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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1944
Page
16
Berlin radio said Lisieux has been destroyed by allied bombings and shelling as the war front moved in western France. Lisieux lies 30 miles east of Caen at the road junction near Pont L Eveque, with NBC monitors hearing the dispatch.
The British information service reports a large concentration of German troops and transport columns 12 miles south of the Allied beachhead in western France. Jeeps and vital material continue to be dropped from the air to Allied forces in advance of major units. Dr. Lizntfoot is a foot doctor at Fort Collins.
Pope Pius XII met American Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark in a private Vatican audience then greeted Clark's Allied party. The visit occurred amid Rome celebrations as war correspondents and soldiers toured St. Peter's and the pope urged peace in his remarks to the press.
London reports the German high command stating Allied forces attacked between Caen and Bayeux. The communique claims a southwest advance from Caen Bayeux bridgehead with strong German counterattacks and ongoing fierce fighting to hold Bayeux.
Lawrence A. White reports a Negro janitor in Wilkinsburg was sentenced to three months in jail after pleading guilty to taking gasoline coupons from a bank basement intended for destruction. He admitted giving the coupons to friends.
Members of the K J U Bible class held a tureen dinner at the Mahoningtown Presbyterian church dining room. The program featured music and readings by the entertainment committee and class members. Guests included Dr and Mrs John Orr, Mrs Wade Daugherty, Mrs Margaret Brown, and others from Seattle Washington. The next social will be a breakfast in Cascade Park on June 20.
A letter from Pharma cist Mate 8 A Woods, in the Pacific, recounts a hospital ship entering battle zones and tending wounded from Guadalcanal Tarawa Roi Namur and other actions. It notes skilled care aboard the ship by Navy nurses and enlisted men maintaining the blood bank and fulfilling Geneva convention duties.
Pupils from the Intermediate classes of the ward vacation Bible school visited Temple Israel on Highland Avenue Wednesday morning. Rev Warren A Buogbee guided the tour with Mrs Ralph Pearce and Miss Ida Schnackel among the staff observing as Rabbi Leo E Turitz explained parts of the worship service.
Members of Mrs Wendell F McClure’s Mahoning Methodist church school class met at her Mt Jackson road home on Tuesday for a moonlight hike and lunch hosted by Mrs William E Howard Jr. Aides included Mrs Mary Louise Jolley and Miss Lillian King. Next meeting set for July 18 with Mrs Arthur Walker hosting Mahoningtown M E Auxiliary.
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Howard W. Hughes urged court review of administrative body rulings. He warned that unchecked agencies could become an absolute government. After his remarks, the Allegheny County Bar Association backed two bills granting appeals from over 40 state boards.
An oil grease fire in the locomotive understructure halted the The Golden Arrow for 74 minutes at Frankford Junction Philadelphia. Firemen used chemicals to extinguish the flames caused by a bent drive arm and stuck brake shoes.
Sen. Chandler proposes Senate Military Affairs scrutiny into Maj. Gen. J. F. Miller, former Ninth Air Force Service commander, demoted after allegedly predicting the European invasion date. Miller, a former Philadelphian, was sent home from England and is reportedly in a Miami Army Air Forces hospital. Eisenhower reprimanded and reduced his rank to lieutenant colonel.
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