sentiment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gen. Hale
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Samuel Anderson
General Staff Corps
Edwin Perrin
Custer
N. D
W. B. Courtney
New York Magazine
Kurt
Marvin MacAdam
Harry Schreiber
Galveston
Tex
Ibis
Mac
Courtney Beieved
Col. Anderson
Sarah Elizabeth Lege
Benjamin T. Harper
Edward Pritt
Sissonville
Ida Elizabeth
William Tittle
Ruffner Hollow
George Tittle
E. C. Sampson
Walter Holstein
Pikeville, Ky
E. C
Joe" Sampson
Alice Rand Sampson
W. T. Weber
Huntington
H. ©. Curry
Richmond, Va
Senate Banking Committee
COHEN
DuPont
Palani & Glass Co
Ats
Seaboard
FDR
Aleutian Island
U. 8
Gen. Emmons
Japan
Kiangsi
Drs. Collins & Collins
Quarrier St
Medical Arts
Jong
Ade
Laird Office Equipment Co
Atlas Bldg
Quarriar
Dunbar St
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