Allied push in Cherbourg peninsula eyed in invasion drive
The article notes slow Allied gains on the Cherbourg peninsula with Ste. Mere Eglise and Isigny key to pressing toward Cherbourg. It discusses Rommel counterattacks, a need to secure bases and beachheads, and the goal of opening a second front in Western Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cherbourg
Ste. Mere-Eglise
Isigny
Berlin
Caen
Hitler
Voelkischer Beobachter
Berechtesgaden
Fuehrer
Rommel
Pig
United Nations
Europe
Cherbatorg
Senate House panel Backs Veterans Aid Bill
The Senate House Committee settled on most of a veterans relief bill. A key disagreement remained over a 52 week unemployment support for veterans and the plan to place veterans under the Employment Service rather than a separate VA agency. The bill includes private loans with 40 percent government guarantee up to 2000, a year of schooling with 500 tuition, 50 monthly subsistence, and 25 for a dependent’s upkeep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
House Committee
Veterans
United States Employment Service
House
Veterans Administration
Clark
Senate Conforces
Senate Cerferees
Radios Wanted For Deshon Hospital Camp Drive
Community appeal seeks two small table radios and two Brownie type cameras for Deshon Hospital boys. Donors should contact Paul Woodring at the State Teachers College, Camp and Hospital Council chair, who will arrange immediate delivery. Books and magazines are not needed due to ample supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deshon| Hospital
Paul Woodring
State Teachers College
Harmony sought by Dewey allies for GOP platform post
Dewey supporters said to back Senator Taft for the Republican platform committee chair as Bricker-led Ohio delegation aligns with Taft. Delegates count nears nominating votes while convention looms. Other candidates include Warren Stassen Willis Griswold Saltonstall and MacArthur with pledged and claimed totals for Dewey Bricker and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas B. Dewey
New York
Robert Taft
Rohio
Taft
Ohio
John W. Bricker
Dewey
Chicago
Senate
League of Nations
United States
Britain
Russia
China
Nevada
Philippine Islands
Bricker
Earl Warren
California
Harald
Stassen
Simeon Willis
Kentucky
Dwight Griswold
Nebraska
Leverett Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Gev
Douglas MacArthur
Four Star Jersey Bull Pedro Lad Won by East Mahoning Hero
Waller C Simpson of East Mahoning Township owns Pedro Lad a three year old Four Star Jersey bull bred by L B Carter of Titusville. County Agent J W Warjnner notes this may be the only Four Star Jersey bull in Indiana County. Simpson, a member of the Dairy Herd Improvement Association, maintains a herd averaging 6,828 pounds milk and 350 pounds butterfat from 15 cows for the year ending May 33, 1944.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waller C. Simpson
East Mahoning Township
Pedro Lad
Oakwood
L. B. Carter
Titusville
J. W. War Jner
Indiana County
Mr. Simpson
Dairy
Invasion Update Delivers Heavy Strikes on Normandy Front
Allied air power and ground units push into Normandy amid heavy fighting near Caen and Cherbourg. Reports claim 400000 Germans in the region with 200000 on each side, while battles rage across marshy coursed terrain and rail hubs behind the lines.
Presbyterians Name Panel to Study Synod Organization
CHAMBERSBURG Pa June 16 The Pennsylvania Synod of the Presbyterian Church in the U S A named Rev Dr William L Wishard Sharon chairman of a committee to study synod organization Other members named at the closing session of the synods third annual meeting include Rev Dr M M McDivitt Kittanning Rev Dr Joseph Keurledge Pittsburgh Prof Frank M Hunt Lafayette College Easton Rev Dr Frederick Schweitzer Ridley Park synod moderator and Rev Dr G M Shafer Carlisle ex officio members
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chambersburg
Pennsylvania
Lafayette College
Easton
Frederick Schweitzer
Ridley Park
Synod
G. M. Shafer
Carlisle
Willet 4-H Club Meets Monday Night
Washington Township 4-H members and parents meet at the Willet Grange Hall Monday evening June 12 at 8:15. Instead of growing capons which are hard to obtain the club will grow tomatoes. County Agent J W Warner will show a film on commercial tomato growing in Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Township
Willet Grange Hall
J. W. Warner
Pennsylvannes
Words Can Kill People Words Can Kill People
Dr Malford W Thewlis warned at the American Geriatrics Society meeting that words like cancer arthritis stroke and Bright's disease can shorten elderly patients lives by worry He said the war will add to elderly care burdens and will tax the economy due to postwar hospital needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
New York
Malford W. Thewlis
Wakefield
American Geriatrics Society
Thewlis
Allied Forces Drive Through Italy as Fifth and Eighth Armies Advance
In Sicily and central Italy the Fifth Army expands along a 50 mile front from Rome while probing 40 miles north toward Veterbo. The Eighth Army reaches Mori cone near Tivoli and Arsoli, advances up to five miles, capturing towns including Guardiagrele and Mighionico. German forces retreat, shelling ruins at Guardiagrele. an official says stragglers and deserters are being picked up, with only the 20th Luftwaffe field division reported in orderly condition. Canada imported about 40 million pounds of coffee annually before the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Timue
Hermann Goering
Sicily
Tuscana
Varquinia
Vetralla
Rome
Veterbo
Mori
Cone
Tivoli
Arsoli
Suebinew
Adriatic
Eighth Army
Qusogna
Guardiagrele
Mighionico
Filetio
Luftwaffe
Denmark
Air Fleets Bomb Targets Behind French Battleline
Allied air forces blasted railways highways heavy gun positions and a Paris rail junction behind Normandy battlelines in a large coordinated strike. Up to 500 U S bombers and escorts attacked airfields near Paris and several hundred fighters fought off German planes, with losses and several U boats later involved in coastal operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Normandy
F Peninsula
France
U. S
Caen
Gir
Trouville
Seine River
Orne River
Berlin
Atlantic Wall
Supreme Headquarters
Isigny
Ann
Caenarea
Conde Suy Seulles
Bayeau
Bayes
English Channel
Corentan
Hiller
RAF Coastal Command
Baty
Brest
Allied Expeditionary Force
Paris
Airfelds
Erwin Rommel
Etempes
RAF
Campanien
Flers
Rennes
Laval
le Mans
Etampes
Air Ministry
Mediterranean
Allied
Liberal Pennsylvania voting canvass mobilizes a million homes
Governor Martin announced the Military Ballot Information Canvass from June 14 to 28, with nearly 200000 volunteers visiting up to a million homes to gather eligible voters names. Over four million printed materials were prepared by the State Bureau of Publications, including canvass cards and address change forms, while county and local Councils of Defense organize coordinated efforts and post-canvas follow ups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin
Pennsylvania
Ralph Cooper Hutchison
State Council of Defense
Hutchison
State Bureau of Publications
State Council
Harry S. McDevitt
Philadelphia
OCD
Nats
Harrisburg
Alergheny County
J. A. Richardson
Civilian War Services
Allegheny County
Indiana County
Saltsburg
J. W. Everett
H. S. Rockey
K. I. Little
Meningitis In Army Almost Eliminated
Washington June 9 The War Department announced a new preventive use of sulfadiazine in military units markedly lowering meningitis deaths to under three percent, down from 39.2 percent in World War I, suggesting possible defeat of the disease with continued preventive measures and vaccination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
Boston
New York
Valley Forge
Detroit Mayor Attacks Adm in Campaign Plea
In Chicago on June 16, Detroit Mayor J Jeffries Jr attacked the Roosevelt administration. He urged Republicans to back a presidential candidate who can recreate democratic government. He accused the national head of a gargantuan bureaucracy and usurpation of state and local authority, saying Wy has done much worse and broken the American spirit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Easward J. Jeffries, Jr
Detroit
Roosevelt
Jeffries
Chartiers Mine Tragedy Sparks Greene Co Probe
Clarksville Pa June 10 A State Mines Secretary Richard Maize was to meet with state mine inspectors to probe the Chartiers Mine disaster that killed six in Greene County. They would discuss 1100 Clyde Mines Nos 1 and 3 workers possibly returning Monday after they stayed away. United Mine Workers District 5 president J P Busavello said men feared another disaster but no labor dispute was involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarksville
Richard Maize
Chartiers
Greene Couns Ty
Clyde
Charters
J. P. Busavello
United Mine Workers District 5
Mighty Allied Drive to Victory At Manos Theater
Picture shore installations and rocket guns on barges to deter invasion. Intensive training creates a formidable infantry host poised for the largest military operation in history. Coordination of all Allied services enables the drive for Europe’s liberation. Mosquito fighter bomber reaches 350 mph. Showings at Manos Theater Monday to Wednesday June 12 13 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Manos Theater
Christmas tree home memory and sailor letter
Waiting There reports Bernard Hilbert, a sailor in the South Pacific, asked his sister not to take down the Christmas tree they placed at home, promising it would stay. The piece also notes the State Liquor Control Board’s appointment of 54 state store clerks, 41 women, with annual pay about $1380.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Bernard Hilbert
South Pacific
Thelma Guadagno
Bernie
Don
Harrisburg
State Liquor Control Board
Allied troops seize Treyier and push toward Cherbourg
Official communique reports American forces capturing Treyier between Bayeux and Isigny. Allied air units operate from French soil for first time since 1940. US troops sever railroad to Cherbourg and attack Carentan with heavy fighting. Germans flood areas near Carentan Ste Mere Eglise and Caen as weather improves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Forces
Tune
Treyier
Bayeux
Isigny
France
Cherbourg
U.S
Carentan
Ste. Mere Egiise
Obituary and war bulletin from Allied forces
Obituary for Gallo Bernard of Kannapolis North Carolina and a concise Allied forces communique from June detailing Isigny capture, heavy fighting near Caen, air activity limits due to weather, naval actions near Brest, and airfield bombing targets in northwestern France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Isigny
Sam Saverlo
Gallo
Philadelphia
Tabu
Ilana
Sth Caen
St. Our
Bernard's Cemetery
Conde Sur Leultes
Kannapolis
N. C
United
Batz
Brest
Channel
Flers
Rennes
Laval
le Mans
France
Etampes
Coastal air and naval forces press aggressive anti U boat raid
A wartime report states craft over the beachhead shot down four enemy planes while coastal air units cooperate with naval surface forces in a sustained offensive against U boats menacing sea lanes to the assault area.
Maple Sap Flow Boosts 1944 Production Report
The 1944 maple production report shows a record sap flow with sugar output exceeding 900000 pounds over 1943 levels. Labor shortages limited tapping in Northern Tier counties, with late runs extended due to weather. Pennsylvania produced 10821000 pounds of sugar, 305000 pounds above last year but below the 10 year average. Wartime demand reduced maple trees nationally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nature
E. L. Gasteiger
Pennsylvania
Prepare For De Gaulle Visit To U.S.
Washington reports preparation for General De Gaulle's possible visit to the United States. The White House and State Department note no new policy changes. The aim is to keep military level relations with the French committee and maintain diplomatic contact in Algiers. Roosevelt had earlier rejected recognizing the committee but gave Eisenhower final civilian authority over liberated areas. Churchill was informed and reportedly endorsed the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hih
Citadel de Gaulle
White House
State Départment
Prenich National ‘Committee
Algiers
France
Roosevelt
United States
Eisenhower
Churchill
One Red Rose Paid to Honor Zion Lutheran Church Rent
In Manheim Pennsylvania the Zion Lutheran Church will receive a red rose as payment of rent to Baron William Henry von Stiegel’s heirs for another year. Frank Eshelman will present the rose to Mrs Laura Roger Fager in Harrisburg, honoring Stiegel’s 1772 deed. In Ambler John S Berwin will present a second rose to Louis Barcroft, per Dr Richard Mattison’s wish for the Church Foundation of The Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania.
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Manheim
Zion Lutheran Church
William Henry von Stiegel
Baron Stiegel
Frank Eshelman
Lancaster
Laura Roger Fager
Harrisburg
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Yale University
Board For the Investigation and
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