Progress of Otanda battle and Allied initiative
The report details the fifth day of the Otanda offensive with Marines pressing forward amid fierce Japanese resistance. It notes growing Allied initiative, rising casualties, and the widening theater of war as civilians and troops face the grim realities, while contrasting Allied restraint with Hitler’s gamble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otanda
MacArthur
Mit
Washington
Solomons
Hitler
Pial
Allied leaders meet in wartime talks create Axis pressure
DOOLITTLE notes an atmosphere of cordiality and complete sincerity as Churchill and Stalin meet for the first time during four days of dramatic negotiations from Wednesday to Saturday. Eden visited the Soviet Union last winter, Molotov reprinted May 26, and after traveling to Washington, he announced that a Britain Russia United States alliance had been signed. The leaders agreed on urgent plans to establish a second front against Hitler in 1942.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Churchill
Stalin
Anthony Eden
England
Soviet Union
Vyacheslav Molotov
Molotov
Washington
Rooselt
London
Britain
Russia
United States
Adolf Hitler
Marine father Frank Konicki funeral services at St Casimir
Funeral services will be held at 9 am tomorrow in St Casimir's Catholic Church for Frank Konicki a Marine father born February 23, 1921 Interment will follow in the church cemetery under the direction of John Moskal He is survived by his father his stepmother Mrs Frances Wish Konicki a brother Walter who was last reported in the Philippines and several stepbrothers serving in the Army in California the Philippines Iceland Hawaii and at home in various locations
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Konicki
St. Casimir's Catholic Church
John Moskal
Frances
Wish) Konicki
Walter
Philippines
John
California
Edward
Joseph
Iceland
Raymond
Hawaii
Stanley
Frank
Robert
Plane Crash Details Emerge In Army Investigation
Army officials released preliminary details on a catastrophic air crash bound to shock the public. A large military craft tore into treetops about 100 yards from a peak, then plunged onto a mountaintop at 2,200 feet, bursting into flames as a survivor walked half a mile to the highway to guide state police back to the wreck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ar ‘ Ae
Ted States Miliary Aviation
Army
Pre-War Paring To Polls In Pennsylvania Race
Harrisburg reports show party leaders pushing campaign work ahead for fall elections while war sentiment creates apathy. Governor hopefuls Turrell and Ross address voter turnout and soldier votes as primary efforts begin in Mercer County and Pittsburgh with platform decisions expected Sept. 15. In New York, Bennett supporters claim he wins the Dem nom. Mead camp insists otherwise as ALP contemplates a separate ticket. Dewey seen as GOP front-runner if ALP fields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Harry M. Turrell
Democratic State Committee
Edward Martin
F. Flair Ross
Mercer County
Pittsburgh
New York
John J. Bennett, Jr
U. S
James M. Mead
Bennett
James A. Farley
Roosevelt
Mead
American Labor Party
Thomas ©. Dewey
Army bombing plane crashes near Loraine killing three fliers
Thick woodlands hamper rescue as civilian defense posts spot the wreckage ten miles north of Loraine. Army units recover bodies while praise flows to local defense volunteers in the hamlet known as the highest town in Massachusetts for prompt action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Lee
Massachusetts
Sweetwater
Tex
Loraine
Doolittle in Britain and Tokyo raid linked in war notes
Dispatches describe Doolittle's secret England visit for a third special assignment and confirm his April 18 Tokyo raid with U S bombers. Reports note U S air forces in Europe and the Middle East tests, raids across France and Western Germany, and ongoing operations around Timor, Dutch Island, and Japanese bases as MacArthur harasses supply lines in the southwest Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eing
American Air Command
Doolittle
Britain
United States Army
Japan
Tokyo
England
Carl Spaatz
U. S
Ira C. Baker
Spaatz
United States Army Air Force
Middle East
European
Mediterranean
Cairo
United States
France
Germany
Africa
Axis
Solomon Islands
MacArthur
Pacific
Timor
Melbourne Herald
Motor Funds Vital To Postwar Highway Needs
War boosts highway transport importance and the Motor Fund surplus while fuel rationing trims state revenue. Officials urge continued Motor Fund protection to avoid tax hikes, with eleven states already securing constitutional guarantees. Pennsylvania is urged to join to safeguard future highway improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Motor Fund
Doughton
Ways and Means Committee
House
Pennsylvania
Accident at Revioc Road and Route 422 Weekend Fatalities
A Saturday night crash at the Revioc road and Route 422 intersection left a girl treated by a Revioe physician and sent home. Driver Joe Cagzi reported stopping before a turn when Stebley J. teman’s car struck the rear of the parked vehicle. The weekend toll included at least 11 Pennsylvanians per the Associated Press.
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Revioc Road
Route 422
Revioe
Joe Cagzi
Horner Street
Ebensburg
Stebley J. Teman
Fostel
Mercer County
Multiple drownings and accidents reported across Pennsylvania era
A string of fatal accidents and drownings is reported including Walter Ramplay 15 of York found dead in the Susquehanna and ruled accidental drowning Deputy Coroner Stanley Smith states Marl Kelley 46 drowned while bathing in Stone Harbor New Jersey Nathan Iscovitz 42 Pittsburg merchant missing presumed drowned in Harvey's Lake lightning killed Marine Sergeant Thomas H Summer 27 in a Philadelphia cemetery George Eisenhauer 85 killed by auto near Lebanon I K Hammer 24 Harrisburg yard brakeman killed in Enola and Harry Foutz 50 died from fumigation fumes in Pittsburgh Earl Ellis 17 Conneautville killed when struck by car Homer Harpst 45 Fredonia killed by job crane accident Andrew Hiles 68 Greensburg killed by hit run near his home.
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Walter M. Ramplay
York
Susquehanna
Stanley Smith
Marl Kelley
Stone Harbor
Cape May
N. J
Nathan Iscovitz
Pittston
Harvey's Lake
Thomas H. Summer
Bristol
Philadelphia
George Eisenhauer
Lebanon
I. K. Hammer
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
Enola
Harry Foutz
Pittsburgh
Earl Ellis
R. D
Conneauteville
Blackout rules for defense council members and wardens
Blackout B sellers policy and procedure director for the defense council orders armbands and IDs for all, wardens to stay near posts or help senior wardens, auxiliary policemen to report to officers, civilians to wear armbands for authority, lights off at night, red 15 watt blackout bulbs allowed one per room, practice may be permanent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Defense Council
Detroit faces morale crisis and housing problem amid racial strike
The Detroit report says morale may be the worst in the U S and notes housing difficulties. It also mentions an inter racial strike. Customs officials seized torn copies before crossing into Canada under an order from U S Collector Martin R Bradley, with Ottawa spokesmen denying Canadian censorship involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Life
Detroit
Canada
Martin R. Bradley
Washington
Ottawa
Bethlehem Signs Contract in Major Steel Pact
Pittsburgh Aug. 17 The CIO President Philip Murray announced the signing and ratification of a union contract with Bethlehem Steel Company covering about 64 000 employees. He said it brings close to 85 percent of the steel industry under contract with the CIO United Steelworkers of America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Fi Cid
Philip Murray
Bethlehem Steel Company
Murray
CIO
United Steelworkers of America
Bethlehem
Little Steel
New head of Young Democratic Clubs of Pennsylvania named
Daniel B. Swaney, a Uniontown school teacher, elected president to succeed Joseph J. Yosko. Convention named John Chadonic, Ralph Ilgenfritz, Maurice Splain Jr, Selma Matters, Milton Schwein, Charles Weaver, Irene Stackhouse, Andrew Bradley, S Paul McNamara, Alphonse Casey as vice presidents. Clair V. Myers and Jack Hagen recording secretaries. Eugene Burkholder corresponding secretary. Grace Shirley Hatch treasurer. Theodore A. Rosenberg national committeeman. Genevieve Blatt national committeewoman. reading Aug 17 in Reading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reading
Daniel
B. Swaney
Uniontown
Young Democratic Clubs of
Pennsylvania
Swaney
Joseph J. Yosko
Bethlehem
John Chadonic
Allegheny County
Ralph Ilgenfritz
York
Maurice Splain
Evenage County
Selma Matters
Milton Schwein
Charles Weaver
Lancaster
Irene Stack
Funeral rites for newsman Frank L. Laird
Funeral services were held for Frank L. Laird 70 former newspaperman who ran a sheep ranch in Canterbury for 16 years. He died Saturday at a Concord hospital and was born in Hughesville Pennsylvania He worked for the New York Times New York American and Philadelphia Inquirer and represented Canterbury in the last state legislative session
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canterbury
H. N
Frank L. Laird
Laird
Concord
Hughesville
University of Pennsylvania
New York Times
New York American
Philadelphia Inquirer
Trial of Spy Opens in New Jersey
Herbert Karl Friedrich Bahr, a 29 year old former Buffalo resident who went to Germany as an exchange student is accused by the FBI of returning to America as a Gestapo trained spy. He faces possible electrocution if convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. Bahr was arrested aboard the diplomatic exchange ship Drottningholm in Jersey City on July 9 posing as a refugee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
N. J
Herbert Karl Friedrich Bahr
Germany
FBI
America
Buffalo, i N. Y
Bahr
Mner Drottning-Holm
Jersey City
Free Methodist Conference ends in East Liverpool
The Pittsburgh Conference of the Free Methodist Church adopted a resolution urging President Roosevelt to use wartime powers to declare national prohibition. The five day event concluded with no pastors reassigned across its 200 congregations in Rochester New York Pittsburgh Butler Uniontown and Fairmont districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Liverpool
Roosevelt
Pittsburgh
the Free Methodist Church
Rochester
N. Y
Butler
Uniontown
Fairmont
W. Va
Ice skaters in death pact on lonely mountain road
Margie Bolton, 17, a Denver high school skater, and John C. Kline, 48, Denver electrician, were found shot dead in Kline’s car in Idaho Spring. Coroner Hamlick ruled murder and death by own action with a penciled note asking they be buried together with their skates on. Both were well known figure skaters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Idaho
Colo
Denver
George Hamlick
Margie Bolton
John C
Jack) Kline
Kline
Pioneer Spirit Returns To Solve Farm Problems
Harrisburg August 17 Pioneer spirit of neighborliness helps Pennsylvania farmers tackle war time farm issues. Secretary of Agriculture John H Light says farmers rely more on each other amid production and labor shortages. Barn raisings and mutual aid rise as old methods blend with modern farming to conserve resources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Pim
Pennsylvania
John H. Light
Secretary of Agriculture
Light
Russian Front Advances and Oil Belt Drawn Into Caucasus
Moscow reports say Maikop fell and Grozny is threatened as German forces push toward the Grozny oil fields and Rostov to Baku railway. Soviet defenses stubborn near Stalingrad and at Vyazma Rzhev while German and Romanian troops press in the northwest Caucasus and toward Novorossisk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Malkop
Grozny
Caspian Sea
Rostov- Baku
Caucasus
Vichy
Stalingrad
Kletskaya
Don River
Staliingrad
Red Army
Kuban
Black Sea
Novorossisk
High Command
Vyazma
Rzhev
Acetylene Gas Tank Blast Rocks Glasgow Farm
Glasgow Del Aug 17 A parked truck trailer loaded with acetylene gas exploded early today in a series of blasts. Police say no one was injured though one drum crashed through a garage and another tore off part of the roof at the farm home of Mrs Henry Suppi. Continuous blasts shattered windows and startled residents within an eight mile radius.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glasgow
Del
Here
Henry Suppi
Girl Held In Fiances Death At Fort Huachuca
Margaret Herlihy daughter of Army officer Lieut Col BE Herlihy was held under guard in Douglas county hospital after the fatal shooting of her fiancé Captain D D Carr a 27 year old tank company officer Carr was shot early Saturday after returning from Agua Prieta with Miss Herlihy Deputy County Attorney Norman Herring said the assault charge would be upgraded to murder Herlihy said to have fought for her life and the couple had planned to marry September 15 in Fort Huachuca near the Mexican border
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas
Ariz
Pares Margaret Herlihy
D. D. Carr
Carr
BE. G. Herlihy
Fort Huachuca
Norman Herring
Herlihy
Tank
Miss Herlihy
Agua Prieta
Margaret
Fort Benning
Soldiers and sailors pick up rides at shaded benches
In downtown Tulsa soldiers and sailors are invited to sit and thumb rides from benches under canopies. Signs on the white benches read Pick up soldiers and sailors here. Marines must have the situation in hand, or it was an oversight, as they are not mentioned in the signs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulsa
Okla
Markets and Produce Report from Pittsburgh August 17
Salable hogs 400, prices uneven by weight with 160-350 lb ranges. Cattle 700, varied grades from good to medium and common, calves 300, slower on choice. Sheep 800, steady to strong with lambs and ewes priced. Produce demand moderate. apples in short supply, prices steady. Potatoes noted with several varieties and prices. No. 100 lb sacks listed for New Jersey and nearby regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
McIntosh
Virginia
West Virginia
New York
Duchess
Jeremy Chippewap
Cobblers
Eagles Trustee Elected After Hanover Meeting
John W. Young of Hanover Pennsylvania was elected a trustee of the Fraternal Order of Eagles at the close of the annual convention yesterday. Experts say that our digestive organs need 16 hours work in every 34 hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanover
Chicago
John W. Young
Order of Eagles
Annuyl
Manpower controls eyed as war needs grow
Washington reports say Congress may authorize a national manpower authority after the August recess. A War Manpower Commission would direct civilian labor into essential war tasks and inspect plants suspected of hoarding workers. Other topics include wage and price controls, synthetic rubber expansion, gasoline rationing, and reorienting production to aircraft. Senate leaders note no definite bill yet. Roosevelt hinted at wage and price stabilization studies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Con Reza
War Manpower Commission
War and Navy Departments
Maritime Commission
Congress
Senate
Democratic
Barkley
Roosevelt
Byrd
D-Va
Bernard M. Baruch
Obituary notices from an Indiana Evening Gazette fragment
Obituary details a 69 year old woman from Mahaffey Rossiter resident for 30 years with a daughter in Punxsutawney and two sons, plus siblings and eight grandchildren. funeral at Union Church Rossiter. Also notes John Patterson Leech of Saltsburg dies at 67, with service set, and Violet J. O Harrar obituary with service and burial details. Then a hospital death, surviving husband and relatives, and last line advertises mailing the newspaper to a son in the Army or Navy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W
Catherine
Peace) Bouch
Mahaffey
Rossiter
Frank G. Carlson
Punxsutawney
Clarerice E. Henderson
Josephi. Henderson
Birdsboro
James
Miles Bouch
McGee
John Patterson Leech
Spring Church
Saltsburg
Mary (Bush) Leech
W. Nelson Leech
Nelson J. Leech
Mary K. Leech
Youngstown
Robinson Feneral
J. C. Bland
Edgewood Cemetery
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New Guinea
Owen Stanley Range
Port Moresby
Saigon
WA. E. East Coast
Caribbean
Gulf of Mexico
South America
Associated Press
Atlantic
Pearl Harbor
Floridas
Malatta
Qougainvere
Miles
Coral Sea
Sta Isabel
Tula
Makamb
Kukum Air Base
Guadalcanal
Malaita
Florida
Tulagi Islands
Solomon
Bougainville
ICE
DEATH
Ike
Maikop
Arizona
Ohio
Beth Steel
Boeing Airplane
Borden Ca
Briggs Mig
Chrysler Corp
Colum G
Cons Edison
Consol Oil
Curtiss Wright
del Lack
West
Douglass Aircraft
du Pont del
Eastman Kodak
Elecate
Gen Foods
Gen Motors
Greyhound Corp
Int Harvester
Nick Can
Johns Manville
Kennecott Cop
Kresge (Ss
Lehigh Val Coal
Libby McN
Loew's Inc
Montgom Ward
Nat Dairy Prod
Nat Distillers
NY Central RA
Ole North Ameria TM Northern Pac
Sta Packard Motor 245
Param Pictures
Penney (Jc
Penna RA
Pub Soc N J OS Pullman
Pure Oi
Radio Corp of Am
Repab Steel
Reynolds
Swift and Co
Texas Co
United Aircraft
United Corp
United Gas Imp
Steel
Warner Bros
West Union Tel
West el
Mfg
Woolworth
Elec
Sir Penmoad Corp
Violet J. O‘harrar
Spangler Hospital
Harry
Emma (Conner
Pere Fae
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