Hitler's Threats Accelerate Allied Drive Across Europe
War analyst notes Hitler's broadcast signals a plan to burn civilian Europe as leverage. Hitler’s record of massacres and enslavement suggests a blood bath if unchecked. The piece argues the Nazi danger requires united Allied action to crush Nazism quickly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Germany
Europe
Fuehrer
Reich
Hitler
United Nations
East Prussia
Italy
Bomb Free Campaign Aims to End Attacks
Reported by wartime authorities shows Germans dropped over 3,000 bombs after a month of vengeance raids. UK civilian air raid losses last month reached 1,925 killed or relieved killed and 5,806 injured, with 281 children among the dead. A bomb hit a block where evacuees queued for gifts, and 12 bodies were recovered as witnesses noted the line vanished in debris.
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Ministry of Home Security
United Kingdom
Wilno Falls Continued Amid German Collapse
A Red Star report says remaining German forces in Wilno endure agony as soldiers attempt surrender but are shot by storm troopers and Gestapo. Parachute reinforcements are downed by anti aircraft fire or land on lines and roofs. Hitler orders fighters to die for the city while the Red Army closes on Pinsk and threatens East Prussia. Finland fears a potential collapse.
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Wilno
Red Star
Gestapo
Hitler
Suwatki Triangle
East Prussia
Poland
Red Army
Pinsk
U. S
Ned
Hope for French Liberation Held by Roosevelt
President Roosevelt voiced hope for the heroic people of France to be free from the invader and the puppets of Vichy in the year ahead. He saluted France on Bastille Day and said together they shall be free with confidence the French will celebrate their national fete on French soil in 1945.
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Washington
Roosevelt
France
Iran
Vichy
Red Army advances widen across central Baltic fronts
Soviet forces pressed forward along the central Baltic and Finnish fronts as German resistance stiffened. The Moscow communique cited heavy German losses and captures, encirclements near Daugavpils and Grodno, and advances that reclaimed towns and villages up to Brest Litovsk with multiple army groups reporting gains and large-scale enemy casualties.
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Fantry
East Prussia
Ner
Red Army
Moscow
Wilne
Baltic Republics
Daugavpills
Latya
Andrei I. Yeremenko
Lida
Wilno
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
Grodno
Nova Rida
Rizhansy
Brest Litovsk
jSoMnninique
Teen Age Club plans discussed for teens 7 to 12
A July 12 article outlines tentative Teen Age Club plans for a self supporting organization serving Indiana school students from grades 7 to 12. The club would offer recreational and social activities with a seven member student board, two adult members, and several committees. Rules emphasize curfew compliance, tobacco and liquor laws, property care, and maintaining the club’s good name.
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Chiefs
Mare
Indiana
T. C. Laboratory
St. Bernard's
Maittigin
Bastille Day Gains In France And Italy Front
American troops under the 442nd regimental combat team pierced German lines near Livorno seizing Bastina and pushing toward Lua. French forces on the American right wing advanced toward San Donato San Gimignano and La Cascile, nearing the Arte River and threatening Poggihonsi. In Normandy and Cherbourg celebrations marked France’s liberty day with flags and Croix De Guerre recognitions.
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Noland Norgsard
Rome
Bastina
Livorne
Leghorn
San Luce
Livorno
Malian
Thedra
San Donato
San Gimignano
la Cascile
Artie
Flapoli
Poggihonsi
San Gimignana
London
France
Normandy
Cherbourg
Vichy
Japs Again Encircle Hengyang
CHUNGKING July 1 A The Japanese again encircled Hengyang a key Runan city, three days after Chinese forces broke the siege. Japanese control now extends along the Canton Hankow railroad to Laiyang outskirts, with new headquarters shifted toward Hengyang. Airfields at Hengyang and Changsha are reported in use, forcing American forces to withdraw. Chinese on the Yunnan front near Tengchung tighten siege as eastern gate comes under attack after heavy fighting.
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Chungking
Hengyang
Canton Hankow
Thhe
Laiyang
Iran
Changsha
Ita Henghsan
Tokyo
Associated Prous
Henayang
Yunnan
Tengchung
Urges Uniting of Welfare Institutions
Harrisburg July 14 A preliminary report by a special committee studying welfare institutions proposes consolidating state facilities. The plan would divide the state into districts and assign hospital types to each district, emphasizing autonomy and patient convenience. It predicts more specialization and expanded capacity for mental cases after the war.
Today Of Other Years July 14 1939 Strikes WPA arms embargo note
July 14 1939 President Roosevelt moves to curb a WPA strike and ease an arms embargo on Japan. Navy seeks to raise a sunken submarine as news from the era. Ten years earlier July 14 1934 Indiana Blairsville National Guard training Mt Gretna under Captain Dale C Marlin. Adolf Hitler regains control in Germany and a new road opens between Salisbury and Clarksburg. Revival Indiana Tabernacle Rev Rexdak meetings underway at Manyon. Weather page notes 45 Weaten Age and no Sunday edition.
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Prigay
Roosevelt
WPA
Japan
U.S. Navy
Indiana
Blairsville
National Guard
Mt. Gretna
Dale C. Marlin
Co. F
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Salisburg
Clarksburg
Indiana Tabernacle
Reydak
Manyon
Bell Telephone Company Receives Signal Corps Award
The Chief Signal Officer’s Certificate of Appreciation was awarded to Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania today at its Philadelphia headquarters for loyal and patriotic services to the Signal Corps. The company aided early War recruitment, supplying personnel and officers. Philip C. Staples, president, received the award from Colonel Howard S. Paddock on behalf of Major General H. C. Tagles.
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Signal Corps of the Army of the United States
Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
The
Telephone Company
Signal Corps
H. C. Tagles
War Labor Board Center Of Dispute
The War Labor Board faces two major wage disputes triggering work stoppages. About 6,000 workers in 10 Chicago and Joliet can manufacturing plants protested a partial wage grant, endangering war food packs. AFL unionists fear a broader strike amid wartime production pressures.
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War Labor Board
Chicago
Joliet
Can
AFL
Gordon H. Kellogg
American Can Company
McNair’s Military Career and You-Hoo Incident Mentioned
McNair, 61, a Verndale, Minnesota native, began at West Point in 1900 and rose through artillery to major general then lieutenant general. He served in Mexico with Funston’s Vera Cruz expedition, in 1916 punitive actions, and with the First Division AEF in France in 1917 before wartime duties at General Headquarters. The article recalls Senator Clark’s failed bid to block Senate approval over the You-Hoo incident. Commo Perry is credited with rail planning in 1853 at Yokohama.
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Lear
Jad
Clark
Senate
McNair
Verndale
Minn
West Point
Mexico
Funston
Vera Cruz
France
United States
General Headquarters
Sneak Attack Admiral Died on Saipan
United States forces report the death of Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, who led the Pearl Harbor sneak attack, amid the Saipan battle. Admiral Nimitz disclosed Nagumo and 16,000 Japanese dead, as Guam operations continue with attacks by the task force that seized Saipan and overran a Jap garrison near Tanapag harbor. over 1,000 soldiers and 9,000 civilians were reported as prisoners.
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U. S. Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Saipan
Nippon
Western Pacific
Tokyo
Guam
Chester W. Nimitz
U. S
Nimitz
Strikers Back To Work In Two War Plants
About 1,900 steel workers at Fort Pitt Steel Casting in McKeesport and American Steel Foundries in Verona returned to work after federal conciliators and military officers stepped in. One group of 296 at Pressed Steel Car in McKees Rocks refused to work over an inter union dispute, but no company issue was involved.
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Pittsburgh
Army
Navy
Fort Pitt Steel Casting Company
McKeesport
American Steel Foundries
Verona
Interstate Delaware River meeting backs mutual water plan
HERSHEY July 14. A Delaware River water agreement was cited at a journal meeting of the Interstate Commission on the Delaware River Basin showing states Pennsylvania New York and New Jersey can cooperatively manage an interstate watershed. Chairman Ellwood J. Turner opened the two day conference with discussion of a draft by the commission outlining conditions for diverting river waters for municipal supply and topics on Schuylkill restoration and postwar program.
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Hershey
Pennsylvania
New York
New Jersey
Delaware River
Interstates Commission
Ellwood J. Turner
Delaware County
Delaware
Commission
River
Schuylkill River
Saipan fortress drives Japanese defense hinge in Pacific war
In a briefing, Admiral Nimitz notes Saipan as the principal Japanese fortress guarding southern routes to Japan. Allied troops press the Saipan seizure, with Muamagassa captured and 16,000 Japanese buried or interred. Chinese forces endure near Hankow Canton line as Tokyo claims air losses in a separate raid.
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Ako
Midway
Saipan
Oahu
Japan
Admiral Nimitz
Pearl Harbor
California
Muamagassa
Tanapag Harbor
Hengyang
U. S
U.S
Hankow-Canton
Tokyo Radio
Nazis Turn Church Into Tomb in Oradour Massacre
London dispatch reports the French press service details the Oradour sur Glane atrocity on June 10. Women and children were locked in a church that was dynamited and set afire, nearly 800 villagers perished, and only about seven or eight survived. Men were marched to a barn and shot, then the village buildings burned as German soldiers prevented escape.
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London
Oradour-sur-Glane
Trapped Japs Attack in New Guinea Engagement
Allied headquarters in New Guinea report a Japanese assault 21 miles east of Aitape met heavy resistance. The 18th Imperial Army survivors were checked after savage fighting on a jungle battleground. Casualties were heavy on both sides including veteran Americans.
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New Guinea
British New Guinea
Aitape
New Guiana
18Th Imperial Army
Obituary for Sarah Catherine Butler of Coral
Sarah Catherine Butler wife of Charles Butler of Coral died in Indiana Hospital at 2 20 p m Thursday born Fayette County July 14 1687 Survived by husband 12 children 4 stepchildren numerous relatives Four brothers and many grandchildren and great grandchildren Also noted Annie E Dwyer death mentioned with funeral details to follow local references indicate services planned at daughter’s home in Homer City remarks by Rev Harry T Reed
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Sarah Catherine Butler
Charles Butler
Coral
Indiana Hospital
Fayette County
Savilla Beltrami
Hooversville
Bessie Beltrami
Jerome
Elizabeth Lehman
Tennessee
Mable Propst
Homer City
Lily Blystone
Verna Sopotnick
Daisy Jennings
Graceton
Russell Butler
Bray
Samuel Butler
Waynesburg
Francis Butler
U. S
John Butler
U. S. Navy
Twile
Bobby
Edith Williamson
Clarksville
Joseph Butler
Harry Butler
Francis Murray
Jones Mills
Fred Murray
New York
Samuel Murray
Uniontown
Jerry Murray
Greensburg
Glen Propst
Lawrence
Harry T. Reed
Oakland Cemetery
Howard
Forney
Emma (Kepple) Forney
Deerfield
Ohio
Scelack Pom
Floyd Forney
Elderton
Allignce
Clark
Charles, Reynolds
United Presbyterian Church of
South Bend Cemetery
Produce Distributors Meet in Altoona Pennsylvania
The Wholesale Produce Distributors of Western Pennsylvania met at the Penn Alto Hotel in Altoona. Represented were S. T. Runzo & Company, Cresson, Walling & Company, Johnstown, John Laren tia Indiana, Lafferty Brothers, Crig ger Brothers, Patt's Wholesale and Ross Hatch Altoona, Houlegaes Bayer-Gillam Co Tyrone, Reeves-Parvin Co Huntingdon. Altoona OPA Office representatives attended including Patrick O'Leary and R. W. Anealthony. New OPA rules on fresh fruits and vegetables discussed. Officials named Joseph C. Walling President Paul Ward Vice President Leo Kesler Secretary Joseph Runzo Treasurer.
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Western Pennsylvania
Penn Alto
Altoona
S. T. Runzo & Company
Cresson
Walling & .Company
Johnstown
John la Renetia
Indiana
Lafferty Brothers
Crigger Brothers
Patt's Wholesale
Ross Hatch
Houtzdale
Tholesale Produce Co
Houlegaes
Bayer-Gillam Co
Tyrone
Reeves-Parvin Co
Huntingdon
Altoona District
OPA
Patrick O'Leary
R. W Anethony
A. L. DeBarber
Price
J. C. Williams
Wayde Bloom
Joseph C. Walling
Walling & Company
Paul Ward
Bayer-Gillam Company
Leo F. Kesler
Joseph Runzo
Townsend Club to Meet Tonight at Court House
The Townsend Club will meet at 8:00 this evening in the Court House. Also noted are obituaries for Paul Zicha of Graceton and Howard Forney of Deerfield with funeral arrangements pending and services planned in Elderton and Saltsburg, Pa.
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Townsend Club
Court House
Emila Farri
Assumption Ronan Catholic Church
St. Matthews Roman: Catholic Cemetery
Saltsburg
No Decision Reached In Conference
Brexton Woods July 4 The United Nations monetary conference failed to reach a final agreement on a postward fund. Russia remained central but the outcome was seen as only a matter of time before Anglo American alignment. Moscow declined to commit to the gold contribution sought by the American delegation amid a few remaining points to discuss.
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Donald
Kovacic
Bretton Woods
N. H
United Nations Monetary Conference
Russia
Moscow
Monetary Fund
Swiss Say Crisis Coming In Germany
A Swiss military commentator warned of a major crisis developing in Germany in a Swiss radio broadcast. He cited dwindling confidence and growing nervousness in the German camp, with Hitler’s headquarters shifting west, Rundstedt’s dismissal, and a renewed persecution of Jews as typical elements of the crisis.
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London
Germany
Rundstedt
Stock Market Ticker Clippings From Early 20th Century Listings
A dense OCR style stock list shows numerous company names and percent figures across steel, automotive, chemicals, utilities, airlines, and rail firms. Entities include Am Can, Gen Motors, US Steel, Radio Corp of Am, Reading Co, Penn RR, and Northern Pacific with varied percentage values and coded notes. The fragment preserves a snapshot of market deltas and corporate mentions without narrative context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Beth Steel
Boeing Airplane
Borden Co
Briggs
Budd
Lehigh Port C
Leh Val RR
Libby McN & L
Loews Inc
REY Montgom Ward
Nat Biscuit
Nat Dairy Prod
Nat Lissillers Bay
Nat
Pow & Lt
Central RR
North Ameria
Northern Pacific
Packard Motor Sig Param
N. J
Pullman
Radio Corp of Am
Reading Co
Repab Steel
Sears Roebuck
Socony
US Rubber
US Steel
Warner Bros
West Union Tel
West el & Mig
Woolworth
Youngst
Sh & T
Curb
Aero Supply
Ark
Elec
Pennroad Corp
South Penn
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Saipan Island
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Tan-Pertatien
Weaten Age
Sun
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Bell ’Phone
WLB
ST. LO
Conmiodore Perry
Yokohame
Delaware Water
Caen
Annie E. Dwyer
Lawrence Huilenbaugh
Ernest
Hallenbaugh Home
Paul Zicha
John and
Mary Grego
Zicha
Dadaary
Robinson
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S.C. Tepat
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