Industrial Display At West Penn Offices Opens Next Wednesday
Industrial display from the B and O Railroad and the Fairmont Coal Bureau opens next Wednesday July 5 at West Penn offices in Grafton. The exhibit features cabinet style samples with an illuminated map of the B&O’s coal fields and is free to the public through July 15. The Fairmont-Pittsburgh coal region material, staff experts, and consultation are highlighted for plant design and combustion issues.
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Grafton
Ingee
Jore ‘& Ohio Railroad
West Virginia
Rails Company
Fairmont Coal Bureau
B&o
Coal Bureau
Fairmont
Pittsburgh
Bureau
New York City
Railroad Company
Monongahela
King Coal
GraftHe
Baltimore
Monongahela System
Parkersburg
Clarksburg
Morgantown
Finland breaks with Russia and allies with Germany
Finland entered a complete alliance with Germany ending hopes for a Russo Finnish peace. The Helsinki government announced the shift on Tuesday, a move that finally prompted approval from President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull after months of posturing to persuade Finland to quit the war.
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Finland
Russia
Helsinki
Germany
Roosevelt
Hull
Unusual Photo Through Friedmans Window Marks Memory
A long ago image shows XYZ Cleavenger in a Main Street show window at Friedmans Jewelry. The 52 year old picture captures him in a new suit bought at Friedmans Brothers Clothing and notes a $20 gold piece tag. The suit, a single pair of pants, dates from when he was seven.
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Xyz
Friedman's
Main Street
Xyz Cleavenger
Friedman Brothers
Max
West Virginia streams offer fair fishing across many counties
The report notes Morgan, Lewis, Greenbrier, Fayette, Wyoming and other counties including Pendleton, Logan, Braxton, Randolph, Brooke, Monroe, Nicholas, Hancock, Wetzel, Preston, Gilmer, Boone, Tucker, Mineral and nearby areas show fair fishing. It cites a 1944 survey estimating Canada’s industrial workers at about three and a half million.
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Guntimea
Morgan, Lewis Greenbrier
Fayette
Wyoming
Pendleton
Logan
Braxton
Randolph
Brooke
Monroe
Nicholas
Hancock, Wetzel
Preston
Gilmer
Boone
Tucker
Mineral
Canada
Service Flag Dedication at First Baptist Church
A Sunday 5 p m service will dedicate a unique service flag with 94 blue stars and two gold stars honoring Kenneth Shaw and Winder Withers killed in action. The event includes poems, roll-call responses by relatives, certificates, and decorations, with attendees from the War Mothers’ Club and local families invited.
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the First Baptist Church
W. T. Gifford
Allce Chamberlin
Vacation Bible School
O. J. Fleming
War Mothers’ Club
Rommel’s reserves fall to Allied air and ground pressure
Allied reports say Rommel pushed near St Lo and took personal command at a bridgehead near La Forge on the Isigny highway, while British forces hold the Odon line. RAF Lancasters and Halifaxes bombed German armor concentrations at Villers Bocage, with 1,000 tons dropped in daylight. The Caen Evrecy front remained quiet as German counterattacks were repelled in four hours of heavy fighting.
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St. Lo
la Forge
Isigny
le Carillon
Rommel
Col
Ben. Friedrich Doliman
7Th Army
Berlin
Maat
Romto
RAF
Rommels
Villers-Bocage
Odon
Saipan battle losses and Japanese cave defenses described
The article notes 1,474 Americans killed 7,500 wounded and 887 missing on Saipan with 4,951 Japanese dead buried by Americans. It describes Japanese retreating MeW forces, nine night raids, and strong underground cave defenses, including latticed vents, as Marines probe Garapan’s southern sector.
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Saipan
Raymonspruance
Philippines
Pacific
Maginot Line
Garapan
Rescue of trapped climbers praised by three Army officers
Ed Laws a 56 year old ranger and Dr A A MacRae of Wilmington Del a Bible professor and mountaineer led the rescue from a canyon gorge in Tonto plateau where they were trapped amid the Colorado River rapids. MacRae on his 14th canyon vacation aided the effort despite dangerous whirlpools and high cliff walls.
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Couunusu
Pagene
Ed Laws
A. A. MacRae
Wilmington
Del
MacRae
Canyon
Tonto Plateau
Colorado River
Dewey Returns to Warm Reception in Elkhart
Governor Dewey received applause from local supporters in Elkhart Indiana where a woman shouted we like your wife and he replied glad you agree. Dewey’s party included J Russell Sprague Edwin J Jaeckle and Herbert A Brownell who was named national Republican chair to lead the campaign. They discussed policy and organization with Brownell noting emphasis on nationwide party representation. Spitfires destroyed nine locomotives and several grounded aircraft at Sarajevo Yugoslavia.
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Elkhart
Ind
Dewey
J. Russell Sprague
New York
Edwin J. Jaeckle
Herbert A. Brownell
Brownell
Sarajevo
Yugoslavia
WN Uniform Receives Silver Pilot Wings ceremony in Fosterfield
Aviation Cadet Charles E. Bell, 22, son of Mr and Mrs Homer C Bell Sr, earns silver pilot wings and second lieutenant bars in Fosterfield Texas on June 27. He will report to San Antonio July 12. His brother Lt Homer Bell Jr is a pilot in England on B 24 missions. Also mentioned are Staff Sgt Floyd Deets on furlough, Damund K DeMoss on leave, and Sgt Ray L Crawford somewhere in France serving in medical corps.
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Fosterfield
Texas
Charles E. Bell
Homer C. Bell
Weat Boyd Street
Bell
Air Corp
San Antonio
Homer Bell, Jr
England
Floyd Deets
Albert
Roswell
New Mexico
H. Deets
West Main Street
Deets
Army Air Corps
France
Ray L. Crawford
East Main Street
Sgt
Sgt. Crawford
Bristol
Medical Corps
State bonds drive to reach $47 million goal
State officials report bond sales milestones with $30,979,085.75 pledged, 66 percent of the $47 million target. July rallies are planned to push sales, with Beckley hosting 500 coal miners acting as solicitors during the holiday. The state guard band and Navy LCT-801 task force continue beachhead rallies along the Ohio, docking today at Parkersburg and St. paper.
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Beckley
West Virginia State Guard
U. S
Boy Scouts Camporee Gathers Taylor County youths
Taylor County patrols of the Boy Scouts of America assemble for a two day camporee at the Grafton school grounds under elder leaders. Saturday features athletic events campfire and night signaling. Sunday includes reveille flag raising religious services inspections contests and awards. Public invited to visit during daylight hours.
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Taylor County
Boy Scouts of America
Grafton Jf
Loren Hoffman
Parkhill
Red Army advances near Minsk and rail hubs in Finland front
Red Army efforts press forward toward Minsk amid crowds of captives on approach to Borisol, with Red Star’s Yakosmosiltzky reporting streets falling. Forces seized Slutsk and Petriko, widening the front toward Mozyr and near Bobruisk. In Finland, about 50 places near Viipuri and Lake Ladoga see gains as enemy hammered.
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Red Army
Miinsk
Bori‘sov
Minsk
Red Star
Yakosmiltzky
Slutsk
Bobruisk
Petriko
Mozyr
Finland
Viipuri
Ladoga
Onekhskoe
Onega
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N West Penn
Ralph K. Hofer
Salem
James A. Goodson
Toronto
Hofer
Opera House
Sun
Aria Montez
Jon Hall
Sai
Opra
Edgar Lois Collie
Moroni
Chien Sain
Lon Chaney Os Hove
Tae
Fort Pitt
Ioe
Skaggs & CO
Baltimore & Ohio Rail
Damund K. DeMoss
U. S .Maritime Service
St. Petersburg
Fla
Ola A. DeMoss
Ona Street
Young DeMoss
Maritime Service
Manchuria
Japan
Sen
Peans
Strand Theatre
BOY Scouts
Eede
Malone's Drug and Chemical Co
Dixie
Sullavan Sothern
Eladydren
Malone’s Drug & Chemical Co
Sree
Misia
Miike
Asingim
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