Southern Democrats seek fusion GOP ticket for 1944
A group of Southern Democrats urge Republican leaders to nominate a Democratic vice president for a fusion ticket. They name Byrd, Houston, and Stevenson as possible Democratic running mates who would accept a GOP vp spot. McDonald argues a Bricker Byrd pair could win 11 southern and border states totaling 120 electoral votes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Harry Flood Byrd
Virginia
Sam Houston
Louisiana
Coke Stevenson
Texas
Ually
Whammy
Cntire
Thomas FE
Dewey
New York
GOP
Momnt
Ohio
Bricker
Chicago
Roosevelt
Felix Frankfurter
Owen J. Roberts
Pennsylvania
J. E. McDonald
McDonald
Sen
Byrd
Bricker McDonald
Byrd-Bricker
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Mississippi
Tennessee
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Coal Miners Approve Bond Buy With Vacation Pay
Western Pennsylvania bituminous coal miners approve treasury plan to buy a $100 war bond with their $50 annual vacation pay and $40 portal-to-portal settlement. UMW District 4 President William J. Hynes says 25,000 miners are “100 per cent for the plan.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Treasury
William J. Hynes
United Mine Workers District 4
Local Social Roundup from Leesburg and Mercer
Fetty Millison works at Grove fries. Betty Gill Genevieve Bower employed at Sharon. Juries, visits, and social notes from Mercer and nearby towns list residents with relatives, church events, and upcoming meetings. Includes hospital return of John Reiser and names of attendees at Sunday school convention in Greenville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fetty Millison
Grove Fries
Flood Offull
Pittsburgh
Betty Gill
Genevieve Bower
Sharon
Paul Macom
Mercer
John Turner
Cothranton
Harry Simpson
Carrie Boughman
Betty Rice
New Castle
Sara Rite Earl Foster
Buf- Tee
Charles Steffee
Sampson
Will Smith
New Castile
Frank Palmer
John Reiser
Mercer Hospital
Clark Dennison
Ellwood City
James Rice
Chester Burley
Akron
William Armstrong
William Mayne
Mell Brenneman
Willian McCracken
Anna
Laura Thompson
New Wilmington
W. A. Thompson
Clifford Sonntag
Fort Rucker
Ala
Sam Sonntag
E J. Uber
North Liberty
Ben Oakes
Near Mercer
Sam Oakes
Searchlight Bible Class
Carol Sonntag
Charles Yeager
William Rice
Winona Lake
Ind
Everett Creighton
Teddy
Bessie Creighton
Grove City
Carmen Hawthorne
Lawrence Mellon
Buffalo, N. Y
Sam Foster
Dorcas Society
Clarence Drake
Elizabeth Drake
Greenville
Ida Orr
James Oakes
Minnie Cooper
William Lloyd
William Drake
Clyde Lowry
Helen Barbara Drake
Rey Orr
Leona Hedrick
T. J. Armstrong
City issues permits for repairs and new garage
J. W. Mercer receives a city permit to repair the Bleakley block on South Jefferson street with an estimated cost of 1000 dollars. St. Carnes gets a permit to build a concrete block garage at 121 North Bay street with an estimated cost of 400 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Mercer
Bleakley
South Jefferson Street
St. Carnes
North Bay Street
Bond Rally Planned for South Side Workers and Precinct Chairs
South Side bond campaign workers from the fifth and eighth wards stage a rally at the James Philips Post American Legion on Thursday night June 15 at eight o clock. Anne Hitchen chairs the fifth ward effort with precinct leaders Ethel Miller Samuel A Bassano Mary Kuttesch J C Hetrick and Alex Coulter. Each chairperson should bring at least ten workers. Mrs John C Watert leads the eighth ward drive and all interested residents are urged to attend. Short talks a motion picture and a veteran hospital annex talk will follow with campaign instructions given to volunteers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth
James Phillips Post
American Legion
Anne Hitchen
Fifth Ward Loan
Ethel Miller
Cunningham Avenue
Samuel A. Bassano
South Mill Street
Mary Kuttesch
Waldo Street
J. C. Het
British Flame Throwers Use Near Tilly Sur Seulles Clash
British forces pressed heavy fighting around Tilly Sur Seulles near Bayeux as flame throwers were used for the first time on a contested wood. German reinforcements and advancing American troops on the British right flank shaped the day’s progress toward Saint Lo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Gilling
France
Tilly-Sur- Seulles
Bayeux
Tilly
Saint Lo
Western Pennsylvania Industrialists to Meet in Pittsburgh
Western Pennsylvania industrial supervisors and executives will gather for the fourteenth annual conference in Pittsburgh on Saturday June 17. Topics include Job Relations The Foreman and the Returning Service Man and The Foreman's Own Problems. W Earl Leslie of United Engineering and Foundry Co chairs the first group with the event sponsored by the state YMCA industrial department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
W. Earl Leslie
United Engineering and Foundry Company
Industrial Department
State Young Men's Christian Association
Leslie
United Engineering and Foundry Co
Nazis Assert New Landings Planned
The Nazi news agency DNB said Allied landings on the Cherbourg peninsula are being planned with many warships off the coast and firing on coastal batteries. A German spokesman warned the invasion battle has not yet begun and Germans see the coming struggle as severe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
INL
DNB
Cherbourg
Foreign Office
Guerilla Units Increase Action Across France
The Free French Committee reports guerilla actions against German lines in France have multiplied in all sectors. Communicating arteries in the Savoy and Jura regions are paralyzed and rearline installations in Britain are damaged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
INS
Free French Committee
France
Savoy
Jura
Brittany
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Fusion
William K. Hutchinson
Leesburg
America
Philco Auto Radio
Timiatis
Philco
Motorola Auto
E. Wash. St
Tiny
Strauss-Hirshberg
Essley
I. Street
Dad
South Side
Bond
James Phillips Legion Post Rooms
Zemo
ZEM
W.F Zehner
Tilly- Sur-Seulles
Jupiter
Olympus
Olympia
Greece
Fhidias
Athens
Salem
Richard S. Gillingham
Arthur J. Kress
Allegheny County
John Barclay
Dormont
Barclay
School of Music
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