Russians Move To Cut Rail Lines To Kharkov
Soviet armies push across the Steppes toward Kharkov within 16 miles of the Ukrainian capital using enveloping tactics. They seize rail hubs at Bogodukhov and Dolgovka, threatening to trap Nazi defenders and sever lines to Bryansk Sumy and Orel as three Russian columns press northwest toward Karachev.
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Kharkov
Moscow
Great Steel Center
Redany
Bogodukhov
Dolvhig
Japtire
Bogodukov
Russia
Sumy
Bryansk
Orel
Naz
Reuter
Soulevoss
Karachev
Brynsk
Red Army
Sidewalk Rebuild Near Arthur McGill School In PA
Workmen rebuild sidewalks around Arthur McGill school on Albert street and along the street. Lawrence county fruit crop will be mainly apples this year due to spring conditions. Children rode ponies on North Hill yesterday in two carts, one circus colored, enjoying a day of simple pleasure.
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Arthur McGill School
Albert Street
Pa Newe
Lawrence County
Daily Weather Report Summary
United States weather statistics for the 24 hours ending 9 am show a maximum of 89 and a minimum of 61 with no precipitation. river stage at 5.1 feet. Figures for the 24 hours ending Sunday 9 am list a maximum of 86 with unclear remaining data.
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United States
Allies Strategic Success In The Past Year A Review
Major Paul C. Raborg analyzes UN strategic gains over the past year. He emphasizes naval control as a cornerstone and credits Allied leadership and West-Pacific offensives, noting Axis moves aimed to seize the Middle East and link with Japan.
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Allies
Paul C. Raborg
International News Service
New York
United Nations
West
Far East
MacArthur Sees Jap Victory Likely From Pacific Push
Gen. Douglas MacArthur declared recent Allied successes vital to a U N victory over Japan. He announced extended air raids on Solomons targets including Kolombangara Island and Greenwich Island. Allied bombers hit transports and ships near Greenwich Island while Kolombangara airfield and naval depots were pounded with heavy bombs.
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United Nations
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Solomons Sea
Truk Islanes
Greenwich Island
Kavieng
New Trelanes
Te Vila
Kolombangara Island
Kape Harbor
Gen. MacArthur
South Pacific
Bombing Plane Collides With Freight Train at Wendover
Eleven army fliers were injured in a possible collision between a bombing plane and a freight train near Wendover Utah. Twelve freight cars were derailed in the night incident, which officials termed unique in aviation history. An army board of inquiry was appointed to begin an immediate investigation.
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Army Board of Inquiry
Death Curve Victim Identified In Cine Case
Police identify a victim in a fatal cine case titled Death Curve. Investigators are reviewing footage and interviewing witnesses as they seek motive, with no arrests reported as of this edition.
Motorcycle Curve Claims Third Life At Gray's Landing
UNIONTOWN Pa Aug 9 Death curve a sharp bend on the road at Grays Landing added another victim Ray Clarence Markham 22 of Pine WA died instantly Saturday midnight when his motorcycle failed to negotiate the curve and struck a heavy guard rail Father of three children he had been staying at a Carmichaela hotel.
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Uniontown
Gray's Landing
Ray Clarence Markham
Pine
Carmichaela
OPA Cuts Frozen Fish Ceiling Prices Across Eight Items
The OPA ordered a price reduction from one cent to 12 1/4 cents per pound on eight frozen fish and sea foods items to curb evasion of ceilings for fresh fish. Officials cited freezing to obtain higher prices, affecting frozen award fish varieties, three frozen whiting styles, and frozen sea scallops.
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C International News Service
Washington
OPA Today
OPA
Closing Order Issued By Court
Judge Lamoree grants a preliminary injunction closing the Excelsior Yormerly the Savage hotel bar rooms and bedrooms at 335 337 East Washington street. The order takes effect immediately and remains until injunction proceedings finish. DA Donaldson led the hearing with input from state liquor board officers and police.
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John G. Lamoree
Leroy K. Donaldson
Excelsior Yormerly
the Savage
East
Washington Street
Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board
Lamoree
Allied Bombers Stage New Attacks Across Europe
Allied bombers struck targets across the continent as German and French radio stations went off air before dawn, signaling new raids on the heavily defended coast. RAF Lancasters bombed Rennes depot while Milan Turin Genoa faced daylight strikes. fast Mosquitos swept the Rhineland in a broad air offensive.
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London
Bremen
8&T
Michel
Italy
Centers
Milan
Turin
Genoa
Pietro Badoglio
Rhineland
Indus
Local flyer saved from sea after 48 hours adrift
Technical Sgt. Bernard Doone of 705 East Long Avenue and six companions were rescued in the Mediterranean by a Navy PBY after bailing from a crippled B-17 returning from a Naples raid. The seven crew members, aided by life jackets and supplies, endured exposure. the co-pilot was shark-bitten but all returned to duty. Doone, son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Doone, had worked for the B&O railroad before enlisting.
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Bernard Doone
East Long Avenue
Mediterranean Sea
Flying Fortress
Naples
Mae West
Lieut
Kinz
Set. Doone
Joseph Doone
B. & O. Railroad
Albania Declared A Military Zone By Axis Occupation
Moscow radio reports Axis forces declared all Albania a military zone as partisans grow stronger. The Russian broadcast cited 30 to 50 Axis planes ruthlessly bombing Libochov Karispol Leskovik Permit and Delbino, towns under patriots' control, and claimed an unidentified German general was killed on July 27 in southern Albania.
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International News Service
New York
Moscow Radio Today
Albania
U. S
Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service
Libochov
Karispol
Leskovik
Permit
Delbino
Moscow
Partistans
Mass funerals for 22 flood victims held
Mass funerals were held yesterday for the 22 victims of last week's flash flood in four Central West Virginia counties. Mop-up crews continued cleaning debris as one more person, Mrs. I. B. Simons of Copen, remained missing.
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International News
Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
I. B. Simons
Copen
Army bomber crash kills three near Calcasieu Pass
Three Army airmen were killed and three injured when a Barksdale Field bomber crashed in the Gulf of Mexico near Calcasieu Pass Louisiana during a routine training flight. The dead included Pfc Joseph J Walter of Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania and Pvt Robert Schultz of Philadelphia.
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Ilnternational News Service
Shreveport
Barksdale Field
Gulf of Mexico
Calcasieu Pass
Army
Pfc
Joseph J. Walter
Wilkes-Barre
Robert Schultz
Philadelphia
Local Boy Receives Citations for Gallantry in Tunisia
Mrs Joseph Force of R F D 4 announces her son William Trott has been awarded the Silver Star by Major General William Allen for gallantry in action at El Guetar Tunisia March 29 1948. Trott later aided his battalion during withdrawal returning for valuable equipment. He is now in Sichy attached to an artillery battalion.
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Joseph Force
William Trott
Trott
William Allen
Sichy
Tunisia
William H. Trott
el Guettar
Leonida Gavaler
West New York
N. Y
United States
New Castle
President Roosevelt Returns From Canadian Vacation
The White House says President Roosevelt has come back from a brief vacation in Canada near McGregor and Whitefish bays on Lake Huron. He fished, did not meet Canadian leaders, and was accompanied by staff and military aides including Admiral Leahy, Rear Admiral Brown, Maj. Gen. Watson, Rear Admiral McIntire, James Byrnes, and Harry Hopkins. Duration of the trip was not disclosed.
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Canada
Lake Huron
Stephen T. Early
MacKenzie King
McGregor
Whitefish Bays
William D. Leahy
Wilson T. Brown
Edwin M Watson
Ross T. McIntire
James ¥. Byrnes
Harry Hopkins
Bulgaria fears Allied air raids after Ploesti blasts
Intermational News Service reports a Vichy broadcast claimed Bulgaria urged foreign diplomats in Sofia to move to Tchamkoria near the capital. London radio echoed Berlin dispatches of Naples fires and warned Hungarian workers to flee industrial centers to avoid destruction like at Ploesti and Hamburg.
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London
Bulgaria
Aly
Ploesti
Rumania
Sofia
Tchamkoria
Yondon
Berlin
Naples
Proest
Hamburg
Germany
Hitler Stripped Of Powers Reported In Europe
Madrid reports quote Berlin dispatches and Spanish papers claiming a military triumvirate led by Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering has taken power in Germany. Goering, supported by Wilhelm Keitel and Karl Doenitz, would govern while preserving the Nazi party structure as the regime shifts.
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Internationa
Madrid
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Germany
Reichmarshal Hermany Goering
Berlin
Hitler
Goering
Nazi Party
Wilhelm Kietel
Army High Command
Karl Doenitz
Navy
Vila air base felled as Americans press advance
American forces advance on Vila Kolombangara island as Japanese air bases at Vila and Rekata Bay near Munda are targeted in renewed central Salamons operations. Engineers prepare Munda airfield for future use as the campaign continues.
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Washington
Japan
Vila
Munda
Salamons
Kolombangara Island
Rekata Bay
Santa Isabel Island
America
Aged man is shot by boy in Pennsylvan ia quarrel over debt
William Cummings, 14, Cas tanea township, is held on a charge of slaying 77 year old Frederick R Buckingham in Lock Haven Pa. He confessed to shooting the retire brickmaker on his porch over unpaid berry picking last year. A sanity commission will determine his mental fitness.
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Lock Haven
William Cummings
Castanea Township
G. Edward Grenoble
Cummings
Frederick R. Buckingham
Elsie
Grenoble
Buckingham
Burritt L Head
Clinton County
Sabotage Probed In Wyandotte Plant Fire
FBI agents investigated suspected sabotage in a 500000 blaze at the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co bleach plant in Wyandotte near Detroit. New government equipment had just been installed, said superintendent William LeBar. The plant, owned by Biddle interests of Philadelphia, required five hours of fighting by fifty Wyandotte firefighters wearing gas masks.
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Detroit
Flynn Owed $22,454 More Tax in 1941
Hollywood report states Errol Flynn owed Uncle Sam an extra 22,454 on his 1941 earnings after a federal tax lien claimed he paid an unknown amount and overlooked the balance. Actor John Carradine was named in the same filing with an additional 3,004 for 1941.
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International News Services
Hollywood
Errol Flynn
Uncle Sam
Flynn
John Carradine
P-40 Warhawks Attack Japanese in Burma Kalemyo Area
International News Services reports in New Delhi that British manned American P-40 Warhawks attacked Japanese troops and positions in the Kalemyo region of Burma on Saturday. Beaufighters targeted Japanese assets and water routes in lower Burma, sinking tracks and leaving three sampans burning.
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International News Services
New Delhi
Kalemyo
Burma
Joint India Command
Japas
Lower Burma
End of Pleasure Motoring Ban Approaching in New England
Boston report says the ban on pleasure motoring will end in New England and the east by August 15, possibly sooner. Frederick H. Moore, secretary of the Massachusetts Retail Gasoline Dealers' Association, said a public announcement will come from ORLA and the War Production board. Pocatello base PR office lists nine officers killed in a bomber crash on August 3, including 2nd Lt. Burton Co. Hermann of Kingston, Pa., and Sgt. Louis J. Marazie of Wilmington, Del.
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Literaarena
Neqwes
Boston
New England
East
Frederick H. Moore
Massachusetts Retail Gasoline Dealers’ Association
Moore
ORLA
War Production Board
Ecg
Death Notices from Bessemer and Nearby Areas
Death records list Mrs. Frank Ivanich age 65 of Thirteenth Street Bessemer Mrs Narcareno Morgandl age 62 of 411 Jackson Avenue Miss Beulah Wilson of near Wamptunt and Harry L Rudolph age 69 of Volant Pennsylvania indicating local obituaries and memorial notices.
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Frank Ivanich
Thirteenth Street
Bessemer
U S Shock Troops Land Behind Axis In Sicily
Allied forces execute a daring Sicilian landing on the north coast as U S Seventh Army shock troops debark from barges near Santa Agata and push westward joining British Eighth Army. about 300 Axis troops are captured. The operation, described by Eisenhower's headquarters, is aided by destroyers and follows German destructions at canyon bridges.
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U.S
Sicily
North Africa
United States
Seventh Army
Trojna
Eighth Army
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Santa Agata
British Bombard Randazzo in Sicily by Allied Air Forces
Allied headquarters in North Africa reported the Randazzo objective in Sicily drawing heavy Northwest African air force attention. Roads to the town were under near constant bombardment, enemy vehicles and railroad cars were destroyed, and attacks targeted bridges and trains in Calabara Angitola and Southern Italy. Axis shipping off Sicily continued to be attacked, with two small vessels sunk and seven Axis planes shot down in last night’s ops.
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Negws Seri
North Africa
Randazzo
Eighth Army
Sicily
Almast
Calabrara
Angitola
Italy
Messina
Steaks Scarce At Butcher Amid Odd Plea For Turkey
Arthur Mometer Seid negotiates for a steak while the butcher laughs and claims no steak is available. The scene shifts to roast and other items as moral pleas emerge. A melancholy note arrives with mentions of eighty seven today.
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Ny Ming
Grister
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Cnternational News Service
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Pierre J. Husston
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