Axis debacle in Tunisia fuels Franco peace push says Mackenzie
Dewitt Mackenzie reports from Bern and London that Axis leaders including Hitler seek stalemate terms as Franco courts peace. He notes Spanish neutrality complicates movements and suggests renewed Allied offensives may follow, while Russia intensifies the push in Novorossiysk and the Caucasus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewitt MacKenzie
Tunisia
Herry Hiner
Fuehrer
Russia
Europe
Franco
Franceo
Axis
Germany
Hitler
Bettyo Bits
Berlin
Mir
Spain
Spanish
Gibraltar
United Nations
Balkans
Norway
Hiller
Novoros Isk
Caucasus
Re elect Wagoner President Of Bellefonte Central Raiload
Directors of the Bellefonte Central Railroad Company on Monday re elected Claude B Wagoner of Philadelphia as president and renamed George E McClellan as vice president treasurer and general manager The action reflects leadership continuity and organizational restructuring in the railroad firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wagoner Philipsburg
Bellefonte Central Raiload ComPany
Claude B. Wagoner
Philadelphia
George E. McClellan
Rationing and a Soldier’s Plight During Victory Garden Spread
Mrs Howard shares beef rations while Spike boasts 990 free blood transfusions given over a lifetime. He adapts to shortages by eating four to five pounds of chicken or vegetables when beef or poultry are unavailable. He travels from butcher to grocer with two sons in service, noting his willingness to eat anything and his notable transfusion record.
Casualties Report Urges Historical Projections At Meeting
The report notes delays in enforcing a requirement for preliminary projections of adequate histories. Col Roy D Billeran of Washington says neuropsychia tric casualties in the army and navy have been low since the war began. Col Halloran reports induction centers rejected 7 to 8 percent for mental reasons, higher than World War I by about fivefold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indhanites
Roy Dbilleran
Washington
Navy
Allied forces break through in Tunisian campaign and battle near Cap Bon
Reports from Washington and Moscow describe major Allied gains in Tunisia with German armor breakthrough on the Cap Bon peninsula and large naval activity off the coast. Soviet and Berlin broadcasts note heavy fighting as Red Army presses toward Novorossiysk. Knox notes open Mediterranean routes will aid supply convoys once Tunis cleanup ends, while Pacific theater updates report raids on Babo and Salamuna and rail disruptions in Indo China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muneerein
Starmers
Cap Ben Peninsula
Cap Bon Penintense
Gey
Dwight D. Eisenhower
1St Army
Hammanel
Italan
Petisul
8Th Army
Raptiter
O. S. Trou
Omar N. Dey
Biverte
Adolf Hitler
Hermann Goering
Haly
Europe
Moscow
Hilley
Gestapo
Heinrich Hinmler
Hulys
Red
Geran
Novorossiok
Black Sea
Berlin
Batte
Labor bill forms teeth in House committee action
Washington May 10 AP labor legislation seen as strong with anti strike provisions and expanded War Labor Board powers. The House Military Committee plans to adopt major Smith proposals into the Connally bill to curb wartime labor disputes before coal negotiations deadline next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Military Committee
May
D-Ky
Connally
House
Rep
Smith
D-Va
War Labor Board
Kentuckian
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Axis Reaction Continues as Berlin Press Scrutinized
Axis reaction to the Tunisian crisis spread through Berlin's papers, with reports of a fight to the last cartridge and propaganda agencies struggling to explain the affair. The Bern Der Bund remarked that American fighting ability, once underestimated in Berlin, surprised Axis observers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dispatch
Berlin
Presse
Propaganda Agennes
Bern der Bund
Axis
Congress Roundup Sparks Republican Clash on Trade and Tax
Washington May 11 A roundup of Capitol Hill disputes shows Republicans pressing to veto Roosevelt reciprocal trade moves while opposing civilian supply limits. Senate tax abatement debates shift to how much, with Democrats wary of harming reciprocity. The House Military Committee plans a labor bill aligned with the Senate seizure measure, plus anti strike provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
78Th Congress
Capitol Hill
House
Senate
Republican House
Roosevelt
GOP
War Production Board
Representative Wolcott
R-Wieh
House Banking Committee
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Finance Committee
George
May
D Ky
House Military Committee
Representative Smith
D-Va
Allied leadership praised by neutral European press
The piece reports positive remarks from European neutral outlets about Allied command and fighting power. It notes Der Bund’s praise of American and French decisive blows, Giornale D Italia’s cautious optimism, and Axis leaders’ concern over a new Allied strike. It mentions Montgomery, Tunis, and Rommel era uncertainties, plus Dutch and Belgian resistance events and a soldier’s home-town news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
der Bund
Usta
Hitler
Virginio Gayda
Giornale D'Italia
Berlin
Italy
Ion Antonescu
Budapest
Russia
Bernard Montgomery
Eighth Army
Ain Hallouf
Tunisia
Tunis
Aneta
Netherlands
Reuters
Hungary
Turkey
Bulgaria
Belgium
Brussels
Flad
Renee Prufer
Navy News Briefs From Wartime Front Home Front
Service wong. He attended the Graffur schools and in civilian life was em ployed as an automobile mechanic. Auxiliary Promoted Promotion to the rating of cor poral for Olive M. Playfoot, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Playfoot of 884 Wayne avenue, has been announced by the 46th WAAC Post Headquarters Company, Fort Warren, Mo. She is at present as signed to duties in the Post per sonnel office. Frank Lepley D. K. Frank Lepley of the U. S. Navy, who had been unreported for six weeks, called Mrs. Lepley on the telephone last night. He said he was Well, but could not disclose his whereabouts. Incidentally heaid that he had been promoted to Boatswain's Mate, second class. Ensign Allison Ensign George Allison, son of Mr. and Mrs. George FE. Allison, of Homer City, has been commissioned in the United States Naval Reserve, and is attending the Communica tions School at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Ensign Allison is married to the former Helene Baun. Mrs. Allison and son, Jeffrey, have departed for Cambridge, and will live at No. 7 Healey street Lydick Promoted Doy Lydick, son of Mr. and Mrs,)
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olive M. Playfoot
Wayne Avenue
WAAC
Fort Warren
Frank Lepley
D. K
U. S. Navy
Ensign Allison
Ensign George Allison
George FE. Allison
Homer City
United States Naval Reserve
Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass
Helene Baun
Allison
Jeffrey
Cambridge
Healey Street
Taxes House Conferees to Agree to Senate Amendments
House conferees aim to accept Senate amendments to the Ruml Carlson bill, which had earlier stalled in the House by a four vote margin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
British First Army presses through Hammamet peninsula
Allied forces reach outskirts of Hammamet on Cap Bon in Tunisia as British units seize Grombalia Soliman and Menzel Bou Zelta cutting off Axis retreat along the east coast. Naval air forces pound Pantelleria and Sicilian targets while hundreds of Axis prisoners are taken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Africa
First Army
Hammamet
Cap Bon
Catupe
Soliman
Grombalia
Menzel Bou Zelta
Gulf of Tunis
Strategic
Pantelleria Island
Sicily
Solinian
Eighth Army
Isea
Rome
jThe
Berlin
U. S
Tuniela
Caplives
Buelovius
Fritz Krause
Republicans Balk at Plan to Strip WPB Power
Washington May 11 AP Republicans oppose a bill to create a civilian supply agency to determine needs for rationing and materials, arguing it could clash with the armed services and WPB. The measure, introduced by Sen. Maloney, passed the Senate 44 to 29, with GOP opposition and some cross-overs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Production Board
House
Senate
Rep
Wolcott
R-Mid
House Banking Committee
WPB
Donald M. Nelson
Maloney
D-Conn
Army
Navy
McNary
Oregon
German surrender described by AP reporter at front
Harold V. Boyle reports Major General Willibald Boro wietz of the German 15th Armored Division wept at surrender. Allied forces under an American general, likened to Ulysses S. Grant, delivered the unconditional surrender after a heavy tank battle where the American officer commanded in grease stained fatigues then dress uniform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willibald Borowietz
15Th Armored Division
von Vaerst
Fifth Armored Army
Harold V. Boyle
Associated Press
Ulysses S. Grant
Boyle
Twenty Miners Die In Alabama Coal Mine Blast
Twenty men were killed with five injured and two missing in a blast at Alabama By-Products Corp coal mine No 10, 20 miles west of Birmingham. Rescue crews located 20 bodies after the explosion, with 12 of 22 men underground initially brought out earlier, five severely burned. The victims were trapped about a mile and a half below the surface.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Pracocoal
Alabama By-Products Corp
Here
Neal
Wounded Vets Open State DAV Convention in Pittsburgh
Wounded veterans of World War II will attend their first state convention of the Disabled American Veterans in Pittsburgh starting with an executive committee meeting. Pittsburgh Chapter No. has endorsed Calvin Cherry of Oakmont to succeed Ralph Ticker as state commander.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Calvin Cherry
Oakmont
Ralph Ticker
Bombers and Fighters Use Half Million Rivets in Modern Warplanes
The article lists extensive stock market figures for numerous companies and notes a statistic: five hundred thousand rivets are used in a modern bomber and forty thousand in a fighter plane. The data reflect wartime industrial capacity and defense contractor activity.
Three Perish In Balloon Blast Near New Jersey
Navy reports Ensign Wayne R. Bryant of Kentucky and two other naval officers died in a hydrogen filled free balloon explosion near Ellisburg New Jersey during a routine training flight from Lakehurst Naval Station. Cadets and sailors aiding in the rescue were burned. The 86,000 cubic foot balloon shattered nearby windows and sparked fires as witnesses described a massive blast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellisburg
N. J
Navy
Wayne R. Bryant
Kenton
Tenn
George F. Homer
Lakehurst
Amos W. Konstand
Toms River
Bryant
Lakehurst Naval Station
Donald T. Wood
Ipswich
Mass
J. B. Dorzinsky
Wilkey
Barre
Wood
Garbage men strike halts Pittsburgh sanitation services
Pittsburgh May 1 AP more than 300 city garbage drivers and helpers walked off their jobs halting municipal collections. Superintendent D C Agar said nearly all city workers were out, with only seven or eight serving hospitals. Allegheny Garbage Company kept picking up in the North Side as union members decried certain orders from a supervisor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
D.C
Treasury balance and debt figures reported in daily notice
Washington May 11 Treasury balance shows receipts 123.565 million and outlays 267.577 million, net balance five billion eighty eight million and gross debt 136.020 trillion? 45.482. Included increase over the previous day 143.752 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
The
Treasury
Obituary continued for Shorestall and Wray residents
Shorestall born December 23 1887 in Coolspring Jefferson County was a miner lately with the Mellon Stewart Company at the Army Replacement Center Meadville. Surviving are his widow two daughters five grandchildren and several siblings. services 230 pm Thursday at Commodore with interment Uniontown Cemetery. Dr W H Woo ver services 2 pm Wednesday at Robinson Funeral Home Rev Dr James K Leitch officiating interment Atwood Cemetery. Mrs Viola Annis Wray 63 widow of George Wray former Blairsville resident died Saturday in DuBois Maple Avenue Hospital from a fractured hip. Surviving daughter Cartie Clontz Wins low township brother Scott Stampford. Funeral 2 pm today White Funeral Home Reynoldsville. interment Reynoldsville Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shorestall
Coolspring
Jefferson County
Commodore
Mellon-Stewart 'S Company
Army Replacement Center
Meadville
Methodist Church and Palladium Lodge
Order of Odd. Fellows
Diana
New York State
Margaret (Hefrick) Shorestall
Ruby Branch
Greenville
R. D
Larue Filler
Lovejoy
Mabel McClain
Brookville
Calvin Shovestull
Worthville
Ica Stralife
Harry Shovestull
Bradford
Clarence Shovestull
Stanton, Pa
Cora LaVelle
New York
Ivan Maurer
Uniontown Cemetery
W. H. Woover
Robinson Funeral Home
James K. Leitch
First United Presbyterian Church
Atwood Cemetery
Viola Annis Wray
George Wray
Blairsville
DuBois
Maple Avenue Hospital
Reynoldsville
Horace Stumpford
Cartie Clontz
Ambridge
Scott Stampford
Winslow Township
White Funeral Home
Also Mentioned on This Page
Esquire
Moorhead
Los Angeles
Mexico
Sians
Red Star
Stalingrad
Knox
Mediterranean
Africa
Middle East
Tokyo
Sir Archibald P. Wavell
India- Surma
India
Manshal Wavell
Buthedaung
Akyab
Japan
Maungdaw-Buthedaung
RAP
Oiler
Pacific
Idid U.S. Air Force
Indo-China
Burma
Taught
Boughis MacArthur
Babo
Dutch New
Linga
Mabo
Salamunua
New Guinea
Congress
Edward Lydick
Roy
States
Indiana
Lydick
Doy Lydick
Tunisian
Nelson
Joe Martin
Massachusetts
John McCormack
Fish
Pennsylvania
United Mino Workers
James H. Pierce
W. W. Inglis
Scranton
Ralph E. Taggart
WMW
John A. Lewis
Thomas Kennedy
Matt F. Brennan
District 7
Hazelton
Alabama
Am Smelt & R
Ara Tel & Tel
Atch
T& SF
Balt & Ohio Am Bendix
Beth Steel
Boeing Airplane
Borden Co
Ches & Ohio
Int Harvester
Nick
OH NJ
Studebaker Corp
Swift & Co
Texas Co
United Aircraft
United
Elec
Fennroad Corp
South Penn Oil
Tennessee and
New Jersey
S.C. Ete Cams
Ave
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!