Invasion Watch as Bombing Pressures Japan
Allied strategists debate whether continued air raids will cripple Japan enough for an amphibious invasion. Experts note movements toward October to judge invasion timing while Britain presses actions in the East Indies and monsoon weather shapes campaigns.
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Bull) Halsey
Japan
Tokyo
Nippon
Pacific
Mikado
Germany
Arshals Kesserling
von Rundstedt
Europe
America
East Indies
Indian Ocean
Britain
Singapore
Shane
Soil from Pennsylvania sent to Philippines for homesick hill
A small amount of Pennsylvania soil was mailed to the Philippines at the request of Coast Guard Lt. Comdr. Joseph E. Shaner. The soil will be mixed with soil from other states to form a “Homesick Hill” for armed forces personnel overseas, with markers identifying each state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Philippines
Capitol Park
Martin
Joseph E. Shaner
Maryland
Coast Guard
Shaner
Allies Plan Mass German Return From Spain
Allied authorities report drafting a plan to send home most Germans in Spain by summer’s end. The move would affect about 10,000 Germans, as Madrid confirms the outline of the operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
Spain
Stassen Leaving To Rejoin Fleet
Navy Commander Harold E Stassen former Minnesota governor said Japan would not be defeated without a long bitter struggle and urged the home front to keep backing the fighting men On his way to join Admiral Helseys Third Fleet he voiced confidence that superb forces in the Pacific aided by manpower from Europe would win victory
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Navy
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Japan
William F. Helsey
Johnson Sons Accused Of Fee Splitting In Wire Rope Case
Washington July 12 Former Federal Judge Albert W Johnson of Pennsylvania appeared at a congressional hearing into his conduct over the Williamsport Wire Rope Company receivership and related off the record fee splits. Testimony cited Bethlehem Steel assets totaling 8 34 million and questioned payments to receivership officials, including the judge s son Donald. Witnesses named Memolo and others as participants in the alleged arrangements while Donald Johnson pleaded innocent to separate conspiracy charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Albert W. Johnson
Pennsylvania
Middle District
Congressionel
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Lewisburg, Pa
Truman
House Judiciary
Johnson
EWT
Luzerne County
John H. Bigelow
Thomas M. Lewis
Michael F. McDonald
McDonald
Williamsport
Third Circuit
Bethlehem Steel Company
M. H. Goldschein
Bethlehem
Bethlehem Steel
Goldschien
Jude
Donald M. Johnson
Delmar K K. Townsend
Hughesville
Wire
Townsend
Albert W. Johnson, Jr
Jacob Greenes
Scranton
Donald Johnson
John Memolo
Memolo
Dallard
Goldghein
Bethlehem Stee
Greenes
Army
Albert Houck
Lewistown
Middle District of Pennsylvania
James Y. Ferguson
Williams Sport Division
Wire Rope Company
Ferguson
Memalo
Martin Memalo
Martin Memulo
Goldschein
John Memoalo
Polish Exile Government Faces Recognition Backlash
Lt Gen Wladyslaw Anders, now in Italy, issued a day’s order protesting Al Hed recognition of the Warsaw Provisional Government. Maj Gen Klemens Rudnicki echoed the stance declaring continued allegiance to President Wladyslaw Ruczkiewicz of the exile regime. Anders called the recognition a heavy blow, condemning foreign power trampling Poland’s constitutional authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Wladyslaw Anders
al- Hed
Warsaw
Anders
Klemens Rudnicki
Germany
Wladyslaw Ruczkiewicz
Italy
Poland
Unanimous Senate Vote For Charter
Washington July 12 Leaders hopeful of a unanimous Senate approval for the United Nations charter. The Foreign Relations Committee nears its fourth day of testimony with Barkley indicating no anticipated negative votes and Hill predicting broad support though reservations may be attacked. Dulles and Thomas to testify as hearings proceed with a committee vote possible this weekend or Monday while Barkley plans to move the Bretton Woods Monetary agreement next Monday amid Republican opposition led by Taft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
Barkley
Hill
Alabama
Philip Murray
CIO
William Carr
National Education Association
John Foster Dulles
Thomas E. Dewey
Dulles
San Francisco
Connally
D.tex
Norman Thomas
Bretton Woods
Taft
Ohio
Republican Conference
PRR Shop Workers Election Set
In Pittsburgh on May 12 a National Mediation Board spokesman said the Pennsylvania Railroad shop workers election for 49,191 employees could begin before August 1. Plans for balloting in 14 states were laid in Philadelphia with URWA and Shop Crafts, naming seven voting classes including machinists and electricians. About 12,000 workers are in western Pennsylvania. URWA holds contracts with several regional railroads.
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Wvys
Pitsburgh
Pennsylvania Railroad
National Mediation Board
Washington
Philadelphia
Mediation Board
ClOy United Railroad Workers of America
Brotherhood of Shop Crafts
Joseph F. Rice
URWA
Hig
Pennsylvania
The
Rice
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie
Aliquippa and Southern
Donora and Southern
Youngstown
Battle-report: Pacific advance and Luzon stronghold fall
In the Pacific a push around Borneo and continued air strikes hit Formosa airfields as 40 Fifth Air Force liberators pound targets. Australian Sixth Division nears goals in New Guinea while Tokyo reports 6,000 Japanese dead there. In northern Luzon US Sixth Infantry captures a fortified Kiangan complex with 19 pillboxes and 53 other positions after heavy shelling and infantry assaults.
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Ighway
Manggar
Belbourne
Adajeranden
Fifth Air Force
Formosa
New Guinea
Big Island
Melbourne
Army Department
New Gainea
Philippines
Luzon
Cordillera
Central
Sierra Madre
Kiangan
Red Star
Charles Hurd
Returning Over-Seas Service Men Column
A notice listing service members returning home from overseas including those discharged and those visiting while on furlough, detailing their reintegration to the home country and the support available as they resume civilian life.
LeRoy Strong on 21 day leave with Lucerne Mines family
Seaman LeRoy Strong attached to a Pacific Fleet heavy cruiser has spent the past year covering major landings in the Pacific including Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He is visiting his parents Mr and Mrs BE Strong of Lucerne Mines during his 21 day leave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LeRoy Strong
W. Strong
Lucerne Mines
Seaman Strong
Pacific Fleet
Pacific
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Veteran Mekulsia Celebrates 30 Years in Service
John Mekulsia Pie recently spent a 15 day furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs Nick Mekulsia of Heilwood. In service 30 years with 20 months overseas in the African campaign as a medical man trained at Fort Riley and Camp Edwards. Stationed at Ft Myers Va with a service unit. Four brothers also in service Nick in the Navy Philippines Joe in the Navy South Pacific now California George in the Navy Atlantic and Peter a prisoner of war held by the Japanese.
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Pie
John Mekulsia
Nick Mekulsia
Heilwood
Fort Riley
Kansas
Camp Edwards
Mass
Ft. Myers
Nick
Navy
Philippines
Joe
South Pacific
California
George
Atlantic
Peter
Joe Fetske Receives Honorable Discharge From Arm ed Forces
Joe Fetske of Dixonville is granted an honorable discharge from the United States Army at Jefferson Barracks Missouri after four years of service in the China Burma India theater. He served as mess sergeant and earned the American Defense Ribbon Asiatic Pacific Theater Ribbon and five overseas service bars. He is the son of George Fetsko of Dixonville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Fetske
Jefferson Barracks
Missouri
China
Burma
India
Sgt. Fetsko
George Fetsko
Dixonville
Returning GIs Jeer As Jap Diplomats Disembark
Returning GIs jeered as 33 Japanese diplomats arrived in New York from Germany aboard the West Point. Horoshi Oshima led the party slated for quarantine and later transfer to Bedford Springs Hotel for exchange, amid local protest and fears of pampering the enemy.
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Bedford Springs
New York City
Germany
West Point
Horoshi Oshima
Nip Ammbassador
Bedford County
Oshima
Bedford Springs Hotel
State Department
Bedford
United States
Jonathan Wainwright
America
Black Lick Native Nestor Paluch Honored Veteran News
Nestor Paluch son of Rey and Mrs. Paluch of Black Lick is honorably discharged after four years and four months in the Army Medical Corps. He served in North Africa Sicily and Italy and earned seven bronze stars for field hospital work in Algeria Sicily Tunisia Naples Po Valley Rome and Arno. His brothers Sgt Tony and Pfe Alexander also serve, Tony with the Army Air Corps in Dayton after 20 months in the Aleutians, Alexander in Camp Blanding hospital after 34 months in the European theater. Their father is the pastor of the Greek Orthodox Catholic Church at Black Lick.
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Nestor Peluch
Rey
Paluch
Black Lick
Medical Corps
Algeria
Sicily
Tunisia
Naples
Po Valley
Rome
Arno
Tony
Army Air Corps
Dayton
Ohio
Aleutians
Pfe
Alexander
Camp Blanding
Fla
Archie A McGrew 1st Lt. Returns From European War Service
Archie A McGrew 1st Lt. has reported to Redistribution Station No 1 Atlantic City N J after thirteen months overseas in the European theater. He served as a B 24 bombardier and completed 28 combat missions earning the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters the Distinguished Flying Cross and the ETO ribbon with four battle stars. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Arch B McGrew Jr of The Hana. His service ended March 28 1942 after training in Big Spring Texas before shipment overseas May 1 1944.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archie A. McGrew
Indiana, Ps
AAF
Atlantic City
N. J
McGrew
Arch B
British Deny Austrian Accord
A British Foreign Office spokesman called reports of a complete Allied accord on Austria’s occupation entirely untrue. He said the European Advisory Commission still considers the issue and chief difficulty remains how to subdivide Vienna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Foreign Office
Austria
European Advisory Commission
Vienna
Fund to Keep FEPC Alive Is Approved
Washington July 12 The marathon congressional fight over the Fair Employment Practice Committee nears end with a compromise bill to fund FEPC at 250000 for the current fiscal year. The measure, designed to liquidate the agency eventually, must pass the House and be signed before FEPC can operate on payrolls. Supporters say the deal meets goals despite funding below estimates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Fair Employment Practice Committee
White House
House
Appropriations Committee
FEPC
Senate
Bruce Phillips on 80 day furlough with parents in Longview
Bruce A Coulips is spending an 80 day furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs Clair Phillips at Clymor. He trained at Longview General Hospital and served 18 months in England with the medical corps. He has been in the Army 30 months. Three other Phillips sons serve: Ralph in Germany, Robert in Belgium, Leland in the Army Air Corps at Kessler Field, Mississippi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bruce A. Coulips
Clair Phillips
Soldier Lyle Putt Returns from Overseas Duty
Sgt. Lyle E. Putt of Grandview Avenue Indiana returns from Europe with the Eighth Infantry Division. He entered the Army in December 1943 and has spent 1134 months overseas as a member of Company G, 18th Infantry, in action in Northern France and Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyle E. Putt
Lyle Putt
Grandview Avenue
Indiana
Europe
Eighth Infantry Division
Putt
Army
18Th Infantry
France
Germany
Hold Grandmother In Child Slaying
Mrs Annie E Duffrey a 41 year old grandmother is held without bail in the death of 24 year old Sandra Lee McCann. Police report the child died of a broken neck and cerebral hemorrhage with welts on the body. The child's mother Roberta Duffiey McCann arrived from Bridgeport Conn explaining her mother is under strain. The father Pvt Lawrence McCann was killed in Italy in 1943 before the child was born.
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Media
Annie E. Duffrey
Sandra Lee McCann
Fred S. Jack
Delaware County
Jack
Bridgeport
Conn
Pvt
Lawrence McCann
Taly
Italy
Ex Justice Roberts to address Phoenixville crowd on peace
Ex Supreme Court associate justice Owen J. Roberts will speak tonight in Phoenixville on The People's Responsibility Toward World Peace. It is his first public appearance since retirement was announced by President Truman. The event is sponsored by 39 local organizations and features Imre Kovacs and Capt. Fred A. Bowen as other speakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenixville
Owen J. Roberts
Supreme Court of the United States
Truman
Imre Kovacs
Hungary
Chaplain consoles kin of dead from Franklin
In Pittsburgh a grieving group heard Lt. Com. Joseph T. O Callahan recount the Franklin tragedy. Fighting Father O Callahan offered comfort, urged acceptance of loss, and spoke of reunion in Heaven. Army Lt Harold Goetz, whose brother Jack died aboard Franklin, found solace in the chaplain’s words.
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Franklin
Pittsburgh
Joseph Timothy O'Callahan
Father O'Callahan
Jack
Resigns as Gov Goes to Senate Nevada Governor to Join Senate
Carson City Nevada July 1947 Gov E P Carville announces resignation effective July 3 to accept appointment to the U S Senate as successor to the late Sen James C Scrugham Lt Gov Vail Pittman, brother of the late Sen Key Pittman, says he will appoint Carville immediately after becoming governor.
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Carson City
Nev
E. P. Carville
Nevada
U. S. Senate
James C. Scrugham
Vail Pittman
Key Pittman
Carville
Obituary notices list Mabel Sutton and Mary Brocious
Obituaries report Mabel Sutton wife of Hatty Sutton died at home in Oil City at 2 40 pm Tuesday burial in Oil City Cemetery. Mary Caroline Brocious wife of Jesse Brocious died at home near North Freedom at 7 20 pm Tuesday from a paralytic stroke. Survived by husband, numerous children and grandchildren. services at St. James Lutheran Church with burial in St. James Cemetery. Thomas M. Fer, 71, Blairsville, died while working. death due to heart attack per county coroner. Funeral details and burial arrangements listed. notes on survivors include a son and siblings.
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Mabel Sutton
Hatty Sutton
Oil City
Rochester Mills
Boyd
Sylvester
Mary Caroline Brocious
Jesse ‘Brocious
North Freedom
Mrs. Brocious
Jacob and
Catherine (Maurer) Kethl
St. James Lateran Church
Missionary Society
Oren
Clymer
Karl Doverspike
Timblin
Harry Martz
Clarion
Elsie Caylor
Brookville
Harry Ditger
Mayport R. D
Earl
Saxonburg
Paul and
Lawrence
Dixonville
Alice Brosious
Ringgold
J. B. Miller
C. W. Geist
Salem
M. N. Miller
Shan= Kondale
Esther Kordes
Calvin Keihl
Tabor
Jacob Keihl
Lewisville
St. James Lutheran Church
Wilson
St. James Cemetery
Thomas M. Fer
Maple Avenue
Blairsville
Harry Replogle
Oak St
Indiana
BE. L. Fleming
Pee
Mary Elizabeth Cassidy
Modern Woodmen of the World
Holy Name Society
Hunter Funeral Home
Simon & Jude's Church
F. J. Mueller
Church
Bradley Approved Nomination For Veterans Affairs Post
The Senate Finance Committee unanimously approved General Omar N. Bradley for the administrator of Veterans Affairs in a July 12 vote. Bradley’s confirmation moves to the full Senate for final action as the administration seeks leadership of the veterans affairs department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Omar N. Bradley
Administrator of Veterans Affairs
William Penn Scout Council Plans Meet
The semi annual meeting of the William Penn Council Boy Scouts of America will be at Camp Seph Mack on Wednesday evening July 1. Ross Leffler Region 3 chairman will give the main speech. Regional executive Harold W. Lewman will attend. Tickets for Scouters are $1 per plate by reservation at the council office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Penn Council
Boy Scouts the America
Camp
Seph Mack
Ross Leffler
Boy Scouts F America
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Delaware
Asl
Virginia
Washington
Harold W. Lewman
John E. Davis
A. J. Stahura
Fred Sprankle
A. N. Gressley
Doyle Rowley
Wallace Nordby
John W. Warner
Joseph Mazza
John W
Davis
Indiana
Asterhout Library Opens Open Air Bookmobile
In Wiskes Barre Pennsylvania on July 12 the Asterhout Public Library will bring literature to the public with an open air bookmobile in the public square. It will display a gay beach umbrella over a folding table on a sidewalk during lunch hours five days a week to attract workers and shoppers.
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Wiskes-Barre
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Fdr
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Mrs. Roosevelt
Gis Jeer
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Archie. McGrew
Bruce Phillips
Justice Roberts
Bradley
Penna
William Penn Scout Council
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Florsheim
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