Allied Supreme Headquarters report on Allied advances in France
Communique number five from Eisenhower reports Bayeux fallen, seaborne and airborne forces linked, air and naval support active. Allied air forces fly over nine thousand sorties, bomb rail and road hubs from the Bay of Biscay to the Seine. E-boats limited, two sunk, and heavy bombers raid Paris suburbs while coastal aircraft target Bay of Biscay and Channel units.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
INS
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bayeux
Bayeux-Caen
France
Lorient
Bay of Biscay
Seine
Ers
Assalt
Careno Carentan
Cherbourg
Acheres
Versailles
Massy-Palaiseau
Juvisy
Paris
East Anglia
Mississippi Democrats Reject New Deal Planks at State Convention
In Jackson Mississippi on June 8 delegates repudiated the national administration at the state Democratic convention. They absolved nine national electors from voting for certain presidential candidates if the national platform ignores Southern will. The convention named 20 anti New Deal delegates and urged fight on four points including social and racial equality abolition of the poll tax and states rights.
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Texas
Henry A. Wallace
Theodore Bilbo
State motorists burden in Pennsylvania relief fund criticized
The Pittsburgh Motor Club charges that Pennsylvania motorists pay the entire cost of relief funds via the 1935 one cent emergency gasoline tax. Club manager Robert E. Cole says relief is public duty, not just car owners, noting motorists contribute far more than needed while spending under two million annually, yet collect over ten million from the tax.
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Pittsburgh
INS
Pennsylvania
Father of Three Sligo Bank Robber Arrested in Pennsylvania
Willard O. Wenner, 29, a father of three, was arrested in Philipsburg and brought to Punxsutawney police after allegedly confessing to the D day robbery of the National Bank at Sligo. Police recovered $4,500 of the $5,000 taken from bank VP R A Callen.
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Punxsutawney
Willard O. Wenner
National Bank
Sligo
R. A. Callen
Wenner
Philipsburg
Slayer Sentenced To Solitude and Hard Labor
In St. Clairsville Ohio on June 8 Donati Maurizio is sentenced for the stiletto murder of his wife and her male companion. The judge recommends one day a month in solitary confinement for the first year of the life sentence and ten years of hard labor. The jury's mercy recommendation is denied as a motion for a new trial is rejected.
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ST. Clairsville
Donati Maurizio
Maurizio
Railroad seeks to abolish Ellwood City grade crossing
The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie railroad filed with the Public Utility Commission an application to abolish a grade crossing in Ellwood City. The action was noted in Harrisburg on June 8 INS report.
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Harrisburg
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad
Public Utility Commission
Ellwood City
Orchestra Saxophonist Held on Draft Evasion Charge
Elbert Skippy Williams of Bob Chester's orchestra was held on 1000 bail in Philadelphia for failing to report for induction. The New Yorker had been ordered to report to his draft board last December and did not comply.
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Philadelphia
Elbert
Skippy” Williams
Bob Chester
Williams
U. S. Com
Induction Notice Confusion for James Malloy Player
Commissioner James Malloy received his induction notice while in a midwestern town. He wrote to his draft board asking where to report and never got an answer, he said.
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James Malloy
Miners Strike Closes Pittsburgh Coal Mid land Mine
The Pittsburgh Coal company shut the Mid land mine after a 550-miner strike began when no work existed this morning for a single tipple crew worker. The company attributed the stoppage to lack of tasks for one man.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Midland
Hereford Breeders Plan First Allegheny County Show
The Tri-State Hereford Breeders Association will present the first Hereford cattle exhibit and sale in Allegheny county. About 60 head entered for the South Park show with entries from Canonsburg Zelienople and Uniontown.
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Pittsburgh
Tri-State Hereford Breeders Association, Inc
Allegheny County
South Park
Canonsburg
Zelienople
Uniontown
Regional towns listed in multi-state area names
Evans City and Slippery Rock Pennsylvania Washington Court House and East Liverpool Ohio Triadelphia Chester Spencer Lewisburg and Elizabeth West Virginia
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Evans City
Slippery Rock
Washington Court House
East Liverpool
Triadelphia
Chester, Spencer, Lewisburg
Elizabeth
W. Va
Meeting of the 52 air raid post called for June 9
A meeting of the 52 air raid post is set for Friday June 9 at 7 30 p m at headquarters Alderman Bassano's office South Mill Street All wardens fireguards and messengers must attend per senior warden Anthony C Ricciardi.
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Alderman Bassano
South Mill Street
Anthony C. Ricciardi
Slayer Is Given Workhouse Term
Patrick Kenney aged 36 received seven and a half to fifteen years in the Allegheny county workhouse after pleading guilty to second degree murder in the fatal shooting of his common law wife Elizabeth Sandoval aged 29 on April 9 of last year.
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Pittsburgh
INS
Patrick Kenney
Allegheny County
Elizabeth Sandoval
Judy Garland Divorces Army Sergeant Dave Rose
Los Angeles June 8 Judy Garland a singing star of juvenile comedies has been granted a divorce from her army sergeant husband Dave Rose on Wednesday She is nearly 22 and they have been separated for 16 months Career conflicts were cited as the cause of the breakup.
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Los Angeles
Judy Garland
Judy
Dave Rose
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