The War Today Analysis on Allied Polities and De Gaulle
The piece surveys WWII diplomacy with Pravda’s stance on Polish Moscow talks, Moscow’s stance on Polish government in exile, and a breakthrough in Franco British talks. It notes De Gaulle’s rising influence, the Briton American stance toward him, and the looming Western Allied invasion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewitt Mackunaie
Associated Press
Praveli
Pravda
America
Pravde
Pyaven
Moscow
Curzon
Zovetomel
Alfred
Dinemany
Thal
Haney
Guffey Urges Martin to Boost Pennsylvania Milk Prices
Senator Guffey blasts Governor Martin over dairy pricing urging use of the Milk Control Commission to raise prices paid to farmers. He points to New Jersey’s higher price and argues the state should not inflate consumer costs. He cites current producer payments about 3.60 per hundredweight with proposed increases to about 4.22 per hundredweight including subsidies, asserting Pennsylvanian farmers would not object.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Dan
Pennsylvania
Democratic
U. 8
Martin
Joseph I. Gules
Pitteburgh
Sergey Prene
New Jersey
Gailfey
van Martin
State Milk Control Commissed
John M. McKee
The
Milk Control Commission
Guffey
Dewey
New York
U.S
Fourth War Loan urged by broadcasters nationwide
Neville Miller of the National Association of Broadcasters urges continued support for the Fourth War Loan. He says the fourteen billion dollars fund Army Navy Marine Corps Coast Guard and relief at home, sustaining production and morale. Radio listeners can help by buying war bonds to back the fighting effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B.C
Neville Millers
National Association of Broadcasters
Avy
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Orves
Eirele
Morgenthau
Coal Production Tonnage Figures and War Labor Ruling
Secretary Maise outlines expected coal tonnage in multiple Cambria districts and adjacent fields. Washington reports the Justice Department ruling that government seized coal lands may be restored after productive efficiency returns, but only if production remains aligned with prior levels. Further relinquishment could provoke strikes or stoppages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maise
Hinder
Wwinse
Watyl
Cimbria
Sonernet
Central Cambria
Onth
Canthrig
Indiana
Delerson
Clearfield
Fiftwouth Cambria
Tidiana
Kinbteont - Cantbria
Huptingston
Bodtora Clearfield
Blair Fallon
Qaventieil
Sothern
Somerset
Smilao
Twattaunh
Ianbela
Lindiana
Arnstroeng
Canvbria
Uprabria
Westmoreland
Washington
Justice Department
Buldle
Tekes
Allied Commanders Plan Final Assault In Europe
Eisenhower arrives at British HQ after meeting Churchill and Roosevelt to map a major invasion drive. Wilson vows to strike the Nazis with maximum force as Allied air and ground units hit targets across southern Austria and Yugoslav ports, with numerous German planes destroyed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Dwight Eisen Hower
Africa
Churchill
Roosevelt
Charles de Galle
Henry Maitland Wilson
Eisenhower
Mediterranean
Lighan
Cassing
Weeleat
Freegh
Variou Ig
Austria
Messerschmitt Giant
Rhegenfurt
Oseppa
Thale Daao
Zara
Price Program Meeting January 25 in Punxsutawney High School
A Price Program meeting is set for Tuesday January 25 1944 at 8 00 p m in the Punxsutawney High School building. Board chairmen chief clerks price clerks and assistants for Clearfield Jefferson and Indiana Counties are urged to attend. Speakers include William J Shine Paul T Winter A B YeBarber and Delmas H Nucker with a question and answer period to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Punxsiutawney
Clearfield
Jefferson
Indiana
William J. Shine
New York City
Paul T. Winter
Altoona
A. &. YeBarber
Delmas H. Nucker
Ickes Returns Unions to Mine Owners as Strikes Threat Fades
Ickes, the government mine administrator, has handed 405 mines back to owners that did not have UMW contracts and faced no work stoppage threats. Despite this, most of the nation's 3,000,000 soft coal mines remain under government control. Ickes told the Attorney General that the week of November 15 saw coal output at near record levels for 1948, with production not dipping below normal seasonal levels since then.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ickes
United Mine Workers
Eisenhower Arrives as Allied Force Heads to Invasion
Eisenhower joins a roster of top Allied commanders in Britain as the supreme head of the Allied Expeditionary Force arrives. He conferred with Roosevelt and Marshall after leaving the Mediterranean where he led operations. Churchill reportedly met De Gaulle in Morocco regarding French role in new Europe assault plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chivehill
de Gaulle
Porkant Anattey
Eisenhower
Washington
Asume
Churchill
London
Souree
Mrancve
Girawi
Inter
Algiers
Britain
America
de Chaulle
United Kingdom
Allied Expeditionary Force
Nurehil
Roosevelt
Mediterranean
United States War Department
Gen. C. Marshall
U. S
Saft
Eisenhowat
Charles DeGaulle
Marrakech
Morocco
Europe
Germany
Ashbur Tedder
Bernard L. Montgomery
Trafford L. Leigh Mallory
Carl A. Spaatz
U. S. Strategiz
Harald Edmund Franklin
von Strydonck
Bukyle
H. J. Phatt
Wilhelm Hansteen
Serge J. Ingr
Everal Kazimierz Sosokowski
James H. Doolittie
U S. Eighth Air Force
Ussyourt
Opposition to Labor Draft Looms in Congress
Washington reports rising party opposition to Roosevelt's National Service proposal as Congress debates labor draft legislation. Senators Ferguson and Wheeler warn of political fallout, potential campaign issue, and public confusion amid doubts about wartime strike control and Selective Service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Jan
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
Verguson
Rmich
Jane
Michigan
Ferguson
Congress i
Wheeler
D-Mont
Allied Push and Axis Resistance Across Eastern Front
Marshal Vilo's Partisans clash with Germans in eastern and central Bosnia as a Russian assault threatens Leningrad. Soviet forces break lines near Novosoklini, Pripet Marshes, and Rovno areas while Germans counter in Ukraine. Moscow reports 2000 German loss and 136 tanks destroyed. Vichy says RAF bombed Brunswick, with heavy casualties. Also noted are extended air bombings, escaped refugees, and local enlistments in Avonmore area with Navy and Aviation Cadet entries and a Maxwell Field medal recipient.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshal Vilo
Easters
Bosnia
Baltic
Leningrad
Finland
Novosokolniki-Dno-Leningrad
Pripet Marshes
Red
Novoselki
Pinsk
Old Poland
Suarny
Rovno
Ukraine
Vinnitsa
Odessa-Warsaw
Moscow
Rumania
Bug
Vichy
Russia
Germany
Stockholm
Bruswick
RAF
Berlin
Bloodiest Allied push seizes Hill 660 in New Britain
Allied ground forces led by American Marines stormed to Hill 660 to seize control of the Borgen Bay area in western New Britain as Australians push along New Guinea’s northeast coast toward Madang. MacArthur’s dispatch notes heavy Japanese losses including a cruiser, a destroyer, and seven cargo ships in the harbor. several pilots report sinkings of destroyer and merchant ship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Guinea
Southwest Pacific
Borgan Bay
Britain
Douglas MacArthur
Siuan New Guinea
Madang
Quarter Million Pennsylvania Students Aid War Work
About a quarter million of Pennsylvania's junior and senior high students are doing part-time work to ease labor shortages, per Public Instruction Supt Dr Frances B. Haas. A survey of 19,962 students in 15 Central Pennsylvania schools found 3,424 employed before Christmas, suggesting roughly one third of state enrollment participates in the war effort. Jobs include newspaper routes, secretarial, clerking, house work, and miscellaneous tasks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Public Instruction
Frances B. Haas
Central Pennsylvania
Haas
Alboana
Tyrone
Lewistown
Altoona
York High
Educational Department
McCaskey
Catholic High Schvers
Lancaster
Allied air strikes hit Rabaul and Bougainville fronts
Allied dive bombers from Bougainville caused damage at Rabaul harbor, hitting nine ships as clouds limited visibility. Simultaneously Marines battled Japanese forces at Cape Gloucester on New Britain, with heavy resistance and about 400 American casualties. Australians and Americans push inland toward Hill 660 and Bergen Bay, while Japanese defenders suffer heavy losses.
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Rabaul
Bougainville Island
Solomons
Empress Augusta Bay
Bougainville
Simpsany Harbor
New Britain
Cape Gloucester
Bergen Bay
Cape
Guaducangl
Markets evoke varied livestock and produce prices in Pittsburgh
Livestock prices show steady salable hogs and cattle with ranges by weight and class. Calves and sheep move modestly with demand steady. produce in Pittsburgh sees steady apples and various regional fruit prices. Treasury notes and a note on plastic reinforced glass discuss strength claims for new materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
U.S
New York Cortlands
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Green Mountains
Obituary notices span Woodward Churchill Cooper and others
Obituaries list surviving relatives and service details for Mrs Woodward and others, noting twin brother David Thomas, sisters Effie Shull and Ellen Croyle, and a prior death. Dr George Churchill and Howard Blinley Cooper are mentioned with service times, burial sites, and family ties, alongside Karyn Petroskey, Charles Shakespeare, and Joseph Crawford with their kin and funeral arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Button Boyd
Oakland Cemetery
Bergdoll to be freed after WWI draft dodger ordeal
Washington reports Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, once the nation's top WWI draft dodger, will be released from Fort Leavenworth from a five year sentence. The exact date is undisclosed. Bergdoll fled after declining a physical exam, hid in Maryland and Canada, lived in Germany, and surrendered in 1949 after court actions eased. His wife and six children live on a Downingtown farm. she says he will join them when free.
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Washington
Grover Cleveland Bergdol
Philadelphia
Army
Fort Leavenworth
Kas
War Department
Bergdolf
Maryland
Germany
Canada
America
United States
Gram
Downingtown
Hold Everything With Kate Gosizit Services in Blairsville
Obituary brief outlining multiple local deaths and funeral plans. Mrs Jessie Geary of Blacklick dies aged 67 with service set for Tuesday at her Blairsville residence. Rev Nicholson to officiate at Blairsville Cemetery. William W Butler, plasterer and former Indiana resident, dies in Roosevelt New York after heart attack. Services planned in Clearfield at Nicholson Funeral Home with burial in Mt Joy Cemetery. Cyrus B Harkleroad of Philadelphia Street dies. arrangements incomplete.
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George R. Churchill
D. D
Indiana
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Streams Funeral Home
Harry Burton Boyd
Greenwood Cemetery
Martha Donaldson
Dayton
Churchill
Florida
Pneumonnia
Philander C
Elizabeth
Rank) Churchill
Hillsdale
Water Street
de. Churchill
Olive Hezlett
Gertrude Pfeller
Donaldson
Moihter
Winona McContaughey
Canton
Donald H. Churchill
Beach City
William
Edohn
Akron
Ella Standish
San Diego
Calif
Howard Blinley Cooper
Apollo
Samuel
Pearl
Reefer) Cooper
Kinlalling
R. D
Pear
Plumville
May
Hilliard
Lucernemines
Raymond
Logan
Chester
Helen Banks
Chambersville
Catherine Kling
Sykesville
Margar ‘Et Campbell
Spring Church
Chicora
Janet Anbaugh
Rural Valley
Okie McGinnis
Hw Lafdahl
St. Thomas Cemetery
Gustown
Kairyn Petroskey
Elced
Ernest
Renest
The
Assumption Catholic Church
Felix Pestroskey
Melle
Stephanie
Detroit
Pre. Zigmond
England
Seaman le Juhn
Seaman
Frank
New England
Stephen
Michael
Edward
Genevieve
Anna
Assumption Church
Emilio Furey
St. Bernard's Cemetery
India
Charles Shakespeare
George Shakespeare
Wiv
Frigk Richardson
Marshall Heights
Blicklies
Stavivings
Roehardson
Eva Elhoes
Blacklick
Mra Haze
Webster
Biikersville
Gerate Witd Alderment
Hillview Cemetery
Gavenedairg
Witheth Ashball
Greensburg
Ajyr
Kate Gosizit
Ohio
Charles Crawford
St. Walnut Street
Blairsville
A. W. Sandberg
Blairsville Methodist Church
Blairsville Cemetery
Jessie
M'Gee) Geary
Blacktick Township
Robert
Mary McGee
John R. Geary
Robert Geary
Latrobe
Geary
Indiana State Normal School
William W. Butler
Bart Butler
Roosevelt
N. Y
Butler
Clearfield
Dheliana
Bess (Jackson) Butler
Anne Concer
Joust Vell
Earl
Arthur G
Achaui
Nicholson
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Hazen Merle White
New Cumberland
Air Force Base
Miami Beach
Russell. Stewart
Elderton
James R. Verguron
Lawrence K. Rearick
Donald W. Walker
Daniel C. Benson
James J. Gearhart
Jack Gearhart
Maxwell Field
Ala
Air Training Command
Pacific
Treasury
Vella Lavella
New Georgia
Russell Islands
Arawe
Dee
Sair
Dumpu
Treasury Washington
Ugi
Joseph Crawford
Janes
Belazabeth
Pappers Crawdurn
Westmorehand County
Yao
Tits Hare
Tru Aliey
Blairsmini
Leroy Crawford
Daniel Crawford
Bergdoll
Cyrus B
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