Terrific devastation as tornado devastates McKeesport area
A deadly tornado ripped through McKeesport and surrounding areas causing extensive destruction. Homes were demolished, a Negro high school nearly halved, and two Phil lips Packing Company warehouses were razed. Red Cross relief teams distributed aid as rescue workers searched ruins overnight.
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Phillips Packing Company
Red Cross
Army Medical Corps
Pittsburgh
A. D. Johnson
McKeesport
Youghiogheny
Johnson
Allied air raid pushes seed of disruption over western front
Allied air forces struck Saintes and Limoges aiming to choke French rail links for 36 hours as German reinforcements arrived for Normandy. Two heavy bombers missing. British Mosquitoes attacked Bremen and mined waters while Pas de Calais targets drew heavy night bombing. Six Allied aircraft were unaccounted for.
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Saintes
Bordeaux
Limoges
Normandy
Bremen
Pas de Calais
Air Ministry
MEN AND WOMEN IN SERVICE UPDATE
SGT SMITH OVERSEAS Sgt Charles H Smith son of Mr and Mrs Hubert Smith 803 Lindsay Street is overseas at a Control Depot station He worked as a grocer at S and M Food store Daniels Expected Home Private Horace E Daniels Infantry returns from nine months in Europe arriving around June 17 at Fort B before visiting his wife Esther Daniels Upton Overseas Sgt Dwight Upton husband of Mrs Alvin Lee Upton is overseas at a Control Depots He was a knitter at Triangle Hosiery Mill Campaign Cost Zeb Vance Norman spends 278 on his bid for state senate in the second district with a 25 dollar contribution also included exercise routine for abdominal muscles
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Charles H. Smith
Hubert Smith
Lindsay Street
Air Service Command
Control de
Army
Smith
The
S and M. Food Tore
Daniels
Horace E. Daniels
Infantry
Fort B
Millis Street
High Point
Esther Daniels
UPTON
Dwight Upton
Alvin Lee Upton
Triangle Hosiery Mill
Raleigh
Zeb Vance Norman
Senate
Thad Eure
Americans Break Through Near Cherbourg in Bitter Fight
Allied forces press the Cherbourg assault as Lt General Bradley’s units advance between Mont Du Roc Octeville and Tourlaville. American breakthroughs exploit fortifications while German coastal batteries and eight divisions resist. A field dispatch notes steady progress toward the north coast as air and sea bombardment continue.
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Coverville
Montgomery
France
Germany
Normandy
Cherbourg
Omar N. Bradley
Mont du Roc
Octeville
Nouainville
Tourlaville
Supreme Command
Berlin
Orne River
High Command
North Carolina Weather: Warmer Day With Tstorms NorthWest
Partly cloudy and quite warm today in North Carolina with scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers north and west portions. Tonight will be fair to partly cloudy and cooler in the north portion.
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North Carolina
Heavy fighting around Mogaung as Chindits push west
In Burma's north near Mogaung heavy combat erupts with Maj. Gen. W. D. A. Lentaigne's Chindits seizing Sawngching. The communique reports 200 Japanese killed including ten officers and captures a 150 mm gun and mortars. Air strikes also hit Japs near Hengyang.
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Mogaung
Southeast Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
Burma
W. D. A. Lentaigne
Sawngching
Chungking
14Th Army Air Force
Hengyang
Hunan
Joseph W. Stilwell
PKP
Chuchow
Siang
Changsha
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Raytiedall
Bendix
Colum G & EB
Curtiss Wright
del Lack & Wa
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du Pont
Biec Auto Lt
Lee Pow & Lt
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Elee
Gen Foods
Gen Motay Gillette
Glidden
Goodyear
Graham Paige
Gt Nor Ry
Rupp
Int Harvest
Nick Can
Keanecotta
Ney
Kroger Groe
Libby of
GI Lorillard
Mack Truck McCrory
Mont Ward
Murray Corp
Nash Kely
Nat Biscuit
Nat Cash
Nat Deiry
Nat Dist
T Pow & Lt
Y Cent
Am Aviat
Olio Otta
Phillips Pet
Pitt
Scr & BB
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Pullman
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Repub
Seab Oil
Sears Shell UN
Socony
Std Brands Ltd
Ol Cai
Sta Oil
Ind
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Studebaker
Swiftat
Tex Co
Tex Gulf
Transamerica
Trans, & W Air
Union Carbide & Union Pac
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United Corp
United Drug
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Indus Chem
U & Steel
Warner Pict
West Mary
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Sgt. Smith
Norwegian
Mickey Finn
Joe Palooka
Blondie
Etta Kett
Barney Baxter
Barney
Etta
Lone Ranger
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