Summer May Bring Success Says Churchill
Prime Minister Churchill told a speech at the Mexican embassy that the next months may bring full success to the cause of freedom. He cited the Normandy invasion as a great tactical surprise to Germany and noted ongoing Allied efforts after Teheran to secure lasting peace and cooperation among nations. He warned Germans face a prolonged war and pledged the British and American peoples will press on to the end.
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London
Churchill
Normandy
Teheran
France
Two Bicycle Riders Injured in Indiana County
Two Indiana County cyclists were hurt in weekend accidents though neither was seriously injured. Nicholas Wida, 14, fell from his bike on the street Saturday night, suffering facial abrasions and brush burns and was admitted to Indiana Hospital. Howard Abbey, 16, on a rural route, swerved to avoid a car and hit a fence, receiving a cut on the left leg and was treated at the same hospital after attempting to enter Route 110 from a side road near Chambersville.
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Indiana County
Nicholas Wida
Michael Wida
South Sixth Street
Indiana Hospital
Finna
Howard Abbey
Howard
Chambersville
Dewey Force At Chicago Ahead of Convention
Chicago report on June 19 says Gov. Thomas E. Dewey builds pre convention headquarters as Bricker gains delegate strength. Key figures Jaeckle Sprague and Brownell send advance notice to Ruth Hanna McCormick for a possible Dewey interview, while Bricker eyes momentum ahead of the six or seventh ballot prediction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Thomas E. Dewey
Board of Strategy
John W. Bricker
Ohio
New York State
Edwin Frank Jaeckle
J. Russel Sprague
Herbert Brownell
Dewey
Ruth Hanna McCormick
Simms
Bricker
Resolutions Committee
Chicago Stadium
Roy D. Moore
Moore
Lee Dewey
Mine foreman Maruschak found guilty of assault charges
Nick Maruschak assistant mine foreman at Ernest mine of the R P Coal Company was convicted of assault and battery and aggravated assault and battery on Ferro Lydic a miner in Criminal Court here Saturday. The verdict followed a two day trial and keys the case to an April 20 attack at the Ernest mine with defense by Charles J Margiatti of Pittsburgh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nick Maruschak
Ernest
R. & P. Coal Company
Ferro Lydic
Maruschak
Lydie
Charles J. Margiatti
Pittsburgh
Speaker At College Tonight on Hawaii Today
Tonight at 6:30 the Rev. James T. Marshall rector of Christ Episcopal Church will speak on Hawaii Today as part of the Monday summer series Sixty Minutes of Enlightenment. The public is invited to hear the timely talk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James T. Marshall
Christiscopal Church
Hawaii
Rocket Bomb Assault Continues For Fifth Day
Germany's rocket bomb attacks on southern England persisted for a fifth day as jet propelled robot planes crossed the coast after daybreak. Casualties and damage occurred overnight but intensity seemed reduced from the prior night. Britain shored anti-aircraft guns along the coast while Allied air forces increase pressure on likely Pas de Calais launch grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James King
London
Germany
England
Hitler
Pas de Calais
Bobot
Burns Fatal To Clymer Man Edward McCann Dies
Edward McCann of Clymer died at Indiana Hospital Sunday at 7 15 am from burns sustained last Friday in an oil can explosion while starting a fire in a stove. Born January 8 1809 in Mineral Point Pennsylvania he had lived in Clymer 31 years. He led L C O M No 670 and is survived by Blanche his wife his parents Mr and Mrs Edward McCann Sr of Jamestown NY four children two brothers two sisters and several relatives. Friends may call at his Sixth street home. Services will be held Tuesday at 2 30 pm at the Methodist Church of Clymer conducted by Rev Russell C Moore with interment at Sample Run Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward McCann
Clymer
Indiana Hospital
Mineral Point
Blanche
Edward McCann Sr
Jamestown
N. Y
Joan
Donna
Helen
Patrick
Thomas
James
Ray Wheeler
N.Y
Elwood Nelson
East Randolph
Sixth Street
Methodist Church of
Russell C. Moore
Sample Run
Summer storm rattles eastern PA as heat wave breaks
A freak storm swept eastern Pennsylvania with rain hail and lightning, toppling trees and disabling power in Scranton where four homes were struck. Temperatures soared to 95 97 in Pittsburgh Harrisburg and Philadelphia while a quarter million residents fled heat for the seashore. A 64 year old Philadelphia Navy yard worker died at work in the heat. Official readings included Reading 93 Uniontown 91 and Allentown Bethlehem 90.1 Hazleton 89.0.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Mercury
Scranton
Pittsburgh
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Lancaster
Reading
Uniontown
Alentown-Bethlehem
Hazleton
Two Countians Missing In One Action
A War Department casualty list lists two Indiana County men as missing in action. Technical Sergeant Harry G. Simmons Jr. of Homer City and Staff Sergeant Clifton A. Smith of Cherry Tree are reported missing in the Mediterranean Area. The piece ends with an ad line urging War Bonds and Greiner's Farm-Maid Enriched Bread for cooling snacks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Indiana County
Harry G. Simmons, Jr
Millie M. Simmons
Railroad Avenue
Homer City
Clifton A. Smith
Frank Smith
Cherry Tree, R, BD. J
Mediterranean
Allied bombers hit German targets in Pas de Calais drive
U S heavy bombers 500 to 700 strong attacked Hitler rocket building sites at Pas de Calais while other Allied planes struck German air bases in southwest France. Fighter bombers operated at about one attack per minute supporting invasion forces. A wave hit northern Cherbourg peninsula cutting enemy reinforcement routes toward Tilly Caen. A third stream hit north of Paris to disrupt supply lines. RAF night raids preceded US heavy bombing of rocket sites. Additional formations targeted Bordeaux Merignac Cazaux and Corne Ecluse near Cognac. Weather hampered operations. One German concentration was blasted. Col Donald Blake Slee's Mustang group reported observing an apparently civilian cavalcade that the pilots then buzzed.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
U. S
Hitler
Pas-De-Calais
England
France
Cherbourg
Tilly-Caen
Paris
RAF
U.S
Bordeaux-Merignac
Cazaux
Bordeaux
Corne Ecluse
Cognac
Donald Blake- Slee
U.S. Mustang
Shay
French Hold Two Thirds Elba Island
French colonial battalions capture Portoferraio and hold the greater part of Elba including Napoleon’s villa after seizing Porto Longone. German resistance on the island is beaten down as hundreds of prisoners, including several high officers, are rounded up. On the Italian peninsula Allied troops advance on both flanks and in the center, taking Assisi.
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Rome
porto+ ferrato
Elia
Assisi
St. Francis
Elba
Portoferraio
Napoleon
Porto Longone
Fifth
Eighth Army
Elba Island
American Lieutenant Visits Historic Newark England
Lt Joseph K B Davis formerly of 942 Chestnut Street Indiana now with the U S Army in England led a group of convalescent soldiers from a Lincolnshire hospital on a Newark tour. They met Mayor C E Parley and saw Newark Castle ruins Parish Church and views from the church tower. Canon A Parkinson guided the church history before his recent death. The party also visited Southwell and other sites.
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Joseph KB. Davis
Chestnut Street
Indiana
U.S. Army
England
Newark
Lincyluxhire Hospital
Davis
Lieut. Davis
C. E. Parley
America
Newacs Castle
Canon A. Parkinson
Parkinson
Southwell
New Plant for Punxsutawney Faces 960000 DPC Contract
June 15 Punxsutawney reports a 960000 Defense Plant Corporation contract authorization for Speer Carbon Company of St Marys to build a 60000 square foot one story steel and concrete plant in the valley near Eldred Elk Run sites. Construction expected after DPC signing, with Wigton Abbott in charge, aiming for operation by November 1 and hiring about 110 men and 40 women locally. Speer Carbon makes batteries for flash lights and other war products.
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Punxsutawney
Defense Plant Corporation
Speer Carbon Company
St. Marys
DPC
Speer Company
Ele Run
Federal Laboratories
Eldred
Elk Run
Wigton - Abbott Corporation
Plainfield
N. J
U. S. Employment Service
Italian Cabinet O K d By Allies
Allies approve Premier Ivanoe Bonomi cabinet in Rome after a week delay and order it to continue armistice term duties. The government begins functioning while preserving the monarchy and upholding Badoglio era commitments.
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Rome
Ivanoe Bonomi
Umberto
Italy
Petro Badoglio
Maki
Meeting of rubbish haulers to discuss permits
A notice from Burgess J. R. Maloney calls all rubbish haulers to a meeting at 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday June 21 1944. The gathering will be held in the Municipal Building on North Seventh Street and nonattendance may lead to suspension of their permits. Also a wartime promotion for Greiner's Farm-Maid Enriched Bread appears in the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy
Greiner
North Seventh Street
J. R. Maloney
Burgess
Normandy Breakthrough Presses Toward Cherbourg Advance
Allied forces report the U S Ninth Division crushed a German breakout attempt near Cherbourg trapping 25 000 to 40 000 Nazis. British troops advance at Tilly Sur Seulles while Bradley presses a corridor drive toward the port with coastal and inland advances across the Normandy front.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
U. S
Cherbourg
St. Jacques de Nehou
Normandy
Tilly-Sur-Seulles
Bayeux
Caen
Omar N. Bradley
Americans Advance In The Marianas
American troops push through wet cane fields on Saipan, repelling Japanese assaults with tanks and landing craft. They move toward Magicienne Bay as ships shell Guam for the first time in the war. Admiral Nimitz hints at possible invasion prospects.
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U. 5S
Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Saipan Island
Mariana
Magicienne Bay
Guam
Chester W. Nimitz
Russians Smash To Threshold Of Viipuri
Soviet field dispatches say the Red Army advanced to the threshold of Viipuri after breaking the Mannerheim Line and capturing Koivisto fortress at the mouth of Viipuri Bay. Inland on the Karelian Isthmus they moved past the Mannerheim Line, with gains along Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of Finland. General Govorov’s forces breached multiple Finnish defenses, using new artillery tactics including Kaliushu. The push reached the Blannedheim Line and breached the old Mannerheim forts, signaling a potentially decisive phase in the Finnish campaign.
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Moscow
Red Army
Viipuri
Finland
Manneheim
Koivisto
Viipuri Bay
Karelian
Mannerheim
Murila
Gulf of Finland
Lake Ladoga
Leonid A. Govorov
Leningrad
Karelia
Blannedheim Line
Poivola-Voki
Mannerhein Forts
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YANKS
Seige
Britain
Tokyo
Nea-Acme
Goodyby
India
Frank Cancollare
Burns
Edward McCannn
Joe Davis
Punxs’y
O. K
Peninsula
U. S. Ninth Division
Bizerte
Tunisia
Manton S. Eddy
United States
Atlantic
la Haye du Puits
St. Sauveur le Vicomte
la Haye
St. Lo D'Qurville
Atlantic Coast
Bradley
Lison
St. Lo
Vire River
St. Cherbourg
Tilly-Sur-Suelles
Tilly
Smoori
Sir Bernard L Montgomery
Marianas
Island of
Saipan
Bussia
Blairsville
Clarence Peace
Eugene Peace
U. & Army
Eugene Gee
185Th General Hospital
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