Honus Wagner to Attend War Bond Drive in June
First Day War Bond sales reached 29405 with local favoriting of Honus Wagner, famed Pirates shortstop, as he plans to visit on June 26 to support the bond campaign. Oldtime Corryites recall his early Oil and Iron League days and July Fourth events, while Roosevelt’s stance on Japan fuels enthusiasm for the drive. Also noted is the first commercial tungsten mining in North Carolina.
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Ilisburgh Pirates
Honus Waxner
Pirates
Honus
Warren
Promoted Air Corps Officer Heads Italian Traffic Section
Elmer L. Kincaid Jr 3 years after enlisting in the Air Corps rose from lieutenant to lieutenant colonel and now leads the traffic section in Italy. Son of E L Kincaid of 605 North Center Street, he previously spent five years in The Transcontinental and Western Air Lines New York office, gaining valuable experience for his theater role. A recent promotion letter reached his father within five days of writing.
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Powell Motor Co
Ater
Wi Air Corps
Elmer L. Kincaid, Jr
E. L. Kincaid
North Center Strees
New York
Transcontinental and
Western Airlines
Kinesld
Air Corps
Italy
Spencer
Tadites
T. J. Pullom
Jamestown
Alton Ehgwall
Dunkirk
Justice of the
Howard Iskab Felconer
Cays
Mayville
Milk
Sigfred Bernard
Falconer
Hns City Court
Reports claim Germans tortured paratroopers after Normandy landings
NBC reporter Stanley Richardson said in London that there is disputable evidence the Germans tortured or murdered American paratroopers during the early hours of D day. He cited three bodies found near a former German post with hands bound and stripped, a lieutenant with throat cut, and a major with multiple stab wounds.
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Associated Press
New York
Stanley Richardson
NBC
London
Normandy
Richardson
America Airborne Division
Caren~tan
Oil City Flier Downs S6th Plane SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
Lt. Col. Francis S. Gabreski of Oil City Pa. claims 26 German planes shot down in the air battle over Eyreux as he led a Thunderbolt squadron. He credits Lt. William N. Heaton of Hendersonville NC with saving his life during the dogfight.
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Oil City
Associated Press Supreme Headquarters
Anmd
Francis S. Gabreski
William N. Heaton
Hendersonvile
N. C
Gabreski
Eyreux
Montebourg Falls to US Forces in Normandy Drive
American troops on the Cherbourg peninsula advanced past Carentan toward Montebourg as heavy fighting raged across Normandy. Allied air power pounded German airfields while rains hampered visibility and German reinforcements rushed toward Cherbourg to stem the advance.
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WiWge
Paris
Lowmay
Cherbourg
Romiel
St. Lo
Corley Forest
Tully
Yester
Carentan
Montebourg
Nore
Supreme Headquarters
Pont Au Bault
Avranches
Gernan
Allied forces press in Normandy amid fresh fighting and cargo delays
Allied communique reports German E boats active in the English Channel but weaker in tonnage than before. Beachhead now runs about 60 miles inland with Cerisy forest cleared by American tanks and infantry, while Carentan is captured reducing the Cherbourg peninsula reach and tightening the sea-to-land corridor.
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Ward
Cven
Forest of Cerisy
Normandy Beach
St. Bo
Carentan
Cherbourg
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LA France
Satina
Bowlene
BBC
Wing-Willi Star Stores
Roosevelt
North Carolina
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the National Bank OF Corry
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Hetare Iney
Ferinus
Venice
Slediro
Powell Motor Company
Rowland
Corry - Springs Creek Road
Jamestown War Price and Ration Board
Ralph Swenson
Office of Price Administration
Swenson
Central Agency
Sheffield
Reed R. McMillen
W. A. McMillen
McMillen
B. P. O. Ellis
Warreh
Julius Johnson
Jefferson
Anni Lafason
Pennsylvania Avenue
The
Free Poland Society
WEW
Ernest Stanfeld
Wial
Morell
East
B. P. O Ellis
Lodge
Titusville
Minke
Citizens Patriotic Committee
Holly's
V.F.W. Ansilinty
Bracken-Keating Funeral
Alfred Rauscher
Post Home
Golden Links
Methodist
Earl Hasbrowers
Liberty Street
Goris Hospits
Joseph Ficcardi
East Main
Betty
Peter Russell
West Wayne Street
Harland Burlingame
Harland Burlingame, Jr
Corry
Sadie R. Salmon
W. B.C
Masonic Hall
Franklin
Grant Myers
Jeff
Kaneville
Myers
North Corry Emblemot
Columbus Ave
Armitagh
Healom Amy
Pennsylvania
United States Employment Service
Ag, Cathy Apr
Hetty Fair
Clapp's
Beechnut
U.S
Cherbourg Peninstal
Tidy-SurBeulles
Caen
Berlin
Orne River
Neal Ling
Cherisy Forest
Woodlands
Tilly-Sur-Seulles
Jaifel
Jk Vilaur
Crefer Hams
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