Altoona Coal Office to Close Aug 23 Under Guffey Act
The Altoona office of Bituminous Coal Division 1 covering 38 counties in PA and parts of MD and WV will close August 23, the termination date of the Guffey Coal Act. Thirty six district staff will leave that day. a small crew may stay to oversee mine operations. Don Gingery named regional manager of mines under the Solid Fuels Administration. he plans to remain in the office. Employees are asked to turn in equipment by the closing date. Civil service workers seek transfers to other government departments.
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AltoOna
Pennsylvania
Maryland
West Virginia
District Coal Office
Don Gingery
Gingery
Solid Fuels Administration
Congress
Civil Service Army
Sinatra Fans Fill Stadium For Teen Crowd At Lewisohn
Sinatra draws a teen-dominated audience in New York at Lewisohn Stadium with ecstatic cries and long field glasses on him. His past symphony tours in New York, Cleveland, and Washington show similar response. Before his Hollywood Bowl set he will hear 45 minutes of light classical music.
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Phony
Frankie
New York
Cleveland
Washington
Lewisohn Stadium
Sinatra
Hollywood Bowl
Veterans propose alternative plans to aid returning soldiers
Veterans group criticizes the presidents three months pay idea for discharged soldiers. They discuss plans including public projects funded by long term government backed securities issued by business interests. Projects would be self liquidating and create work for millions of men.
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Auchincloss
Aachineless
Allied Push Pounds Catania Front In Sicilian Drive
Allied forces breached the German line around Catania as British operations disrupted Taormina road and railway routes. American Canadian and British troops press forward toward Messina while naval and aerial bombardment target German positions along the northeast coast. The Axis faces potential abandonment of Mt Etna as Allied pressure tightens.
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Mt. Etna
Taormina
San Fratello
U. S. Seventh Army
Catania
Messina
Taormina Road
Seventh Army
San Stefano
Naples
Dwight D. Hisen- ‘Hower
Eighth Army
Berlin
Associated Press
Highways division realignment announced by secretary
Secretary of Highways John A. Shroyer announced a new setup naming Mr. Forbes as engineer of Division Four. The division includes District 9 Hollidaysburg and Ambler, and District 11 Pittsburgh with E. L. Schmidt, plus District 12 Uniontown with 8. P. Long street as district engineer. Forbes will reside in Hollidaysburg as Indiana joins Division 1 with W. A. Warrick. District 1 Franklin has W. Jackson. District 2 Clearfield has N. A. Staples. District 10 Indiana has Leonard Curran.
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Secretary of Highways
John A. Shroyer
Forbes
Hollidaysburg
Ambler
Pittsburgh
E. L. Schmidt
Uniontown
P. Longstreet
Indiana
War Powers Act Forestalls Need For Special Session
Harrisburg reports that Pennsylvania legislative leaders agree broad governor war powers will forestall any need for a special assembly this year or next. They noted Governor Martin’s suspension of the two license plate law under the war powers act may avert extra sessions unless future tax or unknown issues arise. The governor’s action marks the first use of the act with legislative approval.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Martin
Felong
Commonwealth
Weldon
Heyburn
Delaware County
Reuben E. Cohen
Noor
Philadelphia
Sena
Franklin H. Lichtenwalter
Lehigh
James H. Duff
Parker Supreme Court Justice Dies Suddenly in Venango County
Judge Parker, a Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice and former county court judge, died at 7:10 AM after a brief illness. He served 33 years in Venango County, was elected to the state high court in 1925, and appointed to the Supreme Court by Governor Pinchot in 1932, with a record 1,469,251 votes that year. He traveled from Oil City after Philadelphia sessions last month. his wife and son William were at his bedside. The Pittsburgh Supreme Court attaches recalled no prior illness.
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William
Supreme Court
Pittsburgh
Parker
Oil City
Philadelphia
Venango County
Gifford Pinshot
Allied Drive Through Sicily Reaches Catania Front
Allied forces drive toward Messina as Catania falls, British and American units push along the east coast flank. Taormina bombardments threaten Axis retreat routes while U S ships shell targets and patrols extend control from the Tyrrhenian to the Sicilian coast.
Oil City jurist served 1940 44 term and vacancy ruling
Arthur H. James served on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court bench from December 13, 1940, after the death of H. Edgar Barnes, later elected to a 21 year term in 1941. The State Elections Bureau said the Parker vacancy would not be on the 1943 municipal ballot but would appear in the 1944 general election. interim appointments may be made by the Governor.
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Arthur H. James
H. Edgar Barnes
Oil City
Princeton University
Grove City College
Helen Innis
Marian Johnson
Ridgewood
N. I
Warren I. Parker
Naval Air Corps
Norfolk
Rebecca Parker Cummins
William, Jr
Harrisburg
State Elections Bureau
State Supreme Court
William M. Parker
Murder Traced to Domestic Trouble in Homer City
At two this morning Sink brought his uninjured son to Wayne Helman’s home and asked him to take the boy to his grandfather John E. Sink in Homer City. No trace of the missing man has been found. Coroner Fleming cites domestic troubles and possible mental collapse as factors. Sheriff Irwin State Police and officials conduct an extended search, with a possibility the man may have taken his own life. The missing man’s father is a Homer City merchant.
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Sink
Wayne Helman
John E. Sink
Homer City
Fleming
Irwin
Italy News from Rome Reports War Policy Shifts and Probes
Cardinal Maglione calls an extraordinary session of 16 Rome based Cardinals to discuss international questions as ambassadors and nuncios flow through the foreign office. British cabinet comments spark talk of armistice while Italian strikes protest the war continuation. Piccardi vows to dissolve the Fascist co operative system as a wealth probe targets fascist officeholders from 1922 to 1943, with Galeazzo Ciano eyed as a likely target due to vast wealth accumulation.
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Italy
Cardinal Maglione
Rome
Badoglio
Milan
Galeazzo Ciano
Benito Mussolini
Ciano
Eisenhower
Sicilian
George S. Patton
U. S. 7Th Army
Messina
Stockholm
Hitler
Balkans
Balkan
Ruhr
Rhineland
Naples
Solomon Islands
U. S
Munda
Rendova Island
New Guinea
Salamaua
Carriere Della Sera
Lavora Italiano
Foreign Office
Maglione
Axis defenses falter on Mt Etna line in war dispatch
Allied report claims Axis forces are collapsing along the Mt Etna line as German and Italian troops try to slow the advance by mining and destroying installations. Italian headquarters offered no confirmation of a catastrophe, insisting German and Italian troops are withstanding the push.
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Mt. Etna
Allied forces press Sicily drive toward Messina
In Sicily, American, British and Canadian units push east and north as Patton's Seventh Army advances toward Messina while Axis defenses crumble. Reports note Catania falls, with nearly 100,000 prisoners, and discussions in Rome and Washington weigh whether to press with invasion or air power to force Italian surrender.
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Washington
iPl
Sicily
Uhru
Stimson
Mt. Etna Ine
Catania
Regalbuto
Seventh Army
San Stefano
Mistretta
San Fratello
Strait of Messina
Tunisia
Washivwachy
Russia
Germany
Rooseveld
Churchill
Hitler
European
Casablanca
Europe
Pacific
Italy
Pietro Badoglio
Air
Defense nine build home in culvert under road
Nine defense workers in Moon township set up a living space in a large culvert beneath a roadway. They built a wooden platform with screens and an oil stove, plus nine cots. Rain brings mud on the porch, but the unit counts no housing costs and enjoys good air flow.
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Pittsburgh
Moon Township
Youth Signs With 5 Boards
Philadelphia August 5. At 16 Sanford H. Hunt registered with five draft boards to avoid quotas. He faced a charge for failing to return a Selective Service questionnaire but was arraigned before U S Commissioner Nor Man J Griffin. The charge was dismissed.
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Philadelphia
Sanford H. Hunt
Hunt
U. S
NorMan J. Griffin
Griffin
Treasury balance report shows daily figures and totals
Washington August 6 Treasury position lists receipts 148.075 million expenditures 398.056 million and net balance 9.18879498331 billion with total debt 146.36040014301 billion and daily increase 58.38950679 million.
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Washington
The
Treasury
Pilot dies as plane crashes on farm near West Alexander
Army First Lt. Donald R. Marshall, 23, of Koppel, Pa., was killed when his bomber crashed on a West Alexander farm near the West Virginia border. Mechanic Pfc. F. E. Odell, uninjured but shocked, wandered eight hours later from a Potomac, W Va., farm. In Tennessee, a bomber crash near Tullahoma killed Second Lt. Frederick L. Talbott and Staff Sgt. Hugh O Connell. mechanic Staff Sgt. Wallace E. Pritchard among the injured.
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Washington
West Alexander
West Virginia
Donald R. Marshall
Koppel
Beaver County
F. £. Odell
Potomac
W. Va
Tullahoma
Tenn
Here
Terday
William Northern Field
Frederick L. Talbott
Parkridge
Hugh O'Connell
Nicholasville
Camp Forest
Wallace E. Pritchard
Oil City
Russians FIGHT to reconquer Orel in 1943 offensive
MOSCOW August 5 The Red army pressed through Orel streets completing the reconquest of the city as German stores and factories were destroyed before evacuation. Russians advanced on both sides of the Kharkov salient and near Belgorod while Germans reported counterattacks north of Kuibyshev on the Mius front and renewed efforts along the Middle Donets and Belgorod areas.
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Moscow
Orel
Red Army
Russia
Orel Salient
Kharkov Salient
Belgorod
Voroshilovgrad
Smolensk
Kuibyshev
Mius
Donets
Former teller freed in bank embezzlement commutation
Charles P. Reed of Brookville received a clemency grant from the Pardon Board after pleading guilty to embezzling funds from Brookville Bank & Trust Company. Sentenced in May 1942 to 3 1/2 to 7 years in Allegheny County Workhouse, he had served about 14 months. His wife testified they had made full restitution via property transfer.
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Pardon Board
Charles P. Reed
Brookville
Brookville Bank & Trust Company
Allegheny County
Man Escapes Injury After Auto Crash on Indiana Hill
Verne Wachob of near Covede miraculously escaped unhurt Tuesday night when his car skidded on a treacherous Indiana Hill. Punxsutawney rain slammed, striking a bank on the right side of the highway and overturning. The automobile was damaged beyond repair.
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Verne Wachob
Near Covede
Indiana Hill
Punxsutawney
Bond quotas by county for War Savings program
Pennsylvania announces a total quota of 60 100 000 for War Savings Bonds with August issue. Listed county allocations include Indiana 191 861 Allegheny 11 921 620 Philadelphia 15 749 177 Westmoreland 1 585 781 Cambria 709 392 Jefferson 124 183 Clearfield 247 033 Clarion 128 418 Butler 525 178 Armstrong 347 352.
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Pennsylvania
Indiana County
Alegheny
Armstrong
Butler
Cambria
Clarion
Clearfield
Jefferson
Philadelphia
Westmorehend
WAAC Private Hurley Injured After Salute Fall
WAAC Private Betty Hurley of Salome Oregon, 23, at a replacement depot in England salutes an officer on the steps, loses balance, falls and breaks an arm. The incident underscores wartime hazards faced by overseas service members.
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London
WAAC
Betty Hurley
England
Dentist Receives Navy Commission in Pittsburgh
Dr Craig A Stewart a Rural Valley dentist was among 54 officers commissioned in the United States Naval Reserve at Pittsburgh. The group included one lieutenant colonel, 12 lieutenants, 16 lieutenant junior grades and 25 ensigns. Bruce V Britain of Wintondale passed the physician exam at Altoona and will enter the Marine Corps in Pittsburgh tomorrow.
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Craig A. Stewart
Rural Valley
United States Naval Reserve
Pittsburgh
William M.merritts
Revles
Bruce V. Britain
Wintondale
Altoona
Marine Corps
Pop Remains at Old Prices Despite OPA Reminder
The district OPA office reminded that soft drink prices must stay at March 1942 levels. Some dealers have raised prices to seven and 15 cents for small and large bottles, contrary to the order.
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OPA
Dessa McKay Joins Women Army Corps Training
Altoona August 5 Dessa EB McKay national historian of the American Legion Auxiliary from 1930 to 1932 has been accepted for training by the Women’s Army Corps. Mrs McKay whose husband C E McKay is a Navy commander served as chief nurse in an Army medical unit at Cristobal Canal Zone.
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Altoona
Dessa EB. McKay
American Legion Auxiliary
Wemen's Army Corps
Obituary continues with funeral plans for Felix Burtyk
Felix Burtyk born October 45 1863 died 10 35 pm Wednesday at his home No 77 Clune. Funeral services set for 1 30 pm Monday at the Funeral Home. Burtyk a retired coal miner lived in Creekside and Ernest before moving to Clune 23 years ago and was a member of the ...
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Felix Burtyk
John
Anna
Miyska) Burtyk
Clune
Creekside
Ernest
Mr. Burtyk
Blacklick Greek Orthodox Church
Clune Lodge
L W. O. and
McIntyre
United Mine Workers of America
Aultman
Peter
U. S
North Africa
Nicholas
Camp Howze
Tex
Charles
Felix
Metro
Sophia
Catherine Burtyk
Marion Purnia
Long Island
Joseph Pluska
Earl Chambers
Peter Burtyk
Soldier Son
Texas
Draft Dodge Prof Taken in New York
The Department of Justice announced the arrest of Stephen Weinberg, 50, accused of teaching New Yorkers how to dodge the draft by faking deafness and other disorders. FBI Director Hoover said Weinberg’s acts included a 1921 impersonation of a State Department representative during Fatima’s tour. Weinberg served two years in Atlanta federal prison and was to be arraigned in New York City on a National Selective Service Act violation. In Philadelphia two German born U.S. citizens sought court relief against Army orders for one to leave the Eastern Defense Command by Aug. 7 and the other to quit a war plant job, alleging ineligibility.
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Washington
Department of Justice Today
Stephen Weinberg
Waa
Department
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Fatima
Kabul
Afghanistan
State Department
Federal
Atlanta
Hoover
Weinberg
New York City
National Selective and Training Service
Philadelphia
United States
U. S. District Court
Eastern Seaboard
Karl Scherzberg
Eastern Defense Command
Albert A. Flinspach
Aldan
Delaware County
Army Internal Security Department
Obituary items for Burtyk McDivitt McKee Meckley and families
Multiple death notices and funeral details. Clara Edith Lukehart McDivitt dies after illness. Dorsey McDivitt surviving spouse and children listed with addresses. Ernest Leo McKee funeral postponed to Saturday at East Ridge Church. William F Meckley dies from automobile collision injuries. survivors named. services pending at Rural Valley and McMaster home.
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Clara Edith (Lukehart) Mecnivitt
South Mahoning Township
Plumville
John S
Rebecca Lukehart
Porter Downship
Jefferson County
Porter
Dorsey McDavitt
Hazel Kunselman
Mayport
R. D
Mary Luke+ hart
Ernest Leo M’rkee
Ernest Lea McKee
East Ridge Church
R. H. White
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Charles H. Ealy
Somerset
Ira T. Fiss
Snyder
George S. Patton Jr
Tyrrhenian Sea
Palermo
Naval War Bulletin
Vila
Vecchio Mole
Fascist Party
Romania
Ploesti
Turkey
Bryansk
Aleutians
India
Burma
China
Qur
Defense
Beaver County Flyer
WAC Casualty
Pop
Dessa McKay
U.S
William F. Meckley
Reyloc
Johnstown
Ebensburg
Thomas Meckley
Niagara Falls
Guy McMaster
NuMine
Wisconsin
Croyle
McMaster
Pireint O. S.c.streams
Joe Hollerbach
Moore Hotel
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