War Today: Rommel's Drive Toward Tobruk Shapes Middle East Battle
The fifth major desert war phase unfolds like a naval duel as Rommel's Afrikakorps seeks to annihilate British mechanized units guarding Tobruk. Heat and vast sands test both sides while a Libyan/Egyptian push could threaten Middle East oil gains, alter Russia’s Caucasus needs, and widen Allied commitments.
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Colums Eirere
Marshal Rommel
Afrika Korps
Tobruk
Egypt
Rommel
Middle-East
Russia
Caucasus
Libyan
Tran
Suez
Turkey
Desert
Libya
Strike Ends At McKeesport Hospital After Walkout
In McKeesport a two day hospital service strike ended with 70 workers agreeing to return to work. Police Chief James Gray and hospital officials mediated as 35 nonstriking staff and 40 junior auxiliary members kept duties going. Directors will meet June 12 to review wages amid a 300 patient capacity. In Tucson a sergeant found four grocers dividing stolen goods worth about 100 dollars over two weeks. the proprietor opted to let them pay up and stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keesport
McKeesport Hospital
James Gray
W. A. Tfacker
Hacker
Gray
Tucson
Ariz
Allied Offensives and U S Role in War Effort
The article notes America's pivotal stake in the conflict with most supply lines and equipment for Britain sourced from U S factories. It describes growing U S troop presence, British forces relying on U S support, and Axis reinforcements facing sustained aerial defense. Malta is highlighted as a key frontline guardian under constant bombardment.
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America
Middle East
U. S
Axis
Mediterranean
Malta
Sharp Rise in Pennsylvania Industry and Living Costs
STATE COLLEGE May 28 AP Sharp rises in industrial activity and living costs were reported for April. The Pennsylvania State College survey showed manufacturing up 32 percent over April 1941 due to war production, while living costs rose 12 percent year over year and 18 percent since the war began. New April records occurred in steel, power, electricity, telephones, factory employment, and payrolls, with building contracts the highest in years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State College
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania State College
Allegheny District
Mfe
Police chase ends with gunfire on suspected car
Policeman Lee May fired three times at a suspect’s car in Dallas, striking two rear tires and the gas tank. The Navy rejected him for poor eyesight. WPA plans aim to mobilize workers for harvesting and farming, with compen sation adjustments by the State Department of Public Assistance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Lee May
Navy
Irvin
WPA
Agriculture Farm Boards
U. S. Employment Service
Sharpshooter Org Formed Around Clymer Area
Dr Donegan described a nucleus organization trained in sharpshooting woodcraft military tactics with guerrilla emphasis within a five mile radius of Clymer. Members signing the oath include Max Harwick Lynn Widdowson Thomas Minto William Jarvie J Moody McGuire Harry Dunegahn Robert Britton John Johnson Virgil Houck Clair Leasure H I Dunegan Donald White Robert Houck John Madison J S Bence John Coax Galen Ober H Adams and George Ober. Residents urged to contact organizers and join the home defense unit. The next meeting is in the Rifle Club room on Friday June 4 at 8 o clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nniwers
Rifle Club
Lease-Lend Terms Expand Aid to Allies Worldwide
The agreement calls deferring details of defense aid payments until the extent of aid is known and requires full accounting of all aid rendered by both sides. It envisions world trade friendly settlement terms and directs substantial U S defense matériel to Russia China and parts of the British Empire, while reciprocal aid is expected from lease recipient nations under a master agreement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Russia
China
British Empire
United Kingdom
India
Australia
Dominican Republic
Paraguay
Brazil
Nicaraugua
Cuba
Bolivia
Uruguay
Costa Rica
ED Salvador
Hondur
Peru
Columbia
Venedueda
Mesice
Ecuador
Britain
Global War Updates From Front Lines Across Europe Asia
Soviet forces renewed counter-attacks driving back German troops on the Donets bend near Kharkov as reports claim heavy losses on both sides. In the Libyan desert, Rommel presses an offensive despite Allied tanks and planes, while in China Japanese forces seize Kinwha after a 200 mile push, threatening Chiang Kai-shek’s supply routes. Chinese and Allied forces clash as Flying Tigers aid in repelling assaults and Tengchung suffers brutal combat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitler
Donets River
Kharkov
United States
Rommel
Red Army
Semeon Timoshenko
Izyum
Donets
China
Kinwha
Cekiang
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chekiang
Japan
Kinawa
Kinhwa
Lugling
Burma Road
Salween River
Lungling
Flying Tigers
Fragmentary text on benefits and acceptance by the United States
Snippet mentions property services information facilities or other benefits or consideration provided for accepted by the United States. Context incomplete but indicates a formal or legal matter relating to eligibility or entitlement under U S terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Government reshapes rubber and alcohol programs
Secretary Ickes urges keeping small refineries running to maximize lubricants while a Commerce Committee hears of a government plan to reclaim scrap rubber by mobilizing agencies including the RFC. The War Production Board orders a 90 percent cut in hard liquor output to funnel distillers into industrial alcohol for synthetic rubber production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ickes
House
Secretary of Commerce
Jesse Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corp
War Production Board
U. S. Destroyer Blakeley Reaches Port After Wolf Pack Attack
The U S destroyer Blakeley arrived in St Lucia after a submarine ambush off Martinique. She had been torpedoed once on Monday and continued to port under her own power. Details of the battle remain undisclosed.
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St, Lucia
British West Indies
U. S
Blakeley
Axia
Martinique
Fort de France
Walkway repaving offered at no extra cost to taxpayers
Property owners may have sidewalks repaved or levelled for material costs only. The W P A has funded this service for three years and secured it again for this summer. To participate call Burgess Lichteberger at 816 or Street Commissioner Wallace Cunningham at 653 M.
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Burgess Lichteberger
Wallace Cunningham
Market Ticker List and War Update
Stock market closes with wide listings of names and percent changes led by Am Can Gly Amn Rad and many others. In the Australia theater Gen Douglas MacArthur reports Allied air forces destroyed or damaged about 200 Japanese aircraft over six weeks, including 35 bombers and 16 damaged, while UN Allied interceptors shoot down four squadrons of Zero planes over Port Moresby New Guinea. one plane was shot down and six damaged.
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al Ghem
Anavonda
Bald Loco Lite
Ohio
Bendix Aviat
Beth Steel
Boeing Airplane
Borden Co
Case
Ches and
Chrysler Corp
Colum G
Con Edison
Con Oil
Curtiss-Wright
del Lack
West
Douglas Aircraft
du Pont le N
Eastman Kodal
el Auto-Lile
Gen Elee
Gen Fouds
Gen Motors
Miinvis Central
Int Harvester
Lit
Nick Dan
Int
Tel and
Telaay
Johns Manville
Kennecott Cop
Lehigh Val Coal
Ligg
Youngst
Penmoad Corp
Lungling
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
United Nations
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Political races start to shape up for fall election
Harrisburg May 28 Republicans named State Senator M Harvey Taylor as possible state chairman while Taylor hesitated. Democrats listed three possibles with Meredith Meyers proposing Breslin or Achterman. David L Lawrence rejected the post. Meyers said he backs Ross the ticket but may quit the chair.
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Harrisburg
Republicana
M. Harvey Taylor
Taylor
Edward Martin
Meredith Meyers
Breslin
Meyers
Achterman
Mickle
Ross
Luther A. Harr
Republican State Committee
Martin
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Joseph N. Pew, Jr
U. S
Jos R Grundy
Freed from Sororicide in Kansas City Case
George W. Welsh Jr. was freed today of a first degree murder charge in the brutal hammer and butcher slaying of his sister Lella, age 24, on March 9 in Kansas City. The case drew strong local attention as prosecutors alleged a familial motive and a violent crime.
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Kansas City
George W. Welsh, Jr
Lella
Markets Produce Pittsburgh May 8 1925
Produce demand moderate with steady No 1 Baldwin apples and various sack and car loads. Michigan Maine Idaho and Carolina potato figures noted with prices. Bliss Triumphs and Cobblers noted. Hog and cattle markets at Pittsburgh May 28 show steady and unchanged supplies across hogs calves cattle and sheep.
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Pittsburgh
New York Baldwins
Maine
Garbage Collector Appointed by Board of Health
The Board of Health today announced that effective Monday June 1 Sherman Schofield has been appointed to oversee garbage collection duties, replacing the previous supervisor. He will coordinate routes and ensure sanitation compliance across districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Board of Health Today
Sherman Schofield
Garbage collection contract changes in 1896
A 1896 notice announces a new authorized garbage dispenser replacing W. H. Fenton and Sons. It states that dates and times for pickups can be arranged for housewives by calling the collector.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Fenton and Sons
Obituary of David E Fleming 78 native of Creekside section
David E Fleming 78 a native of Creekside and Avalon resident for 35 years died at 145 am at his home 300 School Street Avalon of a heart attack. He was a son of William B and Margaret Fleming and a Presbyterian Church member with 15 years in the Board of Deacons and Lodge 657 F and A M. Survived by widow Mary and daughter Margaret Cumming of Cleveland Ohio. uncle to Ward Eicher Indiana. Funeral at McDonald Funeral Home 29 California Avenue Avalon 3:30 pm Saturday Rev Norman Hunter officiating interment Allegheny Memorial Park. Anna Surma of Luvinsboro died in Indiana W Hospital at 3:40 am today moved to Robinson Funeral Home funeral arrangements incomplete.
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David E. Fleming
Creekside
Indiana
School Street
Avalon
William B
Margaret (Brandyn) Fleming
Presbyterian Church
Board of Deacons
Mary (Duncan) Fleming
Margaret Cumming
Cleveland
Ward Eicher
McDonald Funeral Home
California Avenue
D. Norman Hunter
Allegheny Memorial Park
Lutherans Get Problems At Pittsburgh Synod Meeting
At Warren Pennsylvania delegates to the Pittsburgh Synod of the United Lutheran Church faced major questions on joining the Federated Council of Protestant Churches in America and merging mission supervision with the National Lutheran Council. The synod budgeted 243000 for 1943 with raises for church leaders and ordained four sons of the congregation. The drive aims to raise 650000 for church work in army camps and mission support in war torn areas.
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National Lutheran Council
Germany
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
American Lutheran
Japan
China
Africa
India
South America
Madagascar
Pittsburgh
Lutheran Council
Synod
H. Wahl Pfeiffer
Grove Chapel
Indiana County
William H. Keil
Trinity Lutheran Church of
Woods Run
Franklin H. Schott
Advent Lutheran Church
Wilkensburg
Louis C. Golder
Bethany Lutheran Church
New Castle
Pfeiffer
William F. Pfeiffer
Zelienople
Old People’s Home
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Fred Vanderachmidt
Istrike
McKeesport
Sebreez
Pali
Panama
Palm Beach
Moorhead
Sharp
Culinary Arts Institute
Indiana Evening Gazette
Phila. St
GOP
Anna Surma
Luvinsboro
Indiana W Hospital
Robinson Funeral Home
Feod
Army
Gazette
Calif
Fla
Valencia
Calif Sunkist
Dos
Indiana Fruit & Produce Mkt
Tocci Bros
Phila
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