War War Today Weighs Risks and Allied Advances
The article reports on Allied progress toward Japan with advances in the Mariana theater, Saipan, Guam, and Tinian, while noting Japan’s priority to avoid a direct naval battle. Adm. King and Adm. Halsey warn of a difficult fight ahead, and MacArthur hints bombing Philippines bases may begin soon as a step toward reclaiming the islands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal Tits
Padibemao Wall
Japan
Admiral King
U. S
Halsey
Uncle Sam
Ofapan
Philippines
King
China
Wedl
Mikado
Tojo
Mariana
U.S
Palau
Sabang
Dutch East Indies
Isles
Mindanao
Tokyo
America
General MacArthur
Russians advance as German hold falters across the front
Soviet forces push toward Narva and Tallinn while closing on Kaunas and Lwow as German troops retreat. Deblin is liberated and Red Army nears the Polish capital. Narva falls opening Gulf of Finland corridor, with clashes from Deyalin to Stanislawow and heavy bombings near Memel and Tilsit.
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West Bank
Red Army
Izgvestia
Deblin
Warsaw
Istens
Delaytin
Carpathian
Czech
Romania
Hungary
Narva
Estonia
Tallinn
Gulf of Finland
Eighth Great Army
Leningrad
Leonid A. Govoroy
Lwow
Stanislawow
Deyalin
Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Garden Contest Winners 1944
Fifty eight employees share cash prizes totaling 1000 dollars in the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company 1944 Garden Contest. Certificates of merit go to 175 more for outstanding lawns and gardens among over 2000 entrants in sixteen company towns. Judges from Pennsylvania State College assess plots. The company and state college have sponsored the contest for sixteen years, predicting large yields including tomatoes beets cabbage corn and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Company
Extension Service
Pennsylvania State College
J. W. Warner
W. O. Mitchell
S. B. Shenk
Walter Haldeman
A. O. Rasmussen
J. G. Stout
Warner
Ernest
George Flori
Francesco Barbi
Louis Pecart
Andrew Motsko
Jacob Rhoads
George Pease
James Reasinger
Edward Bernard
John Bouch
Felix Virginia
Clinton Hoche
Mike Smith
Leo Spontak
John Stets
Samuel Kano
John Grzechensky
John Garsick
John Bellack
Lugerne
Joh Shimko
Steve Skultetts
Pete Levsock
James Vereb
Alex Szentimiklosi
Pete Plowcha
Joseph Pelo
Frank Malater
John Rellick
Joh Bendus
Mike Shinko
George Luksick
Steve Hordyne
George Obush
Thomas Calvin
John Szenyo
Pete Clements
Fohy Turley
Harry Sage
Lovie Prato
Mile Popovich
Tony Gumbrevicious
August Pozik
John Bestvina
Andy Yanocslek
Rosario Stab
Frank Harvick
Gene Buretig
Albert Fasenmyer
Josephine Batisig
Phittin Cudvle
Dido Zuchell
Francis Leniz
Tony Draft
Sagamore
Mike Kovalchick
John Kovalchick
Leroy Cuddy
Fred Gauls
Tony Sattile
Grazio Minnitti
Joe Oplus
Perry Kellar
John Gromontakie
George Priestas, Sr
Fohrr Wanethick
Mike Wavevek
Clifford Anderson
George Condrick
John Veselenak
Alex Rutkosky
Alex Wineski
Steve Beorchecte
Andy Hosnoder
George R. Hill
Frank Castello
Frank Raymond
Joe Vitkoski
Doe Caras
Carmine Perri
Frante Eckson
Welgetia
John Kane
J. M. Poiddi
Thomas Nesbitt
William Crow
Clyde Dunlap
Steve Duda
Stanley Malewits
John Liptac
Harry Kier
John T Kelly
Thomas Johnson
Thomas Wilson
Howard Reasinger
NoMine
John Caliguire
Jon Passerita
Nancy Hirth
J. G. Rudolph
George Honkus
Tony Salapa
Anna Kuhta
A. J. Gilhouser
Kenneth Rader
Thomas Smulik
C. S. Snyder
John Firment
Floyd Wensal
Harry Lloyd
Frank Honkus
McIntyre
Fred Zigmond
Patsy Morgan
Clair Kinner
Andy Lozak
George Barua
Catalda Ferrent
Patsy Vatillio
Thanas Kohath
John Kotula
Waterman
Paul Kistilok
Svs
Mike Rado
Andy Drosky
Alvin Thomas
Paul Bellas
Andrew Miz¢rak
Mack Kostelulek
Charles Fadena
Willian Zorak
Joe Waliala
Frank Kulick
Coat Run
Andy Bodnar
Hershel Stiffler
John Machak
Sention
John Baran
Joseph Flack
Steve Galumbia
Mike Blonar
Joseph Orgovan
Pete Sledzik
John Demyan
John Pedhurney
Theodore Brosko
Alex Mulik
Stanley Noga
Tide
Mike Dudash
Pete Sudol
Mike Yonoscik
Quarry Novak
Steve Mester
St. Charles Davis
Coy
Valentine Andrie
Steve Mizerak
Mario Andrie
Tony Grego
Dominec Zam
August quota cuts for truck and bus tires announced
The Office of Price Administration cut the August civilian heavy truck and bus tire allocation to 80,000 casings from 135,000. The War Production Board ordered the slash to meet army needs at all costs despite risks to civilian transport. Passenger car tires stay at 1,950,000 monthly, and smaller truck tire allocations fall less sharply, with August total at 280,000 versus 375,000 in July.
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Wee Washington
Office of Price Administra
Ton
War Production Board
Tola
Goebbels Says Nazi Leadership to Helm Total War Effort
Goebbels on Berlin radio chaired by Goering framed the revolt as a movement for total mobilization. He claimed the United States Britain and the Soviet Union aided the generals plot and that Himmler was ordered to reorganize the reserve army. Total war will shift manpower to fronts and to armament plants.
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Goebbels
Nazi Party
Trely
National Socialist Party
Berlin
Reich Plenipotentiary
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Junkers Generale
Hitler
U. S
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
Heinrich Himmler
Gestapo
Nome
Frout
Saipan siege tests resolve as Marines push near Orote
Five thousand wounded marines refuse hospital rest and join Tinian fighters while MacArthur reports bombers hit Wolesi in the Western Carolines. Chinese battles over Hengyang and Yochow continue with no American losses at Yochow. Britons strike east as Myitkyina advances, and Sabang and Palau raids renew Pacific pressure.
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Saipan
Rembert James
Douglas MacArthur
New Guinea
MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Wolesi Island
Aidyomes
Carolines
Chin
U. S. 4Th Air Force
Hengyang
Yochow
Chuneking
Hankow-Canton
Chennault
India
Myitkyina
Sabang
Malacca Strait
Sumatra
Malaya
Singapore
Radio Tokyo
Palau
Philippines
Su-matra
Fragmented Names List From Local Sports Event
A garbled OCR segment lists participant names and rankings including Lucusboro Mike Willis and Felton Rus with 1 and 2 placements, honorable mentions such as Valentine Sapotnik Pearl Henry and Julius Gratosky, plus other forename surname pairs and unclear attributions. The broken text ends with Mine officia.
Germans Use Leaning Tower For Observation
AN AMERICAN COMMAND NEAR PISA ITALY JULY 2. WORLD FAMOUS LEANING TOWER OF PISA SERVES AS AN OBSERVATION POST AS FIGHTING RAGES ON THE ARNO. MAJOR ARTHUR PETERSON OF INDIANAPOLIS SAID THE CITY MAY BECOME A MILITARY TARGET IF PUBLIC OPINION ALLOWS.
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Pisa
Italy
Pina
Fifth Army
Cassino
Arthur Peterson
Indianapolis
Ind
Camp Meetings Continue at Susquehanna Park Camp
MAHAFFEY Pa July 27 There will be a change in the regular program tomorrow evening at the Bible and Missionary Conference in its last week at Susquehanna Park Campgrounds near this village The great Missionary Rally will feature all missionaries in native dress and a panorama of twenty mission fields The 7 30 opening will include reports from China Indo China and South China featuring speakers like Ter G A Jacobson Mrs D J Jaffery Rev W H Oldfield Rev H L Turner Rev K C Fraser and others The Western District of the Christian and Missionary Alliance oversees the encampment which closes this Sunday with additional preparations for new arrivals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mahaffey
Bible and Missionary Conference
Susquehanna Park
Alliance
G. A. Jacobson
China
Shanghai
D. J. Jaffery
W. H. Oldfield
South China
H. L. Turner
Canada
Tabernacle
Jesus
George B. Scripture
Reynoldsville
Lenard Thomas
Arbuckle
Eunice Harris
S. Hampton
L. I
K. C. Fraser
Columbus
M. W. Lindsey
the Christian and Missionary Alliance
E. C. Anderson
Punxsutawney
Chinese Win Two Victories Near Hengyang and in Burma
Chinese high command said Chinese troops recaptured a railway town in Hunan below Hengyang with U S air support weakening a Japanese strongpoint near the Burma border and 600 enemy casualties. Leiyang fell south of Hengyang while Laifenghsan near Tengchung was seized after heavy air pounding, with fighting ongoing around Hengyang and Chinese counterpressure along the Canton HANKOW line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
Hunan
Hengyang
U. S
Burma
Hengyong
Canton-Hankow
Leiyang
Yunan
Laifenghsan
Tengchung
Myitkyina
Tsingqun
Canton
Changsha
Hunen Province
Kiangsi
Pingjiang
Hangyang
Wray Drillers Hit Million-Foot Well
A gas well on the John D. Rupp farm in the Echo Dayton district flowed nearly a million cubic feet per day after drilling to less than 1000 feet. John R. Wray drillers reportedly struck a gas pocket. Oklahoma also voiced demands on fruit and vegetables.
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John D. Rupp
Echo-Dayton
John R. Wray
Allied push across Normandy threatens Vire bend west of St Lo
Allied armored forces breached toward Canisy and Periers in a second day drive in Normandy. American spearheads reached Canisy and Marigny, widening a 40 mile front while capturing Montrabot and other villages. German counterattacks near Caen were repelled as Luftmacht and armor clashed, with 40,000 Germans blocking progress toward Paris. Eisenhower and De Gaulle warned Germany to treat Free French and allied prisoners properly.
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Periers
Lessay
St. Gilles
St. Lo- Coutances
Marigny
Normandy
Esquay
Caen
Vortieres
Omar N. Bradley
America First Army
Doughboys
Caumont
St. Lo
Montrabot
Canisy
Coutances
Vire
Si. Lo
Carentan
Lewes River
Paris
le Mesnil Hermen
le Mesnil Herman
London
Charegine
Interior
FFI
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Charles de Gaulle
French Committee of Liberation
FFT
Goebbels Claims Lord's Hands Save Hitler in Report
New York July 27 Propaganda Minister Goebbels delivered a full report on last Thursday's bombing. He said there are no disasters or dangers that cannot turn in Germany's favor and claimed Hitler's life was saved by the Lord. He warned Himmler to reorganize the reserve army and move forces to the front.
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New York
Goebbels
Germany
Berlin
Associated Press
NBC
CBS
Reich
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Eastern Front
Hitler
Mediterranean Air Forces Down 193 Enemies in 3 Days
Allied air units claim 78 German planes shot down over southern Europe in a three day stretch setting a Mediterranean record. American Lightning and Mustang fighters return from a three day shuttle mission involving raids over Romania and Poland with 64 planes destroyed and multiple ground losses. Includes actions at Buzau Zilistea Mielec Ploesti and Bucharest zones with collaboration with Soviet pilots. Also notes a naval conversion of Boston off shore fleet and Jordan River valley irrigation proposal amid broader war updates.
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Mediterranean
Europe
Lightning
Mustang
Sith U. & Aair
Rus‘sig
Romania
Poland
Buzau
Zilestes
Plessi
Mielec
Lwow
Italy
Ploesti
Bucharest
Dewey Pledges 15 Point Plan to End Government Friction
Governor Thomas E Dewey announced a 15 point program at a Albany press event aimed at uniting Republican governors. The plan targets conflicts among federal, state and local authorities and outlined priorities from public expenditures to veterans affairs as Bricker supported the effort.
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Albany
Thomass
Dewey
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Iominge
St. Louis
Bricker
Executive Mansion
Brisker
Brickner
Wyoming
Colorado
Utah
Nevada
Arizona
National Guard
Veterans Affairs
Obituary notices from Vandergrift area deaths and services
Obituary items note the death of Mrs Rebecca M Whitacre 82 at her Vandergrift home burial at Vandergrift cemetery with services at St Pauls Lutheran Church. Other notices include infant son Butchkoski of Homer City died in Indiana Memorial Hospital with funeral at his home and interment St Bernards Cemetery. Also Charles Lube Sromberick died suddenly at 347 Water Street and to be buried after Requiem High Mass at St Bernards Church.
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Rebecca M. Whitacre
Elmer W. Whitacre
Emerson Street
Vandererift
Urey
Indiana County
Samuel and
Marjorie Wilkins Buckett
Alice Dunlap
Rochester Mills
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Vandergrift
William Criser
F. T. Diddle
Michael Stanley Butchkoski
Michael
Marie (Morris) Butchkoski
Homer City
Indiana Memorial Hospital
Fulton Run
Nick Butchkoski
George Morris
Dayton
John J. Blaycura
St. Bernard’s Cemetery
Charles Lube Sromberick
Water Street
St Bernard's
James Brady
Nazi Party Strengthened by Purge in Germany
Allied sources view the Hitler purge as a real crack in the German structure but doubt it will last. German sentiment favors a strong leader during turmoil, with Goebbels claiming total mobilization will relieve the front and bring rapid war production, while fears grow over Soviet advances near East Prussia.
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Hitler
Germany
London
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Voelkischer Beobachter
Berlin
Nazi Party
Reich
Gauleiter
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmierland
German
Silesia
East Prussia
Junkers
Goebbels
Stock Market Air Reduction 05q Am For Pow 4 Am Rad
A dense list of stock quotes and company tickers appears, including Amoco 4 Am Tel & Tel, Boeing, Chrysler, Edison, Du Pont, General Electric, General Foods, IBM, International Harvester, Kennecott, Loews, Montgomery Ward, National Biscuit, Penn RR, Reading Co, Sears Roebuck, US Steel, Warner Bros, and Westinghouse. Prices show varied percentage changes, with numerous percentages like 25% 38% 16% and 85% scattered among many names. The page reads like a trading table summary with numerous minor percentages and ticker clusters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rad & St
Smelt & R
Tel & Tel
Atch
T& SF
Bendix Aviat
Beth Steel
Boeing Airplane
Borden Co
Briggs
Budd
Case GT Co
Ches & Ohio
Chrysler Corply Colum G & el
Cons Edison
du Pont de N
el Auto Lite
Elec
Gen Foods
Geb Motors
Greyhound Corp
Hard Walker
Hercules Powder
Int Harvester
Nick Can
Tel
Johns Manville Kennecott Cop
Kresge
Leh Val RR
Loews Inc
Montgom Ward
Nat Biscuit Nat Dairy Prod
Nat Distillers
Nat Pow & Lt
Y Central RR
North Ameria Northern Pac
Packard Motor Param Pictures Penney
Penn RR
N J
Pullman
Pure Oil
Reading Co
Repab Steel
Sears Roebuck
Socony Vacuum Sperry Corp
Cal
Ind
OU Ng
Studebaker Corp
Swift & Co
Texas Co
United Aircraft
United Gas Imp A & Rubber
Ussmeh Rem
US Steel
Warner Bros
Pict West UN Tel A West
el & Mig
Woolworth
Youngst
Sh & T
Curb— Aero Supply
B” Ark Nat Gan “4” Cities Service
Etec
Bond & Share
Penmoad Corp Ee Ae
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Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Ecuador
Wookread
Indiana, Fe
R.&p. Garden
Fuehrer
Jap Base
Galileo
Arno
Wray
Oklahomg Cynnet
Bostom
Jordan River
Palestine
War Department
Steed
Gov
Ise
S.C
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