Flashes Of Life And Local War Service Tipper Balek Named
A Rocky Hill honor roll listing includes Tipper Balek a German shepherd owned by Mr and Mrs Michael Blake who has served fourteen months in the roast guard and is the only Rocky Hill dog to go to war. Other items report a courtroom window mishap a kindergarten fire suppression by pupils a Bristol arriviste seeking easier work and a Harrisburg weather bureau strike a juvenile program in York Pa and stray nails prompting patrols in San Leandro Calif.
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Tipper
Rocky Hill
Tipper Balek
War Labor Board orders deemed non reviewable by court
The U S court of appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that War Labor Board orders are not reviewable by courts. The decision was unanimous with judges Miller Edgerton and Arnold noting no statute authorizes review and the act’s legislative history shows a clear intention that such orders be final.
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Washington
United States Court of Appeals For
District of Columbia
War Labor Boards
Employers Group of
Motor Freight Carriers, Inc
Boston
New England
Miller
Edgerton
Arnold
War Labor Board
War Labor Disputes Act
Red Army drives smash German lines near Iasi Romania
Moscow announced Soviet forces shattered German attempts to break Russian lines north of Iasi, killing about 800 Nazis and knocking out 17 tanks. Red tanks and infantry counterattacked in several sectors. Berlin said Soviet resistance stiffened and counterattacks were made to regain lost ground.
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London
Red Army
Iasi
Romania
Moscow
Moldavian
Berlin
Moscow Communiue
Finland
Karelian
Leningrad
Ladoga
Onega
Stanislawow
Old Poland
Vitebsk
White Russia
Neville High School 1944 diplomas ceremony highlights
Neville High School held the class of 1944 graduation with diplomas awarded and speeches by W. R. Hammond of Northeast Junior College. The program opened with the Neville Band, prayers by Msgr. Vandegaer, and musical solo by Louis Stern. Salutatory by Sally Foster and Valedictory by Carol Jean Stegall framed the student address on ideals and the era.
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Neville High School
W. R. Hammond
Department of Social Sciences
Northeast Junior College
Neville Band
Msgr
N. F. Vandegaer
Louis Stern
Sally Foster
Carol Jean Stegall
Neville Girls
Hammond
Europe
Paschal
Brothers Reunited at USO Center in Hattiesburg
In Hattiesburg Mississippi on June 2 director William Leivenson of a USO center inadvertently matched two soldiers who had not seen each other in over two years. The Burstein brothers Joshua and Maurice of Portland Maine discovered they resemble brothers and embraced.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
William Leivenson
USO
Leivenson
Alaska
Portland
Burstein Brothers
Joshua and
Maurice
Nations push in Asia as Japanese forces tighten grip
Allied forces report progress around Myitkyina in Burma with gains outside and within the town and continued Chinese artillery advances near Malakawng. Tseng cites 210,000 Japanese near Hankow and 70,000 near Canton as China braces for new strikes. An ammunition train explosion in an East Anglia market town injured several and killed the train driver.
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Southeast Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
Myitkyina
Burma
Mogaung River
Malakawng
Kamaung
Mogaung Valley
Seton
London
East Anglia
Sreman
Twain
U S Troops Enter Velletri After Fierce Fighting
American infantry entered Velletri Italy near Rome at 65 p m routing scattered German forces. Captain William Barnett led men to the square capturing 19 prisoners with two rifles and a mortar tube left on cathedral steps. Pfc Robert Glover and Pfc Albert Aguilar each captured multiple Germans while Lt James W Long attempted to deploy armor in the city as resistance continued from pill boxes and mortars.
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Daniel de Luce
Velletri
Italy
Rome
Miss
Albano
Artemisio
Robert C. Johnson
Providence
R. L
Bob
Robert Glover
Gastonia
N. C
Albert ©. Aguilar
Brownsville
Tex
Andrew P. Smythe
el Paso
Commission Orders Sweeping Controls Over Male Workers
The War Manpower Commission ordered far reaching controls on male labor to take effect by July 1. Virtually every job seeking man must apply to the U S Employment Service for assignment to a war plant where needed, and employers may hire only men referred by USES. The move aims to channel all available male labor to high urgency war production.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
America
United States Employment Service
St. Louis Strikers Face Draft Reclassification Threat
Striking streetcar and bus workers in St Louis risk immediate 1-A draft reclassification as eight draft boards move to remove occupational deferments. The two day stoppage disrupted service for over half a million residents while nearby East St Louis and Tampa also faced transit problems.
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Associated Press
St. Louis
Maj
F. C. Richmond
Missouri Selective Service System
John J. Griffith
Associated Draft Board of
East St. Louis
Tampa
Fla
Cate
Socialist Party Opens Convention in Reading
The Socialist party opened its national convention in Reading with Harry Fleischman reporting Roosevelt has led a steady retreat toward reaction since the 1937 little steel strike. Norman Thomas and Maynard C. Krueger are the leading potential standard bearers for a possible nomination. Fleischman forecast an increased Socialist vote supported by favorable conditions and the party’s continued push for a minority presidential ticket.
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Reading
Socialist Party
Harry Fleischman
Roosevelt
Norman Thomas
Pope Calls Rome's Defenders to Reject Total Victory
Pope Pius XI warned that demanding total victory could prolong the war and urged victors to offer hope to the vanquished. In a broadcast to the College of Cardinals he said attacking Rome would be matricide and cautioned against a forced bloody struggle that would ruin national life.
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London
Pius XI
College of Cardinals
Rome
Pope Pius
Ouachita Parish High School 1944 graduates set for Neville ceremony
The class of 1944, about 250 seniors from Ouachita Parish High School, will hold commencement at Neville High School tonight at 8 15 p m. The program includes a Star Spangled Banner, Pomp and Circumstance, America Forever Free, salutatory and valedictory addresses, and various presentations and benediction by Rev L T Hastings.
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Ouachita Parish
Neville High School
Francis Scott Key
L. T. Hastings
Edward Elgar
America
Robert W. Gibb
Theresa Thomisee
Lee Slagle
C. C. Calvert
Austin Miller
Fred G Thatcher
Lohengrin
Wagner
Benediction
Allied fliers strike over 2 000 miles of airways
Allied air arms hit the French invasion coast with up to 1 500 American bombers and fighters while a separate Italian wing targeted five railway yards in Hungary and Transylvania. Mediterranean commands reported good results at Miskolc Szelnok Szeged Cluj and Simeria as Russian forces massed in the Carpathians. Britain based planes struck Pas de Calais with no German interceptors. Dawn raids covered over 2 000 miles from Scandinavia to France and Hungary to Crete.
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Gladwin Hill
London
Italy
Hungary
Transylvania
Mediterranean Air Force
Miskolc
Szelnok
Szeged
Cluj
Simeria
Romanian
Germany
Carpathian
Pas-De-Calais
France
Scandinavia
Crete
Commencement Exercises at Northeast Junior College
The class of 1944 at Northeast Junior College of LSA held its 12th annual commencement in the school auditorium. Joseph F. Gibson urged liberal education to fit for a postwar world and warned that the world after Pearl Harbor will not be the same. He spoke of rapid wartime progress, future American leadership, and plans by Americans to develop global resources and technology.
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Northeast Junior College of
Joseph FE. Gibson
State Department of Education
Pearl Harbor
America
South America
Africa
Pacific Isles
East Indies
United States
England
Bernard Baruch
Brooklyn Chlorine Leak Leaves 1,000 Exposed
About 150 of an estimated 1,000 people in Brooklyn were still under hospital care after a 220 pound chlorine tank on a delivery truck leaked. No deaths were reported though many were overcome in a downtown area and two subway stations. Rescue teams and Red Cross aides treated hundreds at the scene and nearby stations as authorities investigated the cause.
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New York
Brooklyn
Red Cross
John G. Gulliver
Yankee Troops Enter Velletri Near Rome
Allied forces push into Velletri on the Appian Way about 18 miles from Rome sealing off German escape routes. U S infantry move on Monte Artemisio and Peschio heights while the Eighth Army closes in from the rear. Berlin reports heavy fighting as the battle for Velletri continues.
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Naples
U. S
Via Casilina
Rome
Alben Hills
Veiletri
Appian Way
Alban Heights
Eternal City
Casilina
Valmontone
Hermann Goering
Bate Ulefront
Eighth Army
Ferentino
Algiers
Ferther
Velle
Tri
Monte Artemisio
Velletri
Peschio
Artemisio
Prise
Berlin
Lend Lease Fully Okayed by House Appropriations Panel
The House appropriations committee endorsed the lend-lease program and UNRRA with the 1945 budget. Lend-lease totals include 3.45 billion dollars, UNRRA 450 million, plus 350 million transfer authority. Foreign Economic Administration set at 19.5 million. Food remains the largest item at about 2.696 billion, with Soviet and British needs noted.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Lend-Lease Administration
New World Relief Setup
UNRRA
House
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Foreign Economic Administration
United States
Germany
Soviet Union
Britain
B B Hay Jr Killed in Arkansas Plane Crash
Barto B Hay Jr., 22, died Thursday when a training plane wrecked near Bono Arkansas. He was an engineering student at Emory University, served in the Air Corps as a flight instructor, and had many Monroe friends. His mother Eva Odom of Atlanta and father B B Hay Sr., a former state health department chemist, survive.
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Morree
Barto B. Hay Jr
Bono
Ark
Young Hay
Eva Odom
Rocky Ford Road
Atlanta
B. B. Hay Sr
State Health Department
Monroe
Coorado
Hay
Emory University
Air Corps
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Hartford
Conn
Hartford County Superior Court
P. B. O'Sullivan
Hugh Alcorn Jr
Bristol
St. Anthony's Parochial School
Asheboro
Employment Service
Weather Bureau
Harrisburg
United States Weather Bureau
York, Pa
San Leandro
Calif
Tommy Gomez
Victoria Avenue
Gomez
Los Angeles
R. Digeorgia
Appeals Court
WLB
Mississippi
Cpl
James D. Slayton
Gulfport
Laurel
Jack
Billie Ray
James Preston
Ralph
Slayton
Neville
Baton Rouge
James H. Davis
W.S. Terry
Public Welfare
Public Welfare Department
Terry
State Board
West Wall
Hankow- Canton Railway
iBy Associated Press
Hankow-Canton
China
Chungking
Japan
South
C. C. Tseng
Central Pacific
Kuriles
Wake
Guam
Caroline Islands
Ponape
Truk
Changsha
Tseng
Hankow
Canton
Claire L. Chennault
City OF Velletri
Commission
Rage
C. P.H
Allied
N. J.C
Golliver
Lariano
By Sid Feder
House Fund Committee
B. B. Hay JR
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