Pipeline flow to reach full capacity next week
Philadelphia, May 19. Oil lines from Pittsburgh to New York area are expected to run at full capacity early next week as booster stations on the western mountains enable the eyeatone line to deliver about 20 000 barrels daily. Atlantic Refining officials note prior underuse and a shift of flow from coast to Pittsburgh area to ease eastern shortages. Sun Oil meanwhile reports reversed Susquehanna pipeline to move gasoline from west to coast, with upgrades planned to reach full capacity though current output sits around forty percent.
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Philadelphia
Eyatone
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Nework
Atlantic Refining Company
J. Howard Pow
Sun Oil Company
Susquehanna
West
Cpast
Porter Flight Officer Dies in Pacific Northwest Crash
Lieutenant Howard Franklin Porter born January 1 1919 in Punxsutawney is killed in a bomber crash near the Pacific Northwest. He trained at Randolph Field and Lubbock Texas and served with the 35th Pursuit Group. Surviving are his widow and two sisters. Other American aircrew also killed include Bailey Smalling John Lynch William Robinson and John Zurcher with Shoup Pellish McCormick Wright McCormick among others.
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Indiana
Porter
U. S. Flying Center
Randolph Field
Lubbock Field
Texas
Miss Vinton
Howard Franklin Porter
Punxgutawney
G. Frank
Edna
Craft) Porter
First Presbyterian Church
Indiana High School
Valley Forge Military Academy
Indiana State Teachers College
Air Corps
Gamma Ro Tau
Order of DeMolay
Maxine
Lois
Everett
Bailey B. “Smalling
Altus
Okla
John P. Lynch
Carlinville
William H. ‘Robinson
Coral Gables
Fla
John L. Zurcher
Saltem
Ore
Pacific Northwest
Robert Shoup
Butler
Enid
John Pellish, Jr
Minersville
Wil Rogers
Oklahoma
Kenneth Wright McCormick
Aldan
Delaware County
Pensacola
Farm meeting at Homer City Evening session and pictures
A livestock meeting will be held Friday evening May 15 at Homer City High School, with C A Burge Penn State Extension showing color livestock images and Dick Stephens as chairman. A daytime assembly at 3 00 p m will feature additional color pictures for farmers and families in Center township and vicinity.
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Homer City High School
C. A. Burge
Penn State
Pennsylvania
Dick Stephens
Burge
Center Township
Miners Escape as West Virginia Mine Blast Kills Dozens
Seventy others narrowly escaped death when a blast ripped through Christopher Coal Company No. 5 mine at 2 20 pm. In the ensuing chaos families and university students gathered as three bodies were identified. Frank Christopher, company president, and N P Rhinehart stated the mine had been rock dusted and inspected the day before.
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Christopher Coal Company
Griffith
U. S. Bureau of Mines
West Virginia
Bartley
Frank Christopher
N. P. Rhinehart
State Department of Mines
State University
Morgantown
West Virginia State Guard
Allen Jones
Nick Nimbheck
Fred Mongold
Tom Coldiwell
Army pay bill changes and proposed amendments described
The report outlines pay and allowance changes for Army and Navy personnel including officers and nurses. It notes a $10 monthly private raise remaining under a pending measure, maintains current private pay progression, and discusses potential six month postwar termination. It also covers bi monthly civilian commission reporting to Congress and nurse pay increases, with general officer pay tweaks and food allowance adjustments.
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Pace
D-Ga
House
Senate
May
Naval Committee
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Congress Hiemonthly
Axis push opens Kerch offensive toward Feodosiya
Dispatches report 40,000 Soviet prisoners and heavy losses for the Russians as German and Romanian forces press across the Kerch Peninsula. Soviet communique cites May fighting near the Crimean Panhandle with large-scale use of armor and planes. By late yesterday Axis troops reached Ojuspete on the Gulf of Arabat, about 50 miles west of Kerch City.
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Reich
Nav Vomvaunigque
Ews Agencs
Nagi Toups
Kerch
Mostow
Crimean Panhandle
Gulf of Feodosiya
Ojuspete
Gulf of Arabat
Kerch City
Sea of Azovy
Crimea
Burma Road
China
Igsime Chiang Kai-Sheik
Chungking
Burma
Harold Alexanders
Ward
India
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest
Pacific
New’ Britain
New Guinea
Ametican
Terroy
France
Paris
Vichy
Pierre Laval
Axis
Laval
Otto Abetz
Hitler
United States
Washington
Martinique
Frotmne
Dean Darlan
Rec
Reuters
Myitkyina
Rangoon
Moscow
D. T. Kozlov
Red Army
Caucasus
Berlin
Kerch Penninsula
No-Man‘s-Land
Frits Erich von Mannstein
Black Sea
Azov
Kerchront
Gulf of Veodosiya
Qjuspete
Crimean
Adolf Hitler
Ukraine
Six Taken for Counterfeiting in New York City
New York Secret Service agents arrested six men on charges of conspiring to sell fake war savings stamps with a potential value of 52,500 dollars. Abraham and Joseph Perkes led the scheme, with others including Harry Horowitz, Abraham Guckstein, Mortia Rubin, and Louis Samouski. Bail amounts ranged up to 25,000 dollars for the principals.
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New York
Underworld
Secret Service
Treasury Department
Detroit
Maloney
Abraham and
Joseph Perkes
U. S
Isaac Platt
Harry Horowitz
Abraham Guckstein
Mortia Rubin
Louis Samouski
Howard F. Corcoran
Hayworth Puts Him in Stuches
Reuters and Domel dispatches describe Japanese columns advancing from Gongling toward Paoshan and trapping Chinese forces in northeast Burma by destroying a Salween bridge. The reports emphasize two main aims: drive toward Paoshan and containment of Chinese troops as tensions rise across the Burma theater. Local pricing notices: tube delivery 65 cents monthly. Lancaster Sunday News raises rates. Erie Sunday Dispatch-Herald increases per copy and monthly charges.
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Reuters
Gongling
Paoshan
China
Domel
Burima
Lancaster Sunday News
Erie Sunday Dispatch-Herald
Gasoline Rationing Shapes World War II Politics
Pennsylvania and national officials race to implement gasoline rationing as registration closes. Public transport plans expand to ease congestion while politicians weigh the impact on campaigns and turnout. May 13 notices warn of extended curtailments, with regional limits and classifications shaping campaign logistics.
Newspapers raise prices amid newsprint shortages nationwide
The PNPA reports cooperation with government to save newsprint and cut transportation. newspapers cut editions and reduced comic page sizes as shortages bite. Many papers hiked per copy prices to 3 4 or 9 cents and weekly rates to 18 24 cents. several titles across Pennsylvania and other states increased subscriptions and altered delivery.
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PNPA
Hardy
DuBois Courier and Express
Pennsylvania
Norristown Times-Herald
Reading Eagle
Reading Times
Lancaster Intelligencer Journal
Lancaster New Era
Williamsport Sun
The
Gazette Bulletin
Sayre Times
Towanda, Review
Lock Haven Express
Latrobe Bulletin
Danville Morning News
Clearfield Progress
New Kensington Dispatch
Butler Eagle
DuBois Courier
the Express
Tarentum Valley Daily News
Franklin
News-Herald
OW City Derrick
Oil City Blizzard
Beaver Daily Times
Wilkes-Barre Record
Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader
Beaver Falls News-Tribune
Mt. Carmel Stem
New Castle News
Shamokin News - Dispatch
Erie Times
Erie Dispatch-Herald
Washington Observer
Doylestown Daily Intelligencer
Jersey Shore Herald
Ambridge Citizen
Pottstown Mercury
Hanover Sun
Greenville Record-Argus
Wan Bonds On Cavalry Apparel Of Modern War
The article compares victories to the old saying fustest with the mostest from Bedford Forrest. It describes the half track as the army's mechanized cavalry, noting it has a truck body and front wheels and is powered like a tank.
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Bedford Forrest
Tank powered trucks urged for war effort in towns
A wartime appeal urges communities to buy War Bonds to fund tank powered trucks produced in factories and deployed to the army. The notice stresses several machines cost around $11,000 and promotes bonding on each pay day to boost county support.
Syphilis in Draftee List Reported by State Health Dept
Harrisburg May 13 The State Health Department reports 855 positive syphilis cases among selective service registrants up to March 1. Acting Secretary Dr A H Stewart says all cases were investigated to reduce wartime manpower losses. The venereal disease division had 1601 cases under treatment in clinics 874 by private physicians 289 unreachable 138 in military service and 111 moved out of state. In March 367 cases of syphilis and gonorrhea were followed up including 126 registrants. State clinics remain available for those unable to pay for private care with 119 state and 50 allied clinics listed.
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Harrisburg
State Health Department
Selective Service Regatrania
A. H. Stewart
Division of
Venereal Disease Control
Stewart
Stock Market Listing of Major Corporations and Rates
A dense list of ticker symbols and price percentages for major companies across industries including General Electric, Ford, General Motors, IBM, AT&T, Boeing, Du Pont, Eastman Kodak, Pens, Union Carbide, and many others. The record shows notable percentages next to many names, reflecting market activity and share movements on the day.
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al Chem and
Dye Am
St & Am
Bald Loco Ct Balt
Ohio
Bendix
Aviat
Beth Steel
Boeing Airplane
Borden Co
Briggs
Ches and Ohio
Chrysler Corp
Cons Edison
Consol Oilay
Curtiss Wright Oh del Lack
West Shre
Cal
Ind
Stand Oil NJ
Swift and Co
Texas Co
United Aircraft
United Corp
United Gas Imp
US Rubber
Steel
Warner Bros Pict
West Union Tel
Westworth
Youngst
Curb
Pennroad Corp
Markets Produce Pittsburgh May 13 1920s note
Markets report fair produce demand in Pittsburgh on May 13 with apples steady and prices about 2.00 to 2.25 per basket for No 1 Baldwins in New York. Potatoes steady with No 1 100 lb sacks Maine Chippewas and Katahdins at 2.40 to 2.60. Idaho Russet Burbanks at 3.75. Live stock prices steady with receipts outlook showing salable cattle 100 hogs 500 sheep 400 calves 150.
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Pittsburgh
N.Y
Injured Miner Recooperates After Bridge Collision
Charles Lockard twenty two of Gipsy is recuperating in Indiana Hospital from a possible fracture of the left ankle after an automobile accident yesterday. State Motor Police say the Ray Lang of Commodore R D 1 car rear ended Clyde Marshall of Giplsy’s vehicle crossing a narrow bridge on Route 259 about a half mile from Pean Run. Lockard and two other miners rode in the rear of Marshall’s car.
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Charles Lockard
Indiana
Portland Air Base Helps City Desk Locate McLeod Field
A Portland newspaper city desk sought McLeod Field by telephone. staff were unsure and advised contacting the local air base. The Portland Air Base replied that they could provide the needed information.
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Portland
Ore
McLeod Field
Portland Air Base
Lions Plan Convention Scene in Greensburg Meeting
Lions Club decides at weekly supper to send a large delegation to the state convention in Greensburg. A regional stag dinner is scheduled at Fort Stanwix Hotel in Johnstown on Friday, May 22.
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Ae Ee
Greensburg
Lions Club
Fort Stanwix
Johnstown
Crimea drive rages as Axis and Soviet clash on Kerch line
Soviet and German Romanian forces battled along the 12 mile front between the Black Sea and Azov as Stalin's troops fought to hold the Kerch Peninsula. Soviet air power claimed several hundred enemy planes destroyed while both sides reported severe fighting with uncertain gains.
Transport rule postponed by Office of Defense Transportation
Washington May 13 An order restricting to one a day deliveries by newspapers dairies laundries and other establishments has been postponed until June 1 The delay was ordered to allow revise delivery rules and take steps to meet the terms of the order The plan would eliminate special deliveries prohibit more than one delivery to the same person per day by any powered or horse drawn vehicle Hospital and armed forces deliveries and emergency life health and safety deliveries would be exempted The ODT is still considering appeals by the American Newspaper Publishers Association and many newspapers seeking relief from the order.
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Washington
Office of
Oefense Transportation
ODT
Converna
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Treasury balance shows large daily fluctuations
Washington May 13 AP reports Treasury on May 11 receipts 43,367,704.15 dollars, expenditures 298,844,937.72 dollars, net balance 2,650,705,856.30 dollars, total debt 71,747,096,405.40 dollars, increase over previous day 54,614,451.41 dollars.
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Washington
Treasury
Thief Robs His Cellmate in Meyville Jail Return
Meadville police report a man released from jail on a drunkenness charge was jailed again an hour later after allegedly robbing his cellmate of $24. Police Chief E C Gibson quoted the cellmate crying out I’ve been robbed. The incident follows a brief prior jail stay.
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Meadville
Jaaeke
E. C. Gibson
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Luther Eklund
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Indiana Evening Gazette
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