Corry Bush War Bond Drive Reaches $68,250 In City Sales
The Wings of Corry campaign reports Bond purchases in the city this month total $68,250, aiming to reach $180,000 or more to fund fighter plane ammunition and support anti aircraft efforts against German and Japanese forces. Weekly events include daily Rex theatre talks and a Molly Pitcher tag day slated for August 5 with Haakonbis to speak.
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Italy Near Revolt Mobs Plead For Peace
A chaotic scene as protests surge across Italy with calls for peace while rumors circulate of a Turkish mediation in upcoming peace talks. In Union City, 14-year-old Melvi Barstow died when lightning struck during a lakeside storm at Canadahia Lake on Tuesday afternoon. His brother survived, others were injured but recovered. Deputy Coroner T. W. Earnest ruled it accidental lightning shock. The victim leaves parents and two sisters. body taken to Glenn Undertaking Parlors for burial preparations.
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Glenn Undertaking
Germans Pressure Hungary to Stay in War Amid Balkan Front
Dispatches from Milan and Algiers report unrest and fighting as Italy withdraws into chaos. American forces advance along Sicily’s coast toward Messina with Cefalu and other towns fallen or under heavy shelling while German and Italian defenses tighten along the Mt. Bina line. Canadian troops push northeast from central Sicily, noting fierce resistance as Axis forces struggle to hold the island.
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Four Die As Pittsburgh Storm Ravages City
A July storm dumped over 3 inches of rain on Pittsburgh causing flooding up to six feet, stranding residents and halting transit. Four deaths were reported indirectly, with lightning striking the West Penn Power plant and widespread power outages plaguing Beaver, Mercer, and Allegheny counties. Rescue workers battled the aftermath as authorities prepared follow up reports.
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Allied Bombers Pound Hamburg
Allied air forces hammered Hamburg in a fourth straight night raid as British and American bombers struck the great German port and surrounding areas. Berlin claimed heavy losses for attackers, while RAF and US formations pressed daytime assaults across the channel.
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Fresh Attacks On Kiska Wake Amid Pacific Raids
Washington reports 19 attacks on Kiska Island over Monday and Tuesday as Pacific forces press Japanese defenses with unprecedented fury. Wake Island raided again, Liberators destroy several planes despite Zero interceptions. no American losses reported.
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Two Defense Plants Boost Blood Drive Total Reaches 168
Workers at Aero Supply plant failed to meet the quota so two other defense plants joined the drive. Arriving volunteers from Coens Wery and Corryadamestown Manufacturing aided the effort, bringing the day’s total to 168 with 126 rejections recorded.
Nazis Retake Retreat Near Orel as Reds Close In
Soviet dispatches say German forces burn villages and draft inhabitants as they fortify dugouts for a last stand around Orel on the central Russian front. Field Marshal von Buege’s army falls back while Red artillery disrupts Bryansk railway and Soviets push from two to four miles closer to the siege.
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Treasury Report Washington July 28 Receipts and balance
Treasury report shows receipts of 93,670,965.05 and net balance of 8,808,456,405 on July 26 with an increase of 592,042,081.48 over the previous day. Figures include total denominations and balances across the ledger, noting Lucey 282,505,007 19 and other entries.
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Short Wave Radio Stations Poised For Action In Case Of Emergency
Harrisburg reports that emergency short wave radio stations under local defense councils await activation by the War Emergency Radio Service. Licenses granted to eight locations in Pennsylvania including Allentown Bethlehem Erie Philadelphia and Montgomery County with applications received from Altoona Pittsburgh and York.
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Peaye Harbor
Allentown
Ashland
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Connellsville
Hirwood City
Erie
Haverford
Marple
Dela- Ware County
Lower Merion Township
Montgomery County
Philadelphia
Rochester
Warren County
Midland
Danville
Reading
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Lemoyne
Mercer County
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Spring City
York
Roosevelt to deliver major war address tonight on all fronts
Washington July 28 President Roosevelt prepared a first war report in a month and a half. He will speak at 9 30 p m eastern war time and said the talk would cover war activity at home and abroad with emphasis on the Mediterranean Pacific and skies over Europe. He cautioned about wage price manpower and production goals and indicated no change in unconditional surrender policy. He did not reveal Italy talks but hinted at the Italian situation may be touched. The White House denied an Office of War Information reference calling Vittorio Emanuele moronic little king and stressed the broad scope of the war effort.
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Soldiers Lost In Desert Two Dead In Army Report
Camp Young California July 23 A desert maneuver in the waterless southern waste of California and Arizona left two soldiers dead with a third missing presumed dead. The rest of the platoon was rescued, according to a brief military release.
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Corry Group Bids Farewell Before Army Training
A large crowd of relatives and friends gathered at the station last night to bid farewell to another Corry group heading to New Cumberland for U S Army training camps. Social Board No 3 sent about thirty more to the assignment center, roughly half from Corry.
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Fail To Link Bromley With Lake Slaying
Days of questioning failed to tie Prank Bromley to the Beutel slaying of Linga Wilkinson in Harbordeck district. Bromley, 21, already jailed for burglary and assault, faces a possible return to prison. authorities say they have not eliminated him and will press the case to solve the baffling murder.
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Ruckus Over Foreign Policy Split in GOP Emerges
A GOP dispute over postwar foreign policy becomes public as leaders from the Republican Pastoral Policy Association accuse isolationists of weakening party unity. Chicago and New York officials push for strong cooperation resolutions to be debated at the Postwar advisory council meeting on Mackinac Island, Michigan, September 5 to 7.
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Berlin and Rome war reports on July updates
Late wires from London, Manila, and Rome detail clashes between Japanese and American forces near the Pacific, and routes through Rome show German movements with Italian troop convoys. Arrests by Gestapo target Catholic student activity in southern Germany as Italy reorganizes under a new fascist leadership. Six men remain trapped in a mine in Allegheny County after a flood blocked the entrance.
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Indecisive Signals Trigger Air Raid Alert Confusion
Civil defense chief Walter JH Scott reports a near double alarm during a blackout drill as five minor infractions marked the alert. Nine messengers and 201 air raid wardens mobilized while a 1 12 signal caused misreading before the true alert at 1 00. Dr Ralph Cooper Hutchinson explains the test aimed to gauge response amid a flood emergency in Pittsburgh.
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Three Contests for County Posts in GOP Primary
The GOP county primary features three contests for county posts with Santesis seeking county commissioner treasurer and coroner on the Republican ticket. Incumbents fall short and four Republicans vie for two commissioner seats while Democratic incumbent Thomas W. Flatley is unopposed. Additional races include Republican candidates for county treasurer and coroner with multiple contenders and several unopposed Republican offices reflecting a crowded slate.
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