Americans Hit German Rocket Bases In Mass Bomber Offensive
More than 1,800 American heavy bombers with heavy fighter escort attacked rocket launchers in Pas De Calais and targets in central Germany. The armada, possibly the largest so far, struck oil refineries around Hannover Hamburg and Magdeburg, a tank depot near Magdeburg, and aircraft repairs near Brunswick. Over 2,000 planes involved. weather aided earlier arrivals but cloud cover over Pas De Calais forced some bombs to drop through. Continuous heavy raids mark the fifth force since D-Day, with another push toward the Polish border near Stettin. The operation overlapped with continued bombing in other sectors as German air defenses reported engagements.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary
Pas de Calais
Germany
Emmerich
Hannover
Hamburg
Magdeburg
Politz
Brunswick
Stockholm
Malmo
Bpoolitz
Baltic
Stettin
Europe
Pas de See
Fort Pitt area underperforms in Fifth War Loan drive
Pittsburgh officials report only about six percent of its quota subscribed in the Fifth War Loan drive. The War Finance Committee notes total subscriptions reached 17,430,328 with Allegheny County contributing 10,117,905 and other counties 7,312,173 while corporation subscriptions remain unreported.
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Pittsburgh
Fort Pitt
War Finance Committee
Allegheny County
Ladies Sell War Fat For glycerine supply
Indiana County housewives have sold 63,375 pounds of waste kitchen fats to support the war effort since January. Monthly totals show 11,562 in January, 12,724 in February, 12,513 in March, 14,366 in April, and 12,280 in May, with salvage officials stressing ongoing need for glycerine during the war.
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Indiana County
Fat Salvage
4. J. Stahura
Wallace Arrives in Chungking Seeks China Siberia Ties
Vice-President Wallace arrives in Chungking as Roosevelt’s emissary and urges closer China Siberia relations. He cites Hu Shih on a shared boundary concept and plans talks with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on mutual concerns.
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Chungking
Wallace
China
Roosevelt
Siberia
Hu Shih
United States
Canada
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang
Interviews At U S E S For Inspection Jobs In Indiana Pa
A Pittsburgh Ordnance District representative and the U S Civil Service Commission will interview girls and women at the U S Employment Service office in Indiana Pennsylvania on Saturday morning June 24 1944. Interviews begin at 1020 am and no prior inspection experience is required. The minimum age is eighteen, a written exam is not required. All hires will rotate shifts. If not employed in essential industry at your highest skill visit North Seventh Street Indiana Pa for more information.
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Pittsburgh Ordnance District
U. S. Civil Service Commission
U. S. Employment Service Office
Indiana
North Seventh Street
Miners Strike as Retroactive Pay Demand Spreads
About 500 miners from four mines of the Peale Peacock and Kerr Coal Company walked out on June 20 demanding a lump sum retroactive 40 dollar portal to portal payment rather than five dollars per payday as previously agreed with the United Mine Workers. The Springfield No. 1 Nanty-Glo Lincoln No. 9 St. Benedict No. 9 Emeigh Run No. 17 mines joined in daytime after yesterday’s walkout.
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Johnstown
Peale, Peacock and Kerr Coal Company
Oday
United Mine Workers
Springfield
Nanty-Glo
Lincoln
St. Benedict
Emeigh Run
Dewey Will Run If Nominated, Say Backers
New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey emerged as a leading Republican candidate after a news conference where party officials signaled he would head the ticket if drafted. Bricker of Ohio gained some support in Maryland, while other delegates indicated growing Dewey backing in the runup to the convention. See POLITICS
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Dewey
Jack Bell
Chicago
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
John W. Bricker
Ohio
I. Russell Sprague
Edwin F. Jaeckle
Herbert Brownell
Maryland
Bricker
Sheridan F. Smith
Baltimore
Platform Committee
Thomas Aldahoy
C. B. Kelland
Arizona
West
Boy Scouts To Conduct Paper Drive
The William Penn Council of Boy Scouts featured a health and safety committee meeting in Indiana to plan a wastepaper drive in Central and Southeast districts. The drive is scheduled for July 6 and 7 in Central Indiana towns and July 8 in Homer City area, with meetings set for June 27. Citizens are urged to assist and support the effort to fund cup fees.
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William ,Penn Council
Boy Scouts of
Amendea
W. D. Northover
Sterling Orange
S. V. Whiley
Bill Simpson
C. F. Bush
Homer City
Ralph Chapman
Indiana
Robertson
William Penn Council
Messers
Chapman
Simpson
Orange
Wiley
Central District
Rural Electric Association
Fulton Rug
Ernest
Creekside
Elderton
McIntyre
Coxl Rus
Shelocta
Elders Ridge
Iselin
Scoutminster
Bush
Lucerne Mings
Tide
Waterman
Brush Valley
Crain Jr. Installed Pennsylvanian Endeavor Union President
Philadelphia figure Charles S. Crain Jr. is to be installed as president of the Pennsylvania Christian Endeavor Union during a week-long biennial convention in Chambersburg. Over two thousand delegates have registered for the sessions.
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Chambersburg
Pan
Charles S. Crain, Jr
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Christian Endeavor Union
Luxury Liner Refitting Stopped By Navy Shortage
The Navy announced cancellation of plans to refit the former French luxury liner Normandie due to shortages of seawater power and critical materials. The ocean giant, raised after February 1942 damage and towed to Todd shipyard in Brooklyn, had cost 9,750,000 to buy last fall.
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New York
Navy
Normandie
Todd
Brooklyn
Navy Department
German Invasion Attempt Of 1940 Smothered By Britain
London June 20 Prime Minister Churchill told Parliament that a German invasion attempt to cross the Channel in 1940 was smashed before ships and troops could leave continental ports. He said most shipping sank in ports or remained inland, with none appearing across the Channel.
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London
Churchill
House of Commions
Britain
Vyvyan Adams
Adams
Seabourne
Sentences Handed Out Yesterday in Indiana County Court
Eleven defendants were sentenced yesterday afternoon by Judge E. Creps for Beverage Act violations. Harvey Donahue 59 of Black Silk got $500 fine costs and three years in the workhouse after pleading guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Lawrence Zanelli McIntyre pleaded guilty to selling liquor without a license and was fined and taxed costs. Amedo Goltana McIntyre admitted selling beer without a license and paid costs and $100. Dominick Mash Dilltown licensee admitted selling beer to winers and paid costs plus $250 fine. John Wilco, an employee, pleaded guilty to the same charge and was fined and taxed costs. (Continued on page two).
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Indiana
E. Creps
Harvey Donahue
Black Silk
Creps
Lawrence Zanelli
McIntyre
John Wilco
Escaping Sailor Shot By Sentry Identified
The sailor shot while escaping from Philadelphia Navy Yard was identified as Donald James McCurdy a trooper third class from Fort Wayne Indiana. He tried to flee near the gate on a dark period and was ordered to halt by a marine guard. Next of kin is his wife Isabella of Fort Wayne.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Fourth Naval District
Donald James Me Curdy
Tlireman
Hirst
W. Third Street
Fu Wayne
Ind
Tsabella
Ft. Wayne
Navy
McCurdy
Million New Jobs Needed In State
Harrisburg June 20. George P. Comer, justice department adviser, warns raw materials must be released gradually to avoid a postwar collapse. He urges starting local efforts to place 1,218,000 Pennsylvania service men and war workers in new jobs, noting a 38 percent rise in postwar job seekers versus 1940.
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Harrisburg
George P. Comer
Anti-Trust Division
Department of Justice
Comer
Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Pennsylvania
Saipan air battle caps Japanese raid in largest since Midway
American carrier planes and battleships claimed about 300 Japanese aircraft destroyed off Saipan as US forces report a major land advance capturing the Ashito airstrip on the island. Marines and soldiers pushed toward Magicienne Bay while Sea-Bees prepared the base to dominate approaches to Tokyo.
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U. S. Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Saipan
Pacife
Midway
Chester W. Nimitz
Ashito
Japan
Central Pacific
Tokyo
Magicienne Bay
Natutan Point
Mother of Mrs Frank Kring Died Monday
ALWINE KUHRT WIENEKE of Saltsburg died at her daughter Mrs Frank Kring’s home 625 Chestnut Street Indiana Monday night at 10 45 The body went to Robinson Funeral Home Saltsburg Complete obituary to be published Wednesday ELLA FOX died in the home of her daughter Mrs Joseph Willams in Josephine this morning at 12 50 The deceased was the widow of John F Fox and a daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Johnston born July 29 1868 in Hamner City See OBITUARIES Continued on page two
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Alwine Kuhrt Wieneke
Saltsburg
Frank Kring
Chestnut Street
Indiana
Robinson
Ella Fox
Joseph Willams
Josephine
Prebel
John F. Fox
Richard and
Elizabeth (Decker) Johnston
Hamer City
Twenty One Bombers Land In Sweden In One Day
In Stockholm on June 20, twenty one American heavy bombers raiding Germany forced landings in Sweden, the largest single-day landing for a neutral country. Sixteen crashed at Bulltofta airport near Malmo with six crewmen reported killed. three more wrecked in southwest Sweden and two landed outside Halstad. An American Mustang fighter group in England claimed fourteen enemy planes down in a three minute Baltic Sea battle with no losses, repelling a twin-engine attack on the bombers.
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Stockholm
Germany
Sweden
Bulltofta
Malmo
Halstad
England
FIA Mustang
Baltic Sea
Red Army Near Viipuri After Sea and Land Assault
Soviet forces push within nine miles of Viipuri as the Baltic fleet shells Finnish craft in the gulf. Russian sailors threaten to cut off defenders in peninsulas south of the city while Finnish brigades and cavalry resist after heavy fighting outside Viipuri.
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Moscow
Red Army
Viipouri
Javostin
Ivan Osisipov
Viipuri
Nikolai Shvankov
Red Star
Gulf of
Calvary
Red Fleet
Gulf of Viipuri
Gulf of Finland
Finland
Fall of Changsha Announced By Japanese
CHUNGKING June 20. Chinese high command said Changsha had fallen after suburb defenses near Hunan capital were destroyed by over 50 Japanese troops. Radio contact with Changsha was broken as Japanese forces attacked urban defenses with armor and planes. Tokyo earlier reported complete capture of Changsha and Liling, 40 miles east.
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Chungking
Changsha
Hunan
Tokyo
Allies Down Dozens Of Nazi Robot Planes Over England
London reports Allied night fighters shot down dozens of Nazi robot planes during the sixth wave of the buzz bomb blitz. Four bombs were downed in one district within minutes and several others exploded midair as British defenses and US heavy bombers continued pressure across the channel. The Air Ministry said new measures are being taken to counter the cross channel attacks.
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Associated Press
London
Alps
England
British
Air Ministry
U. S
Allied A
Iovese
Pittsburgh
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