United States Breaks Ties With Finland Over Nazi Pact
The United States announces a break in relations with Finland over the Finnish German military pact. Secretary Hull cites Finland’s revocable alliance with Nazi Germany and its impact on the Allied war effort. The note notes Finland’s formal admission of a hard and fast military partnership with Germany and places sole responsibility on Helsinki.
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Washington
United States
Finland
Hull
Alexander Thesleff
Russia
Thesleff
George YT. Summerlin
Germany
von Ribbentron
Helsinki
Tornado Relief Workers Coming To Help Tonight
A group of citizens prepared to aid tornado stricken farmers despite rain disrupting plans. Ten men and one truck arrived at a tree blocked lane to assist a woman stranded by fallen trees, using ropes and saws to clear access. Court House at 6 PM tonight. Bill Wetzel of Soil Conservation Office can answer questions.
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Court House
Bill Wetzel
Soil Conservation Office
Relief Load Down Fifty One In Indiana County
State Treasurer G Harold Wagner reported that direct relief payments to needy residents of Indiana County for the week ended today fell 5% from the prior week. Total payments reached 1103.00, $489 lower than the same week last year, with current and previous week figures 1103.00 and 1154.00 respectively.
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G. Harold Wagner
Indiana County
Bureau of Assistance
Star Treasury Department
Free Movie Show At Homer City
Free Movie Day will be held at the Empire Theater Homer City on Friday July 7 Admission requires an extra bond ticket and bonds may be purchased at Homer City State Bank or Homer City Set Ofice.
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Empire Theater
Homer City
Homer City State Bank
Dewey Campaign Charts War Era Tactics and Plans
In Chicago on June 30 Gov Thomas E Dewey wrapped talks with GOP leaders and prepared to name a National Committee chairman. He weighed campaign pacing to fit a war-centered mood, possibly reshaping travel plans and aligning with Roosevelt’s cadence if he runs. Continued on page two.
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Chicago
Thamas BH. Dewey
New York
National Committee
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Dewey
Harrison E. Spangler
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Europe
Roosevelt
Chureni
Stalin
Price-Wage Act Extended Another Year
President Roosevelt approved a one-year extension of price control and stabilization acts and criticized Congress for easing penalties on price law violations. He praised Congress for renewing the Office of Price Administration and stability agencies, noting some amendments could make inflation control harder but still confident the line can be held with firm enforcement. Blairsville, Pa. airman Frank M. Dixon received the Air Medal for serving as part of the first Navy airmen over Japanese home territory.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Office of Price Administration
Aleutian Island
Franke M. Dixon
Blairsville
Frank Jack Fletcher
North Pacific
Norman Bell
Dixon
J Navy
Home Territory
Inner Tube Rationing Ends as OPA Lifts Controls
Washington June 30 The Office of Price Administration ended inner tube rationing effective tomorrow and said air motorists now have sufficient inventories. July and August allocations total 3,000,000 new passenger car tires for rationing, with 300,000 extra tires added by the Rubber Director. Tubes had been under rationing since January 1942.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Lee Innee Tubes
State Planning Board Members Reappointed in Harrisburg
Governor Martin's office announced reappointment of three cabinet members to the State Planning Board. The appointees are Charles M. Morrison Secretary of the Commonwealth John A. Shroyer Secretary of Highways and James A. Kell Secretary of Forests and Waters. A brief insertion about War Bond reads at breakfast tomorrow morning with Greiner's Farm Meid Enriched Bread.
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Harrisburg
Martin
State Planning Board
Charles M. Morrison
Commonwealth
John A. Shroyer
James A. Kell
Greiner
Tornado Spreads Photo Mystery Near Indiana Farm
In Wednesdays issue of the Ga lactic a photo headlined Who Is The Small Child? showed a baby. The picture’s negative was found on Herb McHenry’s farm near Indiana after a Friday tornado. Boyd Spence claims the image is his daughter Thelma Jean, fourteen, blown away when their house collapsed. He notes the home area lies between Creekside and Chambersville toward Willet, estimating the loss of about nine miles. War Bonds worth 750 dollars vanished with the house.
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the Galactic
Herb McHenry
Indiana
Boyd Spence
Thelma Jean
Spence
Creekside
Chambersville
Willet
Lightning Strikes Indiana Home Damages Chimney
A lightning bolt struck the Monty G. King residence at 307 South Sixth Street causing chimney damage and bathroom impact. The family was unharmed. Debris from a weather board flew into neighbor Joseph Dickie’s upstairs window, and a ball of fire landed nearby, sparking fears of a house fire.
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Monty G. King
South Sixth Street
Joseph Dickie
150 000 Dead or Captured In 5 Days Say Soviets
Soviet dispatches report heavy Red Army action northeast of Minsk with crossings over the Berezina River as German defenses blunt the push. Luftwaffe losses seen at 71 planes in 24 hours while Marshal Rokossovsky and Chernyakovsky command rapid river crossings toward Minsk.
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Moscow
Berezine
Minsk
Ivan Cherniakovsky
Ivan Bagramian
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Victory Arch proposed for city wide memorial
The Victory Arch will span Philadelphia Street from the Court House to the First National Bank and be moved to the Fair Grounds Park. It will be a permanent memorial with soldier dead names under glass, lasting for years. The committee aims for a county wide beacon and notes the project requires reasonable funds.
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Philadelphia Street
Court House
First National Bank
Park
Fair Grounds
See Victory
C C Meller Co To Quit Business
Pittsburgh dispatch reports C C Meller Co, oldest music house west of the Alleghenies, will close after 113 years. W Barry Hamilton, head, cites unprecedented conditions and says no new pianos, organs, or radios remain. stock of records is being sold and the business is quitting.
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Pittsburgh
C .C. Meller Co
Alleghenies
W. Barry Hamilton
Must Learn To Live Says Marine San Diego
Lt. Theodore Kus anovich of the First Division notes Marines arriving in California must adapt after a June 30 arrival in San Diego. The report mentions 1,200 troops disembarking in San Francisco and a sister serving in the Marine reserve at Camp Pendleton. A wartime appeal to buy War Bonds appears in the text amid unrelated product mentions.
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San Diego
Calif
Theodore Kusanovich
First Division
San Francisco
Universal
Maine
Cap Pendleton
Allied Columns Close on Caen Amid Cherbourg Salvage Reports
Allied forces near Caen tighten the noose from opposite flanks as German armor probes the Odon river bridgehead. From Marcelet, Montgomery’s thrust drives due east toward Caen threatening a key air field, with reports placing troops a half mile from the field.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Caen
Odon River
Marcelet
Bernard L
Saipan victory and Pacific war updates on D-Day scale
Bearded Yanks crush the last Japanese resistance on Saipan as U S forces push north. Nipponese air base Yap hit for the fifth time this week while more than 50 Japanese planes are destroyed or damaged. Navy reports exceed 12 000 Japanese planes destroyed since Pearl Harbor with 2 726 American losses. In Normandy, Bradley’s corps attack toward St Lo continues and Caen area fighting tightens as British forces push across the Odon.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Saipan
Guam
Tinian
Rata
Marianas
Douglas MacArthur
Yap
Washington
Navy Department
Bes Han
Adm
Nimitz
Cau‘thous Yands
Garapan
Berlin
Tokyo Dispatch
Guan
Roig
Omar N. Bradley
St. Lo
Cap de la Hague
Cherbourg
Supreme Command
William Sullivan
Casablanca
Oran
Naples
Caen
Theenhuary
Thoarn
Navy
Esquay
Odon River
Rodney
Aled
Erwin Rommel
Normandy
Germany
France
Oden Salient
Breville
Orne
Paris
Fourth of July Celebration At Marion Center
Marion Center plans a wartime free Community Picnic at Marion Center Community Park on the Fourth of July. A sports program starts at 3 PM with two softball games between Lions Club and Boyd Grinny Barclay’s group, plus horseshoes and volleyball. The Grange hosts a program from 4 to 9 PM directed by Ruth McCauley, followed by a campfire service by local youth groups. Stands offer pop ice cream cake hot dogs coffee and candy. bring a basket.
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Marion Center
Reverend McLaughlin
Howard Swan
Indiana
The
Lion's Club
Boyd
Grinny
Barclay
Grange
Ruth McCauley
Christian Endeavor
Youth Fellowship
Methodist Church
Ambrose Baptist Church
Blairsville Parents Learn Son Evacuated From England
Blairsville residents Mr and Mrs Clarence Pesce of Blairsville R D 1 report via telegram that their son Eugene Peave, a U S Army paratrooper, was wounded and has been evacuated by plane from England to New Cantonment Hospital at Mitchell Field New York for treatment.
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Clarence Pesce
Blairsville
Eugene Peave
England
New Cantonment Hospiel
Mitchell Field
New York
Wounded Former Clymer Boy Reported In Action
Fragmentary wartime note mentions Dale F. Shankene wounded in action in 1944 and references other names and places around Clymer New York. Includes stray references to local businesses and bond buying.
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Clymer
Dale F. Shankene
Deseph
Albert W. Magara Falls
N.Y
Cpl Lightcap Home From Italy
Cpl Wilner E Lightcap son of Mr and Mrs W E Lightcap of 923 Chestnut St Indiana recently returned to the United States after overseas service. He is spending a furlough with his parents in town. He will go to Camp Butler NC July 10 for further assignments. He entered service Feb 3 1943 and trained at Camp Croft SC and Camp Shenango PA before sailing June 2 1943. He served in Tripoli North Africa Sicily and Italy with the 7th Army in Sicily and the 5th Army under General Mark Clark in Italy. He was injured on the Anzio beachhead and treated for a knee wound.
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Cpl
Wilner E. Lightcap
W. E. Lightcap
Chestnut St
Indiana
United States
Camp Buttner
N. C
Cpl. Lightcap
Camp Croft
S. C
Camp Shenango
Lightcap
Tran
North Africa
Sicily
Tal
7Th Army
5Th Army
Mark Clark
Italy
Anzia
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U. S
Indiana Co
London
Yovernyyy
Manos ‘Theater
John G. St. Clair
Blair
Manos Theater
St. Clattr
Dorothy Winton
Waldorf-Astoria
New York City
Fred E. Obley
Fort Pitt
C. Gilbert Wolfenden
E. E. Creps
Harry Burton Boyd
Mary Date Hazlett
Pvt
Robert WN. Hazlett
Robert
K. N. Hazlett
Bos'i'on
Cuttyhunk
First Naval District Headquarters
Naval
Coast Guard
Bobrinsk
Victory Arch Committee
C. C. Meller Co
P.H
Blairsville Bay
U. S. Hospital
Snyder
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